Picture News 4
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AFP - Tue Mar 7, 4:36 PM ET
Beirut catwalk : A model displays a creation from Lebanese designer Basil Soda for his "Lines of Fashion" collection, spring and summer 2006, in Beirut. (AFP/Ramzi Haidar) -
AFP - Tue Mar 7, 4:38 PM ET
Protesting the plan : People demonstrate in Montpellier, southern France, during a nationwide protest over the government's youth job plan. (AFP/Dominique Faget) -
AFP/DDP - Tue Mar 7, 4:41 PM ET
Munich igloo : A man and his little son peer out of a window of an igloo at Munich's English Garden park. (AFP/DDP/Guenter Vahlkampf) -
AFP - Tue Mar 7, 4:42 PM ET
Nationwide protest : People demonstrate in Lyon, eastern France, during a nationwide protest over the government's youth job plan. (AFP/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek) -
AFP - Tue Mar 7, 4:44 PM ET
A sign on the sign : A young man holds a placard reading: "What are we complaining about? To be taken for fools" on the top of a sign, in Lyon, eastern France, during a nationwide protest over the government's youth job plan. (AFP/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek) -
AFP - Tue Mar 7, 4:56 PM ET
Up close and personal : An unconfined swan is pictured on the Borely Park in Marseille, some fifty kilometers of Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts where a new case of the potentially deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was reported in this previously unaffected region. (AFP/Gerard Julien) -
AFP - Tue Mar 7, 4:59 PM ET
Snowy stroll : A couple admire the snow-covered, night lit Alexander Nevski Cathedral in Sofia. (AFP/Valentina Petrova) -
AFP - Tue Mar 7, 7:23 PM ET
Burning effigy : People demonstrate as an effigy of French Prime minister Dominique de Villepin burns, in the southern French city of Bordeaux, during a nationwide protest over the government's contested youth job plan. (AFP/Patrick Bernard) -
AFP - Wed Mar 8, 8:13 AM ET
Capitol demo : Thousands of Latinos gather on the West Lawn of the US Capitol in Washington to demand the legalization of illegal aliens. (AFP/Tim Sloan) -
Day in pictures: 8 March 2006
Australians walk past sculptures of dead cows installed on a beach in Perth. -
Iraqis inspect the remains of a car that exploded in the city of Baquba. -
Police detain protesters outside a conference in the Chinese capital, Beijing. -
A rescuer tries to stop a Filipino man from committing suicide in Manila's business district. The man, a street vendor, later climbed down from the railway bridge. -
Men in Indian-administered Kashmir burn a Danish flag in protest at cartoons, published in the Danish press, caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad. -
A Chinese labourer takes his son for a ride on the outskirts of Beijing. -
Indonesian campaigners hand out leaflets urging people not to panic over bird flu, which has caused several deaths in the country. -
A Vietnamese girl carries a rose through the streets of Hanoi, as the city celebrates Women's Day. -
AFP/DDP - Mon Mar 6, 4:31 PM ET
Preparing for the fair : A man works on a CeBIT exhibitor's advertisement at the fair grounds in Hanover, in preparation of the 2006 CeBIT information and telecommunication technology fair. (AFP/DDP/Jochen Luebke) -
AFP - Wed Mar 8, 6:09 PM ET
Beauty contest : Kyrgyz female prisoners perform during a beauty contest devoted to International Women's Day at the women colony Number 2 in the village of Stepnoye, some 15 kms outside Bishkek. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko) -
AP - Tue Mar 7, 9:12 AM ET
A truck transports a life-size model of a prehistoric shark on a highway near Potsdam, northern Germany on Tuesday, March 7, 2006. The models of the shark and other dinosaurs are their way to their part time home in the Biosphaere exhibition hall in Potsdam to be on display between March 10 and May 01 in the exhibition 'Dinosphaere II'. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner) -
AFP - Wed Mar 8, 5:11 PM ET
Fred on the move : Lyon's Brazilian forward Fred (C) vies with Eindhoven's players during the Champions League football match Lyon/PSV Eindhoven, at the Gerland stadium in Lyon. Lyon won 4-0. (AFP/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek) -
AFP - Wed Mar 8, 5:13 PM ET
Women's Day : A woman takes part in a rally marking the International Women's Day, in Mexico City. (AFP/Omar Torres) -
AFP - Wed Mar 8, 5:16 PM ET
Through the glass : A cat looks out from it's cage at the animal shelter SPA (La societe protectrice des animaux), in Lyon South of France. (AFP/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek) -
AFP/DDP - Wed Mar 8, 6:14 PM ET
Folklore dancers : Folklore dancers perform at the stand of Sri Lanka on the opening day of the "Internationale Tourismus Boerse" (ITB) fair in Berlin. (AFP/DDP/Sebastian Willnow) -
AFP - Wed Mar 8, 6:22 PM ET
Heading home : A Portuguese office worker walks trough a street as he makes his way back home in central Lisbon. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)