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00026214 : INDIA Assam - A domesticated elephant is brought for a check-up at a veterinary clinic near Kaziranga National Park. Elephants like these are used to clear forests illegally.
00026213 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Girl in Ekangerserai Middle School.
00026212 : INDIA Assam - Buffaloes in Kaziranga National Park.
00026211 : INDIA Assam - Landscape in Kaziranga National Park.
00026210 : INDIA Nr. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - Children wave goodbye in the village of Gaharwari Bhiti.
00026209 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - The family of a woman who was killed by a wild elephant mourns her death. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026208 : INDIA Pahla Kadam, Uttar Pradesh - Girls at the Pahla Kadam residential camp school. The school has about 105 pupils, all girls, and 5 teachers, offering an education to those girls who are vulnerable to non-enrollment and premature dropout. The girls attend a one year course after which there is a 95% transition rate to upper primary school.
00026207 : INDIA Koprah, Bihar - A boy blows up an old condom in the village of Koprah. As members of the lowest caste, the children of this village are often excluded from the educational system.
00026206 : INDIA Nr. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - Anita, a pupil at an alternative learning centre in the village of Karjada where children are taught using Unicef's "joyful learning technique".
00026205 : INDIA Jamsout, Bihar - Dipika, a child from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') who suffers from mosquito bites and skin disorders because of poor hygiene, sits in a house set up to teach girls who are excluded from the mainstream education system.
00026204 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Piles of paperwork inside the forestry office, an illustration of the tremendous bureaucracy and archaic methods of the Indian civil service.
00026203 : INDIA Koprah, Bihar - Lalita, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') transplants rice in the village of Koprah.
00026202 : INDIA Uttar Pradesh - Women weave carpets for 25 rupees a day (about US 50 cents) for furniture multinational Ikea in the village of Praanpur.
00026201 : INDIA Nr. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - Heeramani, a pupil at an alternative learning centre in the village of Karjada where children are taught using Unicef's "joyful learning technique".
00026200 : INDIA New Delhi - Farmer tending to crops.
00026199 : INDIA Jamsout, Bihar - Mamta, a girl from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters') holds her 8 month old son Aman in a house set up to teach girls who are excluded from the educational system.
00026198 : INDIA Sitamarhi, Bihar - Seema, a teacher with polio, teaches sewing to girls at a Mahila Shikshan Kendra (Women's Education Centre) which is funded by the World Bank although it was founded by Unicef.
00026197 : INDIA New Delhi - Young man running vegetable stall.
00026196 : INDIA New Delhi - Farmers tending to crops.
00026195 : INDIA New Delhi - Farmer tending to crops.
00026194 : INDIA New Delhi - Farmer tending to crops.
00026193 : INDIA New Delhi - Farmers tending to crops.
00026192 : INDIA Delhi - Children sit on a roof next to power lines that have been hacked into to steal electricity.
00026191 : INDIA New Delhi - Farmers tending to crops.
00026190 : INDIA New Delhi - Client at the Kaya beauty clinic, where women come for facials and trendy treatments like Botox.
00026189 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Children leave the Ekangerserai Middle School after monsoon rains flooded the classrooms.
00026188 : INDIA Pahla Kadam, Uttar Pradesh - Girl at the Pahla Kadam residential camp school. The school has about 105 pupils, all girls, and 5 teachers, offering an education to those girls who are vulnerable to non-enrollment and premature dropout. The girls attend a one year course after which there is a 95% transition rate to upper primary school.
00026187 : INDIA Nr. Patna, Bihar - Children splash around in flooded fields.
00026186 : INDIA Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh - Girls reading at the upper primary school in Kotwa Dham, Sarauli Gauspur block.
00026185 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - The ivory tusk of an elephant at a veterinary clinic in Sonitpur district.
00026184 : INDIA Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh - Girl at a government-run primary school in the village of Pindsawa, Nindura Block.
00026183 : INDIA Pahla Kadam, Uttar Pradesh - Girls look for India on the globe at the Pahla Kadam residential camp school. The school has about 105 pupils, all girls, and 5 teachers, offering an education to those girls who are vulnerable to non-enrollment and premature dropout. The girls attend a one year course after which there is a 95% transition rate to upper primary school.
00026182 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - Villagers perform a puja (holy ceremony) to the Hindu God Lord Ganesha who is half human and half elephant, to ask him for protection from real elephants. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026181 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - The family of a woman who was killed by a wild elephant mourns her death. As a result of man's encroachment into their habitat, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops.
00026180 : INDIA Tezpur, Assam - A remote area inside an Assamese national park, where man has been encroaching on reserved land, causing deforestation as the land is cleared for agriculture. Forestry officials chase them off the land but they come back almost immediately.
00026179 : INDIA Sitamarhi, Bihar - Girls at a Mahila Shikshan Kendra (Women's Education Centre) which is funded by the World Bank although it was founded by Unicef.
