Picture News
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Floral fantasy
A floral float made to symbolise a giant wave goes on display at a flower parade in Valkenswaard in southern Netherlands on Sunday. Hundreds of volunteers worked for months to build some 14 floats for the event. -- AP -
Hindu festival
Devotees lower a statue of Hindu god Ganesh into the sea in Madras, India, on Sunday. Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees spread across western and southern India are taking part in a 10-day festival to mark the revered deity's birthday. -- AP -
Fatal collision
Rescuers search for survivors after a train slammed into a school bus in southern Thailand's Yala province on Monday. At least eight teenage girls and the bus driver died in the crash. -- AFP -
Soothing sounds
Musicians perform on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Monday. Music returned to the French Quarter as rescue efforts and clean-up procedures continued in the areas hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina. -- AFP -
How's this baby?
The new BMW Z4 Coupe concept car is unveiled at the 61st International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany, on Monday. Some one million vistors are expected to attend the two-week event, which showcases automobiles from 44 countries. -- AFP -
Anger-fuelled protest
Leftist groups staged a protest against the rising price of fuel in Manila on Monday. The Philippine government has put down the soaring price to the raised crude oil prices, not its policies. -- AFP -
Rocketman
Dan Schlund models his 'rocketbelt' at the Royal Melbourne Show in Australia on Tuesday. Invented by Bell Aerospace for the United States military in the early 60s and made famous by the James Bond movie, Thunderbolt, the 800-horsepower device is able to propel him and keep him airborne for up to 30 seconds. -- AFP -
'Here's how you do it'
A photographer gives Spanish tennis players (from left) Carlos Moya, Juan Carlos Ferrero and Rafael Nadal some pointers on posing in their traditional Chinese outfits at the Forbidden City in Beijing on Tuesday. The trio are there to compete in the China Open. -- AFP -
Faces of freedom
Tribal women rehearse for independence day celebrations in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Wednesday. Amid a breakdown in law and order, rampant corruption, an Aids epidemic and an economy on the verge of collapse, the country will mark 30 years of independence on Sept 16. -- AFP -
Election time
A policeman sits under a structure adorned with posters of candidates for the Sept 18 parliamentary polls in the western Afghan city of Herat on Tuesday. -- AFP -
Show of might
A selection of mortar bombs go on display at the Defence Systems and Equipment International Exhibition and Conference in London on Tuesday. The exhibit features everything from war ships to surveillance equipment, manufactured by some 300 companies. -- AP -
Interpretation of death
British artist John Isaacs' noirish work titled 'Thinking About It' goes on display at the Berlin Palace of the Republic in Germany on Wednesday. The 'Fraktale IV - Death Comes to the Palace' exhibition features the works of some 25 contemporary artists. -- AFP -
Sweet victory
English cricket players Kevin Pietersen (left) and Marcus Trescothick take part in a victory parade through the streets of London on Tuesday. England defeated Australia 2-1 in the 5 series test matches to win The Ashes trophy for the first time in 18 years. -- AFP -
SUICIDE BLAST: A suicide car bomb rocked a northern Baghdad district, killing 80 people on Wednesday. -- AP -
AFP - Tue Sep 13, 4:09 PM ET
This combo shows a house in a flooded area of New Orleans 10 September (L) and the same house on 13 September 2005 (R). Flood waters receded swiftly in storm-stricken New Orleans, revealing a shattered landscape of ruined homes, wrecked cars and a thick foul-smelling sludge. In the Mid-City district, waters were at least 1.3 metres (four feet) lower than two days earlier and many once-swamped streets have drained entirely. With more pumps brought in to help the clear the flood waters, army engineers have said the water could be cleared much faster than at first predicted.(AFP/Omar Torres) -
AFP/File - Tue Sep 13, 4:13 PM ET
Solar panels. Portugal, one of the most oil-dependent nations in Europe, will begin work on the world's biggest solar energy power station next year, officials said.(AFP/File/Jean-Pierre Clatot) -
AFP/NOAA-HO - Tue Sep 13, 7:01 PM ET
This 13 September, 2005 National Oceaic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image shows then-Tropical Storm Ophelia. Ophelia was upgraded to a hurricane as it gained strength off the southeastern US coast, even as the United States struggled to recover from devastating Hurricane Katrina.(AFP/NOAA-HO) -
AFP/Getty Images - Wed Sep 14, 2:35 AM ET
Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division ride on the back of an ambulance as their team looks for bodies or people that are still in the area in New Orleans. Troops conducting door-to-door searches of near-deserted New Orleans made fresh discoveries of bodies unceremoniously dumped by the receding floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle) -
AFP - Wed Sep 14, 4:24 AM ET
US President George W. Bush reacts to a question about the his administration's state of preparedness for hurricane Katrina during a press conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Two weeks after hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf coast, Bush accepted responsibility for the first time for the government's flawed rescue operation. Speaking just a day after getting his first close-up view of the mess that Katrina made of New Orleans, Bush said the hurricane 'exposed serious problems in our response capabilities at all levels of government... To the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility,' Bush said.(AFP/Andrew Councill) -
AFP - Wed Sep 14, 4:24 AM ET
Water flows from a pipe as it is pumped out of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana into lake Pontchartrain, which in turn drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf coast, President George W. Bush accepted responsibility for the first time for the government's flawed rescue operation.(AFP/Omar Torres) -
AFP - Wed Sep 14, 4:24 AM ET
An abandoned dog swims after a member of California Task Force 3 during a house-to-house for survivors in New Orleans, two weeks after hurricane Katrina hit the city. President George W. Bush accepted responsibility for the first time for the government's flawed rescue operation.(AFP/Menahem Kahana) -
AFP/Pool - Wed Sep 14, 8:20 AM ET
A C-130 plane sprays insecticide over parts of New Orleans. Floodwaters continue to recede in this storm-stricken city, leaving a shattered landscape of ruined homes and foul-smelling sludge as the death toll from Hurricane Katrina passed 650.(AFP/Pool/Brian Snyder) -
AFP/Pool - Wed Sep 14, 8:20 AM ET
Boats are tossed together at a marina in New Orleans. Floodwaters continue to recede in this storm-stricken city, leaving a shattered landscape of ruined homes and foul-smelling sludge as the death toll from Hurricane Katrina passed 650.(AFP/Pool/Brian Snyder) -
AFP/File - Wed Sep 14, 9:23 AM ET
A seven-week old Begali tiger cub, born in March 2005 at the Yangon Zoological Gardens, in Myanmar. This cub's mother delivered three more cubs on September 8.(AFP/File/Law Eh Soe) -
AFP/POOL - Wed Sep 14, 9:38 AM ET
A view of flooded New Orleans two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. Body-baggers reached into the receding floodwaters and shattered homes of New Orleans as the Hurricane Katrina death toll passed 650(AFP/POOL)