Selected and fresh photos from around the web.
A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Margaret Scobey, right, looks on as she attends the 130th ordinary meeting of the Arab foreign ministers at the Arab League's in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008.
REFILE - CORRECTING DATE - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) and Franz Muentefering (L), former SPD chairman, attend a news conference in Berlin September 8, 2008. Germany's conservatives sought to paint their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners as panicked and unstable after they overhauled their leadership on Sunday, drawing out early battle lines in the run-up to a 2009 election.
South African President Thabo Mbeki (L) looks on upon his arrival on September 8, 2008 at Harare International Airport on September 8, 2008 for a meeting with his Zimbabwean counterpart President Robert Mugabe (R). Mbeki is in Zimbabwe for talks with Mugabe and opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Mr Morgan Tsvangirai.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (standing, L) and his wife Marisa Leticia review the honor guard as they arrive for the Independence Day parade in Brasilia September 7, 2008.
Former Japanese defence minister Yuriko Koike smiles during a news conference in Tokyo September 8, 2008. Koike, a former TV anchor who has also held the environment portfolio, is one of six contenders aiming to challenge the frontrunner, former foreign minister Taro Aso, in a race to become premier after Yasuo Fukuda abruptly quit last Monday.
The representation of Georgia, Tina Burjaliani (R), first deputy-minister of Justice, is seen before the case between Georgia and Russia in the International Court of Justice in the Hague, September 7, 2008. Court hearings began on Monday over Georgia's claims that Russia has committed human rights violations against ethnic Georgians in the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) and Japan's Minister of Defense Yuriko Koike walk before their meeting at the State Department in Washington August 9, 2007.
