An elderly Pakistani woman eats food at a makeshift camp in Mehmood Kot in Punjab province on August 26.

The NELHA Hawaii Gateway Energy Center (HGEC) on Kailua Kona is a sustainable, zero-net energy multi-use facility that engages in various distributed and renewable energy research, generation, development, demonstration, education, and outreach activities. NELHA is the acronym for Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority, the State agency that operates the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii and harvests cold, deep seawater from depths of up to 3,000 feet below sea level.

Law students Paul Russo, Addie Smith, and David Wiegert (pictured with Sen. Daniel Inouye) completed their internships to work on Native issues in Hawaii.

South Korean students wearing traditional costume wave national flags during the 65th Independence Day ceremony on Aug. 15, 2010 in Seoul. Korea was liberated from Japan's 35-year colonial rule in 1945.

In March 2006, heavy rains overwhelmed the sewers around the Ala Wai Canal, causing a pressurized sewage line to break. Days later, and after the spill was made public, Mayor Mufi Hannemann decided to divert 48 million gallons of untreated sewage into the Ala Wai Canal in an attempt to avoid having the sewage back up into the hotels and residences.