Photos Of The Day

U.S. Army soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division prepare to raid a house Friday, April 20, 2007, in Baghdad, Iraq. The soldiers were working on information from informants that said insurgents were staying at the home. The soldiers are part of the U.S. military surge trying to help control the violence-plagued city.

Day Of Mourning

Mourners gather around a makeshift memorial in front of Burruss Hall at Virginia Tech for a moment of silence to honor the victims of the shooting in Blacksburg, Va., Friday, April 20, 2007.

Columbine Remembered

Roger Kovacs and his wife, Lesli, visit a memorial to the teacher and 12 students that were killed at Columbine High School, at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, in Littleton, Colo., on Friday, April 20, 2007, the 8th anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School.

Monk Melee

Two opposing groups of Cambodian Buddhist monks fight in a street in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, April 20, 2007. Ironically, the two opposing groups engaged in a street fist-fight during a protest to demand religious freedom for their fellow monks living in southern Vietnam.

Dog Of The Future

A programmer demonstrates a robot dog Friday, April 20, 2007, in Paris at the headquarters of Gostai. The year-old company says it has developed a simple, easy-to-use robot software that can work with all operating systems. And just in time, company officials say, since they expect the global market for domestic robots to begin booming in the coming years.

Safe Passage

An elderly Turkish woman walks in front of an anti-riot police unit at a central square in Istanbul Friday, April 20, 2007.

Dress Code

An Iranian girl veiled in white stands among the demonstrators to protest against women who violate the strict Islamic dress code, after prayers in Tehran, Friday, April 20, 2007. Iran is set to launch an annual summer crackdown on women, as well as men, whose dress is deemed to be out of line with its Islamic laws warning that women "dressed up like models" would face being apprehended in the crackdown.

Puy-du-Fou's head of falconry Jean-Louis Liegeois holds "Melchior", a young Gypaete Barbu, or bearded vulture, 20 days after his birth, in the Park du Puy du Fou, in Les Epesses, western France Friday, April 20, 2007. It is the first time a gypaete barbu was born in a French zoological park.