A Canadian soldier with the 1st RCR Battle Group, the Royal Canadian Regiment, patrols with a sunflower stuck to his helmet in the Panjwaii district, near Salavat, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010.
An Afghan man dries grapes on a large field near a cemetery outside Salavat, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010.
A man walks in a large earthquake crack in the ground in Kaiapoi near Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. The city was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake Saturday, Sept. 4. smashing buildings, cracking roads and twisting railway tracks.
A two-week-old Malay fish owl waits to be fed at the Jurong Bird Park on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore. This owl was born and bred in the park as part of efforts in its commitment to wildlife conservation.
The Shadows of a Palestinian Muslim youth, center, sitting on a chair reading verses of the Quran, the Muslims holy book and another worshiper is cast on the wall following the "fajr" or early morning prayer, during the last day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy fasting month of Ramadan, when observants fast from dawn till dusk.
Nepal's Khagendra Thapa Magar, the smallest known person on earth, poses for photographs with Andrew "Tiny Iron" Harrison, who is the man with the largest biceps in Britain, during a publicity event for the Ripley's "Believe it or Not!" 2011 annual in London, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Khagendra, aged 17, stands 22 inches (56 cm) tall and Tiny Iron, aged 28, has biceps measuring 24 inches (61 cm) in circumference.
A man look at a destroyed car, salvaged from the March 5, 2007, bombing of a historic street book market in Baghdad, Iraq, that killed 38 people and currently exhibited at the Imperial War Museum in London, on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Artist Jeremy Deller has worked with the museum to present the vehicle as evidence of the impact of modern warfare on civilians by displaying it in the museum's main atrium alongside some of the most powerful military hardware of the last 100 years.
Ring-tailed lemurs sit outside their cages in the sun at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. The highly social animals, found in groups of up to 30 individuals in wild populations, are natives to Madagascar.
A man carries his belongings and his dog as he leaves a Gypsy camp to be evacuated and demolished in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. The European Parliament has called on France to suspend its expulsion of gypsies. The rare criticism of an EU state was backed by 337 lawmakers meeting in Strasbourg, France, with 245 opposed and 51 abstentions. France has stepped up its long-standing policy of rounding up Eastern European Gypsies, or Roma, and sending them home. The policy has drawn criticism from the U.N. and the Roman Catholic Church.
Bangladeshi Muslims climb onto the roof of an overloaded passenger train at Tongi railway station on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims are heading home to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim feast marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Japan's Saori Yoshida, top, grapples with Azerbaijan's Yuliya Ratkevich during their women's 55kg final match at the World Wrestling Championships in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Yoshida won the match.