A sculpture made of ice shows Harry Potter and wizard Albus Dumbledore, background, at the annual snow and ice sculpture festival in Bruges, Belgium, Thursday, Nov, 20, 2008. About 300 tons of ice and 400 tons of snow have been used to build the sculptures.
House-To-House
A U.S. Army soldier from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, searches a bedroom during a routine house-to-house search patrol, in the Masariyah neighborhood, northwestern Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008.
Ups And Downs
People are seen riding elevators in a building in central London's financial district, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. World stocks fell sharply Thursday as recession fears gripped markets and briefly sent oil prices below $50 a barrel.
Crapshoot
Stuffed dice hang from a monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as traders leave for the day, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. Stocks plunged for a second straight day Thursday, falling to a range not seen in six years as financial and energy stocks tumbled and demand for the safety of government debt spiked to historic levels.
Little Wonder
Rolling Hills Elementary kindergartener Dominick Messer, 5, walks with Micah, a miniature therapy horse from DOGTORS & Associates in Springfield, Ohio, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008.
Off Target
Japanese Aegis-equipped destroyer Chokai fires an interceptor missile to shoot down the target in space, off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. The Japanese navy ship failed to shoot down a mid-range ballistic missile target in a test.
Tainted Titicaca
People clean the polluted bay of Lake Titicaca in Pajchiri, Bolivia, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Thousands of people living on the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest in the world, are threatened by the lake's polluted waters.
A Way Out?
In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee peers through his hands from inside his cell at the Camp Echo detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. A federal judge ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Thursday, Nov. 20, because the government's was not credible.