Picture News
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Alpine floods
Roads have been closed because of the flood danger. Hannah Medici sent this picture from Windisch, where the river Reuss meets the Aare. -
AFP - Sat Aug 20, 8:28 PM ET
Up and over : David Rojas of Colombia pole vaults during the Juegos Bolivarianos in Armenia, Colombia. (AFP/Rodrigo Arangua) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 9:45 PM ET
Little pet : Emily Brooke holds a 3 1/2 month-old Yorkshire terrier at American Kennels store in New York. (AFP/Stan Honda) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 4:19 PM ET
Before the summit : Russian policemen are silhouetted against a giant poster commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of Kazan ahead of the Commonwealth of Independent States summit. (AFP/Maxim Marmur) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 9:03 PM ET
Itty bitty bonsai : Bonsai enthusiast Kuah Tee Teong, 53, holds up what could possibly be the world's smallest bonsai plant at his home in Kuala Lumpur. (AFP/Tengku Bahar) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 4:14 PM ET
At the wall : A Jewish orthodox man prays in front of the western wall in Jerusalem. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 3:27 PM ET
Reconnaissance mission : A US soldier secures the scene during a reconnaissance mission on the outskirts of Baghdad. (AFP/Liu Jin) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 3:32 PM ET
Young hands : A Palestinian girl holds a toy handgun during a Hamas demonstration in Khan Yunes in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP/Marco Longari) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 3:26 PM ET
Sitting in a tree : Two children sit in a tree in Kiyange, a displaced neighbourhood on the outskirts of Bujumbura. (AFP/Jose Cendon) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 3:30 PM ET
Slow burning : YABED, WEST BANK : A Palestinian worker stand on a slow-burning pile of wood covered with straw on a smoky hillside as part of the 10-day process to turn wood into charcoal near their West Bank village of Yabed. (AFP/Menahem Kahana) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24,11:23 AM ET
Iraqi marsh Arabs begin construction on a house made of reeds near the city of Najaf. A Japanese-funded UN project launched a year ago has used the Internet and eco-friendly technology to restore the Middle East's main wetland area.(AFP/Sabah Arar) -
AFP/DDP - Wed Aug 24,12:43 PM ET
Edith Stoeckl looks out of her house on in Moos, southern Germany and watches the rising water of the Donau river. Record flooding in southern Germany surged downstream from the Alps.(AFP/DDP/Michael Kappeler) -
AFP/DDP - Wed Aug 24,12:43 PM ET
A flooded road near Murnau, southern Germany. Record floodwaters in southern Germany surged downstream after wreaking havoc in Alpine regions, but authorities said they were confident that the worst was over.(AFP/DDP/Joerg Koch) -
AFP/DDP - Wed Aug 24,12:43 PM ET
Two men navigate their boat past the building of a sports association in Irnsing, southern Germany which has been flooded by the Donau river.(AFP/DDP/Robert Michael) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24,12:53 PM ET
A house is seen surrounded by water in Interlaken. A massive clear-up operation was underway in parts of Switzerland hit by heavy flooding and landslides, although several roads and railway lines were still cut, authorities said.(AFP/Bruno Ferrandez) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24,12:53 PM ET
Cranes and diggers clear logs from fallen trees and other debris that accumulated along the river Aare in Interlaken after three days of torrential rain in central and eastern Switzerland.(AFP/Bruno Ferrandez) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24,12:53 PM ET
A car is seen surrounded by water near Interlaken. A massive clear-up operation was underway in parts of Switzerland hit by heavy flooding and landslides, authorities said.(AFP/Bruno Ferrandez) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 2:57 PM ET
A construction worker helps fight a fire in Penela, 200 kms north of Lisbon. The fire erupted 21 August in woodlands near Coimbra, Portugal's third-largest city, and was propelled some 30 kms (20 miles) by strong winds.(AFP/Francisco Leong) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 2:57 PM ET
A villager gestures to a fire-fighting helicopter as it loads water in the village of Cerquido, next Ponte de Lima, northern Portugal.(AFP/Miguel Riopa) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 2:57 PM ET
A forest burns in the village of Cerquido, northern Portugal. Portugal's government vowed to take steps to lower the risk of wildfires as firefighters, aided by cooler temperatures and higher air humidity levels, reduced the number of uncontrolled forest fires raging across the parched country.(AFP/Miguel Riopa) -
AFP - Wed Aug 24, 2:57 PM ET
French firefighters talk as they help to extinguish a wildfire in Penela, 200 Km north of Lisbon. A water-dropping plane reportedly crashed while battling a forest fire in central Portugal, slightly injuring its Spanish pilot.(AFP/Francisco Leong) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 24, 3:22 PM ET
A killer whale and her calf. Killer whales which set traps to catch seagulls have become the third known animal species to possess 'cultural learning' -- a skill which is transmitted to other members of their group(AFP/File/Jack Guez) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 24, 3:36 PM ET
Women farmers harvest rice in Banda Aceh. Fears that the most fertile agricultural land in the Indonesian province of Aceh has been wrecked by seawater that swept inland from the December 26 tsunami are unfounded, scientists say.(AFP/File/Hiyawata) -
AFP/DDP - Thu Aug 25, 7:12 AM ET
A man stands on a ladder to avoid rising flood waters in Passau. A man has drowned in the severe flooding in southern Germany, as flood waters slowly ebbed, easing fears of further disaster.(AFP/DDP/Jens-Ulrich Koch) -
AFP/File - Thu Aug 25, 7:16 AM ET
Cambodian children walk in a dried irrigation canal in Kandal province. Up to two million Cambodians may face serious food shortages next year as the impoverished country suffers its worst drought in 50 years.(AFP/File/Khem Sovannara)