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• Aug. 25, 2008: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves after a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan's ruling coalition collapsed Monday, torn apart by internal bickering just a week after it drove U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf from the presidency. Nawaz Sharif, announced Monday that he was pulling out of the 5-month-old alliance because it failed to restore judges ousted by Musharraf or agree to a neutral replacement.
• Aug. 25, 2008: The funeral of a victim of Sunday's suicide bombing which occurred inside one of several tents set up outside a house in the Abu Ghraib area of Baghdad's western outskirts, takes place at a cemetery in Khan Dhari, near Abu Ghraib, Iraq. A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in the midst of a celebration to welcome home an Iraqi detainee released from U.S. custody, killing at least 25 people, Iraqi officials said.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Palestinian youths hold up flags as they greet released prisoner Maher Noubani, not seen, upon his arrival in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin. Israel on Monday freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians, including a militant mastermind from the 1970s who became the Jewish state's longest serving Palestinian prisoner, in a goodwill gesture made just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to begin her latest peace mission to the region.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Released Palestinian prisoner Maher Noubani is greeted by relatives as white foam is sprayed in the air, upon his arrival in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin. Israel on Monday freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians, including a militant mastermind from the 1970s who became the Jewish state's longest serving Palestinian prisoner, in a goodwill gesture made just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to begin her latest peace mission to the region.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Released Palestinian prisoner Maher Noubani is greeted by his sister upon his arrival in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin. Israel on Monday freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians, including a militant mastermind from the 1970s who became the Jewish state's longest serving Palestinian prisoner, in a goodwill gesture made just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to begin her latest peace mission to the region.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Zimbabwe's opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members celebrate in parliament after their colleague Lovemore Moyo, unseen, was elected Speaker of Parliament in Harare. Moyo, won the key position by 110 votes to 98 votes in a major victory for the main opposition party. Monday's vote came after two opposition politicians were arrested as they entered parliament to be sworn in. President Robert Mugabe was to officially open parliament Tuesday.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Lovemore Moyo, of the Movement for Democratic Change, center, is lifted up by his party members after being sworn in the newly elected Speaker of Zimbabwe's Parliament in Harare. Moyo, won the key position by 110 votes to 98 votes in a major victory for the main opposition party. Monday's vote came after two opposition politicians were arrested as they entered parliament to be sworn in. President Robert Mugabe was to officially open parliament Tuesday.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Lovemore Moyo, of the Movement for Democratic Change, the newly elected Speaker of Zimbabwe's Parliament sits on the speakers chair in Harare. Moyo, won the key position by 110 votes to 98 votes in a major victory for the main opposition party. Monday's vote came after two opposition politicians were arrested as they entered parliament to be sworn in. President Robert Mugabe was to officially open parliament Tuesday.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF and opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party members are sworn in during the swearing in ceremony for the members of parliament in Harare, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's opposition party has won the vote for speaker of the first parliament since disputed elections in March. Lovemore Moyo, of the Movement for Democratic Change, won the key position by 110 votes to 98 votes in a major victory for the main opposition party. Monday's vote came after two opposition politicians were arrested as they entered parliament to be sworn in. President Robert Mugabe was to officially open parliament Tuesday. The opposition MDC won more seats than Mugabe's party for the first time since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Girls celebrate holding Russian, left, and South Ossetian separatists' flags in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia. As both chambers of Russia's parliament passed resolutions urging the Kremlin to recognize South Ossetia's independence, South Ossetians overwhelmingly agreed, with many here seeing it as the first step to becoming part of Russia.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Girls ride on a car while holding Russian, left, and South Ossetian separatists' flags in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia. As both chambers of Russia's parliament passed resolutions urging the Kremlin to recognize South Ossetia's independence, South Ossetians overwhelmingly agreed, with many here seeing it as the first step to becoming part of Russia.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Russian troops atop an armored vehicle pass by a big poster of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as they leave Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia. A big poster of Putin greets visitors to the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia, in a clear signal of what most residents here hope is to come.
