Russian soldiers sit atop an armoured personnel carrier as they return from Chechnya to Sleptsovskaya, southern Russia. Ferocious resistance from Chechen rebels in downtown Grozny prevented Russian troops from advancing in several parts of the ruined capital. Musa Sadulayev, AP And now the weather. A Lebanese man uses his surfboard to cross a street in Beirut, after a rainstorm that flooded streets, businesses, and homes and brought the normally bustling capital to a standstill. A lone park employee cleans the snow from the pavement at the Roosevelt memorial in Washington.
Statues depicting a soup line are in the background.