An Afghan child is being administered polio drops during a polio vaccination campaign in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmad Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. As part of Peace Day, Afghanistan's Ministry of Health is carrying out a vaccination campaign in the country's south, where international aid workers have trouble operating because of the rising violence there.
Q & A
President Bush gestures as he takes questions during his press conference at the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007, in Washington.
Raid Remnants
A boy peers into a damaged vehicle after an overnight raid in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. The U.S. military said that a joint raid early Thursday by Iraqi special forces and U.S. troops that included helicopter gunships led to the detention of seven Shiite extremists.
Camped Out
An Israeli soldier takes position on the third day of a military incursion in the Ein Beit Elma refugee camp in the occupied northern West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. One Israeli soldier and two Palestinians have been killed in the past two days as the army continued the incursion into the Palestinian refugee camp.
In The Swim
Dolphin baby Dolly swims with her mother Delphi in the Delphinarium at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. The little dolphin was born on Aug. 4 and was introduced Thursday for the first time. Her mother was also born in Duisburg 15 years ago.
In Print
A scientist scans his finger at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena, Germany, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. The Institute is the first accredited laboratory for optical finger scan sensors in Germany.
High Dive
The Red Arrows fly past the Queen Elizabeth 2 (not pictured) as it sits berthed at Ocean Terminal Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007, in Greenock, Scotland. The QE2 will be delivered to Dubai in November 2008, where it will cease its role as an ocean-going passenger vessel and be refurbished to create a luxury floating hotel.