This image provided by NOAA taken at 6:45 a.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna can be seen chugging just east of the Bahamas headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it is expected to bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine. Further east in the Atlantic is Hurricane Ike with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph and the storm system to the right is Tropical Storm Josephine with 50 mph winds.
Friday Prayers
A Palestinian Muslim worshipper is backdropped by the Russian Orthodox Church as she prays during the first Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Around 90,000 Muslims congregated in Jerusalem for prayers. Police said "thousands" of officers were deployed around the city to "prevent any disturbances."
Beijing Games Part Deux
Melissa Stockwell, right, of the United States, chats with coach Jimi Flowers during a U.S. team training session for the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, at the National Aquatics Center, known as the Water Cube, in Beijing, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Stockwell is one of two U.S. veterans competing in Beijing who were injured in Iraq.
New Arrival
One of five oriental small-clawed otter pups, born a few days ago to 6-year old mother Nora, is held by a keeper, during their first veterinary examination in the Veszprem Zoo, in Veszprem, southwest of Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.
A Little Tug
A Bangladeshi boy pulls a makeshift raft through floodwaters in a slum area in Kamragir char, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Thousands of villagers have been displaced due to floods in northern Bangladesh.
Cruising
Ferrari Formula One driver Felipe Massa of Brazil steers his car as seen through the trees of the nearby wood during the morning free practice for the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, Friday Sept. 5, 2008.
Street Sleeper
An anti-government protester sleeps in the street early Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai police warned students Friday to avoid street protests after a gunman shot and wounded two students demonstrating against the embattled prime minister, raising new fears of violence in the country's tense political crisis.