Pakistani boys launch their kites as they play in a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011.
A pilot dips the basket of his hot-air balloon in the Androscoggin River in front of a couple in a canoe during the Great Falls Balloon Festival, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, in Lewiston, Maine. More than 20 balloons launched at sunrise to kick off the three-day event.
Lili Roth, 8, center, gives a thumbs up as her mother, Zsuzsanna Zadori Roth, not shown, becomes an American citizen during a naturalization ceremony, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, in Knoxville, Tenn. Roth is originally from Szeged, Hungary. With Lili are her sister, Alexa, 5, and father, Stephen.
Policemen form a human chain around India's most prominent anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare as he arrives at Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. Hazare began a public hunger strike and mass protest Friday, adopting the tactics of liberation hero Mahatma Gandhi to push for government reform.
Backdropped by the velodrome, elite women riders practice on the track during the BMX Supercross World Cup at the Olympic Park's BMX Track in London, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. The course will host the London 2012 Olympic BMX competition next year.
Rebel fighters shoot to the sky during a funeral in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. Four bodies of rebel fighters, who were killed on the frontline of Brega, were buried.
A young girl passes through Vatican security guards to reach Pope Benedict XVI, arriving in Plaza de Cibeles to attend the Way of the Cross procession in Madrid, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI complained Friday that modern society has a certain "amnesia" about God as he lamented the dwindling of the faith during a visit to Spain, a once staunchly Catholic country that has seen the church's grip on society fall dramatically since the end of the Fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Damien Echols, left, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., center, and Jason Baldwin sit at a table before a news conference at the Craighead County Court House in Jonesboro, Ark., Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, after the three were released after pleading guilty to the 1993 deaths of three West Memphis, Ark., children. The defendants, known by their supporters as the West Memphis 3, agreed to a legal maneuver that lets them maintain their innocence while acknowledging prosecutors have enough evidence against them.
Numerous vehicles at Eppley Airfield's surface parking lots show hail damage, in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. A series of powerful thunderstorms ripped through eastern Nebraska and western Iowa on Thursday night, damaging homes, vehicles and businesses.
Rudy Procela, of Eloy, Ariz., surveys the damage caused to his home after a neighbors roof ripped through his property the day after a violent storm hit the area Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, in Eloy. Pinal County authorities are assessing damage in Eloy after a summer storm rolled through leaving behind a path of destruction. Homes were damaged, roofs were torn off businesses and a junior high school has part of its roof missing.
Palestinian Muslim worshipers prevented from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque pray outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City during Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Aug. 19, 2011. Dozens of Palestinians trying to reach the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for Muslim prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan scuffled with police at one of the gates to the Old City. The police were allowing access only to older Muslims in a measure police said is meant to prevent unrest.