Azerbaijan parliamentary poll starts

Ali Kerimli, chairman of the opposition Azadliq (Freedom) bloc, casts his ballots at a polling station in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, November 6, 2005. The chairman of Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission, Mazahir Panahov, declared the parliamentary poll started in Baku on Sunday.

Bottle-opener with pattern of Peking opera facial masks

A saleswoman displays the bottle-openers with the pattern of Chinese traditional opera's facial makeups at a store in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Nov. 5, 2005. Such bottle-openers are quite popular in the market because of its unique design and bright colors.

Greater efforts on bird flu control urged

Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu(C), who heads a national working team on the prevention and control of bird flu, orders all localities and departments to work harder to resolutely prevent the spread of bird flu epidemic and any human infection of the virus at a national television and telephone conference in Beijing, Nov. 6, 2005.

China wins men's title at EAG

Chen Tao of China scores with a header during the football final with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) at the 4th East Asian Games in Macao, south China, Nov. 6, 2005. China beat DPRK 1-0 in the final and won the champion Nov. 6.

The fourth Summit of the Americas concludes without agreement

The fourth Summit of the Americas concludes without agreement on its final statement in Mar del Plata, a resort city in southern Argentina, Nov. 5, 2005. The delay of reaching an agreement at the meeting demonstrated a showdown over differing views on free trade between the United States and some major Latin American countries.