Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Happy New Year
Transparent white balloons are released to mark the New Year at the Zojoji temple in Tokyo.
Issei Kato / Reuters
Monday, December 31, 2007
Birds of a Feather
Thousands of Common Grackles fly over downtown Waco and the Alico Building after sunset in Texas.
Larry Downing / Reuters
Wednesday, January 2, 2007
Blow - Up
A worker inspects the quality of gloves at the Top Glove Corporation in Meru, Klang, Malaysia.
Goh Seng Chong / Bloomberg / Landov
Sunday, December 30, 2007
March
Protestors flood the streets of Nairobi after Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner in an election marred by widespread allegations of vote-rigging.
Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Campaign Stop
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate John McCain listen to him speak at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Charles Dharapak / A
Show of Hands
Filipino Roman Catholic devotees raise their hands as the “Black Nazarene,” a religious icon of Jesus Christ, is paraded through central Manila.
Jay Directo / AFP / Getty
Monday, January 7, 2007
Nothing Up His Sleeve
Magician Marco Tempest performs at the Toshiba exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Jae C. Hong / AP
Wednesday, January 9, 2007
Olympic Training
Young women practice their posture and gait at a vocation school in Beijing. They will serve as hostesses during the medal ceremonies at the Olympic Games this summer.
Andy Wong / AP
Monday, January 7, 2007
Groomed
A mother giraffe licks her newborn, a male, at a zoo in Dortmund.
Michael Gottschalk / AFP / Getty
Thursday, January 10, 2007
Just Sign Here
A zookeeper takes stock of the animals in the penguin enclosure at the London Zoo.
Daniel Berehulak / Getty
High and Dry
A couple walks past ships left landlocked beside the Yangtze River, the result of a persistent drought.
AP
Displaced
Smoke from fires swirls around Kenyans whose homes were burned in post-election violence near Eldoret, Kenya. More than a quarter million people have been uprooted by ethnic clashes.
Mike Hutchings / Reuters
In Rainbows
Scattered clouds over the Bass Strait, Australia, take on a surreal appearance when viewed from a tinted aircraft window and a circular polarizer.
Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Fast Food
Two boys stand beside a truck carrying chickens on the outskirts of Jammu, India.
Amit Gupta / Reuters
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Smoky Future
Bamboo incense sticks are prepared for drying in Nalchal, India.
Jayanta Dey / Reuters
Is it Bright in Here?
Two dogs put in an appearance at the New Year Dog Party held at Big Sight, an exhibition center in Tokyo. For two days, the event allows owners and their dogs to explore doggy fashion and style.
Junko Kimura / Getty
Yeee Haw!
Men ride horses through flames during a purification ritual at an annual religious celebration on the night before a holiday devoted to Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals, in the village of San Bartolome de los Pinares, Spain.
EFE / Zuma
Night Vision
US Soldiers secure an area after dark in Baghdad.
Jewel Samad / AFP/ Getty
Remembrance
A girl holds a red flower between soldiers in Stavropol during a ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Stavropol from German forces.
Danil Semyonov / AFP / Getty
Icon of Faith
A man carries a painting during Orthodox Epiphany celebrations in the Russian village of Temnolesskaya.
Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters