A resident watches the sea surge along a beach covered by debris after the passing of Hurricane Irene in Nagua, on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Hurricane Irene was still lashing the northern coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where crews have begun cleaning up debris and the government warned of flooding. It was forecast to pass over or near the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas by Tuesday night and be near the central Bahamas early Wednesday.
A dog named "Mo" sits on the front seat of a car with his owner as they leave a supermarket parking in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. His owner put pilot's goggles on Mo to protect him from the wind. Germany faces a very hot and humid late summer day with temperatures up to 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit).
India's anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare drinks water in front of a giant portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the eighth day of his hunger strike in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The government called Tuesday for India's political parties to reach consensus on drafting anti-corruption legislation, as the activist leading anti-graft protests entered the second week of his hunger strike.
Rebel fighters trample on a head of Moammar Gadhafi inside the main compound in Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Libyan rebels stormed Gadhafi's main military compound in Tripoli Tuesday after fierce fighting with forces loyal to his regime that rocked the capital as the longtime leader refused to surrender despite the stunning advances by opposition forces.
People celebrate the attack on Moammar Gadhafi's main military compound in Tripoli, in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.
Office workers gather on a sidewalk after their building was evacuated following an earthquake in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shook the much of the east coast from Washington, D.C., to New York City and Rhode Island.
Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero speaks during a extraordinary session at the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Zapatero and its opposition leader agreed to work on amending the Constitution to limit the government deficit. Spain is among many countries which are far from complying with an EU-mandated deficit limit of 3 percent of GDP.
A line of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force tanks flare up a smoke screen during the annual live-firing exercise and demonstration at Higashi Fuji training range in Gotemba, northwest of Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011.
Leafa Palmer, widow of Marine Lt. Col. Benjamin J. Palmer, of Modesto, Calif., grieves during his burial ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Palmer, assigned to Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 2, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Expeditionary Force, Cherry Point, N.C., died May 12 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Also pictured are his mother, Linda Palmer, second left, and son Alexander Palmer, third left.
Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center leaves Manhattan state Supreme court with his wife, Anne Sinclair, left, and attorney Benjamin Brafman after a hearing Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, in New York. A New York judge dismissed the sexual assault case against Strauss-Kahn, but the order is on hold until an appeals court rules on his accuser's request for a special prosecutor.
A human skull is analyzed by forensic anthropologists during the exhumation of a mass grave at a cemetery in Escuintla, Guatemala, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. From the remains of unidentified bodies buried in mass graves in Escuintla's largest cemetery, forensic anthropologists expect to create a database that will eventually help match the bodies to genetic samples from the relatives of the more than 40,000 people who disappeared during the civil war.