CAPTAIN TAREK DREAM: Memories Of 2010

LET'S MOVE TO MARCH 2010 NOW

SAILORS: Sailors attended a ceremony for the departure of the 19,000-ton, nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great from Severomorsk, Russia, Tuesday. The vessel was en route to military exercises at sea.

GATHERING AT THE GANGES: Hindus gathered on the banks of the River Ganges for evening rituals during the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, India, Tuesday.

SWIMMING THROUGH: Fly fishermen pursued fish near Missoula, Mont., Tuesday.

TAKEOUT: A security personnel member ate at the Wangjialing mine in Shanxi province, China, Wednesday. A government safety body said mine officials ignored safety rules and danger warnings, leading to a flood that has trapped 153 workers since the weekend.

SPLATTERED: A riot policeman’s helmet was splashed with red paint during a demonstration in Athens Tuesday. Debt-strapped Greece toughened austerity measures this month amid its financial crisis.

RESCUED: Fireman Brian Poland carried Phyllis Rego to dry land in a flooded East Providence, R.I., neighborhood Tuesday. Facing some of the worst flooding in years, every Rhode Island resident was asked to conserve water and electricity because of flooded sewage systems and electrical substations.

SUICIDE JUMP: The body of a 21-year-old man who apparently jumped to his death from the Empire State Building in New York was removed Tuesday. More than 30 people have committed suicide at the 102-story skyscraper since it opened in 1931.

CLOSER TO CHRIST: Orthodox Christians prayed with their head on a stone slab in a chapel inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City Wednesday. Christians are flocking to the site during Holy Week.

SELLING SANDALS: A vendor sold flip-flops bearing the face of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva during a political rally in Bangkok Wednesday. Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s “red-shirt” protesters are planning another mass march this week to call for new elections.

DIVING IN: A student jumped into the sea in Larantuka, Indonesia, Wednesday.

JUST SLAM: The Philadelphia 76ers’s Andre Iguodala went up for a dunk during a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Philadelphia Tuesday. Oklahoma won 111-93.

YOUNG FOLLOWER: A child prepared to participate in the procession of the Jesus del Via Crucis brotherhood during Holy Week in Zamora, Spain, Tuesday.

ON STRIKE: A worker from Spain’s national railway company Renfe blew a toy horn during a strike at the Atocha station in Madrid Wednesday. The strike disrupted millions of travelers on their Holy Week vacation. Workers are protesting the reclassification of jobs.

TWO PRESIDENTS: President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy held a joint news conference at the White House Tuesday. Mr. Obama said he hopes to have international sanctions against Iran in place within weeks.

HOPPING OFF: A man climbed down a bus bearing a painting of King David in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday.

DIGGING OUT: A motorist dug snow from around his vehicle near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Wednesday. Scotland and Northern Ireland were battered by snow, gale force winds and torrential rain, leaving thousands of people without power and causing havoc on roads.
MONKEYING AROUND: A man dressed up as a monkey took part in a procession during Hanuman Jayanti celebrations in New Delhi Tuesday. Hanuman Jayanti marks the birthday of Lord Hanuman, the monkey god.

A SMASHING TIME: A European Organization for Nuclear Research scientist celebrated Tuesday in Geneva after the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, directed two proton beams into each other at three times more force than ever before.

GOING PUBLIC: Executives from Joyou, a Chinese company that manufactures bathroom and kitchen fixtures, witnessed their company’s initial public offering at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Tuesday.

was presented to the media by police in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday. Police arrested three people and seized explosives and detonators.

LADIES IN BLACK: Women participated in a procession of the Gitanos brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian city of Malaga, Spain, Monday.

CLOSER TO JESUS: A woman passed a graffiti painting of Jesus during a Holy Week procession in Guatemala City Monday.

BY HIS BEDSIDE: Tan Changhua sang for her husband Wang Maohua at a hospital in Liuyang, Hunan province, China, Monday. Mr. Wang and his father-in-law suffered severe burns in a gas explosion while saving children from a fire on March 21.

