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• Oct. 22: Capitol Hill Police officers drag one of many protesters who gathered on Capitol Hill in Washington who blocked a roadway near the Capitol. A variety of anti-war, justice and clean energy groups gathered for non-violent civil disobedience.
• In a file photo confessed ‘Preppie Killer’ Robert Chambers, left, leaves Auburn Correctional Facility in Auburn, N.Y., on Feb. 14, 2003. Chambers, who served 15 years in prison for strangling a woman in Central Park, was arrested in New York on Monday for allegedly selling drugs and resisting arrest.
• Oct. 22: Steve Kendrick, left, James Moulton, center, and Greg Loushine push Helen Hutka's car out of the deep water in the uptown area of New Orleans. Several inches of rain fell throughout the day with more expected this evening. Bands of heavy rain flooded streets and threatened homes and businesses in New Orleans and the surrounding suburbs on Monday. The rain caused traffic jams and forced police to close some roads.
• Oct. 22: The skull room at the 13th Gate Haunted House, part of the Mayan ruins set at the 40,000-square-foot facility in Baton Rouge, La., is seen. Haunted house operators and others in the business of scaring people face a public used to graphic video games and reality TV that seems to want something bolder each year. This has caused big pressure to innovate.
• Oct. 23: Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto talks to media during her visit to the tomb of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, in Karachi, Pakistan. A senior government official on Monday rejected a call from Bhutto for foreign experts to help investigate the homicide attack on her homecoming procession.
• Oct. 23: In this photo released by China's official Xinhua news agency, a consumer selects the copper commemorative medal of Chinese NBA basketball sports star Yao Ming in Beijing. The commemorative medal, produced by gold, silver and high-relief cast copper technology, went on sale on Tuesday, the National Mint's first sports star cast medals, Xinhua said.
• Oct. 23: Al Gore, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President, makes a speech on Climate Change during a conference in Barcelona.
• Oct. 23: An Indian boy looks for coins and other reusable materials in the Ganges River, left, after the immersion of Goddess Durga idols marking the end of the Navaratri festival in Allahabad, India. Allahabad, on the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswathi River, is one of Hinduism's most important centers.
• Oct. 23: Space Shuttle crew leave the Crew and Check-Out building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. From left to right: First row: Pilot George Zamka, Commander Pamela Melroy. Second row: Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson. Third row: Astronaut Daniel Tani, left partially hidden, and Douglas Wheelock. Last row: Astronaut Scott Parazynski and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli. Space Shuttle Discovery was scheduled to lift off Tuesday.
• Oct. 23: The Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
• Oct. 23: Charles Cashmore and his lawyer Edward Miley, right, appear in a courtroom in Las Vegas. Cashmore, a defendant in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case, pleaded guilty to felony accessory to robbery.
• Oct. 23: Denise Banks, left, and her husband, Sid, walk from their mobile home after searching for belongings after a storm ripped through Monday night in Newbern, west of Montgomery, Ala. Possible tornadoes heavily damaged homes and buildings in rural west Alabama and flooded roads in Mobile County, causing some injuries but no reported deaths, authorities said Tuesday.
• Oct. 23: A Bombardier 'Super Scooper' drops water on a hot spot where a wildfire driven by powerful Santa Ana winds threatened homes in Santa Clarita, Calif.
• Oct. 23: Contract worker Pastor Ribera steam-cleans tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
• Oct. 23: Tens of thousands of supporters of Hungary's main opposition party, 'Fidesz,' march to mark the anniversary of the 1956 uprising against the country's communist regime and the Soviet Red Army in downtown Budapest, Hungary. Political tension is on the rise since right wing parties turned national holidays into mass protests to achieve the resignation of Hungary's Socialist government.
• Oct. 23: A soldier stands guard next to the Turkish flag-wrapped coffin of Mustafa Uysal during a funeral ceremony in Manavgat, near the southern city of Antalya. Mustafa Uysal is one of 12 Turkish soldiers killed by Kurdish rebels on the Turkey-Iraq border Sunday.
• This image provided by Sotheby's auction house in New York shows the 1970 painting ‘Tres Personajes’ (Three People), by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo. The abstract painting was found in trash on the street on Manhattan's Upper West Side and it was learned on Tuesday it could be worth up to $1 million.
• Oct. 23: A flower vendor looks on as Cuban public health workers fumigate a street during a campaign against dengue fever in Havana.
