Category: Face Of The Day

A young girl, displaced from her home by flooding, lines up for food rations with others holding empty containers and ration cards at a Pakistan Army flood relief camp on August 27, 2010 near Sukkur in Sindh province, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed by floods. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been affected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years. The army and aid organizations are struggling to cope with the widespread scale of the disaster that has killed over 1,600 people and displaced millions. The UN has described the disaster as unprecedented, with over a third of the country under water. By Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images.

German pop star Nadja Benaissa waits for the verdict in her trial in the district court house in the western German city of Darmstadt on August 26, 2010. Benaissa, a singer of the German pop group No Angels, who infected a former sex partner with HIV, walked free on August 26, 2010 after a German court handed her a two-year suspended sentence. By Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images.

The granddaughter of trapped miner Mario Gomez, Marion Gallardo, writes a letter to her grandfather on August 25, 2010. In the San Esteban gold and copper mine in Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, 33 miners have been living in unimaginable conditions deep below ground for 20 days. Chile's trapped miners say they are enduring 'hell' underground, putting urgency into a rescue operation that is about to start but could drag on for months before providing salvation. By Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images.

Christian penitents known locally as 'Battenti' beat themselves during a procession in honour of the Virgin Mary in Guardia Sanframondi, near Benevento south of Italy, on August 22, 2010. Around 1,000 penitents from across the world attended the procession which occurs once every seven years. By Mario Laporta/AFP/Getty Images.

by Chris Bodenner

Alexis Madrigal explores them:

Photographer James Mollison reveals the variability of our uncanny human cousins in a stunning series of close-up portraits of the Great Apes. The tight focus of his photographs forces us to look right into the eyes of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans of different ages and personalities.

More here, including an explanation of how the photographer got the apes to look so intently. (Click on the image to enlarge. Go here for several individual close-ups.)

A Maori haka is performed at the coronation ceremony for the fourth year of rule of Maori King Tuheitia Paki at the Turangawaewae Marae on August 20, 2010 in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand. Paki succeeded his mother, Dame Te Atairangikaahu, following her death in August 2006, and was crowned and made successor the same day as his mother's funeral. By Hannah Johnston/Getty Images.

Josue Bolane washes outside the tent he is living in after being displaced by the January 12th earthquake on August 16, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. As the country prepares for a presidential election, on November 28, some 1.5 million people are still living in tent camps and less than 4 percent of the rubble created by collapsed buildings has been cleared since the powerfull earthquake that killed some 200,000 people. By Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

A donkey, one of the several thousand currently looking to be rehomed by the Donkey Sanctuary stands in the yard at a farm where it is being cared for, on August 16, 2010 near Sidmouth, England. Founded in 1973 and now one of the largest equine charities in the world, the Donkey Sanctuary is urgently appealing for new fosterers across the UK to give a home to rescued donkeys. Since 2008 the number of donkeys being rescued or relinquished to the Sanctuary has almost doubled and the current global economic problems have had a serious effect on the animal charity. The significantly increased intake figures have seen the charity's seven farms in Devon and Dorset fill to near capacity and the charity is looking to rehome over 2500 donkeys. By Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Pakistani flood victim Mohammed Nawaz hangs onto a moving raft as he is rescued by the Pakistan Navy August 10, 2010 in Sukkur, Pakistan. The country is suffering from the worst flooding in 80 years as the army and aid organizations are struggling to cope with the scope of the widespread disaster, which has killed at least 1,500 people and displaced millions. Meanwhile, Pakistanis have become more frustrated with the government's response and President Asif Ali Zardari's trip to Europe, as Islamic charities step up to gain local grassroots support as they did in the 2005 earthquake. By Paula Bronstein/Getty Images.

Bedouin women and children shout slogans during an August 9 protest in the Israeli Negev desert against the destruction of the nearby Al-Arakib Bedouin village by Israeli authorities on July 27. The village was built without permission and resulted in the eviction of some 300 Bedouins. By David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images.