Qiu Bo of China warms up before the youth men's 10-meter platform diving final at the Youth Olympic Games held on Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010 in Singapore. Bo won the gold medal.
Workers remove seats as they begin the renovation of the Maracana stadium ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said preparations for the world cup could be jeopardized if government officials and businessmen fail to work together in the coming years.
Sick Pakistani children and their mothers sit on a bench as they wait for their check up at the District Headquarters Hospital in flood affected Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan on Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010. Pakistan's medical system has been badly hit by weeks of flooding, with hundreds of health facilities damaged and tens of thousands of medical workers displaced, the prime minister said as the country braced for the spread of disease.
Tents are seen from the air at a camp set up by the Pakistan Army for thousands of Pakistanis displaced by flood waters in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010.
Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, left, of China, talks to reporters after a basketball workout Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 in Houston. Yao underwent a medical evaluation Monday which revealed the hairline fracture in his surgically repaired left foot has fully healed. He has been cleared to take part in normal basketball activities.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Bono, the lead singer of Irish band U2, walk during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. The Russian president, a well-known fan of British rock groups Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, chatted in English with Bono, whose band plays its first-ever concert in Russia on Wednesday.
A gunman carries an RPG during clashes between supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah and a Sunni conservative group in the mixed residential area of Bourj Abu Haidar near central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Lebanese Shiite and Sunni groups traded machine gun fire and grenades in Beirut on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding several others just blocks from a busy downtown packed with tourists at this time of year.
U.S. Army soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division line up in a sandstorm for chow at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010. The soldiers of 101st's 2-502 Infantry at Howz-e-Madad operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens.