World in Pictures

A Pakistani boy helps his father repair a damaged house in a flood in the district Muzaffargarhe, Punjab. Flood water in Pakistan, where for five weeks, continues to flooding, reached the Arabian Sea. Were flooded last two settlements on the road floods. More settlements, which may be flooded, no. (AP Photo / Aaron Favila)

Workers check the electrical wires above the high-speed railway Jiujiang-Nanchang in east China's Jiangxi Province. China has paved more than 6300 km high-speed railway. (AP Photo)

 

Amishskie farmers fireman helping to drag the hose on the burning field in the town of East Lampeter, Pennsylvania. In the fire had burned about one hectare mowing meadows. (AP Photo / Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era, Blaine Shahan)

Fire-fighting fire in Brementone, Washington. The fire burned two houses and three cars. (AP Photo / Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall)

A woman walks two dogs on snow-covered field in the Austrian province of Salzburg. In some regions at an altitude of over 1200 meters above sea level, snow fell. At the same time, hotels in Vienna have no shortage of tourists. (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson)

Visitors walk under the illuminated LED lights artificial trees in Ai-City, near Kuala Lumpur. (AP Photo / Lai Seng Sin)

Work crawls out from under the historic steam locomotive number 18 201 in the department of the German railway system of Germany in Meiningen. (AP Photo / Jens Meyer)

Graders in traditional costumes pay tribute to the ancient Chinese teacher Confucius during the ceremony in honor of the beginning of the school year in the ancient temple of Confucius in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. (AP Photo)

Indian peasants working in rice fields in the village Mauyama 40 km north of Allahabad. (AP Photo / Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Musicians perform on a multimedia concert film director Robert Wilson, entitled "Solidarity in the Gdansk shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. Events take place in the 30 th anniversary since the mass movement as the founder of the Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa forced the then ruling Communists to make concessions to the strikers. (AP Photo / Czarek Sokolowski)

Mouloukou Diabate from the basketball team of Côte d'Ivoire jumps for the ball during the match FIBA World Championship against Russia in Ankara. (AP Photo / Thanassis Stavrakis)