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The US space shuttle Discovery receives post-flight servicing on Tuesday at Nasa's Dryden Flight Research Centre in California. The space agency said on Thursday it is unlikely to meet a September target for its next space shuttle flight due to falling pieces of foam that caused the Columbia tragedy 30 months earlier. -- AFP -
A Bangladeshi tribesman blows on a traditional pipe in Dhaka to herald International Indigenous Day, which has been held every year on 9 August since 1994. -
Toti, a four-day-old orang-utan, investigates the camera from his bed at Taman Safari in Indonesia. -
The European Ariane rocket takes off from French Guiana, carrying aboard it the world's heaviest communications satellite. -
AFP/File - Fri Aug 12, 8:00 AM ET
Women enjoy wine at a tasting seminar held in Tokyo on April 13. More than one in four Japanese women drinks alcohol on a near daily basis, a figure that has grown steadily over the past years, according to a survey.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka) -
AFP/DDP - Fri Aug 12,11:39 AM ET
A Benedictine monk stands in front of a giant Aluminium cross in Duesseldorf, ahead of the Catholic World Youth Day. More than 20,000 youngsters from fervently Catholic Poland were on their way to the Germany to take part in World Youth Day celebrations.(AFP/DDP/Volker Hartmann) -
Reuters - Fri Aug 12, 1:36 PM ET
Two white-winged guans rest on perches in their cage in a protected area in northern Peru. A quarter of century ago, Perus white-winged guan, a species native only to this Andean bird paradise, was considered as dead as a dodo. Discovered in 1877 by a Polish ornithologist, the birds were believed extinct for 100 years until their rediscovery in 1977 by Gustavo del Solar, a hunter-turned-conservationist who founded a special breeding project to reintroduce it to the wild. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters) -
AFP/File - Sat Aug 13, 1:07 PM ET
Denver was one of the first of a growing number of US municipalities to ban the pit bull terriers from its city limits, a move that has infuriated pit bull lovers, raised cries of canine racism and spawned a string of canine 'safehouses.'(AFP/File/Joel Robine) -
AFP - Sun Aug 14, 1:09 PM ET
A resident cycles past an abandoned home in what was once a thriving middle class area in Detroit. There are more than 12,000 abandoned homes in the Detroit area, a byproduct of decades of layoffs at the city's auto plants.(AFP/Jeff Haynes) -
AFP/DDP - Sun Aug 14, 6:28 PM ET
Around 50,000 pilgrims attend a mass at the Veltins Arena stadium in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany. The Bishop of the Ruhr Basin blessed the pilgrims ahead of World Youth Day in Cologne.(AFP/DDP/Olivier Stratmann) -
AFP/File - Mon Aug 15, 1:37 AM ET
Over the past 30 years, archeologists have restored dozens of Moai, big austere statues that watch over Easter Island. Even the haunting eyes of the Moai, made of white and obsidian corals, have regained their place. They remain a powerful symbol for the islanders, who believe that their gaze can transform Moai into living creatures. Picture shows restored (back) and unrestored Moai(AFP/File/Martin Bernetti) -
AFP/File - Mon Aug 15, 1:37 AM ET
Two men dress as Rapanui warriors on Easter Island. Mistreated for centuries by tribal wars, slavers and adventurers, the 3,800 residents of the island are fighting to preserve their identity in the face of thousands of tourists that pass every year through the southern Pacific island(AFP/File/Martin Bernetti) -
AFP - Mon Aug 15, 9:10 AM ET
Graffiti cover a wall at Graceland during Elvis Week in Memphis, Tennessee, where thousands of people from around the world have gathered to celebrate the life of Elvis Presley(AFP/Carlo Allegri) -
AFP/Getty Images - Mon Aug 15, 9:10 AM ET
An Elvis Presley impersonator performs at a hotel across the street from Graceland during Elvis Week 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee, where thousands of people from around the world have gathered to celebrate the life of the 'King'(AFP/Getty Images/CArlo Allegri ) -
AFP/File - Mon Aug 15, 9:10 AM ET
Elvis Presley on stage in 1959. In Memphis they call it 'Death Week', the once-yearly festival when Elvis fans in sequined jumpsuits and blue suede shoes come to revel in the memory of the rock-and-roll king, who died 28 years ago 16 August(AFP/File) -
AFP/File - Mon Aug 15, 9:32 AM ET
Two US soldiers guard a village in the troubled Naka district in the restive southeastern Afghan province of Paktika(AFP/File/Laura Griffin) -
Reuters - Mon Aug 15,10:58 AM ET
A Jewish settler boy looks out of a gate at an entrance of the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, part of the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip August 15, 2005. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) -
Reuters - Mon Aug 15,11:03 AM ET
Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, seen in this file photo is pictured as he greets the faithful during the public talk at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, August 7, 2005. Even though he lives as head of a government-in-exile in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's stature among Tibetans has not diminished over time. (Siggi Bucher/Reuters) -
AFP/File - Mon Aug 15,11:09 AM ET
A study, by academics from Pennsylvania State and Harvard University, finds that richer people tend to be happier than poorer people(AFP/File/Choi Jae-Ku) -
AFP - Sun Aug 14, 7:09 PM ET
Reason to dress up : Pakistani children wave national flags during a ceremony to mark country's Independence Day in Islamabad. (AFP/Jewel Samad) -
AFP - Sun Aug 14, 6:50 PM ET
Independence Day : Pakistani boys join in celebrations for the country's Independence Day in Karachi. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi) -
COLLAPSED ROOF: Rescuers inspect an indoor swimming pool after a powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit north-eastern Japan on Tuesday. -- AP -
Rescuers inspect a collapsed house outside Tokyo, shortly after an earthquake hit north-eastern Japan, triggering small tsunamis and shaking skyscrapers. -- AP -
Indonesia will prosecute at least 10 plantation companies, eight of them Malaysian, which have been blamed for lighting fires that caused the haze. -- AP -
Under water
Water from the flooded Ping river overflows into Chiang Mai's inner city on Sunday. Flash floods in five provinces in northern Thailand killed at least five people and left several areas cut off. -- AP