IN MOURNING: A woman cried at Lubyanka subway station in Moscow Tuesday. Vladimir Putin vowed to “drag out of the sewer” the masterminds of Monday’s twin suicide bombings that killed 39 people and left scores wounded.

NOXIOUS GAS: Officials manned a roadblock near Taylorsville, Ind., where leaking anhydrous ammonia, possibly caused by methamphetamine makers, led authorities to evacuate several neighborhoods.

NIGHT SCENE: People walked along a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday.

WALKING IN THE RAIN: Pedestrians made their way through New York’s Times Square in the rain Monday. A rainstorm has been pounding the Northeast.

DANCING BEAUTIES: Ballet Nacional de Cuba dancers rehearsed for a production of “Swan Lake” at the London Coliseum Tuesday.

READY TO MARCH: A school marching band waited to perform during halftime at a basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and New Jersey Nets in East Rutherford, N.J., Monday. The Nets won 90-84.

FIELD OF FLOWERS: Tecolote ranunculus flowers bloomed at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, Calif., Monday.

A STORM BREWS: Fisherman sat in a boat as clouds hovered over the Brahmaputra River before a thunderstorm in Gauhati, India, Tuesday.

GONE SURFING: Kitesurfers competed in the freestyle category of a national competition in Cartagena, Colombia, Monday.
DEEP THOUGHT: University of Tennessee’s Melvin Goins sat in a locker room after his team’s 70-69 loss to Michigan State in a Midwest Regional basketball game Sunday in St. Louis.

CHRIST-LIKE: Actors performed in the annual “Mystery of Christ’s Passion” in Poznan, Poland, Saturday.

LEANING ON THE CROSS: An elderly woman leaned on a stone cross during a Palm Sunday memorial for the deceased in Frumusani, Romania. People light fires at graves and shared food and memories of their relatives.

MENNONITES MOURN: On Sunday, Caroline Miller mourned Ashlie Kramer, one of 11 people killed Friday in Horse Cave, Ky., when a tractor-trailer collided head-on with a family van en route to a wedding.

IN SHOCK: Injured commuters awaited medical care at Park Kultury subway station in Moscow Monday after two women blew themselves up in separate subway attacks.

HOUSE OF CARDS: A model presented a creation by On Aura Tout Vu at the first-ever Georgian Fashion Week in Tbilisi Sunday.

PLATFORM SHOES: A Tamil Hindu wore footwear made of nails and wood during a “Panguni Uthiram” religious procession in Bhopal, India, Monday. The festival celebrates the wedding of important deities in the Hindu religion.

DIG IN: Crocodile “Rex,” estimated to be 30 to 40 years old, was fed at Sydney Wildlife World Monday.

POPPING BOTTLES: Jenson Button celebrated his Formula One Australian Grand Prix win Sunday in Albert Park, Australia. Mr. Button survived a first-corner collision to win.

BEATEN BACK: Police officers beat a Hindu nationalist student protesting against the opening of a branch of the Aligarh Muslim University in Patna, India, Monday.

SAFE DISTANCE: A police officer guarded a roadblock after an FBI raid of a suspected anti-government militia leader’s home in Clayton, Mich., Sunday. Seven suspects were arraigned and charged with conspiring to kill police officers. Two others have yet to appear in court and a 10th person remains at large. Raids also occurred in Indiana and Ohio.

POPE AND THE PALM: Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square.

MEHMET SPEAKS: Mehmet Ali Agca, who has served time in Turkey for murder and for the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, told reporters in Istanbul Monday that Pope Benedict XVI should resign over the Catholic Church’s handling of sex-abuse cases.

IN A BAD PLACE: A mask bearing the likeness of British Airways CEO Willie Walsh sat in a men’s urinal at a sports club in Bedfont, London, Sunday. Unionized cabin crew members were on strike over work conditions.

IRON ORE: A worker walked past a pile of iron ore from Australia at a port in Tianjin, China, Monday.

