YANGON, Myanmar: Service members from Myanmar unload food Monday from a C-130 at Yangon International Airport. The U.S. delivered its first relief supplies to Myanmar on Monday, as the UN urged the reclusive nation to open its doors to foreign experts who can help up to 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation.
BHOPAL, India: Women and children wait for water Monday after a summer shortage affected the region. Officials say that while the shortages aren’t unusual in the summer in India, the growing population is compounding the problem.
MELBOURNE, Australia: Peter Aikins takes on Eileen Fahey as residents at a retirement home take up fencing in an effort to keep fit. Fencing instructor Joseph D’Onofrio (center) says proper fencing movement is good for physical and mental exercise.
EL ROCIO HUELVA, Spain: Rocio’s Virgin sculpture is carried through the streets during a procession at dawn Monday. Nearly a million people make the trip to Andalucia to see the state of the “Madonna of the Dew,” which has been worshiped since 1280.
THE DIGIT
Number of armored Humvees missing from a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, a military spokesman said Monday. The military was investigating whether the vehicles were stolen, although officials believed they were likely still in the possession of U.S. personnel but simply unaccounted for, said Lt. Col. Paul Fanning.
AND FINALLY … – Cuba calls Bush talk with dissidents publicity stunt – 5 more die in China of child virus – Heavy fighting breaks out in north Lebanon – More than 200 jailed Taliban suspects end hunger strike
