Today in photos

A Pakistani child looks on as women covered with burqas from the tribal region of Bajur and Mohmand agency wait to be registered at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan. Dancers wait to perform during the Chingay Street parade in conjunction with the Chinese lunar New Year celebrations in Singapore. And South Korean police investigators work to find one of bodies of six victims in Hwasung, south of Seoul, South Korea. View a slideshow of these images and more.

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Fri., Jan. 30, 2009

A Pakistani child looks on as women covered with burqas from the tribal region of Bajur and Mohmand agency wait to be registered at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. More than 200,000 people have fled the fighting in Bajur and Mohmand agency to camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Emilio Morenatti Ap
An Afghan protester looks on during a rally for the support of Hamas and the people of Gaza after Friday prayers in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Hundreds of people took part in the rally, shouting slogans against the U.S. and Israel. The green headband reads: "There is no God but Allah, Prophet is his messenger."

Rafiq Maqbool Ap
Palestinians pray in a tent near the rubble of a mosque, not seen, destroyed in the recent Israeli military offensive in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Israel launched its 22-day offensive to try to halt Hamas rocket fire on southern Israel. The assault killed at least 1,285 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights counted. Thirteen Israelis, including three civilians, were also killed during the fighting, Israel said.

Kevin Frayer Ap
Dancers wait to perform during the Chingay Street parade in conjunction with the Chinese lunar New Year celebrations in Singapore, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.

Wong Maye-E Ap
The Metropolitan Cathedral, one of the most important works by Brazil's architect Oscar Niemeyer, is seen in Brasilia, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.

Eraldo Peres Ap
Indian children attend the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Despite a global financial crisis that is lessening demand for lumber, invasions of Indian reserves in the Amazon continues rapidly, Indians from across the Amazon region said Friday at the forum. The World Social Forum is an annual counter cultural gathering to protest the simultaneous World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Silvia Izquierdo Ap
A man carries incense sticks as he prays to the God of Fortune, Cai Shen, at the Guiyuan Temple in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, in the early hours of Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. According to Chinese tradition the god of fortune returns to earth from the heavens on the fifth day of the lunar new year. Many Chinese pray or set off fireworks on the occasion to welcome the gods back to earth in the hope of ensuring good fortune in the coming year.
A store employee arranges a display with wedding dresses in central Athens, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Greece's National Statistics Service says more Greeks are opting for civil wedding ceremonies, apparently seeking to avoid the high cost of traditional ceremonies held at the Greek Orthodox Church.

Thanassis Stavrakis Ap
South Korean police investigators work to find one of bodies of six victims in Hwasung, south of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Kang Ho-sun, accused of killing a university student has confessed to her death, and to the deaths of six other women over the past two years, police said Friday.

Han Sang-Kyun Ap
The sun rises over ice coated power lines and and trees in Ledbetter, Ky., Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Most residents in Livingston County where Ledbetter is located are without power after the ice storm.

Stephen Dennee Ap