Today in photos

A relative waits for news outside the El Maruf Hospital in Moroni, Comoros about the Yemenia Airbus jet crash. A freight train derailed in the middle of the night in northern Italy, setting off an explosion and a fire that killed at least 13 people and sent 50 others to the hospital. And U.S. Army soldiers from C Co., 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment are seen resting in Iraq. View a slideshow of these images and more.

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Tue., June 30, 2009

A relative waits for news outside the El Maruf Hospital in Moroni, Comoros Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A Yemenia Airbus jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday as it tried to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros.

Sayyid Azim Associated Press
The daughter, right, of Lebanese Zeina Miri, 30, who was shot outside her home in the Aisha Bakkar neighborhood on Sunday, reacts during the funeral procession of her mother in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 30, 2009. The Sunni woman was killed in a gunbattle Sunday evening between Sunni supporters of Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, and rival followers of the Hezbollah-allied Shiite Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Bilal Hussein Associated Press
The American military has completed a withdrawal from Iraq's cities, and U.S. Army soldiers from C Co., 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment are seen resting in the shade at Forward Operating Base Warhorse in Baqouba, Iraq, Tuesday, June 30, 2009. US troops completed their last patrols on Monday after their deadline to withdraw from Iraqi cities.

Maya Alleruzzo Associated Press
Rashida Musharraf, owner of a Bangladeshi antique-replica store, prepares a wax statue before coating it with metal at her workshop in Dhamri, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

Pavel Rahman Associated Press
Flames engulf part of Viareggio's railway station Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A freight train derailed in the middle of the night in northern Italy, setting off an explosion and a fire that killed at least 13 people and sent 50 others to the hospital, many with severe burns, officials said Tuesday. The 14-car train was traveling from the northern city of La Spezia to Pisa when a rear car plowed into a residential neighborhood beside the train station in the Tuscan seaside town of Viareggio just before midnight Monday.

Riccardo Luche Associated Press
Cars and houses are ablaze near Viareggio's railway station Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A freight train derailed in the middle of the night in northern Italy, setting off an explosion and a fire that killed at least 13 people and sent 50 others to the hospital, many with severe burns, officials said Tuesday. The 14-car train was traveling from the northern city of La Spezia to Pisa when a rear car plowed into a residential neighborhood beside the train station in the Tuscan seaside town of Viareggio just before midnight Monday.

Riccardo Luche Associated Press
Flames engulf the area where a freight train derailed and two cars filled with gas exploded just outside a station of Viareggio, in northern Italy, early Tuesday, June 30, 2009.

Riccardo Luche Associated Press
Rescuers and Carabinieri, para-military police officers, walk amidst the rubble of damaged houses in Viareggio, Tuesday, June 30, 2009, after a freight train exploded just outside the station of this coastal town in northern Italy. A rail car filled with liquefied natural gas exploded when a freight train derailed in the middle of a small Italian town, setting off an inferno.

Marco Vasini Associated Press
One of the burnt cars of a freight train in Viareggio, Tuesday, June 30, 2009 after it exploded just outside a station of Tuscany's coastal town in northern Italy. A rail car filled with liquefied natural gas exploded when the freight train derailed, setting off an inferno.

Lorenzo Galassi Associated Press
A fireman sprays water on the wrecked car of a freight train in Viareggio, Tuesday, June 30, 2009, after it exploded just outside the station of this coastal town in northern Italy. A rail car filled with liquefied natural gas exploded when a freight train derailed in the middle of a small Italian town, setting off an inferno.

Lorenzo Galassi Associated Press
Two women sit on a bench next to the burnt door of a collapsed house in Viareggio, Tuesday, June 30, 2009, after a freight train exploded just outside the station of this coastal town in northern Italy. A train derailed and set off an explosion and fire in the middle of a small Italian town, killing at least 12 people, many as they slept in their homes, and injuring many others, officials said Tuesday.

Marco Vasini Associated Press