Images of the Day

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq Friday, after the Iraqi capital was subjected to a vehicle ban in an effort to prevent reprisal attacks from suicide car bombs after the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a U.S. airstrike Wednesday night. The vehicle ban will be in effect from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in Baghdad, and from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. for three days starting Friday in Diyala, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

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A serving of Bulgarian Leek Patties is shown with a lemon garnish in a photo made in food writer Phyllis Glazer's kitchen, in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, May 30, 2006. These patties include ground beef among their ingredients, but the patties can be also be made without meat, using exactly the same technique.

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A Japanese soccer fan looks at gifts of the World Cup 2006 in a shop in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, June 8, 2006. England will play against Paraguay, Saturday, June 10, 2006 at World Cup stadium in Frankfurt. England, Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay, and Sweden will play in group B.

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Miami pitcher Scott Maine gets the start Saturday at Mississippi in a NCAA super regional.

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Dallas' Jason Terry is hit by Miami's Udonis Haslem as he dunks the ball in the second quarter of Game 1 of the NBA Championship Finals in Dallas on Thursday.

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Although finding shoreline access to shallow flats on the Gulf Coast can be challenging, wading is a great way to sneak up on fish.

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Police man a checkpoint in Sadoun street in central Baghdad, Iraq Friday, after the Iraqi capital was subjected to a vehicle ban in an effort to prevent reprisal attacks from suicide car bombs after the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a U.S. airstrike Wednesday night. The vehicle ban will be in effect from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in Baghdad, and from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. for three days starting Friday in Diyala, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

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Lebanese citizens in an electronics shop in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, watch Thursday June 8, 2006, the latest news about the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Al-Zarqawi, whose bloody campaign of beheadings and suicide bombings made him the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq, was killed Wednesday when U.S. warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs on his isolated safe house in Iraq, officials said Thursday.

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