Pictures of the Week: Sept. 9-15
The "Tribute in Lights" shines on the skyline of lower Manhattan in New York, September 11, 2006, as the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center is observed.
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The daughter of police officer Moira Smith who was killed on 9-11, Patricia Smith, holds the hand of her father James Smith on stage during the reading of names of victims of 9-11 during ceremonies at Ground Zero September 11, 2006 in New York City. Today marks the fifth anniversary of the hijacked plane attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in New York City, Washington and Pennsylvania.
A man embraces a young boy during a ceremony Monday, Sept. 11, 2006 at the World Trade Center in New York marking the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
A demonstrator kicks a wooden panel placed by authorities to close the entrance to a subway station in anticipation of violence expected during a march on the eve of the 33rd annivesary of the military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, in Santiago, Chile, Sunday Sept. 10, 2006.
The 27,000-acre Day Fire, so-named because it has been burning since Labor Day, continues September 13, 2006 northwest of Castaic, California. The 42-square-mile wildfire has been burning in Los Padres and Angeles National Forests and the Sespe Wilderness north of Los Angeles. Nearly 1,500 firefighters have brought containment of the fire to 30 percent so far at a cost of more than $11 million. The 2006 wildfire season is now considered the worst in 45 years with 13,584 square miles of scorched land so far, just above last year's total of 13,573 square miles, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
Multiple pileup is seen on the Chuo Expressway in Achimura, Nagano prefecture, central Japan Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006. At least 10 people were injured and four others trapped inside their vehicles on Thursday in a pileup involving 21 cars and trucks on a rain-slicked expressway in central Japan, police said.
In this handout photo provided by NASA, STS-115 mission specialists Astronauts Daniel C. Burbank (Bottom) and Steven G. MacLean, representing the Canadian Space Agency (Top), participate in the second of three scheduled space walks on the International Space Station on September 13, 2006. Construction resumed on the orbital outpost during the second of three scheduled space walks for the Shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station crew members.
Indian Air Force personnel perform the Air Warrior drill at the inauguration of the Subroto Mukherjee Football tournament in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006.
An Indian laborer dries raw leather at Chinatown, in Tangra, about 12 km (8 miles) north of Calcutta, India, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006. The tanneries representing one of the main industries that the Chinese, mainly Hakkas, started soon after arriving in the early 20th century, may disappear after a Supreme Court order to move to a new industrial area with proper treatment plants to curb water and air pollution.
Maria Sharapova, of Russia, the US Open women's singles champion, poses with her trophy and photographers at the US Open tennis tournament in New York, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006.
Zuleydis Pineizu Dominguez wears her 'quinceanera' (15th birthday) dress during a photo session with her family on September 14, 2006 in Havana, Cuba. Leaders from around the world continue to arrive for the Non Aligned Movement that currently has 116 member countries (53 of Africa, 38 of Asia, 24 of Latin America and the Caribbean and one from Europe (Belarus).
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