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• April 28: A firefighter douses a spot fire on the roof of a home caused by a wind-driven brush fire in Sierra Madre, Calif. A flare-up early Monday morning caused the fire to push toward and threaten numerous homes in the town of Sierra Madre.
• April 28: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the site of an accident in which two trains collided is seen in east China's Shandong Province. A passenger train en route from Beijing to Qingdao city in eastern China derailed and hit another train early Monday, causing 'heavy casualties,' witnesses and a government spokesman confirmed.
• April 28: People watch as India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, C-9, blasts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, around 50 miles north of Chennai, India. Setting a world record, India's Polar rocket Monday successfully placed 10 satellites, including the country's remote sensing satellite, into orbit in a single mission.
• April 28: A photo taken by a forensic team and released by the Austrian police with permission of Austria's prosecution office shows a view into a hidden room in a house in Amstetten, Austria, in which a woman is believed to have been held captive for 24 years. Austria's police questioned a man identified in a police statement as Josef Fritzl, who they say held his daughter captive for 24 years in a high-tech, windowless cell and sexually abused her in what stunned Austrians dubbed a ‘house of horrors’ in Amstetten, a blue-collar town about 75 miles west of Vienna. DNA results on Tuesday confirmed Fritzl is the father of at least six of his daughter's children.
• April 28: Striking workers stand outside the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland. British Petroleum PLC on Sunday shut down a pipeline system that delivers a third of Britain's North Sea oil, as striking workers at Grangemouth closed Scotland's only oil refinery with a strike predicted to cost the British economy 100 million pounds, or $200 million. Workers returned to their jobs on Tuesday.
• April 28: Indian policemen search for the dead bodies of the rebels in Palhalan, about 19 miles north of Srinagar, India. Police said government forces killed a top suspected rebel commander in Indian Kashmir in a major blow to the region's largest separatist group.
• April 28: Kentucky Derby hopeful Pyro has a face full of soap suds as he is washed by Javier Espinoza after a workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
• April 28: Rescuers use mechanical grabs to search through the rubble of a burnt-out mattress factory in a poor industrial neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco's economic capital. The mattress factory went up in flames on Saturday, killing at least 55 people, amid accusations of poor safety standards and locked doors that trapped workers.
• April 28: Truckers drive by the Capitol in Washington while blaring their horns in protest of high fuel prices.
• April 28: Iranian shopkeeper Hamid Reza Delband displays American Barbie dolls at his shop in Tehran, Iran. A top Iranian judiciary official warned Monday against the 'destructive' cultural and social consequences of importing Barbie dolls and other Western toys.
• April 28: In what was a classic scene of spring in the river community of Grafton, Ill. Kenny Leitner mowed what little grass that wasn't covered by Illinois River floodwaters in the 1300 block of W. Main Street. Floodwaters were expected to crest at 26 feet in Grafton on Tuesday, about 8 feet above flood stage.
• April 28: A Miami-Dade Police car leads a caravan of evacuation buses out of jail in northwest Miami-Dade County in Miami. Fire rescue workers had been battling the 80-acre fire since 12:30 p.m. The blaze was about half a mile from Metro West Detention Center when officials started busing out inmates late in the afternoon after winds changed direction. The 2,634 male inmates were to be distributed among facilities in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
• April 28: Los Angeles City firefighters battle a blaze in a row of commercial and industrial buildings in the South Central section of the city in Los Angeles. About 130 firefighters were on the scene, shooting streams of water into the site, which includes numerous single-story structures.
• In this April 2008 photo provided Monday by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a pigeon with a needle-like dart piercing its head is shown in Seattle. PETA is offering a $2,000 reward for information about the recent shootings that have left some Seattle pigeons impaled with darts, but still alive.
• April 28: Transvestite Andre Luis Ribeiro Albertino, also known as Andreia Albertine, who works as a prostitute, talks to journalists in Rio de Janeiro. AC Milan striker Ronaldo, from Brazil, accused Andreia Albertine of extortion after an altercation began when Ronaldo found out he was dealing with transvestites instead of women, according to police. Prostitution is legal in Brazil.