RUGBY PEOPLE: Rugby fans dressed like members of the Village People disco band gathered during the final day of the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament Sunday. Organizers hoped the contest sparked interest in the sport ahead of its 2016 Olympic debut in Brazil.
A POLLUTED DIVE: A man dove into a polluted section of River Yamuna to scavenge for ornaments and coins left by Hindu rituals at the river bank in New Delhi on Monday. Officials say factories are ignoring regulations and dumping untreated sewage and industrial pollution, turning toxic the river that gives the capital much of its drinking water.

FLOODED FARM: A farm is isolated by flood water near Fargo, N.D., on Monday.

FIGHTING OFF A BULL: A man made a futile attempt to halt a raging bull as it trampled over a man during a frantic bullfight in Arjona, Colombia, on Monday. The bulls at Arjona are a particularly fierce breed, a semiwild hybrid of cebu-brahman, known for using horns to defend its young from predatory jaguars and ocelots in the Savanna.

PLASTIC PROTECTION: A man wearing a plastic bag on his head walked amid a sandstorm in Beijing on Monday.

HARD TO MAKE PHONE CALL: U.S. Army Spc. Benjamin McCune called his family on Monday from a hospital bed at the Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. The soldier suffered back injuries when his armored vehicle struck an IED in Kandahar province.

SOLAR CEREMONY: Afghan men and women gathered in Mazar-i-Sharif on Monday to watch a ceremony for Nowruz, which marks the first day of spring. The festival is being celebrated in Turkey, central Asian republics, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan as well as wartorn Afghanistan.

HOTEL WITH NO LIGHT: A chambermaid made the bed in the dark at a hotel in Caracas. The Venezuelan government suspended the energy supply of the hotel and 96 other companies for 24 hours because they did not comply with an executive decree to cut their electricity consumption by 20%.

BALANCE TRAINING: Hostesses of the Shandong Pavilion began training for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 in Jinan, China, on Tuesday.

LUGGING CHAIRS: Workers carried roofed wicker chairs along the beach in Sankt Peter-Ording, Germany, on Tuesday. More than 1,000 of these chairs will be set up on the beach before the Easter holidays as temperatures continue to rise in Germany.

EXAMINING: A police officer examined a body in a street of Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico, on Tuesday. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa will hold a meeting to study violence in Mexico.

BOMB RAVAGED CITY: A soldier walked past a taxi damaged by a car bomb in Buenaventura, Colombia, on Wednesday. At least six people were killed and 30 were wounded when a guerrilla car bomb exploded in the city of Buenaventura, authorities said.

DEAD CARP REMOVAL: Workers of the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief removed dead carp Wednesday at a lake in Rangsdorf See, 18 miles south of Berlin. Local fishermen reported having removed around 300 tons of dead fish in the last few days. The fish died due to an oxygen deficiency when the lake froze over in the winter months.

STEEL MAKER: A worker stood between steel coils Wednesday at German steel plant Salzgitter AG in Salzgitter, Germany.

SEARCHING THE RUBBLE: Haitian earthquake survivors on Wednesday searched for useful items under the rubble of the ruins of the Public Work Minister’s building, which collapsed during the magnitude 7 earthquake in January.

BURNING FIRE ARMS: Illegal firearms burned Wednesday in Nairobi as part of a campaign by the Kenyan government to mop-up illicit small arms and light weapons that are at the center of increasing violent crime in Kenya and Africa. In Africa and elsewhere, the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons is opaque, amorphous and dynamic and a global enterprise, put at some $1 billion or 10%-20% of the global trade.

HELICOPTER CRASH: Three people were killed early Thursday morning when a Hospital Wing helicopter crashed in a field east of downtown Brownsville, Tenn. The helicopter was not carrying a passenger at the time of the crash. Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeremy Heidt in Nashville said the medical flight crashed into a field shortly after 6 a.m. during a rainstorm. Mr. Heidt said the helicopter had flown a patient from Parsons to a Jackson hospital and was returning to its base in Brownsville when it went down only a few miles from its destination.

HEAD DEEP IN WATER: Residents pushed a car Thursday in a flooded area in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia. Floods inundated villages across the region after an overflowing river bursts its banks forcing residents to evacuate.

