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Photos of the Day | Friday, August 13, 2010


A Perseid Meteor makes it's entrance to the earths atmosphere - burning up for all to see, as long as you are up at 3:00 in the morning looking east at 6,000 ft. on top of Table Mountain near Ellensburg, where members of the Table Mountain Star Party gathered to wait and watch.


A meteor streaks across the sky against a field of stars during a meteor shower early August 13, 2010 near Grazalema, southern Spain.


Black Kite birds fly around as Indian Muslims sit on the steps after offering Friday prayers at the Feroz Shah Kotla Mosque in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Muslims throughout the world are marking the month of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar where the observant fast from dawn till dusk.


A Pakistani flood survivor sleeps on a hammock in a flooded area of Shah Jamal village on August 13, 2010. Water levels receded in Pakistan but survivors of record floods endured grim conditions in makeshift tent cities, as the UN appealed for 460 million dollars in urgent foreign aid. Pakistan's government says 14 million people face direct or indirect harm from the floods. The United Nations believes 1,600 people have died in the floods, while Pakistan has confirmed 1,243 deaths.


A tern combs the beach for food as the sun rises August 13, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana. During a briefing today, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said that BP would continue efforts to finish a relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster due to concerns with the cement plug currently in place in the well.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, August 16, 2010


A Kashmiri boy watches a rainbow above Babdemb lake in Srinagar, India, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010.


People try to avoid a bull during the festival of the bull rope in the streets of Villaluenga del Rosario, on August 14, 2010.


A police officer stands by a crashed plane sitting on the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.


Pakistani flood victims fight over relief food being distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort.


Tibor Szabo of Guelph, Ontario reaches his arm around fellow competitor Christy Hiemstra of Alymer, at the Clovermead Bees & Honey, Bee Beard Competition in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010.


Even though Golden Gardens Park in Seattle was packed with sun worshippers Sunday afternoon, Preston Dougherty, 2, of Seattle, seems oblivious to all of the people and activity behind him as he calmly digs a hole in the sand. He was there with his family, enjoying the hot weather.

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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, August 17, 2010


President Obama takes off his coat while greeting well-wishers at Boeing Field on Tuesday. Former Gov. Gary Locke (in far background) accompanied him.


Cancer survivor Jacob Sears, 16, left, looks back at the Experience Genie, right, played by Joshua Dawson, during a float plane flight over Elliott Bay where Sears was allowed to take over the controls.


Children enjoy the cooling spray of Salmon Street Springs fountain in downtown Portland, Ore., Monday.


A newly born chick peeks out at Eugene's Lane County Fair Monday.


Quadruple amputee Jorge Grajales, originally of Panama and now residing in Ridgewood, N.J., throws the ceremonial first pitch before the New York Yankees' baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Monday. Grajales' appearance was part of the Yankees' HOPE week.


Josue Bolane washes outside the tent he is living. He and others were displaced by an earthquake on Monday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Less than 4 percent of the rubble created by collapsed buildings has been cleared since the powerful earthquake.


Donkeys stand at a farm near the Donkey Sanctuary outside Sidmouth, England on Aug. 16. Founded in 1973, it is one of the largest equine charities in the world. It is urgently seeking new homes for rescued donkeys.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, August 18, 2010


Aerial dancers from Project Bandaloop perform a dance as they rappel down the side of Thanksgiving Tower Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 in Dallas , Texas.


Young flood victims hang on the back of a truck as they cross a flooded area in Muzaffargarh, Punjab province, Pakistan on Wednesday Aug. 18, 2010. Militants exploiting the flooding chaos in Pakistan clashed with police overnight, authorities said, as desperately needed international donations for the millions of victims picked up pace three weeks after the deluge began.


A female ruby-throated hummingbird lands on the perch of a feeder in Carmel, Ind.


Indian construction workers cover their faces as a New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) worker fumigates the under-construction Shivaji Stadium in New Delhi on August 17, 2010. With the onset of monsoons, municipal authorities have geared up to prevent mosquitoes breeding and combat water-borne diseases in the Indian captial ahead of the Commonwealth Games.


