The Week in Pictures: Aug. 20 - 26

Janet Allegra, of Ellington, hugs her son Spc. John Allegra IV at the Army aviation support facility in Windsor Locks, Conn., Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. About 110 soldiers of the 250th Engineer Co. Connecticut National Guard who were deployed to Iraq last winter have returned home. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 25: A child plays in a backyard pool on August 25, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. The National Weather Service continued its excessive heat warning in Los Angeles County as record-breaking heat wave hits Southern California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

MEMBER PAPER Image - Not Resticted A young member of the congregation entertains himself by climbing over the pews before Harrisonburg Baptist Church in Va. held its Sunday Aug. 22, 2010 service. (AP Photo/Daily News-Record, Traci White)

Aug. 25, 2010 - Sacramento, Ca - Sac Metro firefighter Matt Randazzo tries to resusitate a cat outside the asTwin Gardens Apartments which were heavily damaged by fire on Fair Oaks Boulevard in Fair Oaks Wednesday August 24, 2010. (Credit Image: © Sacramento Bee/ZUMApress.com)

Wildebeests (connochaetes taurinus) run after crossing the Mara river during a migration in the Masaai Mara game reserve, 270 km (165 miles) southwest of capital Nairobi, August 25, 2010. The migration is the world's greatest wildlife spectacle taking place between the open plains of the Serengeti and the Masaai Mara as the animals migrate to greener pastures as the seasons change and the circle of life and death continues. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA ANIMALS TRAVEL - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT ANNIVERSARY IMAGES OF THE DAY)

REFILE - REMOVING REFERENCE TO EARLIER DATE The wreckage of a crashed passenger plane is seen in Yichun, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province August 25, 2010. The Henan Airlines ERJ-190 plane overshot a runway while landing at a new airport in northeast China late on Tuesday, bursting into flames and killing 42 people of 96 on board, in the nation's worst air disaster since 2004. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

Children react as riot police officers clash with demonstrators, unseen, during clashes following a protest in Barcelona, Spain, on Aug. 21. Police officers broke up a rally in support of Laura Riera who left the jail on Saturday after nine years accused of collaboration with the Basque armed group ETA.

Three-month-old Nasiba sleeps in a hammock while taking refuge from the flood with her family in a classroom in Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province on Aug. 25.

Pakistanis displaced by floods reach out for milk during an aid distribution at a temporary camp in Sukkar, Sindh Province, southern Pakistan on Aug. 25.

A boy waits for an evening food handout at a roadside centre for flood victims near Nowshera in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on Aug. 23. Pakistan braced for more flooding in the south as officials were due to hold talks in Washington on Monday with the International Monetary Fund on how to shore up the battered economy to maintain stability.

Two boys wash their hair under a communal water outlet at a camp for flood victims in Nowshera in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on Aug. 24. Pakistan could take years to recover from the floods disaster, its president said, as crisis talks began with the IMF which predicted the catastrophe would have a \"major and lasting\" economic impact.

A man is pelted with tomatos during the \"Tomatina\" Festival on Aug.25 in the Bunol, Valencia region in southeastern Spain. Tens of thousands of revellers from around the world pelted each other with tons of tomatoes Wednesday in a mushy festival in the eastern Spanish town of Bunol. The town council brought in some 100 tons of ripe tomatoes on trucks for the estimated 40,000 tourists who descended on the town of just 9,000 inhabitants for the annual festival, which has taken place for more than 60 years.

A boy splashes along the river Drim in the southwestern Macedonian town of Struga on Aug. 21. Macedonia has been experiencing a hot summer and people have been taking opportunities such as these to cool themselves.

Police advance toward a tourist bus as a hostage lies dead at the entrance of the vehicle that was taken over by a former police officer, in Manila on Aug. 23. Philippine police shot and killed a sacked former policeman who was holding 15 Hong Kong tourists aboard a bus in downturn Manila on Monday and TV images showed some hostages leaving the vehicle alive.

Workers remove seats as they begin the renovation of the Maracana stadium ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 24. Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said preparations for the world cup could be jeopardized if government officials and businessmen fail to work together in the coming years.

An unidentified fan is struck by a foul ball during the baseball between Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Tx., on Aug. 23.