• April 29: A French high school student shouts slogans during a demonstration in Nice, southeastern France, to protest plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government to cut teaching jobs. Written on his face is the nickname of French President Sarkozy, and 'on strike.'
• April 29: An Iraqi boy peers through rubble after an overnight airstrike in eastern Baghdad, Iraq. Five civilians were injured in the attack, police said.
• April 29: Lt. Gen. Mohan al-Fireji, the Iraqi commander of joint police and army operations in Basra, overlooks a seized weapons cache in the southern city of Basra, about 340 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. The weapons cache, found in a house opposite the al Sadr office in the al-Timimiyah area, a stronghold of Mahdi Army militias, in central Basra city, included various kinds of new Iranian-made heavy and light weapons including mortar launchers, heavy machine guns and IEDs with amounts of TNT explosives, al Fireji stated.
• April 29: Indian President Pratibha Patil, front right, speaks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New Delhi, India. A gas pipeline that would link Iran and India was at the top of the agenda as the Islamic republic's president made his first visit to New Delhi on Tuesday, despite strong U.S. objections to the project.
• April 29: Residents and rescue personnel look over damage to an antiques store caused by tornados in Driver, Va.
• April 29: A hot air balloon participating in the South African balloon championships in South Africa sails in the sunset. The weeklong event opened Monday. High winds prevented competition Tuesday, but didn't dampen the enthusiasm of pilots from, and who have flown, all over the world. The top two South African finishers qualify for the world championships to be held in Austria in September.
• April 29: Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., shows the media a Hillary doll made of balloons given to her by a supporter on her press plane in Raleigh, N.C.
• April 29: Morgue workers prepare to bury unidentified bodies in Baqouba, some 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Fifty bodies were found in a mass grave near the capital of Iraq's volatile Diyala province.
• This undated file photo shows John Lennon. When Lennon gave teenager Gail Renard the scribbled lyrics to 'Give Peace a Chance' in 1969, he told her to hold on to the piece of paper. She did, and it is. Christie's plans to auction the lyric sheet in July as the centerpiece in its rock and pop memorabilia sale, it was reported on Tuesday. The words to the enduring peace anthem are expected to fetch more than $400,000.
• Jimi Hendrix performs on the Isle of Wight in England in this 1970 file photo. Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix, it was reported on Tuesday. The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the footage of the music legend shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago from a memorabilia collector.
• April 29: A man sells snacks as Mexican soldiers prepare to patrol after a meeting of high-ranking city, state and federal security officials in Tijuana, Mexico. The meeting comes after a weekend gunbattle between rival drug gangs left at least 13 dead.
• April 29: Mick Thompson, 51, of Wyoming travels through Huntington, W.Va., on his horse, Hawkeye, while carrying his dog, Yogi, on his lap. Thompson says he and his dog have been traveling on horseback across the country since 2003. Having started his journey on the West Coast of Oregon, Thompson plans to make it all the way to Maine to eat lobster. 'I grew up on a cattle ranch,' he said. 'Don't you ever get tired of beef?'
• April 29: Ultra Orthodox Jewish men look at banners of swastikas at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Israel's annual Holocaust Heroes and Martyrs Remembrance Day for 6 million Jews who were killed by German Nazis and their collaborators in World War II began Wednesday at sundown.
• April 30: Museum of New Zealand technician Mark Fenwick thaw out the largest known specimen of a colossal squid, caught in the Ross Sea, in a pool of brine in Wellington, New Zealand. Marine scientists in New Zealand were thawing the corpse of the largest squid ever caught to try to unlock the secrets of one of the ocean's most mysterious beasts.
• April 30: To coincide with the arrival of the Olympic torch, a local activist paints over a memorial to Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre in orange to symbolize freedom and human rights in Hong Kong, China.
