Memories of 2010 - A Day In History - August

AUGUST 2010..WHAT A LONG MONTH

FLOODED OUT: A man surveyed his flood-damaged belongings in Nowshera, Pakistan, Monday. As many as 1,200 people have been killed and about two million are in need of assistance as cholera fears grow during some of the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

AIRSTRIKE: Palestinians looked at the damaged house of a Hamas commander in the Deir el-Balah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip Monday. Palestinian officials said an Israeli airstrike caused the damage and wounded 32 people, but the Israeli military denies carrying out the strike. (Khalil Hamra/Associated Press)

YOUNG VICTIM: People paid their respects to a 9-year-old boy at his funeral in Srinagar, India, Monday. Government troops fired live ammunition and tear gas into crowds of anti-india protesters in Kashmir, killing at least six people, including the boy. (Tauseef Mustafa/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

ROCKET AFTERMATH: A damaged car sat near a hotel in Aqaba, Jordan, Monday. A string of rockets was fired toward the Israeli resort city Eilat, and one hit in neighboring Jordan, killing one person and wounding four, officials in both countries said. (Abraham Farajian/Reuters)

IN THE CELLAR: Women removed preserved food from a basement in their burnt-out home in Ostafyevo, Russia, Monday. The death toll from wildfires raging across central and western Russia rose to 40 Monday. (Boris Yelenin/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

TOP GUN: Air Force Staff Sgt. Asher Woodhouse scanned for threats from a helicopter above Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Monday. (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press)

SEEKING REFUGE: A child passed the time in a makeshift shelter near Naivasha, Kenya, Monday. At least 200 people in the volatile Rift Valley have fled their homes ahead of a constitutional referendum Wednesday — Kenya’s first national vote since 2007-2008 political violence left more than 1,000 people dead. (Tony Karumba/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

BURNING BUS: A man ran past a bus torched by protesters Monday in Karachi, Pakistan, after a lawmaker was killed in a drive-by shooting. Raza Haider, of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, was targeted at a relative’s funeral. (Asif Hassan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

ARMS UP: Former Russian paratroopers arm-wrestled during annual Paratroopers Day celebrations in St. Petersburg Monday. (Lesya Polyakova/European Pressphoto Agency)

THE GOLDEN CHILD: The sixth living Buddha, Dezhub, sat at Zagor Monastery in Shannan Prefecture, of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Monday. The young Buddha, whose secular name is Losang Doje, was recently chosen by senior monks after years of searching. (Xinhua/ZUMA Press)

GOATS CROSSING: A herd of goats used an overhead bridge to cross a road in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday. (K.M.Chaudary/Associated Press)

SNAPSHOT: U.S. military veterans took pictures of President Barack Obama at the National Convention of Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta Monday. Mr. Obama hailed this month’s planned withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops in Iraq, “as promised and on schedule,” as a major success. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

COLORED THREAD: A thread maker prepared colored threads for flying kites in Jammu, India, Monday. The demand for the threads increases in August, when people in northern India fly kites for the country’s Independence Day, Aug. 15. (Channi Anand/Associated Press)

SWIMMING TRAGEDY: A teen grieved after six teenagers drowned in the Red River in Shreveport, La., Monday. Authorities said a 15-year-old boy slipped and fell into deep water. The other teens rushed to help him, but none of them knew how to swim. (Douglas Collier/Shreveport Times/ZUMA Press)

BORDER FIGHT: Israeli soldiers worked at the border with Lebanon Tuesday after troops exchanged gunfire in the most serious clashes in four years. At least three Lebanese and one Israeli commander were killed. The U.S. is urging “maximum restraint” on both sides. (Lutfallah Daher/Associated Press)

HOLDING ON: From a damaged bridge, men watched a flood survivor cross a river by rope in the Swat Valley, Pakistan, Tuesday. Flooding has killed at least 1,500 people and left 3.2 million in need of assistance. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

IRELAND EXPLOSION: Forensic experts examined the site where a car bomb exploded outside a heavily fortified police station in Derry, Northern Ireland, Tuesday. Nationalist militants are blamed for the blast; no injuries were reported. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

A FATHER’S PAIN: A father lay next to the body of his son, who was shot by police in Srinagar, India, Tuesday. The victim was one of four killed as protesters ignored police warnings that they would be shot on sight if they defied a round-the-clock curfew in Indian-controlled Kashmir. (Abid Bhat/UPPA/ZUMA Press)

PRAYING TOGETHER: A priest prayed with women at a high school in Manchester, Conn., that was a gathering point after a black warehouse driver who complained of racial harassment and also was asked to quit at a beer distributorship fatally shot eight people before committing suicide. (Charles Krupa/Associated Press)

KACZYNSKI’S CROSS: Supporters of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski scuffled with police Tuesday at the presidential palace in Warsaw, delaying plans to remove a cross erected in Mr. Kaczynski’s honor. The president died in a plane crash in April. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)

