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• Nov. 5: Villagers remove belongings through the roof of a flooded home in the central province of Phu Yen, Vietnam. The death toll from floods that have battered central Vietnam over the last week rose to 67 as the country braced for an approaching typhoon, disaster officials said.
• Nov. 5: Steam and hot gasses rise above the Mt. Kelud volcano in East Java, Indonesia. The killer Indonesian volcano, which on Monday was on high alert, spat out fresh clouds of smoke as scientists warned any eruption likely would be much larger than the last time it blew its top.
• Nov. 5: Officers investigate the scene of an explosion in Cizre town, on the Turkish-Iraqi border, southeastern Turkey. Three people were injured in the incident, one of them seriously.
• Nov. 5: A Spanish rescue ship tows a boat with 60 would-be immigrants after being intercepted as it crossed over from western Africa, in Puerto de los Cristianos, on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife. Thousands of African immigrants arrive by boat every year trying to find a better way of life in Europe. The dangerous trip often takes more than a week and many die in the attempt.
• Nov. 5: Indian police arrest a member of Pakistan India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy who protested the decision to impose emergency rule in Pakistan, in Mumbai, India.
• Nov. 5: Europol deputy director Mariano Simancas, left, Eurojust president of the college Michael Kennedy, second left, and Belgium national Eurojust member Michele Coninsx, third from left, react during a press conference on the dismantling of a worldwide child sex offender network, in The Hague, Netherlands. More than 90 arrests were made in the case named 'Operation Koala.'
• Nov. 5: This two-picture combo photo made with photos provided by the Italian police shows Salvatore Lo Piccolo, left, and his son Sandro, shortly after their arrest, at Palermo's central police station in Sicily, southern Italy. Police raided a suspected Mafia hideout, arresting the man authorities believe was poised to become the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate's ‘boss of bosses,’ Salvatore Lo Piccolo. His son Sandro is another top mafia figure sentenced to life in prison and wanted since 1998.
• Nov. 5: As seen on a control monitor, Oprah Winfrey, bottom left, answers reporters' questions via a video link from Chicago during a press conference held in a Johannesburg, South Africa, hotel. A dormitory matron accused of indecent assault on pupils at Winfrey's school in South Africa for disadvantaged girls was freed on bail on Monday. Tiny Virginia Makopo, 27, faces 13 charges of indecent assault, assault and criminal injury committed against at least six students, aged 13 to 15, and a 23-year-old at the school.
• Nov. 5: A man sits among silhouettes made out of metal in front the U.N. headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The silhouettes symbolize 3,537 children killed or injured by cluster bombs. Public actions were taking place on Monday in 40 countries around the world to ban cluster bombs.
• Nov. 5: Senegalese port workers moor the USS Fort McHenry, a landing dock ship on a half-year training exercise through the Gulf of Guinea, to a pier in Dakar, Senegal. Just a few years ago, the U.S. military was all but absent from the oil-rich waters of West Africa's Gulf of Guinea. This year it plans to be there every day.
• Nov. 5: Spain's King Juan Carlos, third from the left, and Queen Sofia, center, wave as they arrive in Ceuta, one of Spain's two North African enclaves. Thousands of people waving red-and-yellow Spanish flags turned out to greet their royals. The two-day trip during which the royals were also to visit Melilla, another enclave farther east along Morocco's northern coast, has sparked a diplomatic spat with Morocco, which claims the two territories as its own.
• Nov. 5: Nasarulla Abdul Majid, an Indian Muslim, makes artificial garland ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights in Ahmadabad, India.
• Nov. 5: A Mandaean Sabian priest baptizes a believer on the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq. Mandaeanism is a monotheistic religion whose followers regard John the Baptist as their prophet. The Iraq conflict reduced the number of Mandaeans living in the country to approximately 5,000, as most of them fled to neighboring countries under threat of violence.
• Nov. 5: Thai Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, left, offers saffron cloth to senior Buddhist monks during a Kathin ceremony, where pieces of cloth are presented to be used as robes for Buddhist monks as part of the ceremony marking Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 80th birthday celebration at the Temple of Dawn in Bangkok, Thailand. King Bhumibol will turn 80 on Dec. 5.
• Nov. 5: Members of the French charity Zoe's Ark wait in a room at court in N'Djamena, Chad. Zoe's Ark was stopped last week from flying children from eastern Chad to Europe, where the group said it intended to place them with host families. The group says its intentions were purely humanitarian and that it had conducted investigations over several weeks to determine the children it was taking were orphans.
• Nov. 5: French novelist Gilles Leroy, left, and Isabelle Gallimard, head of his publishing house, smile after he won France's most prestigious literary award, the Goncourt Prize, for his book, 'Alabama Song,' in Paris. The book is a fictional autobiography of American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda.
