A highway is damaged by Typhoon Kalmaegi in Kaohsiung county July 18, 2008. Six people were killed, six injured and another six missing in the wake of Typhoon Kalmaegi, a relatively light storm that swept over northeast Taiwan early on Friday before churning towards China.Reuters Pictures
A motorcyclist rides as Typhoon Kalmaegi hits Kaohsiung county July 18, 2008. Six people were killed, six injured and another six missing in the wake of Typhoon Kalmaegi, a relatively light storm that swept over northeast Taiwan early on Friday before churning towards China.Reuters Pictures
A woman gives food to a trapped resident in a flooded house in Kaoshiung on July 18, 2008 after Tropical Storm Typhoon Kalmaegi hit the island. Seven people were killed, six were missing and six more injured as Tropical Storm Kalmaegi lashed Taiwan with strong winds and heavy downpours, rescuers said, as well as ravaged fields and farms causing an estimated 3.65 million USD in agricultural losses.Getty Images
A rescuer (L) instructs people to get to safety as the streets are flooded in Taichung after Tropical Storm Typhoon Kalmaegi hit Taiwan on July 18, 2008. A child was killed, eight people were missing and four others were injured as Tropical Storm Typhoon Kalmaegi lashed Taiwan on Friday with strong wind and downpours, rescuers said. A one-year-old girl was killed and a 27-year-old pregnant woman slightly injured when their house in the southern city of Kaohsiung was hit by a mudslide, the National Fire Agency said.Getty Images
Rescuers evacuate people stuck in a flood as Typhoon Kalmaegi hits Taichung county July 18, 2008. Six people were killed, six injured and another six missing in the wake of Typhoon Kalmaegi, a relatively light storm that swept over northeast Taiwan early on Friday before churning towards China.Reuters Pictures
BEIRUT, LEBANON – JULY 18: Hezbollah members mourn at the coffins of fighters, covered with the party’s yellow flags during their funeral procession, Friday, July 18, 2008 in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon. The fighter Hezbollah group has held a funeral procession for eight fighters killed during the summer 2006 war with Israel. The bodies were returned in a prisoners swap with Israel.Getty Images
BEIRUT, LEBANON – JULY 16: Hezbollah members carry the coffins of fighters, covered with the party’s yellow flags during their funeral procession, July 18, 2008 in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon. The fighters Hezbollah group held a funeral procession for eight Fighters killed during the summer 2006 war with Israel. The bodies were returned in a prisoners swap with Israel.Getty Images
Hezbollah members carry the coffins of fighters covered with the party’s yellow flags during their funeral procession in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Friday, July 18, 2008. The fighter Hezbollah group has held a funeral procession for eightfighters killed during the summer 2006 war with Israel. The bodies were returned in a prisoners swap with Israel.AP Photo
Doctors from The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) pose with the iron rod which pierced Supratim Dutta’s chest in New Delhi on July 17, 2008, as a video shows him undergoing surgery plays behind them. Indian media were hailing a medical miracle after a man survived surgery to remove a 1.5-metre long (five-foot) iron bar that stabbed right through his chest. The rod was lying on a construction site when the taxi Supratim Dutta was travelling in smashed into it on July 12. The 60-centimetre-wide (two-feet) bar crashed through the car’s bonnet and dashboard before hitting the 23-year-old, who was sitting in the car’s front passenger seat.Getty Images
In this handout picture taken on July 17, 2008, Indian medical staff attend to accident victim Supratim Dutta in an operating theatre of The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. An Indian man has survived an operation to remove a 1.5-metre (five-foot) long iron bar that stabbed right through his chest, reports said , calling it a medical miracle. The rod was lying on a construction site when the taxi Supratim Dutta was travelling in smashed into it on July 12. The bar crashed through the car’s bonnet and dashboard before hitting the 23-year-old, who was sitting in the car’s front passenger seat, The Times of India said. It measured 10 centimetres by 10 centimetres (four inches by four inches).Getty Images
Doctors from The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) narrate a video showing accident victim Supratim Dutta undergoing surgery in New Delhi on July 17, 2008, after he was impaled on an iron rod from a construction site. Indian media were hailing a medical miracle after a man survived surgery to remove a 1.5-metre long (five-foot) iron bar that stabbed right through his chest. The rod was lying on a construction site when the taxi Supratim Dutta was travelling in smashed into it on July 12. The 60-centimetre-wide (two-feet) bar crashed through the car’s bonnet and dashboard before hitting the 23-year-old, who was sitting in the car’s front passenger seat.Getty Images
Batak men pray during the Sipaha Lima holiday of the local Parmalim religion, Friday, July 18, 2008, in Lagu Boti, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Although Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country, many people’s religious beliefs are intermingled with traditional pre-Islamic tradition such as Parmalim which is the original religion of the Batak people.AP Photo
Batak men play traditional music during the Sipaha Lima holiday of the local Parmalim religion Friday, July 18, 2008, in Lagu Boti, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Although Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country, many people’s religious beliefs are intermingled with traditional pre-Islamic tradition such as Parmalim which is the original religion of the Batak people.AP Photo
Lt. Gen. Nipat Tonglek, a representative of the Royal Thai Army speaks to reporters after Thailand’s Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej met with armed forces commanders at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, July 18, 2008. Nipat said the Supreme Commander Gen. Boonsrang Niampradit will attend the joint border committee meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Tea Banh at the Thai border town of Aranyaprathet on Monday, July 21, 2008, to find a way to solve the disputed border region.AP Photo
Thai soldiers patrol the city of Yala, 1,100 km (683 miles) south of Bangkok July 18, 2008. Thailand feared a spike in violence in its Muslim deep south on Friday after an unknown rebel group announced a “ceasefire” dismissed by analysts as a hoax likely to enrage real fighters on the ground.Reuters Pictures
Student protesters march along a street in Manila July 18, 2008. They were protesting against the soaring prices of gasoline and other oil products and renewed their calls for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.Reuters Pictures
Anti-riot policemen block students marching near the presidential palace during a protest in Manila July 18, 2008. The protesters were demonstrating against the soaring prices of gasoline and other oil products and renewed their calls for the ouster of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.Reuters Pictures
Muslim women display placards during a peace rally outside the presidential palace in Manila July 18, 2008. A government official said on Thursday that the Philippines will hold a plebiscite early next year in more than 700 southern villages to set up an ancestral homeland for Muslims, part of a deal with the country’s biggest rebel group.Reuters Pictures
Sudanese men stand under a huge poster of their President Omar al-Beshir as they shout slogans against America, Britain, France and the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo during a demonstration following the weekly Friday prayers in the capital Khartoum on July 18, 2008 against the ICC’s decision to seek the arrest of Beshir for alleged genocide in Darfur. Ocampo accused Beshir of masterminding a genocidal campaign in Darfur and asked the ICC judges to issue a warrant for his arrest, which, if granted, would be the first ever issued by The Hague-based court against a sitting head of state.Getty Images
Darfur supporters of Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir shout slogans during a demonstration outside the presidential palace in Khartoum July 17, 2008 against the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) indictment of Bashir for genocide.Reuters Pictures
Sudanese men from Darfur demonstrate outside the presidential palace in Khartoum on July 17, 2008 against the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo’s decision to arrest President Omar al-Beshir. More than 1,000 protestors gathered outside the republican palace today, shouting death to the world court prosecutor who is seeking an arrest warrant for Beshir. Shouting “God is Great” and “Go Forward Beshir” students and Arab tribesmen from western Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur angrily condemned allegations that the head of state was guilty of genocide and war crimes.Getty Images
