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• Nov. 12: In this photo provided by the Oregon State Police, an empty semi trailer leans against a guardrail after being blown to its side by strong winds on Interstate 84, about 14 miles east of Pendleton, Ore. No one was injured in the incident. High wind cut power to tens of thousands of Oregonians including about 15,000 on the North Coast and up to 35,000 at a time inland, mostly in Marion, Washington, Clackamas and western Multnomah counties.
• Nov. 12: Korean War Veteran Zac Abrega salutes during the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner during the dedication of the Okutsu Veterans Home in Hilo, Hawaii. The facility is named after World War II veteran Yukio Okutsu, a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
• Nov. 12: Crews remove oil from Baker Beach in San Francisco, Calif. Investigators want to know whether a ship pilot under investigation in San Francisco Bay's biggest oil spill in nearly two decades initially played down the damage to his vessel, Coast Guard officials said.
• Nov. 12: Boston firefighters Michael Johnson, pointing, and Joe O'Connor, partially hidden by the ladder frame, are evacuated from the roof of a triple-decker house fire in Boston. At least 14 people were injured in the three-alarm blaze. Johnson and O'Connor were among several firefighters who became trapped after the fast-moving fire separated them from aerial ladders.
• Nov. 12: Eldon McCammack stands next to a change machine at the Trojan Car Wash in New Castle, Ind. McCammack put a dollar in the change machine on Saturday and got 1,042 quarters, or $260.50. He brought the jackpot to the police station, where officers counted the quarters, put them in an evidence locker and called the car wash's owner.
• Nov. 12: Council Member Simcha Felder leaves after a press conference at City Hall announcing legislation to ban feeding pigeons in New York.
• Nov. 12: An officer asks for help for a wounded colleague after riot police clashed with taxi, bus and truck drivers amid flying rocks and rubber bullets during a protest outside the city legislature in Buenos Aires, leaving more than a dozen injured. Demonstrators protested proposals by city officials to toughen requirements for transport works to gain and retain their driving licenses because transit infractions.
• Nov. 12: Michelle Amesz, right, and Wulfert Zevenboom, of Amersfoort, Holland, look out from a coffee shop onto Times Square in New York. Both had hoped to catch a Broadway show but striking stagehands shut down more than two dozen productions.
• Nov. 12: Iraqi police officers sing during a graduation ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, where 685 police officers graduated from a Baghdad police academy.
• Nov. 12: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy answer questions during a joint press conference following the German-French ministers meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. The German and French leaders called Monday for Russia and China to help increase pressure on Iran over its disputed nuclear program, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Tehran must get 'no nuclear weapon.'
• Nov. 13: A bird covered by thick coatings of an oil spill from a tanker weakly hops along the shore near Port Kavkaz on the Russian Black Sea. More than 30,000 birds have been killed by the thousands of tons of oil that leaked after a heavy storm on Sunday broke apart the tanker in the strait connecting the Black and Azov seas, an official said.
• Nov. 13: Turkeys are gathered outside a poultry shed at Redgrave Park Farm in Redgrave, eastern England, after an outbreak of bird flu. Experts examining Britain's latest outbreak were trying Tuesday to determine if it was the H5N1 strain of the disease, which has killed scores of people around the world.
• Nov. 13: The New Frontier Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip is imploded in Las Vegas.
• Nov. 13: In this photograph provided by the Sparsh Hospital, Poonam, right, holds her daughter Lakshmi inside a ward of the Sparsha Hospital in Bangalore, India. Nearly a week after surgeons removed the extra limbs from the Indian girl born with four arms and four legs, the bright-eyed 2-year-old made her first public appearance Tuesday after leaving the hospital's intensive care unit.
• Nov. 13: Ocean Du Moulin ridden by Ruby Walsh falls at the last in a National Hunt Novices Hurdle at Kempton Racecourse, south of London.
• Nov. 13: The Patrouille de France performs over the Rashediya mosque during the third day of the 10th Dubai Airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Airbus on Tuesday said it received orders for 15 aircraft from two national Arab airliners and a smaller order from a private Emriates-based company. Yemenia, the official carrier for Yemen, signed a firm contract for 10 Airbus A350s as part of the airline's plans to modernize its long-haul fleet, Airbus said. Oman Air also signed a firm contract with Airbus for five new A330 planes, three A330-300s and two A330-200s.
