Picture News 3
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AFP - Mon Dec 5, 7:29 PM ET
Cold rally : South Korean police wearing riot gear breath out water vapor in the cold during a tense confrontation with workers during an anti-government rally near the national assembly in Seoul. (AFP/Jung Yeon-Je) -
AFP - Mon Dec 5, 7:31 PM ET
For the score : Austria's Gabriela Nagy Rotis jumps to score as players of Ivory Coast try to block her during their preliminary group C match of XVIIth Women's World Championships in St Petersburg. (AFP/Denis Sinyakov) -
AFP - Mon Dec 5, 7:33 PM ET
Jakarta demo : A protester carries a dead tree as he protests with others against the Indonesian government's plans to open 1.8 million hectare of woods at the border with Malaysia, in Borneo island, as a palm field, in Jakarta. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo) -
AFP - Mon Dec 5, 7:35 PM ET
Bridge in the night : The Rio-Antirio bridge glows in the night. (AFP/Aris Messinis) -
AFP - Mon Dec 5, 7:37 PM ET
At the Potomac : A couple looks across the Potomac River into Virgina at Edwards Ferry in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park in Maryland. (AFP/Mandel Ngan) -
AFP - Mon Dec 5, 7:39 PM ET
Balancing act : Members of the Stars of the Beijing Circus perform on stage during their show named 'Legendes', at the Cirque Phenix in Paris. (AFP/Stephane de Sakutin) -
Day in pictures: 6 December 2005
A man in northern China collects water from an underground well after the mains supply was shut down because of a toxic spill from a chemical plant last month. -
The shadow of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as she meets German leaders in Berlin for talks. -
Indian protesters mark the 13th anniversary of an attack on a mosque in Ayodhya that sparked one of the country's worst outbreaks of inter-communal violence. -
Nigerian school children cover their noses to protect themselves from tear gas used by police to clear pro-independence activists. -
Britain's double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes announces her retirement from athletics. -
A snow-covered White House is photographed in the early hours as uniformed officers head to their posts. -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 5:30 PM ET
Kiev fog : A man walks past a Soviet-time monument of the Ukrainian-Russian friendship in downtown Kiev, under heavy fog. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky) -
AFP - Sat Dec 3, 7:23 PM ET
Holiday fun : A boy watches an illuminated fountain in central Lausanne, Switzerland. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini) -
AP - Tue Dec 6,10:39 AM ET
A dove rests on a metal cross on top of a church in Bucharest Tuesday Dec. 6 2005.Two more villages in Romania's Danube Delta were quarantined Monday, after domestic fowl there tested positive for an H5 subtype of bird flu, officials said Monday. All domestic birds in the villages of Agighiol and Crisan will be culled, and the areas will be disinfected, Agriculture Minister Gheorghe Flutur.So far, Romanian authorities have killed 55,000 birds in areas where the virus was detected.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 5:24 PM ET
Winter weather : A tourist stands in the snow as he looks at the Washington Monument on National Mall in Washington, DC. (AFP/Jim Watson) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 5:27 PM ET
Jenin training : Palestinian policemen march during a routine training session at the partially destroyed police compound in the West Bank town of Jenin. (AFP/Saif Dahlah) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 5:33 PM ET
Polovetsky Dances : Dancers of the Russian Imperial Ballet company, initiated in 1994 by the famous Russian ballerina Maija Plisetzkaya perform a part of 'Polovetsky Dances' in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. (AFP/Valentina Petrova) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 5:34 PM ET
Bolero : Anna Pashkova of the Russian Imperial Ballet company, initiated in 1994 by the famous Russian ballerina Maija Plisetzkaya performs a part of 'Bolero' in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. (AFP/Valentina Petrova) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 5:52 PM ET
Vijay Divas : Indian army musicians play bagpipes as they perform to raise public awareness about 'Vijay Divas' (V-Day) in Kolkata. The Indian army celebrates the Vijay Divas every year to mark the victory over Pakistan in the 1971 Bangladesh war. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 5:55 PM ET
Flare on the pitch : Betis's goalkeeper Antonio Doblas removes a flare from the pitch during a Champions league group G football match against Anderlecht at the Ruiz de Lopera Stadium in Seville. Anderlecht won 1-0. (AFP/Jose Luis Roca) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 5:57 PM ET
Amritsar march : Indian activists of the Hindu Bajrang Dal Party hold torches during a procession held on the 13th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid Mosque by Hindu fundamentalists in Ayodhya, in Amritsar, in India's northeastern state of Punjab. (AFP/Narinder Nanu) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 5:59 PM ET
Holding the flags : Children hold French and Niger's flags during the visit of Jean-Francois Lamour, French Minister for Youth, Sports and Associations (not pictured) at their school in Niamey, on the eve of the opening of the V French-speaking countries games. (AFP/Issouf Sanogo) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 6:01 PM ET
Training session : Football player Mikael Silvestre of Manchester United football team is seen during a training session at Lux stadium in Lisbon. (AFP/Carl de Souza) -
AFP - Tue Dec 6, 6:04 PM ET
Christmas in Warsaw : A 72-meter high and illuminated with two million lamps Christmas tree is seen in central Warsaw, next to the 230-meter high Palace of Culture built in 1950. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)