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Actor Charlie Sheen (left) purchases flashlights with University of Alabama student David Harris at a local store in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Monday. Sheen toured a neighborhood leveled by tornadoes and said Monday he wants to organize a relief event for victims in the state. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Residents of Abbottabad, Pakistan, gather Tuesday outside the house where where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed two days earlier. They showed off small parts of what appeared to be parts from U.S. helicopter that Washington said malfunctioned and was disabled by the American commando strike team as they retreated.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Buildings are surrounded by floodwater Tuesday in Mississippi County, Mo., after the Army Corps of Engineers blew a two-mile hole into the Birds Point levee, flooding 130,000 acres of farmland in an effort to protect nearby Cairo, Ill.
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Prince William, a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot, is stationed at the Royal Air Force Valley base on the island of Anglesey in western Wales. The prince and his bride, the former Kate Middleton, who are now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have returned to their rented whitewashed farmhouse on the island after their royal wedding on Friday, April 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)
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Residents affected by the tornado come to receive help at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) disaster recovery center at the Ashley Furniture Store in Fultondale, Ala. on Monday. The center is one of six set up in four Alabama counties. (Associated Press/The Birmingham News, Michelle Campbell)
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On Sept. 11, 2001, the twin towers of the World Trade Center burn and later collapse after hijacked planes deliberately crashed into them in New York City. A multimillion-dollar reward was offered for now-dead terrorist Osama bin Laden after the attacks.
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** FILE ** Mail carrier Kenjiro Ishimori rides a motorcycle after delivering mails at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, April 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Debris sit atop what's left of a three-story building surrounded by rubble in the obliterated city of Minami-Sanriku, Japan. Reconstruction officials are calling for settlements to be built on high ground.
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Richmond American Homes is building 45 single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at Hope Hill Crossing in Woodbridge. The homes have 2,333 to 2,736 finished square feet, with base prices from $429,990 to $449,990.
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The center-island kitchen in the Harvard model features stainless steel appliances, granite counters, hardwood flooring and a pantry.
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Lightning touches down on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River early Wednesday before finding its way to Vicksburg, Miss., bringing heavy rain and winds with it. At least four deaths were reported in Mississippi. (AP Photo/The Vicksburg Post, Bryant Hawkins)
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Allen Hartfield walks past downed electric lines on County Road 101 in Oxford, Miss., on Wednesday. A spate of severe storms downed trees, as well as power lines, with deadly effect in Mississippi. AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman)
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People examine damage in Vilonia, Ark., on Tuesday after a tornado hit the area late Monday. The National Weather Service office in North Little Rock sent survey teams to Vilonia to investigate the damage from Monday's storm.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Kasey Medley (right) stands on the front porch of her flooded home with her friend, Erica Cass, on Tuesday in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Powerful storms have pushed river levels to dangerous heights and are threatening to flood several towns in Missouri.
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Kasey Medley (right) stands on the front porch of her flooded home with her friend, Erica Cass, on Tuesday in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Powerful storms that swept through the nation's midsection have pushed river levels to dangerous heights and are threatening to flood several towns in Missouri.
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After Tuesday's service for Chernobyl disaster victims at St. Elias Cathedral near the nuclear power plant site in Ukraine, (from left) Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan Vladimir and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych ring bells in memory of the victims.
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Supporters of Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi inspect damage early Monday after an airstrike in Tripoli, Libya. The strike on Col. Gadhafi's sprawling residential compound badly damaged two buildings. (Associated Press)
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Sumi Abe, 80, is rescued from her tsunami-destroyed home in Ishinomaki, Japan, on March 20. Likely the most famous of the tsunami survivors, Mrs. Abe has come to personify the enduring spirit that many believe will help Japan overcome its worst crisis since World War II. (Asahi Shimbun via Associated Press)
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An employee of a Georgetown waterfront restaurant tosses beer bottles into a trash bin outside the Washington Harbour complex Thursday. Because of water damage from flooding, the restaurants have been forced to discard food, beverages and equipment. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Cleanup along the Georgetown waterfront at the Washington Harbour complex (top) in the District continued Thursday, following flooding earlier in the week. Teams from a property-restoration firm power-wash the deck below the waterfront's restaurants. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
