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In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, fishing boats are seen parked in the Shenjiamen Harbor in Zhoushan in east China's Zhejiang province. China warned residents and alerted emergency relief centers Friday to prepare for Typhoon Muifa to hit the country's heavily populated eastern coast. (AP Photo)

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A child from southern Somalia, is treated for malnourishment in Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. The United Nations predicts famine will probably spread to all of southern Somalia within a month and force tens of thousands more people to flee into the capital of Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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Maryland offensive lineman Pete DeSouza was cleared for contact afterr suffereing two broken legs in a scooter accident in October. (Maryland Athletics)

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The deadly bullet train crash in China's Zhejiang province on July 23 was the result of a lightning strike and malfunction of a monitoring device, according to government authorities.

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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 32 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Raspberry Falls in Leesburg. The Truman model, with 4,283 square feet, is priced from $634,990.

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The main level features a library, the kitchen and a family room across the back of the house. Upstairs are four bedrooms, each with a walk-in closet, a playroom and a laundry room.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS This artist's rendering shows a simulation of a collision between the moon and a companion moon about 4 billion years ago. Earth once had a second moon until it made the fatal mistake of smacking the moon in what some are calling the "big splat," astronomers now theorize.

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This image taken at 2:32 a.m. EDT on Aug. 3, 2011, shows Tropical Storm Emily. The storm brushed past Puerto Rico and set its sights on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year's earthquake. (Associated Press/NASA)

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**FILE** President Obama lays a wreath at the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York on May 5, 2011. (Associated Press)

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A former golf course is now a refugee camp for people displaced by an earthquake 18 months ago. More than 600,000 people still live in settlement camps. (Associated Press)

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A man works in the ruins of a building in Port-au-Prince damaged by an earthquake. The government is giving wage earners access to credit at a preferential rate for 10 years to enable them to buy or construct a home. (Associated Press)

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Rescue team members work at the site of a pleasure boat sinking in Moscow on July 31, 2011. (Associated Press)

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A float plane sits on the side of the runway at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage Alaska after making an emergency landing on July 30, 2011. The plane collided mid-air with a Cessna 180 in the Trapper Creek area. The Cessna 180 crashed to the ground and burned, killing at least two people on board, authorities said. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** More than seven months after being put on the season-ending injured reserve list, Washington Redskins safety LaRon Landry (30) remains on the sidelines with his Achilles' tendon injury. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano inspects the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear-power plant in northeastern Japan earlier this week. Mr. Amano, on a weeklong trip to Japan, said that the nation's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant is steadily making progress to recover from the March disaster triggered by an earthquake. (Associated Press)