DESOLATE: A woman dug potatoes from what used to be her garden in Verkhnyaya Vereya, Russia, Tuesday. Tens of thousands of troops and volunteers helped 10,000 firefighters battle wildfires Tuesday as concern grew that there were not enough people to battle the blazes. (Yuri Kochetkov/European Pressphoto Agency)

CIVIC DUTY: An election worker photographed a woman for her voting card at a registration center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday. Afghans head to the polls in September for parliamentary elections. (Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press)

HEAD UP: Dadang, who buried himself in the ground for about three hours to protest a local government’s plan to evict him from his home, got a sip of water in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday. Officials plan to evict about 90 people from illegally built homes. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

IN BAD SHAPE: Businessman Celso de los Angeles, who was ill and had a medical tube attached to his body, was fingerprinted by police in Quezon, Philippines, Tuesday. The former provincial mayor is accused of misusing funds and violating banking laws in the collapse of his Legacy Group of companies last year. (European Pressphoto Agency)

KING CRAB: People held “Crabzilla” after it was transported to the Sea Life Scheveningen, near The Hague, Tuesday. The Japanese spider crab was caught in the Pacific Ocean last year and is thought to be more than 40 years old. (Marcel Antonisse/Agence France-Prese/Getty Images)

DOCUMENTATION: Lebanese troops filmed an Israeli military bulldozer Wednesday at the site of a clash that left four people dead. The clash started after an Israeli soldier on a crane dangled over a fence near the border Tuesday to trim a tree that could provide cover for infiltrators. (Joseph Eid/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

VOTING: A woman cast her vote in a constitutional referendum at a polling station in Naivasha, Kenya, Wednesday. If passed, the constitution would put checks in place on executive power and give citizens a bill of rights. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)

BURNT-OUT SHELL: A man looked at a charred vehicle near what was left of a house in Ryazan, Russia, Wednesday. In the past 24 hours, firefighters have extinguished hundreds of fires. Dozens of people have died in the wildfires. (Misha Japaridze/Associated Press)

FIRE BURNS: Kashmiri protesters shouted slogans near a government vehicle they had set on fire during an anti-India protest in Srinagar, India, Wednesday. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

BOMBING AFTERMATH: Sabah Haider, 55, was treated at a hospital after he was wounded in a car bombing in Kut, Iraq, Wednesday. The car bomb ripped through an outdoor market in the predominately Shiite city, killing at least 15 people and wounding 60. (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press)

A HELPING HAND: Flood victims received relief supplies in Nowshera, Pakistan, Wednesday. Flooding has affected millions and killed at least 1,400 people in the northwest. Some residents have been critical of the Pakistani government’s response. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)

PARA ESPAÑOL: A Miami-Dade County, Fla., election official tested the accuracy of a voting machine in Miami Wednesday. The county is preparing for an Aug. 24 primary election. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

FAMILY CRISIS: Wilbert Holliday, the uncle of Omar Thornton, spoke to reporters outside of Mr. Thornton’s mother’s apartment in East Hartford, Conn., Wednesday. Authorities said Mr. Thornton fatally shot eight people and then killed himself at a beer distributorship Tuesday. (Jessica Hill/Associated Press)

TROUBLED WATERS: Residents of Ahmedabad, India, sat inside their flooded house after heavy rains Wednesday. (Amit Dave/Reuters)

GRISLY SCENE: Plainclothes police officers removed the body of the head of the Frontier Constabulary Sifwat Ghayur from a burned-out car at the site of suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday. Mr. Ghayur, the head of a U.S.-backed paramilitary force, and three bodyguards died. (Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press)

MOTHER MOURNS: The mother of Sgt. Abdullah Tufaili, who was killed Tuesday during a clash between Lebanese and Israeli forces, mourned next to his coffin in Deir el-Zahrani, Lebanon, Wednesday. (Hussein Malla/Associated Press)

IN MOURNING: Relatives and comrades of Israeli Lt. Col. Dov Harari, who was killed Tuesday during clashes between Israeli and Lebanese troops along their border, mourned at his funeral in Netanya, Israel, Wednesday. (Yehuda Raizner/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

HEAVY LIFTING: A Bedouin boy carried timber away from illegally built shacks that had been demolished by police in El Araqib, near Beersheba, Israel, Wednesday. (Tsafrir Abayov/Associated Press)

IN THE WEEDS: Canadian army Cpl. Ryan Belgrave walked through a field of marijuana while on patrol near Salavat, Afghanistan, Wednesday. (Bob Strong/Reuters)

DRAGGED AWAY: Security guards dragged a spectator off of the field after he interrupted a soccer match between Barcelona and South Korea in Seoul, Wednesday. (Baek Seung-yul/Associated Press)

THE HIT MAKER: New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez rounded the bases after hitting his 600th career home run off Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Shaun Marcum during their game at Yankee Stadium in New York Wednesday. Mr. Rodriguez is the youngest player to ever hit 600 home runs. (Mike Segar/Reuters)

