A U.N police officer takes cover behind a concrete blast barrier in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 after a protest against Kosovo government institutions turned violent. Thousands demonstrating against the U.N.-led process to decide the fate of the breakaway Serbian province smashed windows and threw paint on the Kosovo parliament and government building during a march through the capital.
Pontiff In Turkey
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the photographers at Ataturk's Mausoleum in Ankara, Tuesday Nov. 28, 2006. The Pope began his trip to Turkey with a message of dialogue and "brotherhood" between Christians and Muslims in an attempt to ease anger over his perceived criticism of Islam.
Courtroom Candor
Saddam Hussein speaks to the court near audiovisual equipment and computers during his trial on genocide charges against Kurds, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Nov. 28, 2006. The prosecution says that about 180,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the campaign against the Kurds, which was code named Operation Anfal.
Iraq Bound
Blindfolded detainees are held at the Iraqi Army base in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. Fierce fighting between Iraqi security forces and Sunni-Arab insurgents raged for a second day in Diyala province, resulting in 17 insurgents killed, 15 detained, 20 civilians kidnapped, three bodies found, one U.S. Marine killed and two wounded.
Everything They Can Carry
Residents carrying mattresses and other belongings pass a government soldier as they leave town to escape fighting between U.N.-backed government forces and renegade troops loyal to a local warlord, in the village of Sake in eastern Congo, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. The latest skirmish began Saturday after forces loyal to former army general Laurent Nkunda attacked Sake, a small town on the northern tip of Lake Kivu.
Winter Wonderland
Fresh snow covers evergreen trees seen through a window Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, in Beaver Creek, Colo. While high temperatures in Europe have disrupted the calendar of the Alpine World Cup, races are scheduled in snowy Beaver Creek Nov. 30 through Dec. 3.
Calm Waters In Fiji
Two boys fish with a spear near the village of Navutulevu, 43 miles east of the Fijian capital Suva Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. Fiji's prime minister flew to New Zealand Tuesday for emergency talks with the country's military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, signaling a potential breakthrough in a long running standoff that has pushed the country to the brink of a coup.
Field Of Green
A woman strolls through a field near Daenisch Niehof near the Baltic Sea in northern Germany, as warm temperatures persisted in Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006.
Taste Of The Season
Jada Oxford-Tone, 4, leans down to taste the snow as she takes a break from helping to clean ice from her grandmother's car in a north Seattle neighborhood Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006. Storms that dumped as much as 2 feet of snow on parts of Washington state turned freeways and streets into icy gridlock and left thousands of people without power.
Refugee Camp Crisis
Young refugees from Sudan's Darfur ethnic conflict who have fled to Chad are seen in Djabal Refugee Camp in eastern town of Goz Beida, Chad on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, among some 218,000 refugees from Darfur who sough refuge within the Central African nation. Chad's information Minister accused some refugees of working for Sudan's government to destabilize his country and called for the camps to be evacuated.