• Nov. 5: Comet Holmes is seen among the stars of the constellation Perseus in the Northeastern sky just after midnight from Tyler, Texas. The comet's gas cloud continued to expand after a sudden eruption and was still visible on Monday with the unaided eye.
• Nov. 5: A Pakistani female lawyer chants slogans against Pakistan's military ruler, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who imposed a state of emergency, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Police fired tear gas and battered thousands of lawyers protesting Musharraf's decision to impose emergency rule, as Western allies threatened to review aid to the troubled Muslim nation. More than 1,500 people were arrested in 48 hours, and authorities put a stranglehold on independent media.
• Nov. 5: The nose of solar airplane prototype HB-SIA by Solar Impulse is presented in Glattbrugg, Switzerland. After four years of research and development, the final prototype of the solar airplane HB-SIA by Swiss Bertrand Piccard, a hot-air balloon expert, was presented to the media. First test flights were to be done on the military air base in Duebendorf, Switzerland, in 2008.
• Nov. 5: President Bush, left, presents a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, right, during a ceremony honoring the 2007 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room at the White House in Washington.
• Nov. 5: Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas, delivers a speech in Damascus. Mashaal dismissed a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference planned for later this year, saying it was meant to distract the region as Washington prepared for an attack against Iran. He also warned Palestinian leaders against making concessions to Israel during the meeting. 'Strategically, it [the U.S.] is setting the stage and covering up for the upcoming American war in the region,' Khaled Mashaal told a press conference at a forum of Palestinian intellectuals in Damascus, where the political chief of the militant Palestinian faction has his headquarters.
• Nov. 5: ABC writer Elizabeth Page, right, and other members of the Writers Guild of America picket NBC headquarters in New York. Film and TV writers resolved to put down their pens and take up picket signs after last-ditch talks failed to avert a strike. The strike is the first walkout by the writers since 1988.
• Nov. 5: A Kurdistan supporter with his hand tattooed with revolutionary icon Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, gives the victory sign near the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, flag in front of the Italian Lower Chamber in Rome during a protest against the scheduled visit of Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Many Turks were skeptical about what would come from Monday's meeting between the Turkish premier and U.S. President Bush, seen as the last chance to persuade Turkey against a cross-border attack on Kurdish rebels.
• Nov. 6: A model holds a ring with a vivid yellow diamond weighing 31.47 carats at a Christie's auction press preview in Geneva, Switzerland. The diamond ring was expected to fetch between $2 million and $2.3 million in the Nov. 15 auction.
• Nov. 6: A Palestinian worker cleans a billboard for a furniture store in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
• Nov. 6: Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, director of the Multi-National Force-Iraq's communications division, takes a question from a reporter at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, as weapons seized by the U.S. Army in recent operations lay on display. Smith said Iran appears to have kept its promise to stop the flow into Iraq of bomb-making materials and other weaponry that Washington says has inflamed insurgent violence and caused many American troop casualties.
• Nov. 6: A model poses with a Spanish Ducal diamond coronet at a Christie's auction press preview in Geneva, Switzerland. Designed as an enclosed circlet of oval and lozenge-shaped old-cut diamond plaques between openwork foliate motifs, it is surmounted by swags supporting eight diamond-set strawberry leaves between cushion shaped diamond spacers. The diamond coronet from around 1890 was expected to fetch between $500,000 and $800,000 in the Nov. 15 auction.
• Nov. 6: Nepalese journalists stage a protest demonstration against the former communist rebel Maoists in Katmandu, Nepal. A journalist abducted by Nepal's former rebels last month was shot dead by three of the group's members, and a report detailing the group's investigation into the incident has been turned over to police, a local rebel leader said.
• Nov. 6: A Pakistani buyer rolls a satellite dish he bought to watch local channels that were cut off by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government after imposing a state of emergency in Lahore, Pakistan. Freeing Pakistan's media is one of Musharraf's proudest boasts, but under emergency rule his regime is stripping those liberities away for fear independent news reports will further fan his unpopularity.
• Nov. 6: Afghan police stand near a police vehicle damaged in an explosion in Chaprahar district in Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan. Three police officers died and five were wounded by the explosion.
• Nov. 6: In this image from NASA TV, the stabilizer and payload bay on the shuttle orbiter Discovery is seen against the Earth.
• Nov. 6: Palestinians stand in a road blocked by fuel trucks during a demonstration against the fuel shortage in Gaza City. Dozens of Palestinians drove their cars through Gaza's main streets in an unusual demonstration to protest Israel's reduction of fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip.
• Nov. 6: The coach carrying Britain's Queen Elizabeth II returns to Buckingham Palace following the state opening of Parliament in London. The annual ceremony takes place in the House of Lords where elected members of Parliament are summoned to hear the queen's speech, which outlines the government's program and formally opens the next session of Parliament.