Hundreds of Muslims gather to pray and to break their fast in holy Muslim city of Mecca on August 17, 2010, as Muslim around the world take part in the Muslim lunar month of Ramadan when believers fast between dawn and sunset.


A visitor walks past the the concrete steles of Holocaust Memorial in Berlin during a rain shower on August 18, 2010. The memorial, designed by US architect Peter Eisenman and inaugurated in May 2005, is made up of more than 2700 concrete steles forming a curved landscape in the heart of the capital.


A Palestinian man stands near a crater following an Israeli airstrike late night, at Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 18, 2010. Israeli warplanes struck targets in five locations in Gaza strip, Palestinian security officials said.


This picture taken from on board Air Force One shows smog settling down at the valley of Sierra Nevada Mountains on August 17, 2010 in Nevada.


One-year-old conjoined twins Hannah Yinneth Gil, left, and Hannah Yanneth Gil, right, from Panama, lying on the ground, play at their home in Panama City, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. The Siamese twins, joined at the stomach, are scheduled for a separation surgery at the end of Aug. in Panama City.


A lone fisherman casts his line as he tries his luck in the tranquil setting of the River Coquet near Rothbury, England, at sunset Tuesday Aug. 17, 2010. The River Coquet runs through Britain's Northumberland National Park, and is best known for the quality of its salmon and sea trout fishing.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, August 20, 2010


This NASA image obtained on August 20, 2010 shows the eruption of a galactic super-volcano in the massive galaxy M87, as witnessed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NSF's Very Large Array (VLA). At a distance of about 50 million light years, M87 is relatively close to Earth and lies at the center of the Virgo cluster, which contains thousands of galaxies.


Families carry their children across a flooded road in Baseera, Punjab Province, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Massive flooding in Pakistan appears to be draining support for the already-weak civilian government while boosting the powerful military, a blow to U.S. and domestic hopes for a strong Pakistani democracy capable of undercutting the allure of al-Qaida and the Taliban.


Rescuers clear mud from buried vehicles in mudslide-hit Puladi township, southwest China's Yunnan province, on Friday Aug. 20, 2010. China struggled to cope with widespread storms that left dozens missing and presumed dead Thursday as rescuers cleaned up a mudslide-stricken town and two passenger train cars plunged into a river after crossing a flood-damaged bridge.


A Palestinian woman grasps the barrier of the checkpoint as she waits to pass on her way to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on the second Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The Obama administration said Thursday it is near to securing an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians to resume direct peace talks.


Commuters stand on a platform unable to ride in the subway due to a power blackout in St.Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. An electricity outage in St. Petersburg brought much of Russia's second-largest city to a standstill during the evening rush hour.


A young Kashmiri worker dries a dyed scarf outside a shrine in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Thousands thronged shrines and mosques in Indian Kashmir Friday after authorities lifted a rigid curfew from most parts of the region.


The Fanti Acrobats International perform on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland as part of the Fringe Festival Friday Aug. 20, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, August 23, 2010


Clouds settle into the valley in Jefferson, N.H. on Saturday Aug. 21, 2010.


A Pakistani boy swims as he tries to keep his food dry in a flooded area near Basira village in Punjab on August 22, 2010. UN agencies stepped up calls for donors to deliver on their pledges for Pakistan to prevent what UN chief Ban Ki-moon called a "slow-motion tsunami" from wreaking further catastrophe. Torrential monsoon rains unleashed the worst floods for 80 years, affecting 20 million people and an area the size of England in Pakistan's worst natural disaster that has already created economic, political and humanitarian chaos.


This August 23, 2010 NOAA satellite image shows Tropical Storm Danielle churning in the Atlantic Ocean. Danielle formed in the eastern Atlantic Sunday with sustained winds increasing to nearly 40 miles per hour, the US National Hurricane Center said. Danielle was the fourth tropical storm of the 2010 hurricane season in the Atlantic. The center said the storm, 725 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde islands, posed no immediate threat to land but could reach hurricane intensity by late Tuesday.


