Members of the Lakeview neighborhood take part in a Hurricane Katrina memorial service in New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. This is the second anniversary of the deadly hurricane.
Art Imitates ...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela addresses the crowd during a statue unveiling ceremony in his honor at Parliament Square on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, in London. The statue depicting Nelson Mandela delivering a speech, by sculptor Ian Walters, is nine feet tall, made of bronze and faces the Houses of Parliament.
Safe Refuge?
A Sudanese boy holds onto the barbed-wire fence surrounding a water point in the Abu Shouq internally displaced people's (IDP) camp on the outskirts of el-Fasher, the administrative capital of North Darfur, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. Abu Shouq is home to over 30,000 IDPs who have fled fighting between rebel groups and Sudanese government forces in the four-year conflict.
Bearing The Heat
A bear eats frozen fruit at Rome's Bioparco Zoo as temperatures soared in the Italian capital Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. Dozens of people across southern Europe have died in a series of blistering heat waves this summer.
Tomato Bath
A reveler reacts during the annual food fight, the Tomatina, in the small Spanish town of Bunol, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. Each year tens of thousands of people hurl truckloads of tomatoes at each other, sending knee-deep rivers through the small Spanish town. Local lore says it began in the mid-1940s with a food battle that broke out between youngsters near a vegetable stand on the town square.
Rosy View
A rose is seen stuck in the sand on the beach early in morning Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, in Miami Beach, Fla. The long stretch of beach draws a steady stream of walkers and other exercisers every day.
Kaboom!
The Brachs Candy building, left, and parking building implode at the corner of Cicero Avenue and Ferdinand Street during the filming of the Batman movie "Dark Knight" in Chicago, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. "Dark Knight" is being filmed all over town in Chicago and it is the biggest movie project that Chicago has ever hosted.
Gaining Upper Hand In Greece
A man prepares to spray water from a hose onto flames burning on a hill near the village of Kato Kotili, Peloponnese, about 155 miles southwest of Athens, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. Winds relented throughout Greece Wednesday, enabling thousands of firefighters to tame most of the massive fires that killed at least 64 people and obliterated record swaths of field and forests in six days.