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AFP - Tue Aug 22, 9:57 PM ET
Eyes on the pass : Senegal's Mamadou Diouf (C) passes a ball between Italy's players during their Group D preliminary round match in the World Basketball Championship in Sapporo. Italy beat Senegal 64-56. (AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura) -
AFP - Tue Aug 22, 9:57 PM ET
Environmental toll : Dried up leaves of mangrove stands in water contaminated by an oil slick in Nueva Valencia on Guimaras island, after a tanker contracted by Petron, the Solar I, sank in rough seas 11 August while carrying 50,000 gallons of oil. (AFP/Joel Nito) -
AFP - Tue Aug 22, 9:57 PM ET
Visiting the dead : A man sits amid the tombs in a cemetery in the holy city of Karbala, 70 kms south of Baghdad, as Shiites celebrate their yearly 'al-Isra wal Meraj' religious day during which they visit their dead. (AFP/Mohammed Sawaf) -
AFP/DDP - Tue Aug 22, 9:56 PM ET
Hoofs to the track : Close up of a horses hoofs during the Dressage Team event of the World Equestrian Games in Aachen. (AFP/DDP/Jochen Luebke) -
AFP - Tue Aug 22, 9:55 PM ET
Leaving Washington : US President George W. Bush leaves the White House in Washington, DC, on Marine One, enroute to speak during a panel on Health Transparency at the Minneapolis Marriott Southwest in Minnetonka, Minnesota. (AFP/Jim Watson) -
AFP - Tue Aug 22, 9:55 PM ET
49er's race : China's 49er team, the open double-handed dinghy, skippered by Li Fei with teammate Hu Xiangqiang during the first day's race, in China's largest-ever regatta, in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao. (AFP/Goh Chai Hin) -
AFP - Tue Aug 22, 9:55 PM ET
Looking for pollen : A wasps looks for pollen on a sunflower in Batavia, Illinois. (AFP/Jeff Haynes) -
AFP - Tue Aug 22, 9:55 PM ET
Standing guard : An Indian UN soldier stands guard at a United Nations outpost over looking Lebanon near the Israeli kibbutz of Manara along the international border between the two countries. (AFP/Gali Tibbon) -
AFP - Tue Aug 22, 9:54 PM ET
Swimming for gold : Indian swimmer Fariha Zaman competes in the women's 200 m backstroke finals at the 10th South Asian Games, in Colombo. Zaman won the gold, with compatriot Madhavi Giri and Pakistan's Kiran Khan bagging silver and bronze medals respectively. (AFP/Manan Vatsyayana) -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:33 PM ET
Prayers with the Dalai Lama : A Mongolian pilgrim prays as the Dalai Lama speaks at a rally in the Central Sports Stadium in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator. (AFP/Peter Parks) -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:33 PM ET
Flowery fashion : Model Melissa Langley applies her makeup before posing with her hair design by hairdresser Aldo Raymond and incorporating flowers from florists 'Flower Flower,' as Melbourne prepares itself for the upcoming Spring Racing Carnival. -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:32 PM ET
Dame Edna : Celebrating 50 years on the stage, Dame Edna Everage is all smiles after she had been given the key to the City of Melbourne in a presentation outside the Melbourne Town Hall. (AFP/William West) -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:32 PM ET
Anti-pirate training : An Indonesian soldier fights a "pirate" during a joint naval exercise with their Singaporean counterparts on board a ship at a port in Jakarta. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo) -
AFP/DDP - Wed Aug 23, 8:32 PM ET
Multi-faceted : An employee of the Galerie Mennonitenkirche is reflected in the mirrors of a so-called mirror-room, one of the exhibits of the show "The Machines of Leonardo da Vinci" at the museum in Neuwied, southwestern Germany. (AFP/DDP/Torsten Silz) -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:32 PM ET
AIDS demo : A patient infected with HIV/AIDS protests in front of the Health Ministry in Lima. (AFP/Eitan Abramovich) -
AFP/DDP - Wed Aug 23, 8:31 PM ET
A380 in flight : An Airbus A380 overflies a cow paddock near the southern German airport of Oberpfaffenhofen. (AFP/DDP/Joerg Koch) -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:31 PM ET
Golan cowboy : 25-year-old Israeli cowboy Oran Amon rides his horse on the Golan Heights, near the Israeli kibbutz of Merom Golan by the Syrian border. (AFP/Gali Tibbon) -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:31 PM ET
Watching the skies : An auxiliary telescope of the European Austral Observatory (ESO) is seen in the early morning in Paranal, some 1100 km north of Santiago, Chile. (AFP/Martin Bernetti) -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:31 PM ET
Free kick : Arsenal's Robin Van Persie takes a free kick during their Champions League qualifying match against Dinamo Zagreb at home to Arsenal. Arsenal won 2-1. (AFP/Carl De Souza) -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:30 PM ET
Man vs. bull : Spanish matador Antonio Barrera makes a pass with capote on an El Pilar fighting bull, during the fifth corrida of the Aste Nagusia festivities, at the Vista Alegre bullring in Bilbao, northern Spain (AFP/Rafa Rivas) -
AFP - Wed Aug 23, 8:30 PM ET
Nueva Valencia resident : A villager points to her house near the shoreline contaminated by oil in Nueva Valencia on Guimaras island, after a tanker contracted by Petron, the Solar I, sank in rough seas 11 August while carrying 500,000 gallons of oil. (AFP/Joel Nito) -
AFP - Sun Aug 27, 7:58 PM ET
Fuel to the fire : A young Pakistani man adds fuel to the fire in the middle of the street during a demonstration in Karachi against the killing of tribal rebel chieftain Nawab Akbar Bugti. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum) -
AFP - Sun Aug 27, 7:57 PM ET
Guitar that rocked Benoni : Red Bull Box Cart Race competitor, The guitar that rocked Benoni, races down Jan Smuts avenue in Johannesburg, South Africa. (AFP/Gianluigi Guercia) -
AFP - Sun Aug 27, 7:57 PM ET
Taking the checkered flag : Brazilian Ferrari driver Felipe Massa steers his car to cross the finish line of the Istanbul racetrack during the Formula One Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul. Massa won ahead of Spanish Renault driver Fernando Alonso and German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher. (AFP/Mustafa Ozer) -
AFP - Sun Aug 27, 7:57 PM ET
Base jump : Belgian base jumper Johan Vervoort does a backflip as he launches himself from the 421-meter tall broadcasting tower, the landmark KL Tower in Kuala Lumpur. (AFP/Tengku Bahar)