Picture News
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AFP - Fri Aug 19, 4:24 PM ET
High profile : Newly-elected president of Burundi Pierre Kkurunziza attends a parliament session in Bujumbura. (AFP/Jose Cendon) -
AFP - Fri Aug 19, 4:09 PM ET
Anti-gang raid : A Salvadoran special forces policeman comes up to a residence during a night raid against gangs in San Juan Opico, El Salvador. (AFP/Yuri Cortez) -
AFP/POOL - Fri Aug 19, 3:47 PM ET
At the Synagogue : A Catholic bishop wears a purple skull cup as other people wear the kippa, the traditional Jewish skull cup, during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the Cologne's synagogue. (AFP/POOL/Pier Paolo Cito) -
AFP - Fri Aug 19, 3:56 PM ET
Chele Ladilla : A special forces policeman guards a suspected murderer, known as 'Chele Ladilla,' during a police raid against gangs in San Juan Opico, El Salvador. (AFP/Yuri Cortez) -
AFP - Fri Aug 19, 3:33 PM ET
Kimi in the curve : McLaren-Mercedes Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen steers his car on the Istanbul racetrack during the first free practice session two days before the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul. (AFP/Loic Venance) -
AFP - Fri Aug 19, 3:38 PM ET
Marching to the rally : Dressed up as a soldier, a Palestinian boy marches along the honour guard at Rafah airport, prior to the arrival of the Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas. (AFP/Marco Longari) -
AFP/File - Thu Aug 18, 9:38 AM ET
Two paleontologists work at the 'Pterosaur Beach' in the inland of Crayssac, southwestern France. The site which preserves traces of animals that lived by the sea 200 million years ago, is disintegrating fast according to scientists.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet) -
AFP/File - Thu Aug 18, 9:38 AM ET
A palaentologist points to fossilized prints from a pterosaur, a distant cousin of the dinosaur which flew 75 million years before birds took to the air, in the inland of Crayssac, southwestern France(AFP/File /Georges Gobet ) -
AFP/File - Thu Aug 18,10:52 AM ET
An employee at a farm of Cambodian wine producer Chan Thai Chhoeung farm, checks fresh grape juice ferments in plastic water containers in northwestern Battambang province(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy ) -
AFP/File - Thu Aug 18,10:52 AM ET
A harvester collects grapes at a farm of a wine producer Chan Thai Chhoeung in Cambodia's Battambang province. Cambodia's first home-grown wine is proving a hit, startling foreign tourists and winning over domestic tipplers in the tropical country(AFP/File /Tang Chhin Sothy) -
Reuters - Thu Aug 18,11:29 AM ET
Tibetan Buddhists visit Baudhanath Stupa in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. As development draws herders and farmers to towns in search of wage labor, Tibet's women find themselves with few choices and little know-how for getting by in a market economy. Photo taken February 11, 2005. (Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Aug 18, 1:14 PM ET
Ville the cat is accompanied by owner Inger Andersson in a forest outside Eskilstuna in Sweden August 8, 2005. Ville's passion for mushroom hunting was discovered while he was still a kitten when he found coveted chanterelle mushrooms. Sweden is a paradise for mushroom fans. Over half the country is covered by forests, laws of access give people the right to tramp across farmland and private timber plantations, and there are tracts of forest near all the major cities. (Anders Nilsson/Scanpix/Reuters) -
AFP/File - Thu Aug 18, 4:44 PM ET
Colorful homes in the Adams Morgan area in Washington, DC. In 2000, 27 million Americans were living alone, an increase of 4.8 million or 21 percent on the figures over the previous time the census was conducted in 1990.(AFP/File/Leslie Kossoff) -
AFP - Fri Aug 19,10:25 AM ET
A girl displays her favorite teddy bear which sports a tag inscribed with a toll-free national hotline and a unique code identifying the owner in case it gets lost(AFP/Patrick Bernard) -
AFP/File - Fri Aug 19,10:42 AM ET
A visitor enjoys an exhibit of traditional puppets in Jakarta. These puppets, known as wayan, are perforated leather figures, manipulated in front of an illuminated cotton screen stretched across a bamboo frame(AFP/File/Dewira ) -
AFP/File - Fri Aug 19,11:04 AM ET
Indian commuters ride on hand-pulled rickshaws through a street of Kolkata as the state government of West Bangal prepare to outlaw the practice(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) -
Reuters - Fri Aug 19,11:08 AM ET
Students from a surf school take to the water in the tiny Basque village of Mundaka August 7, 2005. Where once a powerful wave curled into a long fast-moving tube, the sea is now calm like the Mediterranean. Picture taken August 7, 2005. To match feature SPAIN-SURFING (Vincent West/Reuters) -
Reuters - Fri Aug 19,11:08 AM ET
Divers follow a huge potato bass on a reef off Mozambique's Ponta d'Ouro, August 11, 2005. In just a few short years the town has been transformed from an impoverished sea-side village into a mecca for scuba divers from neighbouring South Africa. But there are concerns about the impact of tourism on its once pristine environment. Picture taken August 11, 2005 (Christa Cameron/Reuters) -
AFP - Fri Aug 19,11:41 AM ET
Game wardens in southwestern France catch fish using improvised stun-guns during an operation to salvage them from the dried out Ne River.(AFP/Derrick Ceyrac ) -
AFP/File - Fri Aug 19,11:48 AM ET
Tourists pick dried salmon at the market in Petropavlovsk- Komchatsky.(AFP/File/Tatyana Makeyeva) -
AFP/File - Fri Aug 19,11:48 AM ET
Russian fishermen haul a net filled with salmon on Plotnikhova river near the town of Oktyabrskaya. Migrating salmon that arrive daily with the tide on the western side of the Kamchatka peninsula, mobilize thousands of normally unemployed fishermen, fish factory workers and poachers between May and September every year(AFP/File/Tatiana Makeyeva) -
Reuters - Fri Aug 19, 2:33 PM ET
According to the World Bank, about 300,000 land parcels in Aceh were hit by the tsunami, of which less than 25 percent were titled before the disaster struck. Worse, most land documents were lost in the waves. An Indonesian man tries to catch fish in a tsunami-hit area in Simpang Rima village near Banda Aceh June 1, 2005. (FILE/Tarmizy Harva/Reuters) -
TOUGH FIGHT: Singapore's 54 firefighters have been trying to douse out a tract of forest in Riau as big as five football fields. -- TERENCE TAN -
Reuters - Tue Aug 16, 4:22 PM ET
An undated handout photograph released by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on August 16, 2005 shows a stool made out of an elephant's foot. Internet shoppers in search of the exotic have sparked a booming trade that is threatening the existence of many endangered species. (IFAW/HO/Reuters) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 17, 5:24 AM ET
Students from a surf school take to the water in the tiny Basque village of Mundaka August 7, 2005. Where once a powerful wave curled into a long fast-moving tube, the sea is now calm like the Mediterranean. (Vincent West/Reuters)