11.   Now dust devils dance across the parched earth.

12.   On spindly legs, the baby walks around the parched earth of its pen, never straying too far from its mother.

13.   The parched earth will not produce the harvest North Koreans had been counting on to begin filling the granaries by October.

14.   Underground fires raging inside the parched earth.

15.   He points to the parched earth, bleached gray by lack of moisture.

16.   Shots wide of the fairway skittered across the parched earth, and even good shots at times got bad bounces.

17.   As Mandela spoke a whirlwind whipped up dust from the parched earth and the crowd began chanting, drowning his words.

18.   But while the political landscape may have changed, parched earth still waits in vain for the first rain since the start of the year.

19.   Plants in a tiny kitchen garden struggle to rise above the parched earth.