RAY OF HOPE: Proposition 8 opponent Jovanie Narvaez hugged his partner, Mark Vaccarino, at a rally Wednesday in West Hollywood, Calif., after a federal judge overturned the measure, which restricts marriage to one man and one woman. Prop. 8 supporters filed an appeal Thursday. (Bret Hartman/Associated Press)

SHOUTING OUT: A Kashmiri Muslim mourner shouted slogans from an ambulance as the body of Shabir Ahamed Malik, who allegedly died when security forces fired shots, was driven from a hospital in Srinagar, India, Thursday. (Mukhtar Khan/Associated Press)

BUS STOPPED: Police stormed a bus where supporters of local leader Urmat Baryktabasov were gathered in Kirg-Shelk, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday. Police fired live ammunition, tear gas and stun grenades into the air to disperse anti-government protesters. Mr. Baryktabasov was arrested. (Igor Kovalenko/European Pressphoto Agency)

CARRIED AWAY: Local armed forces carried a flood victim to a helicopter in Sanawa, Pakistan, Thursday. U.S. Army choppers also flew their first relief missions in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest, airlifting hundreds of stranded people from a tourist town and distributing emergency aid. (Reuters)

BOMB SCENE INVESTIGATION: Police investigators searched for evidence after a powerful blast outside an airport in Zamboanga, Philippines, Thursday. At least one person was killed and about 12 were injured in the bombing. (Reuters)

FIGHTING FIRE: Sergei Semanov, front, and his neighbors tried to extinguish a forest fire that came very close to their cottages in Ryazan, Russia, Thursday. Temperatures up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit have exacerbated devastating wildfires. (Associated Press)

MODEL TESTIMONY: A reporter watched as British model Naomi Campbell testified before a war-crimes tribunal Thursday in Leidschendam, Netherlands, that she received “dirty-looking stones’’ after a 1997 party with former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor. She was unsure whether they were diamonds. (Vincent Jannink/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

SLUM CLASH: Residents clashed with police who were demolishing a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday. About 10,000 people were affected by the evictions from government property. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)

IN THE CONGO: Joshua, 10, held a toy gun that he purchased at a market outside the barbed-wire fence of a United Nations mobile operating base near Nyabanira, Congo, Thursday. (Mary F. Calvert/ZUMA Press)

STRESSED: Job seekers at Eastbay Works career center in Oakland, Calif., looked for openings Thursday. The Labor Department said Thursday initial claims for unemployment benefits jumped 19,000 to 479,000 last week from 460,000 a week earlier. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

TRAFFIC CRASH: Rescue personnel worked at the scene of an accident involving two school buses, a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck in Gray Summit, Mo., Thursday. Troopers say a teenage girl on a bus and the pickup driver were killed. The buses were carrying students to an amusement park. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)

ALGAE GROWS: Algae floated in the Caohu Lake in China Wednesday. The algae has expanded by about 50%, or four times the size of Hong Kong Island, since it was first reported by state media in June. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

PASSING BY: A couple ate lunch as Steve Black of Australia dove past their balcony during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Polignano a Mare, Italy, Thursday. Britain’s Gary Hunt currently leads the six-round series. (Dean Treml/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

SWIM TIME: Babies “swam” at a mother- and child-care service center in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China, Wednesday. (Liu Tao/China Foto Press/ZUMA Press)

TAKING THE PLUNGE: Chad Houle and Matt Woods jumped into the Hoosic River from the Buskirk Bridge in Buskirk, N.Y., Thursday. (Mike Groll/Associated Press)

The Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez rounds third base after hitting his 600th career home run during the first inning of a game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium Wednesday. (Justin Lane/European Pressphoto Agency)

A child was fatally struck by a tow truck at 124th Street and Second Avenue on the ramp to the RFK Bridge Friday, July 30. The 7-year-old was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

Anna Matchett, 7, left, and Reed Habiak, 10, middle, feed milk to a pig with the help of John Forshee, aka Farmer John, during opening day of the Middlesex County Fair in East Brunswick, N.J. last Monday. (Emile Wamsteker for The Wall Street Journal)

New York Fire Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano presided over a ceremony promoting 35 lieutenants to the rank of captain on Wednesday at Randall’s Island. (Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal)

A school bus accident on Saddle River Road at the intersection of Ackertown Road in Chestnut Ridge N.Y., on Wednesday. 18 people sustained minor injuries. ( Alan Zale for The Wall Street Journal )

Funeral services are held for Leisa Jones and her four children at the Brooklyn Funeral Home and Cremation Center on Tuesday. Fire investigators determined that Jones intentionally set fire to the Staten Island home where she lived with her children. (Andy Kropa for The Wall Street Journal)

Girls from Westchester County swimming clubs wait to compete in the Westchester County Swimming Association’s 85th annual championship at Playland Pool in Rye on Thursday. (Suzy Allman for The Wall Street Journal)

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stands with local religious leaders Tuesday to deliver a speech on a Landmarks Commission vote that essentially clears the way for a mosque and Islamic cultural center to be built a few blocks north of Ground Zero. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

