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Hindu river cremation, Pakistan floods, volcano (13 images)
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Hindu devotees cremate bodies on the roof of a building after flooding on the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi, India on Sunday. Hindus believe that a person attains salvation on being cremated on the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi. Varanasi is among the world's oldest cities. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Mourners gather during a healing ceremony at the site of the Lower Ninth Ward levee breach on Sunday in New Orleans, Louisiana. Today marks the five year anniversary of when Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast and the storm took over 1,800 lives and devastated the region. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Visitors try to stay dry as rain falls on a monument that lists names of victims of Hurricane Katrina who lived in St. Bernard Parish before a memorial service to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the storm in Shell Beach, La. on Sunday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A Cabinet meeting aimed at drawing attention to climate change is held in Gashuunii Khooloi, a sandy valley in South Gobi province, Mongolia. Top Mongolian officials donned dark green baseball caps reading "Save our planet" and set up chairs and tables in the sands of the Gobi desert for the Cabinet meeting held in scorching heat Friday. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Asigang)
A Pakistani man hitches a ride on a truck carrying cows to avoid getting wet on a flooded road in Baseera, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab Province on Sunday. Floodwaters inundated a large town in southern Pakistan on Sunday, spreading further destruction in an area where hundreds of thousands of people who fled to higher ground are in dire need of food and water. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Villagers, displaced by floods, travel through flood waters on Sunday near Thatta, near Hyderabad in Sindh province, Pakistan. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been effected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years. The UN has described the disaster as unprecedented, with over a third of the country under water. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
Pakistani families cross a deep flooded area to reach their homes on Sunday, in Sultan Kot, in southern Pakistan. Floodwaters inundated a large town in southern Pakistan on Sunday, spreading further destruction in an area where hundreds of thousands of people who fled to higher ground are in dire need of food and water. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Jasmin Williams, center, of Washington, prays with hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People as they are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church in Washington, on Sunday. It's the 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual "holy convocation" week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Jason Beck, of Prairieville, La., gets thrown off a bull on Sunday, during the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede in Silverdale, Wash. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall)
Mount Sinabung spews volcanic smoke in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia on Sunday. The volcano spewed hot lava and sand high into the sky early Sunday in its first eruption in 400 years causing thousands of people living around its slope to evacuate their homes. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
Residents ride on top of a van as they evacuate their villages to flee from Mount Sinabung that erupted earlier in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia on Sunday. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
A villager loads his goats into a van as he evacuates his village to flee from erupting Mount Sinabung in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia on Sunday. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
A girl dressed as Hindu Lord Kirshna, center, looks on as devotees dance around him during Janmashtami celebrations at a temple in Ahmadabad, India on Sunday. Janmashtami, or Krishna's birth anniversary will be celebrated on Sept. 2. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
