A fisherman carries his net to the seashore at dusk Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, in the fishing village of Malkiya, Bahrain, southwest of Manama, the capital of the Persian Gulf island nation.
Masked in Mexico
Mexican wrestler Blue Demon speaks on a phone as he arrives for Mexico's President Felipe Calderon's third annual state of the nation address in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.
Photo Op
Three-month-old Sophia Marmarinos lies on the leaf of a giant water lily (Victoria Amazonica) under the watchful eye of Hans Kuyten, an employee of the botanical garden, left, at Rotterdam Zoo, Netherlands, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. The zoo organized the event for parents to take picture of their children. The leaves can grow up to 10 feet in diameter and can easily support a weight of 33 pounds.
Cool Display
Small ice figures are seen on the stairs of Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, as part of an art project by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). One thousand ice figures by Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo were melting within 30 minutes symbolizing the effect of global warming.
Hurricane Jimena
A man moves a vehicle into his house as hurricane Jimena hits Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. The center of the hurricane, which weakened to a still threatening Category 3, was on course to pass west of Los Cabos, close enough to punish the beaches and fishing villages of the area.
Mommy & Me
A monkey mother grooms her baby in a zoo in Freiburg, southern Germany on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.
Rice Art
In this photo released on Sept. 2, 2009, by the environmental activist group Greenpeace, "rice art" covering 16,000 square meters of a field in Ratchaburi province, central Thailand, was made by planting two varieties of organic rice and depicting traditional rice farming.
Just a Phase
A gibbous moon is visible above Earth's atmosphere, photographed by an STS-128 crew member on the Space Shuttle Discovery. A gibbous moon is one of the phases of the Moon, when the size of the illuminated portion is greater than half but not a full Moon.
Ready for Ramadan
Workers sort chickens at a slaughterhouse in Parung, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Demand for meat is expected to increase ahead of Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.