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Flames burn near a cross during the Station Fire in the Big Tujunga area of Los Angeles, California August 29, 2009. Firefighters battling four wildfires around Los Angeles saved hundreds of homes in an affluent coastal community but struggled against a larger fire coming down the mountains toward another exclusive suburb. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
(UNITED STATES RELIGION DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
A girl prepares to release a paper lantern on the Motoyasu river in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima August 6, 2009. Japan said it would stand by a self-imposed ban on nuclear weapons as it commemorated the anniversary on Thursday of the world's first atomic attack on the western city of Hiroshima. Seen in the background is the gutted A-bomb dome.
REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN ANNIVERSARY POLITICS SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Ring of fire : A member of the Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) demonstrates his skills during an Indian Independence Day event at The Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar.
(AFP/Tauseef Mustafa)
A man look at a sand sculpture during the Sand Sculptures Festival in Rorschach at Lake Constance August 14, 2009.
REUTERS/Miro Kuzmanovic (SWITZERLAND ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Chinese pose for a snapshot inside an art installation during the 798 2009 Art Biennale in Beijing, China, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009. The Art Biennale starts Aug. 15 and runs through September 12
People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers perform during a rehearsal of a musical drama entitled "The Road of Revival" at a gymnasium in Beijing August 19, 2009. The musical drama is part of celebrations for October's 60th anniversary of the founding of Communist China, with the highlight being a massive parade by the PLA through the centre of Beijing. Picture taken August 19, 2009.
REUTERS/Kevin Zhao (CHINA ANNIVERSARY ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Shoppers pause at the giant boot outside the L.L. Bean flagship store, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, in Freeport, Maine. The outdoors store has hired designer Alex Carleton, who founded the Rogues Gallery line of men's clothing and worked for Abercrombie and Fitch and Ralph Lauren, to create a new signature line of clothing. Hunters and fishermen need not panic, however, because the retailer is not abandoning Leon Leonwood Bean's outdoors roots. The new style is meant to be slimmer, hipper and more urban but not so radical as to be indistinguishable from L.L. Bean's traditional tartan plaid shirts, thick sweaters and rubber-soled hunting boots.
(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
