From left, Logan Lanz, Troy Massner, Dave Lanz and Jerry Edle bring a propane tank in from a flooded Iowa cornfield in Oakville, Iowa. (Sue Ogrocki / Associated Press)
Nancy Jacobs talks on the phone inside her flooded South Side Inn bar in Burlington, Iowa. Communities along the Mississippi River in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri are frantically preparing for record flooding as the water continues to rise. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)
A resident is rescued from rising floodwaters in Wangmo, China. Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China has killed almost 60 people and forced over a million others from their homes. (AFP / Getty Images)
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Residents cling to the edge of a collapsed road leading into Wangmo, China. (AFP / Getty Images)
A street child plays in a puddle during monsoon rain in New Delhi, India. India’s annual monsoon rains have swept across the country about two weeks ahead of schedule, breaking a 108-year-old record and causing floods that have killed at least 23 people. (Gurinder Osan / Associated Press)
Thai children play in torrential rain alongside their homes built under a highway overpass where they live in a slum in Bangkok, Thailand. (Barbara Walton / EPA)
A child armed with plastic toy weapons approaches a U.S. soldier in Sadr City, a Shiite enclave of Baghdad. (Petros Giannakouris / Associated Press)
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French truck drivers block roads around Lille, in northern France, to protest the rising price of fuel. (Sylvain Lefevre / EPA)
Greenpeace activists in Jerusalem place plastic bags over their heads as they “suffocate” during a demonstration against plans to build a new coal-burning power plant in the southern coastal town of Ashkelon, Israel. (Olivier Fitoussi / EPA)
Indian farmer Ruduben Maanbhai Gohil stands next to her sick buffalo in the village of Matalpur, after anthrax was detected where she lives. (Sam Panthaky / AFP/Getty Images)
A supporter of the Croatian soccer team has his face painted prior to the Euro 2008 European Soccer Championships match between Poland and Croatia, in Klagenfurt, Austria. (Franco Debernardi / Associated Press)
