A powerful tsunami surges toward the Japanese coastline, swallowing business and residential areas in Natori City.
A male polar bear climbs precariously on the face of a cliff above the ocean at Ostrova Oranskie in northern Novaya Zemlya, attempting to feed on seabird eggs.
Thai residents make their way across a flooded street close to the rising waters of the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand.
A general view shows hundreds of thousands of piligrims praying at Mecca's Grand Mosque as more than 1.5 million Muslims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage to the shrine city, the world's largest annual human assembly.
The car of Dan Wheldon of England, driver of the #77 Bowers & Wilkins Sam Schmidt Motorsports Dallara Honda (left), and the #30 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Dallara Honda of Pippa Mann fly in the air during the Las Vegas Indy 300 part of the IZOD IndyCar World Championships presented by Honda.