Russian soldiers from the honor guard regiment march demonstrating their skills during a show at the World War II museum on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005. Soldiers from the regiment take part in all military parades, welcoming ceremonies for foreign leaders and other state ceremonies.
Smoke Screen
A Belarussian soldier from an Interior Ministry special unit runs through smoke in a gas mask during a competition near the village of Volovshchina, some 25 km ( 15 miles ) west of Minsk, Wednesday, Nov.10, 2005. Several dozen Belarussian soldiers marched 20 km ( 12 miles ) and overcame field and forest obstacles trying to win the competition and prove their combat readiness.
Mourning
Iraqi women mourn outside a local hospital the death of their relatives, killed by two suicide bombers who detonated themselves near a restaurant frequented by police, killing at least 33 people and seriously injuring 19, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005. The bombers struck at about 9:45 a.m., when officers usually stop by the restaurant for breakfast.
Locked and Loaded
Bonhams employee Sara Kuwahara of Japan, displays a 54-Bore Colonial Flintlock Gun thought to be from the first half of the 18th century, during a photo opportunity at the auction house's offices in London, Monday Nov. 7, 2005. The gun is estimated to fetch 8,000 to 10,000 pounds (US $13,923 to $17,404: Euros 11,824 to 14,776) at a sale of fine antique firearms that were previously owned by European Kings and nobility.
Hot Enough to...
A woman looks at an artwork called 'Big Chook', made of fibreglass and high gloss epoxy marine paint, on Tamarama Beach in Sydney. Australian artist Jeremy Parnell says people frying themselves on the beach for a suntan inspired his piece which joins 100 artworks contributed by international and Australian artists at the annual outdoor Sculpture by the Sea exhibition which is in its ninth year.
Devastated
Densil Sprinkle holds a photo of his mother, Glenda Sprinkle, who died when a tornado hit the Eastbrook Mobile Home Park in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005. Mobile home park residents returned to the devastation for the first time since the tornado that killed 18 people in their neighborhood amid the Ohio River bottomlands and injured scores of others Sunday.
An Historic Vote
An unidentified man casts his ballot in the city of Monrovia, Liberia on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005. War-ravaged Liberia voted Tuesday to choose its first postwar president in a heated runoff pitting an international soccer star who dropped out of high-school against the country's Harvard-educated top female politician.
Middle East Clash
A Palestinian boy throws a stone at Israeli army forces among the smoke caused by tear gas, during clashes in Qabatiya village, near the West Bank town ofJenin Tuesday Nov. 8, 2005. The military is operating against Islamic Jihad militants in the northern West Bank, the army spokesman said.
Landscapes
A painter sells his landscapes paintings in the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday Nov. 7, 2005. A construction boom is changing the face of the dusty city nearly four years after the ouster of the Taliban, though many of Kabul's crumbling buildings are being torn down, the city is far from being a modern metropolis.
Big Bird
A new Airbus A380 superjumbo is watched by spectators as it lands in Hamburg, northern Germany, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005, upon arrival from Toulouse, France. The world's biggest passenger jet will be equipped with seats and interiors at the German Airbus plant in Hamburg.
Flag Bearer
A young Azerbaijani protester waves an opposition orange flag in front of riot police during a rally in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005. Thousands of protesters marched through Azerbaijan's capital on Wednesday, answering the call by the main opposition movement to come into the streets to defend their right to free and fair elections.
Wet Wedding
A couple of models participate in a promotion of underwater wedding package at Ocean Park in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 11, 2005. Ocean Park, one of the hot spots for tourists here, unveils underwater wedding package program which prices HK$109,999 (US$14,182).
It's a Girl
Tapeko, a 23-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, swims with her unnamed female calf, top, Friday, Nov. 11, 2005, in the aquarium at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Zoo officials said that while a dolphin birth is not considered successful until the calf is at least a year old, the 3-foot-long calf, born Nov. 3, was exhibiting encouraging behaviors and appears healthy and strong.
Tribute
A little girl runs towards the Pacific Ocean, as she visits the Arlington West Iraq war memorial on Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11, 2005, on the seashore in Santa Monica, Calif. Veterans for Peace Los Angeles set up more than 2,000 white crosses and candles to remember the American soldiers and victims killed in the Iraq conflict.