Friday Photo: Last day of Somali peace conference

Posted By Tom Stec Friday, August 31, 2007 - 6:00 PM


A Somali woman waves a Somali flag inside a local hall on the last day of a Somali peace conference in Mogadishu 30 August 2007 after six weeks of negotiations that failed to make headway on an accord to end chronic fighting. Talks to halt fighting in Somalia ended in failure, prompting foreign diplomats to press for a new and all-inclusive approach to rescue the African nation from deeper turmoil. Diplomats said a different approach was key to pacifying the country, where numerous UN-backed initiatives have unravelled under a welter of clan feuds and power struggles. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images
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Friday Photo: Ho ho whoa!

Posted By Tom Stec Friday, December 22, 2006 - 6:25 PM


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Zagreb, CROATIA: Members of rafting club "Adventure Dalmatia" raft down the river Cetina, near the southern Adriatic town of Omis, 22 December 2006. Dressed as Santa Clauses they wanted to deliver gifts to their loved ones in an unusual way.

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Friday Photo: Chinese job fair gets out of control

Posted By Tom Stec Friday, November 24, 2006 - 6:47 PM

JobFair
Photo by China Photos/Getty Images

A tide of more than 30,000 students with polished résumés and high hopes surged into a job fair here so eager to meet with employers that they shattered four glass doors and splayed the side walls of an escalator in what became a near riot.

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Friday Photo: North Korea rocks

Posted By Tom Stec Friday, October 20, 2006 - 7:07 PM

NKoreaRocks

A North Korean naval personel throws a stone at a photographer while he is being photographed on a boat along the waterfront of Yalu River in the North Korean town of Sinuiji, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, 19 October 2006. (Photo credit: LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Himalayan Wi-Fi adventure

Posted By Tom Stec Monday, August 21, 2006 - 4:56 PM

What happens when a former dot-commer, members of the Cult of the Dead Cow, and 1337 Tibeten exiles team up to provide Internet and phone service to community organizations in Dharamsala, India?

For one, the Dalai Lama takes notice. And then there are the unique technical challenges: 

Monkeys are everywhere", [says the project's founder]. "Often, you'll see a huge, gorilla-sized monkey hang on to an antenna, swing from it, eat it, try to break it. We lost a lot of cables that way, but now we use very strong equipment so that even monkeys can't break it."

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Friday Photo: 24 days and counting

Posted By Tom Stec Friday, August 4, 2006 - 6:45 PM

Israeli Troops

A group of Israeli soldiers ready themselves to cross the border into Lebanon.

GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images

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Friday Photo: No Worries!

Posted By Tom Stec Friday, July 21, 2006 - 7:30 PM

Shuttle
The space shuttle landed safely Tuesday morning, finishing what NASA is calling the most successful flight in years.

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