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00045404 : EGYPT Red Sea - A Coptic novice monk prays alongside an image of the crucifixion of Jesus at the Coptic Orthodox desert monastery of Saint Anthony.
00045403 : EGYPT Wadi El Natroun (Wadi Natrun) - Archways leading to an open chapel constructed from adobe at the Coptic Orthodox monastery of Saint Bishoi (Bishoy).
00045402 : EGYPT nr Luxor (Thebes) - Two girls walk past a stall selling various religious artifacts and busts of Jesus during a Coptic Moulid of Mari Girgis, a religious festival which celebrates the life of Saint George.
00045401 : EGYPT nr Luxor (Thebes) - A crowd of Coptic women leaving a church service during a Coptic Moulid of Mari Girgis, a religious festival celebrating the life of Saint George.
00045400 : EGYPT Cairo - A Coptic jeweller stirs a glass of tea in his workshop in the Coptic jewellery quarter of the city.
00045399 : EGYPT Cairo - Two girls sit among the congregation during a service at the Coptic church of Saint Mark's.
00045398 : EGYPT Cairo - An egg seller uses the telephone beneath a poster of Jesus on his stall in the Coptic quarter of the city.
00045397 : EGYPT nr Luxor (Thebes) - Two boys smoking hookah pipes in a tent cafe during a Coptic Moulid of Mari Girgis, a religious festival celebrating the life of Saint George. One boy displays the Coptic cross which all Copts have tattooed on the underside of their wrist.
00045396 : EGYPT nr Luxor (Thebes) - A group of women pay devotional homage to a painting of Saint George during a Coptic Moulid of Mari Girgis, a religious festival which celebrates the life of Saint George.
00045395 : EGYPT Red Sea - Crosses on the domed roof of the Coptic Orthodox desert monastery of Saint Anthony.
00045394 : EGYPT Cairo - Elderly women carring shopping pass under a cross suspended over the street in the traditionally Coptic quarter of the city.
00045393 : EGYPT nr Luxor (Thebes) - A group pf women pay devotional homage to a painting of Saint George during a Coptic Moulid of Mari Girgis, a religious festival which celebrates the life of Saint George.
00045392 : EGYPT Red Sea - A cross stands overlooking the desert from a pilgrimage site which is believed to have been the cave where Saint Anthony lived, at the Coptic Orthodox desert monastery of Saint Anthony.
00045391 : EGYPT Wadi El Natroun (Wadi Natrun) - A congregation of Coptic pilgrims pray in front of a panel of religious icons during a church service at the Coptic Orthodox monastery of Saint Bishoi (Bishoy).
00045390 : EGYPT Cairo - A Coptic jeweller, flanked by religious images of Mary and Jesus, takes his spectacles off to check their clarity while working in his workshop in the Coptic jewellery quarter of the city.
00045389 : EGYPT Red Sea - Four Coptic monks in traditional habits talk to each other in the Coptic Orthodox desert monastery of Saint Anthony.
00045388 : EGYPT Cairo - A Coptic jeweller and his son work in front of the TV surrounded by religious pictures in their workshop in the Coptic jewellery quarter of the city.
00045387 : EGYPT Middle Egypt - Two Coptic peasant women laugh as they sit talking in their house in a Coptic village.
00045386 : EGYPT Wadi El Natroun (Wadi Natrun) - A staircase leading to the roof of an adobe building at the Coptic Orthodox monastery of Saint Bishoi (Bishoy).
00045385 : EGYPT Red Sea - Coptic Christian church service at the Orthodox desert monastery of Saint Anthony.
00045384 : EGYPT nr Luxor (Thebes) - A young boy receives the sacraments from a novice monk during mass at a Coptic Orthodox church. It is the Coptic Moulid of Mari Girgis, a festival celebrating the life of Saint George.
00045383 : EGYPT Nr Alexandria - Girl riding a donkey past the long defensive outer wall of a Coptic Orthodox desert monastery.
00045382 : EGYPT Cairo - A Coptic mechanic with his two sons in his workshop. On the wall is a Christian image of Saint George.
00045381 : EGYPT nr Luxor (Thebes) - A Coptic monk baptises a child in front of its family during the Coptic Moulid of Mari Girgis, a religious festival celebrating the life of Saint George.
00045380 : EGYPT Nr Red Sea - Two Coptic monks wearing traditional black habits attend a church service in the monastery of Saint Paul.
00045379 : EGYPT Middle Egypt - A Coptic family in their living room sit beneath Christian paintings of Mary and Jesus in a Coptic village.
00045378 : EGYPT Cairo - Three Coptic girls learn to sew beneath a Christian portrait of a praying Jesus, in a school in a suburb of the city.
00045377 : EGYPT Nr Red Sea - Monk in a decorated doorway with a curtain bearing the image of a Christian icon in the Coptic desert monastery of Saint Anthony's.
00045376 : EGYPT Red Sea - A novice monk arranges dough on a tray to make bread, which will be stamped with the Coptic cross and used in the sacrements at the Orthodox desert monastery of Saint Paul.
00045375 : EGYPT Wadi El Natroun (Wadi Natrun) - A family of Coptic pilgrims walk through a tunnel in the adobe mud monastery of St Bishoi (bishoy).
00045374 : EGYPT Nr Luxor (Thebes) - A young boy sells a statue of Mary during a Coptic Moulid of Mari Girgis, a religious festival celebrating the life of Saint George.
00045373 : EGYPT Wadi El Natroun (Wadi Natrun) - A Coptic mother carrying her child is given the sacraments by a novice monk dring mass in a church service at the Coptic Orthodox monastery of St Bishoi (Bishoy).
00045372 : EGYPT Nr Luxor (Thebes) - A crowd of Coptic pilgrims gather around a raised platform at an auction of blessed meat that has been sacrificially slaughtered for the moulid. It is the Coptic Moulid of Mari Girgis, a festival celebrating the life of Saint George.
00045371 : EGYPT Middle Egypt - Coptic mother and child sitting beneath a Christian portrait of Mary in their simple living room in a Coptic village.
00045370 : EGYPT Cairo - Coptic congregation during mass at Saint Mark's church.
00045369 : EGYPT Cairo - Two coptic tailors stand behind the counter of their shop surrounded by Christian images of Mary, Jesus and Saint George in the Coptic quarter of the city.
00045368 : EGYPT Middle Egypt - Peasant Coptic women in her living room sitting beneath an image of Saint George on a cupboard in a Coptic village.
00045367 : EGYPT Wadi El Natroun (Wadi Natrun) - Man carrying buckets towards an entrance in the high defensive wall surrounding the Coptic Orthodox monastery of St Bishoi (Bishoy).
00045366 : EGYPT Cairo - Coptic women attend an educational class against the traditional practice of female circumcision in a Coptic quarter of the city.
00045365 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping troops on patrol with two old abandoned Russian armoured vehicles in the background. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00045364 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Afghans visit a clinic run by Dutch army doctors. Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) troops are part of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force.
00045363 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Carpet vendors on their way to market pass a stationer's shop and a photography studio.
00045362 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Shoe stall at the market.
00045361 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Afghan man praying beside a Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) patrol outside Kabul. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00045360 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Afghan policeman and a Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldier man a checkpoint at night. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00045359 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldiers at camp Warehouse. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00045358 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul, Camp Warehouse - American Special Forces sergeant in civilian clothes.
00045357 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldiers distributing an ISAF newspaper to local Afghans. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00045356 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldiers on patrol in the city. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00045355 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldier pushes an Afghan man away at a checkpoint. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00045354 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Textile merchants leaving market at the end of the day.
00045353 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Grain for sale at the market in the city.
00045352 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Afghan policeman dispersing a crowd gathered near to an ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) roadblock.
00045351 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Afghan man sniffing counterfeit perfume for sale in a Kabul market.
00045350 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) soldier on patrol passes an Afghan man on a bicycle. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00045349 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Johan Brandenborg, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045348 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Afghan men looking at photographs of Indian filmstars for sale in a market in the city. The sale of this type of image was banned under the previous Taliban regime.
00045347 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Portrait of Fariba Boender, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045346 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Ernst Grootoonk, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045345 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Coca Cola cans with Arabic script waiting to be recyled.
00045344 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Dilip Goerdajal, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045343 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Bharat Nair, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045342 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Wesley Hilgers, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045341 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Freek Huijs, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045340 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Harold de Jong, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045339 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A man photographing young men on a destroyed Russian aeroplane.
00045338 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Robert Soekatna, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045337 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Roger Patelski, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045336 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Harrie Van der Ploeg, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045335 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Andre Poelman, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045334 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Sander Schotanus, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045333 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Tourists and pigeons at a square in the old Muslim quarter of the city.
00045332 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Maarten Verschoor, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045331 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Mark Visser, a member of the Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) peacekeeping force. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO. The portrait was taken using an old Afghan street camera with a 15 second exposure time.
00045330 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Tourists and pigeons at a square in the old Muslim quarter of the city.
00045329 : BULGARIA Pastra - Youth in traditional dress at a festival with a camera mobile telephone.
00045328 : CUBA Havana - A newly married couple sit together in the back of their wedding car.
00045327 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Woman on the balcony of a war damaged apartment block.
00045326 : BURUNDI Lake Tanganyika - Boys watching returned refugee fishermen on a new boat bought with the help of a loan from United Nations (UN) High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
00045325 : BURUNDI Bujumbura - A giant bottle of Heineken lager stands as an advertisment for the beer near the entrance to the Heineken brewery.
00045324 : BULGARIA Samokov - Farmer transporting straw bales on a horse-drawn cart.
00045323 : ETHIOPIA Adigrat - Dutch UNMEE (the UN Mission for Ethiopia and Eritrea) peacekeeping troops boarding a helicopter at their base while a boy walks past with his donkey.
00045322 : ESTONIA Paldiski - Ethnic Russians living on a housing estate in Paldiski. Many Russians stayed on after the Soviet naval base was closed.
00045321 : FRANCE Normandy, St Mere Eglise - Children with American flags at the annual veterans ceremony on 6th June to commemorate World War II (WW2) D-day on Utah Beach.
00045320 : FRANCE Normandy, Orglandes - Grave of an unknown German soldier at a German cemetery for soldiers killed in World War II (WW2) .
00045319 : FRANCE Normandy, Isigny sur Mer - American soldiers at the annual World War II (WW2) D-day commemoration ceremony on 6th June on Omaha Beach.
00045318 : FRANCE Normandy, St Mere Eglise - Veterans gathered around the monument to fallen American soldiers at the annual World War II (WW2) D-day commemoration ceremony on 6th June on Utah Beach.
00045317 : GEORGIA Batumi - A harbour worker relaxes next to a pile of scrap metal waiting to be loaded onto a ship for recycling.
00045316 : GEORGIA Batumi - Homeless man asleep on the street.
00045315 : GEORGIA Zestfoni - Billboard advertising American president George Bush's visit to Georgia.
00045314 : GEORGIA Gori - Bust sculpture of Joseph Stalin in the Stalin Museum. Stalin was born in Gori.
00045313 : GEORGIA Senaki - Cows at a deserted petrol station.
00045312 : GEORGIA Samtredia - Old freight wagons at the railway depot.
00045311 : GEORGIA Batumi - Grocery stall on the street.
00045310 : GEORGIA Gori - Bust sculpture of Joseph Stalin in the Stalin Museum. Stalin was born in Gori.
00045309 : GEORGIA Gori - Statue of Joseph Stalin in front of the Stalin Museum. Stalin was born in Gori.
00045308 : GEORGIA Tbilisi - View over the city with the 5th century Metekhi church in the foreground and the 4th century Narikala fortress in the distance.
00045307 : GEORGIA Tbilisi - View of the city with the 5th century Metekhi church in the foreground and the 4th century Narikala fortress in the distance.
00045306 : GEORGIA Tbilisi - Fruit vendor waiting for customers on his stall.
00045305 : GEORGIA Tbilisi - Ice cream seller crossing a square in the city centre with a statue of King Vakhtang Gorgasali (440 - 502 AD).
00045304 : GEORGIA Tbilisi - World War II (WW2) veteran soldier in his Soviet army uniform walks past a truck in the city. He wears the uniform every day.
00045303 : GEORGIA Tbilisi - World War II (WW2) veteran soldier in his Soviet army uniform which he wears every day.
00045302 : GERMANY Berlin - View over the Berlin wall from West Berlin to East Berlin. The Berlin wall, a symbol of the Cold War, divided the city from 1961 until it came down in 1989.
00045301 : GERMANY Berlin - Billboard bearing the symbol of the Euro currency as an advertisement on the facade of a C&A store on the Kurfurstendamm.
00045300 : GERMANY Berlin - Potsdamer Platz with new office buildings built since 1989. During the Cold War the Berlin Wall ran through the square.
00045299 : GERMANY Berlin - Street scene in East Berlin during the Cold War when the city was divided by the Berlin wall.
00045298 : GERMANY Berlin - A Trabant car drives down the street in East Berlin during the Cold War when the city was divided by the Berlin Wall. Trabant car in the foreground.
00045297 : GERMANY Berlin - Tourists on a viewing platform at Checkpoint Charlie looking over to East Berlin. The Berlin wall, a symbol of the Cold War, divided the city from 1961 until it came down in 1989.
00045296 : GERMANY Berlin - Potsdamer Platz with new office buildings built since 1989. During the Cold War the Berlin Wall ran through the square.
00045295 : GERMANY Berlin - East German border guards by the Berlin Wall. The Berlin wall, a symbol of the Cold War, divided the city from 1961 until it came down in 1989.
00045294 : GERMANY Berlin - View over the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz from West Berlin looking over to East Berlin. The Berlin wall, a symbol of the Cold War, divided the city from 1961 until it came down in 1989.
00045293 : GERMANY Schoenwalde - 70 year old retired Werner Benz on his Schwalbe motorbike. Schwalbe bikes were manufactured in East Germany during the Cold War.
00045292 : GERMANY Bad Bodendorf - Volkstauertag (National Day of Mourning) ceremony at a cemetery for Geman soldiers killed in World War II (WW2).
00045291 : INDIA Cochin, Kerala state - A mahout washes a baby elephant in the river near the Cochin elephant training centre.
00045290 : INDIA Mysore, Karnataka state - A boy on a bike waits on the riverbank for a local farmer to cross on his bullock cart.
00045289 : INDIA Palolem Beach, Goa - Fishermen prepare their nets before going out fishing.
00045288 : INDIA Mysore, Karnataka state - A line of rickshaws stand beneath a billboard for a mobile telephone company.
00045287 : INDIA Mysore, Karnataka state - A man with crutches begs in front of a Coca Cola advertisement next to a street stall.
00045286 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Traffic in the city centre at night.
00045285 : INDIA Jaipur, Rajasthan - Traffic drives past a billboard advertising McDonald's fast food chain.
00045284 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Traffic in the centre of the city dodges a cow at an intersection.
00045283 : INDIA Jaipur, Rajasthan - Traffic dodges an elephant on the street.
00045282 : INDIA Kochi (Cochin), Kerala - Man reading a paper at a newspaper stand.
00045281 : INDIA Jaipur, Rajasthan - Motorcyclist in traffic in the city centre.
00045280 : INDIA New Delhi - Traffic during rush hour in Chandni chowk in Old Delhi.
00045279 : INDIA Jaipur, Rajasthan - A Sadhu on a bicycle in busy traffic.
00045278 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Busy shopping street in the city centre.
00045277 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Woman carrying her baby begs in traffic on a busy Mumbai street.
00045276 : INDIA Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu state - Men wash a truck in a lake while the owner takes a nap on the bonnet.
00045275 : INDIA Palolem Beach, Goa - A Russian tourist photographs his wife on the beach with cows in the foreground.
00045274 : INDIA Tamil Nadu - Communist party banners on a street.
00045273 : INDIA Palolem Beach, Goa - Local man talking to tourists on the beach.
00045272 : INDIA Palolem Beach, Goa - A cow shares the beach with tourists.
00045271 : INDIA Palolem Beach, Goa - Cows fighting on the beach.
00045270 : INDIA Palolem Beach, Goa - A tourist photographs her friend with a cow on Palolem beach.
00045269 : INDIA Palolem Beach, Goa - Tourists sunbathe next to a woman cleaning the beach.
00045268 : INDIA Madurai, Tamil Nadu - Busy street scene leading to the Sri Meenakshi Temple.
00045267 : INDIA Jaipur - A camel pulls a cart past a billboard advertising the fast food chain McDonald's.
00045266 : INDIA Madurai, Tamil Nadu - An Ambassador car drives past two women running to escape a sudden rainstorm.
00045265 : INDIA Madurai, Tamil Nadu - Men talking on the street next to a lorry advertising Pepsi Cola.
00045264 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Traffic at a busy intersection in the city centre.
00045263 : INDIA Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu - Brihadishwara Temple, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
00045262 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Lorry passing through a busy street in the city centre.
00045261 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Traffic at a busy intersection in the city centre.
00045260 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Labourers terracing a hillside near Lake Ruhondo for cultivation as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045259 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Labourers terracing a hillside near Lake Ruhondo for cultivation as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045258 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Women digging irrigation canals as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045257 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Labourers terracing a hillside near Lake Ruhondo for cultivation as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045256 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Female foreman directing workers reparing a road as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045255 : RWANDA Gitarama - Laboureres digging irrigation channels to irrigate rice fields as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045254 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Female labourers building a road as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045253 : RWANDA Kamonyi - Father with his child sitting on the bed in his home.