Police officers inspect a Brooklyn sinkhole where a man fell on Tuesday; he was evacuated by medics. (Andy Kropa for The Wall Street Journal)

Deviled eggs at Fort Defiance in Red Hook, Brooklyn. (Mimi Ritzen Crawford for The Wall Street Journal)

Neighborhood kids on an NYC Play Street on 114th between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. boulevards. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)

Caroline Giuliani, daughter of former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, leaves the 19th Precinct on Wednesday after her arrest for allegedly shoplifting at Sephora. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)

An artful gazpacho at The Wright, a restaurant located inside the Guggenheim Museum. (Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

Meg Myles, a pinup model turned animal healer, handles an injured bird. She keeps and cares for birds in the bathroom of her Upper West Side apartment. (Benjamin Norman for The Wall Street Journal)

A young male was struck by a fuel truck while riding a bike along Fresh Pond Road in Queens last Monday. (Ken Maldonado for The Wall Street Journal)

People look at works in Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal before the unveiling of the world’s largest artistic billboard made of Post-it Super Sticky Notes. (Ross Mantle/The Wall Street Journal)

Hugo Alfonzo, 6, of Flushing, watches the Copa NYC Finals at Flushing Meadows Corona Park last Sunday. The final was between NYC Poland and NYC Jamaica. (Brian Harkin for The Wall Street Journal)

Electric Windows 2010, an art festival in Beacon, N.Y. (Kimberly Coccagnia for The Wall Street Journal)

Cooling off in the Long Island Sound during opening night of the Gathering of the Vibes, a four-day music festival in Bridgeport, Conn. (Jesse Neider for The Wall Street Journal)

CLEAN SWEEP: An honor guard wiped sweat from a comrade’s forehead before a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow Friday. (Alexander Natruskin/Reuters)

HIROSHIMA NOW: A woman prayed Friday in Peace Memorial Park on the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Washington sent U.S. Ambassador John Roos to the memorial, the first time a U.S. representative has participated in the annual commemoration. (Junko Kimura/Jana/ZUMA Press)

INCUMBENT FAVORED: A girl walked past posters of Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the capital of Kigali during a rally Friday. Many independent observers expect Mr. Kagame to win the Aug. 9 election due to a lack of viable political rivals. (Marc Hofer/Associated Press)

FLOOD AFTERMATH: Local photographers took pictures of a home damaged by sudden flash floods in Kargil, India, Friday. More than 100 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were buried. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

JOSTLING FOR HELP: People affected by devastating flooding jostled for relief supplies in Nowshera, Pakistan, Friday. (Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press)

PADDLING ALONG: A man paddles on a tire as he fished in a tributary of the Yalu River in Dandong, Liaoning province, China, Friday. State media said water levels in the two main rivers that divide China from North Korea are dangerously high. (Jason Lee/Reuters)

OFF THE ROAD: Illegal three-wheeled vehicles known as “black motorbikes,” seized during a crackdown in Beijing, sat waiting to be destroyed. China plans to invest billions over the next decade to boost the development of energy-saving vehicles, state media reported. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

MASS BURIAL: Workers lowered a body into a common grave for a mass burial at a municipal cemetery in Monterrey, Mexico, Friday. The bodies of 33 people, most of them killed in drug-related incidents, were never claimed at the city morgue. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)

LIMBS LOST: Haitian earthquake survivors Gina Sherlyn, 19, and her daughter Kalina, 1, waited to be treated at Hogar Vida y Esperanza Foundation in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Friday. Mother and child had leg amputations and were transported to the Dominican Republic in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

OLD GLORY: Priscilla Roberts stood with her son Corben, 1, and daughter Cailyn, 7, as the funeral procession for Army Spc. Joseph Bauer left the Butler County Regional Airport in Hamilton, Ohio, Friday. Spc. Bauer was killed July 24 while serving in Afghanistan. (Al Behrman/Associated Press)

DEATH INVESTIGATION: Police spoke with a woman near the scene where the bodies of two women and two children, both under age 6, were found in a home in Lanham, Md., Friday. Authorities would not reveal the causes of the deaths, but they said the incident was not random. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)

ALWAYS READY: New Orleans Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey caught a pass while standing in a portable toilet at football training camp in Metairie, La., Friday. Mr. Shockey was conducting a drill, in which he opened the door in the last moments to catch the ball. (Bill Haber/Associated Press)

GETTING BRONZED: A competitor prepared for a bodybuilding contest at the Azadi (Freedom) Sport Complex in Tehran, Iran, Friday. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)

BODY FOUND: A resident looked at the body of a landslide victim in Zhouqu, Gansu province, China, Sunday. On Monday, rescuers and aid convoys arrived in the town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 are missing from landslides caused by heavy rainfall. (China Daily/Reuters)

LISTING: The Panamanian-registered container ship MSC Chitra was still listing in the Arabian Sea close to Mumbai Monday. The vessel smashed into the St. Kitts-registered MV-Khalijia-II on Saturday, spilling oil. About two tons of oil is pouring into the water, according to an official. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press)

