A group of young men jump into the water off the Malecon boulevard in Havana before the threat of Hurricane Wilma, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday Oct. 22, 2005. Cuban civil defense officials said more than 400,000 people fled their homes in low-lying areas on the island.
Filipino children pet a Philippine fighting cock at a Manila slum Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005. The Philippines is among the few Asian countries still not hit by the deadly bird flu virus which has ravaged the region's poultry industry and prompted authorities to limit contact between humans and infected fowl.
Sumo wrestlers, dressed in their traditional Mawashia, cross New York's Seventh Avenue en route to a "weigh-in," Thursday Oct. 20, 2005. They are participating in the "World SUMO Challenge - Battle of the Giants" at New York's Madison Square Garden.
An elderly Pakistani earthquake survivor rushes towards a helicopter carrying a child in his arms as they are evacuated from the village of Paras, Pakistan, Sunday Oct. 23, 2005. Scores of people left homeless in mountain villages after the Oct. 8 earthquake are now struggling to escape to lower ground before the first snowfalls cut them off for the winter.
South Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-kyu is covered by bees in Daegu, south of Seoul, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005. Ahn, a local bee farmer, released more than 260,000 bees and attracted them to his body to celebrate the opening of a new subway in his town.
In the midst of a storm that engulfed the Iraqi capitol, U.S.; army soldiers walk past the last remaining statues depicting the ousted dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, at a U.S. camp in Baghdad, Oct. 17, 2005.
Kathryn Mims, 2, picks the perfect pumpkin at the First United Methodist Church of Dothan in Dothan, Ala., Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005.
Scores of signs advertising services related to hurricane damage sprout up on street corners in New Orleans, La., Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005, as residents continue to clean up damage from Hurricane Katrina.
With the city skyline reflected behind them, freshly married bride and groom Tim and Pam Kenny pose for pictures by their photographer next to Amish Kapoor's sculpture "Cloud Gate" in Millennium Park in Chicago on Friday, Oct. 21, 2005.
A reader holds up "Lewis Carroll's - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" as a miniature book, 1.5 inches wide and 2 inches high, at the 57th Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Oct. 21, 2005.
An elderly woman walks past scantily clad animal rights activists protesting in front of the Australian embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, on Friday, Oct. 21, 2005. Activists were protesting against the wool industry's refusal to accept a landmark agreement between wool producers that would have resulted in an immediate reduction of lamb mutilations. Left banner reads "Australia: Stop mutilating lambs".
Ethiopian Jews hold traditional colorful umbrellas as ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Cohanim Priestly caste participate in a blessing during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's Old City Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005. The holiday of Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, is named after the huts the Israelites lived in as they wandered the desert for 40 years
U.S. Army soldiers salute during a memorial service for Sgt. Robert Tucker at a military base Oct. 18, 2005 in Dujail, Iraq. Tucker, 20, from Cookeville, Tenn., was killed by insurgents when a roadside bomb blew up his armored vehicle on Oct. 13 near Dujail, just two weeks before the end of his 10-month deployment in Iraq.
Kadeem Jafar, 78, holds photos of three family members he said were killed during the regime of Saddam Hussein, while at a memorial center for Saddam's victims on Oct. 23, 2005, in Dujail, Iraq. He said that he lost 45 people from his extended family, including four sons, after Saddam's security forces rounded up much of the town's male population in the early 1980s.