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Flooding in Mumbai (Bombay), India. -
PEAK FORM: Singaporean mountaineers successfully scaled three virgin peaks in Kazakhstan's Tien Shan range. -- HANDOUT PHOTO -
Sixty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, Steve Withington sent this picture of the A-Bomb Dome. The former Trade Promotion Hall is one of the few buildings near the epicentre of the blast still standing. -
Jim Strang: "I was out walking in the Peak District when I saw this coming towards me. It was visible for up to 10 minutes, then just broke up and disappeared." -
Hiroshima in 1951
Finlay Cunningham: "During the Korean war I served on a Sunderland flying boat that operated from an Australian Air base near Hiroshima. I was a bit of a photo buff then and always carried my camera." -
Tamara: "This is six-year-old Rebecca Harrison's first ever game of Poohsticks taken in Falkland, Fife." -
they wanted to name them char kwey tiao mountain n murtabak peakOriginally posted by BabyLover:
PEAK FORM: Singaporean mountaineers successfully scaled three virgin peaks in Kazakhstan's Tien Shan range. -- HANDOUT PHOTO
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Richard Seaman: "Thought you might like a view of what the forest fires in Sumatra are doing to the air in Kuala Lumpur." -
Max Clark: "While perhaps lacking some aesthetic beauty, after a day of soul-wrenching sights visiting Terezin [Theresienstadt] camp and museum, it sure brightened my day." -
Sasi Shanmugarajah took this picture of two young people at the base of the Washington monument in Washington, DC -
AFP/DDP - Fri Aug 5,12:43 PM ET
Say Aaaaah... : A German youth sticks his head in the mouth of a dinosaur figure in Kleinwelka 05 August 2005. AFP PHOTO DDP/NORBERT MILLAUER (AFP/DDP/Norbert Millauer) -
Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 8:53 PM ET
Mexican divers jump into a swimming pool at Salitre park in Bogota, Colombia, August 4, 2005. Mexican divers are in the city to show their performance during the holiday season. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte -
AFP - Fri Aug 5, 1:03 PM ET
Flying with flare : Croatian Air Force AN-19 planes release flares during a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the military operation 'Storm' in Knin, Croatia. (AFP/Str ) -
AFP - Fri Aug 5, 1:17 PM ET
Zeppy dee doo... : Stephane Rousson rides the Zeppy, a small dirigible propulsed by manpower, during a test flight in preparation for his attempt to cross the Channel. (AFP/Louise Lauret) -
AFP - Fri Aug 5,12:49 PM ET
Raging fire : A fireman fights a wild fire near Aurons, southeastern France. (AFP/Patrick Valasseris) -
AFP - Fri Aug 5,12:52 PM ET
Bush fire : A fireman tries to contains a bush fire as it threatens nearby houses in Aurons, southern france. (AFP/Patrick Valasseris) -
Remembering Hiroshima
Greenpeace members fly dove-shaped balloons at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park on Friday as the environmental group marked 60 years after the nuclear blast here. -- AFP -
Matsa menace
Typhoon Matsa lashed Taiwan on Friday with torrential rains and strong winds that forced financial markets, offices and schools to close. -- AFP -
Sitting pretty
A row of sofas are laid out to dry outside a shop in Beijing on Friday in the aftermath of China's summer floods. The devastating floods killed 764 people and left 191 others missing. -- AFP -
Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 1:00 PM ET
A keeper at the Cikananga Animal Rescue Center feeds a Southern Cassowary in the sanctuary, Sukabumi, West Java, July 5, 2005. More than 1300 protected animals are kept in the rescue shelter run by a non-governmental group trying to reduce Indonesia's rampant illegal trade in wildlife, and to help these caged animals regain their natural instincts to allow their return to the wild. Picture taken July 5, 2005. (Supri/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 2:41 PM ET
A Vietnamese animal health worker vaccinates chickens in Giao Chau commune, in Vietnam's northern province of Nam Dinh, August 4, 2005. Vietnam has begun to vaccinate 210 million poultry as part of an all-out effort to eradicate the deadly bird flu virus which has killed 42 people in the country, half of them since December. (Kham/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 2:45 PM ET
Hurricane Ivan, which caused a swathe of destruction across the Caribbean last September before crashing into the U.S. Gulf coast, generated ocean waves more than 90 feet high. Part of a highway is submerged in Alabama after Hurricane Ivan swept through the area September 16, 2004. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 3:54 PM ET
Want your own personal genome sequenced? Researchers said they had found a faster and cheaper way to do it that would cost only about $2.2 million. George Church and colleagues at Harvard Medical School hope eventually to reduce the cost further to $1,000 per genome -- the entire DNA code of a person, plant or other organism. (PRNewsFoto/Reuters) -
AP - Thu Aug 4, 6:03 PM ET
**FILE PHOTO** A bulldozer rides along Malecon Avenue searching for debris left by the winds of the fringes of Hurricane Ivan as a wave crashes along the street in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sept. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Miguel Gomez) -
Reuters - Thu Aug 4, 9:02 AM ET
Thunderstorms form a backdrop as the Space Shuttle Discovery's remote manipulator system (RMS) robotic arm extends itself at International Space, August 2, 2005. (Nasa/Reuters)