A Waorani indigenous youth practices using a blowpipe in Yasuni National Park in the Upper Napo Valley of the Western Amazon region in Ecuador, Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1989 and home to the Tagaeri-Taromenane and Waorani indigenous communities, holds close to 1 billion barrels of crude. Since 2007 the government of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has appealed to the international community to provide the Andean nation with funding in exchange for abandoning oil drilling in the reserve.


"Dream Weaver", a 43-foot, 2009 power boat, became stranded on Snake Rock at Matts Matts Bay, near Port Ludlow, WA. on Sunday, August 22, 2010. The boat is registered to John W. Weaver Jr. and it's hailing port is Port Ludlow.

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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, August 24, 2010


Embers burn in a fence post as part of the 375,000-acre Long Butte Fire southeast of Hagerman, Idaho on Aug. 22.


A Pakistani man, right, prays as he and others work to re-enforce a levee protecting the city of Shadad Kot from rising flood waters, in southern Pakistan, Monday.


A firefighter walks near a large haystack fire on Monday in Kersey, Colo. The fire started at the Hanscome Dairy and spread to four haystacks amid strong winds, burning about 1,000 tons of hay.


Monte McMillan cuts wheat as the sun sets on his farmland Monday near Moscow, Idaho.


People walk past buildings destroyed by the Jan. 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.


Russia's SCF Baltica tanker navigates the Northern Sea. Russia sent for the first time an oil tanker to China through the polar seas, a strategic trade route to Asia that could be profitable.


Biologists and environmental activists rescue a pink dolphin at the Pailas River in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Monday. Workers are trying to rescue dolphins trapped in early July in the tributary of the Rio Grande River when drought caused water levels to drop.


The outline of two squares memorializing the towers of the World Trade Center rest amid construction in lower Manhattan Aug. 2. Construction continues on the site as activists protest for and against a proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room two blocks away.


William Ennis collects belonging after a truck that went through his home on Monday in Texarkana, Texas.


A train leaves Taungbyone station about 20 miles north of Mandalay, in central Myanmar Sunday. A ten-day annual festival, believed to be one of Myanmar's loudest celebrations, is held to honor the Taungbyone brothers, who local people believe can bring luck and prosperity.


Kenya Wildlife Service rangers carry elephant tusks seized Tuesday at Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi. Kenyan authorities have seized 2 tons of raw elephant ivory and five rhino horns bound for Malaysia at the country's main airport, wildlife officials said.


Couples compete in the 2010 Tango 'Salon' World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, August 25 , 2010


Indian women walk in the pouring rain in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010.


A man using an umbrella exits the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010, in New York. Stocks are fell Wednesday after a second straight disappointing report on the housing market and weak durable goods orders added to concerns about the economy.


A gunman carries an RPG during clashes between supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah and a Sunni conservative group in the mixed residential area of Bourj Abu Haidar near central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Lebanese Shiite and Sunni groups traded machine gun fire and grenades in Beirut on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding several others just blocks from a busy downtown packed with tourists at this time of year.


Islamist insurgent fighters run for positions during clashes with Somali government soldiers and African Union peacekeepers in southern Mogadishu's Hodon neighborhood, Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010. Fighting in Somalia's capital flared for a third straight day Wednesday, killing eight people and pushing the week's death toll past 80 as insurgents tried to force government troops back toward the presidential palace, officials said.


A large, fast moving brush fire burns in the mountains above Frazier Park, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010.


Suzie, a 56-year-old chimpanzee, holds her newborn at Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, Kan. The female chimp who has not been named, was born on Aug. 18, 2010. Zoo director Scott Shoemaker said Suzie had been taken off birth control because of medical concerns and because zoo officials didn't think she would get pregnant at her age. Suzie might be the oldest known chimpanzee to give birth in captivity.


Prince Nicholas of Greece and his wife Tatiana Blatnik pose for photographers after their marriage outside the church of St. Nicholas in Spetses, Greece, Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, August 26, 2010


Pakistanis line up at a food distribution point for families displaced by flooding at a temporary camp, in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010.