00045252 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Labourers building a road as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045251 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Female labourers building a road as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045250 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Female labourers building a road as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045249 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Labourers constructing a road as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045248 : RWANDA Ruhengeri - Female labourers building a road as part of a development project partly funded by the Dutch government.
00045247 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Local Muslim men chat as police officers guard the entrance to a house on Queens Road, Walthamstow, the site of an anti-terror raid the previous night which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00045246 : USA New York, United States of America - One week after the 9/11 al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York, American newspapers report on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive'.
00045245 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Dr Muhammad al-Massari, an exiled Saudi Arabian dissident who fled to the UK in 1994. He runs the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDLR). He has been linked to Islamic extremism, and operates a website which has shown videos of al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Iraq.
00045244 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Jamal Harwood, a Canadian financial consultant, near his office at Canary Wharf. Harwood converted to Islam in his twenties, and is now a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist political party, banned in several countries, which aims to reestablish the caliphate in the Muslim world.
00045243 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - British Muslim and white shoppers at Walthamstow market.
00045242 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Dr Muhammad al-Massari, an exiled Saudi Arabian dissident who fled to the UK in 1994. He runs the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDLR). He has been linked to Islamic extremism, and operates a website which has shown videos of al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Iraq.
00045241 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Dr Muhammad al-Massari, an exiled Saudi Arabian dissident who fled to the UK in 1994. He runs the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDLR). He has been linked to Islamic extremism, and operates a website which has shown videos of al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Iraq.
00045240 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Jamal Harwood, a Canadian financial consultant, near his office at Canary Wharf. Harwood converted to Islam in his twenties, and is now a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist political party, banned in several countries, which aims to reestablish the caliphate in the Muslim world.
00045239 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Marchers demonstrating against Israel's invasion of Lebanon and British and American foreign policy and supporting Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The demonstrators marched to the American Embassy where they held a rally. The protest was organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist political party, banned in several countries, which aims to reestablish the caliphate in the Muslim world.
00045238 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A demonstration outside the American Embassy against Israel, and against British and American foreign policy. The protest was organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist political party, banned in several countries, which aims to reestablish the caliphate in the Muslim world.
00045237 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Jamal Harwood, a Canadian financial consultant, near his office at Canary Wharf. Harwood converted to Islam in his twenties, and is now a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist political party, banned in several countries, which aims to reestablish the caliphate in the Muslim world.
00045236 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Marchers demonstrating against Israel and British and American foreign policy and supporting Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The demonstrators marched to the American Embassy where they held a rally. The protest was organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist political party, banned in several countries, which aims to reestablish the caliphate in the Muslim world.
00045235 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Jamal Harwood, a Canadian financial consultant, near his office at Canary Wharf. Harwood converted to Islam in his twenties, and is now a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist political party, banned in several countries, which aims to reestablish the caliphate in the Muslim world.
00045234 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Dr Muhammad al-Massari, an exiled Saudi Arabian dissident who fled to the UK in 1994. He runs the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDLR). He has been linked to Islamic extremism, and operates a website which has shown videos of al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Iraq.
00045233 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A man attending a demonstration against British and American foreign policy. The protest was organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist political party, banned in several countries, which aims to reestablish the caliphate in the Muslim world.
00045232 : NIGER Bouza - Doorway leading into a room with roof buttresses in the adobe mud dwelling of the Hausa village chief. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045231 : MALI Ogol Ley, Sangha - A goat stands in the doorway of an adobe mud dwelling with a grid patterned facade. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045230 : MALI Ogol Ley, Sangha - A young girl stands in the doorway of an adobe mud spiritual Hogon house with a grid patterned facade. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045229 : MALI Ogol Ley, Sangha - An adobe mud Ginna house with a grid pattern facade. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045228 : GHANA - Geometrically painted adobe mud house of the animist Kassena people. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction which is used widely in North Africa.
00045227 : NIGER Fortal - A wooden ladder leans against the side of a flat-roofed adobe house with walls covered with dried and cracked mud. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045226 : NIGER Yaamaa - The village mosque, built with geometric features from mud. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045225 : NIGER Agadez - A cart and stray dog pass the minaret of the city's Friday mosque. Its protruding sticks support the mud rendering, which is characteristic of adobe architecture. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045224 : NIGER Agadez - The minaret of the city's Friday mosque. Its protruding sticks support the mud rendering, which is characteristic of adobe architecture. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045223 : NIGER Sanam - Man with prayer beads praying and reading the Koran sitting on a mat in the village mosque. The adobe mud building has an arched vaulted interior, rebuilt in 2000 by ethnic Hausa villagers. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045222 : NIGER Agadez - A doorway in a textured mud wall leading to a domestic compound of an adobe house, with political posters visible inside. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045221 : NIGER Bouza - Wooden posts support the roof of an adobe mud dwelling of the Hausa village chief. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045220 : NIGER Kossa - Man on a camel passing the adobe mud village mosque and granaries. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045219 : MALI Gao - Protruding sticks support the mud rendering of the mausoleum of the Askia dynasty of the Songrai (Songhai) ethnic group. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045218 : MALI Djenne - Adobe facade of the city chief, with protruding sticks supporting the mud rendering and the shadows of conical motifs. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045217 : MALI Djenne - A woman in traditional dress passes the city chief's adobe house, which displays conical motifs and protruding sticks supporting the mud rendering. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045216 : MALI Djenne - A man riding a bicycle passes an adobe house displaying conical motifs and protruding sticks supporting the mud rendering. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045215 : MALI Koporope - The adobe grid patterned facade of the village mosque. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045214 : MALI Djenne - A boy with a wheelbarrow passes an adobe mud house. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045213 : MALI Saya - A woman in traditional dress and a young boy pass a newly constructed adobe mud house in the village. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045212 : MALI Djenne - A boy in a red shirt rides a bicycle passes an adobe house displaying conical motifs and protruding sticks supporting the mud rendering. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045211 : MALI Koporopen - The minaret of the village mosque whose mud rendering is supported by sticks protruding from its facade. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045210 : MALI Bore - Sticks used as roof supports in adobe building are piled up behind an archway in a courtyard of the village mosque. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045209 : MALI Yebe - Three boys pass the village mosque, whose mud rendering is supported by sticks protruding from its facade. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045208 : MALI Djenne - The city's Friday mosque, the largest mud building in the world. Its protruding sticks support the mud rendering, which is characteristic of adobe architecture. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045207 : MALI Djenne - Young men pass the city's Friday mosque, the largest mud building in the world. Its protruding sticks support the mud rendering, which is characteristic of adobe architecture. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045206 : MALI Djenne - A man in a yellow robe walks passed a derelict adobe Sakho mud house in the ethnic Boso village. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045205 : MALI Ogol Ley, Sanga - A narrow street between the windowless adobe walls of the village mud houses. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045204 : MALI Djenne - A man on a bicycle and pedestrians pass the city's adobe mud buildings. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045203 : MALI Djenne - Tuareg women walk along the streets behind the city's adobe mud buildings. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045202 : MALI Djenne - The cracked mud of an adobe building's facade. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045201 : MALI Nando - Adobe mud columns formed into the shape of baobab tree trunks at the entrance to the village Dogon mosque. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045200 : LEBANON Marjaom village - Mohammed and his son camping outside the remains of their house. It was destroyed by Israeli bombardment only ten minutes before the ceasefire which ended 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045199 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A woman expresses her support for Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah (Hizbollah), at a funeral for eleven people killed by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
00045198 : MALI Nando - The sculptural mud adobe facade of the Dogon village mosque, with a wooden stepladder leading to its roof. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045197 : MALI Nando - The carved adobe interior of the Dogon village mosque, which displays mud arches raised reliefs. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045196 : MALI Nando - Archways and a patterned mud raised wall relief in the adobe interior of the Dogon village mosque. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045195 : MALI Nando - A dogon man carrying Islamic prayer beads walks through a doorway in an adobe mud wall. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045194 : MALI Mopti - The minaret of the town mosque. Its protruding sticks support the mud rendering, which is characteristic of adobe architecture. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045193 : MALI San - The whitewashed adobe mud village mosque. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045192 : MALI Djenne - Man walking past the city's Friday mosque, the largest mud building in the world. Its protruding sticks support the mud rendering, which is characteristic of adobe architecture. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045191 : MALI Bore - Interior of the village mosque. The columns and walls inside the building are built with adobe amd the roof is supported by wooden sticks. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045190 : MALI Bore - Man with prayer beads sitting among the mats inside the a mud village mosque. The columns and walls inside the building are built with adobe amd the roof is supported by wooden sticks. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045189 : MALI Kobe - Adobe village mosque, whose minaret is constructed from mud in concentric circles, is surrounded by nomadic housing of the Fula people. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045188 : MALI Komio - A man with prayer beads sits on a mat inside the village mosque, whose columns and walls are built with adobe and mud. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045187 : MALI Sanam - The adobe sculpted columns, arches and vaulted ceiling of the mud village mosque, rebuilt in 2000 by ethnic Hausa villagers. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045186 : MALI Timbuktu (Tombouctou) - The minaret of the city's Friday mosque, whose mud rendering is supported by sticks protruding from its facade, characteristic of adobe architecture. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045185 : MALI Timbuktu (Tombouctou) - A man on a donkey rides past the city's Friday mosque, whose mud rendering is supported by sticks protruding from its facade, characteristic of adobe architecture. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045184 : MALI Timbuktu (Tombouctou) - The internal courtyards and minaret of the city's Friday mosque, whose mud rendering is supported by sticks protruding from its facade, characteristic of adobe architecture. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045183 : TOGO Bassamba - Children stand next to a pile of sticks outside an adobe house with a textured mud facade. The mud thatched granary and devotional shrines are used by the largely animist ethnic Somba and Batammaliba peoples. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045182 : TOGO Bassamba - Children stand next to a pile of sticks outside an adobe house with a textured mud facade. The mud thatched granary and devotional shrines are used by the largely animist ethnic Somba and Batammaliba peoples. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045181 : TOGO Koufitoukou - A thatched adobe and mud granary and devotional shrines of the animist ethnic Somba and Batammaliba people. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045180 : BURKINA FASO Tangasoko - Elderly ethnic Kassena woman sitting outside a woman's house within the compound of the village chief. The mud facades of the adobe buildings are decorated with relief shapes and geometric patterns. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045179 : BURKINA FASO - A young man stands in he doorway of a mud pentecostal protestant church which has adobe walls and pews and a corrugated iron roof. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045178 : BURKINA FASO Tangasoko - Ethnic Kassenna women in the compound of the village chief, whose adobe buildings are painted and carved with geometric patterns. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045177 : NIGERIA Kano - Hausa men sit in the waiting room in the highly decorated palace waiting room for an audience with the Emir of the city. The adobe mud vestibule, which displays supporting buttresses is painted in geometric designs. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045176 : NIGERIA Kano - An interior passage and staircase displaying a typical Hausa arched doorway in the Gidan dan Hausan, an adobe and mud dwelling of a colonial governor. Adobe is a natural building material made from clay and straw and is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of construction used widely in North Africa.
00045175 : LEBANON Beirut - Residents return to find that large areas of southern Beirut had been reduced to rubble by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045174 : LEBANON Beirut - Large areas of southern Beirut were reduced to rubble by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045173 : LEBANON Srifa - Hezbollah (Hizbollah) fighters at a mass funeral in Srifa for 35 people whose bodies were found in the rubble over the previous three days. 170 houses in Srifa were levelled and 620 damaged beyond repair by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
00045172 : LEBANON Srifa - Mourners at a mass funeral in Srifa for 35 people whose bodies were found in the rubble over the previous three days. 170 houses in Srifa were levelled and 620 damaged beyond repair by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045171 : LEBANON Srifa - Mourners at a mass funeral in Srifa for 35 people whose bodies were found in the rubble over the previous three days. 170 houses in Srifa were levelled and 620 damaged beyond repair by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045170 : LEBANON Srifa - A Hezbollah (Hizbollah) fighter carries a coffin at a mass funeral in Srifa for 35 people whose bodies were found in the rubble over the previous three days. 170 houses in Srifa were levelled and 620 damaged beyond repair by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
00045169 : LEBANON - The first of the French troops leading a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force arrive in Lebanon following 34 days of conflict.
00045168 : LEBANON Srifa - Mourners at a mass funeral in Srifa for 35 people whose bodies were found in the rubble over the previous three days. 170 houses in Srifa were levelled and 620 damaged beyond repair by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045167 : LEBANON Srifa - Hezbollah (Hizbollah) flags carried by mourners at a mass funeral in Srifa for 35 people whose bodies were found in the rubble over the previous three days. 170 houses in Srifa were levelled and 620 damaged beyond repair by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
00045166 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Three days ago ten year old Hasan and his friends Marwah and Sukna found a bomblet behind his grandfather's house. They started playing with it but it blew up. All three are in critical condition in Jabel Amel hospital, and Hasan was disembowelled. Thousands of items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) littered southern Lebanon following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045165 : LEBANON Khiam village - 75 year old Aziza Swede laments the destruction of her home: "I have worked hard all my life. I carried many of the stones here to build my house. It took years to build. Now it is gone. I have lost everything." Thousands of people were made homeless by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045164 : LEBANON Nabatiyeh - A young boy near an M42 submunition (a form of cluster bomb) next to his house. Thousands of items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) littered southern Lebanon following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045163 : LEBANON - A Mines Advisory Group (MAG) rapid assessment team investigate an empty cluster bomb unit. 14 halves were found here and unexploded bomblets littered the area following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045162 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Three days ago twelve year old Sukna Maroi and her friends Marwah and Hasan found a bomblet near their homes. They started playing with it but it blew up. All three are in critical condition in Jabel Amel hospital. Sukna has severe abdominal injuries and her liver was nearly destroyed. It is not known if she will survive. She is in constant pain and because of her blood pressure cannot be given any more painkillers. Thousands of items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) littered southern Lebanon following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045161 : LEBANON Yohmor village - 75 year old Samirha Barakat has lived in this house for all of her life, but it was badly damaged by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. A team from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) found and destroyed a cluster bomb submunition in this room.
00045160 : LEBANON - A man gives water to his goats.
00045159 : LEBANON - A Mines Advisory Group (MAG) rapid assessment team investigate an unexploded 2000lb bomb. Thousands of items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) littered southern Lebanon following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045158 : LEBANON Aita Ech Chaab - Two men return to find their homes badly damaged by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Only 20% of people have returned due to continuing insecurity, widespread destruction and unexploded ordnance (UXO). Three children were seriously injured by a submunition (a form of cluster bomb) here a few days ago.
00045157 : LEBANON Saddiquine village - French Foreign Legion troops, among the first wave of soldiers arriving to lead a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in Lebanon following 34 days of conflict.
00045156 : LEBANON Saddiquine village - A boy carries bread past French Foreign Legion troops, among the first wave of soldiers arriving to lead a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in Lebanon following 34 days of conflict.
00045155 : LEBANON Saddiquine village - French Foreign Legion troops from an engineering platoon meet with a Mines Advisory Group (MAG) technical field manager to find out information on the unexploded ordnance (UXO) littering southern Lebanon. French troops were leading a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force following 34 days of conflict.
00045154 : LEBANON Aita Ech Chaab - Eman Dakoudouk and her children look at one of the holes in their house, which they had only just finished building when the war started. It was badly damaged by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
00045153 : LEBANON Dhaira - An unexploded 120mm mortar bomb on the road. Thousands of items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) littered southern Lebanon following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045152 : LEBANON - Arzi and Michael outside their house, marked with the words 'cluster strike' to alert locals to the presence of unexploded ordnance (UXO) following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Their brother Elias was injured the previous day when a bomblet fell out of a tree on the other side of the street.
00045151 : LEBANON - Arzi and Michael outside their house, marked with the words 'cluster strike' to alert locals to the presence of unexploded ordnance (UXO) following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Their brother Elias was injured the previous day when a bomblet fell out of a tree on the other side of the street.
00045150 : LEBANON - A Mines Advisory Group (MAG) team clear submunitions (a form of cluster bomb). Thousands of items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) littered southern Lebanon following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045149 : LEBANON Zawta village - A Hezbollah (Hizbollah) fighter at home. He was injured when clearing submunitions two days ago and keeps an empty projectile (with the image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah) as a memento of the war against Israel. He also has a submunition (a form of cluster bomb) in his cabinet which is still dangerous.
00045148 : LEBANON - A Mines Advisory Group (MAG) team clear submunitions (a form of cluster bomb) from Khudar Homani's house. Thousands of items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) littered southern Lebanon following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045147 : LEBANON Beirut - A supporter of Hezbollah (Hizbollah) holds a portrait of its leader Hassan Nasrallah next to the rubble of apartment buildings in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The area was bombed by the Israeli military during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
00045146 : LEBANON Beirut - A search operation for survivors in the rubble of apartment buildings in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The area was bombed by the Israeli military on August 13th, the day before a ceasefire ended 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045145 : LEBANON Beirut - A search operation for survivors in the rubble of apartment buildings in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The area was bombed by the Israeli military on August 13th, the day before a ceasefire ended 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Only dead bodies were found.
