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Michelangelo frescoes restored, baby beluga, fireworks safety
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A local construction worker, suspended from a crane, rescues a woman who fell into the Des Moines River near the Center Street Dam in downtown Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday. A man that also fell into the river did not survive. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Mary Chind)
U.S. Marine military vehicles arrive at Camp Dwyer from Camp Leatherneck on a re-supply mission on Tuesday in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of a stepped up effort by American troops fighting Taliban fighters in Southern Afghanistan. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The Vatican says the restoration of a chapel that includes two Michelangelo frescoes has been completed. The Cappella Paolina, or the Pauline Chapel, in the Apostolic Palace, is used by the pope and is not open to the general public. It contains Michelangelo frescoes depicting the Conversion of St. Paul and the Crucifixion of St. Peter. Officials said Tuesday that the five-year $4.5 million restoration was privately funded. Pope Benedict XVI will inaugurate the restored chapel with a prayer service Saturday. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)
Child mannequin's are used to demonstrate the fire danger posed by sparklers, during a demonstration by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on the dangers of fireworks, and to encourage safety on the fourth of July, Tuesday, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
South Korean Coast Guard's Special Sea Attack Team participate in a drill at their base on Tuesday in Incheon, South Korea. The South Korean coast guard are strengthening their patrols along the northern limit line to protect their crab fishing interests. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
Vancouver Aquarium's newest baby beluga pokes her head out of the water in Vancouver, B.C. on Tuesday. The yet-to-be-named baby was born at the aquarium on June 10, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
Damaged buildings stand behind the Viareggio train station after a derailed train exploded in the middle of the night on Tuesday in Viareggio, Italy. The train was carrying liquefied petroleum gas which exploded when the tankers derailed shortly before midnight engulfing residential homes, killing at least 16 people, and injuring dozens. (Photo by Getty Images)
School children wear face masks as they line up to enter a classroom Tuesday in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar reported its first case of the swine flu virus on Saturday from a 13-year-old girl who recently returned from Singapore. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
The center span of the 1950 Yazoo River Bridge at Redwood is dynamited on Tuesday in Vicksburg, Miss. The Yazoo River bridge that linked Warren County and the Mississippi Delta for more than a half-century was demolished before a small crowd. (AP Photo/The Vicksburg Post, Meredith Spencer)
The daughter of Lebanese Zeina Miri, 30 (right), cries during the funeral procession of her mother in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday. The Sunni woman was killed in a gunbattle Sunday evening between Sunni supporters of Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, and rival followers of the Hezbollah-allied Shiite Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Sha-lei, a rare Styan red panda cub who was born on June 13, 2009, is presented to the media at the Edmonton Valley Zoo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jimmy Jeong)
Soldiers read a newspaper outside of the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on Tuesday, a day after violence broke out in the area. The military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya last Sunday has sparked clashes in the Honduran capital that have left dozens of people injured. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Fans sing and dance to the music of Michael Jackson during a tribute to the late singer at Harlem's Apollo theatre on Tuesday in New York. Jackson died Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 50. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
An Iraqi man waves at army soldiers during a patrol in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday. U.S. troops pulled out of Iraqi cities on Tuesday in the first step toward winding down the American war effort by the end of 2011. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
