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AFP - Fri Aug 11, 7:45 PM ET
Peace candle : A Bangladeshi child holds a candle during an anti-war protest in Dhaka. (AFP/Farjana Godhuly) -
AFP - Fri Aug 11, 7:41 PM ET
Hurdlers : Athletes compete during the Men's 3000m Steeplechase final at the 19th European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. Finland's Jukka Keskisalo won ahead of Spain's Jose Luis Blanco and France's Bouabdellah Tahri. (AFP/Jeff Haynes) -
AFP - Fri Aug 11, 7:37 PM ET
Fire watcher : A villager watches a wildfire near Torona.More than 100 fires still raged out of control across northwestern mainly agricultural and wooded Galicia region, where 25,000 acres have gone up in flames in the past week. (AFP/Migeul Riopa) -
AFP - Fri Aug 11, 7:33 PM ET
Water boy : Georgian boy cools himself in a fountain as the temperature reached the 40 degrees Centigrade in Tbilisi. (AFP/Vano Sclamov) -
AFP - Fri Aug 11, 7:32 PM ET
Dancinn' hands : A couple dancing to Afro-Cuban music hold hands at a local latin club in Calle Ocho (8th street), the main street of the Little Havana district in the early morning. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt) -
AFP - Fri Aug 11, 6:43 PM ET
Guns and girls : Young girls look up at armed police at Gatwick airport, after security was stepped up to critical level, following an attempted terrorist bomb threat on a transatlantic flight. (AFP/Carl de Souza) -
AFP - Fri Aug 11, 6:39 PM ET
Hands in the air : Pakistani Shiite Muslims raise their hands and chant slogans during an anti-Israel protest rally. (AFP/Rizawan Tabassum) -
Reuters - Fri Aug 11, 6:17 PM ET
Performers from Italy's Kataklo Athletic Dance Theatre balance on bicycles for photographers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 9, 2006 The festival will runs until August 28, 2006. REUTERS/David Moir -
Reuters - Wed Aug 9, 10:09 AM ET
A Willow tit (Parus montanus) bird hangs from a sunflower while feeding in Studencice village August 9, 2006. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic (SLOVENIA) -
AP - Thu Aug 10, 9:55 AM ET
A woman admires a straw pig nearby the small village of Muxall, in northern Germany, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006. The villages of the Probstei region, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of Hamburg take part in building straw figures featuring animals and farmers' technical equipment in a straw sculpture competition. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper) -
Reuters - Fri Aug 11, 10:06 AM ET
A Swedish fan with a painted face waves the Swedish flag during a rain delay at the European athletics championships in Gothenburg (Goteborg), August 11, 2006. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (SWEDEN) -
AFP - Fri Aug 11, 2:00 AM ET
Santa Claus arrives at Harrods department store in central London with a real zebra and some fake snow. Blazing the trail for other London shops, Christmas World opened at Harrods this week just as Britons had finished mopping their brows after a heatwave -- July being the hottest month in Britain since 1914(AFP/Shaun Curry) -
Reuters - Fri Aug 11, 3:38 AM ET
A visitor touches a spider-shaped artwork made of scrap car lamps during the Automobile Art Festival in Jinan, east China's Shandong province August 11, 2006. The exhibition showcases sculptures made by artists using scrap automobile materials. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA) -
AFP/Pool - Sun Aug 13, 8:02 PM ET
Face of Africa : Venantia from Namibia, 19, poses after winning the 2006 Face of Africa competition in Sun City. (AFP/Pool/Cobus Bodenstein) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 8:01 PM ET
Moving in : An Israeli Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) rolls towards south Lebanon along at the Israel-Lebanon border. (AFP/Denis Sinyakov) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 8:01 PM ET
Guarding the web : A spider guards his web covered by the morning dew on a field near Colilia village (230km east from Bucharest) in the romanian historical region of Dobrogea. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 8:01 PM ET
Keeping watch : Farmer Wilfredo Azures, 34, keeps watch over the restive Mayon volcano, from his house in Matanag village located in the eight-kilometre (five-mile) danger zone. (AFP/Romeo Gacad) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 8:01 PM ET
Through the window : The moon shines through a window of Colilia nunnery (230km east from Bucharest). (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 8:00 PM ET
Cleaning up : A nun cleans the steps of the bell tower of the Colilia nunery (230km east from Bucharest). (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 8:00 PM ET
Rainy day : A woman walks under rain at Deauville's beach, in Normandy. (AFP/Mychele Daniau) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 8:00 PM ET
At the shelter : A Lebanese man carries tomatoes at a school turned into a shelter for displaced people in Beirut. (AFP/Laura Boushnak) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 8:00 PM ET
Bush, Barney, and Ms. Beazley : US President George W. Bush walks off Air Force One carrying the family pets Barney (R) and Ms. Beazley as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. (AFP/Jim Watson) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 7:59 PM ET
Eco-fashion : A model showcases a design by Indonesian fashion designer Hasnah Gasim during the World Eco-Fibre fashion show in downtown Kuala Lumpur. (AFP/Tengku Bahar) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 7:59 PM ET
Landing the jump : Russia's Lyudmila Kolchanova competes to win the Women's Long Jump final at the 19th European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. Russia's Lyudmila Kolchanova won ahead of Portugual's Naide Gomes and fellow country woman Oksana Udmurtova. (AFP/Adrian Dennis) -
AFP - Sun Aug 13, 7:58 PM ET
After the strike : A Lebanese rescue worker extinguishes fire following Israeli bombardment in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah. (AFP/Patrick Baz)