Thursday, December 3, 2009

2009


Raising hay
Belgian riot police shield themselves from hay sprayed by milk farmers during a demonstration outside the European Council headquarters in Brussels on Oct. 5. Milk producers from across Europe were protesting a decrease in milk prices.




Tsunami damage
A car is embedded in the wall of the Jehovah's Witness hall in Pago Pago, the tsunami-devastated capital of American Samoa on Oct. 3. Ferocious waves unleashed by an undersea quake led to more than a hundred deaths in the Samoa islands and the Pacific island nation of Tonga.







Inundated
Motorists are trapped by flooding after heavy rains in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil, on Oct. 7.



In from the storm
Filipinos fleeing Typhoon Parma take refuge inside a gymnasium in Pasig town, east of Manila, on Oct. 7. Parma was one of two deadly storms that pummeled the Phillipines in the past two weeks.

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