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Scarecrow football players man the line of scrimmage as scarecrow ...
 (AP) - Scarecrow football players man the line of scrimmage as scarecrow fans watch on a field Wednesday Aug. 27, 2008, Hoschton, Ga. To coincide with the town's upcoming fall festival dubbed 'scarecow stanpede', Hoschton residents are trying to break the Guinness World Record for most scarecrows in one location with a goal of 4000. (AP Photo/John Amis)
Sailboats return to the harbor at sunset in Racine, Wis, Thursday ...
 (AP) - Sailboats return to the harbor at sunset in Racine, Wis, Thursday Aug. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg)
A two-week-old reticulated giraffe is nuzzled by her mother ...
 (AP) - A two-week-old reticulated giraffe is nuzzled by her mother 'Fanny' at the Brookfield Zoo Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 in Chicago. The five-foot-tall calf is the the 57th giraffe born at Brookfield Zoo and Fanny's third offspring. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Tomatina smiles : Women covered in tomato juice smile during ...
 (AFP) - Tomatina smiles : Women covered in tomato juice smile during the "Tomatina", a traditional festival where people throw tomatoes at each other, on August in Bunol, some 300km east of Madrid. (AFP/Pablo Argente)
Traditional dance : A dancer from the southern Indian state ...
 (AFP) - Traditional dance : A dancer from the southern Indian state of Kerala performs a traditional dance during a function in Bangalore. (AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)
Staff prepare the red carpet near a golden lion statue in front ...
 (Reuters) - Staff prepare the red carpet near a golden lion statue in front of the Cinema Palace in Venice August 25, 2008. The 65th Venice Film Festival will take place from August 27 to September 6, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (ITALY)
School children walk through a field at Koribari village on ...
 (Reuters) - School children walk through a field at Koribari village on the outskirts of the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri August 25, 2008. Indian corn futures may trade higher on Monday with record exports and a lower acreage supporting and better-than-expected crop, aided by late rains, weighing, analysts said. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (INDIA)
Tango hold : An Argentine couple dance during the qualifying ...
 (AFP) - Tango hold : An Argentine couple dance during the qualifying round of the Tango Salon competition during the 6th edition of the Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires. (AFP/Juan Mabromata)
A model wears a creation during the KERA fashion show in Tokyo ...
 (Reuters) - A model wears a creation during the KERA fashion show in Tokyo August 24, 2008. KERA, a Japanese fashion magazine, hosted a fashion show displaying designs by gothic fashion designers as part of the Magazine Fashion Week series of fashion shows. REUTERS/Michael Caronna (JAPAN)
Democratic delegate : A delegate from Florida walks around the ...
 (AFP) - Democratic delegate : A delegate from Florida walks around the floor at the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. (AFP/Robyn Beck)
Workers paint the exterior wall of a temporary art gallery in ...
 (Reuters) - Workers paint the exterior wall of a temporary art gallery in Berlin, August 18, 2008. The contemporary art gallery which will be open for the public on October 30, 2008, is built on the area of Berlin's former City Palace (Berliner Stadtschloss) and the former East German parliament building, the Palast der Republik. Local government will start to reconstruct the original facade of the City Palace in 2010. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY)
Olympic dance : A dancer in a fluorescent suit performs during ...
 (AFP) - Olympic dance : A dancer in a fluorescent suit performs during the closing ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the National Stadium also known as the "Bird's Nest". (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)
A new-born Javan Lutung (Trachypithecus auratus), also known ...
 (AP) - A new-born Javan Lutung (Trachypithecus auratus), also known as Javan Langur, baby is embraced by Smirre, the mother, in the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. The Javan Langur baby was born on August 18, the mother arriving from the Netherlands Apeldoorn and the father, Orange, from Belfast. The baby has not yet been given a name as at this early age the gender was unconfirmed, but is believed to be male. It is the first time that a baby has been born to Javan Langurs, an endangered species, in Hungary. (AP Photo/MTI, Attila Kovacs)
Pictogram tattoos of the disciplines of the decathlon are seen ...
 (Reuters) - Pictogram tattoos of the disciplines of the decathlon are seen on the legs of Andrei Krauchanka of Belarus during his pole vault event of the men's decathlon in the athletics competition in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 22, 2008. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (CHINA)
Kanaeva competes : Russia's Evgeniya Kanaeva competes in ...
