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• Sept. 17: Former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi, left, smiles, while Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks to the press during the party congress in Moscow. Lugovoi, the sole suspect in the radiation poisoning death of Kremlin foe Alexander Litvinenko, said Sunday he would run for parliament on the ticket of a pro-Kremlin ultranationalist party.
• Sept. 17: Thai rescue workers look inside a charred plane in Phuket, Thailand. The passenger plane that crashed on Thailand's resort island of Phuket Sunday killed at least 90 people, most of them foreign tourists, an airline official said Monday.
• Sept. 17: Crushed cars are stuck at a riverside as Typhoon Nari hit Jeju Island, South Korea. Typhoon Nari lashed South Korea on Sunday, leaving at least seven people dead and five missing and forcing the cancelation of hundreds of domestic and international flights, officials said.
• Sept. 17: University of Florida student Andrew Meyer speaks with university police after being removed from a forum where Sen. John Kerry was speaking in Gainesville, Fla. Meyer attempted to speak at the forum after the question-and-answer session had ended, university officials said.
• Sept. 17: Tony Barretto, a former body guard for pop singer Britney Spears, listens with his wife, Isabella, to his attorney outside the county courthouse in Los Angeles. Barretto went to court Monday to support a sealed declaration about questionable behavior by the pop star in a child-custody dispute between the singer and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, but never got to testify.
• Sept. 17: Fashion designer Marc Ecko poses with Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run ball in New York. Ecko was the winning bidder in the online auction for the ball from Bonds' 756th career home run and has announced that it is now in the public's hands. Ecko announced Monday he was taking votes on whether to give the ball to the Hall of Fame, brand it with an asterisk or blast it into space.
• Sept. 17: The parking lot of The Belvedere Condominiums is strewn with overturned cars in Cape Coral, Fla., following a tornado Sunday.
• Sept. 17: Bear cubs are shown in a pen at the Montana Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Helena, Mont. Two game wardens helped save a dozen bears at the center from a fire that burned about 40 acres on the west edge of the city, destroying two vacant houses and three garages.
• Sept. 18: A large statue of a man swimming through the grass on the South Bank of the River Thames is unveiled near Tower Bridge, shown in the background. The fixture was commissioned by The Discovery Channel to promote its newest reality show, 'London Ink.'
• Sept. 18: Former Olympic gold medalist Myriam Bedard, right, and her lawyer, John Pepper Jr., walk to the hall of justice for closing arguments in Quebec City. Bedard is on trial in connection with child abduction charges.
• Sept. 18: A Palestinian medic runs from tear gas during an Israeli army operation in the Al Ain refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus. Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen traded gunfire during an army raid in the refugee camp Tuesday, killing one Palestinian and wounding at least one soldier.
• Sept. 18: U.S. Army image shows an oil pipeline burning in the northern city of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. A bomb went off under the pipeline, setting off a fire and causing huge quantities of crude oil to spill into the Tigris River, a police official said. The U.S. military said the blast was the work of Al Qaeda insurgents in the area.
• Sept. 18: Frankie Brewster, 49, of Big Creek, W.Va., is escorted out of magistrate court at the Logan County courthouse in Logan, W.Va. Brewster is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and giving false information during a felony investigation in the case of Megan Williams, 20, of Charleston. Six people have been accused in the weeklong torture of Williams.
• Sept. 18: Lansing firefighters and paramedics carry a 900-pound man to a trailer after removing the man from the upper floor of a home. Firefighters cut a hole in the side of a house and used a forklift to extricate the man from his second-floor bedroom after a visiting nurse became worried about his health. Rescue workers were called in Tuesday by the nurse, who determined the 33-year-old man needed medical help, Fire Chief Tom Cochran said.
• Sept. 19: A Palestinian youth runs past fire burning in the street during an Israeli army operation in the Al Ain refugee camp of the West Bank town of Nablus. A Palestinian man was shot to death Wednesday as Israeli troops and Palestinian militants traded heavy gunfire in an Israeli army raid on the West Bank refugee camp.
• Sept. 19: Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars in Beirut, Lebanon. A powerful bomb killed a pro-government Parliament member and at least six others Wednesday in a Christian suburb east of the Lebanese capital, security officials said. The blast targeted Antoine Ghanem, 64, a member of the right-wing Christian Phalange Party, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
• Sept. 19: O.J. Simpson appears in a Clark County Justice courtroom for his arraignment in Las Vegas in connection with a sports memorabilia heist.
• Sept. 19: Former astronaut Lisa Nowak, right, confers with her attorneys Cheney Mason, left, partially hidden, and Donald Lykkebak, center, during a hearing at the Orange County courthouse in Orlando, Fla. Nowak was in court to ask a judge to throw out evidence against her, including the five-hour police interview and evidence found in the car. Her attorney argued that she didn't consent to the search and wasn't advised of her rights before questioning.
• Sept. 19: A cyclist passes a wrecked car after floods hit Zelezniki, Slovenia. At least four people died in heavy rainfall and floods that hit western and northern Slovenia.
• Sept. 19: Scientists work at the European Space Agency ESA's Space Observatory 'Herschel' at the EADS facilities in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Planned for launch in 2007, it will fly the largest telescope mirror ever deployed in space. The mission will study the formation of galaxies in the early universe and their subsequent evolution, investigate the creation of stars, observe the chemical composition of the atmospheres and surfaces of comets, planets and satellites and examine the molecular chemistry of the universe. Belonging to the new generation of space telescopes, Herschel also will be the first space observatory covering the full far infrared and sub-millimeter waveband.