00045144 : LEBANON Beirut - A search operation for survivors in the rubble of apartment buildings in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The area was bombed by the Israeli military on August 13th, the day before a ceasefire ended 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045143 : LEBANON Beirut - Residents inspect the damage to buildings in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The area was bombed by the Israeli military during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045142 : LEBANON Beirut - Residents inspect the damage to buildings in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The area was bombed by the Israeli military during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045141 : LEBANON South - An Exxon Mobil petrol station destroyed by Israeli bombardment during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045140 : LEBANON Beirut - Residents inspect the damage to buildings, including a doctor's surgery, in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The area was bombed by the Israeli military during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00045139 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Victims of Israeli bombing are dug up and given a proper funeral after the end of the 34 day conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah). They had been hastily buried in mass graves during the war.
00045138 : LEBANON Beirut - Residents inspect the damage to buildings in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut, as firefighters hose the smouldering remains. The area was bombed by the Israeli military during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Many Lebanese blamed the USA for supplying weapons to Israel.
00045137 : LEBANON South - A destroyed house in El Khiam, which was bombed by the Israeli military during 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Many Lebanese blamed the USA for supplying weapons to Israel.
00045136 : LEBANON Qana - Children wearing T-shirts with portraits of Hezbollah (Hizbollah) leader Hassan Nasrallah at a funeral service for the victims of Israel's bombing of Qana. The bodies were dug up and given a proper funeral after the end of the 34 day conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. They had been hastily buried in mass graves during the war. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.
00045135 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Lebanese troops on patrol at the entrance to Tyre, beneath portraits of Hezbollah (Hizbollah) leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Lebanese military were deployed in advance of a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
00045134 : LEBANON South - Children in Khiam playing under a portrait of Hezbollah (Hizbollah) leader Hassan Nasrallah.
00045133 : LEBANON South - Ghanaian UNIFIL peacekeeping troops on patrol next to a portrait of Hezbollah (Hizbollah) leader Hassan Nasrallah. Existing UNIFIL soldiers were deployed in advance of a much larger United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force following 34 days of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
00045132 : LEBANON Qana - Graves are prepared before a funeral service for the victims of Israel's bombing of Qana. The bodies were dug up and given a proper funeral after the end of the 34 day conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah). They had been hastily buried in mass graves during the war. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.
00045131 : LEBANON Qana - Women mourning their children at a funeral service for the victims of Israel's bombing of Qana. The bodies were dug up and given a proper funeral after the end of the 34 day conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah). They had been hastily buried in mass graves during the war. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.
00045130 : LEBANON Qana - A woman mourning her child at a funeral service for the victims of Israel's bombing of Qana. The bodies were dug up and given a proper funeral after the end of the 34 day conflict between Israel and Hezbollah (Hizbollah). They had been hastily buried in mass graves during the war. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.
00045129 : LEBANON Beirut - Timur Goksel in his favourite bar, 'The Prague', in Beirut's Hamra neighbourhood. A former spokesman of the United Nations in Lebanon (UNIFIL), he is now a professor at the American University in Beirut (AUB).
00045128 : GERMANY Juterbog - An chair lies overturned in the operating theatre of a deserted hospital of the Soviet Army. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045127 : GERMANY Berlin - The damaged face of a Soviet soldier on a World War II monument in a deserted Soviet Army barracks in the former East Germany. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045126 : GERMANY Wunsdorf - Deserted sports hall in the former headquarters of the Soviet army in East Germany.
00045125 : GERMANY Grimma - Deserted dormitory for Russian soldiers in a former Soviet army barracks. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045124 : GERMANY Juterbog - Emilia Hergert (84), who lives in an apartment on a former Soviet airforce base, stands in front of a red wall emblazoned with the Soviet flag. She is a Kazakhstani migrant who moved to Germany 7 years ago.
00045123 : GERMANY Altes Lager, Brandenburg - Painted mural of the Soviet spacecraft, the Sputnik, on a staircase in the former piloting school for the Soviet air force. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045122 : RUSSIA Moscow - A Communist demonstrator holds a painted portrait of Josef Stalin during a demonstration on the anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution.
00045121 : RUSSIA Moscow - Communist demonstrators gather in a square on the anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution.
00045120 : RUSSIA Moscow - An elderly woman holding a flag is among the many Communist demonstrators who have gathered in a square on the anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution.
00045119 : POLAND Brzeznica - Children paint graffiti on the concrete walls of an abandoned missile silo used by the Russian Army during the Cold War. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045118 : GERMANY Cecilienhof, Potsdam, Brandenburg - The Soviet, US and British flags sit on a table in the conference room where the Potsdam Conference took place in 1945. The aim of the conference was to establish post-war order and to decide how the defeated Nazi Germany was to be administered after the country's surrender.
00045117 : POLAND Borne Sulinowo - Sculpture of a hand holding a machine gun on the grave of Russian soldier Ivan Poddubnyj (1920-1946) in the military cemetery of the Red Army.
00045116 : GERMANY Altes Lager, Brandenburg - A damaged mural of Soviet Army soldiers in a former piloting school for the Soviet air force. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045115 : GERMANY Grossenhain - A Mikoyan (MiG) aeroplane suspended above the ground as part of an installation on a deserted Soviet airforce base.
00045114 : RUSSIA Moscow - Communist demonstators march past the recently rebuilt Christ the Saviour Cathedral on the anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917. The Eastern Orthodox cathedral was destroyed by order of Lazar Kaganovich in the 1930s.
00045113 : GERMANY Grossenhain - A Mikoyan (MiG) aeroplane suspended above the ground as part of an installation on a deserted Soviet airforce base. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045112 : UKRAINE Sevastopol , Crimea - Former submarine base of the Soviet Navy in Balaklava Bay in the Black Sea. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045111 : LITHUANIA Vilnius - A statue of Vladimir Lenin lies broken on the ground in front of an art display of television sets in an installation in the Europos Park. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045110 : GERMANY Altes Lager, Brandenburg - A damaged mural of Vladimir Lenin in a former piloting school for the Soviet air force. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045109 : GERMANY Zeithain - Weathered statue of Vladimir Lenin in a deserted Russian army barracks in the former East Germany.
00045108 : LATVIA Liepaja - An abandoned bunker lies in the Baltic Sea at a former Soviet naval base. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045107 : NETHERLANDS Zaandam - The test shooting range in a former ammunition factory. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045106 : GERMANY Potsdam - Portrait of a young woman on a decorated grave stone in a cemetery of the Soviet army. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045105 : NETHERLANDS Boarnsterhim (Grouw) - The communications and radio room in an abandoned defence bunker built during the Cold War to provide civil protection in the event of a nuclear attack. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045104 : GERMANY Marienthal - The narrow corridor of a former bunker for the West German government, which would have been used in case of a nuclear war. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045103 : GERMANY Berlin - A table and chair sit in front of a grille in the visitors' room in the former Stasi remand prison, Hohenschonhausen. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045102 : GERMANY Wittstock, Brandenburg - Weathered statue of Vladimir Lenin in a deserted Russian army barracks. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045101 : GERMANY Saxony Anhalt - An abandoned tank sits in a former shooting range of the Soviet army, which is now used by the German armed forces. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045100 : GERMANY Frauenwald - Tins of emergency food rations in deserted bunker used by the Stasi East German intelligence organisation. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045099 : GERMANY Lieberose - Discarded and rusting ammunition canisters lie piled up in a former exercise terrain of the Soviet army. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045098 : GERMANY Wittstock, Brandenburg - The remains of a rusting Russian bomb at a 'Bombenabwurfplatz', a former Soviet air force testing ground for explosives. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045097 : GERMANY Bautzen - The corridors of Bautzen II, a former Socialist Stasi prison in Bautzen penitentiary, whose purpose from 1945 was to incarcerate political prisoners involved in the Nazi regime. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045096 : GERMANY Wunsdorf - A communication bunker of the German Wehrmacht, destroyed by the Russian army shortly after 1945 and subsequently painted with graffiti by the Russian soldiers who destroyed it. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of the significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045095 : GERMANY Sorge - Former east German patrol road in the Harz mountains at the former border between East and West Germany. The Cold War, which formed part of the collective consciousness of post war Europe from 1945 until 1989 dominated the military and political landscape. These sparse and ageing relics of the covert war in Europe remain as testaments to the the existence of this significant period in the shared history of the East and West.
00045094 : SRI LANKA Colombo - The daily elephant performance at Dehiwala Zoo.
00045093 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - High rise tower block and city skyline.
00045092 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Families on the promenade on Sunday afternoon.
00045091 : LATVIA Riga - View over the city with the Freedom Monument in the centre, from the spire of St Peter's Church.
00045090 : LATVIA Riga - Pedestrians walk past the Freedom Monument which stands between the old town and the city centre.
00045089 : LATVIA Riga - People wait at a tram stop as a train passes the church towers of the old city.
00045088 : LATVIA Riga - Commuters wait to board a bus outside the central train station.
00045087 : LATVIA Riga - View over the old town, cathedral (R) and suspension bridge over the Daugava River, from the spire of St. Peter's church.
00045086 : LATVIA Riga - Silhouettes of statues on the House of the Blackheads in the old town square and the Vansu suspension bridge.
00045085 : LATVIA Riga - A businessman and partner cross the road among other commuters leaving the city centre at the end of the day.
00045084 : LATVIA Riga - Young woman handing out leaflets outside Riga's glass-towered train station.
00045083 : LATVIA Riga - Shadows of shoppers with their bags at Riga's Central Market.
00045082 : LATVIA Riga - Russian man concentrating on a game of chess which they are playing on benches in Vermanes Park in the city centre.
00045081 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Boy selling Coca Cola, Fanta and other fizzy drinks from a stall on Galee Face Green.
00045080 : LATVIA Riga - Restoration work in an old church in Riga's old town.
00045079 : LATVIA Riga - Woman serving at the counter of a grocery stall in the Central Market, inside one of the five former zeppellin hangers that house much of the market.
00045078 : LATVIA Riga - Woman begging on steps outside Riga train station.
00045077 : SRI LANKA Colombo - People in the busy Pettah market district.
00045076 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A cabin offering telephone services, decorated with the design of the British Union Jack flag and a painting of an Arsenal football player.
00045075 : LATVIA Riga - Young woman crossing the Vansu suspension bridge across the Daugava River with the old town behind.
00045074 : LATVIA Riga - The towers of the city's cathedral (L) and St. Peter's church (C) Church towers in the old town.
00045073 : LATVIA Riga - Woman serving a customer at the counter of a grocery stall in the Central Market, inside one of the five former zeppellin hangers that house much of the market.
00045072 : LATVIA Riga - Shoppers at the Central Market, which is held around five converted zeppelin hangers.
00045071 : LATVIA Riga - Elderly woman and child waiting for a tram.
00045070 : LATVIA Riga - Outdoor vegetable stalls at the Central Market.
00045069 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A traditional fire eater performs in the Gangaramaya Temple, one of the main Buddhist shrines in Colombo.
00045068 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Newborn baby Sirah is held by TBA (Traditional Birth Attendant) midwife Hawa Koroma at the bedside of the mother.
00045067 : LATVIA Riga - A statue stands on the House of the Blackheads in the old town square, alongside the spire of St. Peter's Church.
00045066 : LATVIA Riga - Russian men playing chess on benches in Vermanes Park in the city centre.
00045065 : LATVIA Riga - A businessman and partner cross the road among other commuters leaving the city centre at the end of the day.
00045064 : LATVIA Riga - Traffic jams into the city centre on a bridge over the Daugava River.
00045063 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Young woman with tie-dye T Shirt on Main Street in the Pettah market district.
00045062 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Workers at a brazier preparing tarmac for road repairs.
00045061 : SRI LANKA Kandy - A family eat a meal together.
00045060 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A traditional fire eater performs in the Gangaramaya Temple, one of the main Buddhist shrines in Colombo.
00045059 : LATVIA Riga - Church towers in the old town at dusk.
00045058 : LATVIA Riga - Couple in discussion in the road among commuters leaving the city centre at the end of the day.
00045057 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Shop worker holding ingredients for Ayurvedic medicine on Gabos Lane in the Pettah market distrct.
00045056 : SRI LANKA Colombo - The daily elephant performance at Dehiwala Zoo.
00045055 : NIGER Tahoua village - A woman waits for her child to be screened at a food distribution centre in Barmou, where the NGO Concern Worldwide was treating malnourished people. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00045054 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Rickshaw driver sitting on the back seat of his vehicle during a break. The cushion on the back seat is emblazoned with the image of a Mercedes-Benz car.
00045053 : SRI LANKA Peradeniya - Couple kissing on a bench in the Royal Botanic Gardens.
00045052 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A worker at a wholesale warehouse stands on sacks of onions in the Pettah market district.
00045051 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A group of Chinese tourists take photographs and watch the changing of the guard ceremony at Horse Guards Parade.
00045050 : LATVIA Riga - Construction labourer at work on scaffolding rennovating an old building in Riga's old town.
00045049 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Pedestrians on Main Street in the Pettah market district.
00045048 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A tractor stops in the road next to an advertisement for a men's magazine 'Arena' featuring a male model.
00045047 : LATVIA Riga - Women walk past St. Peter's church in the old town.
00045046 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Woman crossing the road in Fort district, viewed through the window of a rickshaw.
00045045 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Man sitting outside his house eating a meal.
00045044 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A young man climbs up a flagpole to attach the Sri Lankan flag during Independence Day celebrations on Galle Face Green.
00045043 : LATVIA Riga - Russian men concentrating on a game of chess which they are playing on benches in Vermanes Park in the city centre.
00045042 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A truck company porter passes a lorry selling household electronics, bearing the images of fans, cookers, mixers and cooking stoves in the Pettah market district.
00045041 : SRI LANKA Peradeniya - Obese woman in a pink dress.
00045040 : LATVIA Riga - Riga old town square, with the ornate House of the Blackheads (R) and the tower of St Peter's church (C).
00045039 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Exercises at dusk on Galle Face Green, with skyscrapers in the Fort district in the distance.
00045038 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Workers at a wholesale warehouse pile up sacks of onions in the Pettah market district.
00045037 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - God is Good Call Booth, a decorated cabin offering telephone services.
00045036 : NIGER Tahoua village - 12 year old Soyaba Garba hoes a bean and millet field with her 7 year old sister Safoura.
00045035 : LATVIA Riga - Customers drinking beer and cocktails at an outdoor table in a cafe on Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00045034 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A small fishing boat sails past cranes and containers waiting to be exported at the port.
00045033 : LATVIA Riga - View over the old town, cathedral and suspension bridge over the Daugava River, from the spire of St. Peter's church.
00045032 : NIGER Tahoua village - A child waits to be given a mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) assessment. The MUAC is taken in emergency situations in order to identify malnutrition among children under five years old. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00045031 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - MCH (Mother Child Health) nurse Fatmata M. Kargbo registers a newborn baby.
00045030 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Billboards advertising 'Evil Eye' prevention, a medicated powdered mixture sold in the Pettah market.
00045029 : LATVIA Riga - Waitress serving glasses of beer to customers at busy cafe terrace on Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00045028 : LATVIA Riga - Commuters leaving the city centre at the end of the day.
00045027 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Ceremonially dressed Kandian dancers perform in the Gangaramaya Temple, one of the main Buddhist shrines in Colombo.
00045026 : SRI LANKA Colombo - The neo-classical architecture of the Secretariat in the Fort area of the city standing alongside the modern towers of the city's World Trade Centre.
00045025 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Traffic and advertising on Galle Road, the main thoroughfare of the city.
00045024 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A small fishing boat sails past cranes and containers waiting to be exported at the port.
00045023 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A ship is loaded with containers for export at the city's port.
00045022 : LATVIA Riga - Water pollution in the wake of a boat on the Daugava River.
00045021 : LATVIA Riga - Young woman drinking beer in the evening at a cafe terrace on Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00045020 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Shopworkers at a stall selling ingredients for Ayurvedic medicine on Gabos Lane in the Pettah market distrct.
00045019 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A traditional fire eater performs in the Gangaramaya Temple, one of the main Buddhist shrines in Colombo.
00045018 : SRI LANKA Colombo - People stop beside flagpoles on Galle Face Green. The skyscrapers of the World Trade Centre in the Fort district stand in the distance.
00045017 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Advertising for Coca Cola on a sign bearing the familiar British street name, Hyde Park Corner.
00045016 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Woman with an umbrella crossing the road in front of a billboard advertising a luxury women's clothing brand featuring a Sri Lankan model.
00045015 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Pregnant mother Isatu Kola with 3 year old Aranca.
00045014 : NIGER Tahoua village - Measuring the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) of a malnourished child. The MUAC is taken in emergency situations in order to identify malnutrition among children under five years old. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00045013 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Mothers and their babies attend a MCH (Mother Child Health) clinic held in the shade of a tree in the Looking Town community.
00045012 : UNITED KINGDOM Liverpool, England, Great Britain, UK - A public telephone box in the centre bearing a notice highlighting the problems of gun crime in the city.
00045011 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Woman eating rice and curry in the Old Empire Hotel.
00045010 : NIGER Dakoro - Halima takes her supplies of salt and millet home after collecting food from Oxfam in exchange for vouchers given to her in exchange for her work in the community. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00045009 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Advertising for Sri Lankan Airlines, Reebok and Indian Maruti cars next to Galle Face Green.
00045008 : NIGER Barmou village - 2 year old Habo waits with her mother Habi Seidi for a screening at a food distribution centre in Barmou, where the NGO Concern Worldwide was treating malnourished people. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00045007 : NIGER Tahoua village - Weighing a child at a food distribution centre in Barmou, where the NGO Concern Worldwide was treating malnourished people. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00045006 : NIGER Tahoua village - Girl selling reeds.
