A U.S. soldier of the 101st Airborne division is seen during a patrol in Khost, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan now top 32,000, the highest number of American forces in the country since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Taliban.
Behold The Living Goddess
Nepal's living Goddess Kumari gestures as devotees throng to worship her, in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday April 15, 2008. Former communist rebels strengthened their lead in election results, winning 121 out of 200 constituencies where counting was complete from last week's landmark vote and leading in most other areas, officials said.
Big Wheel
Fireworks are released at the grand opening ceremony of the world's largest observation wheel also known as the Singapore Flyer on Tuesday April 15, 2008, in Singapore.
Taxing Event
With the deadline to file federal income tax returns just hours away, Marti Spears, of Rockville Centre, N.Y., foreground, holds a sticker from a certified mail label in her mouth as she puts the label on her tax returns while waiting in line to mail them at the James A. Farley Post Office in New York, Tuesday April, 15, 2008.
Sad Scene
Palestinian relatives of Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, (D.F.L.P.) leader, militant Ibrahim Abu Olba, look out of a building as they watch his funeral in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Witnesses said an Israeli aircraft hit a vehicle in a missile strike in northern Gaza, killing Olba, 42, as he was getting out of the car.
Off The Wall
A worker collects notes left by visitors between the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City Tuesday, April 15, 2008. A rabbi and his helpers are carrying out a twice-yearly ritual removing thousands of notes with prayers and supplications from between the ancient stones of the wall. The old notes are considered to have religious significance and are buried in a nearby cemetery according to Jewish tradition.
Congo Crash
Rescue workers and onlookers gather at the site of a plane crash in Goma, Congo, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. A passenger plane carrying 85 people crashed into a crowded neighborhood in the town in eastern Congo and only six survivors have been found. Smoke engulfed the charred ruins of the aircraft, which appeared to have broken in two when it slammed into the rooftops of about 10 cement homes just outside the airport.
Bee Spring
A bumble bee hovers around a Blue Bonnet Tuesday, April 15, 2008, in Paris, Texas. As the weather continues to fluctuate in northeast Texas, spring is still blooming all over the Red River Valley.