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• Oct. 8: Residents gather outside the Praise Chapel Community Church in Crandon, Wis., where an off-duty sheriff's deputy stormed into his ex-girlfriend's house and killed six people Sunday morning. Another victim was critically wounded. Tyler Peterson, 20, an off-duty sheriff's deputy and part-time Crandon police officer, was shot dead by the Crandon SWAT team.
• Oct. 8: Mario Capecchi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, explains how he uses the machine at left, which uses electrical shocks to force DNA into mouse cells, in Salt Lake City. Capecchi is a distinguished professor of human genetics at the University of Utah.
• Oct. 8: Holocaust survivor Jakob Silberstein, 83, stands next to a hollow tree displayed near the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Israel's official Holocaust memorial honored its first 'righteous tree,' a hollow 33-foot-high birch that hid Auschwitz-escapee Silberstein for months as he was running from the Nazis.
• Oct. 8: Israel's separation barrier is shown near Jerusalem in this file photo. Senior Israeli officials discussed a possible division of Jerusalem, signaling a shift in the Israeli consensus on one of the most sensitive issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but still falling short of a Palestinian demand to set up their future capital in all of the Israeli-annexed area of the city.
• Oct. 8: Students hold banners with the image of the late Argentine-born Cuba's revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara during a ceremony in his honor in Santa Clara to mark the 40th anniversary of his death.
• Oct. 8: Michael Devlin, 41, is escorted out of the Franklin County Courthouse in Union, Mo. Devlin pleaded guilty to one charge of child kidnapping and one count of armed-criminal action in the Jan. 8 abduction of 13-year-old William 'Ben' Ownby in the first in a series of hearings this week in four jurisdictions where Devlin faces more than 80 counts in the kidnappings and sexual abuse of Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck. Devlin was sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping of Ownby, one of two boys he is accused of holding captive in his apartment.
• Oct. 8: Chinese residents take a ride on a rescue boat across flood waters after the passage of a storm through Hangzhou, eastern China's Zhejiang province. Typhoon Krosa, downgraded in eastern China, has affected more than 5 million people by paralyzing transportation, cutting power and forcing the closure of schools.
• Oct. 8: A towboat helps recover a sunken airplane and tows it up the St. Joseph River to a boat launch in Benton Harbor, Mich. The plane crashed into Lake Michigan Saturday, about 400 yards from shore in Hagar Township, just north of Benton Harbor. The plane's pilot and sole occupant, Robert Cornacchia, from Markham, Ill., was picked up seconds after the crash by the only boat in sight, and the plane sunk within 30 seconds. Off-duty Navy recruiters Lucas Ellis and Damon English of Grand Junction, Mich., who were heading from South Haven to St. Joseph, Mich., with family and friends in Ellis' 18-foot boat, rescued the pilot and brought him to shore.
• Oct. 8: These images made available by Interpol in Paris show an unidentified man after, left, and before the digital manipulation of the image. For the first time, Interpol issued a worldwide public appeal for help to identify a suspected pedophile, which it said was shown sexually abusing children in photos posted on the Internet. The international police organization said German specialists had succeeded in producing identifiable images of the man, from the original pictures, where his face had been digitally blurred, but the man's identity and nationality remain unknown, prompting Interpol's public appeal.
• Oct. 9: U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson of the U.S., one of three crew members of the 16th mission to the international space station, with a Kazakh whip in her left hand, a gift given to her as future commander of the space station, poses for photographers during the final news conference at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz-FG rocket blasted off from the Central Asian steppe on Wednesday night to take Malaysia's Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, American Peggy Whitson and Russian Yuri Malenchenko into orbit.
• Oct. 9: Hiroyuki Ishii, visiting assistant researcher at Tokyo's Waseda University's Atsuo Takanishi laboratory, has his neck massaged by the WAO-1 robot at the laboratory in Tokyo. With steely arms sprouting cables and wires, the WAO-1 robot looks nothing like a relaxation device. But the university researchers hope the contraption soon will be deployed to hospitals and spas across Japan to give therapeutic facial massages. The WAO-1 robot, which stands for Waseda Asahi Oral Rehabilitation Robot 1, is being developed initially for patients with jaw-related medical problems who require facial massages as part of their treatment, according to project leader Atsuo Takanishi.
