Friday, May 12, 2006

Magician David Blaine

American stuntman David Blaine holds his breath on live television during his unsuccessful attempt at a record for holding his breath underwater at Lincoln Center in New York May 8, 2006. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

American magician David Blaine floats in his water-filled glass sphere where he is spending seven days and nights underwater at Lincoln Center in New York May 6, 2006. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

An oxygen mask is placed on David Blaine after he was brought to the surface when his body showed signs of danger during Blaine's attempt to break the world record for being submerged in water for nine minutes, New York, Monday, May 8, 2006. Blaine was pulled out of the sphere at the seven minute, eight second mark. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)

American magician David Blaine holds his wrinkled and cracked hands out the water-filled glass sphere for treatment from his medical team at the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center, in New York, May 5, 2006. Blaine, who is now on his fifth day of his seven day underwater stunt, receives regular treatment for his skin from his medical team. At the end of the stunt titled 'Drowned Alive,' Blaine will attempt to hold his breath under water longer than any other human has ever accomplished. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Stunt artist David Blaine, immersed in an 8-foot sphere filled with water, writes 'Hi' on a slate to visitors observing his latest stunt, in the plaza of New York's Lincoln Center, Monday May 1, 2006. The shirtless, 33-year-old magician, an oxygen tube in his mouth, will spend a week living in the sphere and as a finale will try to hold his breath underwater to surpass a record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds. In an added display of extreme multitasking, Blaine will try to escape from 150 pounds of chains and handcuffs during the breath-holding finale on live television. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

International performance artist and magician David Blaine floats inside a glass sphere filled with water at Lincoln Center in New York where he will spend seven days and nights underwater, 01-08 May 2006, living in an eight-foot acrylic sphere with life support system in full public view.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Magician David Blaine looks out from an eight foot sphere of water, after submerging himself into it, at Lincoln Center in New York, May 1, 2006. Blaine began a seven day endurance challenge ending with an attempt to set a world record for holding his breath. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

South Korea, Japan Island Dispute

South Korean protesters shout slogans as they burn anti-Japanese banners at a rally against Japan's plan to send survey ships near the islands called Tokto in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul April 20, 2006. South Korea called in Japan's envoy on Thursday to try to avert a high-seas showdown over a set of desolate islands claimed by both countries. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon


Former South Korean spy soldiers, who were trained to infiltrate North Korea, burn a picture symbolising the Japanese flag at a rally against Japan's plan to send survey ships near the islands called Tokto in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul April 21, 2006. Japan is sending a senior envoy to Seoul on Friday to try to find a middle ground in a standoff over a group of desolate islands claimed by both countries that has jarred an already strained relationship between the two. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon



South Korean protesters burn a Japanese military flag at a rally against Japan's plan to send survey ships near disputed islands, called Tokto in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, in front of the head office of the foreign ministry in Seoul, April 21, 2006. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

An anti-Japan rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. South Korea has established a presidential taskforce to tackle a territorial row with Japan over islets in the sea between the two countries(AFP/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)

South Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-kyu, swarmed with bees, jumps into Japanese flag and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's picture in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 2, 2006. Ahn, a local bee farmer, released over 200,000 bees and attracted them to his body to highlight his protest against Japan's sovereignty claims over South Korea's Dokdo islets. The words written in Japanese read ' Dokdo is South Korea's land.' (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)




South Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-kyu is swarmed with 180,000 bees, which he released, during his protest in Seoul against Japan's sovereignty claims over the desolate islands called Tokto in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan May 2, 2006. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

South Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-kyu, who is swarmed with 180,000 bees which he released, writes calligraphy during his protest in Seoul against Japan's sovereignty claims over the desolate islands called Tokto in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan May 2, 2006. The calligraphy reads, 'Tokto is South Korea's land'. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon


South Korean police patrol on a group of desolate volcanic islets Seoul and Pyongyang call Tokto and Tokyo calls Takeshima, which lie almost midway between the mainlands of Korean peninsula and Japan, May 10, 2006. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won

Belgrade Stunt Festival

Stuntman Zeljko Bozic drives his car, which is in flames, off a bridge during the International Stunt Festival in Belgrade April 27, 2006. Bozic was severely injured and brought to an emergency hospital were doctors are still struggling for his life. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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Stuntman Zeljko Bozic drives his car, which is in flames, off a bridge during the International Stunt Festival in Belgrade April 27, 2006. Bozic was severely injured and brought to an emergency hospital where doctors are still struggling for his life. REUTERS/Stringer

Medical Students Protest in India

Candle wax is seen melted on a medical students hand whilst participating in a candlelight vigil at the India Gate war memorial in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 30, 2006. The students held the vigil in protest against the federal government's move to reserve seats for lower castes in professional colleges. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

Medical students participate in a candlelight vigil at the India Gate war memorial in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 30, 2006. The students held the vigil in protest against the federal government's move to reserve seats for lower castes in professional colleges. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

