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• Aug. 27: U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announces his resignation.
• Aug. 27: Fire is seen over a mountain next to Theologos, Evia island, Greece.
• Aug. 27: Michael Vick arrives at a federal courthouse in Richmond, Va., where he entered a guilty plea on dogfighting charges.
• Aug. 27: An Albuquerque motorcycle officer from President Bush's motorcade receives medial attention after an accident in New Mexico.
• Aug. 27: Serena Williams of the United States runs for a shot during the US Open tennis tournament in New York.
• Aug. 28: US soldiers look at the body of an Iraqi soldier killed as his vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, near Baqouba, Iraq.
• Aug. 28: A collapsed multi-story building under construction, Baku, Azerbaijan.
• Aug. 28: Paul Addis, headshot, is shown in the Pershing County Sheriff's Office after allegedly burning early the Burning Man effigy.
• Aug. 28: A priest walks through the remains of the burned Church of Agia Paraskevi in Greka village, Pelloponise peninsula, Greece.
• Aug. 28: A firefighter watches aircraft drop fire retardant on a blaze in Ketchum, Idaho.
• Aug. 28: Jiang Dezhang, right, and his bride, Tie Guangju, hang from ropes in a mid-air wedding ceremony in Kunming, in China's southwestern Yunnan Province. The couple both work for the same window cleaning company.
• Leona Helmsley and her dog Trouble are shown in Helmsley's Park Lane Hotel apartment in this Jan. 31, 2003, photograph taken in New York. Helmsley left her beloved white Maltese a $12 million trust fund, according to her will, which was made public Aug. 28 in surrogate court, but two of her grandchildren received nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire's estate.
• Aug. 28: Isaac Arellano holds a candle and sings in Price, Utah, during a fundraiser for miners.
• Aug. 29: A reveler reacts during the annual food fight, the Tomatina, in the small Spanish town of Bunol. Each year tens of thousands of people hurl truckloads of tomatoes at each other, sending knee-deep rivers through the small town. Local lore says it began in the mid-1940s with a food battle that broke out between youngsters near a vegetable stand on the town square in Bunol, 190 miles southeast of Madrid.
• Aug. 29: Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's car is shown after someone wrapped it in plastic and put eagles and stickers on it. One sticker reads 'I love Obama.' The car was parked on White House grounds.
• Aug. 29: A view of London's Parliament Square is shown during the unveiling of a statue of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela, who saluted the heroes of South Africa's struggle against apartheid Wednesday at the unveiling in London recognizing him as one of the greatest leaders of the age. Mandela, 89, said the statue, which joins those of Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill in London's Parliament Square, is a symbol for all those who resisted oppression. 'Though this statue is of one man, it should, in actual fact, symbolize all those who have resisted oppression, especially in my country,' Mandela said. The ceremony was attended by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. At right is Westminster Abbey and at left is the Palace of Westminster, which includes the House of Commons.
• Aug. 29: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, freed female South Korean hostages sit in the vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ghazni province.
• Aug. 29: Trucks set ablaze by angry residents go up in flames in Agra, India. Mobs in the northern Indian city that is home to the Taj Mahal set fire to more than a dozen vehicles and blocked roads after a truck crushed four men to death.
• Aug. 29: A photo provided by the environment protection organization Greenpeace on shows a cluster-balloon piloted by Britain's Mike Howard hovering above the German motorway junction in Maschen, near Hamburg, northern Germany. Greenpeace launched the about 800 balloons filled with helium to protest CO2 pollution and demand a general speed limit of 120 km/h (74.5 miles per hour) on German motorways. According to Greenpeace, 12 percent of the CO2 pollution in Germany is caused by car traffic.
• Aug. 29: A child suspected to be suffering from Dengue fever, caused by the aedes mosquitoes, receives treatment at the Children's Hospital in Allahabad, India. Health officials had warned of the risks of skin infections, malaria, leptospirosis and dengue fever after flood water caused by monsoon rains receded.
• Aug. 30: Supporters of Pakistan's ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hold a rally in favor of their leader with a lion, an election symbol of Sharif in the last elections, in Lahore, Pakistan. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will not succumb to pressure in deciding whether to quit as army chief, his spokesman said, after an opponent claimed he would step down under a pact to restore Pakistan to democracy.
• Aug. 30: A Jordanian man passes a burning tire in Amman. Jordanian riot police clashed with more than 200 Bedouin herders blocking the country's main highway with burning tires in a protest over price hikes for animal feed, witnesses said. Police attacked the demonstrators with tear gas and riot batons to disperse the crowd.
• Aug. 30: A man watches an abandoned car in a flooded underpass after the Lyssbach brook broke its banks due to heavy rainfall and flooded the center of Lyss, Canton of Berne, Switzerland.
• Aug. 30: Rathakrishnan Velu attempts to pull with his teeth a seven-coach train with a combined weight of 297.1 tonnes at an old railway station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rathakrishnan dragged himself back on the rail tracks to haul the 297.1 tonne (327.5 short tons) train over a distance 9 feet and 2 inches.
• Aug. 31: Chinese children try out toys at a mall in Shanghai, China. Recall systems for unsafe food products and toys went into effect in China on Friday as part of a bid to improve product safety, state media said.
• Aug. 31: Terry Hutt from Cambridge, England, who had been coming to Kensington Palace for 10 years on the anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, cleans up the area outside the palace in London.
• Aug. 31: Rescuers work at the scene of a train crash in Nova Iguacu near Rio de Janeiro. The commuter train was traveling at nearly 60 mph when it slammed into the rear end of an empty six-car train maneuvering slowly from one track to another, killing eight people and injuring more than 80, officials said.
• Aug. 31: Pakistani commuters rush to a Pakistan State Oil gas station to get petrol in Karachi, Pakistan. Owners of petrol pumps announced a nationwide strike for an indefinite period starting Friday in protest of the reduction in their commissions on the sale of petrol.
• Aug. 31: Christian Moullec, from France, flies together with his geese during training rounds of the air show of Bex, Switzerland. The airs show, which will take place on Sept. 1 and Sept. 2, is the largest in Switzerland in 2007.
• Aug. 31: Hamas Executive Force officers stand over a Palestinian Fatah supporter after he was knocked to the ground during a protest following Muslim prayers in Gaza City. A protest by Fatah supporters against Hamas rule turned violent Friday when Hamas men began forcefully dispersing the crowd, firing in the air and beating demonstrators.
• Aug. 31: People offer Friday prayers outside Islamabad's radical Lal Masjid, or Red mosque, as authorities refused to open the mosque in Pakistan. Authorities closed it down after a military siege and raid against the mosque that left more than 100 people dead.
• Aug. 31: People place floral tributes for the victims of last weekend's bombings that killed at least 42 people and wounded about 50 in Hyderabad, India. A pair of bombings tore through crowded public areas in this southern city Saturday night, one of them destroying one of Hyderabad's most popular family restaurants.
• Aug. 31: A jockey leads a second horse across a road near Randwick race course. One of Australia's biggest race meets, the Sydney spring carnival, was postponed indefinitely after eight thoroughbred racehorses at the Randwick course tested positive for equine influenza. Randwick race course is in lockdown with a no-go zone for all vehicle traffic entering or leaving the track.
• Sept. 1: Idaho Sen. Larry Craig and his wife, Suzanne, leave the Boise Train Depot, in Boise, Idaho.
• Sept. 1: Andy Roddick of the United States celebrates his three set victory over Thomas Johansson of Sweden at the US Open tennis tournament in New York.