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A worker sweeps snow off the top of the steel beam at a construction site in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010.
Greg Derr / The Patriot Ledger via AP
Scituate Firefighters John Reidy, front and Joe West lay a hose down a street filled with coastal floodwaters to fight a house fire during a snowstorm in Scituate, Mass., on Dec. 27.
Firefighters in Mass. battle a house fire, in a flood, during a snowstorm.
This takes battling the elements to a whole new level.
David Denoma / Reuters
Workers prepare the ice at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Penn., Dec. 27, 2010. The Pittsburgh Penguins will host the Washington Capitals in the 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on Saturday.
NOAA / NASA GOES Project
On Monday, December 27 at 1731 UTC (12:31 p.m. EST) the GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the powerful low pressure system that brought snows from Georgia to Maine along the U.S. east coast. Some of the snowfall can be seen over South and North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and southeastern New York. The clouds of the low obscure New England in the image.
Satellite view of the storm that brought snow to the U.S. east coast
Here's the source page for the image with more information.
Matt Bush / Hattiesburg American via AP
Jerry McGill jumps over Zac Casper at the Petal Skate Park on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 in Petal, Miss. Temperatures in the some parts of South Mississippi were expected to peak in the mid 40's with a low in the 20's on Monday.
New Yorkers enjoy the snow in Brooklyn's Prospect Park
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
Kathy Willens / AP
Brendan Dowd sleds with his daughters Jasmine and Mairin, 9 and 7, down a sledding hill in Brooklyn's Prospect Park after the season's first blizzard blanketed New York on Dec. 27. A powerful East Coast blizzard marooned thousands of would-be air, rail and road travelers Monday, shutting down major airports and rail lines for a second day, stranding buses on buried highways, and forcing New York City subway riders to spend a cold night in unheated trains.
Kathy Willens / AP
Maia Kovaleski, 5, grimaces as she gets snow in her face while sledding with her sister Kika, 7, in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. A blizzard dumped 20-inches of snow in the area on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010.
Kathy Willens / AP
Snow swirls around people enjoying a sledding hill in Prospect Park.
Click here to see more pictures of the storm.
And click here to see a time lapse video of snow accumulation.
Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters
A child carries a balloon while walking in the shopping district of Valletta, Malta on Dec. 27, 2010.
Little boy joins the post-Christmas shoppers in Malta
This picture is all about the light. I like how the little boy's balloon is echoed in the man's red shopping bag.
Thomas Peter / Reuters
People work at computers in the lounge area of the 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) in Berlin on Dec. 27. The annual four-day conference, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), offers lectures and workshops and attracts an international audience of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians. The 25C3s slogan is "Nothing to hide", the organiser's website said.
25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin invites attendees to lounge around
I'm sure this "edgy" computer convention thinks that the ball-pits in their lounge are a very cool idea, but the OCD in me thinks this is kind of a gross way to interact with your colleagues - so many germs in those pits!
Winter storm delays transform airports into strangely intimate settings
I'm sure these travelers would rather be elsewhere, but it's interesting how snuggly they're able to settle in and ride out the flight delays when faced with little other option.
Seth Wenig / AP
Tom Rosato, left, passes the time playing mandolin while waiting to see if he and his family can get on another flight to Oakland, Calif., at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Dec. 27. Their original flight was scheduled to depart yesterday afternoon but was cancelled due to weather.
Seth Wenig / AP
Stranded air travelers sleep on the floor at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Dec. 27.
Evaristo SA / AFP - Getty Images
A security officer tries to stop a student who is protesting in front of the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil on Dec. 27, 2010. The student was protesting a wage increase for the president, vice-president, ministers and congressmen that was approved by the Congress on Dec.15.
Reuters
People look down at a crypt museum, set to open for the public on Jan. 3, 2011, at Saint George Orthodox Cathedral in Beirut, Dec. 27, 2010. Eight layers of occupation from the Hellenistic period to the present, including the remains of five, possibly six successive churches were found during the excavation process, conducted by the Archaelogical Museum of the American University of Beirut, and the ruins are being preserved in the crypt museum.
Beirut crypt museum set to open in January
The low camera angle really makes this shot work.
Jumbos romp the runway in Nepal
I wonder if they have a Miss Congeniality. Full story.
Narendra Shrestha / EPA
A Nepalese woman stands between elephants who participate in the first elephant beauty pageant in Chitwant district south of the capital of Kathmandu, Nepal, Dec. 27 2010. The event is organized by regional hotel association of Sauraha to promote tourism in Nepal. The winning elephant of the elephant beauty pageant, the highlight of the second day of the Elephant Festival in Chitwant, will receive a sugar cane, a cash prize and a certificate.
Narendra Shrestha / EPA
A Nepalese Mahout prepares an elephant before the first elephant beauty pageant in Chitwant district.
Narendra Shrestha / EPA
A Nepalese judge checks an elephant during the first elephant beauty pageant in Chitwant district.
Sergey Ponomarev / AP
Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. A Russian judge delivered the verdict in the second trial of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man who is serving an eight-year sentence in a case widely seen as punishment for challenging the Kremlin and is now facing several more years in prison if convicted.
Russian tycoon Khodorkovsky again found guilty
The subtle reflections of the courtroom make a fascinating portrait of one of Russia's most famous oligarchs. The Khodorkovsky case offers a rare glimpse into the Russian justice system, as AP reports today:
Khodorkovsky's arrest in October 2003 and the subsequent state takeover of his Yukos oil company allowed the government to reassert control over the energy sector and tamed other wealthy businessmen, who have obediently followed Kremlin orders ever since. The Kremlin also consolidated its hold over political life. Soon after Khodorkovsky's arrest, parties that he had funded were shut out of parliament or sidelined.
