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Table game
A giant table football set titled 'Athletic Club No. 4 Project' is on display at the International Triennale of Contemporary Art exhibition in Yokohama, Japan, on Tuesday. The set includes an 8.5m by 4.5m pitch and 90cm-tall plastic figurines. -- AFP -
Braving the storm
Vietnamese fight high winds and rain during the onslaught of Typhoon Damrey in a village in northern Vietnam on Tuesday. Vietnam's coastline was slammed by the storm on Tuesday morning, packing winds of up to 133kmh and downing trees and electrical and phone lines in its path. -- AP -
Anti-war protest
Police arrest Cindy Sheehan, a Californian woman who had used her son's death in Iraq to spur an anti-war movement, during a demonstration outside the White House in Washington D.C on Monday. -- AP -
Old gold
This 3,500-year-old solid gold drinking cup made in the late 15th century BC is now on display at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia. It is among the world-famous finds from the tombs of the Mycenaean civilisation of ancient Greece. -- AFP -
A painful past
Cambodian children look at exhibits at the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. The museum is celebrating the annual Pchum Ben festival, or festival of death, in rememberance of the 1.7 million people killed in the Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-79. -- AFP -
Standing tall
American wildcard entry Dane Reynolds holds his fort during the World Surfing Championship's Quiksilver Pro France competition in south-western France on Monday. Hawaiian Andy Irons is the defending champion of the event, which features the top 45 surfers in the world. -- AFP -
Royal portraits
British artist John Wonnacot shows off the portraits he painted in 1999 of the late Queen Mother and Prince William at a gallery in London on Tuesday. The Prince's portrait will go on sale on Wednesday. -- AFP -
Peta's back
Animal rights activists from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) stage a rally outside the Australian embassy in Washington DC on Tuesday. The group is relaunching its boycott of Australian wool following a controversy on the practice of 'mulesing', which causes sheep unnecessary pain. -- AFP -
Holiday mood
Thousands of visitors are packed liked sardines along the Great Wall of China ahead of the country's national day holiday on Oct 1. --AFP -
Eye in the sky
The world's largest transportable ferris wheel with closed cabins takes centrestage at an Oktoberfest fair in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on Tuesday. -- AP -
Rest in peace
Volunteers bury the remains of last year's tsunami victims in Aceh, Indonesia, on Monday. Nine months after the disaster, residents here sometimes stumble on badly decomposed human remains in rice paddies, forested hills and swamps . -- AP -
Street protest
Hundreds of activists stage a rally in Jakarta on Thursday to protest against the Indonesian government's decision to increase fuel prices. -- AFP -
Muscle man
A model displays an artificial muscle system at the annual International Home Care and Rehabilitation Exhibition in Tokyo on Wednesday. Powered by compressed air, the machine helps to guide the movements of the elderly, physically-impaired people and those undergoing rehabilitation therapy. -- AFP -
Chilling discovery
Colombian police found three human foetuses hidden in porcelain religious statues at Bogota's El Dorado airport on Wednesday. -- AFP -- AFP -
Space journey
A Russian policeman leads the way as the Soyuz TMA-7 rocket is brought to the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday. It will head for the International Space Station on Oct 1. -- AFP -
Fashioning charity
Vendors sell T-shirts marking Hurricane Katrina along a highway in Gulfport, Mississippi, on Wednesday. There have been mixed reactions to the sale of souvenirs for a devastating storm that killed more than 1,000 people and displaced as many as one million people in Mississippi and Louisiana. -- AP -
Size matters
A farmer inspects his giant pumpkin in Bancroft, Wisconsin, on Wednesday. Weighing over 500kg, it will be transported to the Nekoosa Wisconsin Giant Pumpkin Fest on Oct 1. -- AP -
AFP - Sat Oct 1, 6:13 PM ET
Bastia clashes : Police face youths during a demonstration against the privatisation of state-owned troubled transporter SNCM. (AFP/Olivier Labban-Mattei) -
AFP - Sat Oct 1, 5:46 PM ET
Riots in Bastia : Demonstrators face off with CRS riot police at Bastia after a protest by thousands against the privatisation of troubled state-owned ferry line SNCM. (AFP/Olivier Labban-Mattei) -
AFP - Sat Oct 1, 6:09 PM ET
Camacho creation : A model presents a creation by Colombian Beatriz Camacho during the Spring/Summer 2006 women's collections, in Milan. (AFP/Francois Guillot) -
AFP - Sat Oct 1, 6:16 PM ET
Protest in Jakarta : A student mimics a scene of poverty in front of a pile of burning wood during an anti-government protest in Jakarta. (AFP/Dewira ) -
AFP/DDP - Sat Oct 1, 6:14 PM ET
Oktoberfest wheel : The big wheel turns in the night at Munich's Oktoberfest beer festival with its lightened merry-go-rounds and roller coasters. (AFP/DDP/Timm Schamberger) -
AFP - Sat Oct 1, 6:12 PM ET
Feeding time : Two Uighur dancers from Xinjiang Province in western China, wear military costumes as they feed an ostrich while waiting for a performance at a wildlife park during the National Day holiday in Beijing. (AFP/Mark Ralston) -
AFP/DDP - Sat Oct 1, 6:03 PM ET
Beard creation : German Juergen Reinl, participant in the 'Freestyle category', poses in Berlin, during the World Beard and Moustache Championships. (AFP/DDP/Marcus Brandt) -
AFP - Sat Oct 1, 5:49 PM ET
Cameron destruction : A piece of a home lies among trees in flooded marshland along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana in Cameron Parish. (AFP/Robyn Beck)