Day in pictures

A family in Galveston, Texas, receives emergency rations from soldiers providing relief after Hurricane Ike.

A woman surveys the damage from one of two car bombs that left 12 people dead in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

A cobbler counts his earnings at the end of a day's work in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

A man carries a sandbag at a shelter set up by protesters outside the seat of the Thai government in Bangkok.

Villagers try to catch offerings flung by Hindu worshippers into the crater of Mount Bromo at a festival in East Java, Indonesia.

The latest style creations draw admiring glances from spectators at London Fashion Week.

Anxiety is writ large on the faces of men watching share prices tumble on a stock exchange screen in Mumbai, India.

France's Michael Jeremaisz celebrates winning the wheelchair tennis doubles final at the Paralympic Games in Beijing.

A car is retrieved from a parking lot struck by torrential rains after Typhoon Sinlaku passes over Taiwan.

Nuns pray at the French pilgrimage site of Lourdes as Pope Benedict XVI prepares to give mass for the sick and disabled.

A charity worker looks out of a model refugee shelter forming part of an exhibition in the centre of Sydney, Australia.

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