SYMMETRICAL BALCONY: A woman stood on the balcony of her hotel room in Tel Aviv on Thursday.

DENTISTRY FOR DUMMIES: A dentist demonstrated a training procedure using the new humanoid robot named Hanako. The robot was developed by local engineers at universities to stimulate real dental work for student dentists at Showa University in Tokyo. Hanako is equipped with teeth made of hard plastic and a life-like mouth cavity that can bleed and flow saliva. It also has voice recognition and speech capability so that trainees can not only improve their treatment skills but also learn to hold conversation with the patients to relax them.

HONORING A COMRADE: A Marine held a dog tag belonging to a fallen comrade during a ceremony remembering Lance Cpls. Alejandro Yazzie and Matthias Hanson and Pfcs. Eric Currier and Kyle Coutu — all killed in action in February — in Marjah, Afghanistan, Friday.

MONKS RALLY: Buddhist monks called on authorities to stop the privatization of education and the closure of Bhikkhu colleges during a rally in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday. Demonstrators clashed with police at barricades.

IN TREATMENT: Medics treated a Palestinian boy for injuries caused by shrapnel from Israeli tanks in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, Friday. Two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinians were killed during an exchange of fire.

BROKEN GLASS: Someone threw bricks through several windows at Republican headquarters in Albemarle County, Va., Thursday night.

HAPPY LUNCH: An elderly woman joked with a nurse during lunch at a home for the elderly in Lima, Peru, Thursday. The Canevaro home is one of the biggest of its kind in Latin America.
HAULING WATER: A villager carried water from a well for her cattle in drought-stricken Kunming, Yunnan province, China, Thursday. Emergency wells were being drilled and cloud-seeding operations carried out in southern China, where the worst drought in decades has left millions of people without water, officials said.

LIFE-LIKE: A dentist demonstrated a training procedure on a university-developed robot named Hanako at Showa University in Tokyo Thursday. Hanako’s mouth can “bleed” and produce “saliva.”

UP AGAINST A WALL: Argentina’s Valeria Pereyra stretched her legs against a wall before competing at the South American Games in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday.

LARGE SCALE: An actress read a story from a gigantic chair during an “Enchanted Palace” experience at Kensington Palace in London Thursday. Princess Diana’s former home is being rebranded to lure more tourists, and it’s slated for a restoration.

X-RAY ART: An X-ray image of a bus was displayed in Birmingham, England, Wednesday. Artist Nick Veasey uses a custom-made cargo scanner to capture X-rays of items like a Boeing airplane and even a fruit bat.

THE GREECE ISSUE: Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, left, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso attended an EU summit in Brussels Thursday. “It is our job to find a European solution to Greece’s [financial] problem,” Mr. Zapatero said.

BIG CATCH: A worker unloaded yellow-fin tuna in General Santos City, Philippines, Thursday. The city is considered to be the country’s tuna capital.

BALANCING ACT: A vendor, illuminated by car break lights, balanced a cooler of drinks on her head in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday.

ERUPTION: Locals stood near the erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano in southern Iceland Wednesday. Hundreds of people have been evacuated since the volcano started to erupt Saturday.

UNIQUE OUTFIT: A model wore a creation by Xi jingkai at China Fashion Week in Beijing Thursday.

EN GARDE: Argentinean Marcelo Javier Mendez, left, and Colombian Andres Campos competed at the South American Games in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday.

BOMB AFTERMATH: Soldiers and police officers collected evidence at the site of a car bombing in Buenaventura, Colombia, Wednesday, killing six people and wounding 30. Leftist guerillas were suspected, but officials didn’t rule out drug traffickers.

GRIEVING MOTHER: Jesusita Cardoza grieved at the scene where her daughters, 17 and 21, were murdered in Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently visited Mexico to discuss drug-related violence in the country.

SHIPPING WOES: Union members with the Hellenic Shipyards attended a labor meeting in Athens Wednesday. A company from the United Arab Emirates has purchased a controlling share of the shipyards from German owners, which some Greeks see as a further slight to their national heritage of sailing and shipping.

