A police officer yawned as Chinese President Hu Jintao, unseen, delivered a speech Thursday to celebrate the country’s 30 years of market-driven economic strategy.
Athletes competed in a biathlon World Cup 20-kilometer individual race in Hochfilzen, Austria.
Brawling South Korean lawmakers tried to sledgehammer their way into a parliamentary meeting room barricaded by the ruling party.
Afghan children played in an empty pool in Kabul Thursday.
Protesters clashed with riot police in front of the parliament building in Athens Thursday.
Activists of the World Wildlife Fund protested Thursday in Brussels outside a meeting of EU fisheries ministers.
A worker cleaned the window of a building in Changzhi, Shanxi province, Thrusday.
Residents jumped into murky water to save a family from drowning Thursday in Manila.
A deadly strain of bird-flu virus was discovered in two counties of Jiangsu province, China, Thursday.
A woman carried a box as her bed in the South African border town of Musina. She is one of the thousand of Zimbabweans seeking asylum there.
A rainbow formed after a heavy downpour in Muzaffarabad, Kashmir.
Mainland Spain’s last statue of former dictator Francisco Franco was dismantled Thursday in Santander.
French high school students demonstrated in Marseille Thursday. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)
Slogans written by students were pictured outside Athens University during a demonstration in Athens Thursday. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)
Cuba’s President Raul Castro, left, and Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva watched met in Brasilia Thursday. (Jamil Bittar/Reuters)
People waited in line to receive toys, food, personal care and household items at A Miracle in Motown event Thrusday in Detroit. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A pilgrim offered a dollar bill to a Russian Orthodox priest Thursday at the Church of the Nativity. (David Silverman/Getty Images)
Prospective bidders roamed through a multi-family home up for auction Thursday in Hillside, N.J. (Julie Jacobson/Associated Press)
Third grader John St. Cyr spent time in a “stockade” during St. Luke’s Episcopal School’s annual Colonial Christmas Wednesday in Mobile, Ala. (Mike Kittrell/Press-Register via Associated Press)
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A woman drank coffee as she fed her cat in Kiev Wednesday. The Ukrainian hryvnia tumbled to a historic low Wednesday, prompting an aide to President Viktor Yushchenko to admit that 60% of credit likely won’t be paid back. The National Bank of Ukraine bought some of the currency Tuesday. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A man cleared snow off of a walkway Wednesday in Detroit, home to the Big Three automakers. The Senate rejected General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC’s $14 billion funding request last week. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Firefighters extinguished flames in an emergency-landing drill Wednesday at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia. (Firdia Lisnawati/Associated Press)
An accident investigator assessed a school-bus crash scene Wednesday in Frankton, Ind., after the bus collided with a car. No life-threatening injuries were reported in the crash, which was blamed on icy roads. (Michael Conroy/Associated Press)
Two freight trains collided Wednesday near Dresbach, Minn., sending an engine and some railcars plunging into the Mississippi River, authorities said. No serious injuries were reported. The cause is under investigation. (Peter Thomson/La Crosse Tribune via Associated Press)
Dennis Baltimore Jr. walked along a Long Beach, Calif., sidewalk Wednesday with a sign attached to him that read “I am a juvenile delinquent who should be punished.” The teen’s father assigned the punishment after the boy was suspended from high school for writing on school property. (Scott Smeltzer/Press-Telegram via Associated PressDennis)
Explosive and chemical experts checked a suspicious letter received at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid Wednesday. Envelopes containing white powder that later tested negative for toxins were mailed to 16 U.S. embassies in Europe this month, the State Department and FBI said. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Associated Press)
Michelle Bogardus, a biotechnician with the Cape Hatteras National Seashore U.S. National Park Service, waited with an endangered North Atlantic right whale. Officials planned to euthanize the whale, since it was too young to fend for itself in the ocean. (Chris Curry/The Virginian-Pilot via Associated Press)
Workers maneuvered a giant “9″ Wednesday that will be used for the New Year’s Eve countdown to 2009 at Times Square. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Women swam in near-freezing temperatures Wednesday in Rovaniemi, Finland. The two friends swim daily at 6:30 a.m. in any season. (Olivier Morin/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Flamingos splashed through an oasis of water surrounded by snow Wednesday at the Zurich Zoo. (Steffen Schmidt/European Pressphoto Agency)
A child played Wednesday at a Beijing recycling center where her mother works. The price of recycled raw materials has fallen about 50% during the global economic slowdown, according to some estimates. (Guang Niu/Getty Images)
Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant went up for a dunk Tuesday in a game against the New York Knicks in Los Angeles. Mr. Bryant scored 28 points to help his team rally from a 15-point halftime deficit. The Lakers edged out the Knicks 116-114. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
Soldiers attended a yoga class Wednesday during a training period in Lucknow, India. (Pawan Kumar/Reuters)
Kashmiri Muslims waited outside an India polling station Wednesday to cast their votes in state elections. Thousands of security forces protected voters across Jammu-Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, as separatists called a boycott. They claim the election will only strengthen India’s hold on the Himalayan region. (Dar Yasin/Associated Press)
Tribesmen perform the traditional Bara’a dance as they attended a gathering in Raida, Yemen, Wednesday. Elsewhere in Yemen, tribesmen holding three Germans hostage said they expect to reach a deal soon to release the captives. The kidnappers want two fellow tribesmen freed in exchange. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
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An ice bar was pictured Tuesday in Rovaniemi, Finland, where the Christmas season is in full swing. Close to 1 million tourist flocked to the area in 2007 to meet Santa and his elves. (Olivier Morin/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Jennifer Crutchfield was pictured covered from head to toe Tuesday as she waited at a light-rail transit stop in Dallas. Texas endured a cold snap as freezing air and ice made driving dangerous in some locations. (Jim Mahoney/The Dallas Morning via Associated Press)
The daughter of released prisoner Hadj Boudella cried as she waited for her father’s arrival Tuesday at a Sarajevo, Bosnia, airport. The U.S. sent three Algerian-born prisoners to their adopted homeland of Bosnia in the first release of Guantanamo Bay detainees under court order. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)
A crane installed a Christmas tree at Beijing’s National Stadium Tuesday. The holiday is becoming increasingly popular in China, along with Valentine’s Day and Halloween. (China Photos/Getty Images)
President-elect Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President-elect Joe Biden and newly named Education Secretary Arne Duncan, visited students Tuesday at Chicago’s Dodge Renaissance Academy. (Associated Press)
The Newly elected president of The Congress of the People, Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota, right, and his deputies waved to a crowd in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Tuesday. Mr. Lekota, a defector from the ruling party, told supporters “The history of South Africa will never be the same again.” (Paballo Thekiso/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Technicians measured the distance of two control points Tuesday between parts of Oresund Bridge that joins Sweden and Denmark after an earthquake hit Sweden in a rare occurence. (Stig-Ake Jonsson/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A worker walked at a Ukrainian gas compressor station and storage facility in Mryn Tuesday. Ukraine is engaged in delicate talks with Russia about the supply and pricing of Russian gas for 2009. (Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters)
A worker cleaned debris from a Christmas tree nursery Tuesday in Los Angeles. For stores across the country the holiday shopping season, traditionally a big contributor to the overall economy, promises grim tidings. Government figures show national retail sales down from the same time last year. (Jewel Samad/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Nude models stripped in near-freezing temperatures Monday outside a Paris municipal building in protest of an order to stop the practice of painters and sculptors giving tips to the models who pose nude for them. (Vincent Boisot/Associated Press)
Palestinians carried a body Tuesday in Yamoun, West Bank, during a funeral. Israeli troops killed the man, a suspected Palestinian militant. (Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)
French police secured the area outside a central Paris department store after dynamite was discovered Tuesday. A group demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan tipped off authorities to the explosives. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)
A worker prepared to destroy hundreds of illegal gambling machines confiscated by police during raids in Lima, Peru. (Karel Navarro/Associated Press)
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Children played with journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s shoes Monday outside his Baghdad, Iraq, house. Mr. Zeidi threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference Sunday. Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to demand Mr. Zeidi’s release after the incident. (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press)
A demonstrator threatened a riot police officer with a water gun Monday in Athens during continuing demonstrations over a teenaged boy’s shooting death by police. The young protesters pelted cops with flour and other objects, while police responded with tear gas. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Former Marine Tom Guyette, a diabetic, checked his blood sugar level by lamplight Monday in his Derry, N.H., kitchen. Mr. Guyette has been without power since Thursday night’s ice storm. Although utility crews came from as far away as South Carolina to help, 168,000 people are still without power in New Hampshire. (Cheryl Senter/Associated Press)