00045005 : LATVIA Riga - Women with small stalls at the Central Market.
00045004 : PAKISTAN Peshawar, North West Frontier Province (NWFP) - Afghan refugee father and son.
00045003 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A cabin offering telephone services is decorated with a painting of a woman using a mobile phone.
00045002 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - All Stars, a decorated cabin offering telephone and hairdressing services.
00045001 : NIGER Tahoua village - Woman on a donkey riding to the village.
00045000 : NIGER Dan Gona village - Woman pounding millet.
00044999 : NORTH KOREA Wonsan - Children stand in front of a large mosaic of a map of the world, with Korea highlighted in red, at the youth holiday resort of Songdowon International Children's Camp.
00044998 : NIGER Albaraka village - Abdul Aziz Ibrahim, the chief of the village holds a handful of grass that has been used by the villagers as food for the past few months. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044997 : LATVIA Riga - Couple crossing Cathedral Square in Riga's old town, with a cafe behind.
00044996 : SRI LANKA - Muslim youths walk along a road after leaving classes at a mosque school in the old fort.
00044995 : PAKISTAN Lahore - Cherie Booth (Blair), a lawyer and wife of the British Prime Minister, visits Lahore Fort. She was in Pakistan on a charity visit.
00044994 : LATVIA Riga - Outdoor vegetable stalls at the Central Market.
00044993 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Young girl with pigtails at Pyongyang Children's Palace, a cultural centre dedicated to the cultural formation of children.
00044992 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Talk to the World, a decorated cabin offering telephone services.
00044991 : LATVIA Riga - Young women smoking.
00044990 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Worker preparing tarmac for road repairs.
00044989 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Men at a small grocery shop on Galle Road.
00044988 : PAKISTAN Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir - A female survivor of the 2005 earthquake learning electronics. At least 73,000 were killed by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the area on 8th October 2005.
00044987 : NIGER Tahoua village - A woman holds a bowl of boiled grass which she has been feeding her family on for the past few months. She was waiting to have her baby screened at a food distribution centre in Barmou, where the NGO Concern Worldwide was treating malnourished people. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044986 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Young girl washing her face in a stream in the Kola Tree community, as her home has no running water.
00044985 : NIGER Tahoua village - Girl among a herd of goats. More women and children in the region are working as many men have migrated in order to look for work.
00044984 : PAKISTAN Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir - Girls sit at their desks in a classroom made from a canvas tent, in a region affected by the 2005 earthquake. At least 73,000 were killed by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the area on 8th October 2005.
00044983 : PAKISTAN Lahore - Female fighter pilots in uniform.
00044982 : LATVIA Riga - Woman walking past a billboard covering the window of a store selling beauty products.
00044981 : NORTH KOREA Wonsan - Guide in the History Museum standing in front of a painting depicting the 'Heroic Liberation Struggle' of former President Kim Il Sung.
00044980 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Cherie Booth (Blair), a lawyer and wife of the British Prime Minister, meets survivors of the 2005 earthquake. At least 73,000 were killed by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the area on 8th October 2005.
00044979 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Young men playing cricket on a patch of open ground.
00044978 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A baby elephant holds a sign reading 'welcome' at the beginning of the daily elephant show at start of the daily elephant show at Dehiwala Zoo.
00044977 : NIGER Albaraka village - Woman cooking grass on a stove. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk, and many had been reduced to eating grass.
00044976 : NIGER Illela - Unloading supplies at a warehouse run by the NGO Concern Worldwide, which was distributing food to malnourished people. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044975 : NIGER Barmou village - Tchogoye, a Fulani (Peul) woman, waiting to exchange Oxfam vouchers for food on market day. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044974 : NIGER Tahoua village - Women wait to have their babies screened at a food distribution centre in Barmou, where the NGO Concern Worldwide was treating malnourished people. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044973 : PAKISTAN Lahore - Cherie Booth (Blair), a lawyer and wife of the British Prime Minister, visits a traditional haveli home. She was in Pakistan on a charity visit.
00044972 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Girl carrying firewood she has collected to sell.
00044971 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Man with a cart selling Nestle Nescafe instant coffee on Main Street in the Pettah market district.
00044970 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A Pettah market porter prepares to lift an LG refrigerator in its box.
00044969 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Big Time Tele Centre, a decorated cabin offering telephone services.
00044968 : LATVIA Riga - Customers drinking beer and cocktails and smoking cigarettes at an outdoor table in a cafe on Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00044967 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Mahoot watches a herd of bathing elephants at Pinnawela elephant orphange, home to the world's largest group of elephants in captivity.
00044966 : NIGER Tahoua village - A man rides a bicycle loaded with a pharmaceutical products and medication as a mobile pharmacy.
00044965 : NIGER Barmou village - Women queue up to receive food distributed by Oxfam in exchange for vouchers given to those who have taken part in community work. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044964 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Portrait of an elderly man, still working as a restaurant waiter in the Olde Empire Hotel.
00044963 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Vegetable sellers in the Pettah market district.
00044962 : LATVIA Riga - Young woman drinking at an outdoor cafe terrace on Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00044961 : NIGER Tahoua village - 21 month old Jima Akasouma is fed milk by her grandmother Azza at a Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) CRENI (Centre de Recuperation Nutritionale Infantile) therapeutic feeding centre for severely malnourished children.
00044960 : UNITED KINGDOM Liverpool, England, Great Britain, UK - A carpet printed with a photograph of the Beatles on the floor at the entrance to a Beatles souvenir shop on Matthew Street.
00044959 : LATVIA Riga - Woman smoking in front of poster in the window of a jewellery store.
00044958 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Men passing a sign advertising a 'Communication and Cyber Cafe' which provides Internet and telephone services in the Pettah market district.
00044957 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - 16 year old Alpha, a boy disabled by polio, operates bellows in a metal workshop run by HAM (Handicap Action Movement).
00044956 : NIGER Tahoua village - Woman and her child waiting for a medical team from Concern Worldwide to perform a mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) assessment on her baby. The MUAC is taken in emergency situations in order to identify malnutrition among children under five years old. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044955 : NIGER Ouar Hamiza village - An empty granary. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044954 : SRI LANKA Peradeniya - Girl in the flower garden section of the Royal Botanic Gardens.
00044953 : LATVIA Riga - Young man advertising a strip show at Miami Striptease Night Club on a sandwich board in Riga old town.
00044952 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Boys playing cricket on a patch of open ground.
00044951 : SRI LANKA - Girls carry containers of water home from a communal well.
00044950 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Abibatu with her newborn baby.
00044949 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Woman walking beside Kandy Lake.
00044948 : SRI LANKA - Young men loading the rice harvest onto a trailer.
00044947 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Statues of Hindu gods and animals cover the facade of a Tamil Hindu Temple.
00044946 : NIGER Marafa village - Woman with a child on her back, weeding bean and millet seedlings in a cleared area. The community carry out work in order to acquire vouchers from Oxfam with which they buy food. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044945 : LATVIA Riga - Commuters crossing the road as they leave the city centre at the end of the day.
00044944 : NIGER Tahoua village - 12 month old Maryam waits with her grandmother for a screening at a food distribution centre in Barmou, where the NGO Concern Worldwide was treating malnourished people. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044943 : NIGER Yamma village - A child is examined by a medical worker during a distribution of Plumpy'nut, a high calorie enriched groundnut paste, by the NGO Concern Worldwide. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044942 : LATVIA Riga - Americans talking in Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00044941 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Man praying in front of a statue of Buddha in the ornate main hall of the Gangaramaya Buddhist Temple.
00044940 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A mahout feeds a baby elephant at Pinnawela elephant orphange, home to the world's largest group of elephants in captivity.
00044939 : NORTH KOREA Nr Pyongyang - Railway workers walk along the platform past a parked train at a railway station near the Chinese border.
00044938 : NIGER - Moussa and Zara are recovering from malnourishment at Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) CRENI (Centre de Recuperation Nutritionale Infantile) therapeutic feeding centre for severely malnourished children. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044937 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Writing on a wall listing the price of calls made from the Tele centre, a cabin offering telephone services.
00044936 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A man disabled by polio works in a metal workshop run by HAM (Handicap Action Movement).
00044935 : KENYA - Boys with a football made from plastic bags.
00044934 : NIGER Tahoua village - A team from Concern Worldwide use a GSM meter (Global System for Mobile Communications) to plot the coordinates of villages while they make visits to communities as part of a MUAC (mid-upper arm circumference) assessment programme. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044933 : NIGER Yamma village - A child eats Plumpy'nut, a high calorie enriched groundnut paste, during a distribution programme operated by the NGO Concern Worldwide. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044932 : NORTH KOREA Nr Pyongyang - Railway workers walk across a platform past a parked train at a railway station near the Chinese border.
00044931 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Porter in Pettah Market district, dusted with wheat flour from sacks he has been unloading.
00044930 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Young boy with a Burberry collar to his T shirt in Looking Town community.
00044929 : PAKISTAN Lahore - Cherie Booth (Blair), a lawyer and wife of the British Prime Minister, in Pakistan on a charity visit.
00044928 : LATVIA Riga - Advertising for sports brand Adidas on the side of a building in Riga old town.
00044927 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Man smoking a cigarette as he crosses Main Street in the Pettah market district.
00044926 : NIGER - Giraffe.
00044925 : LATVIA Riga - Commuters crossing the road as they leave the city centre at the end of the day.
00044924 : LATVIA Riga - Tourist boat arriving at the dock on the Daugava River.
00044923 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Woman walking along an old colonnaded pavement.
00044922 : NIGER Tahoua village - A team from Concern Worldwide use a GSM meter (Global System for Mobile Communications) to plot the coordinates of villages while they make visits to communities as part of a MUAC (mid-upper arm circumference) assessment programme. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044921 : NIGER - 21 month old Jima Akasouma recovers at a Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) CRENI (Centre de Recuperation Nutritionale Infantile) therapeutic feeding centre for severely malnourished children. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044920 : TURKEY Van, Kurdistan - Men playing dominoes in a tea shop.
00044919 : LATVIA Riga - People outside a Rimi supermarket in a modern shopping centre. Rimi is a Latvian chain.
00044918 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Traffic jams and shop signs on DS Senanayake Vidiya road in the city centre.
00044917 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Elderly neighbours meet on a bench on the street in the village of Busquistar.
00044916 : NIGER - Fatou Galissoue and her 12 month old baby Alhassane at a Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) CRENI (Centre de Recuperation Nutritionale Infantile) therapeutic feeding centre for severely malnourished children. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044915 : NIGER Yamma village - Woman standing outside the village grain store.
00044914 : LATVIA Riga - A begging couple next to a pair of crutches sit on the pavement eating as a Coca Cola delivery truck drives past.
00044913 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Cherie Booth (Blair), a lawyer and wife of the British Prime Minister, meets survivors of the 2005 earthquake. At least 73,000 were killed by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the area on 8th October 2005.
00044912 : LATVIA Riga - Strawberries for sale at the Central Market.
00044911 : NIGER Tahoua village - 21 month old Jima Akasouma 21 months, is treated at a Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) CRENI (Centre de Recuperation Nutritionale Infantile) therapeutic feeding centre for severely malnourished children. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044910 : NIGER Yamma village - A child eats Plumpy'nut, a high calorie enriched groundnut paste, during a distribution programme operated by the NGO Concern Worldwide. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044909 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Porter carrying a woven basket on his head in the Pettah market district.
00044908 : SRI LANKA Peradeniya - Boys on the Palmyra Palm Avenue, during a school outing to the Royal Botanic Gardens.
00044907 : NIGER Yamma village - Measuring the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) of a malnourished child. The MUAC is taken in emergency situations in order to identify malnutrition among children under five years old. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044906 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Devine Grace Tele Centre, a decorated cabin offering telephone services.
00044905 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Labourers erect scaffolding and protective netting on a construction site for a high rise luxury apartment building.
00044904 : SRI LANKA - Roadside billboard promoting Whirlpool household elecronics.
00044903 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Colourful religious pictures for sale on a street stall, comprising Christian, Buddhist and Hindu iconography.
00044902 : LATVIA Riga - Young woman sending a text message on her mobile telephone at Riga's Central Market.
00044901 : PAKISTAN Lahore - Cherie Booth (Blair), a lawyer and wife of the British Prime Minister, is presented with a beaded Union Jack flag. She was in Pakistan on a charity visit.
00044900 : NIGER Tahoua village - Ramattu Usman, a nutritionist working for the NGO Concern Worldwide at a food distribution centre in Barmou, weighs a malnourishment child at a distribution centre as part of a screening programme. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044899 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Boys playing on the beach on a Saturday afternoon.
00044898 : LATVIA Riga - Commuters crossing the road as they leave the city centre at the end of the day.
00044897 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Buses drive past the colonial era Queen's Hotel on Temple Square.
00044896 : NIGER Tahoua village - Women wait to have their babies screened at a food distribution centre in Barmou, where the NGO Concern Worldwide was treating malnourished people. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044895 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Certificate from a traditional Birth attendant course in the Kola Tree community, issued by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation.
00044894 : LATVIA Riga - Young woman sitting at a cafe terrace with a large bunch of flowers.
00044893 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Labourers erect scaffolding and protective netting on a construction site for a high rise luxury apartment building.
00044892 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - A young girl gestures to writing on a wall at Pyongyang Children's Palace, a cultural centre dedicated to the cultural formation of children.
00044891 : NIGER Tahoua village - Villagers return from the market on the back of a truck.
00044890 : NIGER Yamma village - A child drinks water from a spoon during a distribution of Plumpy'nut, a high calorie enriched groundnut paste, by the NGO Concern Worldwide. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044889 : NIGER Barmou village - Oxfam worker Jerome uses a Thuraya satellite phone on a field trip. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044888 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Road towards Pyongyang Artist Studios, a workshop for the production of patriotic arts. Each building bears a mural of former Korean President Kim Il Sung (L) and his son Kim Jung Il (R).
00044887 : NIGER Ouar Hamiza village - A lizard is held up before being cooked and eaten.
00044886 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Porter unloading sacks of wheat flour in the Pettah market district.
00044885 : NIGER Barmou village - 12 year old Soyaba Garba hoes a bean and millet field.
00044884 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Reflection of a market porter in a puddle in the Pettah district.
00044883 : LATVIA Riga - Elderly women stop to chat at Riga's Central Market, in the fish hall in one of the five former zeppelin hangers that house much of the market.
00044882 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Traffic jams and shop signs on DS Senanayake Vidiya road in the city centre.
00044881 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Tele Centre, a decorated cabin offering telephone services.
00044880 : SRI LANKA Colombo - A ship is loaded with containers for export at the city's port.
00044879 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Couple sitting on a bench with an umbrella next to an advertising hoarding for Coca Cola, on Galle Face Green.
00044878 : NIGER Tahoua village - Fatou Galissoue and her 12 month old baby Alhassane at a Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) CRENI (Centre de Recuperation Nutritionale Infantile) therapeutic feeding centre for severely malnourished children.
00044877 : NIGER Tahoua village - Young girl.
00044876 : LATVIA Riga - Young woman sending a text message on her mobile telephone at Riga's Central Market.
00044875 : LATVIA Riga - Young women crossing Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00044874 : LATVIA Riga - A speedboat passes cranes on the dock beside the Daugava River.
00044873 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A goat stands outside a decorated cabin offering telephone and hairdressing services.
00044872 : NIGER Tahoua village - Field of millet.
00044871 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A new born baby held by its mother visits a clinic for innoculation and weighing in the Looking Town community.
00044870 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Bannana seller in the Pettah market district.
00044869 : NIGER Barmou village - Granaries built from mud to store grain.
00044868 : LATVIA Riga - Woman begging in Kronvalda Park.
00044867 : LATVIA Riga - Young woman crossing the road in the city centre.
00044866 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Young boy selling chewing gum.
00044865 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - 16 year old Alpha, a boy disabled by polio, operates bellows in a metal workshop run by HAM (Handicap Action Movement).
00044864 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - View over the River Neva towards the spire of Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral.
00044863 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Decorated cabins offering telephone services.
00044862 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A cabin offering telephone and hairdressing services, decorated with the American flag.
00044861 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - View over the River Neva towards the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral and the spire of Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral.
00044860 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Boy disabled by polio making cooking stoves from recycled metal in a workshop run by HAM (Handicap Action Movement).
00044859 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - MCH (Mother Child Health) nurse Fatmata M. Kargbo writes notes at an MCH clinic held under a tree in Looking Town community.
00044858 : LATVIA Riga - Young women walk past a Coca Cola delivery truck.
00044857 : LATVIA Riga - People outside a Rimi supermarket in a modern shopping centre. Rimi is a Latvian chain.
00044856 : SRI LANKA Peradeniya - A family walk along the Palmyra Palm Avenue, during an outing to the Royal Botanic Gardens.
00044855 : LATVIA Riga - Elderly women stop to chat at Riga's Central Market, in the fish hall in one of the five former zeppelin hangers that house much of the market.
00044854 : NIGER Barmou village - 12 month old Maryam waits with her grandmother for a screening at a food distribution centre in Barmou, where the NGO Concern Worldwide was treating malnourished people. A famine in Niger had put the lives of up to 2.5 million at risk.
