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• Aug. 30: A boy at a makeshift flood relief camp in a school in Saharsa, 168 miles northeast of Patna, India. A rescue boat filled with panicked monsoon flood victims capsized and killed 20 people in northern India.
• Aug. 30: A worker makes a boat as other villagers look on near Saharsa, India, where monsoon flooding is growing worse.
• Aug. 30: A farmer takes a boat on his bullock cart to rescue his village people as another dries maze on the road, near Saharsa, India.
• Aug. 30: England's Robert Rock tees off on the second hole, during the third round of the Johnnie Walker Golf Championship, Gleneagles, Scotland.
• Aug. 30: A motorcyclist rides his Harley motorcycle in downtown Milwaukee during the Harley Davidson 105th anniversary celebration.
• Aug. 30: Actress Emmanuelle Beart arrives for the photo call of the movie 'Vinyan' at the 65th Venice Film Festival in Italy.
• Aug. 30: Palestinians collect their luggage, upon their arrival to the Gaza Strip from Egypt, which opened its sealed border crossing with the Gaza Strip Saturday.
• Aug. 29: Casey Anthony, mother of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony, heads back to jail on check fraud charges unrelated to the child's disappearance.
• Aug. 29: In this image released by Disney, Michael Phelps is escorted by Minnie Mouse at the Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. during a "Homecoming Parade" in his honor.
• Aug. 29: Jelena Jankovic of Serbia returns a shot to Zheng Jie of China during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York.
• Aug. 29: Residents walk along a flooded street following heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Gustav in Kingston.
• Aug. 29: Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivers her speech as Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., introduces her as his vice presidential running mate at the Ervin J. Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio.
• Aug. 29: Team Australia present their firework display over the country's landmark Seri Saujana Bridge, during the Malaysia International Fireworks Competition 2008, being held in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
• Aug. 29: Protesters from Gdansk Schypiard burn an effigy of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in front of the Prime Minister s Office in Warsaw, Poland.
• Aug. 29: Balloons are stacked on chairs and carried across the floor of the Xcel Center in St. Paul, Minn. in preparation for Republican National Convention.
• Aug. 28: Jelena Jankovic of Serbia falls to the court after a missed point in her match with Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Jankovic won 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-5.
• Aug. 28: Gary Foster, left, helps employees Percival Spencer, right, and Winston Ford cut steel sheeting to cover windows on his home, in preparation for Tropical storm Gustav, in Vista del Mar, Grand Cayman Island.
• Aug. 28: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tells CNN the United States urged George to invade South Ossetia.
• Aug. 28: Pope Benedict has called this 4-foot Italian-crafted crucified frog sculpture "blasphemous" and has demanded its destruction.
• Aug. 28, 2008: Designer Valentino and model Eva Herzigova arrive at the premiere of the film "Valentino: The Last Emperor" at the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.
• Aug. 28: Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and his wife Jill laugh as they are introduced at the Pennsylvania delegation breakfast on the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
• Aug. 27: Injured Iraq veteran, Staff Sgt. Ian Newland, talks with Michelle Obama, wife of democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, during Delegate Service Day at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.
• Aug. 26: A lightning storm is visible in an eastern band of the Hurricane Gustav storm system in the distance off the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Aug. 27: An aerial view of a flood-affected Madhepura town is seen, in north Bihar state, India. Indian officials rushed soldiers and air force helicopters to flood-ravaged parts of northern India to provide aid to the more than 1 million people stranded by a surging river.
• Aug. 27: Revelers throw tomatoes, during the annual food fight, the Tomatina, in the small Spanish town of Bunol, near Valencia, Spain. Each year tens of thousands of people hurl truckloads of tomatoes at each other, sending knee-deep rivers through the small Spanish town.
• Aug. 27: People play Monopoly in a former prison yard in Frankfurt, Germany, as they join thousands of people playing the board game worldwide at the same time to break a Guinness world record.
