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Thursday, January 7, 2010

News in pictures

This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 7, 2010 shows a tank of a sub-unit of the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division of North Korean army in training. The news agency reported January 5 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il inspected the unit recently. -- PHOTO: AFP



- A Weatherproof Garment Company advertisement depicting US President Barack Obama on the Great Wall of China is seen in Times Square, New York January 6, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



- Wearing a mohawk haircut, fifth-grader Anthony Martinez, 11 (right), works on math problems Wednesday, January 6, 2010, at Alameda Elementary School in Las Cruces, N.M. on the first day of the spring semester for Las Cruces Public Schools. Classes end May 26. -- PHOTO: AP


- A man wearing a devil mask takes part in the 'White Day' parade, as part of the Whites and Blacks Carnival in Pasto, Colombia, on January 06, 2010. Last September 30, 2009, this Carnival was proclaimed by UNESCO, as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. -- PHOTO: AFP



- Palestinian protestors hold up Hamas flags as they demonstrate at the Gaza Strip border with Egypt, in the divided town of Rafah, on January 6, 2010 against Egypt's construction of an underground barrier meant to stop smuggling through cross-border tunnels. Cross-border gunfire killed an Egyptian policeman and wounded five Palestinians after youths hurled rocks over the border fence during a protest in southern Gaza, officials said. -- PHOTO: AFP


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