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AFP - Tue Sep 6, 3:57 PM ET
Red Arrows : The British Royal Air Force's aerobatic team, the Red Arrows, fly over Athens' Faliro costal zone during an international air show. (AFP/Aris Messinis) -
Indonesia air crash
An Indonesian airliner carrying 117 people has crashed into a residential area after taking off from an airport in Medan, the country's third largest city. -
Indonesia air crash
The 24-year-old plane reportedly burst into flames seconds after taking off, before breaking up on impact. -
Indonesia air crash
Rescue workers were quickly on the scene, charged with the task of locating survivors and removing dozens of bodies from the wreckage. -
Indonesia air crash
As salvage operations continued, troops secured the site. -
Indonesia air crash
In the country's capital, Jakarta, where the plane was heading, relatives of passengers have begun grieving for loved ones who will not arrive. -
Indonesia air crash
Because the plane crashed in a heavily residential area, there were significant numbers of casualties on the ground. -
Indonesia air crash
Just a few sections of the main body of the plane survived the crash impact. -
Indonesia air crash
Nevertheless, flights continue into Medan's busy airport, even as searches of the crash site are carried out. -
Afghan election campaign
Campaigning for Afghanistan's parliamentary and provincial elections on September 18 has been in full swing for weeks. -
Afghan election campaign
Many methods have been used to raise election awareness including this game of Buzkashi, Afghanistan's national sport. -
Afghan election campaign
This mobile educational theatre company have performed their play 'New Hope' in 26 provinces across Afghanistan to increase knowledge about the elections. -
Afghan election campaign
One in four seats in the new parliament and in provincial councils are reserved for women. -
Afghan election campaign
Almost 2,800 people are contesting the elections. Most are not running under the banner of a political party. -
Afghan election campaign
This female candidate is canvassing for votes at a women's centre in Kabul. -
Afghan election campaign
There are a wide range of candidates including a handful of former Taleban officials. Mullah Mohammed Khaksar was a former Taleban deputy interior minister. -
Afghan election campaign
Just one type of ink will be used in this round of elections after the confusion caused by different types last time. -
Afghan election campaign
Ballot boxes have been arriving at warehouses in Kabul. -
Afghan election campaign
Polling station managers are briefed by the UN-supported Joint Electoral Management Body. -
AFP - Tue Sep 6,12:12 PM ET
A flooded street in Kagoshima. A powerful typhoon cut across southern Japan, leaving at least 21 dead or missing and injuring 53, as 100,000 people were ordered to shelter from floods and landslides.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi) -
AFP/File - Tue Sep 6,12:12 PM ET
A fallen tree lies on a road while rescue workers look for missing people in Tarumizu. A powerful typhoon cut across southern Japan, leaving at least 21 dead or missing and injuring 53, as 100,000 people were ordered to shelter from floods and landslides.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi) -
Reuters - Tue Sep 6,12:47 PM ET
The fiery chilli pepper is being used to cool an ancient feud between farmers and wild elephants in Africa. In the Zambezi valley in southern Zambia, small-scale farmers are growing chilli peppers as a deterrent against elephants that raid their crops -- and marketing the end result as an eco-friendly product. The animals can wipe out the annual harvests of entire villages with devastating consequences for the rural poor who often live on a knife-edge of survival. (Steve Crisp/Reuters) -
AFP/NASA/File - Tue Sep 6, 1:12 PM ET
Image taken by cameras on board the Cassini Orbiter spacecraft and released by NASA shows the Earth's Moon. An experimental European probe has spotted a tiny area on the Moon that could be a promising site to set up a future manned outpost.(AFP/NASA/File) -
AFP/Pool - Tue Sep 6, 2:51 PM ET
Homes remain surrounded by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. Engineers worked feverishly to pump floodwater out of corpse-littered New Orleans, while President George W. Bush vowed to lead a probe of government lapses in responding to Hurricane Katrina.(AFP/Pool/David J. Phillip) -
AFP/File - Tue Sep 6, 3:43 PM ET
An alligator. Alligators are stalking the flooded waters of New Orleans and rescuers fear that they will eat the bodies of Hurricane Katrina's victims.(AFP/File/Robert Sullivan)