• Aug. 27: A reveleler lies in a tomatoes pulp during the annual food fight, the Tomatina, in the town of Bunol, Spain. Each year thousands of people gather to hurl truckloads of tomatoes at each other. 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.
• Aug. 27: Divers and policemen search for missing French citizen Rose Ron, aged 4, in the Yarkon River, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli police say they are continuing the search for a French child missing since May by deploying divers and tracker dogs around a river in central Israel. There still is no conclusive evidence as to whether 4-year-old Rose is alive or dead.
• Aug. 27: Actors Brad Pitt and George Clooney pose with director Ethan Coen during the photo call of the movie 'Burn after Reading' at the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.
• Aug. 27: Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican. The pontiff condemned anti-Christian violence in India, where at least eight people were killed when Christians clashed with Hindu mobs attacking churches.
• Aug. 26: A South Ossetian prepares to fire his weapon while riding in a bullet-ridden car in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia.
• Aug. 26: French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks with families of French soldiers in Castres, southern France. Eight soldiers of the Castres 8th marine parachute regiment were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan on Aug. 18.
• Aug. 26: A worker walks along the top deck of the Delta Queen riverboat while docked to pick up supplies and passengers at the public landing on the Ohio River in Cincinnati.
• Aug. 26: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. talks at a rally at American Airlines Overhaul Base hanger at Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Mo.
• Aug. 26: An aerial view of flood hit Madhepura district in Bihar state, India.
• Aug. 26: Ana Ivanovic of Serbia serves to Vera Dushevina of Russia during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York.
• Aug. 26: Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del speaks at the Delaware Delegation breakfastin Littleton, Colo., on the second day of the Democratic National Convention.
• Aug. 26: Lorenz Huber, son of a Bavarian hop farmer and his grandmother pick leaves and stalks from a crop of hops at Lohwinden, southern Germany.
• Aug. 26: Protestors gather inside the compound of Thailand's Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, after breaking through barriers.
• Aug. 26: eorge Clooney arrives in Venice, Italy on a taxi boat for the 65th Venice Film Festival.
• Aug. 26: Two Sunni Muslim women with Islamic head bands, asking for the release of their husbands, brothers and fathers , during a sit-in in front the government house, in Beirut, Lebanon.
• Aug. 25: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy waves as he takes the stage to speak during the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
• Aug. 25: Police officers use pepper spray on a group of protesters during the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
• Aug. 25: 13 A woman uses an umbrella as she rides on the back of a motorcycle through a flooded street caused by rain from Tropical Storm Gustav in Santo Domingo.
• Aug. 25: Delegate Jim Jackson, of St. Petersburg, Fla., adjusts his hat during the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
• Aug. 25: Roger Daniels and Idus Spooner, top center, work to secure their house from the flood waters of the Ochlocknee River in Tallahassee, Fla.
• Aug. 25: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady delivers a pass as quarterback Matt Cassel looks on during the NFL football team's practice in Foxborough, Mass.
• Aug. 25: Members of the U.S.-based Free Gaza group, which left Cyprus on Friday by boat, stand underneath flags as they leave the Gaza sea port on a Palestinian fishing boat.
• Aug. 25: Michelle Obama waves as she looks over the podium with and her daughters Malia, 10, Sasha, 7, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
• Aug. 25: Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. and Puerto Rican reggaeton star Daddy Yankee waves as they board the Straight Talk Air campaign charter airplane in Phoenix.
• Aug. 25: Local residents wait for the distribution of humanitarian aid in the city of Gori in central Georgia.
• Aug. 25: Released Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Abu Ali waves upon his arrival the West Bank city of Hebron.
• Aug. 25: Participants in costume dance as they parade through the streets during the Notting Hill Carnival in London.
• Aug. 25: Released Palestinian prisoners are greeted upon their arrival in the West Bank city of Nablus.
• Aug. 25: Jill Biden, wife of Sen. Joe Biden, the vice presidential half of the soon-to-be-official Democratic ticket, holds up a news magazine to show her husband when they made a surprise appearance at the Amtrak train station in Wilmington, Del.