A student holding a poster is sprayed with a water cannon by policemen during a protest outside the House of Representatives in Quezon City, east of Manila, Philippines on August 25. The students are protesting against the proposed National Expenditure Program for 2012 that would decrease subsidies on State Universities and colleges.

A boy retrieves recyclable materials from his family's gutted house after a fire burnt around 500 houses at a slum area in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines on Feb. 8. Some 5,000 families were left homeless and investigators are still looking into what caused the fire.