An image of Florencio Avalos, one of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose collapsed mine, is seen on a TV set near the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. The miners, who have been trapped since the shaft they were working in collapsed on Aug. 5, were confirmed to be alive Sunday when they were reached by rescue teams via a small hole through which they could pass messages and record the miners with a camera.


A fossilized nest of 26 dinosaur eggs arranged in pairs and laid by an unknown species of the feathered, beaked oviraptorosaurs is displayed, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, at the Museum Center in Cincinnati. The fossils were discovered in a province in China and are making their United States debut at the museum center.


Empty beach chairs stand on the beach of the Baltic Sea resort of Warnemuende, northeastern Germany, where dark clouds create a dramatic scenery on August 25, 2010. Strong wind and rainfalls have run off bathers and holidaymakers.


A penguin fights with a duck in their enclosure at the zoo in the southern German city of Landau on August 26, 2010.


Tibetan woman carries her child at a flooded Tibetan colony, caused by rising waters in the Yamuna river, in New Delhi on August 25, 2010. The Yamuna river water level breached the danger mark due to incessant rains in the capital and surrounding areas, but a flood alert has not been declared.


This image provided by NOAA shows a close look one of the many interesting images collected by the Little Hercules ROV during the INDEX 2010 Exploration of the Sangihe Talaud Region off Indonesia in July. Scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore waters off Indonesia were wowed by colorful and diverse images of marine life on the ocean floor -- including plate-sized sea spiders and flower-like sponges that appear to be carnivorous. On Thursday Aug. 26, 2010, they predicted that as many as 40 new plant and animal species may have been discovered during the three-week expedition that ended Aug. 14.


Pakistani villagers stand on the remains of an embankment washed away by heavy flooding in Thatta near Hyderabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. The Taliban hinted Thursday they may launch attacks against foreigners helping Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the country's history, saying their presence was "unacceptable." The U.N. said it would not be deterred by violent threats.


A caracara flies over a street in downtown Buenos Aires on August 24, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, August 27, 2010


Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver jumps into the crowd after catching a six-yard touchdown pass during the first half of an NFL preseason football game against the Indianapolis Colts Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, in Green Bay, Wis.


A resident of the coastal township of Navotas, north of Manila, sifts through the debris Friday Aug. 27, 2010 following a fire that gutted hundreds of homes, mostly on stilts, late Thursday in the Philippines. No casualties were reported but the fire left more than 4,000 people homeless.


Image grab of Omar Orlando Reygada Rojas (L), one of the 33 trapped miners at the San Jose gold and copper mine in Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, taken from a video released on August 26, 2010 by Chile's Mining Ministry. The video footage from deep in the mine shows the trapped men in good spirits, as their families filed the first of potentially many lawsuits against the shaft owner. Excerpts of the 45-minute video showed the men upbeat despite their 21-day ordeal in a hot and dank underground shelter, where they await a potentially months-long rescue.


A Palestinian muslim worshipper walks in an alley of Jerusalem's Old City, on her way to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque on the third Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Aug. 27, 2010. Muslims throughout the world are marking the month of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar where observant fast from dawn till dusk.


Chinese investigators continue their work on the crash site of the Brazilian-made Henan Airlines regional jet, at Yichun airport, northeast China's Heilongjiang province on August 26, 2010. China stepped up nationwide checks of its fast-growing airline fleet as a top aviation official defended the safety of a remote, forested airport where a plane crash killed 42 people.


A man walks past a house tilted sideways after landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains swept through a Gundogdu near Turkey's Black Sea coast on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. People were killed when the landslide collapsed homes in Gundogdu, in the tea-growing Black Sea province of Rize.


Margareth Abito poses in the northern Uganda village of Amuru on August 25, 2010. Abito lost her leg after stepping on a landmine, left over from the civil war in northern Uganda. Abito said that after losing her left leg, she felt useless and even considered suicide. Apart from close family members she gets no assistance. "I'm now dependent, I'm a beggar" she says today. Disabled women have been largely ignored in war-ravaged northern Uganda, Human Rights Watch said on August 27, 2010. Northern Uganda was from the late 1980s devasted by the brutal Lord's Resistance Army rebels, who generally targeted civilians.


