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Photos of the day | Friday, Sept. 10, 2010


A massive fire burned homes as it roared through a mostly residential neighborhood in the hills south of San Francisco following a loud explosion Thursday evening, Sept. 9, 2010, that shot a fireball more than 1,000 feet into the air and sent frightened residents fleeing for safety, witnesses said.


Jeremy Tharp of Fountain Head Management Inc. cleans out insulation from Andrew Diggs' apartment on Thursday, September 9, 2010, after a tornado tore off the roof the day before at May Road Apartments in Seagoville, Texas.


A brick chimney on Terrabella Lane in Heath, Texas, is shown Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, crumbled in the strong winds of Wednesday night's storm.


Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos picks up Edward Nino Hernandez, 24, at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday Sept. 9, 2010. Nino has been recognized as the world's shortest man in the new Guinness World Records 2011.

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Photos of the day | Monday, Sept. 13, 2010


Hurricane Igor churns east of the northern Leeward Islands Sept. 13, 2010 in the Atlantic Ocean. It has become the Atlantic seasons most powerful hurricane but forecasters predict it will turn north and bypass the mainland U.S.


A boy's face is covered in flour after competing in the traditional "Las Chamcacas" game of blowing into bowls of flour during celebrations honoring the town's patron saint "Santa Cruz de Roma," or "The Holy Cross of Rome," in Panchimalco, El Salvador.


The Tribute in Lights glow skyward near the World Trade Center site, Sept. 11, in New York.


A slurry bomber drops retardant on a burning ridge as a wildfire burns at sunset west of Loveland, Colo., on Sunday.


A competitor tries to solve the Rubik cube on the final day of the 2010 Rubik's Cube German Championships in the 3x3x3 cube "Classical category."


Pakistani flood victims, desperate for aid, swim towards a building where the army is dropping aid from a helicopter onto the rooftop in Sindh province on Sept.13. Some 21 million people have been affected by the floods that began more than six weeks ago. Advancing floodwaters continue to threaten parts of Sindh province, with 19 of its 23 districts deluged and 2.8 million people displaced, according to provincial authorities.


French President Nicolas Sarkozy (second from right) and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (right) look at prehistoric paintings of extinct bulls during a visit with scientists at the Lascaux Cave in southwestern France. The Lascaux cave has been closed to the public since 1963 to prevent deterioration of the art caused by humidity and warmth from visitors.


Chinese babies accompanied by their parents take part in a baby swimming contest, which the organizer hopes will break the Guinness World Record for the most babies swimming together.

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Photos of the day | Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010


Fog blankets the Space Needle and downtown early Tuesday morning.


Fermin Salomon Morales, from central Peru, tends a band of 1,000 sheep on the range land east of Moxee in Yakima County.

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Photos of the day | Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010


Abandoned puppies roam a village in Tanah Karo near the erupting Mount Sinabung, seen emitting volcanic ash in North Sumatra province on September 15, 2010. More than 20,000 people have fled their homes since the volcano first erupted late August and remain in emergency shelters. Volcanologists said Sinabung's long dormant period had made it highly unpredictable.


A Chinese doctor checks a bacteria sample at a hospital in Beijing on September 14, 2010. Health authorities in China are scrambling to allay public fears about a tick-borne disease that has killed more than 30 people since 2007, but admitted they do not know how many have been infected.


A narrow strip of land serves as refuge near Khairpur Nathan Shah in Sindh province, Pakistan, as flooding continues Thursday, September 14, 2010. A US official is quoted saying the United Nations will raise an emergency appeal to support flood-ravaged Pakistan, despite concerns that an initial call to donors has fallen short.


Connie Culp, who underwent the first face transplant surgery in the U.S., talks at the Cleveland Clinic on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 in Cleveland. The woman who had the nation's first face transplant is asking Ohioans to register as organ donors.


Fishermen try to secure their boats as tropical storm Karl arrives in the town of Mahahual in southern Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Karl is expected to quickly weaken into a tropical depression as it slogs across the flat peninsula before heading back out over the Gulf of Mexico, where it could turn into a hurricane by the end of the week and threaten the central Mexican coast.


