<?xml version="1.0"?> <img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2011/09/Hurricane_Earl.jpg"><h2>Hurricane Earl</h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">Monday 30 August 2010</span><br><br>A boat is battered by waves in Sopers Hole during the passage of Hurricane Earl near Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The Category 4 hurricane was expected to remain over the open ocean before turning north and running parallel to the US coast, potentially reaching the North Carolina coastal region by late Thursday or early Friday. <br><br>Photo credit: AP Photo/Todd VanSickle<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2011/09/Santa_Maria_della_Salute_basilica.jpg"><h2>Santa Maria della Salute basilica</h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">Monday 30 August 2010</span><br><br>A firefighter boat is moored in front of the Santa Maria della Salute basilica in Venice. A painting by Renaissance master Titian has suffered water damage after firefighters doused the basilica while battling a nearby blaze. <br><br>Photo credit: AP Photo/Luigi Costantini<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2011/09/Pakistan_floods.jpg"><h2>Pakistan floods</h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tuesday 31 August 2010</span><br><br>The Pakistani Army deploy a small boat in the search for survivors near Sajawal in the Sindh province. Floodwaters have devastated Pakistan for five weeks and left 8 million people in need of aid. <br><br>Photo credit: AP Photo/Vincent Thian<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2011/09/Typhoon_Kompasu.jpg"><h2>Typhoon Kompasu </h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday 1 September 2010</span><br><br>Hundreds of fishing boats take shelter at a dock on Jeju island, South Korea as Typhoon Kompasu, the seventh tropical cyclone in the region this year, approaches the Korean Peninsula.<br><br>Photo credit: AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Ho-cuhn<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2011/09/Oil_platform.jpg"><h2>Oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico</h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thursday 2 September 2010</span><br><br>Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. All 13 crew members were rescued. <br><br>Photo credit: AP Photo/Gerald Herber