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AFP/JIJI Press - Thu Aug 25, 7:19 AM ET
High waves hit a breakwater in Yokosuka. Typhoon Mawar was closing in on Japan, grounding planes and bringing warnings of torrential rain, landslides and high waves in large areas of the country.(AFP/JIJI Press) -
AFP/File - Thu Aug 25, 7:42 AM ET
A rough scale python, one of the world's rarest snakes at the Australian reptile park near Sydney. Australian officials discovered that the country had become home to a number of threatening relatives from overseas.(AFP/File/David Hancock) -
AFP/File - Thu Aug 25,10:33 AM ET
Thai workers remove waste from a canal close to the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok. Infamous for its putrid smell and murky-brown colour, Bangkok's main waterway, the Chao Phraya river, is to undergo a major three-year clean-up, city officials said.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan) -
AFP - Thu Aug 25,10:37 AM ET
A French firefighter gestures as he sprays water onto a fire in Penela, Portugal. Firefighters have brought under control all the blazes which have ravaged the centre and north of the parched country over the past two weeks.(AFP/Francisco Leong) -
AFP - Thu Aug 25,10:58 AM ET
Residents put sand bags in front of a bank in a flooded street of Lucerne. Swiss authorities continued to evacuate residents from flood-stricken areas as rescue workers battled to remove debris that threatened dams and bridges even as the waters subsided.(AFP/Bruno Ferrandez) -
AFP - Thu Aug 25,10:58 AM ET
The flooded banks of the Reuss river in Lucerne. Swiss authorities continued to evacuate residents from flood-stricken areas as rescue workers battled to remove debris that threatened dams and bridges even as the waters subsided.(AFP/Bruno Ferrandez) -
AFP - Thu Aug 25,11:04 AM ET
A man cleans up in a supermarket in the Tyrolean city of Woergl, some 70 kilometres east of Innsbruck. An 81-year-old man whose body was found became the fourth victim in three days of heavy flooding in Austria.(AFP/Str) -
FP - Thu Aug 25,11:16 AM ET
Samina Begum, 26, walks past her house which was destroyed by a landslide, in the Dhirenpara area, outside Guwahati, the capital city of India's northeastern state of Assam.(AFP/Str) -
A woman surfs off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida, that was hit by powerful Hurricane Katrina. -
Indian children are dressed as Hindu gods in Amritsar, as India prepares to mark the birthday of Lord Krishna on Saturday. -
A South Korean woman (left) cries after meeting her North Korean sister during a reunion for separated relatives from the two states in Diamond mountain resort, North Korea. -
An Iranian boy plays on the back of a man, as Muslims pray at the Tehran University campus. -
Australian cricketer Shane Warne unsuccessfully appeals for bowling out England's Andrew Flintoff during the fourth Test match at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. -
A tricycle driver reads a newspaper in Burma's capital, as uncertainty remains about the credibility of reports of a coup in the ruling junta. -
Reuters - Wed Aug 24,11:56 PM ET
Malaysian Kuah Mershel, daughter of a bonsai cultivator, holds the smallest of her miniature bonsai at her residence in Kuala Lumpur August 24, 2005. These miniature bonsai from a local species known as 'water jasmine' measure 22mm. Picture taken late August 24, 2005. REUTERS/Kamarulzaman Russali -
Reuters - Wed Aug 24, 6:00 PM ET
People are seen on the coast in Fort Lauderdale, while Tropical Storm Katrina forms over central Bahamas and heads towards Florida's southern Atlantic Coast August 24, 2005. Katrina was expected to hit the Miami area by Friday as a strong tropical storm or a weak hurricane, dumping up to 12 inches (30 cm) of rain on the southern tip of Florida as it moved slowly across the state into the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. REUTERS/Carlos Barria -
AP - Thu Aug 25,10:59 AM ET
Burnt trees after a forest fire in Vale de Canas, near Coimbra, Portugal, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005. Little or no rain has fallen on Portugal in the last 10 months, leaving the country in the grip of a severe drought that has helped fires to spread. (AP Photo/Sergio Azenha) -
didnt noe there r so mani picture...
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now this is shocking... tsunami?Originally posted by poon cho tang:
AFP/JIJI Press - Thu Aug 25, 7:19 AM ET
High waves hit a breakwater in Yokosuka. Typhoon Mawar was closing in on Japan, grounding planes and bringing warnings of torrential rain, landslides and high waves in large areas of the country.(AFP/JIJI Press) -
just high waves, not tsunamiOriginally posted by jay_rocks:now this is shocking... tsunami?
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AFP - Thu Aug 25, 3:25 PM ET
Cadets : Cadets of the Suvorov military school stand in a line during an enrollment ceremony at the Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow. (AFP/Artyom Korotayev) -
AFP - Thu Aug 25, 4:19 PM ET
Jihad in the streets : A masked Palestinian militant from the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, demonstrate along a street of the Khan Yunes refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP/Mohammed Abed) -
AFP - Thu Aug 25, 3:18 PM ET
Watching eyes : Israeli police officers stand guard during a closure ceremony of the dismantled police station of the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, Gaza Strip. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri) -
AFP - Thu Aug 25, 3:06 PM ET
At the wall : Ultra-orthodox Jews pray in front of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt) -
AFP - Thu Aug 25, 3:08 PM ET
Wrapped in the colors : Standing between large Iraqi flags a boy takes part in a demonstration against federalism held in Fordous Square in central Baghdad. (AFP/Sabah Arar)