Girls react as U.S. President George W. Bush leaves the White House on the Marine One helicopter in Washington, April 6, 2006. Bush is travelling to Charlotte, North Carolina, to make remarks on the global war on terrorism. (MORE PHOTOS-> ।
President Bush, left, shakes hands with Lucan Leinberger, a member of the U.S. Military Academy Rifle Team as he takes part in a ceremony honoring, 2005 and 2006 NCAA Sports Champions, Thursday, April 6, 2006, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington. Left to right in background are Courtney Thompson, University of Washington Women’s Volleyball Team, Collen Salisbury, University of Portland Women’s Soccer Team, Chris Solinsky, University of Wisconsin Men’s Cross Country Team, Leinberger, Jana Rehemaa, University of Colorado Women’s Skiing Team .
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, right, hosts an honor cordon to welcome his British counterpart John Reid, second right, to the Pentagon, Thursday, April 6, 2006, in Washington.
A snake hunter uses a snake stick to grab a snake as it comes out of its den in Sweetwater, Texas March 11, 2006. Sweetwater is home to the world’s largest Rattlesnake Round-up which started as a way for ranchers to rid the abundance of snakes that were threatening their livestock.
Thirteen year old Afghan girl Elaha is attended by her mother Najeeba in a French Medical Institute for Children hospital in Kabul. Elaha had been given only a few years to live before she underwent the first open heart operation in the history of Afghanistan on Monday.
A milkman in India’s desert state of Rajasthan, November 15, 2005. A declining sex ratio in Rajasthan is prompting a girl’s parents to spurn offers of marriage from men unless the potential groom’s family also has a marriageable daughter for their son, the Sunday Express said.
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