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Sep 2, 2013

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Members of Congress and other Capitol Hill staffers observe a moment of silence on the steps of the U.S. Capitol for Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Washington. A 22-year-old man has been charged with trying to assassinate Giffords in a shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded 14 in Tucson. Giffords is fighting for her life in a Tucson hospital. REUTERS

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Members of the Chinese navy honor guard stand at attention during a welcoming ceremony for U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the Bayi Building in Beijing. AP

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Senator John McCain and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff talk during a meeting at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. McCain is on a two-day official visit to Brazil during a tour that also includes Colombia, Chile, Panama and Mexico to promote expanding free trade and security cooperation in the Americas. AFP/Getty Images

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A Kashmiri fisherman rows his boat as sun sets over the bank of Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. AP

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid in Dubai. REUTERS

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U.S. activist Lori Berenson gestures after speaking during a hearing at a court in Lima, Peru. Berenson, from New York, addressed a criminal appeals court as prosecutors called for her parole to be revoked and for her to be sent back to prison to finish her 20-year sentence for aiding the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, arguing that a May decision granting parole was riddled with errors. AP

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Indian workers warm their hands around a fire in Jammu, India. Near-freezing temperatures and icy Himalayan winds killed 13 people overnight in northern India, bringing the death toll to nearly 100 from a cold snap that began three weeks ago. AP

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Pupils practice stilt walking during a sports lesson at a primary school in Beijing. Schools in Beijing are giving GPS-equipped mobile phones to students as China seeks to tackle the twin problems of missing children and campus violence. AFP/Getty Images

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The yacht “Sunseeker 88” is being transported to the fairgrounds in Duesseldorf, Germany. With a length of 27 meters, the boat is the biggest yacht on display during the Boot 2011 yacht and watersports trade fair taking place Jan. 22-30 2011. AFP/Getty Images

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A bird attacks a kite designed like it during the International Kite Festival in Ahmedabad, India. Kite-flyers from 36 countries are participating in the festival which runs from Jan. 9-14. AP

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A general view shows a village covered by mud flow from Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta on Jan. 10. Indonesia’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, has killed more than 350 people in a series of violent eruptions which started in late October. AFP/Getty Images

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A southern Sudanese woman shows her inked finger after voting at a polling center in Khartoum on the second day of a landmark independence referendum, bringing south Sudan a step closer to becoming the world’s newest state. AFP/Getty Images

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A Nepali man exercises at a temple courtyard in Katmandu, Nepal. Nepali national newspapers reported at least eight deaths due to cold weather over the past week. AP

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President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama observe a “moment of silence” with other White House staffers on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington to honor the victims of a shooting at an Arizona political event that left people six dead. AFP/Getty Images

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An Indian police officer shoots a leopard as it attacks a bystander in India. The leopard had already injured a number of people in the rampage when police shot the animal. AP

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Tunisian demostrators hurl objects towards security forces in Regueb, near Sidi Bouzid. Fresh clashes broke out in Tunisia today as the EU condemned a government crackdown on weekend protests over food and jobs that killed at least 14 people. AFP/Getty Images

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President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy hold a brief photo op in the Oval Office of the White House after bilateral talks in Washington, D.C. EPA

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Qatar’s driver Nasser Al-Attiyah steers his Volkswagen (bottom) with German co-driver Timo Gottschalk, followed by Spain’s driver Carlos Sainz with co-driver Lucas Cruz on the stage 8 Atacama – Copiapo of the Dakar 2011 Rally. AFP/Getty Images

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In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near a neighboring spiral galaxy. The bizarre object, dubbed Hanny’s Voorwerp (Hanny’s Object in Dutch), is the only visible part of a 300,000-light-year-long streamer of gas stretching around the galaxy, called IC 2947. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Auburn head coach Gene Chizik holds up the Coaches’ Trophy after beating Oregon 22-19 in the BCS National Championship NCAA college football game in Glendale, Ariz. AP Photo

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Belmarsh Magistrate’s court in London for his extradition hearing. AP Photo

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The sun sets behind the Nile river as Sudanese people bath in Juba in southern Sudan. EPA

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Homes are submerged near Ipswich, Australia. Brisbane and Ipswich are bracing for their worst-ever floods, with tens of thousands of homes at risk. The toll of dead and missing for the statewide disaster continues to rise. EPA