A couple looked at toys Monday at a Mumbai, India, beach stall. (Manish Swarup/Associated Press)
A U.S. soldier took a retinal scan of a refugee with assistance from an Iraqi soldier Monday in a neighborhood near Baghdad. Residents who fled the area over sectarian violence are being screened before they can re-enter the region. (Erik de Castro/Reuters)
Brazilian farmers with Paraguayan citizenship parked their tractors Monday along a major highway in Paraguay to demand government help. Paraguayan peasants have been occupying the farmland, threatening to drive out the Brazilians. (Jorge Adorno/Reuters)
FedEx Corp. workers sorted packages on a conveyor belt before loading them onto delivery trucks Monday — the company’s busiest day of the year — in New York. (Mark Lennihan/Associated Press)
Zimbabwean children picked up corn kernels that spilled on the roadside from a truck Sunday. According to the United Nations, the country will face a full-scale humanitarian emergency early next year with millions in need of food aid. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press)
A Siberian Husky waited to join other dogs for a ride Monday in Rovaniemi, Finland. Huskies were originally used as sled dogs in northern regions but are now also kept as pets. (Olivier Morin/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
President-elect Barack Obama shopped for a Christmas tree Sunday with his children, not pictured, in Chicago. Mr. Obama planned to formally announce his environmental and natural resources team Monday. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press)
A Moscow court sentenced seven young Russian men Monday for murdering 19 people in a string of hate attacks. Two of the defendants received 10-year sentences because they were minors at the time of the attacks. The longest term was 20 years. Prosecutors said the group videotaped some of their attacks. (Sergey Ponomarev/Associated Press)
Protesters vandalized a car coming out of parliament after lawmakers chose opposition party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as Thailand’s prime minister Monday. Supporters of the former government tried to block off the building. (Associated Press)
Israel released 224 Palestinian prisoners Monday as a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. A mother embraced her newly released son. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)
Workers gathered near a ship leaving Tianjin Port in China for Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Monday. Political rivals China and Taiwan started direct air, sea and other transport services Monday for the first time since the end of the Chinese civil war. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
A worker rolled a tire Monday in Sepang, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The world’s top three rubber-producing nations agreed Saturday to revive deflated prices by cutting next year’s exports and banning more sales until prices rebound nearly 25%. (Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters)
More than 2,000 people participated in the charity “Santa Claus Run” Sunday in Hamburg, Germany. (Fabian Bimmer/Associated Press)
Mist rose from a cooling pond at a power station near Melbourne, Australia, Monday. The government has committed to a plan to cut emissions in 2020 up to 15%, despite calls for a delay due to the global financial crisis. (Mick Tsikas/Reuters)
The first snow covered trees surrounding Kiev’s Monastery of Caves, which dates to the 11th century, Sunday. (Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press)
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Security personnel dragged away a Kenyan journalist as President Mwai Kibaki delivered a speech Friday for Independence Day. Police arrested 23 journalists and activists who have been protesting against a bill they say limits press freedom. (Khalil Senosi/Associated Press)
An Iranian woman waved a flag reading “Jerusalem is ours” and held a poster of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah during a protest Friday in Tehran against an Israeli Gaza Strip blockade. Mr. Nasrallah slammed President-elect Barack Obama’s criticism of Hezbollah. (Atta Kenare/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Indian Muslim women formed a human chain on a Mumbai, India, street Friday. Residents have been gathering around some of the recently attacked areas to pressure the government for security changes. (Arko Datta/Reuters)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke Friday at the Kremlin in Moscow during Constitution Day. A heckler interrupted Mr. Medvedev, saying proposed constitutional changes to extend the presidential terms are a disgrace. The Russian leader acknowledged U.S.-Russia relations are “not at their peak,” but expressed optimism they would improve. (Natalia Kolesnikova/Reuters)
Monsignors, a reverend and a professor held a bioethics news conference Friday at the Vatican. The Vatican reiterated its opposition to embryonic stem-cell research, the morning-after pill, in-vitro fertilization and human cloning. However, in a document, the Vatican said it approved of stem-cell research using adult cells and some forms of gene therapy. (Riccardo De Luca/Associated Press)
Demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails at riot officers Friday in Athens, engulfing an officer in flames; the officer suffered minor wounds. Police responded with stun grenades and tear gas during the seventh straight day of riots triggered by the police killing of a teenager. (John Kolesidis/Reuters)
