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A girl stands outside her temporary home in a tented village in quake-hit Muzaffarabad, in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, which is preparing for heavy snowfall. -
Relatives mourn the death of a Palestinian man killed in a suicide attack at a checkpoint near Tulkarem, at his funeral in the West Bank village of Beit Kahel. -
A woman swims in the freezing waters of Shishahai Lake in Beijing, China. -
A man wades through sea water to salvage materials after a fire in Manila's slum district of Tondo, in the Philippines. -
A woman walks to work in snowy Ashford, Kent, as many parts of England experience a cold snap. -
A metro train travels past a horse and cart during a trial run, on the eve of its opening to the public in New Delhi, India. -
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) -
AP - Fri Dec 30, 7:53 AM ET
A wintry scene by the river Rhone as temperatures dropped to -17 celsius in the region of Aigle, in western Switzerland, Friday, Dec. 30, 2005. (AP hoto/KEYSTONE/Olivier Maire) -
Reuters - Fri Dec 30,11:35 AM ET
A resident of Montevideo gets soaked while walking in the financial district of the city December 30, 2005. On the last working day of the year, workers in the financial district throw water over pedestrians to celebrate the end of the year. REUTERS/Andres Stapff -
AFP/DDP - Fri Dec 30, 3:38 PM ET
Flying high : Japan's Daito Takahashi flies through the air during the ski jumping of the World Cup Nordic Combined event at Oberhof. (AFP/DDP/Jens-Ulrich Koch) -
AFP - Fri Dec 30, 3:40 PM ET
Pilgrim : An Iranian pilgrim reads the Koran after performing Ihram, a ritual of cleansing and prayers that is supposed to put the pilgrim in a state of sacred dedication, at a mosque in al-Juhfah, north of Mecca. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri) -
AFP/DDP - Fri Dec 30, 3:42 PM ET
Sundown in Munich : The sun goes down behind Munich's television tower. (AFP/DDP/Joerg Koch) -
AFP - Fri Dec 30, 3:51 PM ET
Llama in Sofia : Twenty-three-day-old baby llama Nikky cuddles up to his mom at the Sofia Zoo. (AFP/Valentina Petrova) -
AFP - Fri Dec 30, 3:54 PM ET
Guarding Bidhan Souha : An Indian police officer guards the Bidhan Souha (legislative assembly building) in Bangalore. (AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar) -
AFP - Fri Dec 30, 3:58 PM ET
Silk painting : A woman admires a Chinese silk painting at an exhibit at Dr. Sun Yet-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei. (AFP/Sam Yeh) -
AFP - Fri Dec 30, 4:16 PM ET
Sunset prayer : Muslim women pilgrims perform their sunset prayer at the courtyard of the Prophet Mohammed mosque in the holy Saudi city of Medina. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri) -
AFP - Fri Dec 30, 4:19 PM ET
At the base : US soldiers of the 1st Battalion 327th Infantry Regiment return to their military base after a day out on patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Hawijah. (AFP/Filippo Monteforte) -
AFP - Fri Dec 30, 4:21 PM ET
Smoke break : US soldiers relax at their base after a day out on patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Hawijah. (AFP/Filippo Monteforte) -
Week in pictures: 24-30 December
Christians around the world celebrate Christmas. Here a man lights a candle during a Mass in Sofia, Bulgaria. -
Sri Lankan Buddhist monks prepare for an alms-giving ceremony to bring peace to the souls of tsunami victims. -
Tunisian men play oggaf, or sand hockey, with sticks made of palm tree branches and a ball made of camel hair, at a Saharan festival. -
Japan's city of Yokohama is lit up at sunset with Mount Fuji in the background. -
Egyptian riot police armed with sticks and truncheons broke up a protest camp in Cairo where thousands of Sudanese were living. -
Fish are tossed in the air during an annual ice fishing festival in Jilin province, north-east China. -
A cyclist braves the snow in Great Chart, Kent, after another night of snow across the south-east of England.