Pakistanis displaced by floods take shelter in temporary tents made with charpoys (bedsteads) near a makeshift camp in Baseera in Punjab province on August 26, 2010. The United Nations warned that 800,000 people in desperate need of aid had been cut off by the deluge across the country and appealed for more helicopters to deliver supplies to those people reachable only by air.


An unidentified woman waits for costumers to sell bananas inside her home in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Cuba issued a pair of surprising free-market decrees on Friday Aug. 27, 2010, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years, potentially touching off a golf-course building boom, and loosening state controls on commerce to let islanders grow and sell their own fruit and vegetables.


In this photo provided by Seaworld San Diego, Charly, a 14-year-old 1,150-pound male polar bear, chills following a snowy adventure at the park's Wild Arctic attraction on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 in San Diego.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, August 30, 2010


People pose as statues in the center of Arnhem in the Netherlands on August 29, 2010 during the Living Statues World Cup.


Residents watch the eruption of Mount Sinabung on August 30, 2010 from their village in Tanah Karo in North Sumatra. Airlines on August 30 were warned to avoid remote Mount Sinabung in northern Sumatra as the volcano spewed a vast cloud of smoke and ash high into the air for a second day after springing to life for the first time in four centuries on August 29.


Thousands of Muslims they take part in dawn (fajir) prayers and move around the Qabba, center, in the Grand Mosque, in Islam's holiest city of Mecca to start their day-long fast during the holy month or Ramadan on August 29, 2010. Observant Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during the month of Ramadan. The start of Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month in the Muslim calendar, is traditionally determined by the sighting of a new moon.


This August 30, 2010 NOAA satellite image shows Hurricane Earl. Earl strengthened to category three Monday packing winds of up to 120 miles (195 kilometers) an hour, US weather experts said, as it headed for the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.


The Fonte Nova stadium is imploded in Salvador, Brazil, Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. A new stadium for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament will be built in the same location.


French skyscraper climber Alain Robert climbs the Lumiere Residential building in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Robert, nicknamed "Spiderman" was arrested Monday after scaling the 57-story building in Sydney with his bare hands.


Pakistanis ride a bicycle as they cross a flooded road as children swim in Shah Ghar village, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan on Monday Aug. 30, 2010.


A frame grab taken from a video shows lightning as it strikes the waters of Victoria harbour behind the International Finance Centre (IFC) in Hong Kong on August 28, 2010. A thunderstorm warning was issued in Hong Kong with the Hong Kong Observatory having recorded 1913 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes over a period of two hours.

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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, August 31, 2010


Hurricane Danielle (top center). Hurricane Earl with a visible eye (left bottom) and a developing tropical depression 8 (lower right) all lurk off in the Atlantic Ocean.


Hurricane Earl (lower left) moves north-northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico with the with Tropical Storm Fiona forming behind to the east on Aug. 31, in the Atlantic Ocean.


Chimpanzee Jimmie hugs her newborn on Aug. 31. Jimmie, 50, is the oldest chimpanzee-mother in Europe.


Smoke spews from Mount Sinabung as it erupts on Aug. 31. Airlines were warned to avoid the remote Mount Sinabung in northern Sumatra as the volcano spewed a vast cloud of smoke and ash high into the air for a second day.


A child dressed as Hindu Lord Kirshna rides on motorcycle with her family ahead of the Hindu festival of Janmashtami, in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Janmashtami, which falls on Sept.2, is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Krishna.


Firefighters stand in front of a forest fire which has already destroyed 2,600 hectares on August 31, 2010 near the French southern city of Assas.


Bourton Rovers First XI (in red) contest with Bourton Rovers Second XI during the Bourton-on-the-Water Football Match played in the River Windrush on August 30, 2010 in Bourton-on-the-Water, England.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010


A surfer is engulfed by the waves while riding swells produced by Hurricane Earl in Buxton, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A tourist evacuation of Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island are underway as Hurricane Earl approaches North Carolina's Outer Banks.


