Pictures of the Day: Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A man works on building a wall to hold back the flooding Oder River in the Polish-German Border town of Ratzdorf. Floods from Poland arrived sooner then expected due to sudden torrential rainfall.
MICHAEL URBAN / AFP / Getty Images

Sooner Than Later

A man works on building a wall to hold back the flooding Oder River in the Polish-German Border town of Ratzdorf. Floods from Poland arrived sooner then expected due to sudden torrential rainfall.