A woman walks at sunset in El Alto, Bolivia, Monday Sept. 13, 2010.


Foreign women sunbathe at the Dubai Marina in the Gulf emirate on September 15, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010


A girl carries firewood in a Pakistani army-run relief camp in Sehwan, in the Sindh province, on September 15, 2010. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme (WFP) have announced that they are to join forces to address Pakistan's food shortage emergency following floods that ravaged 10 percent of the country's crops. Pakistan's worst-ever floods have left 10 million people without shelter nationwide and vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. Some 21 million people have been affected by the floods, which began more than six weeks ago, leaving more than eight million reliant on aid handouts for survival.


In this Sept. 14, 2010 photo, 9-year-old Ethan White feeds cereal to his four month old miniature pot-bellied pig "Roger" at his home in Midland, Mich. The Midland City Council has unanimously denied a request that would have allowed the animal to remain with Ethan White. Ethan is allergic to animals with long hair and fur. Local ordinances do not allow residents to own pigs.


An Afghan boy escorts a donkey carrying ballot materials in Dara, Panjshir province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. Afghanistan will go to parliamentary elections on Sept. 18.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, Sept. 17, 2010



In this handout satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricanes Karl, Julia, and Igor are seen in the Atlantic Ocean September 16, 2010 as seen from space. Igor is moving slowly northwestward, Julia is weakening as it moves quickly northwestward over open waters of the eastern Atlantic and Karl has become a hurricane.



Residents in the Park Slope neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York circle around a car crushed by a fallen tree, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. A brief but severe storm has swept through New York City, uprooting trees and damaging cars.



Children cross a flooded area on empty oil drums, near an army run relief camp in Sehwan, Sindh province, Pakistan, on September 16, 2010. Antonio Guterres of the UN refugee agency on Thursday urged the world to do far more to help Pakistan recover from catastrophic floods that hit millions, on the eve of a major new UN appeal in New York. Some 21 million people have been affected by the floods, which began more than six weeks ago, leaving more than eight million reliant on aid handouts for survival.



A plume of volcanic ash is emitted by Mount Sinabung, seen under moon light from Tanah Karo district in North Sumatra province in this time exposure taken late September 16, 2010. Authorities still maintain alert status after the volcano erupted late August after lying dormant for some four centuries. About 20,000 people have fled their homes and sought refuge at evacuation centers following series of powerful eruption. The sprawling Indonesian archipelago has 69 active volcanoes with histories of eruptions and straddles major seismic fault-lines in a region known as the "Pacific Ring of Fire".



A man searches for reusable items as an idol of elephant headed Hindu god Ganesh peeks above the waters of the Sabarmati river along with flowers and prayer material floating in the river in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Every year millions of devout Hindus immerse idols of god Ganesh into oceans and rivers in the 10-day long festival that celebrates the birth of the Hindu god.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, Sept. 20, 2010


Philllipe Croizon, a Frenchman whose arms and legs were amputated, holds a French flag during a press conference in Wissant, northern France, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010, after crossing the English Channel this weekend using leg prostheses that have flippers attached. Croizon, 42, had expected the tough crossing to take up to 24 hours and instead, he finished in only 13 and a half.


Waves crash onto the beach at John Smith's Bay in Smith's Parish as Hurricane Igor approaches in Bermuda, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010.


Women polling agents wait for voters at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010.


Participants walk through the coals during a gathering of witches in Vilnius, Lithuaniaon September 18, 2010.


A rescuer carries a woman through flood waters in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung on September 20, 2010 after Typhoon Fanapi crossed the island the day before dumping up to a metre of water of rain in some places. Schools and offices were closed in typhoon-hit parts of Taiwan as residents started clearing up after their homes were flooded by the storm.


Smoke covers the sun during a fire at Brasilia's National Park, on September 19, 2010. A forest fire was burning out of control Sunday across a big swath of national park very near Brazil's capital Brasilia, management of the park told AFP. More than 140 firefighters were battling the blaze, which was suspected to have been deliberately started in the dry brushland of the park, popularly known as Agua Mineral. The number of fires caused by droughts or the extensive burning of grasslands has increased by 85 percent this year so far in Brazil compared to 2009.


