Picture News 2
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AFP - Sat Oct 1, 5:59 PM ET
Blessings for the dead : A Belarus priest blesses the first German cemetery outside the town of Bereza, some 260 kms from Minsk. (AFP/Viktor Drachev) -
AFP - Sat Oct 1, 6:20 PM ET
Ronaldinho's boots : FC Barcelona Brazilian player Ronaldinho wears gold in his soccer boots during his Spanish League football match against Zaragoza at the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona. Nike has developed a special gold and white version of the shoes Ronaldinho normally wears. It will feature real 24-carat gold applied to the Nike logo. (AFP/Cesar Rangel) -
AFP/DDP - Sat Oct 1, 6:01 PM ET
Partial beard, freestyle : German Willi Chevalier, contestant in the category partial beard, freestyle, poses in Berlin, during the World Beard and Moustache Championships. (AFP/DDP/Marcus Brandt) -
AFP - Sat Oct 1, 5:44 PM ET
Waiting for help : A Salvadorean peasant waits to be evacuated in the foothills of Ilamatepec Volcano in Santa Elena community, after an eruption. (AFP/Yuri Cortez) -
AP - Sat Oct 1, 1:47 PM ET
As the sun sets a US Cobra helicopter heads for landing in the Green Zone, the heavily guarded area where foreign embassies and Iraq's parliament are based, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday Sept. 30 2005. About 1,000 U.S. troops, backed by attack helicopters, swarmed into a tiny Iraqi village near the Syrian border Saturday in a new offensive aimed at rooting out fighters from the country's most feared militant group, Al-Qaida in Iraq, the military said.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) -
Reuters - Sat Oct 1,11:19 PM ET
A model showcases a new design by Indian fashion house 'Gazala' during a fashion show in Mumbai October 1, 2005. The proceeds of the show will go towards the care for HIV-AIDS patients. Picture taken October 1, 2005. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe -
AP - Sat Oct 1, 5:29 PM ET
Kenny Powell of West Point, Va., looks under the garage of homeowner Rebecca Thompson for personal belongings before knocking it down Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005, in Gulfport, Miss. The building was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina more than a month ago. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) -
Reuters - Sat Oct 1, 5:38 PM ET
Jill Musgrove cuts away overgrown trees outside her home, on the second day since residents of the 'Uptown' neighborhood were allowed to visit and stay in their homes, in New Orleans October 1, 2005. Mayor Ray Nagin, has announced that all residents will be allowed to enter on Wednesday. Thousands of people began returning to storm-ravaged New Orleans on Friday, but local officials said they feared fragile levees could give way once again if another hurricane strikes. REUTERS/Lee Celano -
AP - Sat Oct 1,12:37 PM ET
Ilamatepec volcano, in Santa Ana, El Salvador, is shown in an undated file photo. The Salvadorian volcano increased its eruptive activity, Saturday Oct. 1, 2005 Salvadorian Authorities said. (AP Photo/La Prensa Grafica) -
AP - Sat Oct 1, 6:19 PM ET
Marine engineer Jason Fernandes inspects a 250 ton barge in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005. Fernandes was documenting the location of the vessel for the company where it was docked before Hurricane Katrina sent it through a levee in the industrial canal. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) -
AP - Sat Oct 1, 5:59 PM ET
Paris, Maine firefighter Stan Larson ventures across a mud-caked lawn to place a red sticker on a flood-damaged home in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005. Crews were working in the city placing the stickers on homes warning returning residents not to enter homes heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) -
AP - Sat Oct 1, 4:32 PM ET
Jenifer Lackamy of Cambridge, Vt., left, Colleen Ward of Barre, Vt., second from left, Heather Gingras of East Hardwick, Vt., and Christyn Sargent of Waterbury Center, Vt., right, hold each other for support as pallbearers fold the flag over the casket during funeral services, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005, in Waterbury, Vt., for National Guard Spc. Scott McLaughlin, 29, from Hardwick, Vt., who was killed, Sept. 22, 2005, by a sniper's bullet while serving in Iraq. The husbands of Lockamy and Ward were both serving in Iraq with McLaughlin. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett) -
AP - Sat Oct 1, 2:22 PM ET
Rebecca Jones clutches the flag which draped the coffin of her son Spc. Kevin Jones as she leaves the graveside service with her family in Washington, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005. Jones died Sept. 22 in Iraq after his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy) -
AP - Sat Oct 1, 2:35 PM ET
Marine Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder, left, and Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer, far right, and unidentified Marines patrol through the city of Kubaysah in 2005 in western Iraq. Dyer and Schroder, members of 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, were killed, along with nine other members of 1st Squad, in a roadside bombing near the city of Haditha on Aug. 3, 2005. This picture was provided by Capt. Christopher Toland, 3rd platoon commander. (AP Photo/Christopher Toland) -
Reuters - Sat Oct 1, 8:30 AM ET
People play in the Cheonggye stream during its opening ceremony in Seoul October 1, 2005. The Seoul metropolitan government opened the 5.8km (3.6 miles) long restored main branch of the stream which had previously been buried under concrete. REUTERS/Jung Yeon-je/Pool -
Fashion forward
A model sashays down the catwalk with a creation from the latest Dsquared couture at the Spring/Summer 2006 women's collection fashion show in Milan on Friday. -- AFP -
Art of anatomy
Human specimens go on display at German pathologist Gunther von Hagens' touring show of preserved corpses at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto on Friday. -- AP -
Pet detectives
Volunteers have been scouring the flooded streets of New Orleans in an attempt to rescue hundreds of animals left behind when Hurricane Katrina hit a month ago. -- AP -
More than just music
Web designer William Bright who created www.ipodsubwaymaps.com received a letter from New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) asking him to stop letting people download digitally shrunk subway maps for their iPods, citing coypright violation. -- AP -
UK pensioners protest during the governing Labour Party's conference in Brighton. -
A motorcyclist rides past a defaced poster of Polish election candidate Andrzej Lepper. -
Indonesians protest against a government plan to raise fuel prices. -
An Indonesian woman gets her duck vaccinated against bird flu amid fears that the deadly virus could be rapidly spreading. -
New Orleans artist Jeffery Holmes creates a "toxic art" exhibition out of the hurricane-wrought devastation around his home. -
A helicopter makes a water drop along a ridge burning behind a home in the Bell Canyon area of southern Ventura County, California.