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Chinese dancers perform during the opening ceremony for the Fortune Global Forum titled ‘China and the new Asian Century’ in Beijing May 16, 2005. Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Monday China would work hard to open up to the rest of the world and help foreign businesses investing in what has become the world’s fastest-growing major economy. REUTERS/Jason Lee
A Chinese opera mask is displayed during ‘Beijing’s Night’ ceremony for the Fortune Global Forum in Beijing May 17, 2005. The forum has attracted more than 800 participants, including CEOs, chairpersons and presidents of Global 500 firms and domestic enterprises, top government officials and renowned scholars to brainstorm in the Chinese capital. REUTERS/Jason Lee
Hot air balloon rises in the air during an international balloon cup near the Ukrainian city of Kamyanets-Podilsky, about 420 km (263 miles) west of the capital Kiev, May 15, 2005. About 20 teams of balloon enthusiasts are taking part in the 9th international ‘Air Brotherhood’ competition. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Cultivating sunflowers : Indian farmer Bhaan Singh tends to his crop of sunflowers in a field on the outskirts of Amritsar. (AFP/Stringer )
A Filipino priest (2nd R) talks to a police officer (R) during a protest, asking the government to solve and eliminate the problem of journalist killings, outside the presidential palace in Manila May 18, 2005. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo set up a 5 million peso ($92,600) ‘press freedom’ fund on Monday to help solve murders of journalists in the country. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has labelled the Philippines as the most dangerous country in the world for media with 18 killings of reporters since January 2000. It was followed by war-torn Iraq, Colombia, Russia and Bangladesh. The placard read ‘Can you gag, hide the truth?’. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Kite competition : A boy stands by a three-layer kite during a competition in a public park of Manila. (AFP/Joel Nito)
An Indonesian owner grooms her dogs in a pet fashion competition in Jakarta on May 15, 2005. Around 50 dogs, wearing outfits ranging from pink dresses to tartan coats, competed in the contest that awards winners with trophies and cash. REUTERS/Supri
A woman cries holding a portrait of a relative, a victim of Beslan school hostage crisis, outside a court house during a trial in Vladikavkaz, Northern Ossetia, Russia, Tuesday, May 17, 2005. Survivors of the Beslan school hostage crisis and relatives of the dead crammed into a courtroom Tuesday to catch a glimpse of Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the only man to go on trial for the terror attack that ended in the deaths of more than 330 people. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (R) speaks during a joint press conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi at the foreign ministry in Baghdad. Kharazi made a key visit to Iraq to ‘close the file’ on the war between the two countries from 1980 to 1988, with Iran offering its full support to the new Iraqi
An artist’s impression of the ‘City of Dreams’, a hotel and casino project featuring the world’s first underwater casino to be built in Macau’s Cotai island, is displayed in Hong Kong May 17, 2005. Developer Melco International Development Ltd. is selling $167.8 million worth of shares at a discount of up to 6.7 percent to the market price to finance the project, sources said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Handout
Don Esmond of Toyota holding the trophy for winning the North American Car of the Year Award for the new Prius at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan last year. The high cost of gasoline in 2005 is forcing some Californians to forsake their gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles for the popular hybrids. The makers of the hybrids are experiencing a back-log of orders, which is leaving costumers waiting months for their news cars(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)
Sand man : A girl touches a sculpture made from sand on the city beach in Kiev, during the Third International Festival of Sand Sculptures. (AFP/Genya Savilov)
A female teacher giving class. A school in eastern India has reportedly told women teachers to wear aprons over their saris to avoid distracting male students by ‘unconsciously exposing body parts'(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)
Sitting on a pakr bench : An employee of the Christies austion house carries portion of a painting by local artist Wesley Walters titled ‘Nude on Park Bench’ in Melbourne. (AFP/William West)
Gay activist : An activist for gay rights sports a mask while performing in front of the National Congress building as part of a protest against homophobia. (AFP/Rodrigo Buendia)
Gothic looks : Visitors of the so-called Wave-Gothic-Meeting in the eastern town of Leipzig. (AFP/DDP/Norbert Millauer)
Landless Movement : The shadows of some members of the Landless Movement (MST) are seen outlined on the road at the end of a 200 km march from Goiania (central Brazil) to Brasilia in demand of a National Agrarian Reform. (AFP/Evaristo Sa)
Trouble in Andijan : An Uzbek woman grieves at the grave of a relative killed during clashes between government forces and local protesters at the cemetery of Andijan. (AFP/Denis Sinyakov)
May 16, 2005: Taking a walk : A Congolese woman walks in a farm nearby Kalemie city in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AFP/Ali Burafi)
Bamboo lunch : A male Indian elephant eats bamboo as he walks through Bandipur National Park, some 245 kms (150 miles) southwest of Bangalore. (AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)
Young devotee : Vijay, a twelve-year-old Indian devotee of the Hindu Goddess Sheetla Mata, walks with a steel rod piercing his cheeks as he takes part with others in a procession held to honour the goddess, in Amritsar. (AFP/Stringer )
(owww!)
May 15, 2005: Carnival culture : A participant of a world cultures festival dances in the streets of Berlin. (AFP/DDP/Johannes Eisele)
Kenny Chesney accepts his award for entertainer of the year at the 40th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Tuesday, May 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta)
I guess you could say that Renee Zellweger picked a winner!
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, right, pose for photos with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award recipients Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, second from left, Former Texas State Sen. Bill Ratliff, third from left, and a Special Profile in Courage Award recipient U.S. Army Sgt. Joseph Darby, fourth from left, at John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, in Boston, Monday, May 16, 2005, after their award presentation. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
A US Army Blackhawk helicopter crew member holds onto the main rotor after being briefly grounded by a sandstorm south of the northern city of Arbil on May 15, 2005. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s brief trip to Iraq highlighted US resolve but also the daunting problems it faces in trying to stabilize a country beset by a raging insurgency and a fractured body politic.(AFP/Pool/File/Faleh Kheiber)
