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Many people spoke of their relief at no longer having to run the gauntlet of Israeli security checks. -
The terminal will initially open for four hours a day and be supervised by the EU's monitoring mission. -
Israel will also continue to monitor the crossing, using television screens from a base a few kilometres away. -
Day in pictures: 28 November 2005
A Russian environmental worker on the Amur river, near Khabarovsk, tests pollution levels as a vast Chinese benzene spill heads into the region. -
An Iraqi man watches as a US armoured vehicle burns following the detonation of a roadside bomb in Baghdad. -
Ten-year-old Liu Hui cries in grief at the funeral of her mother, killed by falling bricks in an earthquake in Ruiyang, in China's Jiangzi province, on Saturday. -
In Grozny, Chechnya, posters featuring Russian leader Vladimir Putin boast of a return to "normality" after elections won by pro-Putin candidates. -
Supporters of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein wave pictures and shout slogans in his home town of Tikrit, as his trial resumed in Baghdad. -
Krampus, a terrifying companion to St Nicholas, is seen in an age-old Austrian procession to mark the start of Advent. -
A Buddhist monk in Vientiane, capital of Laos, hangs a communist flag at a temple as the country cleans up ahead of Lao National Day at the end of the week. -
Reuters - Sun Nov 27,12:58 PM ET
People walk under illuminated lime trees along Berlin's boulevard 'Unter den Linden' (Under the Lime Trees) November 27, 2005. Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I ordered the plantation of the lime trees in 1647. Nowadays, Germany's most famous and grandest boulevard that stretches from the site of the Prussian King's former palace to the city's landmark Brandenburg Gate, is illuminated during Christmas time. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann -
Reuters - Mon Nov 28,12:42 PM ET
The sun rises over a Joshua tree in Joshua Tree National Park, California, November 28, 2005. The park includes the high Mojave Desert of southern California and preserves both low and high desert ecosystems within its nearly 800,000 acres. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 3:32 PM ET
Puddle at the school : Dozens of Iraqi schoolboys are reflected in a flooded area inside a school that will be used as a polling site for next month general election, southwest of Baghdad. (AFP/Mauricio Lima) -
AFP/INTERPRESS - Mon Nov 28, 3:38 PM ET
Hot and cold : A woman is silhouetted as she walks past a geiser of hot water from a broken central heating pipe in downtown St. Petersburg. (AFP/INTERPRESS/Andrey Chepakin) -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 3:46 PM ET
Devils' race : A masked reveller parades in the streets of the historic district of the world famous celtic city of Hallein, near Salzburg, Austria, for the traditionally devils race, (AFP) -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 3:47 PM ET
Devilish figure : A masked reveller parades in the streets of the historic district of the celtic city of Hallein, near Salzburg, Austria, for the traditionally devils race. -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 3:50 PM ET
Blooming times : A woman stands in a field of blooming sunflowers in the Lopburi province in northen Thailand. (AFP/Saeed Khan) -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 3:56 PM ET
Judgement day : An Iraqi family watches a live television broadcast of the trial of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, seen on the screeen, in their home in al-Dujail, north of Baghdad. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye) -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 4:06 PM ET
Rough landing : Mohamed Syahrul Sami of Malaysia lands in the sand pit during the finals of the men's long jump at the 23rd South East Asian Games in Manila. (AFP/Joel Nito) -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 4:38 PM ET
After the storm : An illegal immigrant survivor huddles in a blanket after he and several others were rescued at sea following a storm in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Canary Islands. (AFP/Boja Suarez) -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 4:43 PM ET
Arrested : An Iraqi family sits in the glowing light of US military light sticks as the family's two older brothers and father are being arrested in a restive neighborhood, southwest of Baghdad. (AFP/Mauricio Lima) -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 4:53 PM ET
Blindfolded : Two Iraqi brothers and their father sit blindfolded and handcuffed after being arrested by US troops during a night raid in a restive neighborhood, southwest of Baghdad. (AFP/Mauricio Lima) -
AFP - Mon Nov 28, 7:05 PM ET
Ronaldinho's the man : Brazilian Barcelona midfielder Ronaldinho poses with his trophy after being awarded as 50th Ballon d'Or (Golden Ball), for best football player of the year, in Paris. (AFP/Franck Fife) -
Day in pictures: 29 November 2005
Anti-nuclear protesters from Greenpeace disrupt a planned speech by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. -
Palestinian children are made to wait at an Israeli roadblock in Hebron after an upsurge in tensions there.