Fukushima – fotografie z místa katastrofy
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In this March 24, 2011 aerial photo taken by small unmanned drone and released AIR PHOTO SERVICE, the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. From top to, Unit 1 through Unit 4.(Air Photo Service Co. Ltd., Japan) Pokračování–>
Haiti deset měsíců poté…
It has now been nearly ten months since the devastating January earthquake struck Haiti, reducing Port-au-Prince to rubble and claiming over 300,000 lives. In the time since, Haiti’s government, the United Nations, and many other aid agencies have struggled just to keep the population healthy and fed as it tries get back on its feet. Recent weeks have seen an outbreak of cholera, which has killed more than 300 people. The cholera strain is not native to Haiti, and reportedly matches strains found in South Asia, placing suspicion on U.N. personnel from that area who were stationed nearby. Some 1.3 million people are still crammed into thousands of makeshift camps dotted around the capital, leaving them vulnerable to both disease outbreaks and the elements – of particular concern as Tropical Storm Tomas now approaches, and may grow to Hurricane strength by landfall on Friday.
Photos of Lesly Voltaire, of the Ansanm nou fo party, or „Together we are strong“ party, left, Charles Henry Baker, of the RESPE party, or „Respect“ party center and Jean Hector Anacasis, of the Modejahthe party, or „Democratic Movement of the Haitian Youth“, all three presidential candidates for Haiti’s general elections, are hung from a fence surrounding the earthquake-damaged National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. Haiti will hold elections Nov. 28. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) #
Bazelais Suy returns to his room after working with rehab therapists at Glencrest Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Chicago, Illinois. Suy is a Haitian student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and recently returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. Photo taken on June 22, 2010. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) #
After an 8-month separation, Abby Emile, 3, from Haiti, is reunited with her mother, Lynda Maurice in Boston, Massachusetts on August 14th, 2010. Lynda had flown to the United States on a visa in December of 2009, to be with her husband. A problem with immigration paperwork meant young Abby had to stay behind in Haiti with relatives for a short while – then the Earthquake hit in January, and eight more months would pass until Abby was able to be with her parents once more. (Boston Globe/Kayana Szymczak) #
(2 of 2) An „after“ photograph from September 30, 2010 – seven months later – shows Haitians walking on the same street as above. By some estimates, only 2 percent of the 250 million cubic meters of debris in Port-au-Prince has been cleared, for reasons ranging from lack of equipment and money to an abysmal property records system. Meanwhile, most Haitians just live and work around the piles of debris. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) #
An employee of Haiti’s Ministry of Health shows a device that measures the level of chlorine in the water stored in plastic tanks that is consumed by earthquake survivors at a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. The Haitian government is conducting tests in the camps around the capital and purifying the water with chlorine tablets in order to avoid the spread of the cholera outbreak that killed more than 250 people in rural Haiti. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) #
A tanker truck deposits excrement from the Nepali UN base in an area 400 meters away from the base in Mirebalais, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste flowing behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday, following persistent accusations that excrement from the newly arrived unit caused the epidemic that has sickened more than 4,000 people in the earthquake-ravaged nation. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) #
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks with a resident as he walks through the 55,000 resident tent camp at the Petionville Club run by the J/P Haitian Relief Organization in Port au Prince October 6, 2010. The Clinton Foundation announced on Wednesday that it will provide $500,000 to help continue management of the camp, run by U.S. actor Sean Penn. (REUTERS/Allison Shelley) #
People participate in the distribution of cholera protection kits by a French non-governmental organization (NGO) October 30, 2010 in Dubuisson, Haiti. The NGO, Acted, gave a demonstration on sanitary precautions and distributed water purification kits to residents in the community which has witnessed numerous cases of cholera. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #
Journalists interview a man who was detained near the National Penitentiary during a prisoners’ uprising in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010. U.N. police spokesman Jean-Francois Vezina said seven foreign hostages were held briefly by prisoners during the unrest at the prison, but were freed and according to Haiti’s law enforcement officials, three inmates were killed. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) #
Afgánistán v říjnu 2010