This photo obtained September 1, 2010 courtesy of Premier Exhibitions, Inc./Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the bow railing of the Titanic. Once feared to be in danger of collapse, this photo shows that the bow is in good condition. A high-tech expedition has been forced to suspend its efforts to create a detailed map of the wreckage of the Titanic because of the approach of Hurricane Danielle.The high tech expedition began work earlier this month to explore the ocean floor where the ship sank nearly one hundred years ago, the crew said August 26, 2010. The Titanic, a luxury passenger ship once thought to be unsinkable, hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and sank in the early morning of April 15, 1912, killing 1,500 people. After decades of searching, the wreckage of the Titanic was discovered in 1985 some four kilometers (2.5 miles) beneath the surface of the sea.


A child dressed as Hindu God Krishna lparticipates in festivities to mark Janmashtami at a school in Mumbai, India, Sept. 1, 2010. Janmashtami is the festival that marks the birth of Krishna.


A barber cuts the beard of his fellow displaced person on a makehift barbershop at a camp for people displaced by floods in Punjab province, Pakistan on Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. The floods have receded in parts of north and central Pakistan but are continuing in the south. The waters are expected to remain for several weeks, prolonging the misery of millions desperate to return home and rebuild their lives.


An Afghan worker unloads artillery shells to display to the media, after weapons and ammunition was recovered in a search operation in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept.1, 2010.


Philippe Delon (L), owner of "Paris Carriages, Horse Walking Service", next to a groom, drives a pumpkin-shaped carriage drawn by Balthazar, an 11-year-old shire horse from Sweden, the world's biggest workhorse, past the Eiffel tower on August 31, 2010 in Paris.The wrought iron made carriage, weighing 500 kilos, and decorated with little hearts, offers rides to tourists and newly weds. TOPSHOTS / AFP PHOTO / JACQUES DEMARTHON (Photo credit should read JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty Images)

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010


This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Earl taken Thursday Sept. 2, 2010. Hurricane Earl packed winds near 140 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard up to Maine on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.


A Proton-M rocket, carrying three Russian Glonass-M navigation satellites, blasts off from the Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on September 2, 2010.


A man pulls a cart loaded with chairs in Shanghai on September 1, 2010. Chinese shares were up 0.58 percent in early trade tracking Wall Street's rally overnight after encouraging US and Chinese manufacturing data renewed economic recovery hopes, dealers said.


Young Tibetan Buddhist children watch the ceremony to mark the 50th Tibetan Democracy Day rally at the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu on September 2, 2010. Around 800 Tibetans gathered at the Stupa on the 50th Tibetan Democracy Day, which marks the 50th anniversary of Tibetan Spiritual Leader, The Dalai Lama's efforts to transform Tibetan society into a democracy.


The Smith Tower in downtown Seattle is refracted and bent by many differing three dimensional pools of water that collected on a windshield during Tuesday's rain.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, Sept. 3, 2010


Kellie Maier gets splashed by a passing car while kayaking on water covered Highway 12, on September 3, 2010 in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Hurricane Earl was downgraded to a category 2 before brushing the Outer Banks early Friday morning causing minimal damage.

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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, September 7, 2010


A Tasmanian Devil found only in Tasmania, is held by a wildlife officer on the grounds of Parliament House on National Threatened Species Day in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday. The National Threatened Species Day commemorates the day the last known Tasmanian tiger died in 1936.


Commuters wait for the water taxi from the London Eye Pier on Tuesday. Disruption to the capital's commuters is expected today as London Underground workers stage a 24-hour walk out over job losses in ticket offices.


Indian Muslims pray at the mosque and tomb of Rani Sipri in Ahmedabad on Sept. 6, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.


Members of Berlin's Hindu community march in an annual procession on Sept. 7, in Berlin, Germany. Construction is scheduled to begin on the Sri Ganeshu Temple Saturday following years of delays. Once completed, the temple in the city's Hasenheide district will be among the biggest Hindu temples in Europe.


A woman watches a demonstration Tuesday in Paris. French unions challenged President Nicolas Sarkozy with a major nationwide strike over plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.


Civic workers fumigate a government school to prevent the spread of malaria and dengue fever in New Delhi, India, Tuesday.


