Category: Face Of The Day

Kurdish villagers watch the Turkish army commandos in the village of Senoba near the southeastern Turkish city of Sirnak, October 19, 2007. Perched on a hillside overlooking the mountainous northern Iraqi border, Kurds in the southeastern Turkish city of Sirnak are nervously monitoring preparations for a possible cross-border military operation. Iraq anticipates only limited Turkish air strikes on Kurdish separatists in the north of the country and wants the guerrillas to leave as soon as possible, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Thursday. By Burak Kara/Getty Images.

Five-year-old Alex Wall, of Norfolk, proudly wears his fathers medals as he searches for his father’s name on the wall of the Armed Forces Memorial on October 12, 2007, Lichfield, England. Warrant Officer Colin Wall of the Royal Military Police was killed in Iraq in 2003. The six million GBP memorial, built in the grounds of The National Memorial Arboretum, is due to be opened by HM The Queen today, seven years after the initial idea by the ministry of defence. The memorial honours people killed on duty or as a result of terrorist action since the end of World War II. So far over 15,000 names have been carved in the Portland stone with room for more. By Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.

Republican presidential hopeful and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani pauses while speaking during a summit October 5, 2007 in Washington, DC. Members of the Americans for Prosperity foundation, a group dedicated to reducing government spending, hosted a summit where presidential candidates spoke. By Brendan Smialowski/Getty.

Tory leader David Cameron, at his conference speech today, daring Gordon Brown to call an early election. Here’s the transcript. Money quote:

What do I believe? I am by nature an optimist. I think if we give people more power and control over their lives, I think they’ll take the right decisions, they will grow stronger and society will grow stronger too. I don’t believe in an ever larger state doing more and more, I believe in trying to make people do more themselves for their families and with society as well.

People want to know are you really up for it? Do you have what it takes? Are you tough enough and strong enough to make those decisions? And I answer unreservedly: yes.

One of the brightest young Tory scribes, James Forsyth, comments here.

Corporal Tara Edwards of the Australian Military Police greets her Mother Julie Shileds after she returned home from Iraq at Townsville’s airport, September 23, 2007. Seventy Townsville based returned home today from service in Iraq with the Security Detachment (SECDET XI) in Baghad. By Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images.

Former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi, who is wanted in Britain for the murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, attends a congress of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) in Moscow, 17 September 2007. Lugovoi confirmed 16 September 2007 that he intended to run for parliament on the LDPR’s ticket. By Alexey Sazonov/AFP/Getty.

Yu Lina, a third-grade student at the Center Primary School of Maji Township, crosses the Nujiang River using a zip-line on her home from school September 15, 2007 in Fugong County of Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. About half of the school’s students, estimated at 150, have to use zip-lines to get to school, since the only three hanging bridges are far away. By China Photos/Getty Images.

An Afghan Muslim yawns as he prays during the first Friday prayer of the holy month of Ramadan at the Pul-e Kheshti mosque in the center of Kabul, 14 September 2007. Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, which is calculated on the sighting of the new moon, began 13 September in Afghanistan. Practicing Muslims desist from eating, drinking, smoking and any sexual activities from dawn to dusk during Ramadan. By Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty.

A mother watches U.S. soldiers search her home as her sons are told to stand with their faces to the wall during an early morning raid September 13, 2007 in the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Soldiers rousted a family from bed and interrogated the male members after receiving information that armed insurgents were staying in the residence. The soldiers found no illegal weapons or incriminating evidence. By John Moore/Getty Images.

Terracotta army figures are displayed at an exhibition entitled ‘The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army’ at the British Museum, in central London, 12 September 2007. China’s terracotta army is set to invade Britain on Thursday as some of the famous warriors go on show in London in a highly-anticipated exhibition. The British Museum is hosting ‘The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army’ until April 6 and advance ticket sales are already breaking box office records, according to The Times newspaper. About a dozen warriors are set to go on show. Around 100,000 tickets have already been sold and the exhibition could outstrip the Treasures of Tutenkhamun display in 1972, seen by 1.7 million people. By Leon Neal/AFP/Getty.