With the U.S. troop surge now nearing its peak in Afghanistan, more than 150,000 US and international troops are now on the ground. 64 of those troops lost their lives this month, as forces pushed hard into the southern Kandahar Province, traditionally the heartland of the Taliban. At the same time, preliminary discussions are beginning to take place between the inner circle of President Hamid Karzai and members of the Quetta shura, the leadership group that oversees the Taliban war effort inside Afghanistan. Part of the current coalition strategy is to continue applying pressure on the Taliban in the fields, and encouraging their leaders to participate in hoped-for settlement talks. Collected here are images of the country and conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing monthly series on
A KC-135R Stratotanker with the 92nd Air Refueling Wing passes over snow-capped mountain ranges in Afghanistan on Oct. 16, 2010. The Fairchild-based KC-135R Stratotanker and crew, one of about a dozen of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing’s tankers currently deployed in Kyrgyzstan, refueled six fighter jets Saturday during the six-hour combat sortie. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Colin Mulvany) #
Chief of Defense of the Swedish Armed Forces, General Sverker Göranson, place the Medal of Honor on the coffin of Kenneth Wallin, killed in action on an ISAF mission in Mazar-i Sharif in Afghanistan on Saturday, during a ceremony at Arna military airport north of Stockholm, Tuesday Oct. 19, 2010. Wallin was the 6th Swedish soldier killed in action in Afghanistan. (AP Photo / Fredrik Sandberg / SCANPIX) #
U.S. Army Specialist Thomas Adam Moffitt, 21, of Wichita, Kansas, was killed on October 23rd, 2010 in Paktika Province, in Afghanistan. He was an infantryman assigned to Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division. Moffitt joined the Army in February of 2009 and arrived at Fort Campbell four months ago. Survivors include his parents, John and Brenda Moffitt, of Wichita. (AP Photo/Fort Campbell) #
A discarded military boot lies in a field where the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division was recently attacked October 14, 2010 in Zhari district west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Soldiers conducted a reconnaissance movement around the field, where five days ago one of their fellow soldiers lost both his legs to a buried IED mine planted by insurgents. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
Sgt. Thomas James Brennan of Randolph, Massachusetts, from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company, smokes a cigarette in his bunk surrounded by photographs of his wife Melinda and their daughter Madison, 2, after a night of rain at the remote outpost of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, October 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) #
The goal keeper of the Afghan women’s national football team looks on before the start of a friendly match against the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) female football team at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. The Afghan team scored the only goal of the match during the first half and held their nerve to win the match 1-0. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) #
U.S. Navy corpsman in the Batallion Aid Station (BAS) at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge treat a 13-year-old Afghan boy on October 21, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. The boy was brought to the clinic in the morning by the Afghan National Police (ANP) after he had the lower part of his jaw blown off in a blast the previous evening. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #
The repatriation ceremony for Corporal David Barnsdale, 24, from Tring in Hertfordshire takes place at RAF Lyneham on October 28, 2010 in Chippenham, United Kingdom. Cpl Barnsdale was killed by an Improvised Explosive Device on Tuesday October 19, 2010 during an operation that was taking place to the east of Gereshk. He was employed as part of a Royal Engineer Search Team and had deployed to Afghanistan with 33 Engineer Regiment. (Sgt. Ian Forsyth /Crown Copyright via Getty Images) #
An Afghan Kuchi girl covers her face as she attends a class in a tent in front of the ruins of the Darlaman Palace which was destroyed during the civil war, on the outskirts of Kabul on October 27, 2010. More than 300 Afghan Kuchi tribal nomads settled into the palace several months ago under the protection of Afghan paramilitary police who use the ruins as a makeshift patrol base, after being driven from a nearby area in Kabul during a bout of ethnic riots earlier this summer. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) #
United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Francisco R. Jackson’s son Giovanni Jackson salutes during his father’s burial at the Rosehill Cemetery on October 30, 2010 in Linden, New Jersey. LCpl. Jackson, who was from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was killed while participating in combat operations in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images) #
Lyrics from a Misfits song, „Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight?“ decorate the helmet of Marine Cpl. Jonathan Eckert of Oak Lawn, Illinois, attached to India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment while on patrol near Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge on October 15, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. The Marines of India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment are responsible for securing the area near the Kajaki Dam on the Helmand River. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #
