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AFP - Wed Feb 8, 5:08 PM ET
Ashura celebration : Scores of Iraqi Mulsim Shiite women take part in the religious Ashura ceremony in the holy city of Karbala. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye) -
AFP - Wed Feb 8, 5:09 PM ET
Peeking through : A Palestinian girl peeks through a door at the funeral of Mohammed al-Hur, a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of the former ruling Fatah party, in the Nusairat camp in the Gaza Strip. (AFP/Mahmud Hams) -
AP - Mon Feb 6, 10:47 AM ET
16-year-old African elephant Drumbo, rear, and her 2-day-old baby are presented for the public in the zoological garden in Dresden, Germany, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Drumbo had been pregnant for 21 months after an in vitro fertilization by Tembo, a elephant bull from the zoo in Colchester, England. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel) -
Day in pictures: 8 February 2006
A skier trains on a piste in Turin ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games in the Italian city later this week. -
Iraqi boys chase a chicken as government workers attempt a cull to prevent bird flu in Amara, south of Baghdad. -
Vietnamese women pray at a temple altar during a spring festival in the village of Phu Ung, in the north of the country. -
South Korean soldiers hurl snow at each other during a winter military exercise in Pyeongchang, east of the capital, Seoul. -
A boy plays among the ruins of shacks along a railroad track in Makati, east of Manila, in the Philippines. -
A Nepalese election official puts indelible ink on a voter's thumb at a polling station in Kathmandu. -
A man examines a sculpture at the International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain. -
Pilgrims from across India converge for a ceremony held every 12 years to bathe statues of Lord Bahubali in milk, coconut and spices. -
Firefighters in Nicaragua tackle a tyre fire as transport workers stage a strike. -
Day in pictures: 9 February 2006
Giant boots mark the venue of the Winter Olympics figure skating competition at the Palavela Arena in Turin, Italy. -
Members of the right-wing Hindu Shiv Sena party protest against Valentine's Day, which they describe as a cultural invasion. -
Women in Inchon in South Korea, all aged over 70, keep fit by practising the martial art of tae kwon do. -
A tourist visits the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, which remembers those who died under the Khmer Rouge regime. -
An elephant in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, is given a bath ahead of the city's biggest two-day Buddhist pageant. -
Ducks swim in the Moskva River in Moscow, where warm currents have prevented freezing. -
Nepal elections
After years of delays, Nepal has held municipal elections, its first national vote since 1999. -
The vote is seen as a key test of King Gyanendra's rule, a year after he seized power. -
There was tight security, after a number of people were killed in clashes between government troops and Maoist rebels. -
Turnout was reported to be very low, after the rebels ordered a general strike and opposition parties called for a boycott. -
Maoist rebels also threatened candidates, and a quarter of the 4,000 seats had no-one standing at all. -
The shutdown was called off soon after polls closed. Results are expected on Thursday. -
Reuters - Thu Feb 9, 3:50 PM ET
A Pakistani Sunni Muslim spits fire during Ashura festival in Karachi February 9, 2006. (Athar Hussain/Reuters)