April 20, 2013
![German Greens' top candidate for the upcoming general elections Juergen Trittin is hidden behind a shrub as he speaks during a party convention in Bingen, western Germany.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1399404c-c53b-4452-ac9d-d095fdfcfd98_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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German Greens' top candidate for the upcoming general elections Juergen Trittin is hidden behind a shrub as he speaks during a party convention in Bingen, western Germany.
![Afghan national army soldiers walk on Nadir Khan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8ef7ccb1-d0e0-4816-84c4-224614eb17c0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan national army soldiers walk on Nadir Khan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan.
![Rescuers carry a paralyzed elderly person from his damaged house in Qingren township in seriously damaged Lushan county after a shallow earthquake at magnitude 7.0 hit the city of Ya'an, in southwest China's Sichuan province.](https://gdb.voanews.com/5e1ca317-8b66-4765-89bb-8d619852204d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Rescuers carry a paralyzed elderly person from his damaged house in Qingren township in seriously damaged Lushan county after a shallow earthquake at magnitude 7.0 hit the city of Ya'an, in southwest China's Sichuan province.
![Workers and residents stand on a mountain of garbage at a landfill during a rescue operation in San Isidro, Rizal province, east of Manila, Philippines. Police said four workers were reportedly missing after a garbage landfill slid along a mountainside.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a0253e21-89c6-40d4-ad94-e483fe909771_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Workers and residents stand on a mountain of garbage at a landfill during a rescue operation in San Isidro, Rizal province, east of Manila, Philippines. Police said four workers were reportedly missing after a garbage landfill slid along a mountainside.