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  • Aamir Qureshi/AFP - Getty Images

    A Pakistani army commando frisks flood-affected survivors before they board a US rescue helicopter to be evacuated from Kallam, a town in the Swat valley, on August 22, 2010. UN agencies stepped up calls for donors to deliver on their pledges for Pakistan to prevent what UN chief Ban Ki-moon called a "slow-motion tsunami" from wreaking further catastrophe.

    "Slow-motion tsunami"

    It's really sad to see flood victims being frisked before they are evacuated on rescue helicopters. No matter how great the humanitarian crisis, the war goes on.
    Check out our latest flood images.

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  • Kamran Jebreili / AP

    An employee checks the identity of a camel during the milking process at the Camelicious farm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in this July 13 picture . Camel milk has at least three times more vitamin C than a cow's and is considered an alternative for the lactose intolerant. Researchers, meanwhile, have studied possible roles in fighting bacteria, tumors and diabetes, as well as traditional uses such as a treatment for liver disease as part of folk medicine across the camels range from central Asia to North Africa.

    Milking the...camels?

    Check out this new health food trend.

  • Rizwan Tabassum / AFP - Getty Images

    Pakistani flood survivors evacuate the flooded area in Tando Hafiz Shah on August 21, 2010. Pakistan is to ask the International Monetary Fund to ease the terms of a 10-billion-dollar loan after enduring the worst floods in its history, a report said.

    Pakistan's humanitarian crisis continues

    The stoic expressions and vibrant red clothes of these flood evacuees struck me as I scanned our picture database for new images from the crisis in Pakistan. Today, more than 150,000 fled their homes, adding to the 600,000 that are already displaced.

  • Bob Strong / Reuters

    U.S. Marines carry a comrade wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) to a waiting medevac helicopter, near the town of Marjah in Helmand Province, August 21, 2010.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    U.S. Marines carry a wounded comrade to a medevac helicopter.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    A U.S. Marine injured by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is transported to a military hospital.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    U.S. Army medic Staff Sergeant Rahkeem Francis (R) and crew chief Staff Sergeant Christopher Meece with Charlie Company, 6-101 Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, treat an Afghan boy with a broken leg onboard a medevac helicopter near the town of Marjah.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    A tag identifies the injury on a wounded U.S. Marine as he is evacuated by an Army medevac helicopter.

    Bob Strong / Reuters

    A medevac helicopter prepares to land near a smoke grenade to pick up a badly wounded Marine.

    Helping the wounded

    Bob Strong has been working in Afghanistan for the past two months. During the last few days he's been photographing a compelling series on U.S. Medevac units helping NATO forces as well as Afghans.

  • Jessica Hill / Journal Inquirer via AP

    Hartford Distributors employees Jennifer Wood, of Tolland, right, kisses an 8-week old German shepherd puppy, brought by The Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation to the Connecticut beer distribution company on Aug. 20, 2010, in Manchester, Conn. Earlier this month, fired employee Omar Thornton killed eight co-workers and wounded two others before killing himself at the Hartford Distributors building.

    Puppy pause

    A little puppy love goes a long way.

    Msnbc.com story from Aug. 4: 9 dead in shooting at Conn. beer distributor

  • Amit Dave / Reuters

    A boy swims in the polluted waters of the river Sabarmati to dive for offerings that are thrown in by worshippers in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Aug. 20, 2010. In recent years, the religious festivals and customs in India have come under increasing scrutiny as public awareness of environmental issues grows.

    Swimming through offerings

  • Elizabeth Conley / The Detroit News via AP

    Bill and Gloria Ewald of Troy, Mich., cruise in their 1963 Buick Electra 225 in Royal Oak, Mich. on Aug. 19, 2010. The Woodward Dream Cruise car show, where more than 30000 muscle cars, street rods, custom, collector and special interest vehicles cruise down Woodward Avenue, begins Saturday. (Bottom) People cruise in their classic cars along Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak, Mich.

    Bryan Mitchell / The Detroit News via AP

    Woodward Dream Cruise

    A little piece of an American summer.

  • Chris Carlson / AP

    People gather around a SB2C Helldiver after it was recovered from 91 feet down and under about six feet of silt in a San Diego reservoir on Aug. 20, 2010. Salvage divers, working with the National Naval Aviation Museum, removed the rare World War II dive bomber that crashed after its engine failed during a training exercise on May 28, 1945.

    Diving for a dive bomber

    "It wasn't a particularly good airplane," said Navy Capt. Ed Ellis of the Florida museum.

