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• Jan. 7: Wreckage on the grounds of Edwards Apple Orchard on Centerville Road in Poplar Grove is shown after a tornado touched down in the area. The National Weather Service said it received unconfirmed reports of touchdowns in northern and central Illinois.
• Jan. 7: Mark Malkoff, a comedian and filmmaker, steps out of a non-functional bathtub that he uses for privacy in a showroom at the Ikea store in Paramus, N.J. Malkoff has permission from Ikea to live in the store until Sunday, while his own New York City apartment is fumigated.
• Jan. 7: Family and friends arrive for a church service for Carlos Sousa Jr. at Five Wounds Portuguese National Church in San Jose, Calif. Sousa died Christmas Day after a 350-pound Siberian tiger broke out of the big-cat enclosure, also injuring Sousa's two friends.
• Jan. 7: Burkes, left, and Derrick Millirons look at the damage from an arson fire at the Woodland Baptist Church in Ladonia, Ala. Two men who authorities said dabbled in satanism have been arrested in connection with a recent rash of arson and vandalism at rural churches.
• Jan. 8: An Indian army soldier performs stunts as members display the traditional Indian martial art of ‘Malkhamb’ during a Know Your Army exhibition in Rajkot, 141 miles west of Ahmadabad, India.
• Jan. 8: The new leader of the Pakistan People's Part, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, center, the son of Benazir Bhutto, attends a news conference at a hotel in London, flanked by his mother's sister Sanam Bhutto, second left, and family friend Simon Walker, second right. Zardari on Tuesday called for a U.N.-sponsored investigation of his mother's murder, saying he does not trust officials in Pakistan. The 19-year-old Oxford University student was chosen to succeed his mother as leader of the party, though day-to-day leadership is in the hands of his father, Asif Ali Zardari.
• Washington Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs holds the Vince Lombardi trophy in Chantilly, Va., in this Jan. 31, 1983, file photo. Gibbs resigned as coach and team president of the Washington Redskins on Tuesday.
• Jan. 8: Owner Liv og Signe Verhaug hugs 18-month-old Pyrenees dog Leon, who was rescued from the mountain ledge in Oldedalen, western Norway, where he had been stuck since New Year’s Eve when he was frightened by New Year-rockets. A rescuer from Norsk Luftambulanse (Norwegian Air Ambulance) was lowered to the ledge by helicopter and soon after they were both lifted off the ledge.
• Jan. 8: A man covers his face as he walks past a garbage heap in downtown Naples, southern Italy. Premier Romano Prodi announced emergency measures on Tuesday to deal with Naples' garbage crisis, including three new incinerators and that other Italian regions might be able to help dispose of the trash. Collectors stopped picking up garbage in Naples and the surrounding Campania region on Dec. 21 because there was no more room for the trash at dumps. Although residents are upset by the uncollected trash, they have blocked plans to create new dumps or reopen old sites, claiming health risks.
• Jan. 8: A gloved staff member displays a lock of hair belonging to Queen Catherine Parr, the last of King Henry VIII's wives at an auction house in London. The lock of hair mounted in an oval frame with inscription on paper states 'Hair of Queen Catherine Parr, Last Consort of Henry, the night she dyed Sept. 5, 1548 was buried in the Chapel of Sudeley Castle, Near Winchcombe.' The item is to be auctioned on Jan. 15 with an estimated price of 150 to 250 pounds, or (US$296 to 493 or 201 to 335 euro).
• Jan. 8: A firefighter tries to put out a burning car after a shootout between federal police and unknown gunmen in the northern border city of Reynosa, Mexico. Two federal agents were killed and three more injured during the confrontation, according to a Public Safety Department statement.
• Jan. 8: Former Indonesian President Suharto accompanied by his daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, left, is wheeled out of a hospital room after undergoing a nuclear imaging procedure called a Thalium scan, at Pertamina Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. The former dictator showed slight signs of improvement but remained in critical condition, doctors said Wednesday, as they struggled to control internal bleeding, a fluid buildup in his lungs and low-level heart failure.
