Staying afoat

A man takes a nap on an inflatable sofa floating on a flooded street near the Yangtze River in <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100602011293" title="Chongqing (China)" href="/topic/intl/china/chongqing-%28china%29-PLGEO100100602011293.topic">Chongqing</a> municipality.  Torrential rain has swept through 17 provincial areas since July 20, leaving 95 dead and another 45 missing.  Nearly 300,000 people from nine districts and counties in <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000014" title="China" href="/topic/intl/china-PLGEO00000014.topic">China's</a> southwest Chongqing municipality have been affected by rainstorms.
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( REUTERS photo / July 25, 2012 )

A man takes a nap on an inflatable sofa floating on a flooded street near the Yangtze River in Chongqing municipality. Torrential rain has swept through 17 provincial areas since July 20, leaving 95 dead and another 45 missing. Nearly 300,000 people from nine districts and counties in China's southwest Chongqing municipality have been affected by rainstorms.

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