Air Force Master Cpl. Brian Fisher, from Niagara Falls, Ont., attached to the 2nd Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, stands watch in his T-LAV as the sun sets at the forward operating base in Sperwen Ghar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
Eye Of The Tiger
A caged South China tiger is seen in transit at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport Tuesday, April 24, 2007 en route to an animal reserve. The male tiger was airlifted from China to South Africa in an effort to save the world's rarest tiger breed from extinction. This tiger is one of fewer than 100 remaining and is to join a breeding program in South Africa aimed at saving the subspecies from extinction.
Yeltsin Farewell
Honor guards stand by the coffin of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin inside Christ the Savior Cathedral, during a farewell ceremony in Moscow, Tuesday, April 24, 2007, with Yeltsin's family members at right. Yeltsin died of heart failure on Monday at age 76. The burial is to be held Wednesday.
Pop Gun
A young Israeli boy eats a popsicle as his father looks at a handgun during a display by the army at Ammunition Hill as part of Independence Day celebrations in Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Israel is celebrating its annual Independence Day, marking 59 years since the founding of the state on May 14, 1948.
Battle Remembered
Turkish soldiers, members of the traditional Ottoman Army band of Mehter, are seen at the Turkish Memorial during a ceremony to mark Anzac Day in Gallipoli, Turkey, Tuesday, April 24, 2007. The annual Anzac Day celebration remembers the forces of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps under British command who fought a bloody nine-month battle against Turkish forces on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915.
Tower Of Power
The solar reflectors at the PS10 solar tower plant sit at Sanlucar la Mayor Tuesday, April 24, 2007, in Seville, Spain. The solar tower plant, the first commercial solar tower in the world, built by the Spanish company Solucar (Abengoa), can provide electricity for up to 6,000 homes. The company plans to build a total of nine solar towers over the next seven years to provide electricity for an estimated 180,000 homes.
Nap Time
British Eurodeputy Robert J.E Evans sleeps prior to the plenary session at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
Shooting Victim Laid To Rest
Grafton Patterson, right, is comforted by unidentified mourner during funeral services for his daughter Erin Nicole Peterson at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 in Centreville, Va. Erin was a freshman at Virginia Tech who was killed in last week's shooting.
Flying Fish
Trout are released into Jamaica Pond in Boston, Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Massachusetts state and Boston city officials began the fishing season by releasing about 500 trout into the pond.
Truth Be Told
Former Army Private Jessica Lynch arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 24, 2007. The story of her capture and subsequent rescue in Iraq in 2003 was changed into a story of heroism on her part. "The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate lies," Lynch said.