A Lebanese soldier, left, and Italian U.N peacekeeper soldier, right, help a mock injured Lebanese soldier as he lies on the ground, during a join drill for Lebanese army and U.N. troops, learning how to rescue wounded soldiers, in the southern Lebanese village of Deir Qanoun, Wednesday Sept. 12, 2007. The 13,600-strong U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, along with 15,000 Lebanese troops, was deployed along Lebanon’s border with Israel to enforce a U.N. Security Council resolution that ended last summer’s Israel-Hezbollah war, which killed more than 1,000 people in Lebanon and 159 people on the Israeli side. Two Lebanese soldiers died after they were critically wounded in fighting with Fatah Islam gunmen in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a senior military official said Wednesday.
Cpl. Joshua Bleill, an infantryman with 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, shoots a weapon as he uses the Fire Arms Training Simulator, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. The simulator is part of the military’s new Military Advanced Training Center.
A mother feeds his baby at a Hospital ran by the NGO Doctors Without Borders in the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Sept. 12,2007. The number of children dying worldwide has dropped below 10 million for the first time, UNICEF said on Thursday.
Patricia Adams, a food services attendant at Key Middle School who said she had become nauseous walks out of the school wiping her eyes Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007, in Houston. Last week, Houston City Councilman Jarvis Johnson joined the teachers union in seeking more air quality tests at Key Middle School. Seven janitors were treated and released from nearby hospitals earlier this month when they became sick during routine cleaning at the school.
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., right, accompanied by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday rejected the call by Gen. David Petraeus for a reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq by next summer, saying it does not go far enough.
Two members of the U.S. Border Patrol stand watch by the coffin of former U.S. Rep. Jennifer Dunn as guests arrive at St. James Cathedral in Seattle Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. Dunn, who spent six terms in the House, died the previous Wednesday.
