Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Stories of Today

Mideast Egypt New Pyramid

Archaeology workers dig at the site of a newly-discovered pyramid, the base of which is seen center-left, at Saqqara near Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass announced the discovery of the new pyramid, dated about 4,300 years old and said to belong to Queen Sesheshet, the mother of King Teti, founder of the 6th Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom.


Belgium Armistice Day

World War II veterans look as a piper performs during a ceremony for Armistice day at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium, where the names of about 56,000 fallen soldiers of Britain and its Empire who died during the Great War of 1914-1918 are engraved and who have no individual grave, Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008.


Switzerland Carnival

A reveler celebrates the traditional opening of the carnival season in downtown Zurich, Switzerland, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008.


Passing through

Pedestrians try to cross a zone heavily guarded by police near the Special Investigation Division as former President Chen Shui-bian was being questioned by prosecutors yesterday morning.

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