• Oct. 9: This Syrian Directorate of Museums and Archeology photo shows a wall painting discovered in northern Syria, which archeologists believe to be from the 11th century B.C. in northern Syria, the country's official news agency, SANA, reported. Youssef Kenjo, the head of excavations in the Aleppo Archaeological Directorate, told SANA that the white, black and red painting was of 'geometric shapes, squares and rectangles painted in natural dye.' It was discovered on a wall in a house at Jaadet Al-Maghara, on the Euphrates River some 280 miles north of Damascus. It did not say when the painting was found.
• Oct. 9: Indian school children brush their teeth together in an attempt to break the World Record for most people brushing their teeth in multiple venues, in New Delhi, India. Some 150,000 students from more than 350 schools across 23 cities in India attempted to break the Guinness World Record for the most people brushing their teeth. The current record is 41,038, which is held by the Philippines.
• Oct. 9: Police examine a car after it exploded in the Basque city of Bilbao, northern Spain. The blast seriously injured a body guard assigned to a politician belonging to the Spanish prime minister's party, Basque regional police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but attention immediately focused on the separatist group ETA, which resumed full-scale attacks in August after calling off a cease-fire.
• Oct. 9: An Iraqi passes near debris after a car parked by an intersection in the eastern neighborhood of Binok, Baghdad, Iraq, exploded, killing five people and wounding four others, police said. Three parked car bombs struck the Iraqi capital, killing at least 15 people and wounding 45 others.
• Oct. 9: People flee Miran Shah, capital of Pakistan's tribal area of North Waziristan. Four days of fierce fighting between Islamic militants and security forces near the Afghan border has killed as many as 250 people in some of the deadliest clashes on Pakistani soil since it threw its support behind the U.S.-led war on terrorism in 2001, the army said Tuesday.
• Oct. 9: Germany's Ashkan Dejagah, right, challenges Japan's Yohei Fukumoto for the ball during their match in the under-21 Toulon soccer Tournament in Toulon, southern France, in this May 31 file photo. Dejagah, a German of Iranian descent, refused to participate in Friday's under-21 soccer match between Germany and Israel for 'personal reasons,' the German soccer federation announced.
• Oct. 9: Portuguese police senior detective Paulo Rebelo talks to journalists in Lisbon following a major drug bust in this Aug. 25, 2000, file photo. Portugal appointed Rebelo, a senior criminal investigation coordinator at national police headquarters in Lisbon, to lead the investigation into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, officials said on Tuesday.
• Oct. 9: Jenni Williams, one of the founders of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, or WOZA, gestures as she poses for a portrait ahead of a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Williams has been arrested about 30 times and is reported to be on a hit list by the country's Central Intelligence Organisation. Women in Zimbabwe have been subjected to abuse and torture by police and security forces, with some women being forced to strip naked in custody, beaten on the breasts and detained while with their babies, according to a report.
• Oct. 9: Police officer Sitor Ndour salutes as an honor guard presents arms at the funeral of policeman Mayoro Kebe, who was killed while serving as a United Nations peacekeeper in Darfur, in Dakar, Senegal. Senegalese Tuesday mourned the peacekeeper killed in Darfur as the West African nation prepared to triple its peacekeeping contingent in the restive region of Sudan.
• Alexander Pichushkin, who is accused of killing dozens of people, looks on from behind the glass of a security cage during the first day of his trial in Moscow in this Sept. 13 file photo. Pichushkin, who went on trial last month in one of Russia's most gruesome serial killing sprees, has confessed to murdering 63 people, with the goal of marking all 64 squares on a chessboard. The accused reveled in the memory of his first murder at his trial on Tuesday: 'It's like first love; it's unforgettable,' news reports said.
