A Palestinian police officer is seen through bullet-riddled window of the car where three children of the Palestinian intelligence officer Baha Balousheh were killed in a drive-by shooting in Gaza City, early Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. Palestinian gunmen killed the three young children on a street crowded with hundreds of school children, an unprecedented attack that could ignite widespread factional fighting.
Wake Review
A supporter of former military ruler Gen. Augusto Pinochet carries a girl as he looks at Pinochet's coffin during his wake at the Military Academy in Santiago, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 after a military coup, died Sunday from heart complications at the age of 91.
Spy Mystery Deepens
Investigators examine a car on an estate in Haselau, west of Hamburg, Germany, Monday Dec. 11, 2006. Traces of radiation found at sites in Germany linked to a contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko likely are the rare radioactive substance polonium-210, authorities said. Traces of alpha radiation were found at homes in Hamburg and Haselau of the ex-wife and the former mother-in-law of Dmitry Kovtun.
Nimble Competitor
Khor Poh Chin Michelle of Singapore performs during the Asian Games Wushu Women's Changquan competition in Doha, Qatar, Monday Dec. 11, 2006.
Boiler Blast Aftermath
Turkish soldiers and rescuers search victims in the wreckage of a military building following an explosion in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. A heating boiler explosion knocked down part of a five-story building that houses military families in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast. At least three people were injured.
Balancing Act
A young man performs acrobatics at The First China Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo on Monday, Dec. 11, 2006 in Beijing. China. Some 1,500 cultural and creative enterprises from China and overseas are taking part in the event which will run until December 14.
Serial Killer Fears
Police Underwater Search and Recovery Divers search a stream, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, in Copdock, near Ipswich, England where the body of prostitute Tania Nicol was recovered after she went missing Oct. 30 2006. Fears mounted Monday that a serial killer could be at large after the naked corpse of a third prostitute was found within weeks near an English city, and a fourth sex worker went missing.
Tutu Mission On Hold
South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu gestures during a press conference Monday, Dec. 11, 2006 at the United Nations Office in Geneva after Israel blocked Tutu's UN mission to Beit Hanun. Israel has blocked a UN human rights fact-finding mission led by Tutu into the killing of 19 Palestinians in their homes in the Gaza Strip.
Star Bright
Pismis 24-1, a bright young star that lies in the core of the small open star cluster Pismis 24, the bright stars in this Hubble Space Telescope image on Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. Pismis 24-1, about 8,000 light-years away from Earth, was thought to have an incredibly large mass of 200 to 300 solar masses, but new NASA/ESA Hubble measurements of the star, have discovered that Pismis 24-1 is actually two separate stars.
Parting Shots
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan makes his farewell address at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. Monday, Dec. 11, 2006. Annan criticized the Bush administration's leadership on the global stage, warning that America must not sacrifice its Democratic ideals while waging war against terrorism.