AP Photo/Alex Brandon
A rose is covered with snow as the snow continues to fall in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008.
Warmed Over
AP Photo/Martin Meissner
Meerkats, members of the mongoose family usually found in the Kalahari Desert and similar locations, warm up under a heater at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, on a cold winter day Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008.
Mugabe Man
AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi
A soldier of the Presidential Guard adjusts his beret at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, during the burial of Eliot Manyika, a government minister who died in a car accident. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe warned against the invasion of Zimbabwe by western powers whom he described as been hypocritical for wanting to send troops to Zimbabwe because of an outbreak of cholera.
A Real Hoot
AP Photo/Martin Meissner
A snowy owl watches visitors at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, on a cold winter day Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008.
Backlit Lama
AP Photo/Alik Keplicz
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is silhouetted as he greets about 5,000 people that came to listen to his lecture in a sports arena, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008.
Itsy Bitsy
AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout
Dew drops are seen condensed on a spider's web on a cold morning in Bhubaneswar, India, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008.
Sacred Staircase
AP Photo/Seth Wenig
A staircase from the World Trade Center at ground zero is moved to its final resting place in New York, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008. Known as the "Survivor's Staricase," it once served as an escape route for people fleeing the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 and is now being preserved as part of the planned memorial on the site.
Piggyback Ride
AP/The Times, Jerry Newman
The space shuttle Endeavor atop a jumbo jet lands at Barksdale Air Force Base outside Bossier City, La., on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 11, 2008.
Greek Violence Persists
AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky
A Greek anti riot police officer kicks out at a protester during clashes on the sidelines of a demonstration in central Athens, Greece, Thursday Dec. 11, 2008. Some 2,000 people took part in the protest against the police killing of a teenager last week, which has sparked six days of Greece's worst rioting in decades.