• Oct. 9: Anti-North Korea protesters shout slogans during a rally against the first anniversary of North Korea's nuclear test in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea marked the anniversary with eulogies to leader Kim Jong Il for pulling off a 'truly great miracle' that sent the North 'soaring as a powerful and great' nation. The Korean reads: 'Stop Support for North Korea.'
• Oct. 11: Tewana Alanzo hugs Heather Smith after both women, along with 249 employees of the Hawaii Superferry, were laid off in Honolulu, Hawaii. Blocked by court order and environmental protests, the Hawaii Superferry announced it was laying off most of its employees on three Hawaiian islands. The announcement furloughing 249 of the company's 309 employees came from Superferry president John Garibaldi two days after a Maui judge ordered the ferry service grounded until an environmental study could be completed.
• Oct. 11: Smoke from the Rattlesnake Fire smolders close to homes near Rye, Colo.
• Oct. 11: Wearing a hat shaped like a mug of frosty beer, Juan Mendoza of Denver pours a sample of beer from a brewing company in Del Norte, Colo., for attendees at the Great American Beer Festival in the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. The festival, in its 26th year, will offer festival goers more than 1,800 beers on tap from 408 U.S. breweries during the three-day event.
• Oct. 12: Michele Cossey, center, and her husband, Frank Cossey, left, arrive at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Their 14-year-old son, Dillon Cossey, was charged as a juvenile with solicitation to commit terror and other counts. Authorities say the teenager had a cache of guns, knives and explosive devices in his bedroom for a possible school attack. Michele Cossey was charged Friday with buying her son three weapons.
• Oct. 11: Carleen Ho holds a bottle of Concentrated Tylenol Infants' Drops Plus Cold & Cough in front of her daughter, Rachel Ho, who is under 2, at a home in Palo Alto, Calif. Cold drug makers voluntarily pulled cold medicines targeted to babies and toddlers off the market, leaving parents to find alternatives for hacking coughs and runny little noses just as fall sniffles get in full swing. The move represented a pre-emptive strike by over-the-counter drug manufacturers, a week before government advisers were to debate the medicines' fate. But it doesn't end concern about the safety of these remedies for youngsters.
• Oct. 11: Florida Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning puts on diving gear to inspect a submerged shipwreck site off Pensacola, Fla. The shipwreck is believed to be a Spanish vessel that went down in a hurricane in 1559. Behind Browning is University of West Florida graduate student Siska Williams of Atlanta.
• Oct. 11: Andrew Larochelle,17, poses in front of the flag that flies daily in front of his home in Dayton, Ohio. Larochelle honored his grandfather with a flag flown over the Capitol, but after the word 'God' was omitted from the certificate, his protest has led to a change in that policy.
• Oct. 11: A suspect is led away in Chadron, Neb., as five suspects were arrested following a manhunt for the robbers of the S. Dakota State Line Club Casino. The search for the suspects shut down the entire town of Chadron, four school districts and a college in northwestern Nebraska.
• Oct. 11: Costa Rican Red Cross workers search for survivors of a mudslide in La Fatima de Atenas, Costa Rica. At least six people were killed and at least 15 people are missing after a mudslide caused by heavy rains ripped through this rural community.
• Oct. 11: Chilean psychic Isabel Avila arrives at the Portuguese Embassy in Santiago. The woman said the British girl Madeleine McCann 'is in Portugal and in bad condition.'
• Oct. 11: A sign is seen inside the interior of a non-occupied single-family home offered in a lender foreclosure home auction in Burbank, Calif. Foreclosure filings across the U.S. nearly doubled last month compared with September 2006, as financially strapped homeowners already behind on mortgage payments defaulted on their loans or came closer to losing their homes to foreclosure, a real estate information company said.
• Oct. 11: One ton of cocaine, confiscated by El Salvador's authorities, burns behind a police tape barrier east of San Salvador.
• In this photo released by the Erie Police Department, Chytoria Graham is shown. A jury on Wednesday convicted Graham of swinging her 4-week-old son at her boyfriend during a fight and fracturing the infant's skull.
