poon cho tang SG AFP - Wed Aug 24, 2:57 PM ET French firefighters talk as they help to extinguish a wildfire in Penela, 200 Km north of Lisbon. A water-dropping plane reportedly crashed while battling a forest fire in central Portugal, slightly injuring its Spanish pilot.(AFP/Francisco Leong)
poon cho tang SG AFP/File - Wed Aug 24, 3:22 PM ET A killer whale and her calf. Killer whales which set traps to catch seagulls have become the third known animal species to possess 'cultural learning' -- a skill which is transmitted to other members of their group(AFP/File/Jack Guez)
poon cho tang SG AFP/File - Wed Aug 24, 3:36 PM ET Women farmers harvest rice in Banda Aceh. Fears that the most fertile agricultural land in the Indonesian province of Aceh has been wrecked by seawater that swept inland from the December 26 tsunami are unfounded, scientists say.(AFP/File/Hiyawata)
poon cho tang SG AFP/DDP - Thu Aug 25, 7:12 AM ET A man stands on a ladder to avoid rising flood waters in Passau. A man has drowned in the severe flooding in southern Germany, as flood waters slowly ebbed, easing fears of further disaster.(AFP/DDP/Jens-Ulrich Koch)
poon cho tang SG AFP/File - Thu Aug 25, 7:16 AM ET Cambodian children walk in a dried irrigation canal in Kandal province. Up to two million Cambodians may face serious food shortages next year as the impoverished country suffers its worst drought in 50 years.(AFP/File/Khem Sovannara)
poon cho tang SG AFP/JIJI Press - Thu Aug 25, 7:19 AM ET High waves hit a breakwater in Yokosuka. Typhoon Mawar was closing in on Japan, grounding planes and bringing warnings of torrential rain, landslides and high waves in large areas of the country.(AFP/JIJI Press)
poon cho tang SG AFP/File - Thu Aug 25, 7:42 AM ET A rough scale python, one of the world's rarest snakes at the Australian reptile park near Sydney. Australian officials discovered that the country had become home to a number of threatening relatives from overseas.(AFP/File/David Hancock)
poon cho tang SG AFP/File - Thu Aug 25,10:33 AM ET Thai workers remove waste from a canal close to the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok. Infamous for its putrid smell and murky-brown colour, Bangkok's main waterway, the Chao Phraya river, is to undergo a major three-year clean-up, city officials said.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Aug 25,10:37 AM ET A French firefighter gestures as he sprays water onto a fire in Penela, Portugal. Firefighters have brought under control all the blazes which have ravaged the centre and north of the parched country over the past two weeks.(AFP/Francisco Leong)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Aug 25,10:58 AM ET Residents put sand bags in front of a bank in a flooded street of Lucerne. Swiss authorities continued to evacuate residents from flood-stricken areas as rescue workers battled to remove debris that threatened dams and bridges even as the waters subsided.(AFP/Bruno Ferrandez)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Aug 25,10:58 AM ET The flooded banks of the Reuss river in Lucerne. Swiss authorities continued to evacuate residents from flood-stricken areas as rescue workers battled to remove debris that threatened dams and bridges even as the waters subsided.(AFP/Bruno Ferrandez)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Thu Aug 25,11:04 AM ET A man cleans up in a supermarket in the Tyrolean city of Woergl, some 70 kilometres east of Innsbruck. An 81-year-old man whose body was found became the fourth victim in three days of heavy flooding in Austria.(AFP/Str)
poon cho tang SG FP - Thu Aug 25,11:16 AM ET Samina Begum, 26, walks past her house which was destroyed by a landslide, in the Dhirenpara area, outside Guwahati, the capital city of India's northeastern state of Assam.(AFP/Str)
poon cho tang SG A woman surfs off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida, that was hit by powerful Hurricane Katrina.
poon cho tang SG Indian children are dressed as Hindu gods in Amritsar, as India prepares to mark the birthday of Lord Krishna on Saturday.
poon cho tang SG A South Korean woman (left) cries after meeting her North Korean sister during a reunion for separated relatives from the two states in Diamond mountain resort, North Korea.
poon cho tang SG An Iranian boy plays on the back of a man, as Muslims pray at the Tehran University campus.
poon cho tang SG Australian cricketer Shane Warne unsuccessfully appeals for bowling out England's Andrew Flintoff during the fourth Test match at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
poon cho tang SG A tricycle driver reads a newspaper in Burma's capital, as uncertainty remains about the credibility of reports of a coup in the ruling junta.
poon cho tang SG Reuters - Wed Aug 24,11:56 PM ET Malaysian Kuah Mershel, daughter of a bonsai cultivator, holds the smallest of her miniature bonsai at her residence in Kuala Lumpur August 24, 2005. These miniature bonsai from a local species known as 'water jasmine' measure 22mm. Picture taken late August 24, 2005. REUTERS/Kamarulzaman Russali