00044853 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Truck company porters stand beside a lorry selling household electronics, bearing the images of fans, cookers, mixers and cooking stoves in the Pettah market district.
00044852 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Woman walking past a decorated cabin offering telephone services.
00044851 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Decorated cabin offering telephone services.
00044850 : LATVIA Riga - A thunder storm approaches the docks on the Daugava River.
00044849 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Elderly man asleep on the street despite the passing traffic.
00044848 : TURKEY Cukurca, Kurdistan - A girl raises her hand during a lesson. The Turkish teacher has been sent by the national government to teach english to Kurdish students.
00044847 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Pedestrians on Main Street in the Pettah market district.
00044846 : LATVIA Riga - Shoppers at a butcher's stall in Riga's Central Market. Meat sellers dominate one of the five converted zeppellin hangers that house the market.
00044845 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - 'Say no to corruption - reduce poverty' - poster on the roadside.
00044844 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A tourist takes a photograph of a soldier on ceremonial guard duty at the Whitehall entrance to Horse Guards Parade.
00044843 : LATVIA Riga - Young woman passing a cafe terrace on Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00044842 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Waiter serving rice and curry in the Old Empire Hotel in the city centre.
00044841 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The rules of the plaza in the suburb of Portee are written on a blackboard along with the fines for their breach.
00044840 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Boys playing in the sea on the beach.
00044839 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A tourist poses for a photograph next to a soldier on ceremonial guard duty holding a sword, at the Whitehall entrance to Horse Guards Parade.
00044838 : LATVIA Riga - People drinking beer at outdoor cafe tables at the edge of Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00044837 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Children compete in a sack race in the village of Portugos during the annual festival. The festival takes place over four days in early October and is celebrated by games and a religious ceremony.
00044836 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Man with a cart selling Nestle Nescafe instant coffee on Main Street in the Pettah market district.
00044835 : SRI LANKA Peradeniya - A group of girls on the Palmyra Palm Avenue, during a school outing to the Royal Botanic Gardens.
00044834 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Sheep in a street in the village of Busquistar.
00044833 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - A row of women on a bench wait for the procession of the Virgen de las Angustias during the annual village festivities. The festival takes place over four days in early October and is celebrated by games and a religious ceremony in which a statue of the Virgin Mary is paraded through the village streets.
00044832 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Farmer spraying crops in the fields around the village of Busquistar.
00044831 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Farmer Antonio Salas feeds his pigs in the village of Portugos.
00044830 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - A box of freshly picked raspberries attracts bees. Raspberries are the most cultivated crops around the village of Busquistar.
00044829 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - A boy from the village Portugos carries a crucifix ahead of the procession of the Virgen de las Angustias during the annual village festivities. The festival takes place over four days in early October and is celebrated by games and a religious ceremony in which a statue of the Virgin Mary is paraded through the village streets.
00044828 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Toreros (bullfighters) Antonio Bejar (left) and Francisco de Borja (right) wait in costume to begin a bullfight organised by the village of Portugos authority for the annual village festivities. The festival takes place over four days in early October and is celebrated by games and a religious ceremony.
00044827 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - A dead bull is dragged from the bullring by a car after it was killed in a bullfight organised by the village of Portugos authority for the annual village festivities. One ear of the bull has been cut off as it is traditionally kept by the torero (bullfighter) as a trophy. The festival takes place over four days in early October and is celebrated by games and a religious ceremony.
00044826 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Farmer Julian Blasco holds some freshly picked raspberries in his hand during the soft fruit harvest. Raspberries are the most cultivated crops around the village of Busquistar.
00044825 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Elderly man sitting on a bench in the street of the village of Busquistar, next to a house advertised as for sale with 'Se Vende' written on the wall.
00044824 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Legs of Jamon Serrano, a traditional cured ham hang to mature in the storehouse of Jose Antonio, the mayor of the village of Busquistar.
00044823 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Farmer Diego Gancedo works in his hillside field using a horse drawn plough. The farmland lies outside the village of Busquistar.
00044822 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Toreros (bullfighter) Joaquin Puga in the ring at the climax of a bullfight organised by the authorities of Portugos for the annual village festivities. The festival takes place over four days in early October and is celebrated by games and a religious ceremony.
00044821 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Spectators cheer at a bullfight organised by the authorities of Portugos for the annual village festivities. The festival takes place over four days in early October and is celebrated by games and a religious ceremony.
00044820 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - A man passes an old house with his donkey in the village of Busquistar.
00044819 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Carmen (L) and Pilar relax in the grass after working in a field near the village of Busquistar.
00044818 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - The congregation pray at Sunday mass in the church of the village of Portugos.
00044817 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Gabriel Salmeron harvests grapes from his vines in the village of Busquistar.
00044816 : GERMANY Berlin - Visitors walk among the concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044815 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Children play at a fairground shooting gallery in the village of Portugos during its annual festival, which takes place over four days in early October.
00044814 : GERMANY Berlin - A boy walks among the concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044813 : GERMANY Berlin - Visitors have a discussion among the concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044812 : GERMANY Berlin - Visitors have a discussion among the concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044811 : GERMANY Berlin - A woman in a wheelchair visits the concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044810 : GERMANY Berlin - A tourist is given directions on Alexandrplatz near the Fernsehturm (Television Tower).
00044809 : GERMANY Berlin - A yellow rose is left on one of the concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044808 : GERMANY Berlin - Sillhouettes of visitors are seen in front of photographs of Jewish people dating from before the Second World War (WWII). The exhibition is part of an underground information centre at the Monument to the Murdered Jews, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044807 : GERMANY Berlin - Sillhouettes of visitors are seen in front of photographs of Jewish people dating from before the Second World War (WWII). The exhibition is part of an underground information centre at the Monument to the Murdered Jews, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044806 : GERMANY Berlin - Sillhouettes of visitors are seen in front of photographs of Jewish people dating from before the Second World War (WWII). The exhibition is part of an underground information centre at the Monument to the Murdered Jews, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044805 : GERMANY Berlin - Visitors read letters and diaries of the Jewish victims of the holocaust in the Second World War (WWII). The exhibition is displayed at an underground information centre at the Monument to the Murdered Jews, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00044804 : GERMANY Berlin - Girl waiting at a bratwurst (German sausage) stall for a hot dog with tomato ketchup.
00044803 : GERMANY Berlin - The Fernsehturm (Television Tower) and construction cranes beside Alexanderplatz.
00044802 : GERMANY Berlin - View over the city past construction cranes and the the tower of the Marienkirche towards the dome of the Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral) from Alexanderplatz.
00044801 : GERMANY Berlin - Mainland Chinese tourists pose for photographs in front of statues of communist political philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels beside the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic), the former parliament building of East Germany.
00044800 : GERMANY Berlin - Silhouette of the statue of Victoria and her four-horsed chariot atop the Brandenburg Gate.
00044799 : GERMANY Berlin - A bride and groom pose for photographs on the steps of the Museum of Antiquities and the National Gallery after their wedding ceremony on Museum Island.
00044798 : GERMANY Berlin - Painting of a Trabant car, a style produced in the former East Germany, as a mural on one of the few remaining sections of the Berlin Wall close to Potsdamer Platz.
00044797 : GERMANY Berlin - Silhouette of the statue of Victoria and her four-horsed chariot atop the Brandenburg Gate.
00044796 : GERMANY Berlin - Silhouettes of visitors at the illuminated Brandenburg Gate, in front of an art installation. The temporary exhibition on Pariser Platz shows the ruined state of the site after the Second World War.
00044795 : GERMANY Berlin - The Brandenburg Gate illuminated at night.
00044794 : GERMANY Berlin - Rear of the statue of Victoria and her four-horsed chariot atop the Brandenburg Gate.
00044793 : GERMANY Berlin - People stand in front of a hoarding bearing an image of the Brandenburg Gate while construction work takes place behind.
00044792 : GERMANY Berlin - The German Parliament building, the Reichstag.
00044791 : GERMANY Berlin - A woman walks past advertising for a planned fashion shop on Rosenthaler Strasse, in an increasingly fashionable area of Mitte district in the former East Berlin.
00044790 : GERMANY Berlin - Passengers alight a low-cost airline Easyjet flight, as others in a departure lounge wait to board the aircraft at Schoenefeld airport.
00044789 : GERMANY Berlin - Inside the dome of the Reichstag building, which houses the German Parliament, designed by architect Sir Norman Foster.
00044788 : GERMANY Berlin - Bavarian costumed youths smoking cigarettes on the steps of the Reichstag, the German Parliament Building.
00044787 : GERMANY Berlin - A Turkish woman wearing a headscarf walks through the snow at the Turkish market with her shopping trolley.
00044786 : GERMANY Berlin - Two young Turkish girls walk through the Turkish market.
00044785 : GERMANY Berlin - A Turkish family at the Turkish market.
00044784 : GERMANY Berlin - Turkish women push their children in prams through the Turkish market.
00044783 : GERMANY Berlin - The german flag is seen through a shattered pane of glass in the new glass dome of the restored Reichstag building, which houses the German Parliament.
00044782 : GERMANY Berlin - Woman working at art nouveau ticket counter in Hackesche Hofe, a cultural centre in the Mitte district in former East Berlin.
00044781 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Decorated cabin offering telephone services.
00044780 : LATVIA Riga - Young man using mobile telephone at cafe on Cathedral Square in Riga's old town.
00044779 : SRI LANKA Peradeniya - Group of girls on the Palmyra Palm Avenue, during a school outing to the Royal Botanic Gardens.
00044778 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Schoolgirls in a secondary school sing for a foreign visitor. Portraits of former Korean President Kim Il Sung (L) and his son Kim Jung Il (R) hang on the walls in all classrooms.
00044777 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A woman sits with her children as she has her hair plaited in the Looking Town community.
00044776 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Young girl wearing a Jennifer Lopez T shirt.
00044775 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Schoolgirls carrying corrugated iron sheeting for their school in the Looking Town community.
00044774 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A baby cries as she is given a vaccination at a MCH (Mother Child Health) clinic in the shade of a tree in Looking Town community.
00044773 : SRI LANKA Kandy - Young women walking beside Kandy Lake.
00044772 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A young girl sits on a plastic jerry can container as she waits to collect water in Looking Town community.
00044771 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - 21 year old pregnant Aishatsu Kamara leaning against a fence.
00044770 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - TBA (Traditional Birth Attendant) midwife Isatu Kargbo examines a pregnant woman.
00044769 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Family with their newborn baby.
00044768 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - TBA (Traditional Birth Attendant) Isatu Kargbo plants krin seedlings in her garden with her youngest child Jojo and niece Isatu. The seedlings prove to be her main source of income.
00044767 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Box used for registering births by illiterate TBAs (Traditional Birth Attendant). The midwife places a stone in the appropriate hole for the delivery. The blue slot reflects a normal birth, white suggests complications were involved, red denotes a stillborn, green premature and a black stretcher records a hospital referral.
00044766 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - TBA (Traditional Birth Attendant) Isatu Kargbo plants krin seedlings in her garden. The seedlings prove to be her main source of income.
00044765 : NIGER Barmou village - Fulani (Peul) tribeswoman Rodo with her baby Abdu.
00044764 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Boys playing a game in the sand with a pebble in Looking Town community.
00044763 : TURKEY Cukurca, Kurdistan - A student looks out of a window southwards towards snow-covered hills from his bedroom at a boarding school.
00044762 : TURKEY Diyarbakir, Kurdistan - Children playing football in the street.
00044761 : TURKEY Silopi district, Kurdistan - Tail lights from a tanker truck stretch along a road heading to the Habur border crossing to collect Iraqi crude oil.
00044760 : TURKEY Cukurca, Kurdistan - Men praying at a mosque.
00044759 : TURKEY Van, Kurdistan - A man pulls a cart filled with firewood through the streets after recent snowfall.
00044758 : TURKEY Hakkari, Kurdistan - Woman baking bread in an underground oven.
00044757 : TURKEY Hakkari, Kurdistan - Women walking through the hills.
00044756 : TURKEY Sirnak Province, Kurdistan - Women with their children outside their home in a village.
00044755 : TURKEY Silopi district, Kurdistan - Men walk among oil tankers at a truck stop. The lorries are parked on the route of their journey bringing Iraqi crude oil through Sirnak province.
00044754 : TURKEY Silopi district, Kurdistan - Men sit beside an oil tanker at a truck stop. The lorries are parked on the route of their journey bringing Iraqi crude oil through Sirnak province.
00044753 : TURKEY Habur, Silopi district, Kurdistan - Tanker trucks queue to cross the Habur border crossing from Turkey into Northern Iraq, where they will collect crude oil from Mosul.
00044752 : TURKEY Habur, Silopi district, Kurdistan - A truck driver looks out the window of his oil tanker as he waits drive his truck across the Habur border crossing from Turkey and into Northern Iraq where he will collect crude oil.
00044751 : TURKEY Habur, Silopi district, Kurdistan - Paperwork allowing an oil tanker truck to drive over the Habur border crossing from Turkey and into Northern Iraq to collect crude oil.
00044750 : TURKEY Van, Kurdistan - Boys look at postcards and pictures of celebrities for sale on a stall.
00044749 : TURKEY Kurdistan - Man drinking tea.
00044748 : TURKEY Kurdistan - Shopkeeper in his store on the Iraqi border.
00044747 : TURKEY Van, Kurdistan - Boys sit next to a fire to keep warm in the snow after school.
00044746 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Shop porter in Pettah market district.
00044745 : ITALY Palermo, Sicily - Yachts are moored in the harbour at the old port of Palermo, La Cala.
00044744 : GERMANY Berlin - A tourist looks at an art installation in front of the Brandenburg Gate. The temporary exhibition on Pariser Platz shows the ruined state of the site after the Second World War.
00044743 : ITALY Palermo, Sicily - Wealthy Italians sing 'We are the Champions' at a gala dinner following an exclusive regatta for their yachts at Porto Rotunda Yacht Club.
00044742 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A man walks past a sign prohibiting begging in a London Underground tube station.
00044741 : DENMARK - A homeless man sleeps on the street with his dog next to a bank cash machine.
00044740 : FRANCE Paris - A building is reflected in a shop window which advertises lingerie.
00044739 : IRELAND Dublin - A man walks past an advertisement for Guinness reading 'Time for a Pint' on a bridge over the River Liffey.
00044738 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - Statue of Aleksandr Pushkin (Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin) in front of the Russian Museum.
00044737 : UNITED KINGDOM Liverpool, England, Great Britain, UK - A Beatles tribute band perfrom on stage in the Cavern Club, where the original Beatles played many times.
00044736 : UNITED KINGDOM Liverpool, England, Great Britain, UK - A Beatles tribute band perfrom on stage in the Cavern Club, where the original Beatles played many times.
00044735 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - Tourists stand at a lookout point overlooking the Lago Argentina and the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate. The natural ice formation is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
00044734 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - The Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044733 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - Josefa, a gypsy woman, sweeps the street outside her house in the village of Busquistar.
00044732 : GERMANY Berlin - A tourist takes a photograph of an art installation in front of the Brandenburg Gate. The temporary exhibition on Pariser Platz shows the ruined state of the site after the Second World War.
00044731 : GERMANY Berlin - Tourists take photographs of an art installation in front of the Brandenburg Gate. The temporary exhibition on Pariser Platz shows the ruined state of the German Parliament, the Reichstag building, on the site after the Second World War.
00044730 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - A teacher talks to a young student in a primary school in the village of Busquistar. A crucifix hangs on the wall of the classroom despite the education system in Spain being secular.
00044729 : SPAIN Las Alpujarras, Andalucia - A farmer works in the the raspberry fields surrounding the village of Busquistar. Raspberries are the most cultivated crops in the area.
00044728 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - Murals and frescoes inside the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ).
00044727 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - The golden domes of the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ).
00044726 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - The golden domes of the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ).
00044725 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - The facade of the Winter Palace.
00044724 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - Frescoes and mosaics inside the dome of the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ).
00044723 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - Staircase inside the Hermitage museum.
00044722 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - The domes of the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ) at sunrise.
00044721 : LESOTHO Maseru - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, talks during a dinner hosted by the Lesotho government during his visit to the country with his 'Red' campaign team and his Africa think-tank DATA, which aims to raise awareness about debt, AIDS, unfair trade rules in Africa. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campain to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044720 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - Sculptural representation of Antonia Canova's Cupid and Psyche in Gallery 241 of the Hermitage museum.
00044719 : LESOTHO Butha Buthe - An HIV positive patient shows her tongue to nurse Martha Mampeoane Khoiumo at a clinic at the general hospital.
00044718 : LESOTHO Butha Buthe - A choir from Qalo High school sings for Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, as he visits the school as part of an African tour alongside the think-tank DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, in Africa), and the 'Red' campaign. Bono's 'Red' project is a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa. All the groups form part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, which Bono heads.
00044717 : LESOTHO Butha Buthe - Local women and schoolchildren take shelter from the rain as the U2 popstar Bono visits Qalo High school as part of his tour of Africa to promote his 'One' campaign, the causes of free trade and HIV awareness and treatment. Bono has visited the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044716 : RWANDA Kigali - A laboratory technician at the general hospital holds vial of blood that is being tested for HIV. It is estimated that Rwanda has a 5% HIV/AIDS prevalence rate.
