A Sadhu, or Hindu Holy man, performs yoga as he offers prayers on the banks of the Ganges River during the 'Ardh Kumbh Mela' or Half Grand Pitcher festival, in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007.
A Sadhu, or Hindu Holy man, performs yoga as he offers prayers on the banks of the Ganges River during the 'Ardh Kumbh Mela' or Half Grand Pitcher festival, in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007.
Great Barrier Reef hits sad milestone. ... Providing a status update to the World Heritage Committee was required as part of its decision in June last year not to list the reef as “in danger ...
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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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...
An Indian Border Security Force soldier, his face smeared with colored powder for Holi celebrations, stands guard at the India-Pakistan border area of Golpattan, 22 miles west of Jammu, India ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 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 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 ...