Christopher Pilon walks down the middle a street in downtown Denver, Colo., Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006, as he makes his way to Union Station to catch a train to Salt Lake City, after a blizzard dumped up to two feet of snow in the region.
When It Rains ...
McNally Sislo left, and Alison Mantilla walk in the high water in the Uptown area of New Orleans, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch until noon Friday for parts of east-central and southeastern Louisiana as the same storm system that left heavy snow in parts of the West dumped about 5 inches of rain in the New Orleans area.
Coffins Punctuate Iraq Blast
An Iraqi tries to reach the coffin of a relative as it is carried away from the morgue of a hospital in Baghdad, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. A suicide bomber killed 13 Iraqis in line at a police recruitment center in central Baghdad Thursday, and wounded 12 more, security and medical sources said.
Widows Wait
Afghan widows line up to get their food rations at a CARE International food distribution center in Kabul, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. CARE International supports some 7,200 widows in the Afghan capital, providing them with food, educational and vocational courses and assistance every month. The majority of the widows lost their husbands during the civil-war era in the years after 1992.
'What? Me? Cold?'
Dong Yaoge, 70, is seen stripped to the waist as he runs past some youths in 4-degree weather on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 in Changchun, Jilin Province, China. Dong, who has insisted on running every morning for the last 30 years, ran about 3 miles in the frosty conditions.
Plume On Display
A peacock spreads it's wings at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006.
Perpendicular Parking
A car sits in a drain after being damaged by floods in Segamat, in the southern state of Johor, Malaysia, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. Heavy rains and overflowing rivers have flooded hundreds of towns and villages and cut off power and water supplies in southern Malaysia. Two people were killed and more than 60,000 have been displaced.
Graduation Finery
Indian policemen, part of the first batch of the Jammu Kashmir Armed Police, (JKAP) stand during their passing out parade at the Sheeri training center, 40 miles northwest of Srinagar, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. Seven hundred and fourteen policemen belonging to different armed battalions of the JKAP took part in the passing out parade after completing seven months of training.