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A children's play area is covered by ashes from the eruption of the Chaiten volcano in Futaleufu, Chile. The week-old eruption at the volcano has scattered ash across a wide swath of South America, closing regional airports and driving more than 7,000 people from their homes. (Ferran Majol/AP)
A girl drinks water from a container while her homeless family eats donated food in a township on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Millions of cyclone victims face outbreaks of disease as they struggle to survive without clean water, food, or shelter five days after Cyclone Nargis crashed onto the shores of Myanmar, killing more than 50,000 people.
Palestinian children eat a packet of chips on a deserted waterfront road in Gaza City at sunset. An Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian militant and wounded another man at dawn today, according to the head of Gaza emergency services.
Israeli Air Force jets perform a stunt above a beach in Tel Aviv during practice for military demonstrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state.
An exercise rider walks her horse around the Churchill Downs racetrack during an early workout for the 134th Kentucky Derby in Louisville, to be run Saturday.
A Palestinian man makes the “V” sign in front of the Palestinian flag during a Labor Day demonstration outside Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
An automated palet retrieves a Volkswagen Polo from a storage tower near the company's main factory in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice listens to remarks during a press conference at the State Department following a meeting with a group of U.S. private-sector leaders to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the importance of U.S. private investment in the West Bank.
Firefighters work to protect homes from a wind-driven brush fire in the foothills of Sierra Madre, Calif. A flare-up led to the evacuation of about 1,000 residents in the surrounding area.
A woman reacts to the verdict in the Sean Bell case outside the County Criminal Courts Building in the Queens borough of New York. Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of the unarmed Bell on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower.
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A woman helps carry a flag before the start of a candlelight vigil held on the Virginia Tech campus on April 17.
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