Picture News
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AFP/DDP - Mon Aug 22, 4:15 PM ET
Swallows : Dozens of swallows sit on power supply lines in Lenzen, eastern Germany, as the migratory birds begin to gather in late summer to start their trip to southern regions. (AFP/DDP/Theo Heinmann) -
AFP - Mon Aug 22, 4:29 PM ET
After the blast : Residents look at a damaged vehicle caught in the blast of a car bomb in the Kazemiya neighbourhood of central Baghdad. (AFP/Sabah Arar) -
AFP - Mon Aug 22, 4:35 PM ET
Rallying for rights : A Pakistani woman hides her face as she stands in front of a placard during a demonstration near the Election Commission office in Islamabad. (AFP/Jewel Samad) -
AFP/DDP - Mon Aug 22, 4:48 PM ET
Racing against the clock : German cyclist Joerg Jaksche races against the clock in the eighth stage of the Tour of Germany cycling race from Ludwigshafen to Weinheim. (AFP/DDP/Robert Michael) -
AFP - Mon Aug 22, 4:17 PM ET
Ragin fire : A woman looks at a wildfire burning next Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal. (AFP/Miguel Riopa) -
AFP - Tue Aug 23, 3:55 PM ET
Settler on the roof : A Ultra-orthodox Israeli settler gestures to police troops from a barricaded rooftop as he and several other settlers try to resist eviction. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt) -
AFP - Tue Aug 23, 4:30 PM ET
Border coolies : Indian coolies(porters) carry bags containing potatoes before handing them over to Pakistani counterparts at the Wagah International Border. (AFP/Narinder Nanu) -
AFP - Tue Aug 23, 4:11 PM ET
Playing with fire : A Palestinian boy plays with a small fire in front of a battered wall in Khan Yunes, Gaza Strip. (AFP/Marco Longari) -
AFP - Tue Aug 23, 4:39 PM ET
They're coming... : Young settlers girls look on during the Israeli soldiers' arrival before the evacuation of the northern West Bank settlement of Homesh. -
AFP - Tue Aug 23, 4:42 PM ET
After the evacuation : Palestinian boys wave national flags and flash the victory sign from the window of a bus as celebrations marking the complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza strip continue. (AFP/Mahmud Hams) -
AFP - Tue Aug 23, 6:40 PM ET
Mara Salvatrucha : A 'marero' (member of the 'Mara Salvatrucha' juvenile gang) with his head and face covered, takes part in a press conference with other gang members in San Miguel, 139 kilometers east of San Salvador. (AFP/Yuri Cortez) -
AFP - Tue Aug 23, 4:35 PM ET
Struggle : An Israeli settler resists evacuation from the northern West Bank settlement of Sanur. (AFP/Eitan Abramovich) -
AFP - Mon Aug 22, 4:26 PM ET
Watching the fight : Local residents watch as firefighters battle a wildfire burning close the village of Nogueira, near to Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal. (AFP/Miguel Riopa) -
AFP/LEHTIKUVA - Tue Aug 23, 4:51 PM ET
Aiming for the sky : Huagang Yan of China prepares to throw as he competes in the men's F12 class javelin at the International Paralympic Committee Athletics Open European Championships in Espoo, Finland. (AFP/LEHTIKUVA/Antti Aimo-Koivisto) -
AFP/DDP - Tue Aug 23, 4:27 PM ET
Stripes galore : Zebra mother Mabuki(R) stands beside her foal at the Berlin zoo. (AFP/DDP/Johannes Eisele) -
AFP - Tue Aug 23, 3:53 PM ET
Wailing : An Israeli settler wails as he prays moments after Israeli riot police (background) stormed the roof of the building on which they had barricaded themselves. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt) -
Reuters - Fri Aug 19, 2:43 PM ET
Russian trawlers are flouting cod quotas in the Arctic in a threat to the last major stock of the fish, the WWF environmental group said on Friday. It said figures based on Russia's own accounting indicated that Russian trawlers were catching 70,000-115,000 tonnes a year more than the 480,000 ton quota set for the entire Barents Sea under a 50-50 shareout between Russia and Norway. (FILE/Dick Sluijter/Reuters) -
Canadian Press - Sun Aug 21,11:15 AM ET
U.S. Air Force technicians and NASA personnel inspect the cone of the orbiter 'Discovery,' Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, La., Aug. 19, 2005. (AP/Rogelio Solis) -
Canadian Press - Sun Aug 21,11:16 AM ET
A brown dog tick. (AP Photo/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) -
Canadian Press - Sun Aug 21,12:44 PM ET
The space shuttle Discovery mounted atop a 747 is towed to the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) after landing at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Sunday.(AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove) -
Reuters - Sun Aug 21, 1:06 PM ET
Space shuttle Discovery, riding on the back of a modified Boeing 747, flies past the control tower before landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida August 21, 2005. The space shuttle Discovery completed a cross-country ride and returned to Florida on Sunday, nearly two weeks after finishing NASA's first mission since the 2003 Columbia accident. (Charles W Luzier/Reuters) -
Reuters - Sun Aug 21,11:10 AM ET
Space Shuttle Discovery rides piggyback atop a specially modified Boeing 747 as it departs runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in California on its ferry flight back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, August 19, 2005. Discovery began the return journey to its Florida home port from its landing site in California after having to land at Edwards Air Force base because of thunderstorms at Cape Canaveral. (Tom Rogers/Reuters) -
Reuters - Mon Aug 22, 6:50 AM ET
Fish are displayed at a market in Hong Kong August 22, 2005. Hong Kong's government said on Sunday it had discovered a suspected cancer-causing chemical in some freshwater fish imported from China, but denied the mainland had suspended exports to the territory. (Paul Yeung/Reuters) -
AFP/File - Mon Aug 22, 1:18 PM ET
Combo photo shows the landmark Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, with the photo at left taken during the haze crisis 11 August and at right, photographed 13 August 2005. The WWF reports that repeat offenders are responsible for hundreds of haze fires in Indonesia that created the haze(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar) -
AFP/File - Mon Aug 22, 1:23 PM ET
A man shows a crack after an earthquake attacked Palu in Central Sulawesi in January 2005. Another earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island, driving residents out of their homes in panic(AFP/File)