Picture News
-
AFP/File - Tue Sep 6, 6:01 PM ET
Customs officials inspect elephant tusks smuggled from Cameroon, Africa, in 2000. Cameroon police arrested three men after intercepting a military truck carrying 98 elephant tusks and the carcasses of deer, hedgehogs and protected chimpanzees, a police officer said.(AFP/File/Tao Chuan-Yeh) -
AFP - Tue Sep 6, 6:50 PM ET
Two dogs play atop a pool table at the Cajun's Pub in New Orleans, Louisiana. The pub never closed its doors and continue to serve drinks to the few costumers that remain in the neighborhood as residents evacuate the city following the passage of Hurricane Katrina that left a path of destruction and caused the evacuation on nearly one million residents.(AFP/Hector Mata) -
Reuters - Tue Sep 6, 4:56 PM ET
Fires burn near downtown New Orleans as floodwaters continue to surround homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina September 6, 2005. In the state's first major assessment of the environmental havoc in southern Louisiana, Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Mike McDaniel said large quantities of hazardous materials in damaged industrial plants, the danger of explosions and fires and water pollution were his main concerns eight days after the storm struck. (David J. Phillip/Pool/Reuters) -
AFP/File - Tue Sep 6, 8:28 PM ET
A boy plays with a screen in a planetarium in Rome showing the Comet Tempel 1 after the collision with a probe. The first detailed analysis from a US mission that smashed a hole in a comet suggests these wanderers are fragile agglomerations of dust, laced with carbon molecules that some theorists say sowed the seeds for life on Earth.(AFP/File/Alberto Pizzoli) -
AFP/File/HO - Tue Sep 6,11:17 PM ET
An iron ore train being loaded at Portman's Kooyanobbing Project in Western Australia. Stronger demand from Asian steel mills and higher commodities prices pushed Australia's mineral exports to a record of more than 51.5 billion US dollars for the year to June(AFP/File/HO) -
AFP - Wed Sep 7, 3:06 AM ET
Two mules who usually pull carriages for tourists through the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana roam freely through the streets of the city. The true extent of the environmental apocalypse which drowned New Orleans became clear as authorities sized up a hellish brew of sewage, corpses, waste, oil slicks, toxins and wreckage.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm) -
AFP/File - Wed Sep 7, 3:38 AM ET
Hong Kong's air pollution is expected to hit new highs in the coming months, a leading environmental group has predicted, as smog levels in the city hit their highest level for the year so far(AFP/File/Mike Clarke) -
AFP - Wed Sep 7, 4:03 AM ET
New Orleans policeman Sgt. Kevin Coakley holds a chihuahua he rescued from a flooded house in the Garden district of New Orleans. Engineers pumped corpse-strewn floodwaters out of New Orleans revealing more of Hurricane Katrina's horrors and prompting Mayor Ray Nagin to warn of even grimmer scenes to follow.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm) -
AFP - Wed Sep 7, 4:03 AM ET
Workers repair the track along a railroad bridge over Lake Pontchartrain between New Orleans and Slidell. Engineers pumped corpse-strewn floodwaters out of New Orleans revealing more of Hurricane Katrina's horrors and prompting Mayor Ray Nagin to warn of even grimmer scenes to follow.(AFP/David J. Phillip) -
AFP - Wed Sep 7, 4:03 AM ET
Boys evacuated due to Hurricane Katrina play basketball in the Reliant Center, in Houston, Texas. Engineers pumped corpse-strewn floodwaters out of New Orleans revealing more of Hurricane Katrina's horrors and prompting Mayor Ray Nagin to warn of even grimmer scenes to follow.(AFP/Stan Honda) -
AFP/JIJI Press - Wed Sep 7, 7:47 AM ET
A rescue worker and a policeman looked for survivors after a mudlisde crushed a house in Iwakuni, western Japan. Japan braced for another hit by a powerful typhoon that battered the southern island of Kyushu and parts of South Korea, leaving at least 17 people dead and several others missing.(AFP/JIJI Press) -
AFP/Jiji Press - Wed Sep 7, 7:47 AM ET
