A 5-foot long Frill shark swims in a tank at Awashima Marine Park in a photo released Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007, The shark was found by a fisherman at a bay in Numazu, on Jan. 21, in Numazu, Japan. The Frill shark usually lives in waters of a depth of about 2,000 feet and so it is very rare that one is found alive at sea-level. Its body shape and gills are similar to fossils of sharks which lived 350 million years ago.
Energy Effort
President Bush delivers remarks on energy in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Mr. Bush was plugging his energy proposals at a DuPont Co. facility where scientists research ethanol and other biofuels.
Uneasy Calm In Beirut
A huge portrait of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah dominates the scene on the main highway that leads to Beirut's international airport Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. The roads across Lebanon were clear and the airport reopened after a day of deadly street fights between Hezbollah-led opposition and pro-government supporters.
Sri Lanka Patrol
Sri Lankan special forces soldiers patrol in Kathiraveli, about 140 miles east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Sri Lankan soldiers intensified patrols in the volatile east to hunt down fleeing Tamil separatists, the military said, days after the army captured rebel bases and killed dozens of guerrillas dead.
Sir Winston Winterized
Snow rests on a statue of the late British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square after an overnight snowfall in London, Wednesday Jan. 24, 2007.
Floral Fair Flair
Fair hostess Yana poses with flowers of gerbera Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007, on the fairgrounds in Essen, Germany, to promote the Internationale Pflanzenmesse (IPM). Some 1,400 exhibitors from 42 countries will present their products during the fair of the horticultural sector running from Jan. 25-28.
Serpentine Lights
Traffic moves along the snow-covered motorway A96 near Etterschlag west of Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. After a lengthy period of unseasonably warm temperatures, winter returned to Germany with heavy snowfalls causing traffic problems all over the country.
High And Tight
Pvt. Haydon Williams, 27, from Tom's River, N.J., gets a haircut at a makeshift barbershop at Patrol Base Yusufiyah in southeast Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. The base, which houses the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry of the Tenth Mountain Division, is part of an effort to spread troops further into Baghdad as the U.S. military focuses on pacifying the Iraqi capital.
To Coin A Face
William Sommerfield, an actor dressed as former President George Washington, holds the first new U.S. Presidential $1 Coin with the face of George Washington on it, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007, at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago, Illinois. The first coin of the Presidential $1 Coin series, George Washington goes into circulation Feb. 15.
Off The Trail
Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. takes part in a debate on an Iraq War resolution, Wednesday, Jan.. 24, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kerry, the Democrats' losing presidential candidate in 2004, said Wednesday that he won't run for the White House again in 2008.