 (AFP) - Kanaeva competes : Russia's Evgeniya Kanaeva competes in the individual all-around qualification of the rhythmic gymnastics at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. (AFP/Franck Fife)
A toucan is seen at the Noel Kempff Mercado Zoo in Santa Cruz, ...
 (Reuters) - A toucan is seen at the Noel Kempff Mercado Zoo in Santa Cruz, August 17, 2008. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA)
Finishing touch : Sri Lankan artist Sarath Yatawara puts the ...
 (AFP) - Finishing touch : Sri Lankan artist Sarath Yatawara puts the finishing touches to one of his paintings hanging on railings outside a park in Colombo. (AFP/Ishara S. Kodikara)
A nine-month-old female octopus holds a jar, which contains ...
 (Reuters) - A nine-month-old female octopus holds a jar, which contains her favourite seafood snacks of shrimps, crabs and clams inbetween her tentacles in Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo March 14, 2003. REUTERS/Alexandra Winkler
Competitors jump during the men's quarterfinals run for the ...
 (Reuters) - Competitors jump during the men's quarterfinals run for the BMX cycling competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 20, 2008. (Jacky Naegelen/Reuters)
An Afghan guard of honour stands next to the minaret of liberty ...
 (Reuters) - An Afghan guard of honour stands next to the minaret of liberty during the Afghan Independence day celebration in Kabul August 18, 2008. Afghanistan celebrates its 89th Independence Day from Britain on Monday. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN)
Baby prowl : Three months old snow leopard "Emba" ...
 (AFP/DDP) - Baby prowl : Three months old snow leopard "Emba" inspects his enclosure during his first outing at the zoo in Rostock, northeastern Germany. (AFP/DDP/Danny Gohlke)
Colorful environment : Visitors rest and visit the tent of a ...
 (AFP) - Colorful environment : Visitors rest and visit the tent of a 3-D Luminarium inflatable installation by British designer Alain Parkinson on the Hajogyar (Shipyard) Island of Budapest, on the fifth day of the one-week Sziget festival in the Hungarian capital. (AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)
Sleepy storks : A couple of storks sleep in a nest during a ...
 (AFP) - Sleepy storks : A couple of storks sleep in a nest during a full moon in the countryside near Warsaw. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)
Walk in the park : A young woman admires red and yellow cosmoses ...
 (AFP) - Walk in the park : A young woman admires red and yellow cosmoses at Hamarikyu Park in Tokyo. (AFP/Toru Yamanaka)
A long exposure shot shows stars over the columns in the ancient ...
 (Reuters) - A long exposure shot shows stars over the columns in the ancient city of Stobi near Stip, about 120 km (75 miles) southeast from the capital Skopje, in the early hours of August 13, 2008. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski (MACEDONIA)
Gardeners design a giant flower carpet to form a floral decoration ...
 (Reuters) - Gardeners design a giant flower carpet to form a floral decoration at Brussels' Grand Place, August 14, 2008. The design requires about 700,000 flowers to create, according to event organisers. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (BELGIUM)
An early morning monsoon storm moves north up the coast near ...
 (AP) - An early morning monsoon storm moves north up the coast near Malibu, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 15,2008. (AP Photo/Gene Blevins) California Lightning
Morning exercise : Cambodian people exercise as the sun rises ...
 (AFP) - Morning exercise : Cambodian people exercise as the sun rises in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. (AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)
A bee collects nectar from a sunflower in Zurich August 14, ...
 (Reuters) - A bee collects nectar from a sunflower in Zurich August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND)
A child runs through an art installation by Jim Lambie at the ...
 (Reuters) - A child runs through an art installation by Jim Lambie at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne August 13, 2008. Glasgow-based artist Lambie's work is called "Eight Miles High" and will be on show till September 21. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas (AUSTRALIA)
An 80-day-old lion cub looks at the camera while standing in ...
 (Reuters) - An 80-day-old lion cub looks at the camera while standing in its cage at the National Zoo in Havana August 7, 2008.
REUTERS/Claudia Daut (CUBA)
A man carries his bicycle downstairs on a regional station in ...
 (AP) - A man carries his bicycle downstairs on a regional station in Hanover, northern Germany, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. Much of the building is made of blue glass bricks, which flood the various passageways in aqua-blue light. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach)
Evening training : An Italian athlete trains following the day's ...
