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Bombs, sectarian tensions still scar Iraq's Diyala (AP)
30 08 2008

A boy walks down a street as U.S. army soldiers attached to Eagle Company, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment patrol a street in southern Baqouba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. A month into a U.S.-backed Iraqi security operation, the Diyala provincial capital and surrounding towns remain scarred by sectarian tensions and violence. Diyala has proven one of the toughest pieces of Iraqi real estate to control. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

AP - The government offices in Iraq's Diyala province are encased in thick blast walls, a shield against suicide bombings. Nearby buildings are pockmarked from fighting between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents.

Pressure grows on Thai prime minister to resign (AP)
30 08 2008

Anti-government demonstrators wait for riot training Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, near Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. The People's Alliance for Democracy protestors have settled in for another day occupying the grounds of Thailand's Government House and the surrounding area. They are calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej however the embattled leader vows he won't step down and may declare a state or emergency. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

AP - Thailand's prime minister faced growing pressure to resign as anti-government protesters occupied his headquarters for a fifth day Saturday and disrupted rail and air service in some of the country's most popular tourist destinations.

Boat sinks in flooded northern India, killing 20 (AP)
30 08 2008

Villagers wade through floodwaters on a stretch of the National Highway 106 at Veerpur, in the northern Indian state of Bihar, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. The Indian government has made available more than US$200 million to combat monsoon flooding in the country's north that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Thursday as a national calamity. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)

AP - A rescue boat filled with panicked flood victims capsized and killed 20 people in northern India, where monsoon flooding grew worse because of heavy rain and water flowing from neighboring Nepal, officials said Saturday.

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