Elaine Martin, 61, left, and Cindy Gise, 59, wait to get married at the Los Angeles County Clerk’s office in Norwalk while Karen Wilson protests same-sex marriages. Martin and Gise have been together for 40 years. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Shawn Kiene looks over a water-logged yearbook to see if it is salvageable while cleaning out the first floor of his house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)
Maurice Wright, left, helps empty water out of Jess Curl’s refrigerator in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (David Greedy / Getty Images)
Bryan Schulte keeps watch over a sandbag levee holding back floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Burlington, Iowa. (Jeff Roberson / Associated Press)
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A local worker walks on the second floor of a restaurant in flooded Hekou, China. Since June 6, torrential rains in China’s southern provinces have killed 55 people and forced the evacuation of more than a million residents. (M.N. Chan / Getty Images)
A woman walks home from the fields drenched by the monsoon rain in Devri Kala, India. India’s annual monsoon rains have swept across the country about two weeks ahead of schedule, breaking a 108-year-old record and causing floods that have killed at least 23 people. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press)
Immigrants from Zimbabwe crowd the entrance of a government refugee center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Officials were overwhelmed by the crowd of thousands that appeared Tuesday morning after a three-day weekend in South Africa. The wave of immigrants crossing illegally from Zimbabwe continues, despite the xenophobic violence against immigrants last month. (John Moore / Getty Images)
Five militants were killed and two wounded when their car was hit by a missile strike by Israeli aircraft in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Eyad Baba / Associated Press)
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A woman survives in this makeshift shelter in Tontay, Myanmar, more than a month after cyclone Nargis hit the country. (Khin Maung Win / AFP/Getty Images)
A Soviet army veteran is pushed aside by troops as he protests Ukraine’s efforts to join NATO in Kiev, Ukraine. (Sergei Chuzavkov / Associated Press)
Steel makers and civil servants in Marseille, France, strike against government plans to reform pensions and to relax a law limiting the workweek to 35 hours. (Claude Paris / Associated Press)
European parliament deputies vote during the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. (Christophe Karaba / EPA)
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Princess Beatrice cheers on the first day of the Royal Ascot horse races at Ascot, England. (Chris Jackson / Getty Images)
A woman wears an ornate hat on the first day of the Royal Ascot races -- one of the highlights of the English social season. (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)
Women work in Bharha, India. The women are employed under a government program that pays $2.50 a day. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press)
Dutch soccer fans dance in Bern, Switzerland, before the Euro 2008 championship match between The Netherlands and Romania. (Koen van Weel /AFP/Getty Images)
