A girl displaced from her home by a huge tidal wave caused by Cyclone Aila, stands in front of her temporary shelter on a river dam in Satkhira in southwestern Bangladesh June 2, 2009.
A cone of moisture surrounds part of the Ares I-X rocket during lift off Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, on a sub-orbital test flight from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Riot police contain supporters of Mozambique’s national soccer team after their World Cup 2010 qualifying soccer match against Kenya in Maputo, September 6, 2009.
Chicago White Sox pitcher Scott Linebrink delivers a pitch against the Chicago Cubs during the fifth inning of a spring training baseball game in Las Vegas, in this March 5, 2009 photo.
A man walks his dog through Observatory Hill near Sydney onA man walks his dog through Observatory Hill near Sydney on September 23, 2009 as Australia’s biggest city is shrouded in an eerie blanket of red dust. Sydney’s cars and buildings turned orange as strong winds blew desert dust across the city, snarling commuter and air transport and prompting a warning for children and the elderly to stay indoors.
Claire Williams, right, and Cori Giroux kiss as they wed at the stroke of midnight in South Burlington, Vermont, on September 1, 2009 – the first day that Vermont’s marriage equality law went into effect.
Brazilian Formula One driver Felipe Massa of Scuderia Ferrari is carried from his car after being struck in the head by a piece of bodywork that fell from another car during the qualifying session at the Hungaroring race track in Mogyorod near Budapest on July 25, 2009. Massa was airlifted to hospital and underwent surgery on his fractured skull.
French aerobatic team “Cartouche Dore” flies in formation near Aix-en-Provence, southern France.
The sun shines on the skin of a hippo in its enclosure in the Zoo in Berlin, Friday, April 3, 2009.
AP photographer Emilio Morenatti takes pictures as he is carried on a stretcher out of the University of Maryland Medical Center’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center to be transferred to the Kernan Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital in Baltimore, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2009. Morenatti, whose left foot was amputated after a bomb blast in Afghanistan, was transferred Tuesday to a rehabilitation hospital in Baltimore, where he will be fitted for a prosthesis.