FIGHTING FIRE: A firefighter worked to extinguish a forest fire near Sao Pedro do Sul, Portugal, Monday. More than 700 firefighters and soldiers are trying to put out fires. (Rafael Marchante/Reuters)

LINING UP: Citizens lined up before dawn in Kigali, Rwanda, to vote in the presidential election Monday. Incumbent President Paul Kagame called Rwanda’s election democratic and predicted victory after years of economic growth since the 1994 genocide that left at least half a million people dead. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

ON THE EDGE: Firefighters tried to reach a naked woman sitting on a ledge under an 11th-floor window in Hefei, Anhui province, China, Monday. The woman, who suffers from mental disorders and had a quarrel with her husband, fell onto an air cushion and survived, local media reported. (Reuters)

ON THE GROUND: A resident walked Monday near the village of Polyaki-Maydan, Russia, close to a forest fire. Deaths in Moscow have doubled to an average of 700 people a day as the Russian capital is engulfed by poisonous smog from wildfires and sweltering heat, a top health official said Monday. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)

CROSSING: A man struggled to get across a river after a bridge was damaged by flash floods in Bogatynia, Poland, Monday. Days of flooding have killed at least 11 people and damaged hundreds of homes and businesses across Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. (David W. Cerny/Reuters)

PUMPING: Workers tried to pump water from the flooded Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera, India, Monday. The international cricket venue, with recently refurbished grounds, was inundated with more than six feet of water after heavy rains. (Sam Panthaky/Agence France-Prese/Getty Images)

SEEKING SHELTER: A girl crouched under a makeshift tent Monday after heavy rainfall in Chandkheda, India. (Amit Dave/Reuters)

STRANDED: Flood survivors took refuge on a small patch of land in the middle of floodwaters on the outskirts of Sukkur, Pakistan, Monday. An estimated 13.8 million people have been affected by the country’s worst-ever floods. (Asif Hassan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

TWINS: Zahida Perveen looked toward her newborn twin boys from inside a helicopter after being rescued from floodwaters in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, Monday. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)

OVERBOARD: Workers pushed an old tank from a ship into the sea off Narathiwat province, Thailand, Monday. Junk tanks will form artificial reefs and provide home for fish. (Sumeth Parnpeth/Associated Press)

BIG WOOD: A big “piece of driftwood” washed up on the beach in La Push, Wash., Sunday. La Push is surrounded by the lush forest of the Olympic National Park. (Whitehotpix/ZUMA Press)

HOLDING ON: Flood victim Mohammed Nawaz hung onto a raft while being rescued in Sukkur, Pakistan, Tuesday. Meanwhile, President Asif Ali Zardari returned Tuesday to flood-ravaged Pakistan, where he faced criticism for visiting Europe amid his country’s worst natural disaster. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

LOADING UP: South Korean marines loaded inflatable boats on a truck after their military exercise, while beachgoers rested on Baengnyeong, an island near the disputed maritime border with North Korea, Tuesday. (Park Ji-Ho/Yonhap/Reuters)

STAIR MASTERS: Secret Service agents inspected the stairs that President Barack Obama will use to depart Air Force One at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, Monday. Mr. Obama visited Texas, raising $1 million for the Democratic National Committee and courting votes. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Associated Press)

ELECTION CELEBRATION: A supporter of Rwandan President Paul Kagame celebrated his landslide re-election at a stadium in Kigali, Rwanda, Monday. Preliminary results indicated Mr. Kagame would win more than 90% of the vote. (Charles Shoemaker/European Pressphoto Agency)

HAND TO MOUTH: A monk ate food provided by the Indian army after flash floods in Leh, India, Tuesday. The death toll in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region rose to at least 165. (Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)

BLONDE BABY: Nigerian immigrant Angela Ihegboro embraced her daughters Dumebi, left, and baby Nmachi, who was born with blue eyes and blonde hair, in London Tuesday. Genetic experts say the girl is not albino and Mrs. Ihegboro is married to another Nigerian immigrant. (National News/ZUMA Press)

FOUND ALIVE: Landslide victim Liu Ma Shindan, 52, was transported by rescuers in Gansu province, China, Tuesday. He had been trapped for more than 50 hours. The death toll from landslides in northwestern China more than doubled Tuesday to 702 as rescuers struggled to reach flood survivors. (Zhang Hongxiang/Xinhua/Associated Press)

FOR FREEDOM: Kashmiri Muslim protesters shouted slogans during a rally near Srinagar, India, Tuesday. Thousands protested against Indian rule in the Himalayan region of Kashmir and offered special prayers for those who died in the past months of civil unrest. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

CROWD CONTROL: Airport police tried to control fans of the Spanish national soccer team as the team arrived in Mexico City Monday. World Cup champion Spain will play Mexico in an exhibition match. (Miguel Tovar/Associated Press)