• Nov. 13: Cars remains at the entrance to the Philippine House of Representatives in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, which was damaged by an explosion. The incident killed a driver and injured at least nine people, including lawmakers, officials said.
• Nov. 13: Residents wade through a flooded street in the central province of Thua Thien Hue in Vietnam. Vietnamese authorities were rushing food aid to more than 100,000 victims as the death toll from weekend floods in the country's central region climbed as waters receded, disaster officials said.
• Nov. 13: Protesters are hit with pepper spray as they attempt to get in front of Stryker vehicles as they move up Marine Drive from the Port of Olympia in Washington state. Police said they had arrested about 50 people who were protesting shipments of military cargo from the Port of Olympia to Fort Lewis.
• Nov. 13: In this photo released by Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Mario Cantone, center, joins the Rockettes for the opening night celebration of the 75th Radio City Christmas Spectacular at New York City's Radio City Music Hall.
• Nov. 14: A Jammu Kashmir policeman performs a stunt on a motorcycle during Children's Day celebrations in Jammu, India.
• Nov. 14: Tokyo Tower is illuminated by blue lights to mark the first United Nations World Diabetes Day in Tokyo. The same events to light up landmarks in blue, which is the theme color for World Diabetes Day, were taken place throughout Japan and the rest of the world to raise awareness of the disease.
• This undated photo provided by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, known as TIGHAR, shows historic aircraft specialists inspecting a World War II fighter plane recently found on the Welsh coast. It was learned on Wednesday that TIGHAR plans to collaborate with British museum experts in recovering the nearly intact but fragile aircraft next spring. The American P-38 aircraft had made an emergency landing in 1942 after it ran out of gas and was buried under water and sand for 65 years until revealed by beach erosion in July. Experts hope to recover the plane for a British military museum. The photo was taken from a kite-suspended camera.
• Nov. 14: A view on the chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she hid from the Nazis during World War II is seen from the attic window in the secret annex at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam announced the tree would be cut down because it is too diseased to be saved, but residents and the Netherland's Tree Institute are trying to stop the cutting. The 150-year-old tree suffers from fungus and moths that have caused more than half of its trunk to rot.
• Nov. 14: Gas prices are shown at a Shell gas station in San Mateo, Calif. Gas at the pump is within striking distance of May's all-time record of $3.227 a gallon, having risen 0.6 cent overnight to a national average of $3.111, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Fred Rozell, retail pricing director at the service, said gas may rise another 10 cents to 15 cents a gallon in the coming weeks as it catches up with oil prices that have soared close to $100 a barrel.
• Nov. 15: A Pakistani protester hurls a tear gas shell toward police during an anti-government rally in Karachi, Pakistan. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was finalizing a caretaker government while his two main rivals opened talks on forming an alliance against him and political unrest worsened and left two children dead, officials said.
• Nov. 15: The Royal Air Force's Red Arrows display team performs a flying display during the fifth and final day at the 10th Dubai Air show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• Nov. 15: Iraqi policemen and soldiers inspect damage on a police vehicle after a roadside bomb explosion in east Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, Iraq, missed a police patrol but killed a civilian and injured four others, police said.
• Nov. 15: A resident of Tocopilla walks through the rubble of her damaged home a day after a 7.7-magnitude quake hit Chile. The powerful earthquake hammered the country's north on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 150.
• Nov. 15: Striking railway workers vote to renew the strike in Rennes, Brittany. Transport workers shut down most rail traffic in France for a second full day on Thursday, wearing down passengers forced to postpone trips and Parisians who had to walk or bike to work. French authorities made clear that the principles guiding a plan to reform special retirement benefits for transport and utilities workers, in place for more than 60 years, could not be touched.
• Nov. 15: Residents look on as it rains in Barisal, 75 miles south of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. More than 600,000 coastal villagers took shelter inland as a cyclone rapidly approached Bangladesh's southwestern shores, spawning cold drizzles, strong winds and high waves, a weather official said.
• Nov. 15: Sommelier Masahiko Mori pours Beaujolais Nouveau wine into a 'Beaujolais Nouveau bath' at a hot springs spa resort in Hakone, west of Tokyo. The special wine spa at the Hakone Yunessun spa resort opened Thursday to celebrate this year's release of the young French wine produced in Beaujolais, Bourgogne.
