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Thousands of Indian Sikhs gather at Amritsar's Golden Temple to celebrate the 401st anniversary of their holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib. -
Children in a primary school in Tokyo take shelter under their desks in a nationwide earthquake drill. -
More than a thousand lanterns are on display in Singapore for an autumn festival celebrated by Chinese residents. -
Luambe, a five-day-old baby hippopotamus, takes a cautious look out of his pool in a German zoo. -
Reuters - Wed Aug 31, 4:08 AM ET
Jeffrey the penguin stands guard over Raytheon's Lunar Penguin explorer during the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space 2005 Conference in Long Beach, California, August 30, 2005. A robotic Lunar Penguin explorer could be hopping around on the moon by 2009, maker Raytheon Co. said on Tuesday as it unveiled the concept lander at an aerospace conference. The unmanned lunar device, in development for two years, is 3 feet tall and weighs approximately 230 pounds. It 'hops' by reigniting small propulsion engines. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES (Susan Goldman/Raytheon/Handout/Reuters) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 31, 2:13 PM ET
Sega Toys' new musical entertainment pet robot I-Dog flaps its ears at a demonstration at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, January 25, 2005. (Toru Hanai/Reuters) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 31, 3:02 PM ET
A glass case covers a sculpture of the Peking Man, who lived from 700,000 to 200,000 years ago. Did Neanderthals and the first ancestors of modern man ever meet? The argument has raged among archaeologists and paleontologists for decades. Now a group of scientists claim to have proof -- based on radiocarbon dating of artifact finds in France -- that the two distinct groups did indeed share the same space at the same time some 38,000 years ago. (Wilson Chu/Reuters) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 31, 3:35 PM ET
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States plan to recruit Sony's 'canine entertainment robot' Aibo into the obesity police. The dog would be connected by radio to the bathroom scales, a pedometer and a personal organizer in which the owner would note his daily food intake, New Scientist magazine reported on Wednesday. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 31, 3:37 PM ET
A mother and baby chimpanzee share a hibiscus ice block Sydney's Taronga Zoo December 23, 2004. What makes a human different from a chimpanzee? Not much, but the little genetic differences clearly count for a lot, said scientists who have mapped the complete chimp genome and compared it to the human gene map. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 1, 3:45 AM ET
An orangutan holds its baby at the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sepilok in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo Island in this January 11, 2004 file photo. The first detailed global map of the world's great apes -- from gorillas to orangutans -- shows they are in deep trouble. The World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation, published by the United Nations to coincide with world great apes day on September 1, 2005, illustrates the need for concerted international action, the U.N. said. (Bazuki Muhammad/Files/Reuters) -
Canadian Press - Thu Sep 1,11:26 AM ET
Natural History Museum expert Stuart Hine shows the world's largest species of centipede, Scolopendra gigantea, which was found in a north London home. (AP Photo/Natural History Museum, PA) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 1, 2:35 AM ET
A Vietnamese vendor transports chickens with his motorcycle at a wholesale poultry market in Hanoi September 1, 2005. The deadly bird flu virus, now feared heading for Europe, has killed another Vietnamese, taking the number of deaths in Asia from the disease to 63, state media reported on Thursday. (Kham/Reuters) -
AFP/Getty Images/File - Thu Sep 1, 3:50 PM ET
Water spills over a levee east of downtown in New Orleans, Louisiana. On August 29, Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, a city built below sealevel, sustained by a complex system of dams and whose buffer against storm surges, the wetlands of the Mississippi Delta, had been eroded by reckless development.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Dave Einsel) -
AFP/Getty Images/File - Thu Sep 1, 3:50 PM ET
