Picture News 3
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AP - Wed Dec 14, 6:17 PM ET
A late 17th century prelatic pectoral from Constantinople, made of gold, gilt silver, rubies, emeralds, amethyst and emamel is seen in the exhibit 'From Byzantium to Modern Greece, Hellenic Art in Adversity, 1453-1830' at the atrium gallery of the Onassis Cultural Center in New York Wednesday Dec. 14, 2005. The exhibit, which includes 137 objects from the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, opens Dec 15, 2005 and runs through May 6, 2006. The piece is 6 centimeters high, and 4.7 centimeters wide. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) -
AP - Fri Dec 16, 2:14 PM ET
Monarch butterflies gather on a tree branch at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve on Wednesday Dec. 14, 2005 in Sierra Chincua, Mexico . Rangers with assault rifles over their shoulders and body armor strapped to their chests protect the winter nesting grounds of millions of orange and black winged butterflies from armed gangs of illegal loggers in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. The monarchs are not listed as endangered, but scientists say the deforestation could threaten their existence. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) -
AP - Fri Dec 16, 6:37 PM ET
Unusually cold weather turned the Wahkeena Falls into a cascading icicle Friday, Dec. 16, 2005, in the Columbia River Gorge, east of Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:11 PM ET
Tribal attire : A Congolese in tribal attire dances as he waits for the speech of his president, Joseph Kabila in Bukavu. (AFP/Jose Cendon) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:15 PM ET
Winds in Bethlehem : Christian Palestinians shield themselves from the qwind and rain as they leave the Church of the Nativity in the biblical town of Bethlehem. (AFP/Awad Awad) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:20 PM ET
Zooming by : Scott Macartney of the US catches some air as he races in the Alpine skiing World Cup men Super-G in Val Gardena. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:25 PM ET
Confrontation : A Palestinian Catholic priest is separated with other demonstrators from Israeli soldiers by barbed wire as they rally in the West Bank village of Abud, against the construction of Israel's controversial separation barrier in the area. (AFP/Abbas Momani) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:33 PM ET
Ready to go : A member of a rifle battalion of Georgian peacekeepers looks on during a graduation ceremony at the Vaziani base outside Tbilisi prior to their departure for Iraq. (AFP/Vano Shlamov) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:36 PM ET
Tigris reflections : Buildings are reflected on the Tigris River where some Iraqis are fishing in central Baghdad. (AFP/Sabah Arar) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:40 PM ET
Too close for comfort : An Israeli soldier shouts in the face of a demonstrator in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, during a rally against the construction of Israel's controversial separation barrier. (AFP/Jamal Aruri) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:43 PM ET
Prayer after the vote : With one of his fingers stained with ink from the previous day's election day, a supporter of Iraqi firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr attends Friday noon prayer in Baghdad's poor neighborhood of Sadr city. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:50 PM ET
Open-air mass : A Filipino child attends a pre-dawn open-air mass near a giant Christmas tree set in a football field of a university in Manila. (AFP/Joel Nito) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 4:56 PM ET
Pre-dawn mass : People leave a church after attending a pre-dawn mass in Manila. (AFP/Joel Nito) -
AFP - Fri Dec 16, 5:02 PM ET
Shiite voters : Supporters of the dominant Shiite Unified Iraqi Alliance list show their ink-stained fingers during a parade in Baghdad one day after more than two-thirds of Iraqi voters turned out in the country's general elections. (AFP/Karim Sahib) -
AFP - Sat Dec 17, 6:46 PM ET
In control : Barcelona's Henrik Larsson heads the ball during a Spanish league football match against Cadiz at the Ramon de Carranza stadium in Cadiz. (AFP/Jose Luis Roca) -
AFP - Sat Dec 17, 7:27 PM ET
Olympic warm-up : Jeffrey Buttle of Canada skates during the free skating of the men's event in the figure skating Grand Prix series final in Tokyo. -
AFP - Sat Dec 17, 7:32 PM ET
Violent opposition : South Korean anti-globalization demonstrators are sprayed by riot police with pepper foam during a demonstration against the sixth World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. (AFP/Jung Yeon-Je) -
AFP - Sat Dec 17, 7:55 PM ET
Shot on goal : Viviane Jacques of Brazil shoots to score against Korea during their handball match at the XVII Women's World Championship in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Mladen Antonov) -
AFP - Sat Dec 17, 8:02 PM ET
Take the shot! : Daniela Piedade of Brazil shoots to score next to Woo Sun-Hee of Korea during their handball match at the XVII Women's World Championship in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Mladen Antonov) -
Week in pictures: 10-16 December
A car bomb attack in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, killed MP Gibran Tueni, a prominent anti-Syrian journalist. -
Hundreds of people waited outside California's San Quentin prison for the execution of ex-gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams. -
Williams' supporters called his execution "state-sponsored murder", saying he had made amends through the anti-gang books he wrote in jail. -
Black smoke billows from a fire at one of the UK's biggest oil depots in Buncefield, near Hemel Hempstead. -
The extent of the devastation became clear as the fires were gradually extinguished. -
Some of Australia's worst racial violence in history erupted on Sunday as thousands gathered on Cronulla Beach, Sydney.