00026178 : INDIA Jamsout, Bihar - Julie, left, and Dipika, right, sit on the floor in a house set up to teach girls who are excluded from the educational system. They are both from the Musahar caste (also known as 'rat eaters').
00026177 : INDIA Nr. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh - Four children hitch a lift on a man's bicycle in the village of Gaharwari Bhiti.
00026176 : INDIA Ekangerserai, Bihar - Children leave the Ekangerserai Middle School after monsoon rains flooded the classrooms.
00026175 : INDIA Koprah, Bihar - Children in the village of Koprah.
00026174 : INDIA New Delhi - Farmers tending to crops.
00026173 : INDIA New Delhi - Farmer tending to crops.
00026172 : IRAQ Baghdad - An attack on US forces in the Sadr City suburb. Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, attacked a convoy of US soldiers from the 1st Cavalry. An RPG hit a Humvee which burst into flames, and then a secondary bomb was detonated at the roadside. Dead US soldiers have been retrieved and lie on the road a few metres to the right of the burning vehicle. This was one of the worst single attacks on US forces in Baghdad, with five soldiers being killed.
00026171 : IRAQ Baghdad - Shrapnel flies through the air during an attack on US forces in the Sadr City suburb. Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, attacked a convoy of US soldiers from the 1st Cavalry. An RPG hit a Humvee which burst into flames, and then a secondary bomb was detonated at the roadside. This was one of the worst single attacks on US forces in Baghdad, with five soldiers being killed.
00026170 : IRAQ Baghdad - Medics from the US army's 1st Cavalry arrive at the scene of an attack on American forces in the Sadr City suburb. Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, attacked a convoy of US soldiers from the 1st Cavalry. An RPG hit a Humvee which burst into flames, and then a secondary bomb was detonated at the roadside. This was one of the worst single attacks on US forces in Baghdad, with five soldiers being killed.
00026169 : IRAQ Baghdad - A crowd of onlookers, some cheering, gather behind a wall just off Al Qanal Street to watch the aftermath of an attack on US forces. Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, attacked a convoy of US soldiers from the 1st Cavalry in the Sadr City suburb. An RPG hit a Humvee which burst into flames, and then a secondary bomb was detonated at the roadside. This was one of the worst single attacks on US forces in Baghdad, with five soldiers being killed.
00026168 : IRAQ Baghdad - A crowd of onlookers, some giving victory signs, watch the aftermath of an attack on US forces. Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, attacked a convoy of US soldiers from the 1st Cavalry in the Sadr City suburb. An RPG hit a Humvee which burst into flames, and then a secondary bomb was detonated at the roadside. This was one of the worst single attacks on US forces in Baghdad, with five soldiers being killed.
00026167 : IRAQ Baghdad - Medics from the US army's 1st Cavalry arrive at the scene of an attack on American forces in the Sadr City suburb. Shia fighters from the Mehdi army, the militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, attacked a convoy of US soldiers from the 1st Cavalry. An RPG hit a Humvee which burst into flames, and then a secondary bomb was detonated at the roadside. This was one of the worst single attacks on US forces in Baghdad, with five soldiers being killed.
00026166 : NORWAY Oslo - Multi-sensory stimulation in a song and play class for babies. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026165 : NORWAY Oslo - A young mother changes her son's nappy in the cinema. In specially organised "baby-movie" showings popular films are screened with lower volume and with space made available for pram parking. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026164 : NORWAY Oslo - Multi-sensory stimulation in a song and play class for babies. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026163 : NORWAY Oslo - Mothers and child at a song and play class for babies. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026162 : NORWAY Oslo - Multi-sensory stimulation in a song and play class for babies. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026161 : NORWAY Oslo - Young mothers and their children at a song and play class for babies. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026160 : NORWAY Oslo - Young mothers and their children at a song and play class for babies. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026159 : NORWAY Oslo - Strange sounds: children get their first introduction to music during a multi-sensory stimulation class. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026158 : NORWAY Oslo - Strange sounds: children get their first introduction to music during a multi-sensory stimulation class. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026157 : NORWAY Oslo - An activity aimed at the parents rather than the babies, libraries invite authors to read on special "book 'n' baby" days. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026156 : NORWAY Oslo - Three month old Jenny struggles to stay awake as her mother Marit Helland listens to a book reading. An activity aimed at the parents rather than the babies, libraries invite authors to read on special "book 'n' baby" days. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026155 : NORWAY Oslo - Cafes catering to young mothers on maternity leave are hugely popular. The cafes are rated on the internet according to how baby-friendly they are. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026154 : NORWAY Oslo - Seven month old Mikkel Grunnan doesn't quite understand what is going on, but he pays close attention at his mother's aerobics class. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026153 : NORWAY Oslo - Six month old Johan doesn't seem to mind being used as a weight when his mother Elise Linberg attends her aerobics class. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026152 : NORWAY Oslo - Born healthy. Infant mortality is very low in Norway. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026151 : NORWAY Oslo - A baby born healthy. Infant mortality is very low in Norway. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026150 : NORWAY Oslo - Milk and coffee. Breastfeeding in public is common in Norway, and Ludvig enjoys his milk while his mother Sophie Aaserud waits for a chance to finish her coffee. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026149 : NORWAY Oslo - Babies being introduced to swimming at only a few months old. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026148 : NORWAY Oslo - Born healthy. Infant mortality is very low in Norway. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026147 : NORWAY Oslo - Babies being introduced to swimming at only a few months old. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026146 : NORWAY Oslo - Babies being introduced to swimming at only a few months old. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026145 : NORWAY - A doctor from the Norwegian Air Ambulance service says goodbye to a baby whose life she has just saved. Born prematurely, the baby is now being treated at a regional hospital. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026144 : NORWAY Oslo - Babies being introduced to swimming at only a few months old. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026143 : UGANDA Lira, Lira Province - Women bring their injured children to be treated at Lira hospital. Over 200 people were killed in an attack by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Barlonyo refugee camp on 21/02/2004.
