A relative of Alaa Sabah grieves beside his coffin outside Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital, Iraq, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Sabah was killed late Monday in a mortar attack on al-Shurta neighborhood in west Baghdad.
Stardust To Dust
Dust spews over The Strip after the implosion of the Stardust hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The property, which opened on July 2, 1958, was imploded to pave the way for Boyd Gaming Corp.'s $4.4 billion megaresort complex, Echelon Place.
Helping Hand
Animal keeper Sabina Gloecknerova holds a three-week-old male Celebes Crested Macaque at the zoo in Decin, Czech Republic, north of Prague, on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The baby ape, named Satu, was refused by his mother and intensive human care for Satu is now inevitable.
Under The Gun
A gunman identified as Almario Villegas holds a gun from a window of the Taguig city court in suburban Manila, Philippines Tuesday, March 13, 2007, where police surrounded the building. Authorities said the gunman and his woman partner seized four hostages following disagreements on the schedule of a court hearing on land dispute.
Sign Of The Times
An Indian street child gestures as she plays in a park in Howrah, close to Kolkata, India, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. With acceleration in economic growth, India has become one of the fastest growing developing countries. This has created a rift between poor and rich, with about 22 percent of the population living below the poverty line.
"My Aching Head"
An ethnic minority delegate holds his head as he listens to China's Chief Justice Xiao Yang speak at the 4th plenary session of China's ongoing National People's Congress in Beijing Tuesday March 13, 2007. Xiao said recent reforms to the country's widespread application of the death penalty meant such sentences should be upheld only in an "extremely small" number of cases.
Splashdown!
Former Microsoft software developer Charles Simonyi jumps in a pool of the Star City Space training center outside Moscow, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The world's next space tourist, Simonyi, will blast off on his journey to the International Space Station April 7, 2007, according to Russia's space agency.
All Ears?
Iraq's al-Anbar province tribal leaders attend a meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Ramadi Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Al-Maliki visited the western city of Ramadi, a hotbed of Sunni insurgency, in an attempt to show his government is getting on top of the security situation in Iraq.
Victory Kiss
Lance Mackey, of Fairbanks, Alaska, kisses one of his lead dogs, Larry, left, after his Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory in Nome, Alaska, Tuesday, March, 13, 2007, to become the first musher to win both the Iditarod and the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in the same year.