Floodwaters swamp power lines behind the levee in the Queensland town of Charleville on Sunday February 5, 2012.
A view of destroyed furniture and equipment in the Syrian embassy after it was ransacked by protesters in Cairo on February 4, 2012 . Syrian demonstrators ransacked their country's embassy in Cairo and broke into the missions in London and Kuwait, part of protests around the world against the worst bloodshed of the 11 month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The Cairo crowd smashed furniture and equipment and set fire to parts of the embassy building overnight.
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