• April 30: Gotzon Klemos, right, and another unidentified fellow crew member of Playa de Bakio, bottom left, a 250-foot vessel based in Spain's Basque region and hijacked by Somali pirates seven days before, speaks with the media after they arrived at the airport of Bilbao, northern Spain.
• April 30: U.S. Army soldiers and Iraqi policemen celebrate the opening of a police station in Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq.
• April 30: After making a peaceful settlement with law officials, a member of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government unlocks the gates of the Iolani Palace after a short occupation, in Honolulu. The Native Hawaiian group that advocates sovereignty locked the gates of the historic palace Wednesday, saying it would carry out the business of what it considers the legitimate government of the islands.
• April 30: A man walks his dog past a flooded Main Street in Fort Kent, Maine. Homes and businesses were evacuated Wednesday as spring floods along the St. John River spilled into the downtown of this Canadian border town, marking what emergency management officials described as a 100-year flood for the St. John.
• April 30: Members of Caldwell Fire and Rescue work to remove a vehicle from the side of a Caldwell, Idaho, home after the vehicle crashed through a fence and into the home. The car reportedly was speeding and hit two other vehicles before crashing into the home. The driver of the Toyota Celica was transported to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. No one in the home was injured.
• May 1: Israeli soldiers stand in formation during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Sirens pierced the air in a mournful two-minute wail on Thursday in tribute to the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis. Hours earlier, Israel's president drew a thinly veiled comparison between the Nazi genocide and the threat Israel perceives today from Iran's nuclear ambitions.
• May 1: A supporter of the Lebanese Communist party, painted in black, stands in front of the Communism symbol as he participates during a demonstration to mark Labor Day in Beirut, Lebanon. More than 2,500 members of the Lebanese Communist party marched in Beirut streets to mark May Day, using the occasion to protest the worsening economic conditions in the country.
• May 1: Justin Homan of the United States flies through the air during the Freestyle Motocross Competition during the X Games in Shanghai.
• May 1: Cardboard boxes in the shape of houses fill an inner city square in Sydney's Central Business district. The boxes are part of a campaign, House the Homeless, to raise both funds and awareness of the plight of homeless people in Australia, where more than 100,000 Australian men, women and children are homeless on any given night. Of these, half are younger than 25.
• May 1: South Korean children stand under colorful lanterns at the Chogye temple in Seoul during a service to celebrate the upcoming birthday of Buddha on May 12. Eight children entered the temple to experience of monks' life for a month.
• May 1: Volunteers hold up a section of the world's longest lei made of fresh tropical flowers, in Kapiolani Park in front of Diamond Head mountain near Waikiki Beach in Honolulu. The lei was officially recorded at 5,336 feet, well over 1 mile of hand-picked exotic flowers. All documentation of the event will be sent to the Guinness Book of Records.
• May 1: Participants dance in traditional costumes as they lead the march to protest anti-immigrant policies through downtown Seattle.
• May 1: Police detain a protester during a May Day march through downtown Olympia, Wash. Thousands of chanting, flag-waving activists rallied in cities across the country Thursday, attempting to reinvigorate calls for immigration reform in a presidential election year in which the economy has taken center stage.
• May 1: Tiffini Cannon, left, and Michelle Stone pray along with dozens gathered at City Hall in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to recognize National Day of Prayer.
• May 1: Jim Barnes is attacked by a Canada goose as he leaves his office in Traverse City, Mich. Over the past week, the goose has been aggressively fending off pedestrians and bicyclists who encroach on the incubating eggs of a nearby duck.
• May 1: Participants ride on their donkeys during a traditional donkey race in Otumba, Mexico. Thousands of people travel each year to Otumba to take part in the annual donkey fair, which includes donkey races, donkey rodeos and the best-costumed donkey competition.
• May 1: Ashley Burnett, right, shows off an autograph by Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to her brother Austin outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in North Liberty, Ind. Sen. Obama visited the post.
