A boy plays with a gas mask outside a Soviet-era Defense Ministry building in Tbilisi, Georgia. Russia and Georgia virtually closed down diplomatic exchanges as the United States prepared a $1-billion postwar aid package for Georgia. In an additional show of U.S. support, Vice President Dick Cheney began a tour of four ex-Soviet states, including Georgia. (Mustafa Ozer AFP / Getty Images)
An elderly woman cries at the graveyard for those who died in the 2004 Beslan terrorist tragedy as Russia marked the anniversary of the school hostage crisis that left 332 people dead, more than half of them children. (Kazbek Basayev AFP / Getty Images)
A farmer harvests African bottle gourds in a garden in the eastern German town of Philippsthal. The African bottle gourd was one of the first cultivated plants in the world, grown not for food but as a container. (Michael Urban AFP / Getty Images)