• Nov. 6: Efficient, center, ridden by jockey Michael Rodd, wins the Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.
• Nov. 7: This screen-captured image from video-sharing site YouTube shows a teenage gunman featured in a video posted by a man going by the username of Sturmgeist89, believed to be responsible for shooting dead at least seven people at a Finnish school. An 18-year-old man opened fire at the high school in southern Finland, leaving at least seven people dead and 11 injured, officials said. Police said they had the situation 'under control' after they surrounded the high school in Tuusula, some 30 miles north of the capital, Helsinki.
• Nov. 7: Riot police fire tear gas toward anti-government protesters in downtown Tbilisi, driving them from the central part of the capital. Georgian security forces fired the gas and water cannons into a crowd of hundreds of anti-government protesters, driving them from a central street in front of parliament and beating several with truncheons. The daily demonstrations in the capital over the past week are part of the worst political crisis that President Mikhail Saakashvili, a staunch U.S. ally, has faced since he was propelled to power in the 2003 Rose Revolution mass protests.
• Nov. 7: An 84-foot-tall Norway spruce tree is wrapped and ready to be cut down at the home of Joe and Judy Rivnyak in Shelton, Conn., to become the 75th Rockefeller Christmas Tree. The hoisted onto a flatbed truck for delivery to New York City’s Rockefeller Center.
• Nov. 7: Israeli high school teachers chant slogans during a protest in front of the National Labor Court in Jerusalem. High school teachers have been on strike for more than three weeks, demanding better pay and conditions.
• Nov. 7: Iraqi army soldiers inspect the site of a roadside bomb explosion on the outskirts of Baqouba, the capital of the troubled Diyala province, some 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraqi army discovered 17 decomposed bodies early Wednesday in an area west of Baqouba.
• Nov. 7: Thousands of bananas lay on the beach on Terschelling Island, northern Netherlands, after washing onto the beach of the Dutch island after a load of containers were swept from the ship Duncan Island, officials said.
• Nov. 7: Members of the doctors' team pose for photographs after the completion of the 24-hour operation on Lakshmi at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India. Doctors in India completed the grueling procedure on a girl born with four arms and four legs, and surgeons said the 2-year-old, revered by many as a reincarnated goddess, has a chance at a normal life.
• Nov. 7: Palestinian youths throw stones at Israeli army jeeps, not seen, as an exploded smoke grenade billows in the background during an Israeli army operation in the Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank town of Nablus.
• Nov. 7: Cars crowd a road on a polluted day in Beijing. China is unlikely to agree to any binding pact on greenhouse gas emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol, an EU official said. Guido Sacconi, the chairman of a visiting European Parliament delegation, said that was the impression he got after three days of talks in Beijing with government and environmental officials.
• Nov. 7: Gwinnett County firefighters work to contain a massive fire at Norcross Supply Co. in Norcross, Ga. The family-owned business sells mostly lumber and has been operating since 1946. About 60 firefighters worked through the night to control the blaze.
• Nov. 8: A Kashmiri woman tries to extinguish a burning haystack that caught on fire during a gunbattle in Pattan, some 19 miles north of Srinagar, India. A fierce gunbattle between government troops and suspected Islamic rebels in the town outside the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir continued for a third day, police and army officials said.
• Nov. 8: Investigators keep alert outside an explosion site at a residential area in Cavite province, south of Manila. At least three people died in the incident, which investigators believed to have been caused by an accidental explosion from a clandestine factory making explosives for fishing and quarrying.
• Nov. 8: Models display designs from contestants of the Colorful Cosmetic Design Contest held as part of China Fashion Week in Beijing.
• Nov. 8: Indonesian men on pedal past a resident on a bench in a fishing village flooded by high tide in North Jakarta, Indonesia.
• Nov. 8: The Burj Dubai tower, still under construction, rises in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The world's tallest building since July, it also has become the tallest free-standing structure on Earth.
• Nov. 8: In this picture taken from video and made available by Italian SkyTG24, rescuers surround a U.S. military helicopter that crashed in northern Italy. At least four people were reported dead. A spokesman at the U.S. Air Force base in Aviano, near Venice, said the base was looking into the report but had no confirmation on the number of deaths.
• Nov. 8: Some of the thousands of wooden crosses, each decorated with a poppy and bearing the name of a fallen soldier, stand in the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey in London. The annual remembrance event is for those left behind to remember Britain's war dead.
• Nov. 8: Villagers gather to look at the remains of a Sri Lankan Elephant that died after being hit by a train close to Manampitiya about 88 miles north east of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan elephant is the largest subspecies of the Asian elephant.
• Nov. 8: A worker carries bags of cocaine to be destroyed in a drug-burning operation at a police base in Lima. Police burned at least six tons of cocaine paste, cocaine, marijuana, poppy and heroine that were seized in 2007.
