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Astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery were told to circle Earth for another day as bad weather in Florida forced NASA to delay Monday's scheduled landing. -- AFP -
A Burmese pro-democracy activist attends a protest in New Delhi, India, to mark the 17th anniversary of a doomed uprising against the military junta in her country. -
A child helps with the clean-up in Shanghai, China, where Typhoon Matsa killed at least seven people over the weekend. -
BUS BLAST: Rescuers remove an injured passenger from a bus after a farmer set off a suicide bomb on it in Fuzhou, China. -- AFP -
Hot air balloons rise over Bristol in preparation for the International Balloon Fiesta due to take place on 11-14 August. -
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BUS BLAST: Rescuers remove an injured passenger from a bus after a farmer set off a suicide bomb on it in Fuzhou, China. -- AFP
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An elderly Japanese woman takes pictures on the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. -
The Sicilian city of Palermo is mourning the 13 victims of a plane crash just off the Sicilian coast. -
AFP - Sun Aug 7, 7:45 PM ET
Yawn of the tiger : A white tiger yawns as he lays in a pond at the New Delhi Zoological Park in New Delhi. (AFP/Manan Vatsyayana) -
AFP - Sun Aug 7, 7:44 PM ET
Something fishy : Taiwan's Taikong Corporation displays transgenic neon fish during a pet show at the Taipei World Trade Center. (AFP/Patrick Lin) -
AFP/Getty Images - Mon Aug 8, 4:25 AM ET
A sign on the road inside Kennedy Spacecraft Center reads '1 Days to Landing' in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA postponed Monday's scheduled landing of Space Shuttle Discovery by 90 minutes to 6:22 am (1022 GMT) because of weather conditions(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson) -
AFP/NASA-HO - Mon Aug 8, 4:25 AM ET
US space shuttle Discovery Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi of Japan shows off a string design on the shuttle's mid deck during a crew choice downlink video. Discovery is scheduled to land early 08 August 2005 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.(AFP/NASA-HO) -
Reuters - Mon Aug 8, 7:59 AM ET
A gray nurse shark with an identity tag attached swims in the ocean off the southeast coast of Australia in this handout photo released July 22, 2005. The gray nurse is one of the fiercest-looking but most docile marine creatures, and despite it being declared endangered and its habitat protected, it could become extinct along Australia's east coast within 20 years, scientists say. (Reuters - Handout) -
AFP/File - Mon Aug 8, 9:01 AM ET
Oil pipes leading from a pumping station. Some 100 tons of oil leaked into irrigation canals in the Russian Caucasus after thieves punched a hold in a pipeline, stole what oil they could and then fled as the oil continued to spew from the puncture, Interfax news agency reported.(AFP/File/Adalberto Roque) -
AFP - Mon Aug 8,11:32 AM ET
Two US soldiers of 3rd Infantry Division ride on a motor car in a sandstorm in Camp Taji, northwestern of Baghdad, August 8, 2005. A meeting of top Iraqi leaders to discuss the constitution has been postponed until Tuesday because of a sandstorm in the capital, officials announced.(AFP/Liu Jin) -
AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 4:54 PM ET
Young Polish rest and play on a beach on the Vistula river bank in the heart of Warsaw, 02 August 2005. For years, the inhabitants of Warsaw have shunned the Vistula River, which cuts through the heart of the Polish capital as it winds its way from its source in southern Poland to the Baltic Sea.(AFP/File/Wojtek Radwanski) -
AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 5:00 PM ET
A golfer shoots a drive at the Quijorna Golf Club, an 'ecological ground', with an irrigated surface ten to twenty times less important than an ordinary ground. Playing a round of golf in Spain with the country suffering its worst drought in 60 years may appear rather a luxury, but for some the shortage of water means settling for a green not so green.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes) -
AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 5:18 PM ET
A couple admire the cityskyline from Kuala Lumpur City Centre park. Malaysian Muslim men are allowed four wives under Islamic law, but a survey has found that the majority are satisfied with just one spouse, a report said.(AFP/File/Jimin Lai) -
AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 6:43 PM ET
A twin-engine De Havilland Otter seaplane flies low over Corfu island during a flight from the northwestern town of Ioannina. Run by Greek-Canadian operator AirSea Lines, the seaplane service that begun operation last month revives a mode of transport that had been extinct in Greece since the Second World War.(AFP/File/Aris Messinis) -
AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 6:53 PM ET
Indian men engage in a animated conversation as they sit on the promenade of the city's famous Marine Drive in Mumbai. Families in horse-drawn carriages with radios blaring take joyrides on roads lining Mumbai's beaches and couples promenade along the seashore arm-in-arm. Things are returning to normal in Mumbai days after the worst-recorded monsoon deluges killed at least 438 people, turned streets into rivers, and left carcasses of buffaloes and cows floating in the water.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee) -
AFP - Sun Aug 7, 6:59 PM ET
An Acehnese family rides a pedicab showing a placard during a peace march in Banda Aceh, as part of their support for a peace pact to be signed between the Indonesian government and the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The pact, to be signed on 15 August in the Finnish capital Helsinki, will end 29 years of fighting between troops and rebels which has claimed 15,000 lives since 1976.(AFP/Muhammad Marwan) -
AFP - Sun Aug 7, 6:59 PM ET
Musicians hit traditional Acehese drums during a peace march in Banda Aceh, as part of their support for a peace pact to be signed between the Indonesian government and the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) 15 August. More than 1,000 people including musicians, activists, civic leaders and politicians were to set off later on a musical caravan to show support for the peace pact, to be signed 15 August in the Finnish capital Helsinki -- ending 29 years of fighting between troops and rebels which has claimed 15,000 lives since 1976.(AFP/Hiyawata ) -
AFP/File - Sun Aug 7, 7:01 PM ET
Iraqi policemen demonstrate their abilities during a training course in the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces now number some 176,000, but the US military admits many are just raw recruits who require time before they can fight alone and allow US-led troops to pull out of the war-torn country.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein) -
AFP/File - Mon Aug 8, 1:42 AM ET
The second atomic bomb dropped by the US on Japan explodes over Nagasaki. With witnesses to the world's only nuclear attacks rapidly passing away, Japan faces the tough task of how to preserve memories of the unthinkable horror for a younger and often disinterested generation(AFP/File) -
AFP - Mon Aug 8, 1:42 AM ET
A grandfather holds his grandson in his arms and prays for victims of the atomic bombs dropped by the US on Japan. Thousands of aged survivors of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are dying each year taking with them their memories of the unthinkable horror, which for many born in a completely reconstructed Japan is already history(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)