A survivor waits for customers to buy watermelons at the Pasa Raya food market, which was burnt and destroyed during an earthquake, in Padang, West Sumatra province October 7, 2009. Health workers doused Padang with disinfectant to ward off disease outbreaks and helicopters dropped aid to survivors six days after a devastating earthquake.[Agencies]

Typhoon victims hold out their empty bowls to get a free meal of porridge during a food distribution for the victims of Typhoon Ketsana and Parma that hit the Baclaran town of Paranaque city, metro Manila October 10, 2009. [Agencies]