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An old school bus sits in floodwaters from the rising Mississippi River in St. Francisville, La., where a dozen homes and businesses, and several camps were flooded, Friday, May 20. Residents were leaving in the face of a mandatory evacuation order set to kick in on Saturday as Mississippi River water flowing through the Morganza spillway is expected to reach communities in the Atchafalaya Basin.
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The US Airways jet, flight 1549, sits outside a warehouse Friday, May 20 at J. Supor and Sons in Harrison, N.J. The plane that splash-landed in the Hudson River in 2009, making a national hero of pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, is getting a final once-over before it makes its last journey. Sometime in the next two weeks the plane will be moved to an aviation museum in North Carolina, where it will be put on permanent display.
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Soldiers are welcomed after arriving at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, May 20, 2011, in Houston, Texas. The non-profit group Warrior's Weekend is brining nearly 400 soldiers to Port O'Connor, Texas, to go fishing over the weekend as part of Warrior's Weekend V. Warrior's Weekend is dedicated to the support of veterans of the United States with an emphasis on those wounded in the Global War on Terror.
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Marine Lance Cpl. Matt Ferreira reaches to shake hands with supporters as wounded soldiers from across the country arrive at George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Friday.
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Major Dale Patterson, who served in Iraq, wipes away tears while being welcomed by supporters in Houston
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President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Friday, May 20
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In this photo from May 15, 2011, Tiffany Goodwin, of Fredericksburg Va., robs her husband Allen, at right with glove, of a foul ball while holding 8-month-old son Jerry, during a minor league baseball game between the Richmond Flying Squirrels and Harrisburg Senators at The Diamond in Richmond Va. The Goodwin's have season tickets for the Squirrels games.
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A street sign is seen in floodwaters from the rising Mississippi River in St. Francisville, La., where a dozen homes and businesses, and several camps, were flooded, on Friday, May 20, 2011. Residents were leaving in the face of a mandatory evacuation order set to kick in on Saturday as Mississippi River water flowing through the Morganza spillway is expected to reach communities in the Atchafalaya Basin.
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Members of the U. S. Naval Academy freshman class do team sit-ups with heavy logs during the rigorous Sea Trials, May 17, in Annapolis, Md. Under strict safety supervision, about 900 freshmen faced 32 rigorous physical and mental challenges during the daylong, action-oriented event modeled after the Marine Corps Crucible and the Navy's Battle Stations.
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Journalist Dorothy Parvaz, center, wipes away tears as she walks with her sister Sheila, left, and stepmother after arriving in Canada at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Thursday May 19, 2011. Parvaz was released from detention in Iran after she was detained by Syrian authorities on April 29 while on assignment for Al-Jazeera's English-language news network.
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Freed American freelance journalist Clare Morgana Gillis, (center left) and Spanish photographer Manu Brabo, (far left) talk with Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim upon their arrival to a hotel, where most of international media stays in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Four journalists held for allegedly illegally entering the country were freed by Libyan authorities
Westfield East: Europe's largest shopping centre
This 1.9 million sq ft of retail space sits next to the Olympic park and will, its creators say, play a huge part in the area's long-term regeneration
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The Olympic and Westfield site in January 2008
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Westfield Stratford City begins to take shape in May 2009
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In May 2011 the Olympic stadium, the Aquatic Centre and the Westfield Centre are all an imposing presence
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A computer-generated image of the finished site
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Chagossians gather at the Royal Geographical Society in London. The Foreign Office insists there are "clear and compelling" arguments against resettlement
Pro-Gaddafi troops 'shot photographer missing in Libya'
Anton Hammerl's family learn he was killed in April during attack when three other journalists were captured
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Anton Hammerl, an award-winning, British-based photographer who had been missing in Libya since early April, was killed during an incident in which three other journalists were captured, it has been revealed.
Hammerl, who had joint South African and Austrian citizenship but lived in Surbiton, Surrey, had cut his teeth covering the township wars in South Africa.
"On 5 April 2011, Anton was shot by Gaddafi's forces in an extremely remote location in the Libyan desert," Hammerl's family announced on Thursday.
"According to eyewitnesses, his injuries were such that he could not have survived without medical attention."
US consulate vehicles attacked in Pakistan
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A bystander was killed and 12 people, two of them American, were wounded when a blast hit two armoured vehicles as they travelled to the US consulate, which is believed to house a large CIA station.
"We had warned that we will avenge the martyrdom of Osama," a Taliban spokesman, Ahsanullah Ahsan, told Associated Press in a phone call from an undisclosed location. "We say to the Americans and Nato that we will carry out more deadly attacks and we can do it."
Sixteen killed in NATO fuel truck blast in Pakistan
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At least 16 people were killed in northwest Pakistan Saturday after a bomb attack claimed by a militant group hit a truck carrying fuel supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, the latest attack in an upsurge in violence since Osama bin Laden was killed.
It took place near the Torkham border crossing in the Khyber region, the main route for moving supplies to NATO and American forces in Afghanistan.
