Day in Pictures

A Pakistani boy salvages a window frame from his flood damaged house in Dadu district, southern Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. The floods have left some 8 million people homeless in what Pakistani and U.N. officials have said is one of the largest humanitarian disasters in living memory.

A security officer is seen in a guard tower amidst billowing smoke from anti-mosquito fumigation at the Commonwealth Games athletes' village New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to begin on Sunday.

The outline of the Washington Monument can barely be seen from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, during a heavy rain storm.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is framed by microphones prior to deliver his speech at the Italian Senate, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010.

The Ross Fountain, which was installed below Edinburgh Castle, on West Princes Street Gardens, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1872, is lit up by the early autumn sun on Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. The statue was cast near Paris in the Durenne ironworks in the early 1860s. It was an exhibit in the Great Exhibition in London in 1862 and was purchased for Edinburgh by Daniel Ross, a local gun maker and philanthropist.

Models wear creations by Irish fashion designer Sharon Wauchob as part of her ready to wear spring-summer 2011 fashion collection, presented in Paris, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010.

A man checks the depth of flood waters on Highway 133 in Leland, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010.

A police officer demonstrates next to a bonfire during a protest of police officers and soldiers against a new law that cuts their benefits at a police base in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. Hundreds of police protesting the new law plunged the country into chaos on Thursday, shutting down airports and blocking highways in a nationwide strike.

A group of meercats stand at attention at the Oakland Zoo Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, in Oakland, Calif.

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