Shafiqa, 14, waits for treatment at a free specialized clinic for leishmaniasis supported by World Health Organization (WHO) October 26, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by a parasite transmitted by a tiny sandfly that can lead to severe scarring, often on the face. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #
A leishmaniasis patient gets a painful injection of Sodium Stibogluconate at a free specialized clinic for leishmaniasis supported by World Health Organization (WHO) October 25, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Leishmaniasis plagues Afghanistan’s poor, who often sleep on the floor, and the disease isn’t a priority for the government and its aid donors who are grappling with infant mortality, tuberculosis, malaria and trauma. The most common form of the disease is not fatal, but causes untold misery and scarring on faces, stigmatizing children who are excluded at school and making it hard for girls to find husbands. According to WHO, there were an estimated 65,000 reported cases in 2009. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #
U.S. Marine Cpl. Alexander Beam of McCook, NE with India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment is comforted after coming in from a patrol where his fellow squad members LCpl. Francisco Jackson of Elizabeth, NJ was killed by an improvised explosive device near Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge on October 19, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #
Italian Alpine soldiers carry the coffins of the four soldiers who died in Afghanistan on Saturday when a bomb exploded as their military convoy passed insurgents and the troops came under fire, upon their arrival at the Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) #
Afghan laborers work at a brick-making kiln on October 13, 2010 in the countryside outside Herat in western Afghanistan. Laborers earn very little in a ten hour day at the kiln. The majority of brick-makers are internal refugees displaced from their provinces after insurgencies. Child labor is common in brick-making facilities where parents use their children to assist with easier jobs. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) #
In this photo taken on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, US Army soldier Specialist Shaea Koyj, from New Jersey, burns a tub of excrement at an outpost in Zhari district, Kandahar province The Scouts’ mission was to support roadside bomb clearance efforts in the militant stronghold, the latest days-long phase of Operation Dragon Strike. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) #
Afghan bride Zahara, 24, is held by the groom, Gulam Ali as they leave for the wedding ceremony in a taxi October 14, 2010 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. At local beauty salons, behind drawn curtains, isolated from the males, Afghan women spend hours getting ready for engagement parties and weddings. In accordance with Afghan culture the men are required to be segregated from the women with the exception of the bride and groom. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) #
A „Dustoff“ medevac helicopter, part of Task Force Shadow from the 101st Airborne Division, evacuates wounded U.S. Army soldier PFC Zachary Bosserdet of 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry in Kandahar province, Afghanistan September 28, 2010. Bosserdet was evacuated after a roadside bomb struck his unit while on patrol. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro) #
U.S. Air Force pararescuemen ride in the back of their medevac helicopter with the American flag-draped bodies of U.S. soldiers who were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on October 10th, 2010. The pararescuemen and pilots from the 46th and 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadrons had responded to the attack which killed two American soldiers and wounded three others. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) #
Capt. Nicholas Stout of Lake Orion, Michigan (right) admonishes an Afghan man who stole a pay ticket from a child to try to garner payment sponsored by the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army that employs local village men and children in manual labor October 9, 2010 near Zoldag Mongah west of Kandahar. Men are paid up to $20 a day; children are paid $5 to $10, mostly for work cleaning up trash and clearing ditches. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
Family and friends carry the coffin of British aid worker Linda Norgove in Uig on the Isle of Lewis on October 26, 2010 in Lewis, Scotland. Miss Norgrove, who was 36, had been kidnapped in Afghanistan while working for US aid group DAI; she was fatally wounded during a rescue attempt by US forces. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #
Dream Home
It’s the sort of house that adults would disappear for a week long party at….it’s the sort of house you wake up in and call your boss to say you’re, “having a sick day” simply because this house is that amazing, that you’d want to ditch all other plans just so you could sink into the cozy, “couch pit” (for lack of a better term) all day long, with a group of friends, or yourself, a bottle of Pinot Grigio and a good book. Designed by John Robert Nilsson Architects, this home sits perched above it’s woodsy, natural elements like a beacon of modern/contemporary design hope. 