00026142 : NORWAY Oslo - Baby massage class, one of many courses on offer to new parents. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026141 : NORWAY Oslo - Baby massage class, one of many courses on offer to new parents. In contrast to most European countries, the Norwegian birth rate is a healthy 1.9. Norway's reputation as a child friendly society is partially founded on a succession of government initiatives to improve parents' rights and economic circumstances.
00026140 : UGANDA Bala, Apac Province - Boy in Bala camp for internally-displaced people (IDPs), which houses refugees from northern Uganda where The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has mounted attacks on the civilian population. The boy's ginger hair is a sign of malnourishment.
00026139 : UGANDA Lira, Lira Province - An injured man is treated in Lira hospital. Over 200 people were killed in an attack by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Barlonyo refugee camp on 21/02/2004.
00026138 : UGANDA Lira, Lira Province - Ugandan Acholi boy in Lira hospital. Over 200 people were killed in an attack by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Barlonyo refugee camp on 21/02/2004.
00026137 : UGANDA Lira, Lira Province - An injured man is treated in Lira hospital. Over 200 people were killed in an attack by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Barlonyo refugee camp on 21/02/2004.
00026136 : UGANDA Lira, Lira Province - Boy with burn injuries in Lira hospital. Over 200 people were killed in an attack by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Barlonyo refugee camp on 21/02/2004.
00026135 : UGANDA Weyale, Masindi Province - Girl in Weyale school for internally displaced people (IDPs) as a result of instability caused by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks on the civilian population in northern Uganda.
00026134 : UGANDA Weyale, Masindi Province - Girl in Weyale school for internally displaced people (IDPs) as a result of instability caused by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks on the civilian population in northern Uganda.
00026133 : UGANDA Weyale, Masindi Province - Boy in Weyale school for internally displaced people (IDPs) as a result of instability caused by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks on the civilian population in northern Uganda.
00026132 : UGANDA Masindi, Masindi Province - 4WD vehicle filling up at a Caltex petrol station. Caltex is a brand name of the Chevron Texaco corporation.
00026131 : UGANDA Weyale, Masindi Privince - Girls in Weyale school for internally displaced people (IDPs) singing. They left their homes as a result of instability caused by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks on the civilian population in northern Uganda.
00026130 : UGANDA Lira, Lira Province - An injured boy is treated in Lira hospital. Over 200 people were killed in an attack by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Barlonyo refugee camp on 21/02/2004.
00026129 : UGANDA Lira, Lira Province - Injured men are treated in Lira hospital. Over 200 people were killed in an attack by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Barlonyo refugee camp on 21/02/2004.
00026128 : UGANDA Lira, Lira Province - An injured man is treated in Lira hospital. His leg had to be amputated. Over 200 people were killed in an attack by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Barlonyo refugee camp on 21/02/2004.
00026127 : UGANDA Lira, Lira Province - Medical staff at Lira hospital treating a woman with serious injuries. Over 200 people were killed in an attack by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Barlonyo refugee camp on 21/02/2004.
00026126 : CZECH REPUBLIC Zastavka u Brna, Moravia - Chechen asylum seekers braving the cold to play in Zastavka u Brna refugee camp.
00026125 : CZECH REPUBLIC Brno, Moravia - Marta Miklusakova from the UNHCR Prague office meets the daughter of a family of Afghan asylum seekers.
00026124 : CZECH REPUBLIC Brno, Moravia - Afghan refugees watching television in their flat, which is provided by a local NGO.
