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A Sikh priest sits inside the Golden Temple at Amritsar in India. Sikhs are celebrating the 385th anniversary of the birth of the ninth Sikh Guru Teg Bahadur. -
A visitor to a museum devoted to the Chernobyl disaster in Kiev watches a film about the "liquidators" deployed to clean up the mess, nearly 20 years after the nuclear meltdown. -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 9:59 PM ET
Wipe out : A Brazilian surfer flies off a wave at Leblon beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. -
AP - Mon Apr 17, 5:50 PM ET
A bee lands on an early spring flower blossom Monday, April 17, 2006, in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) -
AP - Sat Apr 15, 5:07 AM ET
Two Taiwanese indigenous AT3 training jets fly in formation during a commissioning ceremony for two E2K early warning planes, Saturday, April 15, 2006, at the Pingtung Airbase in Pingtung, southern Taiwan. Taiwan's military on Saturday showed off two early-warning planes recently purchased from the United States to bolster its defenses against the island's rival, China. (AP Photo/str) -
AP - Sat Apr 15, 1:17 PM ET
Daryl Boyington, center, Toby Day, left, and Larry Doucette, paddle in the rain at the start of the 40th annual Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race, Saturday, April 15, 2006, in Kenduskeag, Maine. This was the 21st year the Gumby team competed. 'If you can't be fast be funny,' said Boyington. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) -
Reuters - Tue Apr 18, 4:29 AM ET
Residents perform a dragon dance to celebrate the upcoming 23rd Weifang International Kite Festival in Weifang, China's Shandong province April 18, 2006. The 23rd Weifang International Kite Festival will be held in Weifang on April 20, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 10:22 PM ET
Voodoo ritual : A woman in a trance stands in a pool of water during a Voodoo Easter ceremony in Gonaives, Haiti. -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 10:15 PM ET
Stepping in : The Dzerzhinsky Interior Ministry troops soldiers march during a rehearsal for the 09 May Victory Day parade in the town of Balashikha outside Moscow. -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 10:10 PM ET
Young patient : A young patient wears a surgical mask at the children hematologic and oncological centre in Minsk which was built after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 9:51 PM ET
Sharp focus : Chilean Fernando Gonzalez hits a return to Spain's Carlos Moya during their Monte Carlo ATP Masters Series tournament tennis match. (AFP/Valery Hache) -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 9:43 PM ET
Girls at vigil : Lebanese girls participate in a candle-light vigil in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Economic and Social Development for West Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the "Qana massacre." -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 9:37 PM ET
Swan Lake : Ballet dancers of the English National Ballet rehearse "Swan Lake" under the direction of Wayne Eagling at the Royal Theatre in Madrid. -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 9:36 PM ET
Swollen Danube : A Bulgarian army soldier looks at the swollen waters of the Danube river near the town of Vidin, northwestern Bulgaria. -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 9:28 PM ET
Ballerina : A ballerina of the English National Ballet rehearses "Swan Lake" under the direction of Wayne Eagling at the Royal Theatre in Madrid. (AFP/Javier Soriano) -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 9:16 PM ET
Twirlies : Ballet dancers of the English National Ballet, under the direction of Wayne Eagling, perform during a rehearsal of "Swan Lake" at the Royal Theatre in Madrid. (AFP/Javier Soriano) -
AFP - Tue Apr 18, 9:09 PM ET
Blossoms in New York : New Yorkers take advantages of the warm temperatures to lie down in Sheep Meadow in Central Park. (AFP/Tim Clary) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 8:31 PM ET
Queuing to vote : Indian women voters hold their identity cards and stand in a queue outside a polling booth at Chotojibanpur, as voting in state assembly polls opened. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) -
Day in pictures: 19 April 2006
A sample of what is said to be the world's oldest ice yet retrieved is unveiled in Japan, after being drilled from under the Antarctic. -
A dramatic rescue in New York stretched into Wednesday morning after two trams were left dangling over the malfunctioning Queensborough Bridge. -
An anti-government protestor throws a rock during a demonstration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. -
A Palestinian boy hurls stones at Israeli army vehicles searching for wanted militants in Nablus. -
Smoke billows from the Solomon Islands' capital, Honiara, after a night of post-election rioting. -
A Romanian woman wraps herself in plastic sheet next to the river Danube, after fleeing rising waters. -
AP - Wed Apr 19, 7:15 AM ET
A dog has a close encounter with a chicken at a poultry market in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, Wednesday, April 19, 2006. China has reported its 17th human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu Tuesday since November in a 21-year-old security guard from the central city of Wuhan, according to the World Health Organization. (AP Photo)