Picture News
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AFP/File - Wed Aug 24, 8:13 AM ET
Picture dated July 2005 shows Bangladeshi boys pushing a car stuck in floodwaters in Dhaka. A 10-year-old boy was killed and some 35,000 people forced to flee when floods trigged by a tidal surge swamped southern coastal areas of Bangladesh.(AFP/File/Farjana K. Godhuly) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 8:16 AM ET
Swiss rescue workers pull a boat through the flooded streets of Bern. Parts of Switzerland hit by heavy flooding and landslides in recent days were mopping up, although several roads and railway lines were still unpassable.(AFP/Bruno Ferrandez) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 24, 8:19 AM ET
A house stands amid debris after Typhoon Tokage hit Izushi in October 2004. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that Typhoon Mawar could cause high waves and heavy rain in large areas of the country.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 8:22 AM ET
Austrian rescue workers evacuate villagers from the small Tyrolean village of Pflach. The body of a man was found in a flooded basement in western Austria, raising the death toll from the heavy rains this week to three, with one person missing and 17 reported injuries.(AFP) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 8:28 AM ET
Pope Benedict XVI leaves the Paul VI hall at the end of his weekly general audience in the Vatican. The pontiff prayed for the victims of severe weather in Europe, saying he was spiritually close to those facing such 'tragic hardship'.(AFP/Patrick Hertzog) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 24, 8:32 AM ET
A car moves along a cracked road after an earthquake struck northern Japan in 2003. The Japan Meteorological Agency confirmed that an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale shook northern Japan.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 24, 8:40 AM ET
A great white shark swimming off the South African coastline. Australian police said a shark is believed to have killed a diver who went missing near the scene of a lethal attack by a suspected Great White eight months ago.(AFP/File/Theo Ferreira) -
Canadian Press - Wed Aug 24, 9:21 AM ET
People on a boat travel through the Mesopotamian marshlands in southern Iraq. (AP Photo/UNEP, HO) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 24,11:06 AM ET
A villager of Carreira do Mato tries to extinguish a forest fire in Abrantes, central Portugal, August 22, 2005. Water-dumping aircraft from around Europe battled on Tuesday to help drought-hit Portugal contain its worst fires on record that have killed at least 14 people. (Nacho Doce/Reuters) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 24,11:32 AM ET
A forest fire burns near Vila Flor in Miranda Do Corvo, near Coimbra in central Portugal August 24, 2005. Portuguese forest fires flared anew on Wednesday, defying hopes that cooler weather would bring relief for one of the country's worst outbreaks of fires in decades. (Nacho Doce/Reuters) -
A new species - homo sapiens - is introduced to London Zoo as part of its Human Zoo exhibit, running for four days over the bank holiday weekend. -
A Pakistani woman casts her vote as others queue at a polling station in Lahore during municipal elections. -
Curator Helen Round displays some of the paintings making up the second annual collection at the Museum of Particularly Bad Art in Melbourne, Australia. -
Head waiter Kurt Streibl pours away part of the Donau river that inundated his Bavarian cafe during floods in southern Germany. -
A Chinese fighter plane fires rockets during joint Chinese-Russian military exercises in China's eastern Shandong Province. -
Kenyan rangers move a tranquilised 22-year-old male elephant during a project to transport 400 of the beasts from Shimba Hills National Reserve to Tsavo East National Park. -
Alpine floods
Tourist and locals wade through the centre of Lucerne, Switzerland. (Pic: Robert Jonsen) -
Alpine floods
Bern, Switzerland: The river Aare burst its banks and sent muddy water cascading through low-lying streets. (Pic: Diccon Bewes) -
Alpine floods
The river Aare in Bern reached the record level set during floods in 1999. (Pic: Diccon Bewes) -
Alpine floods
The rain eased on Tuesday but the situation remains tense in Bern and beyond, including the popular resort of Interlaken. (Pic: Diccon Bewes) -
Alpine floods
Elsewhere in Switzerland, the heavy rain triggered landslides and disrupted transport. This is Kandersteg, Switzerland, after the river Kander burst its banks. (Pic: Kerry Rauber) -
Alpine floods
Water levels have risen dramatically around Lake Lucerne and many popular mountain holiday resorts have been completely cut off. (Pic: Julia McAulay) -
Alpine floods
In Austria, floods have caused chaos in the west of the country, leaving three people dead and one missing. (Pic: Michaela) -
Alpine floods
Richard Smith took this photo of the rising river level as it flows from Lake Thun through the town. -
Alpine floods
Lechtal Valley in Tirol and the Kleinwalsertal Valley in Vorarlberg have been badly affected. (Pic: Michaela)