Lorene Parker looked through the window of her Detroit home, which is in foreclosure. Ms. Parker said she fell behind on her Bank of America Corp. mortgage due to mounting medical bills from a double transplant of the heart and liver. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Fishermen hauled in a net Thursday in Accra, Ghana. Unfortunately, the catch consisted mostly of garbage swept into the sea by rains. The beach also serves as a dumping ground for the densely populated area. (Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press)
The Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra performed its annual Christmas concert Friday at a concert hall in Magura Cave near Sofia, Bulgaria. The concert was the third to take placed in the cave, a protected site. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)
Royal Ballet dancers rehearsed “The Nutcracker” at the Royal Opera House in London Friday. The holiday favorite will be broadcast at select movie theaters in London, Germany and Spain. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stood at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan Thursday. Mr. Gates said the U.S. will pour thousands of troops into Afghanistan by next summer, and can expect to commit a sustained force for several more years. (Scott Olson/Reuters)
A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed a petition Thursday in Caracas in favor of a proposed constitutional amendment to abolish term limits. (Fernando Llano/Associated Press)
The Dalai Lama greeted thousands of people who came to hear him speak in a Warsaw sports arena Thursday. The Tibetan spiritual leader met with Polish President Lech Kaczynski Wednesday, drawing criticism from China. (Alik Keplicz/Associated Press)
A now-sparsely populated forest was pictured Thursday in Madagascar. The area of Manantenia now lies barren and unfit to sustain crops. (Gregoire Pourtier/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A staircase from the World Trade Center was moved to its final resting place at Ground Zero in New York Thursday. It is known as the “Survivor’s Staircase,” as it served as an escape route for people fleeing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)
A South Ossetian family cooked on a woodstove in their Tskhinvali apartment Thursday. Essentials such as heating and runing water remain in a poor state since the August conflict (Kazbek Basayev/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A worker checked oilfield pipes Wednesday in preparation for oil and gas exploration in Yilong, Sichuan province, China. The country’s November crude oil imports hit the lowest level this year amid the global economic recession. (Reuters)
A woman cried as workers tore down her Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, home Wednesday. Homeowners claim officials are forcefully evicting them to reap the benefits of real estate deals. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace, attended the funeral of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front political leader Elliot Manyika Thursday in Harare, Zimbabwe. Amid calls for his resignation, Mr. Mugabe said Thursday his government has stopped a deadly cholera outbreak. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
An injured girl was rushed to a hospital Thursday after a suicide bomber killed at least 55 people at a restaurant near Kirkuk, Iraq. Kurdish officials were meeting with Arab tribal leaders to discuss long-standing ethnic tensions. (Marwan Ibrahim/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A woman was locked up in a transparent suitcase with a sticker reading “stop human trafficking” on a luggage belt at a Munich airport Thursday. Amnesty International staged the event to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. (Oliver Lang/DDP/Agence-France Presse)
A delegate walked past a polar bear dummy at the entrance of the United Nations climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, Thursday. The sign references the polar bears’ plight in the face of global warming. Representatives are negotiating a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived for the first day of European Council summit in Brussels Thursday. Participants at the two-day European Union summit will try to hammer out a climate change package and details of a joint economic stimulus package. (John Thys/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Jubilant Republic Windows & Doors factory workers in Chicago celebrated Wednesday after voting to approve a $1.75 million deal, ending a six-day sit-in. Bank of America agreed to extend a loan to Republic in order to give severance pay to the laid-off workers, who cheered “Yes we can.” (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune via Associated Press)
Laborers worked at a construction site of a temporary bridge over the Ganges River in Allahabad, India, Thursday. Despite the economic slowdown, the World Bank expects India’s economic growth to expand 5.8% next year and 7.7% in 2010. (Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)
Birds that are believed to have migrated from Siberia flew over Haryana, India, Thursday. (Amit Gupta/Reuters)