A man lights a candle in the street in front a the flat of a woman who killed three people, near St. Elisabethen hospital in Loerrach, soutwestern Germany, on September 20, 2010. German investigators said Monday they believe a domestic row drove a woman to murder and torch her estranged husband and small son and kill a hospital employee before being shot dead by police.


A silhouetted Indian youth takes a look inside the 'Mother Express' exhibition train, dedicated to Mother Teresa on her 100th birth anniversary, at Siliguri Junction Station in Siliguri on September 20, 2010. Mother Teresa began her missionary work with the poor in Kolkata in 1948 and the teeming east Indian metropolis remained her base until her death in September 1997.


A surfer rides a wave as a low pressure system creates large swell on the east coast of Australia at Bronte Beach on September 18, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. Swells of around 3 metres have been occurring off the coast of Sydney, causing hazardous conditions along parts of the East Coast. A new record was set off of Tasmania on September 16 one wave 18.4m, a new national record.

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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010


Space shuttle Discovery begins its 3.4-mile journey to Launch Pad 39A after leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. Discovery is schedule to launch Nov. 1. and will be the last launch of shuttle Discovery before the shuttle program ends.


After posing for the formal photos of the DeAnna Hunter and Matthew Fink wedding, the bride's maids and groom's men, chase geese at Gasworks Park in Seattle, Friday September 17, 2010. The wedding party includes, from left, Caitlin Wollaston, Kyle Bressler, Tabi Adkins, Chris Corey, Keirstein Wilson, Tia Papropalous, Megan Murray, Kyle Tait, Ashley Johnson and Adam Cochr


A Pakistani man displaced by floods grabs his opponent during a traditional game of Kabaddi, a team contact sport, outside their camps in Sukkur, southern Pakistan on Wednesday Sept. 21, 2010. Government officials organized the event to entertain flood affected people and help them temporarily forget life at the camps.


Commuters walk across a floating boat bridge on the Buriganga river in Dhaka on September 21, 2010. Water hyacinth has hampered the movement of boats on the river so boats are tied together to form a temporary bridge.


Tiny water drops from a recent rain magnify the hairs on a leaf of Sage, in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Sept. 20, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010


A hawk perched on a tree at the edge of Randleman Lake is framed by the harvest moon, near Branson Davis Road in Randolph County, N.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. The moonrise was a rare full moon rising on the first day of fall.


Seattle Police investigators and medical team leave the scene at 9445 14th Ave SW. Police found four people dead from gunshot wounds inside the West Seattle home after a wounded woman ran from inside yelling, "my mother has gone crazy." Among the dead was the woman believed to have been the shooter, described as an Asian woman in her 50s, said Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb. She apparently took her own life as police were outside the home.


Indian officials and villagers crowd around the carcass of an elephant, one of seven killed by a train over a railroad track, at Moraghat Tea Garden near Binnaguri in Jalpaiguri district of India's West Bengal state on September 23, 2010. Seven elephants were killed and one injured when a speeding train hit the animals overnight September 22. The elephants were hit when they were trying to help two baby elephants that were trapped on the tracks, a forestry official said in a report.


In this photo released by Vandenberg Air Force Base on Tuesday Sept.21,2010 showing the Atlas 5 rocket launch Monday Sept. 20,2010. The rocket carried a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office.


A Somali fisherman carries a shark on his shoulders to take to the market in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Sept, 23, 2010.


Newly trained female officers of Afghan National Army take front seats as a new batch of officers attend their graduation ceremony at National Army's training center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010.


Men clear timber from the rubble of their collapsed family home at the Akhel Payan refugee camp near Nowshera, northwest Pakistan, on September 23, 2010. China is to give another 200 million USD in emergency flood aid to Pakistan, Premier Wen Jiabao announced during a visit to New York for a UN anti-poverty summit.


