| A worker is seen inside the Cuncas II tunnel
that will link the canals being built to divert water from the Sao
Francisco river for use in four drought-plagued states, a project that
is three years behind schedule and has doubled in cost from the original
estimate of $3.4 billion, near the city of Mauriti, Brazil, January 28,
2014. In 2006, then-President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva pushed through
an idea that long-suffering residents of the region had been hearing
about for more than a century. By 2010, Lula de Silva said, water would
be pumped over hills and into a 477 kilometer-long network of canals,
aqueducts and reservoirs to quench thirsty cities and farms in four
states. Eight years later, and near the end of a first term for Lula's
hand-picked successor as president, Dilma Rousseff, the project is only
half built. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino |
| Sixteen basset hound dogs and a similar number
of cats are rescued by the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
during continued flooding at Burrowbridge in southwest England, February
9, 2014. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor |
| Irene Wust of the Netherlands skates to first
place during the women's 3,000 meters speed skating race at the Adler
Arena during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, February 9, 2014. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh |
| A woman welcomes the snow as she poses for a
photograph at Lujiazui financial district of Pudong, in Shanghai,
February 10, 2014. Shanghai's first snow in 2014 started early Monday
morning, according to local media. REUTERS/Aly Song |
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