• Jan. 8: Maldives' President Maumoon Gayoom, left, meets Boy Scout Mohammed Jaisham Ibrahim at a hospital in Male, Maldives. Ibrahim, 15, foiled an attempt to assassinate the president of this island nation by grabbing the knife of a reported Islamic extremist who had hidden the weapon under a Maldivian flag and reportedly shouted 'God is great' before attacking.
• Jan. 9: Israelis are seen through the broken window of a house hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip that landed in the town of Sderot in southern Israel. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip bombarded southern Israel with rocket and mortar fire, striking a house in a border town shortly before President Bush arrived in the Mideast to try to build momentum for stalled peace talks.
• Jan. 9: Iraqi Police K-9 Antar leaps through a flaming hoop as he demonstrates his skills at a ceremony marking Police Day at the police academy in Baghdad, Iraq. Dozens of Iraqi police celebrated in central Baghdad, chanting, dancing and decorating their vehicles to mark the annual National Police Day, only three days after a bombing marred Army Day celebrations.
• Jan. 9: U.S. President George W. Bush speaks on the podium as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Israel's President Shimon Peres listen during a welcoming ceremony in Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. Bush arrived in the Middle East Wednesday for a three-day visit to Israel and the West Bank.
• Jan. 9: An amphibious sightseeing taxi drives through the Dotonbori River nearby streets in Osaka, western Japan, during its demonstration run. The amphibious sightseeing taxi, which is capable of carrying up to three passengers, made a debut in the country.
• Jan. 9: Students are taken to buses for transport to a safe area at Antietam Middle-Senior High School where three students were stabbed in Lower Alsace Township near Reading, Pa. Authorities had also called in the bomb squad, emergency and hospital officials said. The school was evacuated shortly after the stabbings, which happened around 8:15 a.m., according to a dispatcher at the Berks County Communications Center.
• Jan. 9: Men inspect the damage after two car bombs exploded in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. A parked car bomb exploded Wednesday afternoon near the Heart of Jesus church in central Kirkuk, wounding one civilian; 10 minutes later, another parked car bomb detonated next a church nearby, wounding two civilians, police said.
• Jan. 9: Rescuers work at the site of an explosion at an apartment building in Kazan, Russia. A natural gas blast ripped through an apartment building in Russia's Tatarstan region early Wednesday, killing at least seven people, officials said. Others may have remained trapped beneath the rubble in subfreezing temperatures.
• Jan. 9: A jogger runs past a pile of garbage, with the Vesuvius volcano in the background, in Naples. The Italian government's plan to resolve Naples' garbage crisis may clear trash temporarily, but mafia control of waste disposal and politicians' inability to guarantee safe dumps means the problem will return, a noted expert on organized crime said Wednesday.
• Jan. 9: The paintings ‘Portrait of Suzanne Bloch’ by Pablo Picasso, left, and ‘O Lavrador de Café’ by Candido Portinari are shown during a ceremony marking their return to the Sao Paulo Museum of Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Three robbers armed only with a crowbar and a car jack seized the two paintings on Dec. 20 as museum guards were changing shifts.
• Jan. 9: Dense smoke left from a brush fire and fog caused an early morning multivehicle pileup that closed Interstate 4 near Lakeland, Fla., seen in this aerial view. Officials said the accident killed at least three people and closed nearly a 15-mile stretch of the highway in central Florida.
• Jan. 10: Pakistani policemen and rescue workers carry a wounded colleague in the aftermath of a homicide bomb explosion in Lahore, Pakistan. The bomber blew himself up among police officers outside a court in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens of others minutes before a planned anti-government protest, officials and witnesses said.
• Jan. 10: Palestinian children are seen through a shattered window at a private American school after it was attacked by militants in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya. Gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Gaza school before dawn, and the principal said he believed the attack was linked to the visit of President Bush to the West Bank.
• Jan. 10: Iraqi soldiers march in formation during a ceremony marking one year since Iraqi security forces took control of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq.