Two men sit on an inverted boat by the Chenab river as it rains in Jammu, India, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. India is experiencing an excessive rainfall this season after a drought last year. The annual monsoon season from June to October brings rains that are vital to agriculture in India.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, Sept. 24, 2010


Edeilson Manoel do Nascimento holds an X-ray showing a knife that was inside his head at the Hospital das Clinicas in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Nascimento is recovering nicely after a team of surgeons removed the 4-inch knife that had remained stuck in his head for three years after a bar fight.


Two Komodo Dragon hatchlings that were part of group of 22 that recently hatched last month at the Los Angeles Zoo, on September 23, 2010. Hatchlings are 14 to 20 inches long and weigh about three to four ounces. Komodos, the world s largest lizard, can grow to approximately nine feet, weighing up to 200 pounds or more. Because Komodos are cannibalistic, readily eating the young and eggs of their own species, hatchlings are on their own from the start. In the wild, just after hatching the young scurry up nearby trees to avoid being eaten by the adults and remain in the trees, feeding on insects and small lizards, until they are too heavy to forage successfully up above.


Residents flee a house through the window while trying to save belongings during a fire at Real Parque shantytown in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. No casualties were reported at the site where, according to authorities, about 1,500 people live.


Young people play on a bandura, a Ukrainian national musical instrument, to earn money in central Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010.


Foreign inmates wait their turn to perform in a circus, inspired by Cirque du Soleil, at the Santa Monica Prison for women in Lima, Peru, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010. Cirque du Soleil is currently performing in Peru.


An Indian worker carries sand on her head outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue for the Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Frantic last-minute preparations for the Commonwealth Games were paying off, international sports officials said Friday, with armies of cleaners making progress at the fetid athletes' village and foreign teams announcing they planned to attend the troubled competition.


Gale force winds crash waves from the North Sea into the Seaham Lighthouse in Sunderland northeast England Friday Sept. 24, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, Sept. 27, 2010


A Minotaur 4 rocket carrying the Space Based Space Surveillance satellite blasts off and heads toward orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The satellite is designed to detect and monitor debris, satellites and other space objects that could be a threat to national security, communications and weather satellites.


A mother and her child sleep on the pavement in Manila on Sept. 27.


Tuaregs take part in the Cure Salee, or "Festival of the Nomads" in Ingall, northern Niger, on Sept. 25, 2010.


North Korean villagers travel through fields near a village in the foothills of the Baekdu Mountains. China, the North's economic lifeline and sole major ally, has pressed it to follow its example in freeing up the economy, but Kim Jong-il's regime appears so far to be fearful of relaxing its grip.


Nepalese devotees peer down as devotees pull the chariot of Kumari on the last day of the Indra Jatra Festival on Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on September 27, 2010. The eight-day long Indra Jatra festival celebrates Indra, the king of gods and god of rains. Kumari, the prepubescent girl worshipped as a living goddess, is taken around parts of the capital city in religious procession during the festival.


Afghan worker rests on a roof top of a hotel in the old part of Kabul on September 27, 2010. Hundreds of Afghan police joined a key military offensive against the Taliban in their heartland in southern Afghanistan, officials said. NATO forces are leading a new push against insurgents in Kandahar city and surrounding areas, dubbed Operation Dragon Strike, officials said.

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Photos of the Day | Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010


Students gather on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010 after a shooting. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself. Police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said.


A girl dressed up as Kumari, the prepubescent girl traditionally worshiped as a living goddess in Nepal, is carried to her golden chariot on the last day of the Indra Jatra Festival on Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on September 27, 2010. The eight-day long Indra Jatra festival celebrates Indra, the king of gods and god of rains. Kumari is taken around parts of the capital city in religious procession during the festival.


A man dressed up as the super hero character Spider Man performs during a parade in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in downtown Jerusalem, on September 28, 2010. Thousands of Israelis and Christian Evangelical supporters of the Jewish state marched today during their annual parade marking the Jewish holiday of Sukkot or the Feast of the Tabernacles.


A man walks through a flooded street after it rained in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday Sept. 27, 2010.


Aerial view of a car driving on a partially flooded road in Kleiunkugel in eastern Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Heavy rainfalls overnight caused flooding in the area near the Polish border.