"The tanker was on fire because of a blast late in the night. There was another blast early in the morning in the same tanker and 16 people who gathered near it to collect oil were killed," a senior local administration official in Khyber told Reuters.
Police officials said the first blast was caused by a bomb.
In another attack in the same region, a bomb struck 16 NA
TO fuel trucks late Friday, setting them on fire. No one was hurt.
Militants have stepped up attacks in Pakistan, an unstable U.S. ally, since U.S. special forces killed al Qaeda leader bin Laden in the garrison town of Abbottabad this month.
Abdullah Azzam Brigade, a militant group affiliated with Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for both attacks on the NATO trucks.
Syrian forces shoot dead 30 in protests - lawyer
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Syrian soldiers deploy in the Syrian village of Arida, as seen from the northern Lebanese village of Wadi Khaled near the Lebanese-Syrian border, May 20, 2011.
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War Rages on in Libya
A cameraman works near destroyed Libyan warships at the sea port in Tripoli on Friday. NATO is bombing the country under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians as rebels battle the Gaddafi regime.
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Mississippi River Threat
Workers build a 16-foot makeshift levee on the edge of the flooding Mississippi River in Natchez, Mississippi, on Friday. The river is forecast to crest at 62.1 feet tomorrow, the highest level in the city's recorded history.
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Off to the Market
Queen Elizabeth II visits the English Market in Cork, Ireland, on Friday. Her trip to the country is the first by a monarch since 1911.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co President Resigns
Tokyo Electric Power Co's Toshio Nishizawa bows as he succeeds President Masataka Shimizu (left) in Tokyo. Shimizu resigned after a record $15 billion net loss and criticism for the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl
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Rally in Stockholm
A man wearing a mask painted with the flag of the old Libyan monarchy, which has been adopted by the Libyan rebels, attends a demonstration near the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm on Friday.
Afghanistan: 'Suicide bomb' hits Kabul hospital
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At least three people have been killed in an explosion at a military hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Afghan defence ministry says.
An Afghan intelligence official told the BBC that two suicide attackers had got inside Charsad Bestar Hospital.
One blew himself up in the hospital canteen while the other was somewhere in the facility, he said.
Malaysian landslide buries orphanage children
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A landslide has killed at least five children and is feared to have buried several more after hitting an orphanage near Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur.
Six children have been pulled out with injuries after the landslide, which took place at about 1430 (0630 GMT) on Saturday.
A local lawmaker said the area had suffered heavy rain for two days.
About 100 people, including emergency officials, are involved in the rescue effort, he said.
Londonderry bomb alert follows explosion in city centre
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Army bomb experts are investigating reports of a suspicious object in New Market Street in Londonderry city centre.
Earlier on Saturday, a device exploded in the Diamond, also in the city centre. There are no reports of any injuries or damage.
The Richmond Centre and Millennium Forum have been evacuated.
Orchard Street and New Market Street have been closed to traffic.
Police have warned motorists and shoppers to expect major disruption.
NI's First Minister Peter Robinson condemned those responsible and said they had nothing to offer society except "death and destruction".
Sinn Fein councillor Gerry MacLochlainn was in the area when the explosion happened.
"I was going up to the Tower Hotel because there was a possible evacuation because of a bomb scare," he said.
Cruise ship worker feared dead after English Channel fall
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A man is missing presumed dead after falling overboard a cruise ship in the English Channel off the French coast.
French emergency crews have called off a search and rescue operation following an unsuccessful search for the crew member overnight.
The 31-year-old Filipino man fell from the Celebrity Eclipse, which was travelling between Cherbourg and Southampton, at 2215 BST on Friday.
Support is being provided for his friends and family, a spokesman said.
The vessel was returning to Southampton following a 14-night cruise around the Mediterranean.
Is graphene a miracle material?
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The material graphene was touted as "the next big thing" even before its pioneers were handed the Nobel Prize last year. Many believe it could spell the end for silicon and change the future of computers and other devices forever.
Graphene has been touted as the "miracle material" of the 21st Century.
Said to be the strongest material ever measured, an improvement upon and a replacement for silicon and the most conductive material known to man, its properties have sent the science world - and subsequently the media - into a spin.
"Our research establishes graphene as the strongest material ever measured, some 200 times stronger than structural steel," mechanical engineering professor James Hone, of Columbia University, said in a statement.
"It would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap [cling film]."
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Earth's orbit: The space shuttle Endeavour docks with the International Space Station, with Italy seen below
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Rawalpindi, Pakistan: People cross a stream using an aerial ferry
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Managua, Nicaragua: A group of rubbish collectors, known as Churequeros, work in a council dump in La Chureca. For the last 40 years, some 1,500 people, including children, have worked there, according to Nicaraguan health authorities
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Santiago, Chile: Police officers detain a demonstrator during clashes in front of La Moneda government palace. The protest was against a £4.3bn project by the multinational consortium HidroAysen to dam two of the world's wildest rivers, in Patagonia, for electricity