The infinity pool pours over the the slate balcony, with a seamless connection between nature and design- rather than feeling like you’re swimming in a pool, this infinity pool conjures up ideas of swimming in a natural spring, minus all the creepy crawlers that come along with it. The interior is minimal, unfussy and straightforward- the floor to ceiling windows bring the outdoors, in and the design speaks for itself- no need to mess with something that was built with perfection from the beginning right?! It’s homes like these that are so complete, it makes moving in and leaving all the boxes from your old place behind- I could make a home for myself in that little couch nook outside, I’d be one happy camper, no pun intended.
Dillí – Hry Commonwealthu 2010
After much worry and criticism before the start, the nineteenth Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India have now reached a successful conclusion without any of the disastrous events that had been predicted. Of the 71 participating countries, Australia topped the medal chart, taking home 177 medals, 74 of them gold. Host nation India also fared well, coming in second overall with 101 medals. The games were held from October 3rd through the 14th, ending with a closing ceremony in New Delhi yesterday. Collected here are photographs of the XIX Commonwealth Games from around India over the past couple of weeks.
New Zealand’s rugby players perform a „Haka“ as they celebrate after winning the gold medal at the Rugby Sevens as part of The XIX Commonwealth Games on October 12, 2010. New Zealand won the Commonwealth Games rugby sevens title by defeating Australia 24-17 in the final. (PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images) #
Silver medalist Wong Mew Choo of Malaysia plays against Saina Nehwal of India in the women’s singles final badminton match of the XIX Commonwealth Games at the Siri Fort sports Complex in New Delhi on October 14, 2010. Saina Nehwal of India won the women’s singles gold medal on Thursday defeating Wong Mew Choo of Malaysia 19-21, 23-21, 21-13 in the final. (INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images) #
Australia’s Sally Pearson cries after winning the women’s 100 meter hurdles final during the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi October 11, 2010. Pearson crossed first in the 100 Thursday night, but she was disqualified hours later because of a false start – after she’d done a victory lap with the Australian flag flying behind her and almost made it to the medal podium because unofficial results were released, but later corrected and reclassified in an embarrassing glitch. (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi) #
Simon Vallily of England kisses his gold medal as he celebrates victory over Steven Ward of Northern Ireland during the medal ceremony for the heavyweight 91kg boxing bout at The Commonwealth Games at The Talkatora Indoor Stadium on October 13, 2010. Vallily won by a knockout. (WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images) #
John Francis Mitchell (right) escorts Sam Michael Webster of New Zealand who crashed and injured himself during the men’s team sprint event at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex during the XIX Commonwealth Games in New Delhi on October 8, 2010. New Zealand won bronze in the event. (DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP/Getty Images) #
From left to right, England’s Abiodun Oyepitan (silver), Cayman Islands Cydonie Mothersill (gold) and Canada’s Adrienne Power (bronze) pose on the podium of the 200m women final of the Track and Field competition of the Commonwealth Games on October 11, 2010 in New Delhi. The Cayman Islands scored a rare gold medal when Cydonie Mothersill powered to the women’s 200m title in 22.89 seconds. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images) #
Australian players and team members celebrate their victory in the Australia vs. New Zealand women’s field hockey match for the gold medal at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi on October 13, 2010. Australia defeated New Zealand 4-2 on penalties after the scores were tied 2-2 at the end of extra-time. (MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/Getty Images) #
Artists from Scotland make a formation depicting Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium, or the „Armadillo“, at the flag handover ceremony during the closing ceremony for the 19th Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. The Commonwealth Games 2014 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) #
Záchrana horníků v Chille je hotova – teď už jen natočit seriál
Over two months have passed since the August 5th collapse of the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, when 33 miners were trapped 700 meters (2,300 ft) below ground. The men were kept alive over that time by supplies delivered through narrow holes drilled down to them, and kept hope through video conferences with family – until last night, when the first of the 33 miners was successfully lifted to the surface in a specially-designed rescue capsule. Friends and relatives, many of whom had camped nearby for months, slowly let their cautious optimism become joy as they were reunited with their loved ones. As of this writing, at 9:30 pm, Eastern time, all of the 33 men have now made it safely to the surface.
Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne (center) speaks during a press conference at the San Jose mine near the city of Copiapo on October 12, 2010. Chile was counting down the hours Tuesday to the start of a dramatic operation to winch 33 miners to the surface, with a presidential welcome awaiting them. (RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP/Getty Images) #
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and Mining Minister Laurence Golborne stand with the family of Florencio Avalos while waiting for the trapped miner to exit the mine in the rescue capsule October 12, 2010 at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile. (Hugo Infante/Chilean Government via Getty Images) #
Chilean miner Mario Sepulveda (left) is welcomed by Chilean President Sebastian Piñera after been brought to the surface on October 13, 2010 following a 10-week ordeal in the collapsed San Jose mine, near Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, Chile. Sepulveda was the second of 33 miners to be lifted from underground. (Jose Manuel de la Maza/AFP/Getty Images) #
Roxana Gomez, daughter of rescued miner Mario Gomez, cries as she watches on a TV screen the rescue operation of her father at the relatives camp outside the San Jose mine on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. Gomez was the ninth of 33 miners who was rescued from the San Jose mine after more than 2 months trapped underground. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) #
A life systems monitor linked to a high-tech chest harness shows the vital signs of rescued miner Osman Araya at the San Jose gold and copper mine where Araya had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, early Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government) #
Miner Franklin Lobos, a former professional soccer player, holds a soccer ball signed by family and friends as he is wheeled on a stretcher into a field hospital, becoming the 27th miner to be rescued from the San Jose mine in Copiapo October 13, 2010. (REUTERS/Hugo Infante-Government of Chile) #
Miner Luis Urzua, the last miner to be rescued, center wearing green, celebrates next to Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose mine on Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010. The 69-day underground ordeal reached its end Wednesday night after 33 trapped miners were hauled up one by one in a cage through a narrow hole drilled through 2,000 feet of rock. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) #
Nejmladší z rodu Ilů na scéně
North Korea is in the midst of a series of large-scale events designed to both commemorate the 65th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers’ Party, and to introduce heir apparent Kim Jong Un to the North Korean people and the world. Current leader Kim Jong Il is now 69 years old and ailing, and has now positioned his twenty-something son, Kim Jong Un, as his successor through recent military and party promotions, and through media coverage of him by his father’s side. Many western reporters were invited to these performances, though their freedom to cover events was still limited by minders. Collected here are images from the recent highly-orchestrated events in Pyongyang, and the „young general“ Kim Jong Un.
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Il (center, seated), poses with the newly elected members of the central leadership body of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and the participants in the WPK Conference at the plaza of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang in this picture released by the North’s KCNA news agency September 30, 2010. Kim Jong-un (8th L, seated), the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, was recently promoted to senior political and military positions. (REUTERS/KCNA). #
North Korean soldiers attend the Arirang mass games to mark the 65th anniversary of the communist nation’s ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Leader Kim Jong Il brought dancers at the Arirang mass games to tears Saturday by making a rare appearance at the festival on the second day of celebrations in the North Korean capital. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) #
Picture taken and released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on October 10, 2010 shows a military parade of the units of the three services of the Korean People’s Army, the Korean People’s Internal Security Forces, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and the Young Red Guards was held with at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. (KNS/AFP/Getty Images) #
This picture, released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on October 11, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspecting the the units of the three services of the Korean People’s Army, the Korean People’s Internal Security Forces, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and the Young Red Guards which was held at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. (KNS/AFP/Getty Images) #
Ground Zero dnes
John Blossom of Connecticut sits by himself in quiet contemplation across from the site of the former twin towers on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2010. Blossom commented that he was supposed to have been inside the World Trade Center at the time it was attacked but circumstances kept him from being there. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn) #
A boy sits in silence on the edge of a reflecting pool in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks September 11, 2010 in New York City. Thousands gathered to pay solemn homage on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #
