Today in photos

A nutria shares the links with golfers at the Stewart Park Golf Course in Roseburg, Oregon. People walk their bicycles on a bridge on the annual "Day Without Cars" in Bogota. A Bangladeshi tomato vendor takes a nap at a whole sale market in Dhaka, Bangladesh. View a slideshow of these images and more.

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Thu., Feb. 5, 2009

A nutria shares the links with golfers at the Stewart Park Golf Course in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.

Robin Loznak Ap
Budapest Zoo's 19 year-old polar bear (Ursus maritimus) Lady catches fish in her pool in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.

Bela Szandelszky Ap
Budapest Zoo's 18 year-old polar bear (Ursus maritimus) Vitush plays with a floating ball in his pool in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.

Bela Szandelszky Ap
A Bangladeshi tomato vendor takes a nap at a whole sale market in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.

Pavel Rahman Ap
A child holds a pair of national flags as she walks with her grandmother through the Zheng Yang Men gate, a popular tourism sites in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.

Andy Wong Ap
People walk their bicycles on a bridge on the annual "Day Without Cars" in Bogota, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Residents of Colombia's capital walk, bike, or use buses and taxis to promote alternative transportation as a way to reduce smog.

Fernando Vergara Ap
A Lebanese ship, top right, is seen docked next to an Israeli naval ship in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. The Israeli navy on Thursday intercepted a ship delivering 60 tons of supplies from Lebanon to the Gaza Strip and said it was towing the vessel into an Israeli port. The ship set sail from the Lebanese port of Tripoli Tuesday in a bid to defy Israel's blockade of Gaza.

Sebastian Scheiner Ap
A Palestinian boy is silhouetted behind a Palestinian flag in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Israel says it has given permission for the Palestinian Authority to transfer money from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip to pay government officials there. It's the first such transfer since the end of the three-week Israeli offensive in Gaza last month.

Bernat Armangue Ap
A woman checks rapeseed plants withered due to lack of water at Xijie village in Guanzhen town at Ruyang county in Luoyang , in China's Henan province Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. China declared an emergency Thursday in eight provinces suffering a serious drought that has left nearly 4 million people without proper drinking water and is threatening millions of acres of crops.
ORG XMIT: JRL154 Palestinian boys play in the rubble of a destroyed house, devastated in Israel's latest incursion into Gaza, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Israel says it has given permission for the Palestinian Authority to transfer money from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip to pay government officials there. It's the first such transfer since the end of the three-week Israeli offensive in Gaza last month.

Bernat Armangue Ap