    The aircraft had a tendency to crash. The first prototype crashed in February 1941. The second went down as it was pulling out of a dive.

    msnbc.com story: WWII Helldiver raised from California reservoir

  • Kevin Frayer / AP

    Pakistanis crowd around a Pakistan Army helicopter during a drop of much needed food supplies to the flood encircled village of Tul in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010.

    Pakistan food drop

    A small bit of relief arrives in Pakistan where more than four million Pakistanis have been made homeless by nearly three weeks of floods and eight million are in need of humanitarian assistance.

    We have more images from the tragedy here, and also a video from NBC's Ann Curry, who reported last night from Islamabad.

  • Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images file

    Former Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens testifies about allegations of steroid use by professional ball players before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill February 13, 2008 in Washington, DC.

    Roger Clemens charged with perjury

    We're used to seeing the scowl of Roger Clemens on the mound intimidating hitters. This tight closeup of him testifying before Congress speaks volumes about who was doing the intimidating that day. Today, Clemens was charged with perjury for allegedly lying to Congress. Do you think he was telling the truth?

  • Forta via Reuters TV

    A combination of pictures from video grabs shows a bull running toward and jumping into the stands during a 'recortadores' competition in Tafalla, Spain, August 18, 2010. At least 40 spectators were injured after the bull jumped into the stands during the competition, in which young boys run before the bull trying to avoid being caught.

    Alberto Galdona/AFP - Getty Images

    A bull leaps out of the arena at a bullring in Tafalla near Pamplona, northern Spain on August 18, 2010, and charged into a crowd of terrified spectators.

    Raging Bull

    I have to admit I really don't get bullfighting or the running of the bulls. I know it's a cultural thing. While tragic events like this make amazing video, they really should consider making those walls taller. Full story here.

  • Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters

    A girl cries after being beaten by her father, in their makeshift home at a squatter camp for poor white South Africans at Coronation Park in Krugersdorp, March 12, 2010. A shift in racial hiring practices and the recent global economic crisis means many white South Africans have fallen on hard times. Researchers now estimate some 450,000 whites, of a total white population of 4.5 million, live below the poverty line and 100,000 are struggling just to survive.

    Living below the poverty line in South Africa

    More coverage of South Africa on msnbc.com

  • Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP - Getty Images

    A gold-plated handgun, engraved and inlaid with diamonds on the butt, is displayed at the Museum of Drugs in Mexico City, on August 18, 2010. Gold-incrusted weapons, children clothes decorated with LSD-laced stickers and religious paintings packed with cocaine offer a glimpse into Mexico's growing drug culture in a unique museum.

    Golden gun

    What do you buy the narco trafficker who has everything? Apparently, normal folks can't visit Mexico's Museum of Drugs, though they allow the media in for tours.

  • Pete Muller/AP

    A proposed map of Juba in the shape of an rhino is presented, Wednesday, Aug 18, 2010, in Juba, Southern Sudan. Southern Sudan has unveiled ambitious plans to remake its capital cities in the shapes found on their state flags, and an official says the government is talking with investors to raise the $10 billion the fanciful communities would cost.

    Rhino City?

    I'm all for urban planning, but this plan by the leaders of Southern Sudan to build a Rhino-shaped city is laughable, to put it mildly. And I thought American politicans were tone deaf.

  • GEOEYE

    This one-meter ground resolution satellite image shows a portion of Risalpur, located on the Kabul River in the Nowshera District in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province about 45 km from Peshawar. The image was taken on Aug. 6, 2009, almost one year before Risalpur experienced historic flooding in late July and early August 2010. This image could be used by humanitarian agencies and first responders to plan post-flooding relief and evacuation activities by comparing "before" imagery to detect changes to the landscape and infrastructure. The IKONOS satellite took this image from 423 miles in space as it moved from north to south over Pakistan at a speed of four miles per second.

    GEOEYE

    This half-meter ground resolution satellite image shows a portion of Risalpur, located on the Kabul River in the Nowshera District in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province about 45 km from Peshawar. The image was collected on Aug. 5, 2010 after Risalpur experienced historic flooding and shows the coastline and town covered in mud and water. According to news reports, this area of Pakistan hasn't seen such flooding since 1929. The floods have collectively killed an estimated 1,500 people in Pakistan, affected 4.2 million people and displaced millions from their homes. The GeoEye-1 satellite took this image from 423 miles in space as it moved from north to south over Pakistan at a speed of four miles per second.

