A man prays outside his mudslide destroyed house in the
earthquake-ravaged village of Tandikat in Indonesia's West Sumatra
province October 5, 2009.
Three-year-old Clayton Mathiason of Omaha, Neb. reacts after he
received a dose of Swine Flu vaccine via nasal spray, at Physician's
Clinic, affiliated with Omaha's Methodist Health System, in Omaha, Neb.
on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009
A farmer sprays milk on police forces during a protest against falling
milk prices outside the European Headquarters in Brussels. Farmers on
slow-moving tractors brought traffic in Brussels to a standstill on
Monday as EU agriculture ministers discussed their demands for more
generous EU support for dairy prices
Jackson Township resident Christy Harp shows off her world-record
1,725-pound Atlantic giant pumpkin on in Jackson Township, Ohio. Harp
took first place at the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers annual
weigh-off Saturday in Canfield. She won $2,500 and could claim the
world title. Contest organizers say the entry topped the 1,689-pound
record-holder grown in 2007 by Joe Jutras of North Scituate, R.I
Carol Greider (R), a professor in the department of molecular biology
and genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, strikes a
winning pose with co-worker Peter Agre (L), himself a 2003 Nobel
laureate in Chemistry, upon news of Greider's winning a share of the
2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine as a university photographer takes their
picture at her office in Baltimore, Maryland, October 5, 2009.
Joint winner of the 2009 chemistry Nobel Prize Venkatraman
Ramakrishnan, sits in his lab at the Medical Research Council Lab in
Cambridge, England, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Ramakrishnan with Thomas
Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on
Wednesday for mapping ribosomes, one of the cell's most complex
components, at the atomic level.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
said their work has been fundamental to the scientific understanding of
life and has helped researchers develop antibiotics cures for various
diseases
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
winner Thomas Steitz sits at his desk behind a plastic scale model of a
ribosome in his office at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut,
October 7, 2009. Steitz won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry for
"studies of the structure of the ribosome" along with researchers
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the U.S., who currently works at Cambridge
University in the United Kingdom, and Ada Yonath of Israel.
REFILE - CORRECTING DAY
A Palestinian boy touches a dyed donkey at Marah Land zoo in Gaza City
October 8, 2009. Two white donkeys dyed with black stripes delighted
Palestinian kids at a small Gaza zoo on Thursday who had never seen a
zebra in the flesh. A genuine zebra would have been too expensive to
bring into Israel-blockaded Gaza via the smuggling tunnels under the
border with Egypt, said zoo owner Mohammed Bargouthi.
Two officers of Italian police, left and right, and their Swiss
colleague pose near a Lamborghini Gallardo of Italian traffic police
'Polizia stradale', which is told to be the world's fastest police car,
at a highway rest area in Bellinzona, southern Switzerland, Wednesday,
Oct. 7, 2009. The Lamborghini will be presented at an international
police meeting in the Netherlands
