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South Korean truck drivers show banners reading "Rather Die!" during a protest against the ending of fuel subsidies. -
A garden gnome that drifted off during floods in Hawick, Scotland, is returned to its home by local Eddie Brand. -
Caucasus clashes
Violence once again came to Russia's turbulent Caucasus region, this time in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. -
Caucasus clashes
Rebels launched near-simultaneous attacks on government buildings, targeting police stations, the federal security services offices and the airport among others. -
Caucasus clashes
It led to fierce clashes between the police and rebels, with heavy gunfire and explosions heard across the city. -
Caucasus clashes
One school had to be evacuated, with parents searching frantically for their children, as the fighting closed in. -
Caucasus clashes
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the city to be sealed off, and troops to shoot any armed resisters. -
Caucasus clashes
The estimated number of casualties varied, but dozens of rebels, security forces members and civilians were killed. -
Caucasus clashes
Dozens of people were also wounded in the clashes. -
Caucasus clashes
Kabardino-Balkaria is near war-torn Chechnya; Nalchik is 100 km (60 miles) from Beslan, where more than 300 people died in last year's school siege by Chechen rebels. -
Caucasus clashes
Militants from Chechnya have claimed responsibility for this latest attack, according to a pro-rebel website. -
Science of Aliens
A full size model of the Queen Alien from the movie Aliens will be at the Science of Aliens exhibition in London. -
Science of Aliens
German media designer Sebastian Peichl will show off a virtual landscape of an alien world called Aurelia. -
Science of Aliens
Scientifically based creatures form a large part of the exhibition, which opens on Saturday. -
Science of Aliens
Astrid Mascher, an alien researcher from Frankfurt in Germany will be on hand to give her expert opinion. -
AFP - Thu Oct 13, 4:20 PM ET
Intcy wincy... : A spider spins a web along a window of the 17th floor at Ares tower with the Mexico church for a backdrop in Vienna's International Bussiness Centre. (AFP/Joe Klamar) -
Reuters - Thu Oct 13, 8:07 PM ET
The Andromeda galaxy is pictured in this image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and released October 13, 2005 in this infrared view of the famous galaxy, to reveal insights that were only hinted at in visible light. Spitzer's 24-micron mosaic image is the sharpest image ever taken of the dust in another spiral galaxy. The Spitzer multiband imaging photometer's 24-micron detector recorded 11,000 separate snapshots to create this new comprehensive picture. REUTERS/NASA/Handout -
AFP - Thu Oct 13, 8:01 PM ET
Cuffed : An arrested suspect waits to be taken to custody after he was arrested by US soldiers from Charlie company during a patrol in the city of Tikrit in northern Iraq. (AFP/Tauseef Mustafa) -
AFP - Thu Oct 13, 7:54 PM ET
Rice transport : Indian Kashmiri earthquake survivors carry home relief supplies of rice at Lagama some 95 kms north-west of Srinagar, Pakistan (AFP/Indranil Mukherjee ) -
AFP - Thu Oct 13, 6:46 PM ET
Winged riders : A farmer transporting live ducks on his motorbike makes his way to a local market in Northern province of Ha Tay in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) -
AFP - Thu Oct 13, 5:01 PM ET
Marchetto show : Italian comic artist Ennio Marchetto mimics mega icon Bruce Lee during the press preview of his comic's performance at the Hong kong Academy for Performing Arts. (AFP/Samantha Sin) -
AFP - Thu Oct 13, 4:58 PM ET
On Red Square : Two Russian policemen chat while guarding the entrance of the Red Square in Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov) -
AFP - Thu Oct 13, 4:56 PM ET
Look of despair : Tears roll down the cheeks of an earthquake victim as he waits with his badly injured father(L) to be evacuated in the Pakistan controlled Kashmir. (AFP/Jewel Samad) -
AFP - Thu Oct 13, 4:53 PM ET
Waiting for aid : Earthquake victims wait for aid in Chakoti, the border town of the Pakistan controlled Kashmir, five days after a powerful quake shattered the region. (AFP/Jewel Samad) -
AFP - Thu Oct 13, 4:51 PM ET
Ahmed's eye : Earthquake victim Ahmed waits for aid at a makeshift shelter in Muzaffarabad five days after a powerful quake shattered the region. (AFP/Jewel Samad)