AMID FLAMES: Firefighters battled a forest fire in Sao Pedro do Sul, Portugal, Monday. Hundreds of firefighters have been mobilized to battle wildfires. (Nuno Andre Ferreira/European Pressphoto Agency)

DIRTY FEET: A resident showed oil-slicked feet after walking along a coastal wall Monday in Mumbai covered with oil from the collision of the MSC Chitra and MV-Khalijia-II. Officials said the leak was plugged by late Monday, but the oil slick has spread around the ship since the accident on Saturday. (Sajjad Hussain/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

STARTING YOUNG: A coach stretched a young gymnast’s leg during a training session in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China, Tuesday. Chinese officials insist new eligibility rules will put an end to the type of “age cheating” scandal that saw its 2000 women’s Olympic gymnastics team stripped of a bronze medal for having underage members. (Reuters)

BIRD’S-EYE VIEW: A crew member looked out of a helicopter at a forest fire in Ryazan, Russia, Tuesday. Damage from the fires was expected to hit $15 billion, according to a local business newspaper. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)

BEDOUIN PLIGHT: A Bedouin woman sat next to her belongings as Israeli authorities demolished housing in Israel’s Negev Desert Tuesday — the third demolition since July. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

YOUNG MUSLIMS: Muslim children accompanied their father to the prayer session “Tarawih” to mark the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

SHEEP MEET: Two Barbary sheep were pictured at the zoo in Madrid Tuesday. (Paul White/Associated Press)

GOING SWIMMINGLY: Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen, left, and France’s Hugues Duboscq competed in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke final during the European Swimming Championships in Budapest Tuesday. Mr. Oen won. (Francois Xavier/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

SOULFUL NIGHT: Muslims attended Tarawih prayers to mark the start of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Surabaya, Indonesia, Tuesday evening. (Sigit Pamungkas/Reuters)

GETTING A LIFT: A Pakistani navy helicopter rescued a villager from a flooded area near Sukkur, Pakistan, Wednesday. (Shakil Adil/Associated Press)

THE NEXT MENACE: A man in a protective suit sprayed disinfectant near flood victims Wednesday in Zhouqu, Gansu province, China. State media reported numerous cases of dysentery after flooding wrecked the western province and killed at least 1,117 people. (Xinhua/ZUMA Press)

DIRTY WATER: A Kashmiri Muslim woman poured muddy water from her home as her husband salvaged belongings in Khanmoh, India, Wednesday. Several houses were partially damaged Tuesday night in flash floods caused by heavy rains. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

FIRST RESPONDER: A member of a police bomb squad inspected an exploded car in Narathiwat province, Thailand, Wednesday. Police said no one was injured in the blast, which took place near a bank. (Reuters)

FIGHTING FIRE: A firefighter tried to extinguish flames at a plastic-making factory near Kolkata Wednesday. According to police and local media, 25 fire engines fought for close to two hours to put out the blaze. (Piyal Adhikary/European Pressphoto Agency)

RECOVERY MISSION: Rescue workers tried to remove the body of a victim from a collapsed building in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday. At least two people were killed in the structure, condemned as dangerous by authorities, and several were trapped, officials said. (Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)

FEELING CRABBY: Ricky Breaux waded past a pool of dispersed oil after pulling in crabs at a recently reopened beach in Grand Isle, La., Wednesday. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

LIFE IMITATES ART: Boys practiced traditional “Schwingen” wrestling in a ring covered with sawdust in Sumiswald, Switzerland, Tuesday. Schwingen is among the oldest sports in that country. (Michael Buholzer/Reuters)

FREE FALL: Brazil’s Alves Jucelino dived 82 feet from the top of Roche Dam during the World Cup Cliff Diving Race in Bardonecchia, Italy, Wednesday. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)

TAKING A DIP: Young bathers enjoyed the water at Baerwalder See near Uhyst, Germany, Tuesday as exhaust rose from the nearby Boxberg power plant. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

HISTORY PRESERVED: In Birmingham, England, Tuesday, Father Gregor Winterton looked into a room used by Cardinal John Henry Newman — and left untouched since his death in 1890. Pope Benedict XVI will beatify the cardinal on Sept. 19. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

PARTING THE WATER: Poland’s Marcin Cieslak competed during the men’s 200-meter butterfly qualifications at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest Wednesday. (Xavier Marit/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

UPSIDE DOWN: Brandon Wynn competed on the high bar in the senior men’s division of the 2010 Visa Championships in Hartford, Conn., Wednesday. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

TICK-TOCK: Workers inspected the Big Ben clock for damages in London Thursday. The clock tower was completed in 1859. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

RAMADAN SIGN: A Muslim man hung a sign to mark the times of day for Ramadan prayers at a mosque in Estepona, Spain, Wednesday. (Jon Nazca/Reuters)

COLORFUL CARPET: A gardener prepared a carpet of flowers outside the Grand Palace in Brussels Thursday. The carpet is made of some 700,000 begonias. (Benoit Doppagne/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