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A Russian Orthodox Christian held a candle up to a picture of the late Patriarch Alexy II inside Moscow’s Epiphany Cathedral Wednesday. The post-Soviet religious leader was buried Tuesday. (Alexey Sazonov/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Supporters of late Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet shouted slogans outside a Santiago church where a Mass was held Wednesday to commemorate the second anniversary of his death. The dictator is blamed for the deaths of some 3,200 dissidents during his 1973-1990 rule. (Claudio Santana/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A member of the human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo protested outside the Buenos Aires government building Wednesday, demanding to know the whereabouts of their children detained during Argentina’s dictatorship. (Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press)
Opposition activists wearing mock prison attire marched outside the Belarusian KGB’s headquarters in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday. Police arrested dozens of activists after a series of protests marking International Human Rights Day. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press)
Amazonian Koruba tribe members rallied Wednesday in Brazil as their country’s Supreme Court continues to debate whether the vast Raposa Serra do Sol reservation will be broken up to benefit large-scale rice farmers. (Eraldo Peres/Associated Press)
Fatiha Houssaini, the wife of Omar Maarouf, protested her husband’s death sentence Wednesday outside the Council of Human Rights in Casablanca, Morocco. Mr. Maarouf was convicted of deadly 2003 bombings in the city. (Abdelhak Senna/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
President George W. Bush met with Halima Bashir — who was tortured and gang-raped in Darfur — at the Oval Office Wednesday. The president praised the author, who covered herself for fear of retaliation. Mr. Bush said Sudan’s president must be held accountable for the five-year conflict that the United Nations estimates has claimed up to 300,000 lives and displaced 2.5 million. Sudan claims the figures are exaggerated. (Chris Kleponis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A 3-year-old girl stood in her Baghdad, Iraq, home Monday. Her young life changed when a car bomb exploded in 2006 near her father’s car, killing her mother. (Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press)
From left to right, Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, U.S. Nobel prize chemistry laureate Martin Chalfie, French Nobel prize medicine laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and Japanese Nobel prize chemistry laureate Osamu Shimomura, right, attended the Nobel Prize banquet Wednesday at the Stockholm City Hall. Finnish mediator Martti Ahtisaari accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with a plea to President-elect Barack Obama to start pressing for Middle East peace. (Henrik Montgomery/Scanpix Sweden via Associated Press)
Little Angel Brodie points while attending a homecoming parade in Stirling, Scotland, Wednesday. The soldiers returned from a six-month deployment in Afghanistan. (David Moir/Reuters)
About 400 people held candles and chanted slogans Wednesday at a Taipei, Taiwan, prison in protest of former President Chen Shui-bian’s detention. Mr. Chen was jailed Nov. 12 on suspicion of money laundering, taking bribes and other offenses. He said he’s being persecuted for his anti-China stance. (Wally Santana/Associated Press)
A riot police officer standing near flames threw tear gas Wednesday during rioting in Thessaloniki, Greece. The violence comes after police fatally shot a 15-year-old boy Saturday in Athens. (Nikolas Giakoumidis/Associated Press)
Police officers escorted suspected Basque ETA members to an airport Wednesday. French antiterrorism police arrested the group’s alleged military chief and two other ETA suspects Monday in Gerde, France, after receiving an intelligence tip. (Bob Edme/Associated Press)
Health workers donned masks and protective suits to dispose of dead chickens at a Hong Kong market Wednesday, a day after authorities raised the bird flu alert level to “serious” after an outbreak at a farm. The outbreak was the city’s first in five years, despite mass bird vaccinations. (Woody Wu/Reuters)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev shook hands with Argentine President Cristina Kirchner Wednesday at the Kremlin. According to Russia’s energy minister, Moscow will give LUKOIL political backing in its quest for a stake in the Spanish-Argentine company Repsol, should the large private oil company ask for help. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Harare, Zimbabwe, residents waited to collect drinking water Wednesday. About 775 Zimbabweans have died and 16,141 have become ill due to the waterborne bacteria cholera, according to the United Nations. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
A newlywed couple walked in the snow Wednesday at a Milan park. Italy has endured extreme weather swings — floods in Venice, strong winds fanning wildfires in the south and snow in the north. The snow temporarily closed one of Milan’s two airports Wednesday. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)
A picture released Wednesday by the European Space Agency shows an artist’s impression of the Jupiter-size extrasolar planet “HD 189733b” being eclipsed by its parent star. (Reuters/European Space Agency/NASA/M. Kornmesser )
December 9, 2008 Published ~ 4 years ago.