A woman crosses a flooded Bourbon Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. On August 29, Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, a city built below sealevel, sustained by a complex system of dams and whose buffer against storm surges, the wetlands of the Mississippi Delta, had been eroded by reckless development.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Morgan) -
AFP/Getty Images/File - Thu Sep 1, 3:50 PM ET
A toxic film spreads over the water near a flooded home in a lakeside area in New Orleans, Louisiana. On August 29, Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, a city built below sealevel, sustained by a complex system of dams and whose buffer against storm surges, the wetlands of the Mississippi Delta, had been eroded by reckless development.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Dave Einsel) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 1, 2:27 PM ET
The U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Comfort sits moored in Baltimore Harbor in this January 3, 2003 file photo. The U.S. military on August 31, 2005, added Navy ships, including two helicopter assault vessels and the hospital ship Comfort, and dozens of helicopters to a massive relief effort in the wake of killer Hurricane Katrina. The military's Northern Command said the Comfort, with 12 operating rooms and 1,000 beds, would soon depart Baltimore for a weeklong trip to the area, and the helicopter carrier USS Bataan and another warship were already conducting rescue missions from off the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts. (Brendan McDermid/Files/Reuters) -
AFP/Pool - Thu Sep 1, 7:00 PM ET
A child is rescued by helicopter from a rooftop. Thousands of troops struggled to counter armed looters and help tens of thousands of refugees flee New Orleans where chaos reigned three days after the murderous Hurricane Katrina.(AFP/Pool/David J. Phillip) -
AFP - Thu Sep 1, 8:22 PM ET
A man lays his head on a shopping cart across from the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans made a 'desperate SOS' for help as authorities struggled to stem a descent into anarchy and evacuate survivors of Hurricane Katrina which is now believed to have killed thousands.(AFP/James Nielsen) -
AFP - Thu Sep 1, 8:22 PM ET
Jock Walker Sr. points to the Uptown area of New Orleans where he said his sister drowned, and that her body along with others is still floating in the street in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans made a 'desperate SOS' for help as authorities struggled to stem a descent into anarchy and evacuate survivors of Hurricane Katrina which is now believed to have killed thousands.(AFP/James Nielsen) -
AFP - Thu Sep 1, 8:22 PM ET
Sang Lee (R) and Loc Nguyen eat a little of the food they have left. on a freeway overpass across from the Superdome in New Orleans. New Orleans made a 'desperate SOS' for help as authorities struggled to stem a descent into anarchy and evacuate survivors of Hurricane Katrina which is now believed to have killed thousands.(AFP/James Nielsen) -
AFP - Thu Sep 1, 8:22 PM ET
Law enforcement officers wave to buses to be used for the evacuation along Interstate 10 across from the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans made a 'desperate SOS' for help as authorities struggled to stem a descent into anarchy and evacuate survivors of Hurricane Katrina which is now believed to have killed thousands.(AFP/James Nielsen) -
AFP - Fri Sep 2, 4:36 AM ET
A soldier carries a baby as people wait to leave the Superdome in New Orleans. President George W. Bush, who was scheduled to tour Louisiana, Misissippi and Alabama on Friday, called for public forbearance as relief efforts gathered pace(AFP/James Nielsen) -
AFP - Fri Sep 2, 4:36 AM ET
People wait to depart the Superdome in New Orleans, where they will be bused to the Astrodome in Houston and other locations, following Hurricane Katrina. Iraq-tested US troops with shoot-to-kill orders were deployed in New Orleans to restore law and order after days of chaos and looting in the hurricane-devastated city(AFP/Robert Sullivan) -
AFP - Fri Sep 2, 4:36 AM ET
People wade in floodwater before burning buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Iraq-tested US troops with shoot-to-kill orders were deployed in New Orleans to restore law and order after days of chaos and looting in the hurricane-devastated city(AFP/James Nielsen) -
AFP - Fri Sep 2, 4:38 AM ET
A man looks at a road damaged after strong winds and heavy rain lashed the area in Wulai, Taipei county. Hundreds of thousands of people have begun trudging home after Typhoon Talim's whipping rain and winds walloped China's east coast and Taiwan, killing at least five people and injuring more than 100(AFP/Sam Yeh)