Thursday, June 12, 2008



A Palestinian child walks near the entrance to the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City June 11, 2008.

REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Tuesday, June 10, 2008


A green parakeet carries a flower petal in its beak in Sao Paulo, Monday, June 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A man is reflected in an artwork as he walks past "Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory" by artist Richard Avedon at the Art 39 in Basel June 3, 2008. The international art exhibition is running from June 4-8, 2008. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (SWITZERLAND)

An altar boy holds a cross next to the coffin of Lucienne Heurtelou during a mass in the Saint-Pierre church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti May 27, 2006.

REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Saturday, June 7, 2008


Driving through rapeseed : A car seems to drive in the middle of a rapeseed field near Bautzen, in the eastern German state of Saxony. (AFP/DDP/Norbert Millauer)

Birds flying at sunset. Starting as a single excited shout, the words rippled down the line: "Hoopoe! Hoopoe! Left! Left! Left!" To the uninitiated ear it sounded like the chant of an excited crowd of football fans. But these gasps of delight came from a jovial group of a dozen binocular-wielding Britons doing what they love best -- birdwatching in Europe's avian megalopolis. (AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)