A Short Picture Tour

Some people really know how to use a camera...

Iraqi schoolchildren enter and exit their tent school in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)

A member of the Afghan National Army, with an AK-47 rifle painted pink, walks along a wall in rural housing compound in Mas'um Ghar, in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan during a joint operation with Canadian forces to search for Taliban fighters Monday Nov. 20, 2006. Their short morning patrol might not seem like dangerous work, but the area is NATO's southern front line against Taliban militants. Clashes take place in nearby fields on a daily basis. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal, foreground, gets a standing ovation as she delivers a speech during a French Socialist party investiture congress, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006 in Paris. France's Socialists formally launched Segolene Royal on Sunday into a fierce presidential race with high stakes for her and her party. Royal wants to be France's first female president and the Socialists are desperate to win back power after 12 years under Jacques Chirac. France's two-round presidential elections are next April and May. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, pool)

Strollers walk through the vineyards in Hessigheim near Heilbronn, southwestern Germany, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006. With temperatures throughout southern Germany not yet sinking to winter norms, people are enjoying the current extremely mild weather in the region. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

Iranian Nobel prize winner Shirin Ebadi, left, shouts slogans demanding the release of Indian Nobel Peace Prize 2005 nominee, Irom Chanu Sharmila, outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006. Ebadi called on Sharmila who was admitted to the AIIMS after being arrested during her hunger strike demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, in the north east Indian State of Manipur. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)