An Afghan health worker vaccinates a children outside his house in Parwan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006. In a three-day campaign, more than 45,000 health workers and volunteers will go across the country to immunize more than seven million children under the age of five from polio.
Dalai Lama In Mongolia
The Dalai Lama gestures during a visit to Mongolia's largest Buddhist monastery, Gandantegcheling, in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006. The Dalai Lama was starting a weeklong trip aimed at shoring up Tibet's traditional links with the landlocked nation. China, which labels the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader a separatist troublemaker, protested his last trip to the country.
Utopian Scene
A Tibetan ethnic minority girl walks Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, in Snow Mountain near Lijiang in the southwestern province of Yunnan, China. Lijiang, where various Tibetan ethnic groups gather, is a popular tourist destination as it is the base town to visit "Shangri-La," the mythical land made famous in James Hilton's 1933 book "Lost Horizon."
Telethon Tune Up
Entertainer Jerry Lewis conducts the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra on the Las Vegas Strip as he tapes the show opener for the 41st annual Labor Day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association, August 22, 2006 in Las Vegas. The show will air September 3-4.
Picking Up The Pieces
Workers clear rubble of destroyed buildings in Beirut's devastated southern suburbs, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006. A truce in Lebanon appeared increasingly tenuous as the U.N. struggled to find European countries willing to commit forces to keep the peace between Israel and Hezbollah.
The Art Of Dance
Famous Spanish flamenco dancer Aida Gomez, center left, and her dance company perform in Gomez' new show "Carmen," in Madrid, Aug. 22, 2006.
A Heap Of Compost Bins
A young child plays among plastic compost bins in Trafalgar Square, put there to celebrate the sale of 1 million compost bins in the United Kingdom and promote Recycle Now program, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 in London.
Plane Crashes In Ukraine
Firefighters stand by fragments of the Russian Tupolev Tu-154 plane which crashed near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, about 400 miles east of Kiev, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006. The Russian passenger jet crashed in eastern Ukraine just minutes after sending a distress signal during a severe thunderstorm, killing all 170 people on board, officials said. Dozens of children were among the victims.
Boulder Bound
Murder suspect John Mark Karr listens during an extradition hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006. Karr waived extradition and will be returned to Boulder, Colo., where he is charged with murdering JonBenet Ramsey a decade ago.
Sushi Anyone?
A Great Blue Heron catches a fish, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, on the Ohio River in Henderson, Ky.
Soldiers Become Citizens
U.S. Army National Guard Specialist Christine Frater-Jackson, center, originally of Jamaica, takes the oath of allegiance to the U.S. during a naturalization ceremony held on the flight deck the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 in Coronado, Calif. Eighty-eight servicemen from 29 countries were sworn in as U.S. citizens during the ceremony.
Nature's Mirror
A Kashmiri fisherman rows his boat in the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Aug 22, 2006. Set in the Himalayas at 5,600 feet above sea level, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges. About 100 lakes dot its highlands and plains.