Riot police stand covered with paint thrown by demonstrators trying to reach La Moneda presidential palace on the second day of a national strike in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. Chileans marched Thursday, demanding profound changes in the country's heavily centralized and privatized form of government. Union members, students, government workers and Chile's center-left opposition parties joined the nationwide two-day strike.
India's anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare lies down after addressing supporters during his hunger strike in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked Parliament on Thursday to debate the anti-corruption activist's reform proposals and appealed to the weakening 74-year-old to end his hunger strike.
Children from southern Somalia are given cooked food at a distribution center in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. The United Nations says famine will probably spread to all of southern Somalia within a month and force tens of thousands more people to flee into the capital of Mogadishu.
Friends hold umbrellas and sit on the Arabian Sea beach as monsoon clouds hover over the horizon in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011.
Rebel fighters and a television cameraman take shelter as an intense gun battle erupted outside the Corinthia hotel, where many foreign journalists are staying, in Tripoli, LIbya, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. Libya's rebel leadership has offered a 2 million dollar bounty on Gadhafi's head, but the autocrat has refused to surrender as his 42-year regime crumbles, fleeing to an unknown destination. Speaking to a local television channel Wednesday, apparently by phone, Gadhafi vowed from hiding to fight on "until victory or martyrdom."
A striking employees of SC First Bank participates in a rally near the bank's headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. Workers at the South Korean unit of Standard Chartered PLC went on an indefinite strike on June 27 in protest against the planned introduction of a performance-based pay system. The headband reads "Unity and Fight."
Specialist Donald Himpele Jr., left, directs trading in shares of Bank of America on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, is examined by traumatologist Viktor Petrachenkov while visiting a hospital in Smolensk, some 400 km (250 miles) west of Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. While inspecting a hospital in Smolensk, Putin consulted a traumatologist as he had hurt a shoulder after morning exercises on mats.
A man walks along a seaside park as Hurricane Irene passes to the east of Nassau on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. Irene is pounding the Bahamas as a Category 3 hurricane.