Locals and rescuers search for survivors after a bus fell into the Purna River in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra state, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) north of state capital Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Police say 17 people died when the bus they were traveling in plunged into the river in western India. India has the world's highest road death toll, with more than 110,000 people dieing in road accidents each year. (Associated Press)
A riot policeman reacts after he was hit by a petrol bomb thrown by protesters during a nationwide general strike in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Police clashed with protesters hurling petrol bombs and bottles in central Athens Wednesday after an anti-government rally called as part of a general strike in Greece turned violent. (Petros Giannakouris / Associated Press)
Free Syrian Army fighters carry the body of a comrade, killed by a tank blast, from the front line in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Syria's unrest began in March 2011 when protests calling for political change met a violent government crackdown. Many in the opposition have since taken up arms as the conflict morphed into a civil war that activists say has killed nearly 30,000 people. Over the past few months, the rebels have increasingly targeted security sites and symbols of regime power in a bid to turn the tide in the fighting. (Manu Brabo / Associated Press)
Pakistani students of a madrassa, or Islamic school, attend a test in reciting verses of the holy Quran, in a Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)
Darren Clarke, right, watches as Europe's Martin Kaymer hits on the first hole at the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (Chris Carlson / Associated Press)
A man helps up a young woman after she collapsed in grief while visiting a cemetery containing 140 unmarked graves of victims of the 2002 Joola ferry disaster, in Mbao, outside Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, the tenth anniversary of the ferry's sinking. With an official death toll of 1,863 and only 64 survivors, the Joola disaster remains one of the deadliest in maritime history, surpassing by a large margin the death toll of roughly 1500 in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. (Rebecca Blackwell / Associated Press)
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