• Sept. 19: Martha Amongin, 56, stands in front of her mud hut in Magoro, Uganda, after the fragile structure simply gave way, disintegrating into a wet pile of dirt and burying everything inside. Across Africa, torrential downpours and flash floods submerged whole towns and washed away bridges, farms and schools. More than 1 million people across at least 17 countries have been affected by the rain since the summer, according to the United Nations. At least 200 people have been killed, and hundreds of thousands are displaced.
• Sept. 19: Lancaster Police Department photos show James Gordon Dickinson, 61, and Stephanie Lutz Dickinson, 57, charged with false imprisonment, recklessly endangering others and endangering children's welfare. Five adopted children and two care-dependent women were locked inside a Lancaster, Pa., basement, weren't adequately fed and were forced to endure improper sanitation, allegedly by the couple, who were being paid $9,000 a month to care for them, police said. Stephanie Dickinson also was charged with witness intimidation.
• Sept. 20: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, shake hands following a press conference after their meeting in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
• Sept. 20: A Bavarian brass band player tunes his instrument in a beer tent on the grounds of the upcoming Oktoberfest in Munich, southern Germany. The world's biggest beer and amusement festival was to open on Saturday.
• Sept. 20: Hassan Jabir, 37, recovers from gunshot wounds in a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. Jabir, a lawyer, says he was in his car in the Mansour neighborhood when guards in a U.S. State Department convoy opened fire, shooting him four times. The State Department and the company in question, Blackwater USA, have said the incident began when a diplomatic convoy came under attack in Baghdad; Iraqi witnesses and officials have said the security guards opened fire first, without provocation. The United States and Iraq were to form a joint commission to look into allegations that private guards protecting American diplomats killed the Iraqi civilians and to review the U.S. Embassy's security practices, the State Department said.
• Sept. 21: An Afghan police officer runs near a civilian vehicle which caught on fire after a car bomb exploded on a convoy of French troops in western Kabul, Afghanistan. A bomb attack Friday against the convoy of French troops killed one soldier and injured many Afghans near the blast, while heavy fighting in southern Afghanistan killed about 75 Taliban fighters and six civilians, officials said.
• Sept. 21: Palestinian worshippers push past Israeli border police officers at a checkpoint as they try to reach Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Israel clamped a closure on the West Bank on Friday, fearing attacks by militants on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown Friday. Thousands of Palestinians massed at checkpoints leading into Jerusalem, trying to get to Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and were blocked by Israeli troops.
• Sept. 21: Activists of the Islamic student group Bangladesh Students Majlish set fire to copies of the Prothom Alo newspaper and their magazine Weekly 2000, during a protest after prayers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The activists demanded a ban on the paper and magazine after they published cartoons that Muslims said insulted their religion, police and the government said.
• Sept. 21: Buddhist monks march for a fourth straight day in Yangon, Myanmar. About 1,500 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's main city Friday in their biggest turnout yet for a month-long wave of protests against the military government, which insisted it will not impose a state of emergency.
• Sept. 21: Relatives and friends carry the coffins of slain anti-Syrian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem, center, and his bodyguards during their funeral procession in Beirut, Lebanon. Family, comrades and supporters marched Friday in a mass funeral procession for a slain Lebanese lawmaker, the latest victim of a campaign the country's anti-Syrian faction accuses Damascus of orchestrating to scuttle the upcoming presidential election.
• Sept. 17: Suspected insurgents sit blindfolded and awaiting interrogation at the Iraqi police counterterrorism unit in Mosul, Iraq.
• Sept. 21: Protesters shout slogans during a rally near the Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines to mark the 35th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law. Thousands of Filipino activists marched in the streets Friday to denounce alleged corruption and political killings.
• Sept. 21: Japan's Chiharu Icho celebrates her victory in the women's 48kg final bout at the World Wrestling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
• Sept. 22: An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man reads a book as he walks along an empty street during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year. Yom Kippur, which means the Day of Atonement, began at sunset Friday and ends at the same time Saturday.
• Sept. 22: Supporters of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori hold a Peruvian flag at a protest outside a police base in Lima, a day after Chile's Supreme Court ruled that Fujimori must be extradited to Peru to face human rights and corruption charges.
• Sept. 22: Visitors sit in a festival tent of the Oktoberfest in Munich, southern Germany. The world's biggest beer festival opened with the traditional beer barrel tapping earlier the day.
• Sept. 22: Whirling dervishes perform at a shopping mall on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan in Istanbul, Turkey. Muslims all over the world are observing the fasting month of Ramadan abstaining from consuming food and drinks from dawn to dusk.
• Team of Russia performs with ropes at the group all-around final during the 28th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in the city of Patras, southern Greece, on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007. Russia won the gold medal
• Sept. 22: A mudslide triggered by a sudden cloudburst caused a hillside near Griffith Park in Los Angeles to collapse, trapping as many as a dozen cars in mud.
• Sept. 22: About 20,000 Buddhist monks and citizens demonstrated against Myanmar's military junta in Yangon, Myanmar, with many shouting support for detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, witnesses said.
• Sept. 23: Yasuo Fukuda, 51, was elected president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
• Sept. 23: Marcel Marceau, the world's most famous mime, died Sept. 22 at age 84.