Day in Pictures

An elderly Palestinian Muslim man prays during "fajr" or early morning prayers, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in a mosque in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan, when observants fast from dawn till dusk.

John Roberts, of Des Moines, Iowa, looks at eggs in a cooler at a Dahl's grocery store, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, in Des Moines, Iowa. A sign on the cooler said the eggs were not effected by the recall. Two Iowa farms have recalled more than a half-billion eggs linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning.

Sunflowers stand on a field in front of the "Wilder Kaiser" mountain in Ellmau, Austrian province of Tyrol, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, as temperature reaches up to 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit).

Tents are set up at a camp for Pakistani families displaced by floods organized by the Pakistan Army in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010.

Photos: Pakistan's Child Flood Victims
Photos: Pakistanis Trapped by Deadly Floods

Pakistani men push a motorcycle on rubber floats as a police boat passes by along a flooded road in Baseera, Punjab province, Pakistan on Monday Aug. 23, 2010. Workers piled stones and sandbags to plug leaks in a levee protecting a pair of southern Pakistani cities, as the floods that have destroyed homes, farmland and livelihoods moved slowly toward the sea.

Photos: Pakistan's Child Flood Victims
Photos: Pakistanis Trapped by Deadly Floods

Pakistani flood victims carry their belongings to safer areas in Khanghar in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Workers piled stones and sandbags to plug leaks in a levee protecting a pair of southern Pakistani cities Monday, as the floods that have destroyed homes, farmland and livelihoods moved slowly toward the sea.

Photos: Pakistan's Child Flood Victims
Photos: Pakistanis Trapped by Deadly Floods

Ukrainian people hold a National flag as they celebrate State Flag Day national holiday on the eve of Ukraine's 19th Independence Day in Kiev Monday, Aug.23, 2010.

Members of the SWAT teams prepare to assault the tourist bus seized by dismissed police officer Rolando Mendoza on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines. Police stormed the bus after shots were heard from the hostage-taker of 15 Chinese tourists and at least four of the hostages crawled out of the back door.

A bank robber, center with the white cap, surrounded by four hostages as Greek special police forces are seen in the background outside the National Bank of Greece, in the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The man armed with hand grenades and a gun surrendered to police after holding several people in the bank hostage Monday following an attempted robbery, authorities said.

A photographer and a cameraman climb on the monumental chestnut tree, which comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II, after it had fallen over, at the Anne Frank Museum Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The tree's trunk snapped close to the ground and it toppled into neighboring gardens, damaging several sheds. No one was hurt. The 150-year-old tree suffered from fungus and moths that had caused more than half its trunk to rot. Two years ago the 27-ton tree was encased in a steel tripod as a precaution of the danger it might fall, but that failed under windy weather Monday.