    GEOEYE

    Detail of 2009 shot above.

    GEOEYE

    Similar detail from 2010 shot above.

    DigitalGlobe

    On the left is a satellite image of Nowshera, Pakistan and the surrounding area before it was flooded. The image on the right shows the same area on August 5, after the deluge.

    Pakistan floods: Before and after from outer space

    Though dated as early as 2007 and as only as recently as August 5, 2010, these are new to us.

    This is a new perspective on the tragedy we've been seeing largely through pictures from the ground.

    Sorry I couldn't get perfect crop alignment on the tight shots from GEOEYE, the third and fourth pictures in this post--I'm working on a laptop in a conference center in Redmond, WA, missing my 30" monitor, and wanted to get this out quickly instead of perfectly.

    Editor's note: There was an error due to haste in the picture credits as well. As originally posted, the GEOEYE pictures were incorrectly credited to DigitalGlobe. That has been corrected. For more information, see the GEOEYE site here. See more pictures from DigitalGlobe here.

  • Shakil Adil / AP

    Girls line up for food at a camp for people displaced by floods on the outskirts of Sukkur, southern Pakistan on Aug 18, 2010. The floodwaters that have ravaged Pakistan will not recede fully until the end of August, the country's top meteorologist said, a grim forecast for the more than 20 million people living homeless or otherwise affected by the deluge.

    Aid trickles into Pakistan

    msnbc.com story: Insurgents, police clash as Pakistan floods persist

  • Don Emmert/AFP-Getty Images

    With One World Trade Center in the background, tourists look at a preview photo of the completed building at the World Trade Center August 18, 2010 in New York. One World Trade Center has now risen above 30 floors.The 1,776-foot-tall building is on track to becoming the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere.

    30 floors and counting . . .

    The rebuilding of the World Trade Center tower certainly has been a long time in coming. Do you think Americans will feel differently about a nearby mosque once the symbolic tower is finished?

    New York Governor David Patterson is trying to get the developers to move the project, while President Obama doesn't regret his support for the project.

     

  • Steve Newton of Wake County Emergency Management via News and Observer via AP

    Charles Weatherly, past president of the N.C. Beekeeper's Association collects bees while Wake County Deputy Brandon Jenkins sits inside the police cruiser in Wake County, N.C. Weatherly lives near where the incident happened on the Smithfield Road exit on U.S. 64.

    The incident

    I hope the deputy had brought his lunch with him. Might have been a long day.

  • Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

    Co-owner Christian Petersen looks out of a window at his bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, north-east of Berlin August 17, 2010. The owners attached about 120 bicycles on the facade to advertise their shop.

    Bike shop

    Great way to advertise.

  • Adrees Latif / Reuters

    A flood victim holding her sibling cries after having rice, donated by passing vehicles, snatched from her as she took refuge along the roadside with thousands of others in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province on August 16. Pakistani flood victims, burning straw and waving sticks, blocked a highway on Monday to demand government help as aid agencies warned relief was too slow to arrive for millions without clean water, food and homes.

    Devastation continues in Pakistan

    Wrenching images continue to move to us from the flooding in Pakistan. See the slideshow HERE.

    Hungry, displaced flood victims are becoming increasingly angry with the government. Read the FULL STORY.

    Do you feel informed by the images you're seeing from Pakistan?

    Should we be wary of giving you, the viewer, "Disaster fatigue?"

    Or do you feel that the best images should be our focus regardless?

  • Richard Garcia / Periodico El Isleno via AP

    A plane that crashed lays in pieces along the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia on Monday, Aug. 16. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.

    Plane breaks into 3 pieces on landing

    Read the unbelievable Full Story HERE

  • Alessandro Bossi / EPA

    Smoke and dust are seen following a landslide after a volcanic eruption on Lipari Island, Italy on Aug. 16, 2010. Several people were initially said to have suffered cuts and bruises after rocks tumbled off a cliff but a crisis unit stressed that no one had been taken to hospital for treatment. The epicenter of an accompanying 4.6 magnitude tremor was located under the seabed at a depth of about 12 miles. The quake hit the area just after 3 pm (local time) and was "clearly felt" by inhabitants, many of whom left their homes.

    Landslide in Italy

  • Dave Kaup / Reuters

    New York Yankees fan Claude Godrey shows off his back tattooed with Yankees stars whose numbers have been retired before the start of the Yankees and Kansas City Royals baseball game in Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday, Aug. 15.

    Inked icons

    Now that's some serious commitment to your team.

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