New Year's eve at a beach in Puri..eastern Indian city

Sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik creates a sand sculpture of the Taj Mahal on New Year's eve at a beach in Puri, close to the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneshwar December 31, 2007

Bird flu ...northern Vietnam

Geese walk at a village in the northern province of Bac Ninh, 04 January 2008. Bird flu has hit a poultry farm in northern Vietnam in the year's first outbreak after also infecting domestic birds in the country's south in recent weeks, the government said

protesters in Kenya's

Bodies of children in the Nairobi City mortuary, Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008. Opposition leader Raila Odinga toured a dozen freezing rooms at Nairobi's City Mortuary, Thursday, which was full of the bodies of babies, children, young men and women. Some bodies were burned, others had wounds on the head but many did not have visible wounds. It was unclear when the people had died, but opposition officials claimed some of the deaths were Thursday. "What we have just seen defies description," Odinga told journalists after visiting the morgue. "We can only describe it as genocide on a grand scale


Riot police face off Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008 against opposition protesters in Kenya's capital, as the country's attorney general appealed for an independent inquiry to verify disputed results from last weeks presidential poll.

Road side Kiosk owners clean a road Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, damaged by the Orange Democratic Movement supporters on Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya

Asian stocks fell on Friday...Tokyo

Visitors pray at the start of the new business year at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo January 4, 2008. Asian stocks fell on Friday, led by a 4 percent slump in Tokyo's Nikkei, on fears a U.S. economic slowdown, surging oil prices, and a weakening dollar would hit the region's export-reliant economies