poon cho tang SG AP - Sun Aug 6, 7:29 PM ET Mike Mason takes third place in the Moto-X Freestyle Final at the 12th edition of the X-Games Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006, in Carson, Calif. Travis Pastrana won the event. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Fri Aug 4, 8:18 PM ET Long poem : What is claimed to be the world's longest poem, written by French public notary Patrick Huet is pictured here. The poem stretched to almost one kilometre (0.62 miles) on a car-race track in Champier, south-east France. (AFP/Martin Bureau)
poon cho tang SG AP - Sun Aug 6, 1:01 AM ET Ronnie Faisst performs a trick during the Moto X freestyle preliminary round at the X Games, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, in Carson, Calif. Faisst was in eighth place after the first round. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:12 PM ET Putting out the fire : A Lebanese fireman extiguish fire at a car park in a neighborhood hit by an Israeli strike in Beirut. (AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:12 PM ET Pigeons in Bogota : Pigeons walk over water puddles where Colombian national flags are reflected, next to the National Congress at the Bolivar Square, in Bogota, moments before the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's inauguration. (AFP/Martin Bernetii)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:11 PM ET Bomb shelter : An Israeli woman smokes a cigarette as others step outside for some air at the entrance to a bomb shelter in the northern city of Nahariya (AFP/David Furst)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:11 PM ET After the storm : A rainbow is seen at the end of a rainstorm over Vitosha mountain near the capital Sofia. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:11 PM ET Dress rehearsal : Dancers from the Russian Bolshoi Ballet take part in a full dress rehearsal of the fairy tale Cinderella, at the Royal Opera House in central London. (AFP/Shaun Curry)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:11 PM ET Taj Mahal : The river shimmers in front of the famous land-mark, the Taj Mahal in Agra. (AFP/Manan Vatsyayana)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:10 PM ET Bolshoi Ballet : Dancers from the Russian Bolshoi Ballet take part in a full dress rehearsal of the fairy tale Cinderella, at the Royal Opera House in central London. (AFP/Shaun Curry)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:10 PM ET Tunnel on the Hill : A normally busy underground tunnel between the Rayburn and Longworth buildings on Capitol Hill shows just a few people walking, in this zoomed exposed image, in Washington, DC. (AFP/Paul J. Richards)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:08 PM ET Rainy day : A vegetable seller protects herself from the rain in Mumbai. (AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:08 PM ET Sunset on the border : An Israeli soldier is silhouetted against the sun along Israel's border with Lebanon, after returning from a mission inside southern Lebanon. (AFP/Hrvoje Polan)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:08 PM ET Enjoying the day : A Bulgarian father boats along with his daughter on a sunny say near the coast of the Black sea village of Varvara. (AFP/Valentina Petrova)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Mon Aug 7, 10:07 PM ET Shot put : Finnish Maija Kovalainen holds the ball during the Women's shot put in Heptathlon, at the 19th European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. (AFP/Adrian Dennis)
poon cho tang SG AP - Mon Aug 7, 10:27 PM ET Beijing residents take part in exercises using a soft ball to mark the start of a two-year countdown to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. Authorities organized a million people exercising in the parks and residential districts of the Chinese capital to mark the countdown to a highly anticipated games in which billions of dollars have been invested. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
poon cho tang SG Reuters - Sun Aug 6, 11:34 AM ET An Indonesian woman dressed in a costume participates in a fashion carnival in Jember, East Java August 6, 2006. Around 450 participants from Indonesia took part in the carnival, wearing costumes they designed. REUTERS/Murdani Usman (INDONESIA)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Wed Aug 9, 9:59 PM ET Crystal temptation : A model presents a crystal temptation shoe collection in Bangkok. (AFP/Saeed Khan)
poon cho tang SG AFP/DDP - Wed Aug 9, 9:57 PM ET A mother's love : Baby giraffe "Alex" is cuddled by his mother "Gea" at the Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen, northern Germany. (AFP/DDP/David Hecker)
poon cho tang SG AFP - Wed Aug 9, 9:57 PM ET Tears in Tyre : A Lebanese mother comforts her son who started crying at the sound of bombs dropping, at a school turned shelter in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre. (AFP/Samuel Aranda)