• Aug. 25, 2008: A woman passes by a poster depicting Russia's flag and state emblem in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia. As both chambers of Russia's parliament passed resolutions urging the Kremlin to recognize South Ossetia's independence, South Ossetians overwhelmingly agreed, with many here seeing it as the first step to becoming part of Russia.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Municipal workers fix Russian, left, and South Ossetian separatists' flags atop the breakaway region's presidential headquarter in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia. As both chambers of Russia's parliament passed resolutions urging the Kremlin to recognize South Ossetia's independence, South Ossetians overwhelmingly agreed, with many here seeing it as the first step to becoming part of Russia.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Dhaka university students watch a cab set on fire by protestors, unseen, during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Stone-throwing protesters clashed with riot police and smashed vehicles Monday to demand the release of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who is being held on corruption charges, news reports said.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Bangladesh Nationalist Party student activists attack and damage a cab during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Stone-throwing protesters clashed with riot police and smashed vehicles Monday to demand the release of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who is being held on corruption charges, news reports said.
• Aug. 25, 2008: A protester shouts slogans against Jammu and Kashmir state leaders during a protest in Jammu, India. The protest was against a decision by the state government to scrap plans of transferring land to a Hindu shrine.
• Aug. 25, 2008: An elderly Iraqi woman carries dishes past old houses in a formerly Jewish area of central Baghdad, Iraq.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Police personnel stand guard in front of a church in Bhubaneswar, India during a strike called by the World Hindu Council to protest Saturday's killing of a Hindu religious leader and four others by suspected communist rebels in another district of the state. Suspected Hindu hard-liners set an orphanage run by Christian missionaries on fire in eastern India on Monday, killing one nun and seriously injuring a priest, police said.
• Aug. 25, 2008: Zinat Gul, 24, who allegedly was wounded by a U.S. air strike in Shindand district, is accompanied by her mother at a hospital in Herat, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai sacked two Afghan army officers Sunday, following a joint Afghan-coalition operation in the country's west that he said killed at least 89 civilians.
• Aug. 25, 2008: An Afghan doctor, left, examines Zinat Gul’s wounded hand, who allegedly was wounded by a U.S. air strike in Shindand district, as her mother looks on at a hospital in Herat, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai sacked two Afghan army officers Sunday, following a joint Afghan-coalition operation in the country's west that he said killed at least 89 civilians.
• Aug. 25, 2008: An Afghan man talks on the his cell phone as he sells prepaid cards along a main road in Kabul, Afghanistan.
• Aug. 25, 2008: A worker takes a nap near the Olympic flame caldron a day after the closing ceremony for the Beijing Olympics in the Bird Nest's National Stadium in Beijing Olympics, Beijing, China. Authorities are scrambling to make sure the 91,000-seat Bird's Nest stadium and other venues are put to good use after the Olympics and September's Paralympics end. They want to avoid the fate of other Olympic hosts that were left with empty, debt-burdened facilities.
• Aug. 25, 2008: US golfer Tiger Woods unveils his ambitious project, touted as the first course in the world designed by the 2008 U.S. Open champion, a work in progress on the outskirts of this Middle Eastern boomtown, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Woods is already the world's top-ranked golfer and highest paid athlete and if all goes according to plan, he'll soon be sporting his biggest trophy yet: a luxury golf course hewn from the sands of the Arabian desert. Admiring the project model is Khalid Al Malik, CEO, left, of Tatweer, and Abdulla Al Gurg, project director, of The Tiger Woods Dubai.
• Aug. 25, 2008: US golfer Tiger Woods unveils his ambitious project, touted as the first course in the world designed by the 2008 U.S. Open champion, a work in progress on the outskirts of this Middle Eastern boomtown, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Woods is already the world's top-ranked golfer and highest paid athlete and if all goes according to plan, he'll soon be sporting his biggest trophy yet: a luxury golf course hewn from the sands of the Arabian desert. Admiring the project model is Khalid Al Malik, CEO, Left, of Tatweer, and Abdulla Al Gurg, Project Director, of The Tiger Woods Dubai.