World in Photos
A Palestinian braces against the rain as he walks along a deserted road during a rainy day in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Events were held throughout the territories this week to mark Jerusalem’s designation as the 2009 “capital of Arab culture” though Israel banned any functions in the city itself. (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)
A U.S. Marine watches as an airdrop of supplies blows off course toward an opium poppy field near a Marine base in remote Qalanderabad, in southwest Afghanistan. The field was slightly damaged by the packages and the Marines assured the irate Afghan farmer that he would be paid compensation for the accident. The U.S. Marines have no mandate to destroy poppy crops and rely on local farmers for information on the Taliban, who extort the farmers. (John Moore / Getty Images)
A body is removed from the site of a roadside blast near the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, in Lebanon. Kamal Medhat, a top member of Fatah, and three associates were killed in the explosion. Officials feared the attack could lead tensions to boil over in the volatile Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and also undermine Fatah’s reconciliation talks with Hamas. (Mohammed Zaatar / Associated Press)
A model shows a creation from Kazuaki Takashima of Tokyo’s fashion house Ne-net at a boxing stadium during the 20009-2010 autumn/winter collection on the opening day of Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo. (Katsumi Kasahara / Associated Press)
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The Coast Guard cutter Morro Bay breaks ice on the Kennebec River in a passage known as the Chops in Woolwich,
A Kashmiri woman, with henna on her hands, grieves during the funeral procession of Indian Army soldier Shabir Ahmed Malik in Dab, 22 miles northeast of Srinagar. At least 25 people have been killed in recent days in fighting in the predominantly Muslim area between the Indian military and the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. (Dar Yasin / Associated Press)
Mourners hold back a man at the Islamic funeral of Indian Army soldier Shabir Ahmed Malik in Dab, northeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. The Indian army said it had killed 17 militants linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was formed in the 1990s to fight Indian control over a portion of Kashmir. (Farooq Khan / EPA)