FIELD WORK: Migrant workers worked in a tobacco field near Maysville, Ky., Thursday. Afternoon temperatures were forecast to reach the triple digits with no relief in sight as farmers prepared to cut and house their crops. (Terry Prather/The Ledger Independent via Associated Press)

WAITING IN THE WINGS: The Lady Boys of Bangkok prepared backstage ahead of their cabaret show Wednesday in Edinburgh as part of their “Fantasy and Feathers” tour. Their tour includes hits from the likes of Cheryl Cole, Lady Gaga and the Proclaimers. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)

STUNNED: Residents stood at the site of an explosion in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday. A car packed with at least 110 pounds of explosives blew up in an office district, shattering windows and injuring at least nine people, police said. No deaths were reported. (Eitan Abramovich/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

UMBRELLAS UP: Umbrellas shielded vegetable stands at a market in Ramallah, West Bank, Thursday. (Majdi Mohammed/Associated Press)

FOGGY DAZE: Spectators waited for play to begin during a fog delay at the 10th hole in the first round of the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis., Thursday. (Matt Sullivan/Reuters)

SMOKY: Police took cover from an improvised explosive thrown by residents of a Manila shanty settlement that officials demolished Thursday. At least four people were injured during the clash. (Reuters)

CARRIED AWAY: Police officers detained an opposition activist during a protest in Moscow Thursday. Demonstrators demanded Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov resign over his policies and absence during a heat wave and subsequent wildfires. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)

LIGHT LIFTING: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man scuffled with an Israeli border police officer during a protest against the removal of ancient tombs in the neighborhood of Jaffa, in Tel Aviv, Thursday. The community is trying to halt construction of a hotel in the area. (Tsafrir Abayov/Associated Press)

MINOR ADJUSTMENT: Bullfighter Daniel Luque adjusted his hat before the start of a bullfight in Gijon, Spain, Wednesday. (Eloy Alonso/Reuters)

BUNDLED BABIES: Pakistani mother Bushra Humayoun watched over her twins, Abdullah Khan and Muhammed Bilal, at a field hospital Thursday in Nowshera, Pakistan, where they were born amid the country’s flooding disaster. (Behrouz Mehri/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

MOTHER AND CHILD: Rochale, a 41-year-old Sumatran orangutan, held her newborn at Ramat Gan Safari park near Tel Aviv Thursday. (Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

A Newark firefighter climbs into position to fight a fire that tore through a group of vacant and residential homes on Ferdinand Street Wednesday. (Emile Wamsteker for The Wall Street Journal)

Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez was arrested on Wednesday at Citi Field for assaulting his father-in-law. Francisco Rodriguez (white shirt) is brought in for arraignment at Queens Criminal Courthouse in Kew Gardens, New York. (Uli Seit for The Wall Street Journal)

Parade-goers line Sixth Avenue from 36th to 56th Streets on Sunday to watch the Dominican Day Parade’s progress uptown. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)

Tyania Holman, six years old, works on a 15-foot mural on 148th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. The mural will be displayed in the LeRoy Neiman Art Center in Harlem when finished. (Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal)

Projectionist Edward Ko, wearing his aviator-style 3-D glasses, displays a reel of “Gorilla at Large”, one of the 3-D movies scheduled to play at the Film Forum beginning Friday, August 13th. (Alfred Giancarli for The Wall Street Journal)

Sous Chef Joe Vigorito slices a fish at dell’anima in the West Village. (Ramsey de Give for The Wall Street Journal)

New York City Parks Commissioner Andrian Benepe walks along Rockaway Beach with life guards Scottie Del Orbe, right, and Abran Shanja, left. New York City’s 14 miles of beaches are staffed by 1,377 life guards, the most in the city’s history. (Keith Bedford for The Wall Street Journal)

Gene Montesano, of Naples, Italy, looks at the newly added “Unconditional Surrender” statue in Times Square, unveiled Thursday. (Ross Mantle/The Wall Street Journal)

A mural on 12th Street and Avenue C in Alphabet City. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)

A competitor clears a hurdle during the 2010 CityParks Track and Field Championship Meet at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island Wednesday. (Suzy Allman for The Wall Street Journal)

Police investigate bullet holes at the scene of a shooting that wounded officers and partygoers during a weekend block party last Sunday on Lenox Avenue between 143rd and 144th Street. One of the partygoers died from his wounds. (David Goldman for The Wall Street Journal)

The owner of a bedbug exterminating company makes a house call. (Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal)

Youths from Seaview Park, Fox Park, and Starrett City play half-court basketball in Prospect Park. Tuesday’s games were organized by the Police Athletic League. (Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal)

PINK AND BLUE: A crew member prepared a hot-air balloon before flying at the International Balloon Fiesta in Bristol, England, Friday. The annual event attracts up to half a million spectators. (Toby Melville/Reuters)

MUSLIM PRAYERS: Muslims performed prayers during Ramadan at a mosque in Allahabad, India, Friday. (Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)

ON THE FENCE: A woman walked past a memorial Friday for people who died at the Berlin Wall. Construction began on the wall 49 years ago Friday. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)

