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AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:16 PM ET
Paganini's violin : Fifteen-year-old music student Mari Lee plays a violin previously owned by Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840), one of the world's greatest virtuoso violinists of all time, at Sotheby's auction house in London. (AFP/Adrian Dennis) -
AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:32 PM ET
Traditional fire : Local people watch the big fire in Cetateni village (140 km northwest from Bucharest). Peasants from south sub-Carpathians areas celebrate St.Dumitru's eve by making a big fire in a crossroad of the village. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu) -
AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:34 PM ET
St.Dumitru's eve : A young man adds firtree branches to a tree full of used tyres to be burned in a big fire in Cetateni village (140 km northwest from Bucharest). Peasants from south sub-Carpathians areas celebrate St.Dumitru's eve by making a big fire in a crossroad of the village. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu) -
AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:38 PM ET
Nature's wrath : A wave breaks against Havana's Malecon (seafront), damaged after the battering of Huricane Wilma last weekend. (AFP/Adalberto Roque) -
AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:40 PM ET
Exhibit in Rome : A visitor looks at photographs of French artist Francois-Michel Barnier during an exhibition at Villa Medici in Rome. (AFP/Giulio Napolitano) -
AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:41 PM ET
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a conference in Tehran entitled 'The World without Zionism' : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a conference in Tehran entitled 'The World without Zionism.' Ahmadinejad openly called for Israel to be 'wiped off the map' adding that 'The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.'(AFP/Behrouz Mehri) -
AFP - Wed Oct 26, 8:43 PM ET
Outside the conference : Indian police officers stand on guard outside a stall during the Bangalore IT.IN 2005 in Bangalore. The Bangalore IT.IN is the premier annual event organised by the state government to promote the Information Technology (IT) industry and to attract global investment in the state. (AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar) -
Reuters - Mon Oct 24,11:15 AM ET
People dry their laundry on the bank of the River Gomti in Lucknow. The cost of airing your dirty laundry in public is about to go up. It is not only the motorist who has been socked in the wallet by soaring energy prices -- people who use Laundromats will also feel like they have been taken to the cleaners this winter. (Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters) -
AFP - Mon Oct 24, 2:55 PM ET
Costas Dasios(R), a restaurant owner in the western Greek port of Patras with the help of his employees makes the world's largest kebab for the Guinness Book of Records(AFP/Dimitris Dimitriou) -
Reuters - Tue Oct 25,11:40 AM ET
Star Wars creator George Lucas (2nd-R) poses with Storm Troopers, characters in the Star Wars movies, during a gala held to celebrate the 'Star Wars: Where Science Meets the Imagination' exhibition at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts October 22, 2005. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) -
Reuters - Tue Oct 25,11:40 AM ET
Chef Wolfgang Puck poses for a picture during a gala held to celebrate the 'Star Wars: Where Science Meets the Imagination' exhibition at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts October 22, 2005. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) -
Reuters - Tue Oct 25,11:40 AM ET
Star Wars creator George Lucas (L) poses for a photo with Jen Vonohlsen (R), dressed as Star Wars character Aurra Sing, during a gala held to celebrate the 'Star Wars: Where Science Meets the Imagination' exhibition at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts October 22, 2005. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) -
Reuters - Tue Oct 25,10:01 AM ET
Star Wars character R2-D2 (L) and Anthony Daniels, who played the character C-3PO, perform at a gala held to celebrate the 'Star Wars: Where Science Meets the Imagination' exhibition at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts October 22, 2005. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) -
Reuters - Tue Oct 25,11:50 AM ET
Workers look into a full size replica of the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars: Episode IV, part of the 'Star Wars: Where Science Meets the Imagination' exhibition, at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts October 19, 2005. It's a 'Star Wars' fan's dream -- the first public display of props and costumes from all six films in the series, including a replica cockpit of Han Solo's asteroid-battered Millennium Falcon. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) -
AFP - Tue Oct 25,12:00 PM ET
A luxury Hong Kong hotel is offering a new twist on the traditional Christmas food hamper for its well-heeled guests -- a basket of festive goodies worth a cool million Hong Kong dollars (128,200 US)(AFP) -
Reuters - Tue Oct 25, 2:27 PM ET
A full size replica of the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, part of the 'Star Wars: Where Science Meets the Imagination' exhibition at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts October 19, 2005. The cockpit, built to a blueprint provided by George Lucas, is transformed into a high-tech planetarium with a recorded voice of Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO, explaining the stars and how modern scientists view them. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) -
AFP/File - Wed Oct 26,11:37 AM ET
Indonesia's former dictator Suharto, accused of amassing billions of dollars during his rule, seen here in June 2005, rarely misses an episode of television quiz 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,' a report said.(AFP/File/Septi) -
Reuters - Wed Oct 26,12:38 PM ET
A UFO landing pad awaits an extraterrestrial visitor in Houten, central Netherlands, in this Oct. 22, 2003 file photo. (Michael Kooren/Reuters) -
AFP/Pool/File - Wed Oct 26, 7:03 PM ET
Britain's Prince Harry (R) takes part in a parade at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Camberley, June 2005. Prince Harry was forced to drop his trousers during a military parade to prove he did not have his girlfriend's name tattooed on his royal rear, a British newspaper said.(AFP/Pool/File/Matt Dunham) -
AFP/File - Wed Oct 26, 8:02 PM ET
The All Blacks perform their pre-match haka, August 2005. Rugby is arguably one of New Zealand's most popular religions and it at least one church agrees, with Sunday services scrapped next month in favour of watching the All Blacks on their Grand Slam tour of Britain and Ireland.(AFP/File/Dean Treml) -
AP - Wed Oct 26, 9:53 PM ET
Protesters stand in a line during a silent candlelight vigil to acknowledge the deaths of over 2,000 American soldiers in the Iraq war, Wednesday evening, Oct. 26, 2005, in Seattle at Greenlake Park. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) -
AP - Tue Oct 25, 5:20 PM ET
A surfer carves a bottom turn on a wave at a city beach in New York Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005. Large waves pounded the northeast Tuesday, as the remnants of Hurricane Wilma churned offshore. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) -
Residents of earthquake-struck Balakot, in Pakistan, read newspapers on top of the rubble. -
President Saparmurat Niyazov, right, of the largely closed country of Turkmenistan, watches an Independence Day parade. -
The UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, talks with an adviser, seen here only in shadow, at a EU summit in England.