A yellow cab and a few two wheelers travel across the deserted Howrah Bridge in Kolkata, India, during a 12-hour shutdown called by the Trinamool Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. Life across ...
A yellow cab and a few two wheelers travel across the deserted Howrah Bridge in Kolkata, India, during a 12-hour shutdown called by the Trinamool Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. Life across ...
Children play in a flooded park after heavy rains in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Heavy, incessant rains lashing Mumbai and its suburbs since Monday night disrupted normal life, throwing ...
A Palestinian security officer scuffles with Hamas supporters during an argument outside a mosque where supporters gathered in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006.
A stock trader watches his monitor as he trades over the phone at brokerage firm Motilal Oswal Securities Limited in Mumbai, India, Friday, July 6, 2007. Credit: NDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images ...
A trader signals a trade at the Chicago Board of Trade Monday, July 9, 2007, in Chicago. The CBOT got the final go-ahead from shareholders to join forces with its longtime rival Chicago Mercantile ...
The Asia-Pacific region has more than 641 million people living on less than $1 a day, and in India roughly 40 percent of its 1.1 billion people live on less than $1 a day, according to the World ...
Trader Arthur Cashin wears a "Dow 10,000" hat, which was given out when the Dow Jones Industrial Average first hit 10,000 on March 29, 1999, as he works on the NYSE trading floor Monday Oct. 6, 2008.
A police officer holds his head as he walks out of Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. Philadelphia Police Officer Patrick McDonald, 30, who was pursuing an armed ...
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, left, looks on as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, before a Senate Banking Committee hearing.
A worker is seen on top of one of the foundations for the new Dubai Metro system on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007, in Dubai, UAE. Pakistani and Indian laborers form the backbone of a workforce that has ...
Palestinian Tuqa Amjed, 7 months, sits on sorted olives picked by her family during the harvest in the West Bank village of Kufr Nimeh, near Ramallah, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Palestinians began the ...
5 killed in shooting at Molson Coors campus in Milwaukee; ... A look at the physical and digital evidence that led to the arrests and convictions of Jimmy Ray Rodgers and Curtis Wayne Wright in ...
A 14-week-old unnamed female Amur Leopard looks on in her enclosure at Marwell Zoological Park in Winchester, England, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008. The leopard cub born into one of the most endangered ...
Air base on brief lockdown after report of armed suspect ... dedicated to the worship of the Sun God, in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. Credit: AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A. Catch Of The Day ...
Two persons, including a Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier, were killed and ten injured allegedly in a clash between the border guards and villagers near the international border with ...
A child sits in front of a garbage dump on World Poverty Day in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007. The Asia-Pacific region has more than 641 million people living on less than $1 a day ...
Children play in front of giant mechanical lanterns displayed in a park to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006. The festival takes place on the 15th day ...
An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier stands guard with the backdrop of the setting sun at Narayanpur, near Agartala, in India's northeastern state of Tripura, Friday, Dec. 8, 2006.
A man rides past a flag flying at half-mast in Bart, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006, as the area prepares for four funerals. On Monday, in Nickel Mines, a gunman laid siege to a one-room...
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, left, looks on as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, before a Senate Banking Committee hearing.