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Hurricane Katrina
Palm trees strained and were ripped from the ground as Katrina tore through New Orleans' empty streets. -
Hurricane Katrina
Many of those who chose to ride out the storm waited anxiously, fearful that New Orleans' flood defences might be overwhelmed by the hurricane. -
Hurricane Katrina
Miles away from the eye of the storm, wind and rain pushed flood waters towards hundreds of towns and cities, including Gulf Shores, Alabama. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina formed in the Bahamas and began its trail of destruction in southern Florida last Thursday, dumping several inches of rain on Miami. -
SUPER BOOST: South Korea rolled out its first supersonic jet on Tuesday, making the country the world's 12th producer of such planes. -- AP -
Rescue mission
Rescue workers evacuate residents from submerged houses in New Orleans on Monday after Hurricane Katrina made a landfall. The storm has caused widespread damage and flooding in New Orleans and other cities on the southern Gulf Coast of the United States. -- AFP -
Apartment inferno
Some 130 French firemen try to fight a blaze that swept through a building housing African immigrants in central Paris late on Monday. Seven people were killed and three seriously injured in the fire. -- AFP -
Disney 'done wrong'
Demonstrators gathered outside Hong Kong Disneyland on Tuesday to protest alleged labour abuses by Disney contractors in China. Disney has appointed an auditor to look into the claims. Millions of visitors are expected to visit the theme park, which is due to open on Sept 12. -- AP -
Secure party
A performer dances next to a British police officer at the Notting Hill Carnival in London on Monday. Security for the carnival, one of the world's largest street parties, has been amped up following the deadly bombings on London's transport system on July 7 and the attempted attacks two weeks later. -- AFP -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:01 PM ET
Carnival goer : A Notting Hill Carnival reveller at the Notting Hill Carnival, London. (AFP/Carl de Souza) -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:20 PM ET
Wearing the flag : Hundreds of schoolchildren wearing shirts stylised in the colours of the Malaysian flag recite the oath of allegiance during the Malaysian independence day full-dress rehearsal procession in Putrajaya. (AFP/Tengku Bahar) -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:25 PM ET
Old Believer : Old Believers priest holds a service in a church of Our Lady of Kazan during Assumption of the Our Lady celebrations in Kazan. (AFP/Maxim Marmur) -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:25 PM ET
Getting water : 78 year-old Turkish villager Ahmet Muftuoglu is pulling water out of the water-well with his old horse while his wife Dondu watches him on the well near their high plateau home in Konya's province Karapinar in southeast Turkey. (AFP/Tarik Tinazay) -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:13 PM ET
Remembering Beslan : Ludmila Dzgyeva, who lost a daughter during the Beslan hostage drama 03 September 2004, stands in the destroyed school sports hall in Beslan. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov) -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:06 PM ET
Through the window : Seen through a window, an Israeli bulldozer demolishes an abandoned house in the former southern Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom. (AFP/Menahem Kahana) -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:10 PM ET
Chayito! : Mexican athlete Rosario Iglesias 'Chayito', 95, crosses the finish line after running her 200m race in 1:59.45 min, during the celebration of the XVI WMA World Master Athletics Championships Stadia 2005, in the northern Spanish Basque town of San Sebastian. (AFP/Rafa Rivas) -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:23 PM ET
Focused Nadal : Number 2 seed Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts to the ball during his first round match against Bobby Reynolds of the US at the 2005 US Open Tennis Championships being held at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York. Nadal won the match. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary) -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:03 PM ET
At the museum : An Iranian visitor watches paintings of acclaimed imperssionist painters of 19th century (L to R) Edouard Vuillard, Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro, after the inauguration of the 'Modern Art Movement' exhibition at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri) -
AFP - Mon Aug 29, 9:07 PM ET
On patrol : A US soldier of Alpha Company of Task Force 4-64 Armor gestures to Iraqi civilian cars during a patrol on the Al-Araas Bridge in Baghdad. (AFP/Liu Jin) -
Reuters - Mon Aug 29,11:01 PM ET
David Diaz looks at the area where he and his brother used to live in the Sadler Apartments on the waterfront in Biloxi, Mississippi, August 29, 2005. The pile of rubble and empty foundations are what is left of 30 or more apartments and more than 100 of the St. Charles Condominiums. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, stranding people on rooftops as it pummeled the historic jazz city New Orleans with 100 mph (160 kph) winds and swamped Mississippi resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater. (Mark Wallheiser/Reuters) -
AFP - Tue Aug 30, 3:47 AM ET
Emergency personnel rescue residents from submerged houses in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina made landfall causing widespread damage and flooding in New Orleans and other cities on the southern Gulf Coast of the United States(AFP/James Nielsen) -
Reuters - Mon Aug 29, 4:04 PM ET
Two Yorkshire terriers Billy (R) and Jully (L), sit on the bed at a pet motel in Sao Paulo August 26, 2005. The doggy love motel, complete with a heart-shaped mirror on the ceiling and a headboard resembling a doggy bone, has opened for amorous pooches in Brazil. The doggy love motel in Sao Paulo, South America's largest city, was inspired by the thousands of such establishments that rent rooms to Brazilian couples for four-hour periods for trysts. (Fernando Cavalcanti/Reuters) -
AFP/Getty Images - Tue Aug 30, 1:51 AM ET
A toppled brick wall is seen in the French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina hit in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans, flooding entire neighborhoods, but kept the worst of its deadly wrath for neighboring Mississippi where reports said at least 54 people were killed(AFP/Getty Images/Mario Tama) -
Reuters - Mon Aug 29, 9:10 PM ET
A train crossing light is torn down as Hurricane Katrina hit downtown Gulfport, Mississippi August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, stranding people on rooftops as it pummeled the historic jazz city New Orleans with 100 mph (160 kph) winds and swamped Mississippi resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater. REUTERS/Frank Polich -
Reuters - Fri Aug 26, 6:22 AM ET
Four giant pandas drink water at a pool at the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Centre in Wolong, southwest China's Sichuan province, August 26, 2005. Taiwan experts will arrive in Wolong Friday night to take part in the selection of two giant pandas as gifts of the Chinese mainland to Taiwan, local media reported. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Newsphoto