• Oct. 11: Firefighters try to extinguish the flames after a car bomb exploded in the city of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. A homicide car bomber struck a busy market in Kirkuk on Thursday, killing seven and wounding 50 people, mostly shoppers preparing for the upcoming feast of Eid al-Fitr, which ends the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
• In this undated but recent image released by AMIS, the African Union Mission in Sudan, a man severely injured with a gunshot wound to the chest is comforted by his wife outside the AMIS site at Muhajeria, south Darfur. The Sudanese military denied Tuesday that it was involved in an attack on a rebel-controlled town in Darfur that international observers said left dozens wounded. Rebels, who blame Monday's attack on the South Darfur town of Muhajeria on the government, said at least 48 civilians had been killed. But that number could not immediately be confirmed.
• Oct. 10: Iraqi men inspect a damaged car after a car bomb attack in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. A parked car bomb exploded near a market , killing two, a policeman and a civilian, and wounding another policeman and three civilians, according the police.
• Atlantic City Mayor Bob Levy is seen in Atlantic City, N.J., in this March 13, 2006, file photo. On Wednesday, Edwin Jacobs, attorney for Levy, said that Levy, who had been missing from his job at this seaside gambling resort for two weeks, had resigned, effective immediately.
• Oct. 10: The campus of Columbia University is seen in New York one day after a black professor discovered a hangman's noose on the office door. Teachers College has not identified the professor, but students say she teaches a class on racial justice.
• Oct. 10: Dancers wear traditional Chinese costumes during the R.O.C., Republic of China, National Day celebrations in Taipei, Taiwan. Fighter jets streaked across overcast skies as Taiwan held a military parade for the first time since it halted such displays of war-fighting prowess in 1991 to ease tensions with rival China.
• Oct. 12: A police officer walks past the remains of a small plane that crashed Thursday night in Bogota, just minutes after taking off from El Dorado's airport and killing seven people.
• Oct. 12: The starting gates are flung open to start the fourth race at Harold Park Paceway in Sydney. The novelty races were instigated after Australia's New South Wales state suspended horse racing after an outbreak of equine influenza.
• In this photo released by the L'Osservatore Romano Vatican newspaper, Pope Benedict XVI, at left, blesses the restored Apostolic Palace bronze portal at the Vatican. The pontiff Friday blessed the newly restored Bronze Door, the main entrance to the Apostolic Palace and the papal apartments that by tradition is closed upon the death of a pontiff.
• Oct. 12: Spanish fighter aircraft fly over the statue of Christopher Columbus during a military parade on the holiday known as Dia de la Hispanidad, attended by members of the royal family and leading politicians, in Madrid. The holiday commemorates Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World and also is armed forces day.
• Oct. 12: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, background left, and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, background right, are seen during a meeting in Moscow. In a tense start to talks on a range of thorny issues, President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned U.S. officials to back off a plan to install missile defenses in Eastern Europe or risk harming relations with Moscow.
• Oct. 12: Pakistani girls show their hands painted with henna to celebrate the upcoming Eid al-Fitr festival, a celebration that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Multan, Pakistan.
• Oct. 12: Children hold painted umbrellas as they wait for the beginning of an 'Umbrellas for Peace' project event in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin. Initiated by U.S. artist Matt Lamb, 'Umbrellas for Peace' is a global art project intended to bring the message of love and peace around the world with the help of children painting and decorating umbrellas.
• Oct. 12: Pakistani police officers arrest a supporter of Pakistan's ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore, Pakistan. The Supreme Court on Friday refused to suspend a corruption amnesty that benefits former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto but injected uncertainty into Pakistan's turbulent politics by saying the law was reversible, lawyers said.
• Oct. 12: The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ole Danbolt Mjos, holds up a portrait in Oslo of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who shares the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 with the International Panel on Climate Change. Gore and the IPCC jointly won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for fighting it.
• Oct. 12: Surfer members of Paddle for Peace line up with their surf boards to mark the fifth anniversary of the Bali bomb blast at Kuta Beach in Bali, Indonesia. Two bombs ripped through Bali nightclubs, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians and many foreign tourists on Oct. 12, 2002.