SIPPING CIDER: Frank Naish, Britain’s oldest cider maker, sampled cider at his farm near Pilton, England, Thursday. The 86-year-old has been involved in organic cider-making since the 1930s.
BEHIND BARS: Defendant “Mario Z.” stood in a Berlin courtroom as his guilty verdict was announced Wednesday. The 28-year-old student was sentenced to nearly 14 years for murdering and dismembering a homeless man.

NUNS IN WAITING: St. Brigida nuns attended Pope Benedict XVI’s general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Wednesday.

SINGING ALONG: A fan sang along at a concert by Puerto Rican band Calle 13 in Havana Tuesday.

WATER DANCE: A dancer performed on a watery stage suspended above the audience during the “Fuerza Bruta” (Brute Force) show in Buenos Aires Tuesday.

TWISTED UP: Switzerland’s Anais Morand and Antoine Dorsaz performed during the pairs short program event at the World Figure Skating Championships in Turin, Italy, Tuesday.

GOING FOR IT: West Ham United’s Matthew Upson, left, and the Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Kevin Doyle competed at a Barclays Premier League match in Upton Park, London, Tuesday. The Wolves won 3-1.

GUNNED DOWN: A policewoman looked at the body of professor Jose Manuel Flores, an adviser to the National Front of Popular Resistance, who was murdered in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday. Sources say hooded men entered the San Jose de El Pedregal Institute and opened fire on Mr. Flores while he was talking to students.

HARD BODIES: Competitors flexed their muscles during the Services Best Physique Championship in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday. Bodybuilders from the Indian army, navy and air force competed.

TOUCH THE SKY: Tourists posed on the beach as Japanese pilot Yoshihide Muroya, flying plane in background, trained Wednesday for the upcoming Red Bull Air Race in Abu Dhabi.

LOOKING FOR WORK: People lined up to speak with prospective employers at a Los Angeles job fair Tuesday. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner predicts continued high unemployment levels, despite advances “sometime this spring.”

PRETTY IN PINK: Jamie Larnino, 17, tried on a dress at the Project Prom Shop in Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pa., Tuesday. Project Prom provides free dresses to eligible high school students.

TESTIMONY INTERRUPTED: Security personnel escorted a protester out as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen testified Wednesday on Capitol Hill about the Defense Department’s budget overview.

HONORING RAMA: Hindu nationalists carried knives and sticks during a parade to mark the birthday of the Hindu god Rama in New Delhi Wednesday.

FLYING THE CACHE: A bird flew off a cache of illegal firearms scheduled to be burned in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday. The government is working to seize illegal weapons to reduce violent crimes.

REFLECTING ON THE BUDGET: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, fourth from left reflected in a puddle, prepared to deliver a budget to the House of Commons in London Wednesday. Mr. Darling said the budget would “secure the recovery,” trim borrowing and expand a tax break for home buyers. He also announced a $3.8 billion one-time growth package.

MOBILE MAIL: A woman stood near a mobile postal van on a flooded road near the village of Rum, Belarus, Wednesday.
NIGHT LIGHT: An employee made a bed by candlelight at a hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday. The government cut power for 24 hours at 42 businesses that failed to reduce their electricity usage by 20% amid a deepening energy crisis.

FIREFIGHTER FLARE: A protesting firefighter lighted a flare as police blocked the entrance to the Greek Parliament in Athens Tuesday. Greece said it wants to resolve its debt crisis within the European Union at an upcoming summit.

STICKING POINT: A supporter of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra put a sticker reading “Dissolve the parliament” on a riot police officer’s shield during protests in Bangkok Tuesday.

TAKING COVER: A man shielded himself as a police officer took aim at him during looting and demonstrations in Phomolong township, South Africa, Tuesday. Police fired buckshot at stone-throwing residents protesting over poor housing and a lack of rail services.

AT JESUS’S FEET: A man slept in front of a depiction of the “Last Supper” in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday.

IN FINE FORM: A soldier marched on Pakistan Day at the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, in Karachi Tuesday.

