Today in photos

A face mask of a sumo wrestler is displayed in a showcase outside Ogawa Studio in Saitama, near Tokyo, Japan. Officials inspect the site of a collision by two cargo trains in Kotri, near Hyderabad, Pakistan. And villagers help children to a rooftop to escape floodwaters in Dhanarua, near Patna, India. View a slideshow of these images and more.

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Thu., Sept. 10, 2009

A face mask of a sumo wrestler is displayed in a showcase outside Ogawa Studio in Saitama, near Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. The company makes rubber masks of celebrities, politicians and comic characters.

Junji Kurokawa Associated Press
A man holds a portrait of Sultan Munadi, who was a translator for a New York Times reporter, during a prayer ceremony at his grave in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Afghan journalists blamed international troops Thursday for the death of their kidnapped colleague during a rescue operation and said British commandos showed a "double standard" by leaving his body while retrieving the foreign New York Times writer

Musadeq Sadeq Associated Press
Canadian billionaire philanthropist Guy Laliberte, smiles as he puts on a clown nose during a news conference at Russian Space Training Center in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. The founder of Cirque du Soleil says he'll be taking some reading matter to the International Space Station this month. Not that he's worried about being bored, but he wants to read to the Earth.

Mikhail Metzel Associated Press
Villagers help children to a rooftop to escape floodwaters in Dhanarua, near Patna, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Flash floods after heavy rain have inundated about 100 villages in different districts of Bihar, according to news reports.
A man waits for transport as a dog wades through a water logged street after hours of rain in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Heavy rains lashed the national capital since Wednesday night, leading to water logging in many areas and huge traffic snarls.

Saurabh Das Associated Press
Habib Ahmed, left, consoles Akhtari Begum who lost her granddaughter in a school stampede in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. Hundreds of students who were jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured in India's capital.

Saurabh Das Associated Press
A Palestinian woman washes her son by a house destroyed in January's Israeli military offensive, in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip,Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009.

Hatem Moussa Associated Press
Turkish army officers salute flag-covered coffin of Orhan Kilic, one of nine Turkish soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK at the Turkey-Iraq border two days ago, during a funeral service at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009.

Burhan Ozbilici Associated Press
Hungarian and Slovak worshippers pray for a success of the meeting of Prime Minister of Hungary Gordon Bajnai and Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico in the border town of Szecseny, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. The Hungarian and Slovak prime ministers met to defuse the worsening relations between their countries after Slovakia didn't allow Hungarian president to cross its borders in late Aug. and the already heated tension has been stoked with the controversial Slovak language law, which doesn't allow the more than half a million ethnic Hungarian living in Slovakia to use their native language in public offices and institutions.

Bela Szandelszky Associated Press
A plesiosaurus skeleton is on display at the Grand Palais museum, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009, as part as the Paris collector fair.

Christophe Ena Associated Press
Officials inspect the site of a collision by two cargo trains in Kotri, near Hyderabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. At least five people were injured when the two cargo trains collided in south Pakistan and six wagons have been overturned, official said.

Pervez Masih Associated Press
Zoe Roberts of Australia, left watches as her fellow competitor stretches backstage during the second round of semi-finals at the Genee International Ballet Competition held on Thursday Sept. 10, 2009, in Singapore. Fifty-three dancers from around the world have gathered for the competition, a flagship event by the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), which is an annual ballet meet, with an illustrious 78-year history. It is one of the foremost platforms in launching the professional careers of many young dancers in the international arena.

Wong Maye-E Associated Press