• Oct. 23: This video image shows Kate McCann during an interview on the Spanish TV station Antena 3. The appearance is the first televised interview Kate McCann and husband, Gerry, have given since being made official suspects in the disappearance in Portugal of their 4-year-old daughter, Madeleine. The mother of three became emotional toward the end of the questioning as she talked personally about her missing child.
• Oct. 24: A woman watches models of the new Venezuelan currency the 'strong Bolivar' in Caracas. The new currency will begin circulating on January 1, 2008.
• Oct. 24: Demonstrators holding puppets march in Brasilia, during the 'Workers March' against the economical and educational measures of the Brazilian government. The central puppet depicts Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wearing a sash that reads in Portuguese 'Corrupt of Reelection'.
• Oct. 24: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II receives the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, left, in the Private Audience Room at Buckingham Palace in London. Afghan President Hamid Karzai predicted Wednesday that his nation and Pakistan would be more successful in the fight against terrorism, cooperating to fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban, if Benazir Bhutto become the next prime minister in Islamabad.
• Oct. 24: In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Mark Friga of Rochester, N.Y., holds his dog Olivia while waiting to compete in the WKEY Pet Masquerade Contest in Key West, Fla. The event was one of more than 30 during the island city's 10-day Fantasy Fest costuming and masking festival that is to be highlighted by a parade Saturday night. 'It’s amazing what a grown man will do for his dog,' Friga said.
• Oct. 24: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, is confronted by CodePink member Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, her hands painted red, as Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., right, chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, right, looks on before Rice testified regarding U.S. policy in the Middle East where she spoke about Iraq, Iran, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Capitol Hill in Washington.
• Oct. 24: Oscar Allen and his attorney, Gerald Zerkin, right, arrive at Federal Court in Richmond, Va. Oscar Allen entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce to aid in illegal gambling and to sponsor a dog in animal fighting. Allen was connected with Atlanta Falcon quarterback Michael Vick and the Bad Newz Kennel.
• Oct. 25: A man dressed as a Stormtrooper, right, and a woman dressed as Princess Leia stand by a poster of the new 41-cent 'Star Wars' Yoda commemorative stamp as it is unveiled by the U.S. Postal Service in New York.
• Oct. 25: A burning truck and shops are seen after a homicide bombing in Mingora, the main town of the Swat mountainous area of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan. The bomber attacked a truck carrying troops in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 19 people and wounding 29, some seriously, police said.
• Oct. 25: A member of the Secret Service Emergency Response team inspects a large tree planted in the 1800s that came crashing down on the White House grounds and nearly hitting a guard post.
• Oct. 25: A man reacts after being caught spitting in public in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province. The city has launched a new round of crackdowns on spitting and littering.
• Oct. 25: Emergency Situations Ministry workers get through debris in Samara, about 550 miles southeast of Moscow. An explosion blamed on a natural gas leak ripped through a section of an apartment building in the Russian city Wednesday night, injuring three residents, officials said. No casualties were reported on Thursday.
• Oct. 26: Genarlow Wilson, right, holds his sister Jiaya Bennett as he approaches the media with his mother Juannessa Bennett after being released from the Al Burruss Correctional Training Facility in Forsyth, Ga. A former high school football star given 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager was freed Friday by Georgia's highest court.
• Oct. 26: Britney Spears arrives at a Los Angeles court for a hearing to work out custody arrangements with Kevin Federline for their two young sons.
• Oct. 27: A kitten of a displaced Californian enjoys some attention at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, Calif. Pets remained a priority for many Californians forced to flee their homes from the wildfires.
• Oct. 27: Thomas Goodlett, center, hugs his neighbors Judi Tyrrell and John Moros after they return to see their destroyed home in Ramona, Calif. Tropical moisture flowing from the south replaced the hot, dry Santa Ana winds that roared in a week earlier and spread fires over more than a half-million acres, destroying more than 2,300 structures, including 1,700 homes.
• Oct. 27: Sydney Gibson, 13, crosses the finish line during the Mud Run 5k race in Little Rock, Ark. Over 600 people participated the Mud Run, Little Rock's dirtiest 5k race that winds through an obstacle course and finishes in a 300-foot mud pit.
• Oct. 27: This image provided by NASA TV shows astronauts aboard the international space station during a light moment as they point to flight engineer Clay Anderson, lower right in green shirt, when space station commander Peggy Whitson, lower left, was asked who was causing her the most trouble, during a news briefing.
• Oct. 27: Jan Eliasson, United Nations special envoy to Darfur, right delivers a speech as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, left, looks on, during the opening session of the Darfur peace talks in Sirte, Libya.