Farooq Khan / EPA
A Kashmiri man steps from his vessel to test frozen water on the Dal Lake during a cold morning in Srinagar,the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, Dec. 27 , 2010. It was biting cold across Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region Monday with sub-zero temperatures freezing most water bodies, including Srinagar's Dal Lake.
Dal Lake freezes after sub-zero temperatures
I can't believe he is testing the ice this way. Here is some really good advice from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department.
Mario Tama / Getty Images
A woman walks through the snow in the early morning hours in Manhattan's East Village, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 in New York City. A winter storm is pounding the East Coast of the United States and is expected to deliver a foot of snow for New York City and New England while snarling post-Christmas travel.
East Coast storm snarls post-Christmas travel
I don't think the weatherman exaggerated the impact the storm is going to have. Latest photos.
Carlo Borlenghi / AFP - Getty Images
A competitor (lower right) heads towards a storm front near the Bass Strait during the 66th Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Thunderstorms and hail hit the Sydney to Hobart fleet overnight, with two men thrown into the swell at one point.
Child arrested for throwing stones in East Jerusalem
While the third picture below shows the young man who was arrested in the background, it's difficult to tell if he was engaged in throwing stones from the instant that was captured. The young child on the scooter to his right does not make the read any easier. Guilty or not, it would be terribly hard to see a child in one's family be taken away by authorities.
Ammar Awad / Reuters
Palestinian Ahmad Daana, 12, looks out from a police vehicle, as his mother and brothers (reflected in the window) watch, after Israeli police detained him on suspicion of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Dec. 26.
Ammar Awad / Reuters
The uncle of 12-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Daana pulls his hand as Israeli police detain him on suspicion of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, Dec. 26.
Kobi Gideon / EPA
Palestinian youths hurl stones towards Israeli police in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, on Dec. 26, as Israel deploys more police and riot police near the Jewish settlement building of Beit Yonathan, in advance of the settlers being evicted.
Ammar Awad / Reuters
Israeli police detain 12-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Daana on suspicion of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Dec. 26.
Rafiq Maqbool / AP
Pfc. Nikolai Starr from San Antonio, Texas, of 2nd Platoon Bravo Company 2-327 patrols as Afghan women pass by in the Chowkay district of Kunar province in easteran Afghanistan near the Pakistan border on Sunday, Dec 26.
Eranga Jayawardena / AP
A Sri Lankan tsunami survivor peeps out of the window of a train compartment as she waits to commemorate 2004 tsunami disaster victims in Peraliya, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. The Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami killed an estimated 230,000 people in 12 Indian Ocean nations, from Thailand to Sri Lanka. Hardest hit by far was Indonesia's Aceh province, where 164,000 died.
Parivartan Sharma / Reuters
A man pulls his trishaw loaded with used polystyrene during a foggy day on a busy street in New Delhi, India, Dec. 26, 2010.
Gary Hershorn / Reuters
People walk across a snow covered street in Hoboken, N.J., on Sunday, Dec. 26. Up to a foot of snow is expected to fall in the New York area on Sunday and Monday as a storm moves up the East Coast.
Christophe Archambault / AFP - Getty Images
Indonesian miners carry baskets of sulphur from the bottom of the crater of Indonesia's active Kajah Iwen volcano, in the extreme east of Java island. Some 350 sulphur miners eke out a dangerous and exhausting living on the active volcano, carrying hauls of up to 80 kilos of "yellow gold," which will be bought by local factories and used to refine sugar or make matches and medicines. The miners extract the liquid sulphur as it flows out of hot iron pipes. Once in the open air, it cools, crystallises and turns bright yellow. The sulphur is then loaded into wicker baskets at either end of bamboo yokes and carried back over the lip of the crater and down the side of the volcano, a treacherous journey of 2.5 miles.
Miners carry baskets of sulphur from Kajah Iwen volcano
Going to work every day in an active volcano seems like a very bad idea.
Sheng Li / Reuters
A boy runs past an ice sculpture of a castle during a light testing prior to the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Heilongjiang province Dec. 25, 2010. The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival will kick off on January 5, 2011, according to local media.
Lights on for Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival
These ice sculptures are gorgeous, but the little boy in the lower right gives this picture something special
Paul Miller / EPA
A crewman on the bow of Wild Thing gestures to the media boat A-Team to move as they collide after the start of the 66th Sydney to Hobart yacht race in Sydney, Australia on December 26, 2010.
Sydney to Hobart yacht race starts with a bang
This is going to smart. The expression on the crewman's face is priceless. One would think a motorized media boat could stay out of the way of the yachts. More on the history of the race.
Obamas greet the troops at Marine Corps Base Hawaii
President Barack Obama and the first lady, Michelle, continued their holiday tradition of visiting about 200 Marines and their families during Christmas dinner Saturday at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe. The first couple made their way around the mess hall and joined in group and individual photos with the diners. “Merry Christmas, Mr. President,” said one toddler. The president was also seen holding a 6-month-old baby and joking with a man clad in a Cowboys T-shirt about his mouth, injured during a Thanksgiving basketball game. The Marines’ dinner menu included prime rib, turkey, ham, stuffing, potatoes, vegetables, a salad bar, pie and pastries.
Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images
U.S. President Barack Obama greets members of the U.S. military and their families as they eat Christmas Day meals at the Anderson Hall mess hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Dec. 25, 2010.
Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama (R) greet members of the U.S. military and their families as they eat Christmas Day meals at the Anderson Hall mess hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Dec. 25, 2010.