A worker uses the lift in the Lloyds of London building in London's financial district on September 28, 2010 in London, England. The British insurance group has reported a 53 percent fall in profits, which has been attributed largely to the impact of major catastrophes such as the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, and the earthquake in Chile. Lloyds' pre-tax profits are down from 1.32bn GBP to 628m GBP for the first six months of 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, Oct. 4, 2010


A handout photo shows a leafy Seadragon, Phycodurus eques, which resembles a piece of drifting seaweed. Results of the first-ever global marine life census were unveiled on October 4, 2010 in London revealing an unprecedented view of life beneath the waves after a decade-long trawl through the murky depths. The Census of Marine Life estimated there are one million-plus species in the oceans, with at least three-quarters of them yet to be discovered.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, Oct. 7


EIghty-six-year-old Gloria LeBlanc from Irondale, Ala., gets a flu shot, from nurse Lisa Shannon at Costco in Hoover, Ala., where a flu shot clinic was held on Tuesday.


A gondola to be used at the Winter Olympics in 2014 to ferry passengers to the media village and events is seen through fog on the "Mountain carousel" downhill skiing complex in Krasnaya Polyana outside Sochi on October 6, 2010.


The setting sun sinks into a fog bank over the jetty as seen from Crescent City, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, Oct. 8


A Palestinian woman prepares tea on an open fire as she takes a break from harvesting olives with her family in the village of Qabatiya, near the West Bank city of Jenin, on October 8, 2010.


Polluted waters of Marcal river, top, mixes with Raba river in Gyor, Hungary, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary's massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage Friday but laboratory tests heightened concerns about possible longer-term harm caused by toxic heavy metals in the slurry.


Workers harvest cranberries at a state farm in the village of Selishche, some 200 miles southwest of Minsk, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. While crossing the flooded fields, machines dislodge the berries allowing them to float to the surface so that employees can gather them.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, Oct. 11


An aerial view shows the cracked northern wall of the dyke of the reservoir containing red mud of an alumina factory near Ajka, 156 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Five days ago the reservoir released about 800,000 cubic metres of caustic red sludge, which flooded villages in the area. The building of a ten meters high and 600 meters long protective barrier is under way, but a second spill can't be prevented according to experts. The recently-detected new crack appears to be widening.


This photo shows a blue anole (Anolis gorgonae), a highly threatened lizard that is found only on the island of Gorgona, about 50 km off the Colombian Pacific coast. The island functioned as a prison until 1985 when it became a National Natural Reservation turning into an ecological paradise and an ideal place for observing humpback whales.


Afghan children play around a house destroyed during the 1990s civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010.


Sail boats participate in the 42nd edition of the traditional "Barcolana" regatta in the gulf of Trieste, north-eastern Italy, Sunday. The Barcolana is an annual sailing race in the Gulf of Trieste with hundreds of participants which is described by the organizers as "Everybody's Regatta." In foreground at right, is the "Faro della Vittoria" (victory lighthouse).

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010


Sarah Stalder comforts her son, Marcus, 6, as a Wenatchee, Wash., firefighter extinguishes a brush fire that burned outside their home in Wenatchee Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. The home is owned by Sarah's mother, Ellie Youngman. No one was injured in the fire.


People light candles at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida in the town of Aparecida, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. Thousands of pilgrims flocked to this town to celebrate the day of Our Lady of Aparecida, the patron saint of all Catholic Brazilians.


A frog floats with cranberries awaiting harvest on a cranberry bog in Wareham, Mass., Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010.


LuAnne Armstrong of Seattle took the day off from work to take advantage of a photographers only early morning shoot at the Japanese Garden -- one of four offered in the month of October to allow photographers to use all their gear to capture the turning colors of the leaves.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, Oct. 15, 2010


An ultra light aircraft flies against the backdrop of the the Himalayan mountain range, including Mount Machhapuchhre, center, that has a height of 6993 meters, in the popular tourist destination of Pokhara, some of 200 kms west of Kathmandu on October 14, 2010.


Cayden Peterson raises his hand during class on Sept. 16 at St. Edward's Catholic School in Jerome, Idaho. Cayden has Apert syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects one in 200,000 newborns. The disorder causes the skull and facial bones to fuse together prematurely, creating a rigid cage around a child's growing brain.


