A women passes in front of a line of Mexican federal police holding a position near the main plaza of Oaxaca, Mexico, Oct. 30, 2006. Several thousand angry protesters marched to the center of Oaxaca's capital, vowing to retake the city from federal police sent to restore order after months of protests demanding the ouster of the southern state's governor.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a Spanish language version of "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" by Noam Chomsky while addressing the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Sept. 20, 2006. Chavez, who was was reelected this year, denounced President Bush before the U.N. as "the devil."
Japan's Meteorological Agency staff is silhouetted while pointing to the seismic wave measured in Japan's at 10:37 a.m. (0137 GMT) which they suspect was caused by a North Korean nuclear test Oct. 9, 2006.
A woman is examined at an AIDS clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Kinshasa, Congo, Nov. 1, 2006. According to Medecins Sans Frontieres, it is estimated that 1.2 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the capital, Kinshasa, 3.8 percent of the population is infected.
Riot policemen arrest a protester after a demonstration in Paris against the first job contract law, known as CPE, March 28, 2006. Tens of thousands of protesters poured onto France's streets and striking workers hobbled transport services, increasing pressure on embattled Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to withdraw a contested new jobs contract for youths.
Pope Benedict XVI frees a dove upon his arrival at Istanbul's Holy Spirit Cathedral during the last day of his during his four-day visit to Turkey, Dec. 1, 2006. The Pope XVI appealed for greater understanding between Christianity and Islam and sought to ease Muslim outrage over his remarks in September that cited a medieval emperor speaking about violence and Muhammad's teachings.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, poses for a photograph with the soldiers of Korean People's Army 821 unit, which is situated on the undisclosed forefront, North Korea, in April 2006.
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein gestures during his trial in Baghdad, Jan. 29, 2006. Hussein faced justice for the first time when an Iraqi court convicted him in November of crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to die by hanging, and was executed in that manner on Dec. 30.
A U.S. soldier at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, takes down an older image to display the latest image purporting to show the body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, June 8, 2006. Al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. air strike.
A civil defense worker carries the body of a Lebanese child recovered from the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by an Israeli air strike at the village of Qana near the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, July 30, 2006. Israeli missiles struck the southern Lebanese village, flattening houses on top of sleeping residents. The air strike killed 29 people.
A Navy sailor guides an LCU (Landing Craft Utility) from the USS Nashville full of American citizens as it prepares to leave a beach north of Beirut, Lebanon, July 20, 2006. The USS Nashville, anchored off the coast of Lebanon, evacuated nearly 1,200 Americans fleeing the fighting to take them to Cyprus.
People gather at the rubble of a destroyed building, minutes after an Israeli warplane attack in the center of the southern coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon, July 26, 2006. A cross-border raid by Hezbollah that left three Israeli soldiers dead and two others kidnapped set off a bloody 34-day war between the two. More than 1,000 people died on each side before a U.N.-brokered cease-fire stopped the fighting in mid-August.
A woman carries her son walk through the weekly Monday market after crossing the Sudan Chad border west of the Darfur town of Al-Geneina, Sudan June 19, 2006. Fighting between rebels and government forces in the western Darfur region as killed more than 200,000 people. Desperate to avoid a full-blown humanitarian disaster, The UN approved a 20,000-strong peacekeeping force, but Sudan blocked its deployment.
Cuban President Fidel Castro gestures as he addresses a crowd of Latin American students gathered in Pedernales, in Holguin province, Cuba, for the anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks, July 26, 2006. Cubans prepared for a historic changing of the guard after the 80-year-old leader underwent intestinal surgery and temporarily ceded power.
A bloodied foot print is seen April 25, 2006, at the site where one of three bombs ripped through Egypt's Red Sea resort of Dahab. Shards of glass and bloody body parts littered the ground as Egypt reeled from a three-bomb attack that ripped apart a Sinai beach resort promenade at the height of Egypt's tourist season, killing at least 24 people, including a German child. More than 60 others were hurt.
A devotee gives alms to beggars at the Mahabodhi Temple during the 7th Buddha Mahotsava (Festival) at Bodhgaya, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Feb. 4, 2006. Beggars are not allowed to enter the temple.
An Iraqi detainee sits with his head covered by a sand bag while an American soldier covers another detainee's eyes with tape during a raid in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 4, 2006. Men from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division detained 10 Iraqis during a series of raids.
Liberia's new President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, right, is helped with a sash by Liberian Senior Ambassador-at-large George W. Wallace Jr., during her inauguration at the Capitol Building in Monrovia, Liberia, Jan. 16, 2006. In a ceremony attended by first lady Laura Bush and other dignitaries, Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first elected female head of state.
A Jewish settler struggles with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, Feb. 1, 2006.