The Week in Pictures: Sept. 2 - 9

***MEMBER PAPER IMAGE; CALL FOR PERMISSION*** A young black bear falls from a tree safely into a net Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 after being darted with a tranquilizer near downtown Missoula, Mont. A crew from Northwestern Energy helped hold the net with officials from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The bear, a 70-pound yearling, had been roaming near downtown before being chased into the tree. (AP Photo/Missoulian, Kurt Wilson)

Heavy surf crashes on Jerrica Stackpole at Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Temperatures in Maine reached into the 90s for the fifth consecutive day, tying a record. The Eastern Seaboard from North Carolina to Maine is on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

epa02324037 A picture taken by the sun observation satellite Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO shows an exceptionally heavy plasma eruption on the surface of the sun on 08 September 2010. The eruption caused an extreme ultraviolet radiation. The earth was not hit by the radiation. EPA/NASA/SDA HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, Louise Deans walks past her Home Bush homestead in the rubble near Christchurch, New Zealand, after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that rocked the city Saturday, Sept. 4 and destroyed the home built in the 1900s. A strong aftershock rocked terrified residents of the earthquake-stricken city Wednesday, as officials doubled their estimate for repairing the damage from nearly 300 temblors in five days. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Greg Bowker) **New Zealand Out, Fairfax Australia Out**

A girl holding an umbrella walks along a pathway as it rains in Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh September 5, 2010. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma (INDIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)

Izzat, 7, who is a flood victim, plays with a disposable syringe while taking refuge with her family in a relief camp for victims in Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province September 8, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT HEALTH IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Jeromy Choi, a fifth year engineering student at the University of Ottawa, shakes off excess dye submerging himself in the purple dye, an engineering tradition during the start of Frosh week or at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa on Sunday, Sept 5, 2010. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Pawel Dwulit)

A Chinese rescuer (centre L) prepares to help airlift the crew off the damaged oil rig on the Shengli oil field off Dongying in northeast China's Shandong province on September 8, 2010. Two oil workers were missing but more than 30 others were rescued from a listing Sinopec rig off China's northeast coast, the government said, as the company insisted no oil was spilled. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

epa02319488 Kumar Rajender of India (red) fights with Lumin Wang of China (blue) in the 55kg 1/16 finale match during the World Wrestling Championships in Moscow, Russia, 06 September 2010. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY

An orchard is under water on the outskirts of Shepparton after floods hit northern Victoria, some 200 kms north of Melbourne, on September 7, 2010. Wild storms lashed Victoria state over the weekend, triggering landslides, knocking out power supplies and forcing hundreds of people out of their homes, with many rivers yet to reach their peak. At least 53,000 people had been put on evacuation alert across the state since the emergency began, officials said, with around 4,000 calls for help from people stranded in their homes or hit by the surging waters. AFP PHOTO/William WEST (Photo credit should read WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)

Flies sit on the face of one-year-old Zameera while she takes refuge with her family in a relief camp for flood victims in Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province, September 7, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT HEALTH IMAGES OF THE DAY)

epa02319533 A boy wails over the dead body of 16-year-old Feroz Ahmad at Palhalan, Pattan, 30 kms North of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, 06 September 2010. Three persons, including a teeanager, were killed and some others injured during clashes between the police and protesters on 06 September 2010, police said. These dead take the death toll of civilians killed in alleged police and paramilitary action in Kashmir since 11 June 2010 to 69. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

Children listen to the school director during the first day of class of the 2010-2011 course in the Romay Chacon Primary School in Havana September 6, 2010. Universal free education is one of the pillars of the socialist society built in Cuba since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION)

Children take shelter under a trailer during heavy rains in Noida, northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh September 3, 2010. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma (INDIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Edward Nino Hernandez, 24, waits outside his home for a ride that will take him to a store where he works as a performer in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. Nino, who works part time as a performer at department stores and is currently acting in a film, is recognized as the world's shortest man in the new Guinness World Records 2011. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)

Rioters throw bottles to police following a street festival in Hamburg September 4, 2010. Several hundred people clashed with police following a peaceful street party in Hamburg. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY - Tags: CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Palestinian women wait in line to cross towards Jerusalem through Israel's Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah September 5, 2010. A peace deal with the Palestinians will require a creative, new approach to issues that have defied resolution in past negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY Injured men and dead bodies are seen at the site of a suicide attack during a Shi'ite procession in Quetta September 3, 2010. A blast ripped through a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 22 people, the second major attack this week, piling pressure on the civilian government struggling with a flood crisis. REUTERS/Rizwan Saeed (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY) TEMPLATE OUT

A wildfire burns outside of Boulder, Colo. on Tuesday Sept. 7, 2010. Authorities said Tuesday night they counted 92 structures that have been destroyed and another eight that have been damaged. (AP Photo/ Matt McClain)