Young Shiite Muslim worshippers flagellate themselves at the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in the primarily Shiite Kazimiyah neighborhood of north Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. Iraqi authorities are girding for a major Shiite pilgrimage to the shrine tomorrow in Baghdad with plans to tighten security. The annual march, to commemorate the eighth-century death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, a key Shiite saint, was struck by tragedy in 2005, when thousands of Shiite pilgrims, panicked by rumors of a suicide bomber, broke into a stampede on a bridge, killing 1,000.
Medicine Man Lonnie Tallhorse Lister prays for the six trapped coal miners and their families near the entrance of the Crandall Canyon Mine, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, northwest of Huntington, Utah.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, left, arrive for their meeting in Tehran on Wednesday Aug. 8, 2007. Al-Maliki arrived in Iran on Wednesday for talks expected to focus on bilateral relations and overcoming “terrorism challenges” in his war-torn nation. An unidentified translator is in center.
Lionel Reyes, left, holds his son, Edwin, as Cuban exiles protest the detention of Cuban migrants at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in Miami Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. Twenty two Cuban migrants entered their second week of a hunger strike at Guantanamo protesting Washingon’s refusal to let them settle in the United States.
Former priest, Bill Cleary, left, a woman who wouldn’t identify herself, center, and David Clohessy, right, .a man who says he was abused by a priest, appear at at news conference in front of the Catholic Diocese of Vermont in Burlington, Vt., Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. They urged Vermont’s Catholic bishop to post on the diocesan Web site the names of all admitted or accused clergy and to notify parishes where those clergy served.
Crew chiefs wait next to F-22 fighters for the pilots to disembark after they landed during an arrival ceremony at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. The first of 40 F-22 Raptors landed on Elmendorf Air Force Base, making it the first base outside of the contiguous U.S. to house them. When their arrival is complete at the end of 2008, the base will be home to more than a fifth of the Air Force’s Raptors.
People attend a ceremony held in front of the Statue of Peace at Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan Thursday morning, Aug. 9, 2007. Nagasaki marked the 62nd anniversary of the world’s second, and so far the last, atomic bomb attack Thursday with a somber ceremony and calls for the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega embrace each other during a meeting at the Polytechnic University in Managua, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., dusts the bedside table at the home of John Thornton Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. Obama went to work with home health care worker Pauline Beck as part of a program by the Service Employees International Union called “Walk a Day in My Shoes.”
North Korean dancers perform during the Arirang Grand Mass gymnastics and Artistic performance at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea Monday Aug. 6, 2007. The North Korean Arirang Mass Games is the largest choreographed gymnastics display in the world with over 100,000 dancers taking part in the performance. The leaders of North and South Korea will meet this month for the second time since the peninsula’s division after World War II, the two countries announced Wednesday Aug. 8, 2007, capitalizing on progress in Pyongyang’s nuclear disarmament to revive their historic reconciliation.