HUNGRY HIPPOS: Two hippopotamuses played in their enclosure at the Hippodrom in Cologne, Germany, Friday. (Oliver Berg/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

VEILED THREAT: A masked protester held up a brick before throwing it at soldiers in Srinagar, India, Friday. Tens of thousands of Kashmiris rallied after government forces killed four people and injured 31 during the latest unrest against Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)

IN MURKY WATERS? Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) held a news conference Friday at the Capitol in which she defended herself against alleged ethics violations, including a claim that she sought federal assistance for a bank that her husband owned stock in. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

ROUGH WATERS: Reinhard Lay, who’s been a fisherman for 30 years, looked for a buoy Friday that marks the location of a net he and his fishing partner cast the day before in the Baltic Sea off Poel Island, Germany. The men say it’s difficult to make a living in the industry now. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

HIGHER GROUND: A flood survivor slept in a hammock above water in the village of Shah Jamal, Pakistan, Friday. The U.N. launched a formal appeal for $460 million for immediate relief efforts. So far, the international community has given or pledged about $102 million. (Arif Ali/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

FLYOVER: A man looked as a plane dropped water over a forest fire in Soajo, Portugal, Friday. Authorities said 33 wildfires were burning Friday and that many of them may have been started deliberately. More than 100 detectives are working on arson investigations. (Francisco Seco/Associated Press)

HIGH JUMP: Steve Diggle of Buzzcocks performed at the Vintage at Goodwood music festival in Chichester, England, Friday. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images for Vintage at Goodwood)

IN GOOD FORM: Skydivers jumped into a 102-person formation during the Euro Big Way Camp 2010 jumping festival in Wloclawek, Poland, Thursday. Participants succeeded in setting a new European record for skydiving formation. (Jarroslaw Szot/European Pressphoto Agency)

STREAKING BY: The Perseid meteor shower streaked through the sky over Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain, England, Thursday. Most of the meteors were no bigger than a grain of sand but they hit the atmosphere at 135,000 mph. (Kieran Doherty/Reuters)

CHANGE OF CLOTHES: Men changed their clothes after their shifts at a coal mine in Ukraine Friday. (Alexander Khudoteply/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

STICKING IT OUT: Magnets for sale were displayed on the car of a Palestinian man at the Kalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah, West Bank, Friday. (Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)

HERE COME THE BRIDES: Danielle Peregory placed a veil on the head of her future wife, Kelly Jones, as they waited in line to get a marriage license at San Francisco City Hall Thursday. Earlier in the day, Judge Vaughn Walker ruled same-sex marriages could resume next week. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EL PRESIDENTE: A man carried a picture of former Cuban President Fidel Castro, who turned 84 on Friday. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

County fairs are increasingly touting bus races as headliners, while speedways across the country are cashing in on bus-race nights with names like Crash-A-Rama. Racing buses had to be trucked in to the Hartford Fair in Croton, Ohio, left, because most aren’t street legal. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

Fifty-foot-long buses weighing up to eight tons muscle their way around a dirt track about the size of a football field. At left, Tim Weiler leaned on the front of the Smokin’ Bus before the Hartford Fair’s first-ever school bus race on August 8. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

Racers buy old buses and remove windows and passenger seats. They bolster engine protection with steel cages. Some soup up the motors while others focus on paint jobs. At left, Kevin Poppell posed for a portrait between “Gus, the Hillbilly Bus,” which he drove last year, and another he plans to drive this year. Both are owned by his friend, Ed Workman. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

Jessi Thorpe, 23, of Centerburg, Ohio, is a professional hair dresser and amateur bus racer. The Hartford Fair race was her first venture into the sport. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

At the Hartford Fair, drivers were prohibited from slamming into other buses’ driver’s cabs or backing into them, demolition-derby style. The buses competed in three heats, with the top two finishers from each moving on to the finals. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

A boy watched buses making preliminary runs before the race started. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

The bus race drew 6,000 people who sat in bleachers, eating giant barbecued turkey legs and sipping fresh lemonade. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

Aaron Roll waved a red flag to signal other drivers to stop after Anthony Shaffer and his Smokin’ Bus, left, were tipped over by Ed Workman, driving the red, white and blue bus. Mr. Shaffer exited the bus safely and Mr. Workman went on to win the race. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

Owner Lew Canter bought the Smokin’ Bus for $1,000 from his grade school. He and some buddies tinkered with its engine so it would spew plumes of black smoke into the compartments of rival buses. At left, Geoff Trainer, left, and Mr. Shaffer, right, ratcheted the Smokin’ Bus to a trailer after the day’s races. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

Sunday, Mr. Workman cruised to the win. But Mr. Canter, the Smokin’ Bus owner, vowed to take revenge at an upcoming Labor Day weekend race in nearby Morrow County: “He won’t be finishing that race.” At left, Mr. Roll signaled to competitors during the race. (Andrew Spear for The Wall Street Journal)

AUGUST 2010 ... TO BE CONTINUED....

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