Selected and fresh photos from around the web.
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.
A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, meets with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at the Ziguangge Pavilion in the Zhongnanhai leaders' compound in Beijing on Wednesday August 20, 2008.
Tom Ashley of New Zealand sailing in RS:X Men waves as he gets on to the podium to receive the gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Qingdao, Shandong province, August 20, 2008.
In a handout picture released by the Iraqi Prime Minister's Office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) shakes hands with his visiting Lebanese counterpart Fuad Siniora (L) as he arrives in Baghdad on August 20, 2008. Siniora was in Baghdad today for trade and policy talks, the first Lebanese leader to visit since the fall of Saddam Hussein more than five years ago.
Local residents fish in the Black Sea, 50 km south of Sukhumi in the town Ochavchara on August 19, 2008 in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region. Russia and Georgia have agreed to allow 20 Organisation for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) unarmed military observers into Georgia, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, the organisation's chairman said.
In this image provided Kellogg Co., a prototype of a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes with U.S. swimming star Michael Phelps is seen. The record-setting swimmer will soon be appearing on boxes of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes. The winner of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics will be featured cereal boxes expected to be in stores by mid-September.
Supporters of Pakistani Islamist party celebrate President Pervez Musharraf's resignation in Multan August 19, 2008. Leaders of Pakistan's coalition government set about tackling pressing economic and security problems on Tuesday as a bomb at a hospital in a northwestern town killed 20 people. Coalition leaders were also due to discuss a replacement for Musharraf, the former army chief and key ally of the United States in its campaign against terrorism, who resigned as president on Monday to avoid impeachment.
Pakistani citizens congratulate each others after the announcement of President Pervez Musharraf's resignation in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 87, 2008. Musharraf said he was handing in his resignation to avoid an impeachment battle that would harm the nation's interests.
Had Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered himself as a candidate, I would have supported him 
After (Prime Minister) Ehud Olmert and (Foreign Minister) Tzipi Livni rolled out the red carpet for Assad in Paris and chased after him to get a handshake, he is responding with a resounding slap in the face. The continued hallucinatory negotiations with Syria offer the Syrian dictator international legitimacy
correct and brave decision for the State of Israel, the Kadima movement, and himself personally.
It proves that despite his personal crisis, he sees what is good for the state, and in this difficult hour he has made the right decision
When a new Kadima party chairman is chosen, I will resign as prime minister to permit them to put together a new government swiftly and effectively
I have decided I won't run in the Kadima movement primaries, nor do I intend to intervene in the elections
I may attack a certain point of view which I consider false, but I will never attack a person who preaches it. I have always a high regard for the individual who is honest and moral, even when I am not in agreement with him. Such a relation is in accord with the concept of kavod habriyot, for beloved is man for he is created in the image of God.
