Today in photos
A rescue service worker is seen carrying an elderly lady after she was rescued from a house in the flooded streets of Cockermouth village, England. A Palestinian child with a painted face looks on during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. And dogs encounter as their masters stroll in a street under the canopy of gingko trees in Tokyo, Japan. View a slideshow of these images and more.
Section:Gallery
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Engineers survey the scene after a bridge over the River Derwent collapsed suddenly after heavy rainfall and flooding in Workington, England. Friday Nov. 20, 2009. Military helicopters have winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats have rescued scores more as floods swamped northern England's picturesque Lake District.
Chris Clark Associated Press
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A rescue service worker is seen carrying an elderly lady after she was rescued from a house in the flooded streets of Cockermouth village, England, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. The Royal Air Force and Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RLNI) rescue services have joined efforts to rescue stranded residents from their homes, after heavy rains caused local flooding in the picturesque north England village. Around 200 people were stranded by rising floodwater in the northern England tourist town.
Scott Heppell Associated Press
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Residents carry belongings from their homes which have been devastated by flood water, on a street of Cockermouth village, England, after heavy rains caused local flooding in the picturesque village, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Military helicopters have winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats have rescued scores more as floods swamped northern England's picturesque Lake District.
Scott Heppell Associated Press
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Palestinian children cheer during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school, but an estimated 1 billion children still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday.
Muhammed Muheisen Associated Press
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A Palestinian child with a painted face looks on during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school, but an estimated 1 billion children still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday.
Muhammed Muheisen Associated Press
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A Nepalese girl participates in the Ehee festival in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Ehee is a ceremony in which pre-adolescent girls are married to the bel fruit tree, symbolizing a Hindu God, considered as the first marriage of girls of the Newar ethnic community.
Gemunu Amarasinghe Associated Press
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A stray dog looks on near a group of street children sleeping on a pavement in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, and nearly 200 million are chronically malnourished, UNICEF said Thursday.
Gemunu Amarasinghe Associated Press
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A street urchin holds a child and walk along a road in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, and nearly 200 million are chronically malnourished, UNICEF said Thursday. Some of the worst abuses play out every day on the dusty streets of India, where government and aid groups' efforts to help children are overwhelmed by the staggering poverty and the dislocation of millions of rural villagers who flood the cities in search of jobs.
Manish Swarup Associated Press
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U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox, right foreground back to camera, is comforted by her lawyer Maria Del Grosso during a break in the trial for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher, in Perugia's court, Italy, Friday Nov. 20, 2009. Italian prosecutors have begun their closing arguments in the trial of American student Knox, accused of killing her British roommate. Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, her former Italian boyfriend, are charged with murder in the 2007 slaying of British student Kercher, with whom Knox shared a rented flat in the Italian city of Perugia.
Alessandra Tarantino Associated Press
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A doctor shows an ampoule of the Hungarian made Fluval-P, H1N1 vaccine in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Hungarian authorities announced that the H1N1 flu has officially reached epidemic proportions in the country as the number reporting symptoms of the virus rose sharply. The Hungarian government has ordered six million doses of vaccines for the Hungarian population of ten million.
Bela Szandelszky Associated Press
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Khane, a three-year old male white tiger, seen in his enclosure in Belgrade Zoo, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, just day after he arrived to Serbia from Taman safari park in Indonesia. Khane is Serbia's first and only white tiger.
Srdjan Ilic Associated Press
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Dogs encounter as their masters stroll in a street under the canopy of gingko trees in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.
Itsuo Inouye Associated Press