Bardon Mill, UK: A lone tourist visits Housesteads Roman Fort along Hadrian's Wall, surrounded by the year's first downfall of snowPhotograph: Scott Heppell/APGarhi Khuda Bukash, Pakistan: Supporters of the late Benazir Bhutto mourn at the Bhutto family mausoleum after they offered prayers at Bhutto's gravePhotograph: Asif Hassan/AFPKisumu, Kenya: Kenyans drive a vehicle with a branch attached to its hood as a symbol for peacePhotograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
Amritsar, India: Farmer Subegh Singh inspects his frosted cauliflower crop in a vegetable fieldPhotograph: Narinder Nanu/AFPLyon, France: A customer smokes a cigarette at the 'Café 203', where the owner has refused to apply the new smoking banPhotograph: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFPBangkok, Thailand : Lifesize bronze Buddha statues are wrapped in plastic as they await sale in shops on Bumrungmuang RoadPhotograph: Barbara Walton/EPAJerusalem, Israel: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past a house decorated for pilgrims returning from the Hajj religious pilgrimagePhotograph: Alvaro Barrientos/APCape Town, South Africa: Members of the Cape Minstrel bands perform in the annual 'Tweede Nuwe Yaar' (second new year) carnival through the streetsPhotograph: Nic Bothma/EPANew York, United States: Traders work on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, as oil prices rose today to $100 a barrel for the first time everPhotograph: Spencer Platt/GettyGaza: Palestinian pilgrims crowd with others as they return from Hajj through the Rafah crossingPhotograph: Ali Ali/EPAGresik, Indonesia: Rescuers evacuate residents from their flooded village, after landslides and floods hit Indonesia's Java islandPhotograph: HO/EPACoralville, United States: A supporter listens as Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama speaks on the last day of campaigning before the Iowa caucusPhotograph: M. Spencer Green/APLahore, Pakistan: Lawyers pray for the departed soul of Benazir Bhutto. Qazi Mohammed Farooq, head of the Pakistani election commission, announced in Islamabad, that parliamentary elections, originally scheduled for 08 January, would be postponed until 18 February 2008Photograph: Rahat Dar/EPAMexico City, Mexico: A woman outside the US embassy protesting against the elimination of taxes for corn, beans and sugar on trade between Mexico, the US and CanadaPhotograph: Alfredo Estrella/AFPBeijing, China: A man sleeps in front of a wall surrounding the Forbidden CityPhotograph: Teh Eng Koon/AFP
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