U.S. gymnast Jonathan Horton, center, celebrates with teammates and coaches after the U.S. team won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
China’s Jiang Sheng rolls over on his head as Azerbijan’s Nurbakyt Tengizbayev takes him to the mat during a match in the 60kg men’s Greco-Roman wrestling competition at the Beijing Olympics. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Angela Loy of the U.S. field hockey team dives to pass the ball as Japan’s Chie Kimura pursues her during a game at Beijing Olympics. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
France’s Aurore Mongel swims in a women’s 200-meter butterfly heat during the swimming competition in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. (David J. Phillip / Associated Press)
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The start of the women’s quadruple sculls at the Shunyi Rowing and Canoeing Park during the Beijing Olympic Games. (Fred Dufour / AFP/Getty Images)
Lucy Wainwright of Great Britain trains at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in China. (Michael Steele / Getty Images)
Georgians attend the body of a woman killed by bombing in the town of Gori. (Marco Longari / AFP/Getty Images)
Russian soldiers pass by a burning house on the way to Tskhinvali, capital of the Georgian breakaway enclave of South Ossetia. (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)
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An Ossetian soldier uses a mobile phone as he walks near a destroyed tank in Tskhinvali, capital of the Georgian breakaway enclave of South Ossetia. (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)
A Georgian man sits in an abandoned chair beside his destroyed apartment building in Gori, Georgia. (Bela Szandelszky / Associated Press)
A woman cries after her house was hit by a Russian shell in Gori, Georgia. (Burak Kara / Getty Images)
Demonstrators with Georgian flags and placards rally outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin. The group protested Russia’s armed confrontation with Georgia. (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)
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A Kashmiri Muslim hurls a bucket of water at a house fire allegedly started by tear gas shells fired by policemen in Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir. Violence has roiled the region since June 23 when Muslims and Hindus began protests over a government proposal to transfer land to a Hindu shrine in Indias only Muslim-majority state. (Farooq Khan / EPA)
Indian Kashmiri Muslims carry the body of a young man into an ambulance. He was killed when police fired at demonstrators on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. (Rouf Bhat / AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani security personnel and paramedics gather at a blast site on a bridge in Peshawar. A roadside bomb ripped through a Pakistan air force bus, killing more than a dozen people. (Tariq Mahmood / AFP/Getty Images)