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Chinese Muslims waited to buy mutton skewers during Eid al-Adha outside a Shanghai mosque Tuesday. Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha by the sacrificial killing of sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail. (Aly Song/Reuters)
President-elect Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President-elect Joe Biden and former Vice President Al Gore met in Chicago Tuesday. Mr. Obama spent the day dealing with news that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich allegedly tried to sell the president-elect’s now-vacant Senate seat. “I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening,” Mr. Obama said. (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)
Blind children waited for free medical treatment at a Vembar, India, clinic Tuesday. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)
A man took a break Tuesday after eating at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, where hundreds of people receive food and supplies daily in Detroit. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Residents visited the graves of members of the Shiite Mehdi army militia in Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday during Muslim Eid al-Adha festivals. (Ali Abu Shish/Reuters)
The family of Ibrahim Abid, 78, who was killed by Blackwater security guards, visited his grave Tuesday in Baghdad, Iraq. Wild, unprovoked gunfire and grenades killed 14 civilian Iraqis and hurt dozens more in the September 2007 attack, prosecutors said Monday while announcing charges against five guards. (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press)
Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (right) and Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter spoke to the media Tuesday while visiting a point that overlooks Gaza. Polls in recent weeks show the Likud Party, headed by Ms. Livni, leading upcoming parliamentary elections. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
A German court sentenced Yusef Mohammed al-Hajj Dib, 24, for multiple counts of attempted murder Tuesday for his part in a failed bid to blow up passenger trains in 2006. (Henning Kaiser/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
A man showed a picture of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15, at the parliament building in Athens Tuesday. The opposition wants government officials to resign after nationwide riots sparked by the police killing of the 15-year-old boy. About 6,000 people attended Alexandros’ funeral Tuesday, where clashes also broke out with riot police. The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear, but two officers were arrested. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid his last respects to Patriarch Alexy II Tuesday at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The 79-year-old guided the church after decades of Communist-era rule. (Vladimir Rodionov/RIA Novosti via Associated Press)
Angry minibus taxi operators set fire to garbage cans during a march in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday in protest of a proposed rapid bus system to prepare the country for the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup. The operators claim the system would cut their earnings. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters)
A search resumed Tuesday for a missing child amid the wreckage of a military fighter jet that crashed in a residential San Diego area. A mother, her baby and a grandmother were killed on the ground; the pilot ejected and ended up suspended by his parachute in a tree. According to a congressional aide, the jet lost power. (Ron Belanger/You Witness News via Reuters)
Former North Korean defectors rallied Tuesday in Seoul, showing a poster of a North Korean child reportedly suffering from famine. The country has allegedly executed defectors who were captured in China. (Lee Jin-man/Associated Press)
A scuba diver swam toward a school of giant barracudas at Barracuda Point off the Malaysian island of Sipadan Tuesday. (David Loh/Reuters)
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Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims moved around the Kaaba, the black cube at center, inside the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday. (Hassan Ammar/Associated Press)
A goat leapt in the air as a Palestinian youth dragged it to be slaughtered on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Ramallah, West Bank, Monday. Muslims world-wide are celebrating the Feast of the Sacrifice, commemorating God’s gift of a ram to substitute for Abraham’s impending sacrifice of his son. Muslims offer a goat, sheep, cow, buffalo, or camel during the feast rituals. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)
Muslim pilgrims cast seven stones at a pillar symbolizing Satan in Mena, Saudi Arabia, Monday. More than two million Muslim pilgrims headed to Muzdalifa Sunday to cast stones at the devil in the most dangerous part of the hajj pilgrimage. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters )
Protesters shouted slogans from a balcony at the Greek consulate in Berlin Monday, demonstrating against the fatal shooting of a Greek teenager by police in Athens over the weekend. Around 15 demonstrators occupied the Greek consulate in Berlin to protest the shooting, which has triggered three days of riots in cities across Greece. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters )
A Congolese army soldier inspected a truck Monday in the rebel zone, near Kibati, in the Nord-Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Congolese rebels opened peace negotiations with a government delegation in Nairobi in their first direct talks on ending the conflict. (Pascal Guyot/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Laborers worked on the construction of a water tank in Jammu, in India’s Kashmir region, Monday. (Amit Gupta/Reuters)
Students took part in a student-day demonstration inside Tehran University in Iran Sunday. (Reuters)
People looked at burnt military vehicles on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday. For a second night, Pakistani Taliban torched dozens of containers full of supplies meant for Western forces in Afghanistan, in a brazen raid on the outskirts of Peshawar, officials and witnesses said. (Ali Imam/Reuters )
Policemen rode newly equipped Harley-Davidson motorcycles during their patrols in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Monday. (Paul Zhang/Reuters)
Girls walked on Khreshatik Street, the central street of Kiev, during a snowfall in the Ukrainian capital Monday. (Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
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Elephants got a bath at Rapti River before taking part in the finals of the 27th World Elephant Polo Championship in Nepal Friday. (Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters)
A young Russian Orthodox believer lit a candle during a service Friday at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow in memory of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II who died Friday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
A service in honor of the late Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexiy II was held in Moscow Friday. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
Afghan men restrained a dog moments before a dog-fighting match in Kabul Friday. (David Furst/AFP/Getty Images)
Children carried bread, fuel cans and medical supplies in Amman, Jordan, Friday during a protest against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. (Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)
Portugal’s Alexandrina Barbosa, left, reached over Spain’s Elisabet Chavez in a preliminary match in the Eighth Women’s Handball European Championships Friday in Ohrid, Macedonia. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)
Members of the Russian Communist Party rallied in Moscow Friday to commemorate that date the constitution of the Soviet Union, drafted by leader Josef Stalin, was adopted in 1936. (Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP/Getty Images)
Firefighters battled the flames of an explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday. At least 20 people were killed and scores injured when a car bomb exploded on a busy street in the northwestern Pakistani city. (Tariq Mahmood/AFP/Getty Images)
A competitor in the Wales Rally of Great Britain wound a path through Welsh forests in the Myherin stage of the race Friday. Bad weather Friday led to the shortening of the route Friday, the first full day of the race. The series wraps up Sunday in Cardiff. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)
Young men disguised in masks and costumes of straw ran from door to door at dusk Friday in the southern German city of Bischofswiesen. The Bavarian highlands tradition, dating back to pagan times, is supposed to drive away the evil spirits of winter in the darkest time of the year. (Diether Endlicher/Associated Press)
Thailand marked King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 81st birthday on Friday. (Kerek Wongsa/Reuters)
Students and teachers in the northern Indian city of Lucknow made a human chain to pay homage to the victims of Mumbai’s recent terrorist attacks. (Pawan Kumar/Reuters)
Muslim pilgrims flooded into the holy city of Mecca Friday. (Hassan Ammar/Associated Press)
A Palestinian youth threw stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Hebron Friday. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press)
Iraqi police officers stood outside a destroyed police station in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday. Two suicide bombers took aim at police stations in the city, killing at least 17 people. (Bilal Fawzi/Associated Press)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the presidential palace in New Delhi Friday. (Ria Novosti/Reuters)
Layers are seen in the rocks inside four Mars craters. (NASA/Associated Press)
Clients surrounded a camel at a market in Birqash, Egypt, Friday. (Amr Nabil/Associated Press).
A Christmas tree was installed at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican Friday. (Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images)
Friday, June 29, 2012
Memories of 2008 in photos
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