<?xml version="1.0"?> <img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8077467.jpg"><h2>Howth</h2><strong>Sunday, 29 November</strong><br/><br/>A trawler sets out from Howth Harbour near Dublin as strong winds and heavy overnight rain caused the cancelation of sporting events across the country.<br/><br/>Credit: Niall Carson/PA Wire<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8080300.jpg"><h2>Iraq</h2><strong>Monday, 30 November</strong><br/><br/>Iraqis take advantage of the good weather as they row dinghies on a swimming pool at a park in central Baghdad during Eid al-Adha, a religious festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide.<br/><br/>Credit: AP Photo/Karim Kadim<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8087425.jpg"><h2>HMS Dauntless</h2><strong>Wednesday, 2 December<br/></strong><br/>The Royal Navy's newest warship, HMS Dauntless, enters her home port of Portsmouth for the first time. The Type 45 destroyer was launched in January 2007 in Glasgow and since then has been carrying out seatrials in Scottish waters.<br/><br/>Credit: Chris Ison/PA Wire<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8092483.jpg"><h2>Bridge bid</h2><strong>Thursday, 3 December</strong><br/><br/>An auctioneer accepts the final bid of £1.08m for the Swinford Toll Bridge at Eynsham in Oxfordshire. Its buyer is exempt from paying income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax or VAT on the bridge because of an Act passed in 1767 by George III granting private ownership of the bridge to the Earl of Abingdon. Motorists pay 5p per car, and up to 50p per lorry, to cross the bridge.<br/><br/>Credit: John Stillwell/PA Wire<br/><br/><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8092495.jpg"><h2>Killer carp</h2><strong>Thursday, 3 December</strong><br/><br/>Crews dump rotenone in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in Lockport, Illinois. The toxic chemical was dumped on a nearly 6-mile stretch of the canal as part of state and federal efforts to keep the voracious and invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. <br/><br/>Credit: AP Photo/M Spencer Green
