SDM WORLD【WORLD】

　　THE UNITED STATES 　　A student places flowers at a statue of U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong at Purdue University in Indiana on August 25 in memory of the first man ever to set foot on the moon, who died that day at 82
　　
　　GERMANY
　　German Chancellor Angela Merkel and visiting French President Francois Hollande at a press briefing in Berlin on August 23. The two leaders expressed hopes that Greece will stay in the euro zone, while urging Athens to implement reforms and budget-cutting measures
　　
　　COOK ISLANDS
　　Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard attends the opening ceremony of the Pacific Islands Forum in Avarua on August 29. The Cook Islands staged a colorful Polynesian welcome for participating leaders, who were carried aloft to the venue on litters
　　
　　VENEZUELA
　　Rescuers work at the Amuay refinery in Punto Fijo in western Venezuela on August 25. A gas explosion at the refinery caused a fire that raged for several days before being extinguished
　　
　　SOUTH KOREA
　　A South Korean shop manager shows Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S mobile phone (right) and Apple’s iPhone 3G at a shop in Seoul. Apple won more than $1 billion in a U.S. court victory over Samsung on August 24, while a South Korean court ruled both sides infringed on each other’s patents
　　
　　FRANCE
　　Visitors watch Huan Huan, one of the two giant pandas that arrived in France earlier this year from China, at Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan, central France, on August 23