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AFP/DDP - Wed Dec 28, 4:37 PM ET
Jump reflection : The Oberstdorf ski jump is reflected in the glasses of Finnish ski jumper Janne Ahonen during a training session in Oberstdorf, one day before the first event of the 'Vierschanzentournee' (Four Hills Tournament). (AFP/DDP/Michael Kappeler) -
AFP/DDP - Wed Dec 28, 4:42 PM ET
Jump slope : German ski jumper Martin Schmitt races for a jump during a training session in Oberstdorf, one day before the first event of the 'Vierschanzentournee' (Four Hills Tournament). (AFP/DDP/Michael Kappeler) -
AFP - Wed Dec 28, 4:54 PM ET
Winter scene : A horse is pictured in the countryside near the Chateau Larose Trintaudon wineyard, a grand cru classe, in Margaux, southwest France. (AFP/Patrick Bernard) -
AFP - Wed Dec 28, 4:54 PM ET
Construction work : An Indian construction worker builds a stand at Rajpath in New Delhi, in preparation for the Republic Day celebrations. (AFP/Manan Vatsyayana) -
AFP - Wed Dec 28, 5:44 PM ET
Heskey on the ball : Birmingham City's Emile Heskey watches the ball during the Premiership football match against Manchester United at St. Andrews in Birmingham. The match ended 2-2. (AFP/Adrian Dennis) -
Day in pictures: 29 December 2005
Children play in the quake-hit city of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. -
Snow shrouds Florence after freezing weather blew across northern Italy. -
A shop in the South Korean capital Seoul gears up for the Chinese lunar calendar year of the dog. -
A Gaza colleague of kidnapped British human rights worker Kate Burton shows her photo. -
An Indian works on her painting at a crafts market in the capital Delhi. -
Japanese shoppers rush to buy packs of tuna during an annual year-end discount sale in Tokyo. -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:54 PM ET
Snowy snack : A horse licks snow in field in Vendenheim near Strasbourg, Alsace, east of France. (AFP/Ilan Garzone) -
AP - Thu Dec 29, 1:14 PM ET
Confetti fills the air over Times Square in New York as event organizers test the confetti, Thursday, December 29, 2005. The air above Times Square will be filled with an estimated 2000 pounds on confetti on New Year's Eve. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams) -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:29 PM ET
Heading home : Spectators leave the Eisstadium at the end of the fourth day of the 79th Spengler Cup ice hockey tournament in Davos. Team Canada won 6-1 over EHC Eisbaeren Berlin, Russian HC Metallurg Magnitogorsk won 4-3 over Czech Sparta Praha. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini) -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:33 PM ET
Sight seeing : A US soldier of the 1st Battalion 327th Infantry Regiment looks through the sight of his gun as others look for weapon caches during a patrol on the outskirts of the northern Iraqi city of Hawijah. (AFP/Filippo Monteforte) -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:34 PM ET
Humvee in Hawijah : A US soldier of the 1st Battalion 327th Infantry Regiment sits in his Humvee during a street patrol on one of the main roads leading to the northern Iraqi city of Hawijah. (AFP/Filippo Monteforte) -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:36 PM ET
Playing with fire : A man juggles with fire in central London, on a day when temperatures hovered around 0 degrees celcius. (AFP/John D McHugh) -
AFP/DDP - Thu Dec 29, 5:39 PM ET
Sale time! : A passer-by walks past a shop advertising sales in the southern city of Wuerzburg, as the photographer is reflected in the glass. (AFP/DDP/Oliver Lang) -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:41 PM ET
Fighting the fire : A South African from Franchoek farm tries to extinguish a fire on a burning field. (AFP/Pieter Bauermeister) -
AFP/DDP - Thu Dec 29, 5:44 PM ET
Ski silhouette : Polish ski jumper Adam Malysz flies through the air in Oberstdorf during the first leg of the 'Vierschanzentournee' (Four Hills Tournament). (AFP/DDP/Michael Kappeler) -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:46 PM ET
At the rally : Supporters of Pakistani political party Awami National Party (ANP) take part in the anti-Kala Bagh dam rally in Jahngeera, some 70 km east from the north western city of Peshawar. (AFP/Tariq Mahmood) -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:49 PM ET
Moscow demo : A demonstrator holds a poster mocking Ukrainian President Yushchenko's campaign slogan 'Yes!' with a 'No' during a protest against the Ukrainian position in the Russian gas issue in front of the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow. (AFP/Denis Sinyakov) -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:51 PM ET
Calling for release : A daughter of a South Korean farmer holds up a placard that read 'Please release my father' during a march to the Central Government headquarters in Hong Kong. (AFP/Samantha Sin) -
AFP - Thu Dec 29, 5:57 PM ET
Looking in : An Iraqi boy peers through a window of 1st Battalion 327th Infantry Regiment Humvee during a patrol on in the outskirts of the northern Iraqi city of Hawijah. (AFP/Filippo Monteforte) -
Day in pictures: 30 December 2005
Children pose with their faces painted with the numbers of the new year at their school in Amritsar, India.