North of downtown Baghdad, Iraq lies Sadr City and several other neighboring districts, predominantly shiite and impoverished. A recent lull in fighting between militias, and US and Iraqi armed forces has allowed security forces and aid supplies to return to the area. The truce remains tenuous, as a car bomb detonated yesterday in a crowded market, killing more than 50 Iraqis. Here are some images of daily life in and around Sadr City, Baghdad over the past several weeks.

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A bikini battalion of 1,202 ladies gathered Sunday at the Changlong Water Amusement Park in Guangzhou to form the Olympic rings logo and broke a Guinness world record — not for the largest Olympics logo ever formed with human bodies, but for the largest swimsuit photo shoot ever (previous record was set last year at Bondi Beach by 1,010 ladies). Yet another utterly useless record, you might say, but these girls sure look like they’re having a blast!

Setting a new Guinness World Record, 1,202 bikini clad women joined together to form the Olympic rings logo at Xiangjiang Water park in Guangzhou, China.
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The rising Mississippi River has broken high-water records up and down the Iowa and Illinois shore, cresting as high as 12 feet above flood stage in some places. Estimates place the cost of the damage at over $1 billion dollars, and concerns are rising over crop damage, toxic remnants that were washed into neighborhoods, future mosquito invasions, and maintaining supplies of clean drinking water. Communities further downstream are bracing for possible flooding as well.

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Chaiten Volcano Still Active Chaiten Volcano in Chile continues to erupt, after its recent eruption on May 6th, - its first activity in over 9,000 years.

 A plume of ashes spewed by the Chaiten volcano as seen from the city of Chaiten, 1,200km south from Santiago, Chile on May 5, 2008. (ALVARO VIDAL/AFP/Getty Images)

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Beichuan Qiang County, in Sichuan, China was one of the worst-affected regions during the Great Sichuan Earthquake of May 12, 2008. The townships of Qushan and Leigu were hit particularly hard, concrete structures crumbling to rubble under their own weight, or being crushed by landslides

Wenchuan Earthquake ,China, with HD pics

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A construction crane lies in the middle of First Avenue and East 91st street after collapsing from a constuction site in New York, USA, 30 May 2008. EPA/PETER FOLEY …click here to read more

Here are some photos of Wenchuan quake. What a disaster! Pray for them….   God bless America!

A school(juyuan zhongxue)

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Shanghai.  May 14. INTERFAX-CHINA - Cracks were found in a dam operating
as part  of  a major hydropower plant in Sichuan Province, and buildings
on the plant’s  site  collapsed  after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck
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China earthquake pictures: Wenchuan earthquick pictures …click here to read more

Map: China earthquake disaster zone EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA

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