• Jan. 10: Former school teacher Debra Lafave, left, glares at her probation officer after her electronic ankle monitoring device alarm went off as she stood with her attorney, John Fitzgibbons, left, during a probation violation hearing at the Hillsborough County Courthouse in Tampa, Fla. Circuit Judge J. Rogers Padgett found Lafave guilty of violating her probation by talking to a 17-year-old former co-worker about sex, but she faces no additional penalties. She was arrested in 2002 for having sex with a 14-year-old student.
• Jan. 11: A supporter of Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party cheers and waves a doll of opposition presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou on the eve of the last rally before the legislative elections in Taipei county, Taiwan. Taiwanese candidates scoured the island for support Friday, on the eve of legislative elections widely seen as a referendum on President Chen Shui-bian's efforts to carve out a non-Chinese identity for the self-governed island.
• Jan. 11: Amnesty International activists march in orange clothes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Budapest during a protest to mark the sixth anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to the U.S. Army base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Amnesty International organized worldwide events to seek the immediate closure of the detention center and an end to all detentions without charge.
• Jan. 11: An Iraqi man and his child enjoy light snow fall in eastern Baghdad, Iraq. After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they'd pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people awoke to something certifiably new. For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.
• Jan. 11: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari poses for the media at Christ Church College in Oxford, England. Bhutto Zadari, an undergraduate at Christ Church College who was named as symbolic leader of the Pakistan People's Party, has returned to the college following the assassination of his mother, Benezir Bhutto, last month.
• Jan. 11: President Bush stands with Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hourlong tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing, the memorial's chairman said.
• Jan. 11: Kenyan runners return to training in the early morning in the high-altitude, 8,000-feet, town of Iten in Kenya. Though post-election violence has eased in recent days, the mayhem has left indelible scars across Kenya, which has consistently produced some of the best distance runners on the planet.
• This undated file photo provided by the Munch Museum shows the version of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream,' which was stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, on Aug. 22, 2004. The Norwegian Supreme Court on Friday increased the sentences of two men who appealed their convictions in the theft of Munch's masterpieces ‘The Scream’ and ‘Madonna’ and ordered a new trial for a third convicted man.
• Employees of the Spanish Riding School present four young Lipizzaner horses in Vienna, on Tuesday. Vienna's renowned Spanish Riding School, famed for its white Lipizzaner stallions and their elegant strutting and sprightly dancing, lost an estimated $2.9 million last year, officials said. Officials on Friday warned the Spanish Riding School is on the verge of bankruptcy.
• Jan. 11: Canadian former schoolteacher Christopher Neil smiles as he makes his way to a prison bus after a hearing for his child molesting trial at criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand. Neil was arrested in Thailand in October last year on charges of sexually molesting a 9-year old boy in 2003. If found guilty, he could receive 20 years in prison.
• Jan. 11: Former Indonesian President Suharto accompanied by his daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, top, is wheeled out of a hospital room after undergoing a nuclear imaging procedure called Thalium scan, at Pertamina Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. Suharto on Friday suffered multi-organ failure and doctors called the deterioration of his health ‘alarming.’
• Jan. 11: Investigators check the damage to a high-speed ferry at the dock in Macau. Two high-speed ferries collided in heavy fog Friday night between Hong Kong and neighboring gambling enclave Macau, seriously injuring 19 passengers, a Macau government spokesman said.
• Jan. 12: People look at Tata Motors' newly launched world's cheapest car Tata Nano at the 9th Auto Expo in New Delhi, India. Nano, which costs $2,500, an ultra-cheap price tag, is expected to bring car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people across the world.
• Jan. 12: An Indian woman and her daughter hold a placard during a silent rally against human trafficking organized by the Movement Against Trafficking in Hyderabad, India.
• Jan. 12: People watch as various competitors fly kites during the International Kite Festival in Ahmadabad, India. Around 145 kite fliers from various countries were participating in the five-day festival, which began on Friday.
• Jan. 12: Indian firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a market in Calcutta, India. The huge blaze raged through a central market in the east Indian city, destroying more than 1,000 shops and homes and leaving hundreds homeless but causing no casualties, police and fire officials said.