A firefighter salutes as taps is played, before a moment of silence for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, during a commemoration ceremony at Zuccotti Park, adjacent to ground zero, on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) #
A woman sits on a bench at the Pentagon Memorial prior to a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Arlington, Virginia on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. President Barack Obama called it „a day of remembrance, a day of reflection“ after laying a wreath during the ceremony honoring the 184 government workers and airline passengers who died when hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the headquarters of the Defense Department nine years ago at 9:37 a.m. (Alex Wong/Bloomberg) #
From left, Gordon W.Felt, president of Families of Flight 93 and Joanne Hanley, Superintendent of the Flight 93 National Memorial show U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush the future site of the memorial that is under construction during a 9/11 Flight 93 commemoration September 11, 2010 in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Archie Carpenter/Getty Images) #
Christopher Gardner, 12, of Darien, Connecticut waits outside for his mother during a remembrance ceremony for Connecticut victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at Sherwood Island State Park in Wesport, Connecticut on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gardner’s father Christopher Samuel Gardner worked at the World trade center and was killed in the Sept. 11 attack. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) #
Names of UK citizens who died in the 9/11 attacks are pictured on a plaque in the Grosvenor Square memorial, on September 11, 2010 in London, England. Family of the victims, government officials and others gathered in Grosvenor Square in central London, on the 9th annual ceremony to remember the people who lost their lives in the attacks. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #
A grove of sixteen swamp white oaks is planted at the National September 11 Memorial, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010 in New York. Crews Saturday began planting the 16 trees at the World Trade Center site. They are the first of nearly 400 trees to be planted around the eight-acre memorial to the nearly 3,000 people killed when terrorists attacked the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) #
Dole v dole v Čile
Over a month ago, on August 5, 2010, the roof of the San Jose copper and gold mine collapsed, trapping 33 miners inside, 700 meters (2,300 ft) below ground near Copiapo, Chile. The fate of the miners was not immediately known – it took 17 days before a drill reached their refuge, discovering them alive and well. Rescue work began immediately, but even with several concurrent plans underway, the quickest likely rescue will still take two to three months. Until then, the 33 men will have to endure high temperatures and humidity in isolated conditions. A video link has been established, many relatives have set up camp nearby, and food, air, messages and supplies are delivered by several narrow boreholes. Fluorescent lights with timers are to be sent down to attempt to keep the men on a normal schedule by imitating day and night as they care for each other and assist in their own rescue. Once it reaches them, the diameter of the rescue borehole will be very narrow. so each miner will have to ensure they have a waistline of no more than 90 cm (35 in) to escape.
Relatives rest next to a copper and gold mine where 33 miners are trapped in Copiapo, Chile on August 6, 2010. Rescuers struggled on Friday to reach the miners trapped in the small mine in northern Chile after a cave-in a day earlier, hoping miners took refuge in an underground shelter with oxygen and water. (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado) #
Relatives of the miners trapped in the San Esteban gold and copper mine, stand by as the news comes that a probe has reached the place were they might be located on August 22, 2010. A drill probe seeking to determine whether 33 miners trapped for two weeks in a Chilean mine were still alive finally arrived at an emergency refuge where they might be, but no news of their situation has been released so far. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) #
In this frame grab from TV channel 24 Horas, Chile’s Mining Minister Laurence Golborne, left, smiles as an unidentified official listens to unknown sounds coming from the area of a collapsed mine where about 33 miners have been trapped for 17 days in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. The text at bottom reads in Spanish „Moment that it (a drill) reaches 688 meters. Miner indicates that ‘knocking is heard’.“ (AP Photo) #
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera shows a message reading „We are fine in the refuge, the 33 of us“, from the miners trapped in the San Esteban gold and copper mine on August 22, 2010. The miners are alive and contact was established with them 17 days after a structural collapse trapped them below ground. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) #
A car travels on the main road to the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile on August 23, 2010. 18 days after a cave-in, rescuers sent trapped Chilean miners supplies of saline and glucose through a narrow drill hole on Monday, and now face a months-long, half-mile dig to save them. (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado) #