Indian police use water cannons to disperse medical students during a protest in New Delhi May 12, 2006. Thousands of students protested against the federal government's proposal of increasing to nearly 50 percent the quota for members of so-called backward castes wanting to attend universities and other leading academic institutions. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Indian police use water cannon to disperse medical students during a protest in New Delhi May 12, 2006. Thousands of students protested against the federal government's proposal of increasing to nearly 50 percent the quota for members of so-called backward castes wanting to attend universities and other leading academic institutions. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Indian police use water cannon to disperse medical students during a protest in New Delhi May 12, 2006. Thousands of students protested against the federal government's proposal of increasing to nearly 50 percent the quota for members of so-called backward castes wanting to attend universities and other leading academic institutions. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Police use water canon to disperse protesting medical students in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 12, 2006. Police on Friday used water cannons and tear gas to disperse hundreds of medical students who tried to march to the prime minister's office, protesting a government proposal to reserve seats for lower castes in professional colleges. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

Armenian Jet Crash Kills 113

Carnations float in the Black Sea to commemorate the victims of an Armenian Airlines plane that crashed into the Black Sea. Anguished relatives faced the grim ordeal of identifying their loved ones as rescue workers stepped up the search for bodies, debris and the data recorders of the plane.(AFP/Danis Sinyakov)

Thursday of identifying bodies of some of the 113 passengers and crew killed when their Armenian airliner crashed into the Black Sea off Russia's coast. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

People light candles during a special ceremony to mourn victims of the Armenian airliner crash at the southern Russian resort of Sochi, Friday, May 5, 2006. The Airbus A-320, which belonged to the Armenian airline Armavia, carrying 113 people crashed in stormy weather early Wednesday off Russia's Black Sea coast as it was headed in for landing, killing everyone on board. (AP Photo/Karen Minasian)

The tail section of a crashed Tupolev sits on a street in Ueberlingen, southern Germany, in this July 2, 2002 file picture. A German court on Thursday May 11, 2006 began hearing a Russian airline's civil case against Germany over an in-flight collision in 2002 that killed 71 people, including 45 Russian children on their way to a summer vacation in Spain. The Bashkirian Airlines' suit seeks euro 3.3 million (US$4.2 million) in damages from Germany for the collision of one of its passenger jetliners with a DHL cargo aircraft in German airspace. (AP Photo/Christof Stache)

Flooded streets & debris

Cargo containers tossed by Hurricane Katrina lie in the water in New Orleans August 31, 2005. (Richard Carson/Reuters)

Houses lay wrecked by Hurricane Katrina on the eastern outskirts of New Orleans in this September 20, 2005 file photo. The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and The Sun Herald of Biloxi, Mississippi, shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for excellent coverage of Hurricane Katrina even as their staff and offices were hard-hit by the devastating storm, it was announced on Monday. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

Debris lies on Canal Street in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Two newspapers from areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina were honoured with Pulitzer Prizes for their "heroic" coverage of the storm and its grisly aftermath.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)

Residents wade through a flooded street in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina made landfall, August 2005. Two newspapers from areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina were honoured with Pulitzer Prizes for their "heroic" coverage of the storm and its grisly aftermath.(AFP/File/James Nielsen)

Tropical storm umbrella

A man tries to hold on to his umbrella while being buffeted by strong winds and rain brought on by a tropical storm in 2003. Tropical storm Chanchu roared toward the Philippines' Pacific coast, leaving thousands stranded at key ferry crossings and triggering official warnings of landslides and flash floods.(AFP/File/Joel Nito)

Marbles 'cheecoting' competition

A competitor takes part in the annual 'cheecoting' championships, where marbles are rolled around a sand course, on the beach in the Italian seaside city of Rimini April 23, 2006. REUTERS/Francesco Campani

Baloon vendor

A Chinese vendor sells balloons in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu province, May 1, 2006. China is celebrating a week-long Labor Day holiday, which starts Monday, a time when millions of Chinese travel to major cities to enjoy cultural attractions or return home to visit relatives and friends. REUTERS/Sean Yong

A bird drinks from a tap

A bird drinks from a tap in the north Indian city of Chandigarh May 5, 2006. REUTERS/Ajay Verma

Fire ritual - Bun Festival

A Taoist priest performs with fire during a ritual for the Bun Festival at the tiny island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong May 4, 2006. As one of East Asia's religious spectaculars, the traditional event celebrates the islanders' deliverance from famine centuries ago and is meant to placate ghosts and restless spirits. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Bowling Tie-dye

A young bowler in tie-dye shirt with a phosphorescent glow demonstrates a new look for bowling created by the Hinsdale (Ill.)-based Brunswick Corp. It's called cosmic bowling - also known as glow bowl. (AP Photo/Brunswick Corp., HO)