Picture News 2
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Iraqis stand around a minibus that was blown up by a suicide bomber in Baghdad, Iraq, killing five people. -
Film fans and buffs attend the San Sebastian film festival in northern Spain. -
Motaba, a Silverback Gorilla, has his teeth checked for an infection by a veterinary dentist at Melbourne Zoo, Australia. -
A young boy begs at the intersection of a busy road in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. -
A fireman dampens a blaze in a forest in Lanjaron, southern Spain, where fierce temperatures have fuelled forest fires. -
An actress in a London production of Cole Porter's High Society enjoys the moonlight. -
RITA'S WRATH: An aerial view of the Ninth Ward shows rising waters caused by Hurricane Rita breaking the levee on Friday in New Orleans. -- AP -
ISRAEL STRIKES: Israel conducted air strikes in Gaza City on Sunday in retaliation to Hamas' attacks on Israeli towns on Saturday. -- AFP -
Strike grips Bangladesh
A riot policeman chases after activists at a dawn-to-dusk strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Wednesday. Schools and stores shut down and public transportation was disrupted by strikers who were protesting against fuel price hikes. -- AP -
Inconsolable
Family members console the mother of five-year-old girl who died of suspected bird flu at a hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday. Some 63 people in South-east Asia are known to have died from the H5N1 strain of the virus since 2003. -- AFP -
Braving the storm
Flood waters wash over a pier in Key West, Florida, as Hurricane Rita hits the low-lying island chain on Tuesday. The hurricane barrelled past the Florida Keys into the Gulf of Mexico at 169kmh. -- AFP -
Tiniest tot
The world's smallest baby was delivered at the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, on Tuesday. She weighed just 244gm at birth. -- AP -
Brutal attack
This female bottlenose dolphin was found stabbed to death at a beach near Geelong in southern Australia, on Monday. It sustained up to seven stab wounds, including a lethal one to the heart. -- AFP -
Artistic heritage
A gilded bust of the Catholic martyr Saint Ludmila is one of many items at an exhibition exploring Prague in the middle ages at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The show on Prague's heritage was created over five years and features about 200 items brought together from public and private collections in over a dozen countries, including the Vatican. -- AP -
Rescue operation
An Iraqi soldier takes position as firefighters extinguish a blaze in a rebel hideout in western Baghdad on Wednesday. Eight men died in a gun battle after Iraqi security forces stormed the house to save a man who had been held prisoner there. -- AFP -
Fatal crash
A rescuer carries the body of a girl killed in a bus crash in Santa Rosa, Guatemala, on Wednesday. Some 13 people, many of them from the same family, died and 45 more were injured. -- AFP -
Fleeing their homes
Galveston residents wait to board buses to evacuate the island on Wednesday as Hurricane Rita heads for the Texas Gulf Coast. The Category 5, 265kmh storm sent more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana packing and hitting the road. -- AP -
Watching the tides
Thousands of tourists gather to watch the soaring tides on the bank of the Qiantang river in Ninghai, eastern China, on Wednesday. This annual occurence during the eighth month of the lunar calendar has seen the most violent tide reaching a height of nine metres. -- AFP -
New to the world
This seven-week-old panda at the San Diego zoo in California gets examined by veterinarians on Wednesday. The 2.4kg female cub's left eye is almost completely open, while her right eyelid is just beginning to enlarge. Veterinarians say the her vision will continue to improve daily. -- AFP -
Tough tackle
San Jose Sharks' Niko Dimitrakos trips over Anaheim Mighty Ducks' Ruslan Salei during a National Hockey League match in California on Wednesday. The Sharks won 2-1. -- AP -
Arrest-ing sight
An inmate at the The Good Shepherd women's prison in Bogota, Colombia, enjoys celebrity status on Thursday at an in-house beauty contest. Beauty pageants are popular in Colombia and have taken place in Columbian prisons for the past 20 years. -- AFP -
Flee for safety
Cars are bumper to bumper on the Interstate-45 in Fairfield, Texas, on Thursday. Thousands of people are evacuating the Texas coast as Hurricane Rita is expected to make landfall late on Friday. -- AP -
Teething problem
Motaba, a 156-kg silverback gorilla, gets a dental checkup at the Melbourne Zoo on Friday. The 22-year-old primate from West Africa had a swelling on its face and specialists were called in to treat it. -- AFP -
Solemn farewell
Coffins of eight men killed in a helicopter crash sit at Campo Marte, Mexico City, on Thursday. The presidential office said that the air crash, in which two top officials died, appears to have been caused by bad weather. -- AP -
Balloon fiesta
Hot air balloons are displayed on Friday in Tokyo ahead of an annual competition. Japan hosts the largest international hot air balloon competition every November in the lowlands along Kasegawa river in Saga City, on Kyushu, Japan's third biggest main island. -- AFP