Today in pictures (June 12)
Photographs from around the world for Thursday, June 12, 2008.
Section:Gallery
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US President George W Bush, left, and Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi look at each other at a press conference at Rome's Villa Madama, Thursday, June 12, 2008. Bush is on the second day of his three-day visit to Italy, part of his European trip, which includes a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Friday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ORG XMIT: GB121
Gregorio Borgia The Spokesman-Review
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Rabobank's Koos Moerenhout, champion of Netherlands, right, pedals during the fourth stage of the 60th Dauphine Libere cycling race between Vienne and Annemasse, French Alps, Thursday, June 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani) ORG XMIT: CIP114
Laurent Cipriani The Spokesman-Review
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Residents walk past tornado damaged homes in Chapman, Kan., Thursday, June 12, 2008. Tornadoes raked Kansas on Wednesday, killing at least two people, destroying much of the small town of Chapman and causing extensive damage on the Kansas State University campus. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagnerl) ORG XMIT: KSOW104
Orlin Wagner The Spokesman-Review
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Roxanne, a miniature dachshund, tries to introduce herself to spring chinook salmon at the Winchester dam fish ladder on the North Umpqua River near Roseburg, Ore. The salmon are migrating upriver.
Robin Loznak The Spokesman-Review
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Austria's Gyorgy Garics, right, attempts to kick the ball past Poland's Artur Boruc, center, and Poland's Michal Zewlakow, left, during the group B match between Austria and Poland in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, June 12, 2008, at the Euro 2008 European Soccer Championships in Austria and Switzerland. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer) ORG XMIT: XEUR114
Fabian Bimmer The Spokesman-Review
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A wooden pallet floats down a flooded street Thursday, June 12, 2008, in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Officials estimated that 100 blocks in Cedar Rapids were under water forcing the evacuation of nearly 4,000 homes and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) ORG XMIT: IAJR111
Jeff Roberson The Spokesman-Review
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A pair of young raccoons, one of them albino, lounge on a chain-linked fence near the Jasper Street Water Plant in Wichita Falls, Texas, Thursday, June 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Wichita Falls Times-Record-News/Jason Palmer) ORG XMIT: TXWIC601
Jason Palmer The Spokesman-Review
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Chinese man takes a photo of the Mianyuan River in flood following the Tangjiashan quake lake bursting upstream in Wuhu, China's southwest Sichuan province, Thursday, June 12, 2008. Authorities have evacuated some 250,000 people, concerned about consequences of any break in the banks of the lake formed by post-earthquake landslides. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan) ORG XMIT: XAY112
Alexander Yuan The Spokesman-Review
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A general view of a refugee camp is seen in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 12, 2008, World donors sought to bolster Afghanistan's fragile leadership Thursday with pledges of more than US$17 billion (euro 10.96 billion) in aid, as the need to help secure and feed the country overshadowed concerns about pervasive corruption. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) ORG XMIT: XMS103
Musadeq Sadeq The Spokesman-Review
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Indian Artist Sudarsan Pattnaik waters his sculpture named "Global warming", at the International Sand Sculpture Festival Sandsation in Berlin,Thursday, June 12, 2008. Together with his student Jitendra Kishore Jagadev, Pattnaik was placed first at the USF (United Sand Festivals) World Double Championship. (AP Photo/Miguel Villagran) ORG XMIT: MBER103
Miguel Villagran The Spokesman-Review
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Palestinians gather at the site where an explosion destroyed a building in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 12, 2008. A powerful blast flattened the two-story house of a militant commander in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing four people, including an infant girl and a teenage boy, injuring 40 and burying an unknown number of others under the rubble, Gaza's Hamas rulers and a Palestinian health official said. Israel, which routinely accepts responsibility for attacks on military targets, denied involvement. But Hamas said the blast was caused by an Israeli airstrike and responded with a heavy barrage of rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel, wounding an Israeli woman.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) ORG XMIT: JRL112
Hatem Moussa The Spokesman-Review
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Teenage skateboarders enjoy their summer vacation as they train new tricks in downtown of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Wednesday, June 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova) ORG XMIT: XPP102
Valentina Petrova The Spokesman-Review