ART OVERHEAD: American artist Cy Twombly arrived at the Louvre museum in Paris for the unveiling of his ceiling painting Tuesday.

SIFTING THROUGH: A woman sifted wheat on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Tuesday.

FLAMENCO FLOUNCE: Flamenco dancer Sara Baras performed during a media preview of her upcoming farewell tour in Madrid Monday. The Spaniard is taking a break from dancing for the first time in 12 years to become a mother.

SHY BALLERINA: A ballerina sat on the floor after performing for Camilla, duchess of Cornwall, at the National Theatre’s ballet school in Prague Monday. Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife are visiting the Czech Republic during their central-Europe tour.

HOPING FOR HELP: Office workers shouted for help as they tried to escape out a window from a fire in Kolkata Tuesday. Six people died, including two who jumped to their deaths; 20 people were injured. The fire is believed to have started in an elevator.

HANGING AROUND: A rescuer was suspended from a helicopter in order to help a rider who fell during the Xtreme men’s ski freeride contest in Verbier, Switzerland, Tuesday.

STUCK IN THE MUD: An emergency worker inspected a van surrounded by mud in Perth, Australia, Tuesday. Some 100,000 people were without power after a freak storm with golf ball-sized hail caused floods and landslides.

CLEAN TRACK: A man cleaned a track while a team trained Monday near Copenhagen for the World Track Cycling Championships.

IT’S OFFICIAL: President Barack Obama signed a landmark $940 billion health-care reform bill at the White House Tuesday. The historic Affordable Health Care for America Act passed in the House Sunday without a single Republican vote.

MARCHING IN: Elephants marched to Madison Square Garden from the Queens-Midtown Tunnel in New York Monday. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s “Funundrum” show runs March 25 through April 4.
PLAYING TO WIN: Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic returned a tennis ball to Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki during the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., Sunday. Ms. Jankovic won 6-2, 6-4.

RALLYING FOR REFORM: Protesters called for immigration reform during the “March for America” in Washington Sunday. Tens of thousands of people marched outside the White House to press Congress for changes to immigration policy, which President Barack Obama said “won’t happen overnight.”

MEDICAL CARE: Doctors treated British army Lance Cpl. Daniel Herschell at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan Sunday. He suffered minor injuries when his military vehicle rolled over while on patrol.

ANCIENT TRADITION: People practiced Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance, in Rahovec, Kosovo, Sunday. The faithful believe centuries-old rituals, such as piercing their bodies with needles and knives, will earn them salvation.

A PATIENT PUP: A dog waited as its owner voted in regional elections in Nice, France, Sunday. President Nicolas Sarkozy considered a cabinet shake-up Monday after leftists walloped his conservative UMP Party ahead of the 2012 presidential campaign.

FITTING TRIBUTE: Ethiopian Siraj Gena walked barefoot after winning the Rome Marathon Sunday. Mr. Gena took off his shoes with about 500 yards left in the race as a tribute to Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila, who won the 1960 Olympic marathon in Rome without shoes.

HEAD-FIRST: A man dove into a polluted section of the Yamuna River in New Delhi Monday to recover coins and ornaments dropped there during Hindu rituals.

FLOODED IN FARGO: Zach, left, and Alex Kallmeyer sat on swings in their flooded backyard near Fargo, N.D., Sunday. The Red River crested at just under 19 feet above flood stage.

SHIRTLESS SPECTATORS: England fans watched their team play a cricket match against Bangladesh in Dhaka Monday.

CLAPPING FOR JESUS: Christians sang and clapped during the Cape Town for Jesus rally at a stadium in South Africa Monday.

DANCING WITH SWORDS: Villagers dressed up as Dancers of Saint Benito performed the traditional “Danza de las Espadas” (Dance of the Swords) in Obejo, Spain, Sunday.

DETAINED IN HAITI: Police detained earthquake survivors who were scavenging amid rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday. Former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton toured the capital Monday to raise aid after the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake.

HELD BACK: Police held back pro-government supporters as they heckled an unseen group of protesters known as the Ladies in White — relatives of dissidents imprisoned in a 2003 crackdown — during the women’s protest march in Havana Sunday.

THUMBS-DOWN: Picketing cabin-crew personnel gave an incoming British Airways plane a thumbs-down at Heathrow Airport in London Monday. The airline and union were no closer to resolving a dispute over pay as the strike that grounded thousands of flights entered its third day.

CELEBRATING A WIN: Silver medalist Solene Jambaque of France celebrated at a medal presentation for the Women’s Super Combined at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Saturday.

THE BEST MEDICINE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) laughed as House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) spoke at a news conference after the House passed a health-care reform bill in Washington Sunday. President Barack Obama is slated to sign the bill into law later this week.
JUNIOR CONGRESSWOMAN: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hands seen in the foreground, attended a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, following a meeting with children’s advocates on health-care reform.

SOAKING UP THE SUN: An Israeli woman sunbathed Monday next to a wall separating a military naval base from a public beach in Haifa, Israel.

HAY-FILLED HORSE RIDE: A man sat on top of a horse-drawn cart loaded with hay during heavy snowfall near Tusnad, Romania, on Monday.

SMASHED CAR: A homeowner, who would not give his name, took out the trash as his sister’s car sat crushed by a fallen tree in the driveway of his Larchmont, N.Y., home following a storm Monday.

ICE FISHING: People gathered fish in a water reservoir on the Dnieper River in Vyshgorod, Ukraine, on Monday. Kiev water officials lowered the water level in the reservoir to prevent the city from flooding following heavy snow in the area. The ice caused the fish to suffocate.

RAKING UP BOMBS: A member of Hamas’s security forces worked with U.N. sappers in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis on Monday to detect and neutralize unexploded bombs left behind after Israel’s military offensive last year. Last week, the U.S. announced it was providing an additional 55 million dollars to a U.N. program aiding Palestinian refugees.

POLICE ON GUARD: Thai policemen are deployed in front of the ruling Democrat Party’s headquarters in Bangkok on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the Thai antigovernment group poured blood donated by the “red-shirts,” who staged a mass rally in an effort to topple the government.

A QUICK REST: Palestinian members of the honor guard rested after the welcoming ceremony for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, not pictured, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Tuesday. Mr. Lula da Silva is on an official visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.

LADIES IN WHITE: Members of the Ladies in White, a group of female dissidents, are removed from the street by security agents during a protest in Havana on Wednesday. Uniformed Cuban security agents prevented Ladies in White from marching on the outskirts of the capital to demand release of their jailed husbands and sons.

GOOD LUCK HAIRCUT: A child gets a haircut at a barbershop in Tongliao, China, on Thursday. Thursday was the second day of the second month of the traditional Chinese lunar calendar this year. Folklore addressed it as “dragon lifting head,” meaning the spring awakens after winter hibernation, when people have their hair cut to bring good luck.

MENTALLY PREPARING: U.S. Army Spc. Damien Miller prepared to drive a Stryker armored personnel carrier on a mission in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. Mr. Miller and fellow soldiers moved around their area of operations in western Kandahar province under constant threat of Taliban IED attacks.

RUSHING HIM AWAY: Ugandan men carried a casualty following a raid by military police on the premises of the burned down Kasubi Tombs in Kampala, Uganda, on Wednesday. The Kasubi tombs, one of the most sacred sites of the Buganda tribe, were burned down the previous night, sparking unrest in parts of Kampala after people on the streets accused the government of arson.

CHUCKING AWAY LIQUOR: A man from Guangdong Wine Monopoly Administration threw liquor into a pile of liquor bottles to be destroyed during a campaign against fake liquor at Zhuliao town, China, on Wednesday.

MAN-MADE WALL: Mark Houglum worked on a 40-foot flood wall used to protect his Moorhead, Minn., residence from the swollen Red River on Thursday.

PAST TIME: Earthquake survivors played a table game at the Cite Soleil slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday. International donors are ready to provide $3.8 billion over 18 months to help Haiti rebuild after its devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, said experts and officials planning a high-level donors conference.

