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AFP - Sat Aug 19, 7:56 PM ET
Oil wrestlers : Bulgarian oil wrestlers (pehlivans) hold their hands before the start of a traditional oil wrestling competition, in the village of Karapelit, some 500 km East of Sofia. (AFP/Valentina Petrova) -
AFP - Sat Aug 19, 7:56 PM ET
Through the fields : Baby in arms, Indian tribal mothers walk through rice paddy fields at Jumpuijala, 35 kms east of Agartala, the capital of India's northeastern Tripura state. (AFP/Stringer ) -
AFP - Sat Aug 19, 7:55 PM ET
Weapon check : An Israeli soldier checks his weapon along the Israel-Lebanon border as he and his comrades get ready to enter southern Lebanon. (AFP/Gali Tibbon) -
AFP - Sat Aug 19, 7:50 PM ET
Across the bridge : Tiger Woods of the United States walks across the bridge to the 13th green during the 3rd round of the 2006 PGA Championship at Medinah Country Club, in Medinah, Illinois, US. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 8:45 PM ET
Sitting water : A Pakistani motorist drives his car through floodwaters after a heavy downpour. (AFP/Rizwan Tabassum) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 8:39 PM ET
Going up : Vicky Parnov of Australia jumps in the pole vault competition at the 11th IAAF Junior World Championships in Beijing. Yang Zhou of China jumped 4m 30cm to win with Tina Sutej of Slovakia in second with a jump of 4m.25cm and Parnov in third with a jump of 4m 20cm. (AFP/Peter Parks) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 8:35 PM ET
Eruption : Lava flows from the crater of restive Mayon volcano as seen from nearby city of Legazpi. (AFP/Jay Directo) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 8:29 PM ET
Oil view : A fisherman's wife view the shore contaminated by oil spill in the coastal area of Nueva Valencia town in Guimaras island. (AFP/Tara Yap) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 7:30 PM ET
Funeral procession : Coffins draped in Lebanese flags of civilians killed in last month's Israeli raids on the southern village of Qana are carried by Lebanese mourners during the mass funeral of the victims, including 16 children. (AFP/Ramzi Haidar) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 7:22 PM ET
Flag standing tall : A man holding up a Palestinian flag resists a spray of coloured water shot by an Israeli police water cannon vehicle used to disperse demonstrators staging a protest against the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin. (AFP/Abbas Momani) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 7:15 PM ET
Illegal stare : An illegal immigrant is pictured in a bus after he was intercepted along with a group of 62 illegal immigrants off the coast of Los Cristianos in the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife. (AFP/Desiree Martin) -
AFP/DDP - Fri Aug 18, 7:11 PM ET
Walking in art : A visitor walks inside the giant sculpture"Luminarium Levity II" by British artist Alan Parkinson. (AFP/DDP/Ronald Magunia) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 7:01 PM ET
Faces of Nasrallah : Pictures of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah are displayed for sale at a shop in the southern suburb of Beirut. (AFP/Oussama Ayoub) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 6:57 PM ET
Mini roar : An Indian veterinary doctor holds Bablu, a one month old jungle cat (L) and Bulu, a three week old leopard cub (R) at The Assam state Zoological Park in Guwahati. (AFP/Stringer ) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 6:55 PM ET
Liftoff : A boy jumps to the sea from the walls of the old city of Akko 18 August 2006 as life in Israel slowly returns to normal. (AFP/Hrjove Polan) -
AFP - Fri Aug 18, 6:47 PM ET
Ash town : Local residents walk through the devastated landscape of their village in Palictahua, in the side of the Tungurahua volcano, Ecuador. (AFP/Rodrigo Buendia) -
AFP - Sun Aug 20, 7:47 PM ET
Independence Day : A Papuan man dressed in a traditional Papuan costume participates in the 61st Indonesian Independence Day anniversary parade in Jakarta. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo) -
AFP - Sun Aug 20, 7:46 PM ET
Destroyed crop : Farmer Zheng Meifa shows his drought destroyed corn crop and fields caused by over 70 days without rain, near Bishan town, Chongqing Municipality. (AFP/Mark Ralston) -
AFP - Sun Aug 20, 7:46 PM ET
Parsi New Year : A Parsi woman walks past figures of "knights", guardians of a fire temple on the occasion of Navroze - the Parsi New Year in Mumbai. (AFP/Indranil Mukherjee) -
AFP - Sun Aug 20, 7:46 PM ET
Cleaning up : A Lebanese Christian woman, Josephine Assaf, cleans her heavily damaged house in the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, on the border with Israel. (AFP/Oussama Ayoub) -
AFP - Sun Aug 20, 7:46 PM ET
Oil and water : A villager is reflected in the contaminated sea water along the shore as the clean up continues of some of the spilled oil, in Nueva Valencia, in 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 - Sun Aug 20, 7:45 PM ET
Falling off : Czech Derbi rider Lukas Pesk (L) falls down during the 125cc race of the Czech Grand Prix in Brno. Aprilia rider Spanish Alvaro Bautista won the race ahead of Finland KTM rider Mika Kallio and Hungarian Honda rider Gabor Talmacsi. (AFP/Michal Cizek) -
AFP - Sun Aug 20, 7:45 PM ET
Surf's up! : French Jeremy Flores surfs a wave in the final of the Sooruz Lacanau Pro surf contest in Lacanau, Southern France. Australian Michaell Campbell won the contest ahead of Flores. (AFP/Jean-Pierre Muller) -
AFP - Sun Aug 20, 7:45 PM ET
Clearing the bar : Viktoria Leks of Estonia clears the bar in the women's high jump final in Beijing, at the 11th IAAF Junior World Championships. Leks finished seventh after clearing a height of 1.84 metres. (AFP/Frederic J. Brown) -
AFP - Sun Aug 20, 7:45 PM ET
Riding the wave : Australian Michaell Campbell surfs a wave during the final of the Sooruz Lacanau Pro surf contest, in Lacanau, Southern France. Campbell won the final ahead of French Jeremy Flores. (AFP/Jean-Pierre )