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A young street hawker, Shubamya, does an impromptu salute as he sells a memento version of the Indian flag at a traffic signal in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007. India celebrates its 60th anniversary of Independence Aug. 15. Umm Sattar...

Bayan Mahmoud grieves for her husband, Mahmoud Saber, a 24-year-old police officer killed outside Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007. Gunmen ambushed a police patrol southwest of the northern city of...

A believer is helped as she walks on her knees during celebrations in honor of the Patron Saint of Managua, Saint Dominic of Guzman, in Managua, Friday, Aug. 10, 2007. Hodan Hassan, right, a distant cousin of a Somali woman missing after last...

A Tibetan refugee woman pleads to Indian political leaders, unseen to help with their cause at the end of a hunger strike in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007. Fourteen Tibetan exiles protesting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and demanding an end to.

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.

A protester wearing a gas mask displays a picture of Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally celebrating the 19th anniversary of the uprising in Myanmar Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007 in Manila's financial district of Makati. The Filipino protesters in solidarity...

U.S. Border Patrol Agents take an illegal immigrant into custody atop an oil tanker train car north of Cotulla, Texas, Monday, Aug. 6, 2007. The immigrant initially refused to be taken into custody and sought refuge atop of the car out of reach of the...

South Korean protesters wearing masks participate in a rally demanding the United States to engage in negotiations for the safe return of South Korean hostages in Afghanistan near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Monday, Aug. 6, 2007. Afghan President Hamid...

Marine Cpl. Marshall Magincalda, 24, is embraced by his stepmother Leanne Magincalda after Jury deliberations on Friday, Aug. 3, 2007, at Camp Pendlleton, Calif. A jury sentenced Magincalda Friday to time served and reduced his rank to private for...

Majid Kavoosifar, convicted of assassinating Judge Hassan Moqaddas, waves to the crowd prior to his hanging in public, as a police officer looks on, on the second anniversary of the assassination, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007. Moqaddas was...