A resident carries his son while crossing waist-deep floodwaters brought by Typhoon Nesat in Malabon city, north of Manila. The typhoon crossed the Philippines' main island late today bringing the capital to a near standstill as it flooded roads and villages and cut power supplies. Reuters
Workers and officers attend the launch of the second nationally-designed combat ship, TCSG Buyukada, at the Tuzla Naval shipyard in Istanbul, Turkey. Osman Orsal/Reuters
Men ride buffaloes during the annual buffalo-racing ceremony at Virhear Sour village in Kandal province, Cambodia. The ceremony, which started more than 70 years ago, is held to honor the Neakta Preah Srok pagoda spirit. After the ceremony, the buffaloes are sold to the highest bidder. Samrang Pring/Reuters
A visitor takes pictures of a tank of genetically-engineered fluorescent fish at a news conference before the 2011 Taiwan International Ornamental Fish Expo in Taipei. Pichi Chuang/Reuters
Indian villagers with their cattle cross flood waters on a boat in Patna, India. Monsoon rains destroyed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of northern and eastern India in recent days, leaving hundreds of thousands marooned by raging waters, officials said. Aftab Alam Siddiqui/AP
A farmer rides his horse-pulled cart under heavy rain on the outskirts of Havana. The number of small farmers has increased by 150,000 since the state began leasing small plots of fallow state land three years ago in hopes of reversing an agricultural crisis that has the country importing 60 percent to 70 percent of its food. Desmond Boylan/Reuters
Giant panda cubs lie in a crib at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. China Daily/Reuters
An anti-Qaddafi fighter calms his comrade down as he cries about other comrades stuck in a fire fight against pro-Qaddafi forces east of Sirte, Libya. Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Elderly Taiwanese perform during a celebration honoring centenarians in Taipei, Taiwan. Wally Santana/AP
Combines harvest wheat on the Stephen and Brian Vandervalk farm near Fort MacLeod, Alberta, Canada. Todd Korol/Reuters
French rugby player Imanol Harinordoquy, (r.), plays rugby with young players from the Takapuna rugby club after a training session, in Auckland, New Zealand. France will play Tonga in their next Rugby World Cup match on Saturday in Wellington. Christophe Ena/AP
Visitors walk between the US Capitol and the Cheops pyramid of Giza at Miniwelt (Miniworld) in Lichtenstein, eastern Germany. Miniworld presents about 100 original and true-to-detail buildings and technical facilities at a 1:25 scale. Jens Meyer/AP
Anti-government protesters kiss a soldier of the Republican Guard after he defects during a rally at Tagheer (Change) Square in Sanaa, Yemen. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
10 Downing Street's resident cat, Larry, walks past a woman on Downing Street in London. Toby Melville/Reuters
In this aerial photo, flood-affected farmers dry chili crops on high ground in the Umerkot District of Pakistan's Sindh province. Shakil Adil/AP
A woman leaves a bank as riot police guard the entrance of the Finance Minister during a protest by garbage collectors in Athens. The protest was held while Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos presented further details of austerity measures aimed at protecting Greece's debt-ridden economy from the prospect of a disorderly default. Petros Giannakouris/AP
Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia watches the ball during her first-round match in the Japan Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament against her compatriot Dominika Cibulkova in Tokyo. Koji Sasahara/AP
A supporter of the religious political party Sunni Tehreek covers an image of US President Barack Obama during an anti-American rally in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Washington accuses Pakistan's powerful ISI spy agency of directly backing the Afghan Taliban-allied Haqqani network and of providing support for the Sept. 13 attack on the US Kabul mission. Akram Shahid/Reuters
Iraqi students queue to enter a classroom at a primary school during the first day of school in Baghdad. Karim Kadim/AP
Villagers throw their fishing nets in floodwaters near Jajpur town, India. The floods, caused by heavy rains, have inundated more than 3,000 villages in Orissa state that are home to more than 2 million people. Bikas Das/AP
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Center-right politician Nawaz Sharif appeared set to return as Pakistan's prime minister on Monday, his third time in the job.
While votes are still being counted after a historic election that should lead to the country’s first civilian-to-civilian government handover, unofficial results show that Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League has a massive lead.
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