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Miss World Top Model 2010 Venezuela’s Luna Ramos (L) and Miss Venezuela 2007 Adriana Pena pose in swimwear at the Lebanese ski resort of Kfardebian. AFP/Getty Images

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An Indian farmer unloads stacks of sugarcane generally used for the Hindu festival “Makar Sankranti” at the main wholesale market in Bangalore. Sankranti is a national festival in India and will be celebrated on January 14. AFP/Getty Images

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A blanket of snow covers the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. AFP/Getty Images

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New Yorkers make their way to work on Jan. 12, 2011, the morning after a major winter storm hit the city. AFP/Getty Images

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A woman pauses at a makeshift memorial set up for the victims of the Jan. 8 shooting outside the University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. The shooting left six dead and wounded U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. REUTERS

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Anna Chapman, a former Russian spy, takes part in a talk show on Russian Ren TV channel in Moscow. AFP/Getty Images

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Pedestrians walk in a shopping district in Seoul. South Korea’s central bank unexpectedly raised its key interest rate to curb inflation. AFP/Getty Images

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A Hindu devotee takes a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal at Sagar Island, located south of Kolkata. Hindu monks and pilgrims are making an annual trip to Sagar Island for the one-day festival of “Makar Sankranti”. REUTERS

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A group of models pose during a photocall to promote the launch of a home shopping brand website in central London. AFP/Getty Images

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Puddles, the Oregon Ducks mascot, is lowered to the court during pre-game ceremonies before the Ducks faced the USC Trojans at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Ore. Getty Images

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Sarah Flanagan inspects Water-Towers, Bruce Munro’s newest light and sound installation, in Salisbury Cathedral’s medieval cloisters in Salisbury, England. Located in the south and west cloisters of the 750-year-old cathedral and on display until the end of February. Getty Images

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A Muslim girl walks past Indian policemen during a demonstration against efforts by local authorities to demolish what police described as an illegally built mosque in New Delhi. REUTERS

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Visitors climb to the summit at the top of Germany’s highest mountain, Zugspitze, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. It reaches 9,718 feet. Getty Images

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A Palestinian protester uses a slignshot to hurl a stone at Israeli troops during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin near Ramallah. AP Photo

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Birds fly past a monument to St. Sava, the first archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church, in central Belgrade, Serbia. Orthodox Serbs celebrate the beginning of the new calendar year on Jan. 14, according to the Julian calendar. AP Photo

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Jose Lopez Ripodas works the land near an ancient aqueduct at Noain, northern Spain as fog covers the landscape early in the morning. The north of Spain frequently suffers early morning fog in the winter. AP Photo

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Demonstrators scatter after police officers use teargas during a protest in Tunis. AP Photo

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A man walks among the wreckage caused by mudslides in Nova Friburgo, some 100 miles from downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Days of flooding and mudslides have left thousands of people without homes and over 520 dead in southeast Brazil. AFP/Getty Images

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Chinese soldiers undergo a training session in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang region. AFP/Getty Images

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A Enzo Ferrari (C) is seen as people attend an exhibition held to celebrate Ferrari’s 999th car sold in China from 2004 to 2010. The number nine, representing longevity, is considered auspicious in Chinese culture. REUTERS

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Hindu devotees are silhouetted while bathing at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati during the annual month-long Hindu religious fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India. AP Photo

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An artist performs a traditional Indian art form of dance called Ottamthullal during the annual temple festival in the southern Indian city of Kochi. The art form was created during the 18th century by legendary Malayalam poet Kalakkaththu Kunchan Nambiar. REUTERS

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Laborers erect an electric tower on a roadside at Greater Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. India’s power output rose an annual 4.34 percent in December, faster than the previous month, on improved operations at coal-based plants and better demand from states. REUTERS

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Palestinian fishermen collect fish from nets that they had set earlier in the morning at Gaza City’s beach. The fishermen go out every morning hoping that they will be allowed to go out to sea, but Israeli navy forces rarely allow them to leave the shallow waters. EPA

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Two Sudanese wrestlers fight during a weekly friendly traditional competition organized by athletes from the southern region of Kordofan that attracts local fans of the sport, which symbolizes strength and a war skill among regional trips. It’s held in an open ring at the outskirts of the capital Khartoum, Sudan. AP Photo

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