00044715 : RWANDA Mayange - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, bows before a young girl during his visit to the Millennium village with the 'Red' campaign team and his Africa think-tank DATA, which aims to raise awareness about debt, AIDS, unfair trade rules in Africa. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044714 : RWANDA Mayange - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, listens to a patient at a local health clinic in the town. The village is within a rural district that has the highest AIDS rate in Rwanda. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044713 : RWANDA Kigali - Children share a hospital bed on a paediatric ward in the main hospital. The children in the hospital are seriously ill with HIV-related diseases, respiratory illnesses such as tuberculosis and malaria.
00044712 : LESOTHO - A cloudy sky over the Lesothan landscape.
00044711 : RWANDA Mayange - Children from the main school in the Millennium village gather to greet Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2 during his visit to the school as part of Africa to promote his 'One' campaign.
00044710 : RWANDA Nyamata - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, meets genocide survivor Nyirakyimuzanye in the local church, which was the site of a large massacre. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project.
00044709 : LESOTHO Maseru - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, listens to HIV positive textile workers at Precious Garments factory during a discussion on the need for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and on-site HIV testing centres. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044708 : LESOTHO Maseru - Taiwanese technicians at Precious Garment textile factory.
00044707 : LESOTHO Maseru - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, listens to HIV positive textile workers at Precious Garments factory during a discussion on the need for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and on-site HIV testing centres. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044706 : LESOTHO Maseru - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, listens to HIV positive textile workers at Precious Garments factory during a discussion on the need for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and on-site HIV testing centres. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044705 : LESOTHO Maseru - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, holds up a 'One' campaign T-shirt that has been manufactured in a textile factory in Lesotho as part of a scheme to help Africa develop markets and jobs. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History.
00044704 : LESOTHO Maseru - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, stands next to the Queen of Lesotho, Karabo Motsoeneng and Bono's wife Ali Hewson (L) during his visit to the village with the 'Red' campaign team and his Africa think-tank DATA. The organisation aims to raise awareness about debt, AIDS, unfair trade rules in Africa. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044703 : LESOTHO Maseru - A GAP T-shirt at the Taiwanese-owned Precious Garments textile factory in Lesotho visited by Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History as part of a trade initiative.
00044702 : LESOTHO Maseru - Factory worker making T-shirts for the 'Red' campaign being run at the GAP clothing store. The Taiwanese-owned Precious Garments textile factory is visited by Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History.
00044701 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - The Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044700 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - The Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044699 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - The Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044698 : LESOTHO Maseru - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, talks during a dinner hosted by the Lesotho government during his visit to the country with his 'Red' campaign team and his Africa think-tank DATA, which aims to raise awareness about debt, AIDS, unfair trade rules in Africa. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campain to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044697 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - Tourists during an eight-hour hike over the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate. The natural ice formation is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
00044696 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - The Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044695 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - Debris on the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044694 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - A rivulet of ice melt flows over the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044693 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - Tourists during an eight-hour hike over the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate. The natural ice formation is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
00044692 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - A tourist during an eight-hour hike over the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate. The natural ice formation is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
00044691 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - Tourists during an eight-hour hike over the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate. The natural ice formation is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
00044690 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - The Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044689 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - The Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044688 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - Tourists during an eight-hour hike over the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate. The natural ice formation is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
00044687 : LESOTHO Butha Buthe - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, holds the child of a local HIV activist among those who have gathered to greet him at an HIV/AIDS clinic. The clinic is run in the grounds of the town's hospital.
00044686 : LESOTHO Maseru - Painting by the side of a highway spelling out the word 'AIDS'. Lesotho has an HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of around 30%.
00044685 : LESOTHO Butha Buthe - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, shelters from the rain at Qalo High school. His 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa supports the production of the T-shirts made in a nearby factory and worn by the students. The T-Shirts bear the logo of the 'One' campaign, which Bono heads.
00044684 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - A tourist takes a photograph amidst the tundra at the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate. The natural ice formation is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
00044683 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - A piece of the wall of the Perito Moreno Glacier breaks and falls into the water of the Lago Argentino in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044682 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - The Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate.
00044681 : LESOTHO Maseru - A choir entertains Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, and guests during his visit to the country with his 'Red' campaign team and his Africa think-tank DATA, which aims to raise awareness about debt, AIDS, unfair trade rules in Africa. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044680 : NORTH KOREA Wonsan - Socialist billboards flank the entrance to a municipal building in the city.
00044679 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - Tourists crouch inside a natural tunnel under the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate. The natural ice formation is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
00044678 : ARGENTINA Santa Cruz, Argentine Patagonia - Tourists take photographs beneath the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, near El Calafate. The natural ice formation is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.
00044677 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Monument to the Korean Workers' Party. The sculptures of a hammer, sickel and paintbrush represent industrial workers, agricultural workers and artistic workers respectively.
00044676 : NORTH KOREA Kaesong (Gaeseong) - Cyclists in the street.
00044675 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Large painting of former leader of North Korea, President Kim Il Sung with his son General Kim Jung Il at an art gallery.
00044674 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - A female traffic police officer directs traffic from the middle of the road beneath a billboard depicting former leader of North Korea, President Kim Il Sung.
00044673 : RWANDA Mayange - Millennium village coordinator Annette Karenzi stands among a crowd of children in the town. Mayange was developed as a settlement for returnees to the area after the genocide.
00044672 : LESOTHO Butha Buthe - Nurse Martha Mampeoane Kholumo, who runs the town's HIV/AIDS testing and treatment clinic.
00044671 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Apartment blocks in the town centre.
00044670 : NORTH KOREA Wonsan - Pedestrians in a square surrounded by housing blocks.
00044669 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Hotel bar at the luxurious Yanggakdo Hotel on Yanggakdo Island.
00044668 : NORTH KOREA Wonsan - Men sit drinking in a hotel bar.
00044667 : LESOTHO Butha Buthe - Mpolokeng Kele, an HIV positive clinic worker at the town's HIV/AIDS testing and treatment centre.
00044666 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Mansu Hill, a war memorial and monument for North Korean independence, celebrating victory over Japanese colonization and US Imperialism.
00044665 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Schoolchildren in uniform visit the Revolutionary Museum at Mansu Hill.
00044664 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Cyclists and a pedestrian travel past a sculpture representing the Juche ideology. The principle of Juche is the combination of communism, traditionalism and self-reliance, forming a national philosophy in North Korea.
00044663 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Cyclists and a pedestrian pass Korean Socialist propaganda billboards. One announces 'Smash US Imperialism!'.
00044662 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Man wearing a pin badge bearing the image of former leader of North Korea and General Secretary of the Korean Workers' Party, President Kim Il Sung.
00044661 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Female tour guide at the Monument to the Korean War, formally known as the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War in North Korea.
00044660 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Female tour guide at the Monument to the Korean War, formally known as the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War in North Korea.
00044659 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Illuminated buildings in the Central Square, also known as Kim Il Sung Square.
00044658 : RWANDA Kigali - Olive Gatesi (C) the President of a Rwandan Association of people living with AIDS, with other members of the collective.
00044657 : LESOTHO Maseru - Phafoie Mankopane, an HIV positive textile worker at the Precious Garments factory .
00044656 : LESOTHO Maseru - Keketso Serobanyane, an HIV positive clinic worker.
00044655 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Schoolchildren stand in rows in front of a statue of former leader of North Korea and General Secretary of the Korean Workers' Party, President Kim Il Sung.
00044654 : RWANDA Mayange - Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, arrives at the Millennium village with his Africa think-tank DATA, which aims to raise awareness about debt, AIDS, unfair trade rules in Africa. The prevalence of AIDS in the village is particularly high. Bono is visiting the region as part of the 'One' campaign to Make Poverty History, alongside his 'Red' project, a global brand which aims to use its profits to fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.
00044653 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Female tour guide in army uniform aboard the USS Pueblo, a US naval vessel captured by North Korea in 1968. The US spy ship remains docked in Pyongyang and has become a tourist attraction.
00044652 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification.
00044651 : NORTH KOREA Panmunjeom (Panmunjom) - Korean soldier in the Armistice Hall in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), where the ceasefire between North Korea, South Korea and Allied forces was signed in 1953. The original Korean flag displayed during the signing of the agreement remains on the desk in the same position as it was in the 50s.
00044650 : NORTH KOREA Panmunjeom (Panmunjom) - Korean soldiers outside the blue and white huts of the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ). American servicemen gather in the background on the South Korean side of the border.
00044649 : NORTH KOREA Panmunjeom (Panmunjom) - Korean soldiers outside the blue and white huts of the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ).
00044648 : NORTH KOREA - Families hire rowing boats on the Taedong river. The Tower of the Juche Idea stands in the distance on the far shore. The principle of Juche is the combination of communism, traditionalism and self-reliance, forming a national philosophy in North Korea.
00044647 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - A woman waits for her hairdressing appointment beneath a poster demonstrating a variety of different hairstyles.
00044646 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - A client has her hair set into rollers at a hairdressing salon in the Pyongyang Health Complex.
00044645 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Children in a swimming pool beside a mural depicting waterskiiers at a beach.
00044644 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Subway metro station with a Social Realist mural featuring former leader of North Korea, President Kim Il Sung and workers from various public sector jobs.
00044643 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - A subway train arrives at the metro station alongside a Social Realist mural featuring workers from various public sector jobs.
00044642 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Passengers wait at a metro station platform for the arrival of a subway train.
00044641 : NORTH KOREA Wonsan - Tourists are served by a waitress in a hotel dining room, which has a mural of a sunset and a coastline on the walll.
00044640 : NORTH KOREA Kumgang mountains - Young soldiers carrying a pail perform road repair works on a mountain road.
00044639 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Barrels of dyes at the former state-owned textile factory S. C. Textila Dacia S. A. The factory has been run by a largely female cooperative since 1994 when the company was privatised.
00044638 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Workers at the former state-owned textile factory S. C. Textila Dacia S. A, use a new computerised printing machine, called 'Stork'. The factory has been run by a largely female cooperative since 1994 when the company was privatised.
00044637 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Workers in the dyeing department of the former state-owned textile factory S. C. Textila Dacia S. A. The factory has been run by a largely female cooperative since 1994 when the company was privatised.
00044636 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Eighteen year old Vasilica Stefan plays pool on a Sunday afternoon in the local pub. His family are subsistence farmers.
00044635 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Young students gather outside a classroom in the old building of the Scola Centrala secondary school.
00044634 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Subsistence farmer Elena Stefan attends Sunday service with her family at the local Romanian Orthodox church.
00044633 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Subsistence farmer Elena Stefan prays at Sunday service at the local Romanian Orthodox church.
00044632 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Sunday service at a Romanian Orthodox church.
00044631 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Ioan Stefan filters milk collected from farmers at the milk collection centre. He and his eighteen year old son Vasilica travel by horse-drawn cart between farms collecting milk and bring it to the centre to be bottled and distributed. The family lives and works from subsistence farming and occasionally produces enough milk to sell.
00044630 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - The congregation light candles during a Sunday service at a Romanian Orthodox church.
00044629 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Ioan Stefan travels by horse-drawn cart between farms collecting milk from farmers to bring to the milk collection centre in pails. The family lives and works from subsistence farming and occasionally produces enough milk to sell.
00044628 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Elena Stefan harvests fodder beets in a field on her family's subsistence farm.
00044627 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Elena Stefan collects pumpkin seeds on her family's subsistence farm.
00044626 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Police assist an elderly man who has fallen over during a protest by senior citizens against Romania's poor social welfare system.
00044625 : ROMANIA Bucharest - The foundations to modern apartment buildings on a construction site.
00044624 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Pedestrians and traffic on a road in the city.
00044623 : ROMANIA Bucharest - The Romanian parliament building in Revolution Square.
00044622 : ROMANIA Bucharest - The Romanian parliament building.
00044621 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Pedestrians cross the road at traffic lights next to an empty fountain and a billboard advertising Romtelecom telecommunications company on Piata Unirii.
00044620 : ROMANIA Bucharest - A billboard advertising a furniture shop stands in front of a socialist tower block.
00044619 : ROMANIA Bucharest - A no-entry road sign and a barrier at the entrance to the Romanian parliament building.
00044618 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Trams travel past a Romanian Orthodox church.
00044617 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Romanian flag and reflection of buildings in a modern window.
00044616 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Reflection of municipal buildings and the National bank in the bonnet of a car.
00044615 : ROMANIA Brasov - Man running through a square next to the old German saxon school in the town.
00044614 : ROMANIA Brasov - Man standing on a ladder to repair electricity cables outside his house.
00044613 : ROMANIA Bucharest - A car with a trailer advertising Coca Cola in Revolution Square in front of the Romanian parliament building.
00044612 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Ioan Stefan, a subsistence farmer.
00044611 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Elena Stefan, a subsistence farmer, with blue-stained hands from the paint she has used to decorate her kitchen.
00044610 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Eighteen year old Vasilica (L) with his family Elena, Ioan and Crisit toast the homemade white wine at the dinner table. The Stefan farming family live off subsistence farming.
00044609 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - The Stefan family, (L-R) Crisit, Vasilica, Ioan and Elena watch TV together in their living room on the farm where they live off subsistence farming.
00044608 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Farmer Ioan Stefan plants potatoes in the garden on his family's subsistence farm.
00044607 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Elena Stefan paints the walls of her kitchen on the farm where her family live. The room also serves as a cool bedroom in the summer.
00044606 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - A worker at the milk collection centre testing the quality of a sample of milk by its fat content, density and acidity. The milk has been collected from various farmers in the local area and brought to the centre for quality control.
00044605 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Elena Stefan cleans a paintbrush as she paints the walls of her kitchen on the farm where her family live. The room also serves as a cool bedroom in the summer.
00044604 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - A worker at the milk collection centre washes a milk pail. The milk has been collected from various farmers in the local area and brought to the centre for quality control.
00044603 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Ioan Stefan unloads pails of milk collected from farmers at the milk collection centre. He and his eighteen year old son Vasilica travel by horse-drawn cart between farms collecting milk and bring it to the centre to be bottled and distributed. The family lives and works from subsistence farming and occasionally produces enough milk to sell.
00044602 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Eighteen year old Vasilica Stefan collects milk in pails from farmers on the roadside. He and his father Ioan travel by horse-drawn cart between farms collecting milk to bring to the milk collection centre. The family lives and works from subsistence farming and occasionally produces enough milk to sell.
00044601 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Ioan Stefan and his eighteen year old son Vasilica travel by horse-drawn cart between farms collecting milk from farmers to bring to the milk collection centre in pails. The family lives and works from subsistence farming and occasionally produces enough milk to sell.
00044600 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Elderly man begging in the centre of town.
00044599 : ROMANIA Ciohorani village - Elena Stefan milks the family's only cow in a barn at 5.30 in the morning. The family lives and works from subsistence farming and occasionally produces enough milk to sell.
00044598 : ROMANIA Bucharest - The Arcul de Triumf (Triumphal Arch) on the Kiseleff Road. It was built in 1936, replacing the preliminary wooden arch which was built after Romania gained its independence in 1878.
00044597 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Professor count Constantin Baleaceauru-Stolnici, advisor to the Partidul National Liberal, the Romanian National Liberal Party.
00044596 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - A seasonal worker takes a cigarette break next to sacks of potatoes harvested on a farm.
00044595 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal workers load the potato harvest onto a tractor on a farm.
00044594 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal worker carrying baskets as he works gathering the potato harvest on a farm.
00044593 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal worker sitting on a basket of harvested potatoes in a field on a farm during the harvest.
00044592 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - A seasonal working couple rest at the end of a day collecting the potato harvest on a farm.
00044591 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal workers with baskets of potatoes on a farm during the potato harvest.
00044590 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal worker carrying a basket as he works gathering the potato harvest on a farm.
00044589 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal worker sitting on a basket of harvested potatoes in a field on a farm during the harvest.
00044588 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Female seasonal workers sorting potatoes during the harvest on a potato farm.
00044587 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal worker sorting potatoes into sacks during the harvest on a potato farm.
00044586 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal workers load the potato harvest onto a tractor on a farm.
00044585 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Female seasonal workers sorting potatoes during the harvest on a potato farm.
00044584 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal workers load the potato harvest onto a tractor on a farm.
00044583 : ROMANIA Zabala, Transylvania - Seasonal workers travel on the back of a tractor to the fields where they work collecting the potato harvest.
00044582 : USA Salton Sea, Colorado Desert, California - A US Fish and Wildlife Service officer fires a net gun, underestimating its recoil that knocks her off her seat in the boat. Since avian botulism threatened the bird population, biologists have been capturing animals for rehabilitation and research. The Salton Sea has experienced a significant decrease in oxygen and consequently seen the demise of oxygen-dependent saltwater fish species, which in turn affects the avian population.
00044581 : USA Niland, Colorado Desert, California - Elderly women enjoy morning exercises in a swimming pool at the Fountain of Youth Spa. The warm climate and relative low cost of living at Salton City attract thousands of retirees, known as 'snowbirds' who anually travel south for the winter.
00044580 : USA Salton City, Colorado Desert, California - A group of affluent retirees play golf on the putting green on the Sidewinder Golf course, which lacks grass on account of the region's low rainfall and precious water supply. Since the success of the area as a tourist destination in the 1970s, fluctuating sea levels and increased salinity of the water has led to out-migration of inhabitants from the resort. The warm climate and relative low cost of living at Salton City attract thousands of retirees, known as 'snowbirds' who anually travel south for the winter.