• May 1: A whale shark swims beneath service members and veterans as they are guided on a swim in the tank of the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Ten injured U.S. military service members and two chaplains from Eisenhower Army Medical Center were invited to participate in the swim by the aquarium and a group called Champions Made From Adversity, which seeks to advance the lives of the physically disabled through sport and leisure activities. The aquarium used the event as a practice session to prepare for the upcoming June launch of a program called 'Swim with Gentle Giants' in which guests will be allowed to swim with the whale sharks and tens of thousands of fish in the 8 million-gallon exhibit.
• In this March 9, 2007, file photo, Deborah Jeane Palfrey reads a statement outside federal court in Washington. The convicted 'D.C. Madam,' Palfrey committed suicide at her mother’s home in Florida, officials said. Palfrey had faced about five or six years in prison and was free pending her sentencing July 24.
• May 1: Emergency workers look over a school bus involved in an accident on Highway 22 in Pendleton County, Ky., about 40 miles south of Cincinnati. One person died in the crash.
• May 2: Visitors view a field of moss phlox at Hitsujiyama park in Chichibu, west of Tokyo. More than 200,000 moss phlox are now in full-bloom at the park.
• May 2: A woman looks at work by British graffiti artist known as Banksy in an abandoned access road in London. The road has been transformed with graffiti by many different artists in an idea brought together by Banksy. The street is open to the public in an event called The Cans Festival from May 3 to May 5.
• May 2: Indonesian women queue to buy subsidized kerosene, which many Indonesian households use to cook in Bogor, Indonesia. The Indonesian government expects fuel subsidies to increase nearly 40 percent this year due to rising global crude oil prices and will make up about 13 percent of the nation's total budget for 2008.
• May 2: In this picture released by the Government Information Service, torchbearer Sze Hang Yu stands on a dragon boat during the Olympic torch relay in a downtown street in Hong Kong. The eight-hour relay through canyons of skyscrapers was expected to be a big challenge for Hong Kong's leaders and police. The torch is finally back on Chinese soil, and Beijing wants no repeat of the protests and chaos that dogged the flame during its 20-nation overseas tour.
• May 2: In this photo released by the Chinese news agency Xinhua, a parrot slam-dunks during a performance at the Laohutan Ocean Park in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning province.
• May 3: A man covers his face from a cloud of smoke as others run to take cover after a fire broke out in India’s largest chili market in Guntur, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of chili peppers were burnt, with the smoke stinging the eyes and throats of those in the vicinity.
• May 3: Participants in the Avon Breast Cancer Walk pass the Capitol in Washington.
• May 3: Democratic voters in Tamuning, Guam, cast their votes at the senior center for the candidate of their choice during the Democratic caucuses. Four pledged delegate votes were at stake in the presidential race between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. Citizens in the U.S. territory have no vote in the November U.S. presidential election.
• May 3: A doll made by a Brazilian devotee meant to represent missing British girl Madeleine McCann, photo background, is seen near the church at Praia da Luz beach in Lagos, Portugal. Madeleine disappeared during a family vacation in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, a few days before her fourth birthday. Church services were to be held in Praia da Luz and at the McCanns' hometown in central England to mark the one-year anniversary of her disappearance.
• May 3: A Belarus police officer patrols near the U.S. Embassy in Minsk, Belarus. Eleven U.S. diplomats left Belarus on Saturday amid tumultuous diplomatic relations between Washington and the authoritarian ex-Soviet state, the U.S. embassy officials said. Officials told The Associated Press that Belarus authorities declared 10 of the 11 diplomats persona non grata on Wednesday and ordered them to leave the country within 72 hours.
• May 3: A Savage Classic ultra light plane flies between the rocks of the Zugspitze Mountain, 2.962 meters, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, prior to touching down on the Zugspitz plateau at an altitude of about 2.600 meters. The landing commemorates the first and so far latest landing of an aircraft on the mountain plateau 50 years ago on March 23, 1958.