Federal Councilor Moriz Leuenberger, center, hugs former Federal Councilor Adolf Ogi, left, after a giant drilling machine completed the world's longest tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps during a ceremony on October 15, 2010, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from one end and 2,000 meters below the mountains near Sedrun. By the time it opens for service in 2017, the 57-kilometer (35.4-mile) long Gotthard tunnel will exceed Seikan rail tunnel linking the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido and the world's longest road tunnel of Laerdal in Norway, paving the way for continuous high-speed rail travel between northern and southeastern Europe.


This image obtained from NASA shows the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision captured by the Hubble Space telescope. The images, taken from January to May with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, show a bizarre X-shaped object, the likes of which astronomers have never seen before, at the head of a comet-like trail of material. The 400-foot-wide (122 meters) object in the image is thought to be a remnant of a larger body that collided at about 11,000 miles per hour (17,700 kilometers per hour) with a smaller rock that the scientists think measured 10 to 15 feet across. The crash released an explosion with the force of a small atomic bomb and is believed by astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, to have happened in February or March 2009.


A two-month-old male Francois Langur monkey is held tight while being groomed by his mother, Lynn, at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Francois Langur's are leaf-eating monkeys found in tropical Asia. They are born bright orange, and darken as they mature.


Hanna Klebansky, right, of Jerusalem, and Linda Coppleson, left, of New Jersey, both scribes for the Women's Torah Project, turn over a section to be stitched together at Hillel UW on Wednesday, October 13, 2010.


The top of a tree rises above the fog in a valley in Jasper, Ind., Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010.


In this image released by the San Diego Zoo in California, a one-month-old giraffe calf named Machaleo made his debut alongside his mother, Shani, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on October 13, 2010. The male calf is the 115th Uganda giraffe born at the Safari Park.

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Photos of the Day | Monday, Oct. 18, 2010


This image showing super Typhoon Megi over the Northern Philippines was provided by the NASA MODIS Rapid Response team website and was taken by Terra Satellite on October 18, 2010 at 2.30 UTC. Forecasters said Megi was the strongest storm to hit the Philippines since Typhoon Durian unleashed mudslides that buried entire towns and killed over 1,000 in 2006, and was likely the most powerful in the world this year. It pummelled remote coastal areas of the northern Philippines with gusts of up to 260 kilometres (161 miles) an hour on Monday morning as it made landfall, tearing roofs off houses and bringing down power lines.


Residents brave the strong winds and heavy rains to retrieve fuel at the onslaught of typhoon Megi (local name "Juan") Monday in Cauayan, in northeastern Philippines. The strongest cyclone in years to buffet the Philippines knocked out communications and power as residents took shelter Monday.


A sea lion "smiles" during a show at Kamogawa Sea Wolrd in Kamogawa, east of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010.


Iranian refugee Mohsen Abdolhoseini, 34, is seen with her lips sewn together during a press conference in Athens on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. A group of six Iranians have sewn their lips together to demand that the Greek government grants them asylum, and have been camped in the city center since Sept. 1. The United Nations refugee agency and human rights groups have repeatedly criticized Greece for its tiny acceptance rate for asylum applications - less than 1 percent.


School children react as they stare at an animatronic dinosaur during a preview for the Walking with Dinosaurs arena spectacular in Sydney, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. Australia's most successful entertainment export, the life-sized dinosaurs have played to six and half million people worldwide and generated more than 350 million Australian dollars (US $344 million) in ticket sales.


In this image made available by the Ministry of Defence in London, Monday Oct. 18, 2010, the sun rises over the Royal Navy nuclear attack submarine HMS Triumph, as she comes into a naval base on the River Clyde in Scotland, early Sunday Oct. 17, 2010. The vessel had been taking part in Exercise Joint Warrior, in which thirty ships, three submarines, seven helicopter units, 14 land-based air units and eleven seperate ground forces from, Britain, The US, Canada, Italy, France, Estonia, Spain, Poland Belgium, Turkey, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark took part, primarily around Scotland's coastline.