The beginning of the end?

IRAQ
Iraqi men attempt to remove a metal frontier barricade they said was put in place by Kuwaiti forces at Um Qassr, about 70 km south of Basra. Kuwait has deployed riot police at its border with Iraq after Iraqi demonstrators scuffled with border guards while protesting against Kuwait building the security barrier.


An injured soldier is treated at the local hospital in Kirkuk, following a road-side bomb. One army soldier was killed and four others injured when the bomb went off as their patrol drove by along a highway between Kirkuk and Arbil.



A man grieves at the funeral of a slain iraqi police officer in the southern city of basra. Iraqi police captain raad Mohawosh and his bodyguard were gunned down by unknown people.
ISRAEL
Jerusalem: Two palestinian women look at what was a few minutes ago their house. The Israeli authorities in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal Mukaber demolished the house on the ground that its construction was unauthorised.


AFGHANISTAN
Kabul: Thousands of villagers, outraged by overnight house raids by US troops, rallied outside the main US military base. The villagers said the raid violated the traditional sanctity of their homes, and demanded the release of the detainees, who the US military said were bomb-makers. The American forces gave in to the protestors' anger and handed eight captives to local authorities.



ENGLAND
London: Armed police officers patrol Whitehall as p[art of the increased security after the terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005, which left at least 57 dead and hundreds injured.


NEPAL
Kathmandu: Supporters of former nepalese premier and president of Nepali Congress Democratic Party Sher Bahadur Deuba shout slogans outside the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) office. Nepal's anti-graft commission sentenced Deuba to two years in prison for corruption over a road contract.



INDIA
Srinagar: Five policemen and five protestors were hurt yesterday during demonstrations against the Indian army's fatal shooting of three innocent Kashmiri teenagers. Police used tear gas, fired in the air and lashed out with batons against the chanting demonstators.

Mumbai: At least 22 people have died and some 120 feared trapped beneath two seperate landslides in the state of Maharasthra following flashfloods caused by monsoon rains.

Haryana: Police use a water cannon to disperse activists of the Communist Party of India who are protesting against the beating of workers at the Honda Car Plant in Gurgaon, near the capital city of Delhi.

What is going wrong with the world? The London and Egypt bombings, earthquakes, landslides, 9/11, protests, rallies, riots, train collissions, floods, pain and suffering everywhere...
Has THE END OF THE WORLD begun?