Picture News 5
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AFP - Tue Aug 8, 9:43 PM ET
Long jump : Britain's Greg Rutherford competes during the Men's Long Jump at the 19th European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. (AFP/Oliver Morin) -
AFP - Tue Aug 8, 9:43 PM ET
Empty reservoir : A boat sits in Entrepenas's reservoir, in Sacedon, near Guadalajara, during a severe drought. (AFP/Pedro Armestre) -
AFP - Tue Aug 8, 9:43 PM ET
Sandy landing : Italy's Andrew Howe competes during the Men's Long Jump at the 19th European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. (AFP/Adrian Dennis) -
AFP - Tue Aug 8, 9:42 PM ET
Admiring the Moon : People admire the moon as it rises over Cape Sounio, some 60 kilometers south of Athens, Greece. -
AFP - Tue Aug 8, 9:42 PM ET
Bomb shelter : Israeli residents nap in a bomb shelter in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya. (AFP/David Furst) -
AFP - Tue Aug 8, 9:42 PM ET
Tears in Beirut : Lebanese Badiaa, Umm Hassan (mother of Hassan), cries in her flat destroyed the previous day by Israeli bombardment in Shiah, a suburb of southern Beirut. (AFP/Patrick Baz) -
AFP/DDP - Tue Aug 8, 9:42 PM ET
Fluid motion : Dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Company and its soloist Fang-Yi Sheu (behind, in white) perform during a rehearsal at the Hamburg State Opera. (AFP/DDP/Roland Magunia) -
AFP/DDP - Tue Aug 8, 9:41 PM ET
Dress rehearsal : Fang-Yi Sheu, soloist of the Martha Graham Dance Company, performs during a rehearsal at the Hamburg State Opera. (AFP/DDP/Roland Magunia) -
AFP/DDP - Tue Aug 8, 9:41 PM ET
Fang-Yi Sheu : Fang-Yi Sheu, soloist of the Martha Graham Dance Company, performs during a rehearsal at the Hamburg State Opera. (AFP/DDP/Roland Magunia) -
AFP - Tue Aug 8, 9:41 PM ET
Winning jump : Italy's Andrew Howe competes during the Men's Long Jump at the 19th European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. Howe won ahead of Britains' Greg Rutherford and Ukraine's Oleksiy Lukashevych. (AFP/Adrian Dennis) -
AFP/DDP - Tue Aug 8, 9:41 PM ET
Great grey : Two great grey owls sit at their new owls' castle at the bird park in Walsrode, northwestern Germany. (AFP/DDP/David Hecker) -
AFP - Tue Aug 8, 9:40 PM ET
Funeral in Sri Lanka : Sri Lankan relatives grieve as they near coffins holding the bodies of S. Ganesh (54) and G. Kavitha (27) during a funeral at Trincomalee. (AFP/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi) -
Reuters - Tue Aug 8, 7:21 PM ET
Dancers from the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg perform during the show 'Requiem' in the northern Spanish town of Santander August 8, 2006. REUTERS/Victor Fraile (SPAIN) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 9, 1:07 AM ET
A surfer watches the sun set as he waits for the next set of waves during a summers evening on the Pacific Ocean in Solana Beach, California August 8, 2006. REUTERS/Mike Blake(UNITED STATES) -
AP - Wed Aug 9, 4:14 PM ET
Sculptor Sharon BuMann, of Central Square, N.Y., creates the 'Butter Cow' sculpture using 700 pounds of butter in the Dairy Barn at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ill., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. BuMann creates a different pose for the sculpture each year. The Illinois State Fair is scheduled to start Friday, Aug 11. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) -
Reuters - Wed Aug 9,10:34 AM ET
Performers from Italy's Kataklo Athletic Dance Theatre pose in formation for photographers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9, 2006. The festival will run until August 28, 2006. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN) -
AP - Tue Aug 8, 8:02 PM ET
Bikers attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally weave their way through some curves on Iron Mountain Road, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, near Custer, S.D. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer) -
AP - Mon Aug 7, 4:52 AM ET
Downtown skyscrapers are reflected on the front windshield of a Metro bus in Tokyo, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006. Scorching heat beat Metro area as temperture goes up to 32.5 Celsius (90.5 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) -
Reuters - Tue Aug 8, 8:32 AM ET
A worker inspects the roof of a beer tent at the construction site for the 173rd Oktoberfest in Munich, August 8, 2006. The world's biggest beer festival starts September 16 and will last until October 3, 2006. REUTERS/Alexandra Winkler (GERMANY) -
AFP - Thu Aug 10, 9:51 PM ET
Obrador supporter : A supporter of defeated Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, with a sticker on his mouth (reading: "No to Electoral Fraud. Lopez Obrador President"), takes part in a demonstration at the entrance of the National Attorney Office in Mexico City. (AFP/Alfredo Estrella) -
AFP - Thu Aug 10, 9:51 PM ET
In mourning : An Israeli-Arab woman, relative of 26-yuear-old Mariam Asadi, grieves during a joint funeral for Asadi and her five-year-old son, Fathi, in the Arab town of Deir Al-Assad in northern Israel. (AFP/David Furst) -
AFP - Thu Aug 10, 9:51 PM ET
Major's birthday : Major, an orangutan in captivity at the La Boissiere-du-Dore Zoo, blows out his 44th birthday candles on a cake prepared by his keeper. (AFP/Frank Perry) -
AFP - Thu Aug 10, 9:51 PM ET
Fleeing Beirut : A Lebanese girl and her family sit inside a bus as they flee the southern suburbs of Beirut, after Israel warned people still living in south Beirut to flee the heavily bombarded area immediately. (AFP/Patrick Baz) -
AFP - Thu Aug 10, 9:50 PM ET
Election reflection : A man sporting sunglasses reflects papers with fake election results, in Kinshasa. (AFP/Lionel Healing) -
AFP - Thu Aug 10, 9:50 PM ET
On patrol : A US Infantry soldier stands out of his armored vehicle during a patrol in Baghdad's Dura street. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)