Ceremonial horsemen stand on their horses as a display of skill, at a lavish private dance spectacle thrown for African heads of state by Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, and celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1969 military coup that brought him to...
Afghans feed pigeons at the Shrine of Hazrat Ali in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan. Photo Farzana Wahidy.
Three-month-old Sophia Marmarinos lies on the leaf of a giant water lily (Victoria Amazonica) under the watchful eye of Hans Kuyten, employee of the botanical garden, left, at Diergaarde Blijdorp, also known as Rotterdam Zoo, Netherlands. Photo Peter...
Members of the US forces 1st platoon, A Company 25 Infantry Division (Airborne) from Fort Richardson, Alaska, are illuminated by a red night light with a cloudy night sky above, as they prepare for their night patrol in Khowst province, east of Kabul,...
Indian Hindu devotees covered in paint stand in front of a large statue of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesh, seen in the background, before immersing it in the Arabian Sea, on the final day of the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai, India....
Brandon Lovier, 18, of Galveston. skateboards at the Jonathan M. Romano Skate Park as the sun sets, in Galveston, US. Photo Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre/AP.
Somalis displaced by fighting between the Somali government and Islamist insurgents are seen in a makeshift home at a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP.
Small ice figures are seen on the stairs of Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, Germany as part of an art project by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). One thousand ice figures by Brasilian artist Nele Azevedo were melting within 30 minutes symbolizing the effect...
Mexican wrestler Blue Demon speaks on a phone as he arrives for Mexico's President Felipe Calderon's third annual state of the nation address in Mexico City. Photo Gregory Bull/AP.
A fisherman carries his net to the seashore at dusk in the fishing village of Malkiya, Bahrain, southwest of Manama, capital of the Persian Gulf island nation. Photo Hasan Jamali/AP.