Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:01:38 GMT | By Antony Bennison
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Bulacan

Houses swamped by floodwaters in Bulacan province, north of Manila is seen in this aerial photograph released by the Department of National Defense. Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced and marooned from deadly floods spawned by 11 straight days of southwest monsoon rains that soaked the Philippine capital and nearby provinces. (© Reuters)
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  • Houses swamped by floodwaters in Bulacan province, north of Manila is seen in this aerial photograph released by the Department of National Defense. Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced and marooned from deadly floods spawned by 11 straight days of southwest monsoon rains that soaked the Philippine capital and nearby provinces. (© Reuters)
  • Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (left), Yekaterina Samutsevich (right) and Maria Alyokhina, members of female punk band Pussy Riot, sit in the defendant's cell before a court hearing in Moscow. A state prosecutor on Tuesday demanded a three-year jail term for three women from the punk band, saying they had abused God when they burst into a Moscow cathedral and sang a protest prayer against the Russian Orthodox Church's close links to Vladimir Putin. (© Reuters)
  • Hot air balloons take to the skies over Bristol city centre in England. The early morning flight of over twenty balloons over the city was organised as a curtain raiser for the four-day Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. (© Getty Images)
  • A masked devotee stands next to a family as he takes part in a parade commemorating the Neku Jatra-Mataya festival, the festival of lights, in Lalitpur. Devotees celebrate the Buddhist festival which marks the victory of Sakyamuni Buddha over Mara, by praying for the souls of departed family members and holding parades throughout the city. (© Reuters)
  • View of the Martian surface made up of two images from the navigation cameras on the mast of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. The rim of the Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground. (© NASA)
  • Fafa, a lioness that is nearly 18-year-old, receives an eye check at the veterinary clinic in Brasilia. Fafa has been living in Brasilia Zoo since its birth and had undergone surgery this year to remove both its ovaries and uterus. Fafa was sedated and brought to the veterinary clinic after experiencing seizures and bleeding. According to veterinarian John Nardott Ricardo, the lioness had to undergo a 3-hour-long session of CT scans to its chest, skull and abdomen in order to diagnose the source of its health problems. Nardott believes there is a possibility that Fafa has liver damage, which may have arisen from a cancerous tumour Fafa had in 2010. (© Reuters)
  • Muslims offer prayers before having their Iftar (fast-breaking) meal during the holy month of Ramadan at a madrasa or religious school on the outskirts of Jammu. (© Reuters)
  • Labourers work to reconnect an electric circuit after pylons were turned over by Typhoon Haikui in Wenling, Zhejiang province, China. (© Reuters)
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Houses swamped by floodwaters in Bulacan province, north of Manila, Philippines are seen in this aerial photograph released by the Department of National Defence. Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced from the deadly floods that soaked the Philippine capital and nearby provinces.

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