UNSC unanimously adopts resolution on Lebanon

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (C) speaks in the Security Council at UN headquarters in New York, August 11, 2006. The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution, calling for Israeli troop's withdrawal and authorizing an increase of the existing UN force in Lebanon to 15,000 troops to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.

Wildfire in the Dawan Forest Zone

Firefighters try to put out wildfire in the Dawan Forest Zone at Longding Village in the Banan District of Chongqing, southwest China, Aug. 11, 2006. The fire breaking out Thursday night was put out after it engulfed over 33 hectares of forest. Twenty-five wildfires have taken place in Chongqing since the start of August, due to the hot and dry weather.

Flooded streets in Wenzhou

Residents carry their belongings with a self-made raft in a flooded street in Cangnan County of Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 11, 2006. Typhoon Saomai, landed in Cangnan County of Zhejiang at 5:25 p.m. Thursday, brought torrential rains and strong winds to the city.

Hotspring fish therapy

A mother and her son enjoy the hotspring fish therapy in the hotspring bathing pool at the Holiday Beach Park in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, Aug. 10, 2006.Nearly 50,000 "kissing fishes", a kind of small fish which can live in hotspring and eats the scurf of human beings, have been put into the bathing pools recently to swim with the tourists. The hotspring fish therapy is proved effective to heal some skin diseases.

Maglev train fires with no casualties

Firemen try to put out the fire on a magnetic levitation (MagLev) train in Shanghai, east China, Aug. 11, 2006. The train suddenly caught fire Friday afternoon. All passengers have been evacuated.

Typhoon Saomai causes 17 death and 138 others missing in Fujian

Farmer Ding Xiuji collects useful articles from the debris of her house destroyed by typhoon Saomai in Jiayang Town of Fuding City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Aug. 11, 2006. Typhoon Saomai, which landed in neighboring Zhejiang Province on Aug. 10, has destroyed 32,700 houses and left 17 people dead and 138 others missing in Fujian Province.

Japanese civil group urges Koizumi to stop shrine visit

People shout slogans during a rally to protest against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's insistence on visiting the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, in front of Koizumi's official residence in Tokyo, Aug. 11, 2006.

US embassy in India warns of terror attack

A security personnel keeps guard at the international airport in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 11, 2006.The US embassy has warned that two Indian cities could be targetted by Al-Qaeda militants ahead of next week's Independence Day celebrations, prompting a high security alert. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

An American lady's birthday in China

Eunice Brock (R), an American lady who lives in Liumiao Village of Yanggu County, east China's Shandong Province, is hugged by a local woman in her 89th birthday party, Aug. 11, 2006. Brock was born in east China's Hebei Provice in 1917 and spent her childhood in Shandong before she went to the United States. In 1999, she returned to China and settled down in Shandong, wishing to spend her life at the village with the friendly local residents.