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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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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.

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)

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."

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

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