Elephant baby Dinkar walks with mother Manari (right) and another elephant in their enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, Germany on Sept. 7. Dinkar was born on Aug. 6.


Guatemalan Luisa Marroquin wades through the water as she walks out of her flooded house, south of Guatemala City, on Sept. 7. Officials fear more deadly landslides could happen because of the heaviest rains the country has seen in 60 years.


Indonesian women wash their clothes on a small river with Mount Sinabung in the background in North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday. The volcano shot volcanic ash high into the air, dusting villages 15 miles away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, September 8, 2010


Romanian Roma girls ride a merry-go-round on September 8, 2010 during celebrations of Saint-Mary's day in the village of Costesti, 240 kms west of Bucharest. Some 10,000 Romanians and gypsies gathered as part of a traditional celebration of the Roma minority from Romania.


A vendor sells wind chimes in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010.


People walk through unexpected high water in the streets of Venice in Italy, on September 8, 2010. Many of the people walking around the Saint Marco plaza have removed their shoes to walk.


Partly covered by clouds Mount Sinabung, emitted volcanic ash is seen behind an abandoned village in Tanah Karo district in North Sumatra province on September 8, 2010. The volcano returned to life after four centuries inactivity. More than 20,000 people have fled their homes since the volcano first erupted late August and remain in emergency shelters. Mount Sinabung is near Lake Toba, a 100-kilometer long volcanic crater that some archaeologists believe was the site of an eruption that almost wiped out the human race when it erupted 69,000-77,000 years ago.


This picture taken on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, and released on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, shows a person feeding one of the two giant panda cubs born at Madrid's Zoo on Sept. 7, 2010. An artificially inseminated female giant panda named Hua Zui Ba gave birth to the two panda cubs.


Ballerinas from the English National Ballet and the Shanghai Ballet perform during a cultural performance as part of the opening ceremony of the United Kingdom's Pavilion Day at the Shanghai Expo site Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, in Shanghai.


A wildfire burns outside of Boulder, Colo. on Tuesday Sept. 7, 2010. Authorities said Tuesday night they counted 92 structures that have been destroyed and another eight that have been damaged.


A man stands on a boat in a flooded street in Villahermosa, Tabasco State, Mexico on September 7, 2010. More than 614,000 people were affected by the rains in several locations in Mexico in the last four days, authorities said.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, September 9, 2010


A cat eyes a squirrel as it makes it's way along a fence in Ormond Beach Fla., Wednesday morning, September 8, 2010. Cat and squirrel parted without incident.


A man walks in a large earthquake crack in the ground in Kaiapoi near Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. The city was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake Saturday, Sept. 4. smashing buildings, cracking roads and twisting railway tracks.


Caretaker Frankie Donison follows Florence Dobrey, in wheelchair, as Arlington firefighters Dale Alexander and Caleb Caballero rescue them from their flooded home in Woodland Park neighborhood in Arlington, Texas Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Rain spawned by Tropical Storm Hermine caused flooding in Arlington.


A man look at a destroyed car, salvaged from the March 5, 2007 bombing of a historic street book market in Baghdad, Iraq, that killed 38 people and currently exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, in London Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Artist Jeremy Deller has worked with the museum to present the vehicle as evidence of the impact of modern warfare on civilians by displaying it in the museum's main atrium alongside some of the most powerful military hardware of the last 100 years.


In this Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 photo, workers on a raft pick up recyclable plastic items in a landslide-formed lake covered by drifting woods and garbage pieces flushed away by the floods in Beichuan county, in southwest China's Sichuan province. This year's rain and floods have been the worst in a decade with towns swamped in the northeast and northwest China.


A home destroyed by a wildfire is shown in an aerial photo over Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010.


A young black bear falls from a tree safely into a net Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 after being darted with a tranquilizer near downtown Missoula, Mont. A crew from Northwestern Energy helped hold the net with officials from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The bear, a 70-pound yearling, had been roaming near downtown before being chased into the tree.


Commuters are silhouetted against the setting sun as they cross the river Thames back-dropped by the Palace of Westminster, back left, and Big Ben's clock tower, center, as the skies clear following torrential rain in London, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010.