In this Jan. 18 photo, emergency workers and volunteers form a train to carry sandbags to be placed to protect a house from rising flood waters near Echuca, Australia. Rodney Dekker/SES/AP
Australian soldiers clear a train line that runs through the flood devastated town of Grantham, about 50 miles west of Brisbane in this Jan. 13 photo. Australian Department of Defence/Reuters
In this Jan. 18 photo, flood water from the swollen Loddon River approaches Kerang, Australia. Rodney Dekker/SES/AP
Flood damaged household possessions are dumped in a pile outside a Brisbane residence on Jan. 19. Tony Phillips/Reuters
Surrounded by flood-destroyed possessions piled on the roadside, workers carry out repairs on power lines in a residential area of Brisbane, Australia, on Jan. 19. Tony Phillips/Reuters
Volunteers sweep mud behind a flood-damaged store in the town of Ipswich, 25 miles south west of Brisbane, Australia, on Jan. 14. Mick Tsikas/Reuters
A passenger in a car waves for assistance as a flash flood sweeps across an intersection in Toowoomba, Australia, on Jan. 10. Tsunami-like flash floods raced towards Australia's third-largest city of Brisbane on Jan. 10, prompting evacuations of its outskirts, flood warnings for the financial district, and predictions that the death toll is likely to climb. Tomas Guerin/Reuters
A flash flood sweeps cars against a bridge on a street in Toowoomba, Australia, on Jan. 10. Anthony Farmer/Reuters
People take refuge on the rooftop of a house in Grantham, Australia, in this still image taken from video on Jan. 10. Nine Network via Reuters TV/Reuters
A man looks at the rising Brisbane River in central Brisbane, Australia, on Jan. 11. Mick Tsikas/Reuters
A house is partially submerged by flood waters near Rockhampton, Australia, on Jan. 3. Days of pounding rain last week left much of northeastern Australia swamped by a sea of muddy water, with flooding affecting about 200,000 people in an area larger than France and Germany combined. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
Emergency services personnel evacuate people from Rockhampton, Australia, to Capricorn Highway on Jan. 3. Days of torrential downpours have left parts of central and southern Queensland state inundated, flooding thousands of homes and businesses, cutting off roads, and forcing the entire populations of two towns to evacuate. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A worker from the emergency services takes a measurement of flood waters near Rockhampton, Australia, on Jan. 3. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A snake crosses the Capricorn Highway, which is under flood waters near Rockhampton, Australia, on Jan. 3. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
In this image made from video, State Emergency Service workers on boats, along with a couple (l.), make their way in a flooded street in Rockhampton, Australia, on Jan. 2. AuBC via Associated Press Television News/AP
A flood gauge on the Fitzroy River shows the rising water compared to past flood high-water marks in Rockhampton, Australia, on Jan. 2. Queensland Police/AP
Buildings are submerged in flood waters in Rockhampton, Australia, on Jan. 2. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
An aerial view of the flooded town of Theodore, Australia, on Jan. 2. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
Houses are partially submerged in flooded Theodore, Australia, on Jan. 2. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A car is underwater in Bundaberg, Australia, on Jan. 1. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A wallaby stands on a hay bail, trapped by rising flood waters outside Dalby, Australia, on Dec. 30, 2010. Anthony Skerman/AP
A man rides his bicycle on a flooded street in Bundaberg, Australia, on Dec. 31, 2010. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A man cleans up his flooded hardware store in Bundaberg, Australia, on Jan. 1. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
Christopher Roth rows down a flooded street in Bundaberg, Australia, on Dec. 29, 2010. Jono Searle/Reuters
People use a small boat to travel on the main street as flood waters rise in Chinchilla, Australia, on Dec. 29, 2010. Jeff Camden/AP
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of his cheering supporters in Istanbul saying, 'My patience has run out' with anti-government protests.
Turkey’s largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.
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