Mayor of the northern French city of Lille, former number two of Lionel Jospin's government and potential runner for the leadership of French Socialist Party Martine Aubry (3rdR) speaks during a workshop, on August 30, 2008, focused on "Culture, poor relation with Right Party" on the second day of France's opposition Socialist Party's summer conference held in the Atlantic coastal city of La Rochelle, western France.
Mayor of the northern French city of Lille, former number two of Lionel Jospin's government and potential runner for the leadership of French Socialist Party Martine Aubry is given a microphone during a workshop, on August 30, 2008, focused on "Culture, poor relation with Right Party" on the second day of France's opposition Socialist Party's summer conference held in the Atlantic coastal city of La Rochelle, western France.
France's Socialist leader Francois Hollande answers a journalist's question upon his arrival to attend the Assembly of the First Federal Secretaries, on August 30, 2008, on the second day of France's opposition Socialist Party's summer conference held in the Atlantic coastal city of La Rochelle, western France.
France's Socialist leader Francois Hollande answers a journalist's question upon his arrival to attend the Assembly of the First Federal Secretaries, on August 30, 2008, on the second day of France's opposition Socialist Party's summer conference held in the Atlantic coastal city of La Rochelle, western France.
An Afghan man walks past Italian soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) near the site of a suicide attack outskirt of Kabul on August 30, 2008. A suicide car bomb exploded near international troops in the Afghan capital Saturday, but caused no casualties, while soldiers killed more than a dozen militants in clashes elsewhere, authorities said. The latest violence is part of a surge in unrest linked to an insurgency led by the extremist Taliban militia that was in government between 1996 and 2001.
French Socialist Paris mayor and Socialist Party leadership runner Bertrand Delanoe speaks during a workshop, on August 30, 2008, focused on "The Grenelle of Environment and on France's Presidency", on the second day of France's opposition Socialist Party's summer conference held in the Atlantic coastal city of La Rochelle, western France.