The Stowe Community Church is seen as a blanket of snow covers the area in Stowe, Vt.,Wednesday morning, Oct., 26, 2005. The early nor'easter, fueled partly by Hurricane Wilma, didn't just knock out power to tens of thousands and dump up to 20 inches (50 cm) of heavy wet snow from New England south to West Virginia, it also brought a screeching halt to the lucrative leaf-peeping fall foliage season in many areas.
War On Drugs
A man detained in connection with a ton of confiscated marijuana, cocaine and heroin sits behind a police line in Panama City, Panama, in this Aug. 9, 2005 file photo. Panama has been used for decades by traffickers as a place to transport drugs from Colombia to the U.S. and Europe.
Surferman
Cameron Lapolla, 25, dressed as Spiderman, competes in the first-ever Scare N' Tear Surf Contest presented by the Progressive Surf Group at the Manhattan Beach Pier in Manhattan Beach, Calif., where dozens of surfers dressed up to participate Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005. Competitors were judged on their costumes as well as their surfing skills.
German Semicentennial
Members of the German Federal Armed Forces Bundeswehr participate in the Ceremonial Tattoo in front of the German Reichstag building in Berlin, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005. The German Federal Armed Forces are celebrating their 50th anniversary in Berlin.
All Saints' Day
Leonido Nazario retouches paint on statues of Jesus Christ and Mary at the tomb of his relative at a cemetery near the financial district of Makati, south of Manila on Monday Oct. 31, 2005. Philippine police have been placed on alert amid terrorism concerns as large numbers of Filipinos flock to cemeteries in observance of All Saints' Day tomorrow Nov.1.
Pakistan Earthquake
With a massive landslide in the background, a jeep carrys people in the Neelum Valley, north of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Friday Oct. 28, 2005. The UN warned that it will run out of money and be forced to ground helicopters delivering relief supplies to quake-hit northern Pakistan unless donors come through with the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to help people through the winter.
Chimp Halloween
Chimpanzee play with a pumpkin with a Halloween face carved on it at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. The zoo's Behavioral Biologist Margaret Hawkins carved the pumpkins under a program to introduce new foods and scents to exhibits to stimulate the animals.
Display Of Compassion
Members of a Chinese dance troupe formed by handicapped people display the shape of Thousand Armed Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, during their performance in Nagoya, central Japan, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005. The handicapped artists visited Japan at the invitation of organizations of Japanese handicapped people.
Train Accident In India
Rescuers work at the site of a train accident at Veligonda, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of Hyderabad, India, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005. Rescuers used gas torches to free trapped passengers from the submerged coaches of a passenger train that derailed and fell into a rain-swollen river early Saturday, killing more than 77 people in southern India.
Guerilla Acrobatics
Members of the Hezbollah guerilla group show military skills in the air during the annual rally to mark Al-Quds Day, Jerusalem Day, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. The militant Hezbollah group paraded its guerrilla army in Beirut Friday in a massive show of strength to counter international calls to disarm.
Pagan Ritual
An undentified member of the gang Mara Salvatrucha eats a candle during the celebrations of Maximon, a pagan saint venerated mostly by the Mayan indian comunities, in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala, Friday, Oct. 28, 2005.
Chicago Celebrates
Mounted Chicago Police lead the procession of buses carrying Chicago White Sox players and their families through a ticker-tape parade in the downtown business district of Chicago Friday, Oct. 28, 2005, during the city's celebration for the team's World Series championship.
Bird Flue In China
A young Chinese man eats noodles next to freshly killed chickens as he awaits for customers at his chicken stall in a Beijing market Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. The World Health Organization was seeking confirmation Friday that a girl who died in a region of China hit by bird flu tested negative for the disease.
Big Man
Artgoers look at a 2000 sculpture, "Big Man" by Ron Mueck as part of the exhibition "Melancholy-Genius and Insanity in the Western World" at the Grand Palais in Paris, Friday Oct. 28, 2005. The exhibition runs until January 16, 2006.
Rest In Peace, Rosa
The hands of actress Cecily Tyson, Johnnie Carr, a longtime friend of Rosa Parks, and Elaine Eason Steele, Parks' friend and co-founder of The Rosa And Raymond Parks Institute For Self Development, from left, rest on Parks' coffin before it is taken into the St. Paul AME Church in Montgomery, Ala., where Parks was to lie in repose for public viewing Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005.
Mideast Truce
Artillery shells sit next to an Israeli mobile artillery piece as soldiers make preparations at a position near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just outside the northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005. Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to halt nearly a week of fighting after militant groups pledged to halt rocket fire on southern Israeli towns, Palestinian officials said Sunday.