 (AFP) - Evening training : An Italian athlete trains following the day's races at the Shunyi Rowing and Canoeing Park during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing. (AFP/Fred Dufour)
A Perseid meteor streaks towards the horizon during the annual ...
 (Reuters) - A Perseid meteor streaks towards the horizon during the annual Persied meteor shower in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, August 12, 2008. Perseids meteors are bits of debris left by the comet Swift-Tuttle which burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. REUTERS/Doug Murray (UNITED STATES)
This underwater photograph shows US swimmer Michael Phelps competing ...
 (AFP) - This underwater photograph shows US swimmer Michael Phelps competing during the men's 200m butterfly swimming semifinal at the National Aquatics Center in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Phelps joined an elite list of Olympic greats Tuesday by becoming only the fifth competitor in history to win nine gold medals.(AFP/Francois-Xavier Marit)
A flamingo cleans its coat while standing it its enclosure ...
 (Reuters) - A flamingo cleans its coat while standing it its enclosure in Munich's zoo Hellabrunn August 8, 2008. Six new baby flamingo's were born in the last two month. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (GERMANY)
Synchro dive : David Boudia and Thomas Finchum of the US dive ...
 (AFP) - Synchro dive : David Boudia and Thomas Finchum of the US dive during the men's synchronised 10m platform at the National Aquatics Center in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. China's Lin Yue and Huo Liang won the Olympic men's synchronised 10m platform dive gold medal ahead of Germany's Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein and Russia's Gleb Galperin and Dmitriy Dobroskok. (AFP/Martin Bureau)
A hot air balloon is prepared for flight at the International ...
 (Reuters) - A hot air balloon is prepared for flight at the International Balloon Fiesta near Bristol in western England August 8, 2008. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico (BRITAIN)
Painted pose : A woman with a painted face poses for a photo ...
 (AFP/DDP) - Painted pose : A woman with a painted face poses for a photo during the "German Bodypainting Festival" in the western German city of Mainz. (AFP/DDP/Torsten Silz)
Participants take part in the opening ceremony of the Beijing ...
 (Reuters) - Participants take part in the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium, August 8, 2008. The stadium is also known as the Bird's Nest. (David Gray/Reuters)
Illuminated cube : The National Aquatics Center, also known ...
 (AFP) - Illuminated cube : The National Aquatics Center, also known as the "Water Cube," is illuminated with multi-colours as people have their pictures taken in Beijing on the eve of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. (AFP/Greg Wood)
At the parade : A Pug dog is seen during the closing event of ...
 (AFP) - At the parade : A Pug dog is seen during the closing event of the CowParade, organized by the city's municipality in San Jose. Over a hundred sculptures of cows that participated in the Cow Parade will be auctioned next month and part of the funds raised will go to charities. (AFP/Yuri Cortez)
Ready for the Games : A baby with a heart-shaped Chinese flag ...
 (AFP) - Ready for the Games : A baby with a heart-shaped Chinese flag stuck to her forehead sits in a pushchair in the center of Beijing, two days before the beginning of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
A man dressed as Father Christmas poses for photographers outside ...
 (Reuters) - A man dressed as Father Christmas poses for photographers outside Harrods, in central London August 5, 2008. The photocall was to launch the store's Christmas World department. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN)
Racing sculpture : A sand sculpture by Alexandre Marchand on ...
 (AFP) - Racing sculpture : A sand sculpture by Alexandre Marchand on the beach of Deauville, northwestern France, marking the beginning of horse racing French summer season. (AFP/Mychele Daniau)
Peek-a-boo : A baby tiger named "Antares" looks out ...
 (AFP/DDP) - Peek-a-boo : A baby tiger named "Antares" looks out of his basket at the Tierpark (animal park) in Berlin. (AFP/DDP/Berthold Stadler)
Flower fest : "Silleterito" children participate in ...
 (AFP) - Flower fest : "Silleterito" children participate in a parade during the Flower Festival in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia. (AFP/Raul Arboleda)
Rappel : Dancers of the "Vertical Dance Company" practice ...
 (AFP/DDP) - Rappel : Dancers of the "Vertical Dance Company" practice their performance along the facade of the Swiss embassy in Berlin. (AFP/DDP/Clemens Bilan)
A Palestinian looks at an exhibit at the Museum of Archeology ...
 (Reuters) - A Palestinian looks at an exhibit at the Museum of Archeology in Gaza July 30, 2008. The first museum of archaeology in Gaza is expected later this year. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA)
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