• Nov. 15: A sound system operator walks with speakers as members of West Bengal Mulla Ittehad Parishad, a confederation of 12 Muslim organizations, listens to leaders during a protest rally against recent political violence in Nandigram, in Calcutta, India.
• Nov. 15: Beer spills from liter-sized mugs as Reinhard Wurz attempts to break the world record for stein carrying at a Sydney pub. Reinhard carried 20 steins 40 meters to set a Guinness record, bettering the old record of 16 steins.
• Nov. 15: Model Heidi Klum walks the runway at the Victoria's Secret fashion show in Los Angeles. In the background her husband, Seal, performs.
• Nov. 16: Rajendra Pachauri, who leads the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won this year's Nobel Peace prize, opens the lid of a paella, a typical dish of Valencia, cooked by a Greenpeace activist using a solar kitchen outside the City of the Arts and Sciences complex in Valencia, Spain. Working until dawn, negotiators on Friday concluded a policy guide for governments on global warming that declares climate change is here and getting worse, one of its authors said. The brief Summary for Policymakers was to be released Saturday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
• Nov. 16: Forensic expert Rene Kosalka of Toronto, Canada, a member of the team from the International Commission for Missing Persons, inspects human remains at a mass-grave site in a remote mountain area in the village of Kamenica, near the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia. Forensic experts have recovered 60 bodies and 394 body remains. All of the exhumed bodies are believed to be those of Muslims from Srebrenica killed in July 1995 during the fall of the city. The remains will be identified by DNA. The exhumation of the mass grave began last month and is one of nine so-called secondary mass graves found in Kamenica, where Bosnian Serbs brought bodies from other sites to cover up the crime.
• Nov. 16: A blindfolded detainee is helped out of a vehicle at an Iraqi army compound in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The suspect was detained in a joint U.S. and Iraqi army operation on the western outskirts of Baqouba.
• Nov. 16: A Palestinian demonstrator in a wheelchair flees from tear gas fired by Israeli troops , not seen, during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security, while Palestinians call it a land grab.
• Nov. 16: A mourner of late Afghan parliamentarian Sayed Mustafa Kazimi cries during a memorial ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, for the six lawmakers who were killed in last Tuesday’s deadly homicide attack in Baghlan province, north of Kabul. More than 70 people were killed in Afghanistan's deadliest homicide attack since the Taliban's ouster.
• Nov. 16: Supporters of People's Power Party wave the party's flags and cheer during an election campaign in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's general election is set for Dec. 23.
• Nov. 16: An elephant removes a fallen tree that created a road block in Barishal, 75 miles south of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. A cyclone slammed into Bangladesh's coast with 140-mph winds, killing at least 425 people, leveling homes and forcing the evacuation of 650,000 villagers before heading inland and losing power Friday.
• Nov. 16: A man hitchhikes on the Champs Elysees Avenue while people ride bicycles in Paris on the third full transport strike day. The strike was centered on a protest over President Nicolas Sarkozy's promise to strip benefits that allow some public sector workers to retire earlier than most other workers with full benefits. The Arc de Triomphe is seen in background.
• Nov. 17: Afghan border police view confiscated opium and alcoholic drinks on the outskirts of Herat city in Herat province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan border police seized 500 kilograms of opium and some 150 bottles of alcohol and displayed them at the border police headquarters outside of the Herat city.
• Nov. 17: A view from the air of the garden of a house is shown in Margate, England, where police are continuing to search after they discovered the bodies of two women, both believed to be students who disappeared 16 years ago, in a backyard of the property. Peter Tobin, 61, who lived in the house briefly during 1991, has been charged with the murder of Vicky Hamilton, whose remains were found on Monday. He is due to return to court next week. Police said the second body found on Friday was believed to be Dinah McNicol, who was 18 when she disappeared that year.
• Nov. 17: People march during a demonstration in Genoa, Italy. The demonstration was called to show solidarity with the 25 people arrested on charges of devastation and sacking in the July 2001 riots in Genoa, at the last G8 meeting that took place in Italy, and now facing up to 225 years in jail.