Day in Pictures

Indonesian Muslim women perform an evening prayer called "Tarawih" at the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.

Chinese rescue workers prepare to search for survivors after a mudslide swept through the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled Tuesday to reach survivors from massive flooding that has afflicted millions of people, as the death toll climbed in the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing from landslides.

Rescue workers and residents search for victims after a mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010.

A spider perches on a dewy web in the village of Slobodka, Belarus, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010.

A rainbow illuminates the sky as tall ships are seen sailing along the coast off Hartlepool, northern England, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010.

John Daly walks through some morning dew during a practice round for the PGA Championship golf tournament Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, at Whistling Straits in Haven, Wis.

Two Barbary sheep are seen at the Zoo in Madrid on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010.

Men wash themselves in a "Hamam" or public bath, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010.

A Pakistani wades through heavy floodwater near his collapsed house in Camp Karoona near Nowshera, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. The U.N., relying on Pakistani figures, says the number of people affected by flooding over the past two weeks is 13.8 million - more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, although the death toll in each of those disasters was much higher than the 1,500 people killed in the floods.

Unidentified Bulgarian fire fighters hose water onto smoldering tree trunks in a forest in the Noginsk district, some 70 km east of Moscow, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, to prevent the resumption of fire. Hundreds of forest and peat bog fires have ignited amid the country's most intense heat wave in 130 years of record-keeping.