00044579 : USA Niland, California - A young girl dressed in a white dress attends her aunt's quinceanera, a Hispanic rite of passage for Latina girls turning 15. The significant age and symbolic transition from girl to young woman is traditionally marked by an extravagant celebration.
00044578 : USA Nr North Shore, Colorado Desert, California - A marine biologist captures a sick pelican in the Salton Sea for rehabilitation and research. The sea has experienced a significant decrease in oxygen and consequently seen the demise of oxygen-dependent saltwater fish species, which in turn affects the avian population.
00044577 : USA North Shore, Colorado Desert, California - Carcasses of Tilapia and other fish float in the shallows of the Salton Sea, which has experienced a significant decrease in oxygen and consequently seen the demise of oxygen-dependent saltwater species. The Salton Sea is an inland saline lake, which lies in the Colorado Desert below sea level.
00044576 : USA Imperial Valley, Colorado Desert, California - Ariel view of the Salton Sea and Imperial Valley's extensive fields of farmland developments alongside the desert.
00044575 : USA Coachella Valley, Colorado Desert, California - Aerial view of La Quinta's Trilogy Golf Course and other adjacent greens. They make up only a handful of the 124 golf courses that are scattered throughout The Southern California Deserts.
00044574 : USA Coachella Valley, Colorado Desert, California - A resident of Slab City, a desert community of free-wheeling RV travellers, takes a dip in the waters of the Coachella Canal, one of the area's major irrigation arteries. It transports water from the Colorado River to the farms of the Imperial Valley, where it is used in the fields before run-off is channelled to the Salton Sea.
00044573 : USA Nr Mecca, Colorado Desert, California - Palm trees remain on the site of the former Salton City Yacht Club. Since the success of the area as a tourist destination in the 1970s, fluctuating sea levels and increased salinity of the water has hastened the decay of the city.
00044572 : USA Niland, Colorado Desert, California - Leonard Wright is a 71 year old artist who has coloured and reshaped the desert landscape using donated adobe, straw and thousands of gallons of paint. He began to paint the side of the mountain, known as 'Salvation Mountain' nineteen years previously and his work is now considered a shrine to national folk art.
00044571 : USA Glamis, Colorado Desert, California - Spectators take photographs of contestants with their four-wheel drive vehicles taking part in a dune bike race on the Glamis Dunes. The racing track is in the dried bed of Lake Cahuilla in the Imperial Sand Dunes of Imperial Valley.
00044570 : USA Coachella Valley, Colorado Desert, California - Aerial view of La Quinta's Trilogy Golf Course and other adjacent greens. They make up only a handful of the 124 golf courses that are scattered throughout The Southern California Deserts.
00044569 : USA Mexicali, California - Elderly Mexican agricultural worker wearing a stetson hat.
00044568 : USA Calexico, Colorado Desert, California - US Border police on motorbikes patrol for illegal immigrants in the centre of Calexico, a town in the Imperial Valley, on the Mexican border.
00044567 : USA Mexicali, California - Pedestians walk across the road past a Catholic church in the town of Mexicali, which is an important municipal centre on the Mexican border. Many of the town's inhabitants work as migrant field labourers on the nearby farms.
00044566 : USA Niland, California - A Mexican American girl has her make-up done on the day of her quinceanera, a hispanic rite of passage for Latina girls turning 15. The significant age and symbolic transition from girl to young woman is traditionally marked by an extravagant celebration.
00044565 : USA Niland, California - A Mexican American girl travels by limousine to her quinceanera ceremony, a hispanic rite of passage for Latina girls turning 15. The significant age and symbolic transition from girl to young woman is traditionally marked by an extravagant celebration.
00044564 : USA Salton City, Colorado Desert, California - An estate agent's office illuminated by Christmas lights stands on the roadside with 'Welcome to Salton City' painted on the pavement. Although the area flourished in the 1970s, fluctuating sea levels and increased salinity of the water has led to a decline in the city's population.
00044563 : USA Niland, Colorado Desert, California - Leonard Wright is a 71 year old artist who has coloured and reshaped the desert landscape using donated adobe, straw and thousands of gallons of paint. He began to paint the side of the mountain, known as 'Salvation Mountain' nineteen years previously and his work is now considered a shrine to national folk art.
00044562 : USA Westmorland, Colorado Desert, California - Mexican migrant agricultural workers tend crops in a field in the early morning, before the temperatures in the Imperial Valley become too high.
00044561 : USA Glamis, Colorado Desert, California - Contestants with their four-wheel drive vehicles take part in a dune bike race on the Glamis Dunes. The racing track is in the dried bed of Lake Cahuilla in the Imperial Sand Dunes of Imperial Valley.
00044560 : USA Calipatria, Colorado Desert, California - Lights illuminate a geothermal plant at night. It is one of several energy production sites in the Imperial Valley, which harness the thermal energy from groundwater to power electricity generators and contribute to the national grid.
00044559 : USA Nr Bombay Beach, Colorado Desert, California - A team of geologists and technicians use a drilling rig to probe the bottom of the Salton Sea in preparation for the possible construction of a dyke to preserve the sea's water level.
00044558 : USA Nr Calipatria, Colorado Desert, California - An irrigation canal between Niland and Calipatria extends through agricultural land. It transports water from the Colorado River to the farms of the Imperial Valley, where it is used in the fields before run-off is channelled to the Salton Sea.
00044557 : USA Brawley, California - A Mexican American girl is congratulated by friends and family at her quinceanera ceremony, a Hispanic rite of passage for Latina girls turning 15. The significant age and symbolic transition from girl to young woman is traditionally marked by an extravagant celebration.
00044556 : USA Nr Brawley, Colorado Desert, California - A crop duster aeroplane showers a field with pesticides.
00044555 : USA Brawley, Colorado Desert, California - Mexican migrant labourers harvest watermelons in a field in the Imperial Valley.
00044554 : USA Nr Calipatria, Colorado Desert, California - A Hispanic migrant agricultral worker wears a mask to protect himself from toxic fumes as he transfers pesticides from barrels into a machine for crop distribution.
00044553 : USA Red Hill Marina, Colorado Desert, California - Migrating birds roost in the branches of trees inundated by water in the Salton Sea.
00044552 : USA Calipatria, Colorado Desert, California - Viscous mud bubbles up through a natural vent from what was formerly a commercial carbon dioxide gas field. Geothermal activity beneath the Salton Sea produces carbon dioxide, which is pressurised underground and escapes through fissures in the rock.
00044551 : USA Calipatria, Colorado Desert, California - Viscous mud bubbles up through a natural vent from what was formerly a commercial carbon dioxide gas field. Geothermal activity beneath the Salton Sea produces carbon dioxide, which is pressurised underground and escapes through fissures in the rock.
00044550 : USA Salton City, Colorado Desert, California - A rusting chair sits on the shoreline of Salton City, which flourished in the 1950s. Fluctuating sea levels and increased salinity of the water has led to out-migration of inhabitants from the city.
00044549 : USA Bombay Beach, Colorado Desert, California - The salt-encrusted remains of a dune buggy sit in the saline waters of the Salton Sea after a fluctuation in water level flooded the area and forced people to abandon their homes.
00044548 : USA Salton City, Colorado Desert, California - A 'red tide' formed by an algal bloom in the saline waters of the Salton Sea in the Salton City Harbour. Fertilisers and nutrient-rich irrigation runoff promotes growth of the algae, which sometimes covers large portions of the sea's surface.
00044547 : USA Salton City, Colorado Desert, California - A 'red tide' formed by an algal bloom in the saline waters of the Salton Sea in the Salton City Harbour. Fertilisers and nutrient-rich irrigation runoff promotes growth of the algae which sometimes covers portions of the Sea surface.
00044546 : USA Nr Niland, Colorado Desert, California - Parched land surrounds the water near the Wister Waterfowl Unit of the Salton Sea State Park. As the sea level fluctuates, moisture on the exposed land evaporates and algae flourishes in its nutrient rich soils.
00044545 : USA Nr Niland, Colorado Desert, California - Parched land surrounds the water near the Wister Waterfowl Unit of the Salton Sea State Park. As the sea level fluctuates, moisture on the exposed land evaporates and green algae flourishes in its nutrient rich soils.
00044544 : USA Mecca Beach, Colorado Desert, California - A layear of brown foamy scum floats on the surface of the water of the Salton Sea and collects along the shores of Mecca Beach.
00044543 : USA North Shore, Colorado Desert, California - Palm trees remain on the edge of the Salton Sea next to the North Shore Yacht Club, which flourished in the 1950s. The site has been abandoned since the fluctuating level of the Salton sea flooded the area in 2000.
00044542 : USA Bombay Beach, Colorado Desert, California - Salt-encrusted ground surrounds the rusting remains of an abandoned home after a water level rise in the Salton Sea flooded the area.
00044541 : USA Nr Niland, Colorado Desert, California - An irrigation canal between Niland and Calipatria extends through agricultural land. It transports water from the Colorado River to the farms of the Imperial Valley, where it is used in the fields before run-off is channelled to the Salton Sea.
00044540 : USA Bombay Beach, Colorado Desert, California - Rusting remains of an abandoned home after a water level rise in the Salton Sea flooded the area, leaving pools of corrosive saltwater.
00044539 : USA Salton City, Colorado Desert, California - Palm trees remain on the site of the former Salton City Yacht Club. Since the success of the area as a tourist destination in the 1970s, fluctuating sea levels and increased salinity of the water has hastened the decay of the city.
00044538 : USA Glamis, Colorado Desert, California - Headlights of off road vehicles streak down Oldsmobile Hill during a night dune bike race on the Glamis Dunes. The racing track is in the dried bed of Lake Cahuilla in the Imperial Sand Dunes of Imperial Valley.
00044537 : USA Glamis, Colorado Desert, California - Contestants gather with their four-wheel drive vehicles for a dune bike race on the Glamis Dunes. The racing track is in the dried bed of Lake Cahuilla in the Imperial Sand Dunes of Imperial Valley.
00044536 : USA Nr Imperial, Colorado Desert, California - A flock of snow geese (Chen caerulescens) take flight at the Salton Sea in Imperial Valley, which they use as a wintering site or a stop-off point during the spring migration.
00044535 : USA Brawley, Colorado Desert, California - Ranchers herd cattle in pens at Bill Brandt's, one of the largest cattle ranches in the Imperial Valley. Brandt established the Brawley Beef Packing Plant as an important contributor to the valley's commercial beef industry.
00044534 : USA Brawley, Colorado Desert, California - Cattle are showered before being sent to slaughter at Bill Brandt's cattle ranch, one of the largest in the Imperial Valley. Brandt established the Brawley Beef Packing Plant as an important contributor to the valley's commercial beef industry.
00044533 : USA Brawley, Colorado Desert, California - Cattle in pens at Bill Brandt's, one of the largest cattle ranches in the Imperial Valley. Brandt established the Brawley Beef Packing Plant as an important contributor to the valley's commercial beef industry.
00044532 : USA Thermal, Colorado Desert, California - Agricultural worker picks Medjool dates from a tree at the Oasis Date Garden. The 175 acre farm produces a significant amount of the world's organically grown dates in several varieties.
00044531 : USA Brawley, Colorado Desert, California - Lettuce fields, bordered by a geothermal plant in the distance.
00044530 : USA Brawley, Colorado Desert, California - A Hispanic agricultural worker checks a sprinkler in an irrigation pipe in a mustard plant field. There is very little rainfall in the Imperial Valley during the summer months and consequently controlled irrigation is crucial for the success of crops.
00044529 : USA Westmorland, Colorado Desert, California - Agricultural workers tend a field of watermelon plants, which are covered by polythene sheeting and plastic cups.
00044528 : USA Imperial, Colorado Desert, California - A hispanic agricultural worker walks through the sprinklers checking the irrigation equipment in an alfalfa field. There is very little rainfall in the Imperial Valley during the summer months and consequently controlled irrigation is crucial for the success of crops.
00044527 : USA Nr Niland, Colorado Desert, California - A tractor-driven mulcher prepares the soil in a field for sowing rapini seeds on a farm.
00044526 : USA Brawley, Colorado Desert, California - A young hispanic agricultural labourer operates a mulcher on a farm.
00044525 : USA Westmorland, Colorado Desert, California - A flock of snow geese (Chen caerulescens) take flight at the Salton Sea, which they use as a wintering site or a stop-off point during the spring migration.
00044524 : USA North Shore, Colorado Desert, California - Agricultural run off polluted by fertilisers and pesticides is piped into the Salton Sea. Although polluted, the delivery of the water to the lake is important in replenishing its depleted water level.
00044523 : USA Niland, Colorado Desert, California - Elderly women enjoy morning exercises in a swimming pool at the Fountain of Youth Spa. The warm climate and relative low cost of living at Salton City attract thousands of retirees, known as 'snowbirds' who anually travel south for the winter.
00044522 : USA Brawley, Colorado Desert, California - Mexican American children in skeleton costumes during a Mariachi festival, where people wear fancy dress reminiscent of El Dia Del Muerte (Day of the Dead) and perform folkloric dances.
00044521 : USA Niland, Colorado Desert, California - An elderly retiree in a wheelchair sits beside a fire outside the caravan where he lives in 'Slab City'. The desert community, constructed from the remaining concrete slabs from a WWII military training barracks, has become home to free-wheeling RV travellers, known as 'snowbirds', who anually motor south for the winter.
00044520 : USA Colorado Desert, California - Carcasses of Tilapia and other fish litter the shores of the Salton Sea, which has experienced a significant decrease in oxygen and consequently seen the demise of oxygen-dependent saltwater species. The Salton Sea is an inland saline lake, which lies below sea level.
00044519 : USA Calipatria, Colorado Desert, California - Inmates from Calipatria State Prison take part in a community service programme clearing ditches and trails alongside the Salton Sea under the supervision of prison guards.
00044518 : EGYPT Nr Toshka, Western Desert - Road through the Western Desert with a mirage near the horizon.
00044517 : EGYPT Luxor, Nile Valley - Children with ducklings.
00044516 : EGYPT Nr Luxor, Nile Valley - Children play in an irrigation channel on farmland near the River Nile.
00044515 : EGYPT Luxor, Nile Valley - Farmers walk through a field irrigated with water from the River Nile.
00044514 : EGYPT Nr Aswan, Nile Valley - Farmers load harvested wheat onto a cart drawn by a donkey.
00044513 : EGYPT Nr Luxor, Nile Valley - Farmers and a young boy plough the land on a tractor after the harvest.
00044512 : EGYPT Luxor, Nile Valley - A farmer places harvested tomatoes in a box.
00044511 : EGYPT Nr Luxor, Nile Valley - Farmer in his field on the shore of the River Nile.
00044510 : EGYPT Luxor, Nile Valley - Farmer harvesting wheat. His land is irrigated with water from the River Nile.
00044509 : EGYPT Luxor, Nile Valley - A young shepherd tends a flock of sheep on pasture at the edge of the River Nile.
00044508 : EGYPT Luxor, Nile Valley - Farmland on the edge of the River Nile.
00044507 : EGYPT Nr Luxor, Nile Valley - Farmland on the edge of the River Nile.
00044506 : EGYPT Aswan - A felucca, a traditional wooden sailing boat, passes the city of Aswan on the River Nile at the edge of the Western Desert.
00044505 : EGYPT Nr Aswan - A felucca, a traditional wooden sailing boat on the River Nile at the edge of the Western Desert.
00044504 : EGYPT Aswan - Camels approach Aswan, Egypt's southernmost city, which lies between the desert and the edge of the River Nile.
00044503 : EGYPT Aswan - Electricity pylons in the Western Desert, transporting electricity to Aswan's chemical and cement factories. The electricity is generated at the hydroelectric power station at the Aswan High Dam (Al-Sadd al-Ali) on the River Nile.
00044502 : EGYPT Aswan - Tourists visit the Aswan High Dam (Al-Sadd al-Ali) and Lake Nasser, the world's largest reservoir. The dam was built 6km up river from the old Aswan Dam on the River Nile as a hydroelectric power station.
00044501 : EGYPT Toshka - The Sheikh Zayed Canal in the Western Desert, which diverts water over 550 kilometres from Lake Nasser to create and irrigate farmland in otherwise arid areas. The transfer canal is part of the Toshka project, an engineering venture inaugurated in 1997 whose goal is to reclaim over 500,000 acres of desert.
00044500 : EGYPT Toshka - The Sheikh Zayed Canal in the Western Desert, which diverts water over 550 kilometres from Lake Nasser to create and irrigate farmland in otherwise arid areas. The transfer canal is part of the Toshka project, an engineering venture inaugurated in 1997 whose goal is to reclaim over 500,000 acres of desert.
00044499 : EGYPT Toshka - The Sheikh Zayed Canal in the Western Desert, which diverts water over 550 kilometres from Lake Nasser to create and irrigate farmland in otherwise arid areas. The transfer canal is part of the Toshka project, an engineering venture inaugurated in 1997 whose goal is to reclaim over 500,000 acres of desert.
00044498 : EGYPT Aswan - Lake Nasser, the world's largest reservoir, which extends up to almost 500km from the Aswan High Dam (Al-Sadd al-Ali) on the River Nile.
00044497 : EGYPT Aswan - Lake Nasser, the world's largest reservoir, which extends up to almost 500km from the Aswan High Dam (Al-Sadd al-Ali) on the River Nile.
00044496 : ETHIOPIA Nazareth - A man lifts a sack of lentils donated by the USA in a food aid distribution warehouse run by the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP). A severe drought has extended across East Africa after the rainy season which was expected in October 2005 failed to arrive. Levels of rainfall in the region have been far below normal putting millions of lives at risk.
