A motorist tows his boat on the road heading north off of Hatteras Island as the area awaits Hurricane Earl in Buxton, North Carolina on Thursday.
Orsolya Takacs (r.) of Hungary fights for a ball with Blanca Gill of Spain during their European Water Polo Championships preliminary match in Zagreb on Thursday.
A flood victim looks on as he rests at a relief camp in Nowshera, northwestern Pakistan on Thursday. Starting over a month ago, floods in Pakistan have killed at least 1,600 people, affected more than 18 million, and inflicted nearly $43 billion worth of damage to infrastructure and agriculture, the mainstay of the economy.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton watches Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l.) shake hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (r.) at the State Department in Washington on Thursday.
Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark gets ready to serve against Chang Kai-Chen of Taiwan during the US Open tennis tournament in New York, on Thursday.
Four-year-old girls in tutus attend a ballet class at Shawn Byers Studio in downtown Philadelphia. Philadelphia was the site of one of the most infamous race-related crimes in US history. Three civil rights workers from the North were murdered outside the town by white supremacists. Today the town is peaceful and integrated with their first black mayor.
Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Amir (c.) arrives at the Pakistan High Commission in London on Thursday. Pakistan test captain Salman Butt and pace bowlers Amir and Mohammad Asif will play no further part in the team's matches in Britain, manager Yawar Saeed said on Thursday. The three have been accused of taking bribes to fix incidents during the Lord's test against England last week.
A young boy takes part in the construction of a structure on the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Hagai near Hebron held in a show of defiance of a partial government freeze on Jewish settlement building on Thursday. Settlers said on Wednesday they ended the freeze unilaterally, after Palestinian gunmen killed four settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Pedestrians are reflected in the window of a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) building, in the City of London on Thursday. Royal Bank of Scotland announced thousands of new job cuts on Thursday as the partly nationalized bank continues with its drive to trim costs and improve its profitability. RBS, which is 83 percent owned by the British taxpayer, said it was cutting 3,500 jobs in administration centers across the country.
Argentina's Luis Scola goes up to shoot against Serbia during their FIBA World Championship game in Kayseri on Thursday.
Actors dressed as zombies wait at Atxuri station in Bilbao on Thursday before travelling by tram to the Palacio Euskalduna to promote the musical 'Forever, King of Pop,' a homage to music legend Michael Jackson.
A flood victim rests on his bed at a relief camp in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province on Thursday. The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing renewed militant violence.
A woman hangs clothes along the border of the polluted Tiete river seen filled with foam in Pirapora do Bom Jesus, northeast of Sao Paulo, on Thursday. The pollution in the Tiete river from industries has increased due to a lack of rain with August registering the least amount of rain since the year 1943, according to the National Institute of Meteorology.
Mardy Fish of the US hits a return against Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay during the US Open tennis tournament in New York, on Thursday.
A worker shows the camera with which the first images of the 33 trapped miners were taken with, as digging continues with a special drill to recover the miners from the underground copper and gold mine at Copiapo, some 450 miles north of Santiago, on Thursday. The bid to rescue the miners, stuck in a hot and humid tunnel 2,300 feet underground for the past 28 days, is one of the world's most challenging and could take between two and four months.
Riot police advanced on protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square shortly after Prime Minister Erdogan warned the peaceful demonstrators to clear out or be forcibly removed.
Riot police fired water cannons and tear gas on protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square and neighboring Gezi Park on Saturday, an intervention that came shortly after the prime minister warned that security forces "know how to clear" the area.
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