BED OF SOIL: A laborer’s child slept in a heap of soil as his parents, unseen, worked outside the site of a commonwealth games stadium in New Delhi on Thursday. At least 43 workers have been killed building venues for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi because of dangerous work sites and a lack of proper safety gear, according to a court-appointed panel.

MOSQUITO KILLING SMOKE: A child played in the smoke during a fumigation exercise to rid the area of mosquitoes in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday. The Jakarta Health Agency revealed that the number of dengue fever cases in the city reached about 28,400 cases in 2008, then declined to around 18 thousand cases in 2009.

TAKING A TUMBLE: Berties Dream, ridden by Andrew Lynch, won the Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle while other horses and jockeys had problems at the Cheltenham Festival in the United Kingdom Friday.

BLOODY PROTESTER: Policemen assisted a man injured during clashes between police and protesters in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday. Police fired tear gas at the demonstrators, most of them high school students, as they rallied against a government increase in transport fares.

THIS BEER’S FOR YOU: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper looked at a case of Yuengling beer given to him by David Jacobson , the U.S. ambassador to Canada, in Ottawa Friday. President Barack Obama lost a bet with Mr. Harper on the outcome of the Olympic men’s hockey game between Canada and the U.S.

CLOSE INSPECTION: A police forensic expert inspected the site where a bomb exploded outside the office of Golden Dawn, a far-right group, in Athens Friday. No injuries were reported.

READING BRAILLE: A blind boy read a Braille book at a boarding school for blind children in Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday.

ON THE FENCE
In Campo, Calif., a fence stretches along a desolate area of the U.S.-Mexico border. The federal government wants to install radar, sensors and cameras, but the plan is beset by delays. Campo agents were supposed to be hooked up to the virtual fence in early 2009.

The Bush administration created the Secure Border Initiative Network in 2005 to provide real-time pictures of activity along the border. The system was contracted out to Boeing in 2006. More than $600 million later, only a 28-mile-long prototype has been delivered.

Frustrated by the delays, citizens — calling themselves minutemen — took up the job. They installed 20 cameras, encased in PVC pipe for protection, on a private ranch; they wired them to solar panels and a transmitter that broadcasts the captured images on the Internet. So far, they’ve spent $40,000 to cover a one-mile strip and fortify fence ranches.

“It’s tough to keep all the units up and running,” said minuteman Howard “Ridgerunner” Smith, a 59-year-old retired mechanic. On a recent day, 16 of their cameras were down due to rainy weather. They don’t use their motion detector because it’s mostly triggered by wind-stirred vegetation.

The government had its own problems: blurry images, radar that couldn’t differentiate between people and animals and field agents who couldn’t log onto their laptops. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the prototype is fixed, but Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano froze most funding to the project Tuesday.

Mr. Smith keeps tabs on the surveillance system from his mobile home near the border.

On a recent day, he monitored a computer screen for immigrants attempting to cross the border in Campo. None were to be seen.

Mr. Smith, who’s encountered rock-throwing migrants over the years, carries a pistol. He’s never shot at anyone, but he says he would if he had to. “If you get killed by a rock and you were carrying a gun, but didn’t shoot, you don’t get into heaven,” he said.

The minutemen’s effort is the brainchild of Web developer Jim “Woody” Wood. He got the idea when he and other minutemen flocked to the Campo border in 2005 to rally against immigration reform. But he got bored as few immigrants were spotted. He decided a surveillance system would be best.

Mr. Wood, who lives two hours north of the border in Mission Viejo, Calif., raised money to start the project through his Web site, borderfenceproject.com. People have to take a multiple-choice test on the site in order to gain access to the camera images.

He says if he had permission, he would detain illegal aliens. For now, though, he’s focused on expanding his surveillance system at the pace his two herniated discs and Parkinson’s disease will allow. “A lot of this heavy labor is not something that I’m really capable of,” he said.

On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano diverted some of the project’s funding towards more practical tools, such as mobile radios and laptops. With the exception of a small section in Arizona currently being tested, spending on the ambitious border-long system is on hold until a review she ordered in January is completed.