• Nov. 8: Turkish commandos with painted faces take part in a Turkish military exercise 'Toros' at the Saint Ilarionas area in Turkish-occupied area north of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus.
• This undated photo made available by the Yad Ben Zvi Institute shows a piece of an ancient parchment believed to be part of the most authoritative manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, the Aleppo Codex. The fragment, more than 1,000 years old, contains verses from the Book of Exodus describing the plagues in Egypt, including the words of Moses to Paraoh, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me.' Syrian family man Sam Sabbagh held the fragment for six decades as a good-luck charm after he picked it up off the floor of a burned-out synagogue in Aleppo, Syria in 1947. It was reported on Thursday that Sabbagh was to present the parchment next week to the Jerusalem Institute.
• Nov. 8: Picketers including Eric Drysdale, a writer for 'The Colbert Report,' right, chant: 'Hey, hey, ho, ho, management can't write that show' as they march on the picket line during the fourth day of a strike by television and film writers at the Time Warner Center in New York.
• Nov. 9: Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto speaks to the media after pushing her way through police up to a barbed-wire barricade outside her home in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistani police placed Bhutto under house arrest Friday, uncoiling barbed wire in front of her Islamabad home and reportedly rounding up 5,000 of her supporters to block a mass protest against the emergency rule.
• Nov. 9: High tides batter the coast at Whitley Bay as winds hit the eastern coast of England. Parts of eastern England were isolated Friday by surging waters kicked up by a storm system moving through Europe. In Lowestoft, the most easterly point of Britain, 120 miles northeast of London on the North Sea coast, waves up to 20 feet high were rolling up against sea defense.
• Nov. 9: French police block lawyers from accessing the Courthouse in Rennes, western France. Lawyers are protesting against Justice Minister Rachida Dati's visit in Rennes, where she was to announce the closing of a few courthouses in the region.
• Nov. 9: Chief orthopedic surgeon Sharan Patil, left, heading the operation on Lakshmi, addresses the media on the status of the little girl at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India, along with Lakshmi's father, Shambhu, right, and brother Mithilesh. The 2-year-old Indian girl, born with four arms and four legs, regained consciousness, wiggled her toes and smiled at her parents 48 hours after the massive surgery removed the extra limbs, doctors said.
• Nov. 9: A Turkish military vehicle rolls on a gravel road in the mountainous Sirnak province on the Turkish-Iraqi border, southeastern Turkey. Turkish prosecutors launched a probe into pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party after it demanded autonomy for Kurds living in the country's southeast, a call that comes amid heightened tensions over how the country should deal with separatist Kurdish rebels.
• Nov. 9: Rain drops sit on a car window as people light candles outside Jokela school in Tuusela, Finland. An 18-year-old gunman killed seven other students and the principal during a rampage through his high school in this quiet Finnish town and investigators suspect he revealed plans for the carnage in Internet postings in which he urges revolution and grins after taking target practice.
• Nov. 9: Haewoojae, the world's one and only toilet house, is seen in Suwon, south of Seoul, South Korea. The two-story house, which was set to be finished Nov. 11, is being built to commemorate the inaugural meeting later this month of the World Toilet Association.
• In this image from NASA TV international space station flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko, left, and commander Peggy Whitson are seen during a space walk on the international space.
• An American flag is seen at the foot of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. The memorial which bears the names of those who either died or remain missing in action in Vietnam, etched in black granite, is reaching its 25th anniversary of the site's dedication.
• Arthur H. Bremer is taken into custody by police and agents moments after Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot, in this May 15, 1972 file photo, following a campaign speech in Laurel, Md. After 35 years in prison, the man who shot and paralyzed Alabama Gov. George Wallace during his racially charged 1972 presidential campaign to be released Friday.
• Television talk show host Oprah Winfrey, center, stands next to Donny and Marie Osmond with more than 100 Osmond family members on stage durng taping for upcoming show in Chicago. The Oprah and the Osmonds reunion show airs Friday.
• Norman Mailer is shown in this Jan. 20, 1971, file photo. 'The Naked and the Dead' author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner died on Saturday of acute renal failure in New York. He was 84.
• Nov. 10: Alderman David Lewis, the new lord mayor of London, seen in the center window of his ceremonial coach, leaves the Guildhall in London before the start of the lord mayor's show. Alderman Lewis is the 680th Lord Mayor in nearly 800 years.
• Nov. 10: Malaysian riot police spray water cannon to activists from Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) as they try to march through to Independence Square during a rally calling for election in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysian police fired tear gas and a water cannon to disperse hundreds of activists at an opposition-backed rally demanding electoral reforms in the biggest anti-government street protest in nearly 10 years.
• Nov. 10: Space shuttle Atlantis nears the launch pad, left, aboard the crawler transporter after leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is scheduled for launch Dec. 6 on a mission to the International Space Station.