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An elderly Palestinian woman attends a rally supporting the Fatah movement in the West Bank town of Yatta near Hebron May 28, 2005. Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian gunman and wounded two others during an attempted attack on a military base near the West Bank city of Jenin late on Saturday, an Israeli army spokeswoman said. Photo by Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun
This photo released by the Museum Victoria shows a 50,000-strong swarm of spider crabs mating on the seabed of Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay. Scientists are baffled by the size of the enormous gathering which is scaring away all other sealife from the area.(AFP/HO-MV/Julian Finn)
Ryan Devany, a member of staff at Butterfly World, near Edinburgh, Scotland, gets a close look at two new baby green Yemen Chameleons hatched in the last two weeks Thursday, May 26, 2005. The chameleons may reach up to two feet in length. (AP Photo/David Cheskin / PA)
Ayad Ali Dayeer, a soldier in the Iraqi Army’s Reconnaissance Unit, smokes a cigarette in a house that his unit is searching with supervision from U.S. Marines in Haditha, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Saturday, May 28, 2005. In its fourth day, Operation New Market finished searching houses in the center part of the city. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
Cub Scout Nicholas McGahan, 8, right, and Boy Scout Thomas McGahan, 11, of Northport, N.Y., place flags on graves at Long Island National Cemetery, in Farmingdale, N.Y., Saturday, May 28, 2005. The two brothers are among thousands of volunteers who place flags at the cemetery in observance of Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)
A security guard walks past three pieces of renaissance art that will be in an upcoming show at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The show featuring artworks from several artists including Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo will open May 29. (CP/Jonathan Hayward)
A women votes on the European constitution referendum in Baie-Mahault. Guadeloupe, one of France’s overseas territories, is voting first in the referendum.(AFP/Dominique Chomereau-Lamotte)
A loon, foreground, swims as double-crested cormorants take flight over Leech Lake near Walker, Minn., May 12, 2005. Cormorants are being blamed for eating away at the young walleye stock in Leech Lake. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
North Korean children eat fortified biscuits provided by the U.N. World Food Programme at a primary school in Munchon county in North Korea’s Kangwon province in this photo taken on April 27, 2005 and released May 27, 2005. Candy is dandy for North Korean children trying to grow tall, strong and smart in a country battling chronic food shortages. North Korea has developed a candy it claims is good for children and will help them increase their height, weight and IQ, a pro-North Korea newspaper published in Japan said on May 27, 2005. (Reuters – Handout)
A man dressed as Santa Claus stands next to a reindeer in Lapland. A billboard in Glasgow categorically stated that Santa Claus does not exist.(AFP/LEHTIKUVA/File)
A cow grazes on a field next to Sellafield nuclear plant in North England. Some 83,000 litres of highly radioactive liquid leaked unnoticed for up to nine months from a ruptured pipe at the Sellafield nuclear plant, in Britain’s worst nuclear accident in years, it was reported.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)
May 27: Taking the plunge : A young man dives into a diving well at a swimming pool complex in Munich. (AFP/DDP/Joerg Koch)
Japanese Self-Defence Force soldiers guard a construction project waves to residents in Samawa May 28, 2005. Japan said on Saturday it believed a Japanese hostage seized in Iraq was dead, after insurgents said they had killed him and posted footage on the Internet apparently showing corpse. REUTERS/Mohammad Ameen
Indonesian policemen talk with a homeless boy while guarding the U.S. embassy in Jakarta May 27, 2005. Jakarta police chief Firman Gani said on Thursday police had reinforced security at the embassies of Japan, Britain and Australia based on their own intelligence reports after the U.S. closed all its diplomatic missions in Indonesia on Thursday because of a security threat as police warned that Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda were planning an attack on an unspecified target. REUTERS/Beawiharta
The NOAA satellite picture taken at 5 A.M. EDT on Saturday May 28, 2005 shows clouds across much of the Northeast and northern Plains. Skies were mostly clear across the mid-Atlantic and Southeast, but an area of clouds was invading from the Midwest. Billowing clouds continue to eclipse the sky across the Southwest and western Texas. Clouds were also moving into Oregon, northern Nevada, and northern California. (AP Photo/NOAA)
A hospital employee sprays desinfectant at the Fann hospital in Dakar where cholera patients were treated. Cuban scientists have developed a new cholera vaccine and are ready to do ‘field testing’ in Africa before it is marketed worldwide, officials said.(AFP/File/Seyllou)
An Indian AIDS patient at a care center in Bangalore. Health groups in India have rejected government figures showing a 95 percent slide in the annual growth of HIV infections.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)
A doctor gives an infant a polio drop at a clinic in Jakarta. Indonesia said it will disburse 40 billion rupiah (4.21 million dollars) on polio vaccines to halt the spread of the crippling disease, which has returned to the country after a decade of absence.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)
