Karnit Goldwasser, wife of captured Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, talks to General Elazar Shteren as he arrives to officially notify her of her husband’s death outside her home in Nahariya, Israel. The bodies of Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, held by Hezbollah since 2006, were returned to Israel as part of a prisoner exchange. (Uriel Sinai / Getty Images)
Samir Kantar wipes his eye during a ceremony welcoming prisoners exchanged for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, in Naqoura, southern Lebanon. (Darko Bandic / Associated Press)
A South Korean protester hurls an egg toward the Japanese Embassy in Seoul over a dispute as to whether Japan or South Korea control a group of islands in the Sea of Japan. The islands are called the Takeshima Islands in Japan, but are called the Dokdo Islands in South Korea. (Jeon Hyeong-Jin / AFP/Getty Images)
Geiko and geisha walk down Omotesando Street to mark the first anniversary of Niigata earthquake in Tokyo. The earthquake killed 10 people and shut down a nuclear power plant in Kashiwazaki. About 2,500 people are still living in temporary houses. (Junko Kimura / Getty Images)
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Philippine children play in a flooded street in Manila’s Tondo slum after Tropical Storm Helen crossed the northern regions of the country. (Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA)
Philippine students walk through flooded streets in northern Manila. (Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA)
A fire-fighting airplane drops water over a forest fire at Markopoulo village, in the suburbs of Athens, Greece. (Pantelis Saitas / EPA)
A shepherd holds on to his goat as bicyclists pass the village of La Ribereuille during the 11th stage of the Tour de France cycling race. (Christopher Ena / Associated Press)
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An Afghan woman walks with children past a billboard depicting Hollywood action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kabul. Since the fall of the Taliban regime, commercial billboards are mushrooming in the Afghan capital. (Shah Marai / AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi mother tries to put her baby to sleep as children play on a street in Baghdad’s Fadhil neighborhood. (Hadi Mizban / Associated Press)
Fireworks explode above the Olympic National Stadium, known as the Bird’s Nest, during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. (Andy Wong / Associated Press)
