Today in Pictures

Monday, August 3, 2009



In this photo taken Saturday, March 7, 2009, So Yeu, a candidate in the Miss Landmine beauty pageant pauses to be photographed in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The Cambodian government said Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, that it will not allow the competition to take place later this week, calling it an insult to the disabled.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)




In this photo taken Saturday, March 7, 2009, candidates in the Miss Landmine beauty pageant, Sut Ai, left and Mom Sam Un, pause to be photographed in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The Cambodian government said Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, that it will not allow the competition to take place later this week, calling it an insult to the disabled.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)








In this March 7, 2006 photo former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea sits at his jungle home near the Thai-Cambodia border. A former medic at the notorious Khmer Rouge prison told a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, he treated people with missing fingernails and toenails, saying hundreds of prisoner died from torture wounds. Chea, who was just below Pol Pot in the Khmer Rouge leadership, is currently jailed in Phnom Penh awaiting trial on crimes against humanity.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)

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