Week in Pictures 29/10/2010

IN THE RUNNING Zersenay Tadesse of Eritrea won the Association for International Marathons and Distance Races Citizen World’s Fastest Time Award last week in Nanning, Gaunqxi province, China. Zersenay and Meseret Defar of Ethiopia are leading contenders i

A boy tsunami survivor drinks water at an area affected by Monday's earthquake-triggered tsunami at Parorogat village, Pagai island, West Sumatra, Indonesia, on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

NOT SO MUCH TILLING Fields blooming with wheat in northern Ethiopia’s Axum area prove the success of new techniques of tilling only once a year, a practice introduced by an Ethiopian agriculture student at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Ethiopia’s far

An employee of Sotheby's auction house holding a 24.78 carat fancy intense pink diamond mounted as a ring, that was last seen on the market some 60 years ago, ahead of an upcoming auction in central London. The rare emerald-cut pink diamond is estimated

SEEDS OF DISCONENT Africa director for Human Rights Watch Leslie Lefkow said Tuesday that seeds, fertilizer and food relief is withheld from communities in Ethiopia where residents voted for opposition candidates. The practice is widespread, Lefkow told

A woman shouts slogans during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. Thursday saw more nationwide street protests and strike-caused travel woes even though parliament has already approved President Nicolas Sarkozy's unpopu

READING OLD ROCKS An Addis Ababa University geologist announced this week the discovery of fossils, fauna and flora that fill a crucial data gap in 30 million years of climate change in Africa. Mulugeta Fesseha said these specimens identify change that t

A villager watches Mount Merapi in Kaliadem, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Indonesia's most volatile volcano started erupting Tuesday, after scientists warned that pressure building beneath its dome could trigger the most powerful eruptio

IN SEARCH OF A VENUE When the International Criminal Court asked Kenya to arrest Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir as he arrived for a summit meeting of the seven East African nations of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in Nairobi, summit or

Romanian union members shout anti-government slogans in front of the Romanian Parliament in Bucharest. About 80,000 union members were expected to take part in the demonstration against austerity measures taken by the Romanian government.

WHO GETS NILE WATERS? Sharing the waters of the 6,000-kilometer Nile River is getting harder every year as the majority of interested nations decide they need more to feed their people. The lion’s share has always gone to Egypt and Sudan, arid countries

President Barack Obama is pictured during a commercial break as he talks with host Jon Stewart as he takes part in a taping of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

A man holds up a sign that reads in Spanish: "Nestor, you will never die", referring to late Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner, outside the government palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Kirchner served as president from 2003

An Indonesian man carries his son through a flooded neighborhood in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

An actor dressed as a zombie walks on a street in downtown Belgrade, Serbia, as part of a promotional campaign for the upcoming TV series "The Walking Dead." The event is taking place over 24 hours in 26 cities around the world ahead of the show's U.S. pr

A villager walks past a buffalo killed in the Mount Merapi eruption in Kinahrejo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people across Indonesia. (AP Photo/Gembong Nusantara)

A southern Sudanese man carries his suitcase as he makes his way to a bus headed to southern Sudan, at a staging area 20 miles south of Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. Hundreds of southern Sudanese began heading south from the capital Khartoum T

US soldier PFC Mecale Bryant, from Houston, Texas demonstrates firing positions to Afghan policemen on the outskirts of Kandahar City, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

People watch a US missionary doctor confirm the man lying in the bed died of cholera outside a hospital in the town of Droin, Haiti, Friday Oct. 22, 2010. An outbreak of cholera in rural central Haiti has killed at least 142 people and sickened hundreds

Jack Hambrick sits inside his destroyed home in Vale, N.C., U.S., Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 after powerful thunderstorms and tornadoes moved through the area. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Fall leaves lay among the gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)