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Smoker funeral, U.S. Army medevac, Uganda mudslide (16 images)
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The coffin of life-long smoker Albert 'Dick' Whittamore is carried at St Mary's Cemetery in Dover, England during a burial service Tuesday, after he died in January at age 85 from the lung disease emphysema. Whitamore's dying wish was honored with the words "Smoking Killed Me" placed on signs in his hearse and at his graveside, encouraging people to give up smoking. He wanted the ill-effects of his smoking to act as a warning to others and dictated in his will that the signs be placed inside his hearse as it passed through his home town of Dover.(AP Photo/Gareth Fuller-pa)
The color guard holds the flags of Japan and the U.S. during a ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima on Iwo Jima, Japan on Wednesday. Dozens of U.S. veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, returned to the remote volcanic island to markthe 65th anniversary of one of World War II's fiercest battles. (AP Photos/Koji Ueda)
Dozens of U.S. veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, returned to the remote volcanic island of Iwo Jima to mark the 65th anniversary of one of World War II's fiercest battles on Wednesday. (AP Photos/Koji Ueda)
A plainclothes police officer, left, restrains a man with a knife who threatened to harm his sister-in-law at right Wuxi, eastern China's Jiangsu province on Wednesday. According to a police report, the armed man was under the influence of drugs and believed that people were out to harm him. The woman was rescued unharmed. (AP Photo)
U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus flight medic Sgt. Bryan Eickelberg, far left, manages the medevac of an Afghan boy with a skull fracture, escorted by a family member, center, Helmand province, Afghanistan on Wednesday. The mission's security helicopter, called the "chase bird," flies in the background. Pegasus crews provide the fast medical evacuation of seriously wounded combatants and civilians. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
U.S. Army Priest Cpt. Carl Subler, left, blesses non-denominational chaplain Cpt. Gary Lewis, center, after conducting a Catholic Mass on Wednesday at Forward Operating Base Frontenac in the Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan. Chaplain Lewis has spent countless hours counseling grieving soldiers in 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry, which has suffered 21 fatalities since it's deployment last summer, the most of any U.S. Army battalion during the Afghan war. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
A farmer carries a bundle of sugarcane after harvesting it along the international border with Pakistan, in Kanachak, about 19 miles from Jammu, India on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Dean West pushes a shopping cart through the snow after getting groceries at a store in Pollock Pines, Calif. on Wednesday. A storm through Northern California brought more than a foot of snow to the area. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
People search for survivors after a landslide in the region of Bududa in Eastern Uganda on Wednesday. The mudslides swamped the region late Monday and Tuesday after torrents of rain pounded the mountainous region known as Bududa, 170 miles east of Kampala, the capital. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
A police officer fires his tear gas launcher to disperse rock throwing protesters during an anti government rally outside parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday. Protesters hurled rocks at police who returned fire with tear gas canisters and water cannons outside the national parliament where a parliamentary committee, investigating irregularities in the government's $715 million bailout of Century Bank in 2008, is holding a meeting. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A boy plays with his dog in a flooded street in Havana on Wednesday. Heavy winds sent waves from the Caribbean Sea crashing over Havana's storied seawall Wednesday, flooding streets in the Vedado area with foamy saltwater. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
Palestinian, foreign and Israeli peace activists scuffle with Israeli border police officers during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Beit Jalla, near Bethlehem on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Spotted owlets perch on a tree at Chalermphakieat temple in Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thousands of supporters of the Kurdish opposition "Gorran" or "Change" movement attend a rally led by the party's leader Nosherwan Mustafa in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, in Iraq on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)
A mourner grieves as he rides with the coffin of Sabri Dinar to his funeral in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday. The detainee died in prison this week, according to his family. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
People go down a hill after a false tsunami alarm in Talcahuano, Chile on Wednesday. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday. (AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)