00044495 : ETHIOPIA Chireti village, Somali Region - Mother with her sick child in a health centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). A severe drought has extended across East Africa after the rainy season which was expected in October 2005 failed to arrive. Levels of rainfall in the region have been far below normal putting millions of lives at risk.
00044494 : ETHIOPIA Nazareth - A man carries a sack of lentils donated by the USA in a food aid distribution warehouse run by the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP). A severe drought has extended across East Africa after the rainy season which was expected in October 2005 failed to arrive. Levels of rainfall in the region have been far below normal putting millions of lives at risk.
00044493 : ETHIOPIA Somali Region - A goat herder fills a vessel with water from an open well to give to his goats. Much of the landscape has become desertified in the drought. A severe drought has extended across East Africa after the rainy season which was expected in October 2005 failed to arrive. Most rural dwellers in the southernmost area of the country rely on two rainy seasons and two dry seasons per year.
00044492 : ETHIOPIA Somali Region - Female herder walking in the desert with her goats. The region has suffered overgrazing during the drought, and the soil has become unstable. A severe drought has extended across East Africa after the rainy season expected in October 2005 failed to arrive. Most rural dwellers in the southernmost area of the country rely on two rainy seasons and two dry seasons per year.
00044491 : ETHIOPIA Somali Region - Two cows stand in the desertified landscape next to a dried up well in a period of drought. The region has suffered overgrazing during the drought, and the soil has become unstable. A severe drought has extended across East Africa after the rainy season expected in October 2005 failed to arrive. Most rural dwellers in the southernmost area of the country rely on two rainy seasons and two dry seasons per year.
00044490 : ETHIOPIA Nr Addis Ababa - Woman carrying firewood along a road in the valley of the Blue Nile between Addis Ababa and Bahar Dar.
00044489 : ETHIOPIA Nr Addis Ababa - The deep gorge of the valley of the Blue Nile on the road between Addis Ababa and Bahar Dar.
00044488 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - A woman and her children carry water home from a creek. Over 70 percent of the Ethiopian population has no access to a safe water supply and adequate sanitation. A severe drought has extended across East Africa after the rainy season expected in October 2005 failed to arrive. Most rural dwellers in the southernmost area of the country rely on two rainy seasons and two dry seasons per year.
00044487 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - A farmer uses cattle to plough dry land in the area of Lake Tana. A severe drought has extended across East Africa after the rainy season expected in October 2005 failed to arrive. Most rural dwellers in the southernmost area of the country rely on two rainy seasons and two dry seasons per year.
00044486 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - A young shepherd wearing a cross around his neck looks after his cattle.
00044485 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - Woman collecting cow dung to use as fuel for cooking.
00044484 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - Dry farmland near Lake Tana. A severe drought has extended across East Africa after the rainy season expected in October 2005 failed to arrive. Most rural dwellers in the southernmost area of the country rely on two rainy seasons and two dry seasons per year.
00044483 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - A farmer lashes his cattle as he ploughs the dry land in the area of Lake Tana.
00044482 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - The River of the Blue Nile, meandering away from its source in Lake Tana. 86 percent of the Nile water originates from the lake.
00044481 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - A boy uses a cattle drawn plough to cultivate the dry land next to Lake Tana, which is the source of the Blue Nile.
00044480 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - Boys swimming in Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile where 86 percent of the Nile water originates.
00044479 : ETHIOPIA Bahir Dar - Man fishing from a boat in Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile where 86 percent of the Nile water originates.
00044478 : CUBA Camaguey - Old town at night.
00044477 : CUBA Santa Cruz del Sur - Myra Sanchez and her 14 year old son Rigoberto Morales, recieve the first phonecall home from Myra's 20 year old son who has managed to migrate legally into North America after one previous unsuccessful crossing.
00044476 : CUBA Havana - Outside the Casa de Cambio in the old town.
00044475 : CUBA Santa Cruz del Sur - 79 year old Virginia Reyes Atencio holds a frame filled with photographs of her eldest son Jorge Victor Acuna (41). Jorge has been missing since he attempted the perilous crossing from Cuba to the central American mainland.
00044474 : CUBA Camaguey - Classic old American car from the 1950s parked in an old town square.
00044473 : CUBA Havana - A classic American car from the 1950s drives along the Malecon coastal road in the rain.
00044472 : CUBA San Francisco de Paula - A portrait of Ernest Hemingway hangs on the wall above a bookshelf in the author's study at Finca Vigia, the house where he lived from 1939 to 1961 and which is now a museum.
00044471 : CUBA Santa Cruz del Sur - A woman with a yellow umbrella rides past a rusting abandoned fishing boat on a bicycle.
00044470 : CUBA Havana - The Cuban flag hangs outside the headquarters for the Empresa Constructora Puerto Carena.
00044469 : CUBA Santa Cruz del Sur - 64 year old Melvi Herrera Lopez holds the last remaining photograph that she has of her nephew, Jorge Enrique Culley (32). Culley has been missing since he attempted the perilous crossing from Cuba to the central American mainland.
00044468 : CUBA Havana - Storm clouds gather over the Parque Central.
00044467 : CUBA Havana - Sunset along the Malecon, a promenade on the northern coastline of the city.
00044466 : CUBA Santa Cruz del Sur - 57 year old Elsa Pena Rodriquez holds a photograph of her two sons who left Cuba in order to find work in North America. The money they earn is sent back to their mother and subsidises her monthly pension.
00044465 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Young Dominican woman sitting in the kitchen at a house party.
00044464 : IRAN Tehran - Women wait for an underground train at Taleghani station on the Tehran metro, which began operating in the year 2000.
00044463 : SPAIN Madrid - King Ritchie (C) and two other members of the Latino gang meet with the traditional hand gesture making the shape of a crown, the gang's symbol, with their fingers. King Ritchie has been serving time in prison on charges of homicide for attempting to murder a member of a rival gang, The Nietas. Members of the Latin kings greet each other with the phrase 'Amor de Rey', King's Love. The Latin Kings, whose members turned to the gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers, is one of the largest gang organisations in the Americas. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044462 : IRAN Tehran - A family enjoy a day out in the countryside just outside the city.
00044461 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Dominican teenager from the Nieta Latino gang hang out in the streets at night. The majority of the The Nietas' members members turned to the Latino gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044460 : SPAIN Madrid - Tony (16), an Ecuadorian teenager, reclines on the bonnet of a car as he spends time on the streets with other members of his Latino urban gang Almighty Latin King Nation (ALKN). The Latin Kings, whose members turned to the gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers, is one of the largest gang organisations in the Americas. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044459 : SPAIN Madrid - Two Ecuadorian members of the Latino urban gang Almighty Latin King Nation (ALKN) gesture with their hands, making the shape of a crown, the gang's symbol, with their fingers. Members of the Latin kings greet each other with the phrase 'Amor de Rey', King's Love. The Latin Kings, whose members turned to the gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers, is one of the largest gang organisations in the Americas. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044458 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Pity, a Dominican teenager with his girlfriend. Since arriving in Spain five years ago Pity has become a member of the Latino gang The Nietas and has been imprisoned a few times for street fighting. The majority of the The Nietas' members members turned to the Latino gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044457 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Two young Dominican girls belonging to The Nietas gang look through the doorway at a Latino house party. The majority of the The Nietas' members members turned to the Latino gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044456 : IRAN Tehran - Buses in Enqelab Square in the city centre.
00044455 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Two Dominican members of The Nietas Latino gang smoke and hang out in a square. The majority of the The Nietas' members members turned to the Latino gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044454 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Latino youth Arafat with his girlfriend.
00044453 : SPAIN Madrid - Two Ecuadorian teenage girlfriends of members of the Latino gang Almighty Latin King Nation (ALKN) meet in a park with the gang at night. The Latin Kings, whose members turned to the gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers, is one of the largest gang organisations in the Americas. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044452 : IRAN Tehran - The Tehran Times, an English-language state-run daily newspaper, uses a photo-montage to illustrate its report on a letter sent by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to US president George W. Bush. Ahmadinejad had sent the letter, one of the first formal diplomatic contacts between the countries in decades, during a dispute over Iran's alleged attempt to secure nuclear weapons technology.
00044451 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Two girlfriends of the Latino gang, The Nietas sit in a nightclub. The majority of the The Nietas' members members turned to the Latino gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044450 : SPAIN Madrid - King Ritchie stands in a disco surrounded by other members of his Latino gang, Almighty Latin King Nation (ALKN). He has been serving time in prison on charges of homicide for attempting to murder a member of a rival gang, The Nietas. The Latin Kings, whose members turned to the gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers, is one of the largest gang organisations in the Americas. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044449 : SPAIN Madrid - Ecuadorian youth King Anthony (24) and his daughter, one of three from different girlfriends. His necklace is made up of alternating sets of five gold and five black beads, which identify him as a member of the Latino gang Almighty Latin King Nation (ALKN). The Latin Kings, whose members turned to the gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers, is one of the largest gang organisations in the Americas. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044448 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Rob (22), a Dominican teenager who arrived in Spain four years ago sits with other members of his Latino gang, The Nietas, in a square. He has been imprisoned a few times already for street fighting. The majority of the The Nietas' members members turned to the Latino gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044447 : IRAN Tehran - A mural on Enqelab Avenue featuring supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei (left), a soldier (centre) and spiritual leader of the revolution Ayatollah Khomeini (right).
00044446 : SPAIN Madrid - Teenagers smoking marijuana on the streets with members of the Latino urban gang Almighty Latin King Nation (ALKN). The Latin Kings, whose members turned to the gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers, is one of the largest gang organisations in the Americas. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044445 : IRAN Tehran - Women pass an Anti-American mural outside the former US embassy, featuring Persian stars and the silhouette of a gun with the design of the stars and stripes of the American flag.
00044444 : IRAN Tehran - A woman passes an Anti-American mural outside the former US embassy, depicting the Statue of Liberty with the face of a skull, and a map of Iran.
00044443 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - A couple dance in the lounge at a Dominican house party.
00044442 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Two Dominican members of The Nietas Latino gang smoke and hang out in a square. The majority of the The Nietas' members members turned to the Latino gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044441 : IRAN Tehran - Customers queue beneath Iranian film posters outside a cinema.
00044440 : IRAN Tehran - Friends Monir and Bitam have a banana milkshake and a cigarette in a cafe in the north of the city.
00044439 : SPAIN Madrid - Members of the Latino gang Almighty Latin King Nation (ALKN) on the streets at night. The Latin Kings, whose members turned to the gang culture in Spain after arriving as immigrants and experiencing social exclusion among their peers, is one of the largest gang organisations in the Americas. Crime and street fighting between various gangs in Spain's major cities is common as they vie for control of particular neighbourhoods.
00044438 : IRAN Tehran - Magda Bandera, a Spanish journalist, waits for an underground train at Taleghani station on the Tehran metro, wearing the obligatory headscarf and holding the obligatory Lonely Planet guide to Iran.
00044437 : NEW ZEALAND Auckland, North Island - The Maori Queen, Dame Te Arikinui Te Atairangi Kaahu (right) makes the traditional formal greeting, the hongi, at Orakei Marae during the Aoteoroa Performing Arts Festival.
00044436 : NEW ZEALAND Auckland, North Island - Ngati Whatua Maori woman Ngaio Kemp (left) and the Maori Queen, Dame Te Arikinui Te Atairangi Kaahu (right) make the traditional formal greeting, the hongi, at Orakei Marae during the Aoteoroa Performing Arts Festival.
00044435 : NEW ZEALAND Waikato, North Island - The Maori Queen, Dame Te Arikinui Te Atairangi Kaahu, giving an address on the 30th anniversary of her 1966 coronation outside Mahinarangi Wharenui (the meeting house) at Turangawaewae, the ancestral home of Tainui, her tribal people.
00044434 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A police officer on guard at the entrance to 386 Forest Road, Walthamstow talks to a neighbour who slept through the anti-terror raid on the house the previous night, which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044433 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A group of local school children pass by as police officers guard the entrance to 386 Forest Road, Walthamstow, the site of an anti-terror raid the previous night which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044432 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - The entrance to 386 Forest Road, Walthamstow, damaged by police during an anti-terror raid the previous night which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044431 : UNITED KINGDOM High Wycombe, England, Great Britain, UK - A police officer guards a house in Hepplewhite Close, the site of an anti-terror raid which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044430 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Local Muslim men chat as police officers guard the entrance to a house on Queens Road, Walthamstow, the site of an anti-terror raid the previous night which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044429 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A police forensic investigator searching for evidence at a house in Farnan Avenue, Walthamstow, the site of an anti-terror raid which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044428 : UNITED KINGDOM High Wycombe, England, Great Britain, UK - British Muslim worshippers at Friday prayers outside the Jubilee Road Mosque in High Wycombe.
00044427 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A local Muslim mother and child pass by as police officers guard the entrance to a house on Queens Road, Walthamstow, the site of an anti-terror raid which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044426 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A local Muslim man passes by as police officers guard the entrance to a house on Queens Road, Walthamstow, the site of an anti-terror raid which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044425 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A local Muslim family pass a police officer on patrol in Walthamstow, in the vicinity of several anti-terror raids the previous night which were linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044424 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A local Muslim resident passes by as police officers guard the entrance to 386 Forest Road, Walthamstow, the site of an anti-terror raid the previous night which was linked to an alleged transatlantic flight bomb plot.
00044423 : IRAN Tehran - A soldier outside Tehran University next to a propaganda poster with an image of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the flag of Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The militant group, which is backed by Iran, had begun a renewed conflict with Israel by capturing two of its soldiers a month earlier.
00044422 : IRAN Tehran - A soldier and a young woman outside Tehran University next to a propaganda poster with an image of Hezbollah (Hizbollah) leader Hassan Nasrallah. The militant group, which is backed by Iran, had begun a renewed conflict with Israel by capturing two of its soldiers a month earlier.
00044421 : IRAN Tehran - A propaganda billboard on Vali Asr street with a photograph of a child killed in the Lebanese village of Qana. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children. Israel had claimed that Iranian-backed Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants were firing missiles from Qana.
00044420 : IRAN Tehran - A propaganda billboard in Vanak Square with an image of a Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militant and anti-Israel quotes attributed to Ayatollah Khomeini and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, had begun a renewed conflict with Israel by capturing two of its soldiers a month earlier.
00044419 : IRAN Tehran - At a newsstand on Palestine street, a magazine cover expresses solidarity with Lebanon, which was in the middle of a conflict between Iranian-backed Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants and Israel.
00044418 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Inhabitants of Tyre vent their support of Hezbollah (Hizbollah) and its leader Hassan Nasrallah on a bomb crater caused by an Israeli air attack.
00044417 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Garbage piling up on a parking lot in Tyre. Few of the city's public services were functioning due to the Israeli bombardment, and there were fears that poor sanitation would lead to health problems for those remaining in the besieged city.
00044416 : ISRAEL North - Two Israeli soldiers get out of a military ambulance early in the morning after returning from a night mission in southern Lebanon. Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044415 : LEBANON Beirut - Filipino women in a refugee centre waiting for evacuation from Lebanon. There are approximately 40,000 Filipinos in the country, most working as maids, but only 4,000 had been evacuated despite a month of attacks by the Israeli military. Some of their employers had been unwilling to let them go.
00044414 : LEBANON Qana - A demolished Coca Cola cooler next to a banana grove which had been bombed by the Israeli military. The banana groves in southern Lebanon had been used as cover for Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants to fire rockets across the border into Israel.
00044413 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) form a human chain to lift supplies and petrol over the Litani river. Israeli air attacks on bridges had effectively closed all the roads leading to Tyre, making it impossible for convoys with relief supplies to reach the city. These medical supplies were essential for creating a surgical theatre in Tyre, and without getting clearance from the Israeli military, two convoys of MSF vehicles met at each side of the river to transport the goods.
00044412 : LEBANON Beirut - Volunteer rescue workers point out the place where victims could be buried in the rubble after an apartment building in the Shiyah district was hit by an Israeli air attack. At least 41 people were killed. The area, in the south of the city, had previously been seen as relatively safe, with little evidence of local sympathy for Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044411 : ISRAEL North - Israeli soldiers try to sleep on the ground early in the morning after returning from a night mission in southern Lebanon. Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044410 : SOMALIA Gardo, Puntland - Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, then president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland. In October 2004 he was elected president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government. The blue flag with the white star on his desk symbolises the five regions of Somalia.
00044409 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Bottled water from a UNHCR / United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) convoy is unloaded by aid workers in the besieged city of Tyre, which was under attack from the Israeli military.
00044408 : LEBANON Beirut - A volunteer rescue worker cries out in anger after an apartment building in the Shiyah district was hit by an Israeli air attack. At least 41 people were killed. The area, in the south of the city, had previously been seen as relatively safe, with little evidence of local sympathy for Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044407 : ISRAEL North - An Israeli soldier stands on an artillery tank close to the Lebanese border. Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044406 : LEBANON Beirut - Filipino women in a refugee centre waiting for evacuation from Lebanon. There are approximately 40,000 Filipinos in the country, most working as maids, but only 4,000 had been evacuated despite a month of attacks by the Israeli military. Some of their employers had been unwilling to let them go.
00044405 : LEBANON Qana - Destroyed cars and houses in the village of Qana. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.

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