Vela Rogers, 73, surveys the damage around her home caused by Hurricane Humberto Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007 in Stowell, Texas. Humberto strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane before coming ashore in southeast Texas overnight and the weakened to a tropical storm once over land, but not before bringing heavy rains and causing extensive damage.
Open House
A woman feeds her daughter outside her house leveled by a strong earthquake in Lais, Bengkulu, Sumatra island, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007. Three powerful earthquakes jolted Indonesia in less than 24 hours, triggering tsunami warnings, damaging hundreds of houses and sending panicked residents fleeing to high ground.
Locked Up
Alexander Pichushkin, looks on from behind a glass security cage during the first day of his trial in Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007. After his arrest last year, Pichushkin claimed that he had killed more than 60 people in a Moscow park over several years marking his slayings on a chessboard, saying his goal was to fill all 64 squares. Prosecutors said they had only gathered evidence to charge him with 49 murders.
Sparks Fly
A Palestinian boy holds a homemade sparkler after breaking his fast at the end of the first day of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk.
Shooting The Breeze
Iraqi teenagers chat as U.S soldiers from A Company, 2-23 Infantry Battalion take up positions during a patrol in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007.
Arlington Burial
Members of an honor guard detailed to a group burial for three soldiers killed in Iraq hold six American flags at Arlington National Cemetery Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, in Arlington, Va. Army Pfc. David Neil Simmons, Army Staff Sgt. Harrison Brown, and Army Pfc. Todd Singleton were killed in Iraq in April and their remains were unidentifiable following an explosion, prompting the group burial.
It's A Girl
San Diego Zoo veterinarians confirmed Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, in San Diego, that a 4-pound giant panda cub is a girl. Born Aug. 3, the cub is the third female panda born at the San Diego Zoo's Giant Panda Research Station since 1999. A male cub was born in 2003. Following Chinese tradition, she will receive her name after she is 100 days old.