Worldwide day of anti-war protests
Anti-war demonstrators have turned out in the tens of thousands from South Korea to Chile, spattering streets with paint, jeering outside US embassies and, in one case, forming a 31-mile human chain.
More than 100,000 people have protested in Germany, half of them at a rally in Berlin, where banners read "Stop America's Terror."
About 30,000 people held hands between Muenster and Osnabrueck - a route used by negotiators who brought the Thirty Years War to an end in 1648.
Hundreds of women, some carrying placards declaring "the United States and Britain are the axis of evil," protested in San'a, Yemen. Elsewhere in the Arab world, 10,000 turned out at a rally organized by Egypt's ruling party in Port Said. In Amman, Jordan, more than 3,000 people demanded that the kingdom expel US troops.
Protesters in Rome hung black mourning banners from the city's bridges. At Vicenza, in northeastern Italy, demonstrators threw red paint and flares at the walls of a US military base where hundreds of paratroopers now in northern Iraq had been based.
In Athens, Greece, 15,000 people chanting "We'll stop the war" marched to the US Embassy. Protesters splashed red paint on the road outside the building and on the windows of a McDonald's restaurant.
Thousands in Canada and the United States rallied both for and against the war. About 4,000 Canadians angered by Prime Minister Jean Chretien's decision not to support a war without United Nations approval marched in front of the Parliament building in Ottawa, waving flags of the United States and allies Britain and Australia.
In the United States, a police-estimated crowd of 25,000 protested about the war at Boston Common, Massachusetts.
Barbed-wire roadblocks and riot police kept thousands of Bangladeshi protesters away from the US Embassy in Dhaka. Police in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, used tear gas to break up a protest outside the Australian Embassy. Australia has about 2,000 soldiers in the coalition.
Students in South Korea's capital, Seoul, scuffled with riot police as thousands marched down half of an eight-lane boulevard chanting "Stop the bombing! Stop the killing!" In Santiago, Chile, more than 3,000 people staged a peaceful march, and in Caracas, Venezuela, about 100 people called for an end to the war.