A television camera mounted in the nose of a probe before is sent to the miners of the San Jose mine on August 25, 2010. Chile’s trapped miners say they are enduring „hell“ underground, putting urgency into a rescue operation that is about to start but could drag on for months before providing salvation. (ARIEL MARINKOVIC/AFP/Getty Images) #
Carola Narvaez, wife of Raul Bustos, one of the miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine, reads a letter addressed to her that was retrieved from her trapped husband as she sits in a shelter outside the mine on Thursday Aug. 26, 2010. Narvaez and her husband are also survivors of Chile’s massive February earthquake. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) #
Relatives of trapped miners Renan and Florencio Avalo raise a tattered Chilean flag on a hill overlooking the camp where the families of the trapped miners wait outside the collapsed San Jose mine on Saturday Aug. 28, 2010. This flag was transformed into a symbol of resilience in Chile when an earthquake survivor was photographed pulling it from the wreckage of the February 27th earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) #
Workers stand by the narrow pipe that keeps communication open with miners who are trapped inside the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile on Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. The trapped miners half mile underground will have to aid their own escape clearing tons of rock that will fall as the rescue hole is drilled, the engineer in charge of drilling said Sunday. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) #
Food, which includes rice, meatballs, fruits, cheese and bread, meant for the miners trapped underground, are displayed at Copiapo, Chile on September 1, 2010. Already deprived of sunlight, fresh air and their loved ones for 27 days, NASA doctors say the miners trapped deep in a Chilean mine must continue to forego two other pleasures: alcohol and cigarettes. (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado) #
View of the „T-130″ drill, named „Plan B“, working to rescue the 33 trapped miners in the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile on September 6, 2010. Drillers have begun two approaches – „Plan A“ and „Plan B“ – with a quicker „Plan C“ route scheduled to begin on September 18. The latter could reduce the rescue time to two months at best, having to only drill some 597 meters (1,958 feet) to reach the trapped workers. (ARIEL MARINKOVIC/AFP/Getty Images) #
Voda – voda v Pákistánu
The United Nations has now estimated that Pakistan will need billions of dollars to recover from its worst floods in 80 years – further straining a country already dependent on foreign aid to prop up its economy and back its war against Islamist militants. Over 60,000 troops are involved in flood relief operations trying to assist nearly 14 million people who are now affected by the flooding. The U.N. has just launched an appeal for $459 million in immediate aid, as Pakistanis have become more frustrated with their government’s response and President Asif Ali Zardari’s trip to Europe. [This entry is part II of a double-issue today, Collected here are recent photographs of Pakistanis as they continue to cope with their flooded country.
Flood victims awaiting rescue wave down a helicopter from a top a roof in Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan’s Punjab province August 7, 2010. Pakistanis desperate to get out of flooded villages threw themselves at helicopters on Saturday as more heavy rain was expected to intensify both suffering and anger with the government. The disaster killed more than 1,600 people and disrupted the lives of 12 million. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif) #
Villagers wade through flood waters with their livestock while looking for higher grounds in Sukkur, Pakistan on August 8, 2010. Pakistani navy boats sped across miles of flood waters on Sunday as the military took a lead role in rescuing survivors from a devastating disaster that has killed 1,600 people and left two million homeless. (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro) #
Volunteers of the Falah-e-Insaniyat foundation, the charity wing of Pakistan’s anti-American militant group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, run a relief camp for flood-affected people in Nowshera, northwest Pakistan on Aug. 9, 2010. U.S. army choppers flew up the formerly Taliban-controlled valley laden with flour, biscuits and water. They returned loaded with hungry Pakistani flood survivors. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) #
US Army Staff Sargeant Matthew Kingsbury (right) from Bravo Company 2/3 Aviation and Pakistani soldiers sit on the cargo bay ramp of a CH-47 heavy-lift helicopter while looking down at a flooded area while in flight over Pakistan’s Swat Valley on August 10, 2010. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) #
Newborn twin boys lay covered up in a blanket on the floor of a Pakistani Army helicopter, as mother Zada Perveen (unseen) rests after being rescued by Pakistan Army soldiers during air rescue operations on August 9, 2010 over the village of Sanawan in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan. Of the twin boys, un-named at the time, the first was born 15 minutes before mid day and the other twin was born as the Army rescue helicopter was circling above to find a safe landing position on a road surrounded by flood waters. The mother was then carried on a makeshift bed through chest deep flood waters to the awaiting Pakistan Army helicopter. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) #