Rescue workers and self-defence soldiers work on a site where a landslide crushed a house in Iwakuni, western Japan. Japan braced for another hit by a powerful typhoon that battered the southern island of Kyushu and parts of South Korea, leaving at least 17 people dead and several others missing.(AFP/Jiji Press) -
AFP/JIJI Press - Wed Sep 7, 7:47 AM ET
A damaged road alongside the Nishiki river after flood waters eroded the river bank in Iwakuni, western Japan. Japan braced for another hit by a powerful typhoon that battered the southern island of Kyushu and parts of South Korea, leaving at least 17 people dead and several others missing.(AFP/JIJI Press) -
AFP/Getty Images - Wed Sep 7, 8:43 AM ET
A staircase leans against a fallen tree after Hurricane Katrina devastated Biloxi, Mississippi. Authorities labored to empty New Orleans of floodwater and the last diehard survivors as a new poll signaled mounting political problems for President George W. Bush over his response to the hurricane.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle) -
AFP/Getty Images - Wed Sep 7, 8:43 AM ET
A boat is upended against a tree in Biloxi, Mississippi. Authorities labored to empty New Orleans of floodwater and the last diehard survivors as a new poll signaled mounting political problems for President George W. Bush over his response to Hurricane Katrina.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle) -
Reuters - Wed Sep 7, 9:41 AM ET
Rescue workers stand beside debris of houses that were destroyed in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Nabi in the southwestern Japanese city of Tarumizu September 6, 2005. Typhoon Nabi faded into a tropical storm on Wednesday and headed into the Japan Sea, leaving at least nine people dead. Picture taken September 6, 2005. (Kyodo/Reuters) -
Reuters - Wed Sep 7, 8:34 AM ET
A construction worker prepares the grounds of Athens' Panathenaic stadium. European employers will not be made liable for workers' over-exposure to sunshine, the European Parliament decided on Wednesday. The draft law sparked a frenzy in the British and German tabloid press with warnings that buxom Bavarian beer garden barmaids in low-cut tops and bricklayers wearing shorts and no shirt on building sites would have to cover up. Photo taken July 13, 2004. (John Kolesidis/Reuters) -
Reuters - Wed Sep 7,10:54 AM ET
Builders and barmaids working outdoors will not have to be shielded from sunshine by their employers under European Union rules after a revolt by lawmakers on Wednesday. The proposal sparked a frenzy in the British and German tabloid press with warnings that buxom Bavarian beer garden barmaids in low-cut tops and bricklayers with naked torsos would have to cover up, although that was not what the draft law said. A waitress carries beer mugs during Oktoberfest, in Munich September 18, 2004. (Alexandra Winkler/Reuters) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 31, 5:29 AM ET
A South Korean boy playing inside a fountain finds his way out in downtown Seoul August 31, 2005. The temperature in the South Korean capital rose to 31 degree Celsius (87 F) on Wednesday. REUTERS/Bobby Yip -
AP - Tue Sep 6, 8:27 PM ET
Curtis Baptiste spreads his wings in his costume 'Visions of the Under World,' representing Hawks International Mas Camp during the West Indian American Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 5, 2005. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) -
AFP - Wed Sep 7, 4:58 PM ET
A bit squirrely : A squirrel plays on the Gandhi Memorial in New Delhi, India, where Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair layed a wreath ahead of the start of the EU-India Summit. (AFP/John D McHugh) -
Police on Japan's Kyushu island carry out a recovery operation following a mudslide triggered by Typhoon Nabi. -
Opponents of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak call for a boycott of the country's first contested elections. -
A US military policeman posing as a terrorist is attacked by a dog in joint exercises with South Korea in Seoul. -
Shih Tzu half-breed Ben jumps out of a shopping trolley, in a show to promote the International Pedigree Dog's Breeding Fair in Leipzig, Germany.