Robots for Japan's largest industrial robot maker Yasukawa Electric, beat a drum for the demonstration at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo on Thursday, November 29. Some 200 companies and more than 50 organisations from Japan and abroad are taking part in the 2007 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, one of the world's largest robot shows.
Combination of images taken from a video footage shows Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in the arrivals area of the Vancouver airport on October 14, 2007. A video recorded and released to media by Victoria resident Paul Pritchard shows that Dziekanski did not resist or confront police before officers tasered him. Poland criticized Canadian police on Thursday, November 15, for using stun guns to shoot an unarmed Dziekanski who then collapsed and died.
An Iraqi professional female photographer (L) takes a picture of a couple at her studio in the southern city of Basra, November 16, 2007. The photographer, who did not wish to publish her name, says that business is good as women in Basra prefer to be photographed by a woman in order to have the freedom to remove their Islamic headress for pictures with their family.
Members of the police Special Action Force stop a man on a motorcycle entering the compound as they implement a tighter security on Wednesday, Nov. 14 in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, a day after a powerful explosion at the House of the Representatives. A congressman who was killed in a bomb blast outside the Philippine legislature was a member of an Al Qaeda -linked militant group but later switched sides to support a US-backed offensive against them, police said on Wednesday.
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong , left, shakes hands with Deputy Defense Minister of Myanmar, Major-General Aye Myint, second right, while Philippines Secretary of National Defence Gilberto Teodoro Jr., right, and Malaysia’s Defense Minister Najib Tun Razak, center, looks on during the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting in Singapore on Wednesday November 14.
In this image released by the San Diego Zoo, a zoo worker cares for two of the worlds most critically endangered great apes, called bonobos on Friday, November 9, at the San Diego Zoos Children Zoo nursery in San Diego. With wild populations being decimated at alarming rates in Democratic Republic of Congo, the recent birth of a male infant named Tutapenda (L), on Oct. 29 is a significant milestone for conservation efforts. He joins his two-month-old half-sister Mali who is also being hand-raised due to medical complications at birth.
Japan's Otemae Confectionery College professor Hiroshi Matsui (R) and college students display a 3-meter diameter chocolate made globe, weighing 800kg, at the college's festival in Osaka, western Japan, November 10, 2007. Matsui and students dot some 35,000 colored chocolate truffles, in 3-cm diameter, on a 3-meter diameter core chocolate ball to shape a globe, which warns the global warming to be melting down over the temperature of 40-degree Celsius.
Gilt and lacquered heavy doors guard the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China, November 09, 2007. The Temple of Heaven is one of the symbols of China's capital and dates back to the early 15th century to the days when the emperors would hold elaborate rituals to ensure good harvests around the current in the complex. The temple was registered as a World Heritage Monument by UNESCO in 1998 is now one of the largest parks in Beijing and is undergoing a wide-ranging program of renovation which is due to be completed in the next few months, along with many other monuments being prepared for the 2008 Olympic Games.
A German man Jopen Reimund Hubert, left, covers his face as police officers escort him into the Phnom Penh Municipal court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007. A Cambodian prosecutor said Monday he has formally charged the German national with debauchery after the man was caught sleeping in a bed a 14-year-old girl.
Isabel Rosado prays during a mass to celebrate her 100th birthday in Ciales, Puerto Rico on November 4, 2007. Long time Nationalist Rosado was once hit by a naval officer in 1979 for participating in an ecumenical service in the restricted Vieques Naval Territory in order to protest the naval presence there.
Nina Reiser is seen in this 1999 California DMV photo.On a late summer day last year, Nina Reiser dropped her two kids off at her estranged husband's house in the Oakland hills and vanished into thin air. Prosecutors say that's because Hans Reiser killed her. His defense attorney says with no body ever recovered there's no case and suggests she may yet be alive in her native Russia. The unusual case begins, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, when opening statements are scheduled.
Pakistani policemen check identity cards of people before allowing them to enter a road leading to Parliament buildings and the Supreme Court in Islamabad, November 05, 2007. Opponents of embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf planned nationwide protests November 05 against emergency rule as the military leader faced growing pressure not to delay January elections. Security forces staffed barricades of barbed wire and sandbags outside key state installations and manned check points Monday amid fears of retaliatory action by Islamic extremists.
The Leshan Giant Buddha statue, which was carved out of a hillside in the eighth century, stands at 71 meters (233 ft) and is the tallest Buddha statue in the world, in Leshan, southwest China's Sichuan province on November 8, 2007. Chinese authorities will give a "facelift" to the world's tallest stone-carved Buddha just six years after the last repair effort as they struggle to fend off the effects of pollution and crowds, state media reported. Picture taken on November 8, 2007.