00026123 : CZECH REPUBLIC Brno, Moravia - Pakistani asylum seeker with two neighbours and the baskets he makes to earn a living.
00026122 : CZECH REPUBLIC Zastavka u Brna, Moravia - Uzbek refugee talking to an Armenian lawyer about the registration of her new born baby in Zastavka u Brna refugee camp.
00026121 : CZECH REPUBLIC Vysni Lhoty, Moravia - Accommodation block in Vysni Lhoty refugee camp, which mostly houses people from the former Soviet Union.
00026120 : CZECH REPUBLIC Vysni Lhoty, Moravia - Chechen refugee children playing in Vysni Lhoty refugee camp.
00026119 : CZECH REPUBLIC Vysni Lhoty, Moravia - Newly arrived Chechen refugees resting in Vysni Lhoty refugee camp.
00026118 : CZECH REPUBLIC Vysni Lhoty, Moravia - Chechen refugees resting on arrival in Vysni Lhoty refugee camp.
00026117 : CZECH REPUBLIC Vysni Lhoty, Moravia - Refugee camp security guard checking the security monitor.
00026116 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Dr Ahmad Chalabi, of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), at a two day conference in London held by a number of different Iraqi opposition groups.
00026115 : CUBA - Cyclists on the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) pass a burning sugar cane field.
00026114 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Dr Ahmad Chalabi, of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), at a two day conference in London held by a number of different Iraqi opposition groups.
00026113 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Dr Ahmad Chalabi (left), of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) and Jalal Talibani (right), of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) at a two day conference in London held by a number of different Iraqi opposition groups.
00026112 : CUBA Sancti Spiritus - Cyclists on the 7th stage of the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) pass a 1950s American car on their way towards Sancti Spiritus.
00026111 : CUBA Ciego de Avila - The Cuban flag hangs above the finish line of one of the stages in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) as a cyclist flashes by.
00026110 : CUBA Baracoa - Cyclists in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) pass a mural of Che Guevara in Baracoa.
00026109 : CUBA Matanzas - Cyclist Pedro Pablo Perez, a competitor in the Vuelta de Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race), cools his bruised bottom after that morning's time trial.
00026108 : CUBA Camaguey - Venezuelan cyclist Roland Gonzalez walking towards the finish line of a stage in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race), after falling in the last kilometre. 
00026107 : CUBA Near Camaguey - Campesinos cheering on cyclists in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026106 : CUBA - Abbatoir workers watch the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) pass by.
00026105 : CUBA Bayamo - Cuban cyclist Damian Martinez enjoys a drink of coconut milk after the end of the 3rd stage of the Vuelta de Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026104 : CUBA Sancti Spiritis - A Cuban cyclist's girlfriend welcomes him at the end of a stage in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026103 : CUBA San Antonio de los Banos - A cyclist in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) applies sunblock before the start of a stage.
00026102 : CUBA - A cyclist's kit hanging out to dry after a stage in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race). Che Guevara's famous 'Hasta la victoria siempre' is written on the wall behind.
00026101 : CUBA Santiago de Cuba - Ceremony for the winner of the second stage in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) won by Cuban sprinter Joel Marino.
00026100 : CUBA Bayamo - Cyclists wait for the start of the 4th stage in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026099 : CUBA Baracoa - Prostitutes watching the start of a stage in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026098 : CUBA Contromaestre - A sugar cane cutter works on oblivious to the passing cylists in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026097 : CUBA Cardenas - Spectators wait for cyclists to pass on a stage in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026096 : CUBA Ranchuelo - Cyclists in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) pass over a level crossing near the sugar refinery at Ranchuelo.
00026095 : CUBA Near Baracoa - Cyclists from the Matanzas town team carry a pig on their team bus, bought on route, which they will drop off when they pass through their home town on the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026094 : CUBA Guantanamo - Dutch cyclist Dirk van Schalen collapses after the finish of the first stage of the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026093 : CUBA - Fin de Evento banner hanging from the bus bringing up the rear in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026092 : CUBA Holguin - Pedro Pablo Perez, overall leader of the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race), holds a box of Cohiba cigars he won after the 4th stage.
00026091 : CUBA Baracoa - An American cyclist waiting for the opening ceremony of the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026090 : CUBA Baracoa - Young pioneers and cyclists wait for the opening ceremony of the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) in Baracoa stadium.
00026089 : CUBA Bayamo - A cyclist from the Santiago de Cuba team serenading schoolgirls after the finish of the 3rd stage of the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026088 : CUBA Cienfuegos - Press centre of the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race).
00026087 : CUBA Nazareno - Two cyclists who have broken away from the pack on a stage in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) pass a sign with a revolutionary slogan and a 1950s American car.
00026086 : CUBA Artemisa - Spectators begin to congregate half an hour before the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) passes through the village of Artemisa. A 1950s American car passes by.
00026085 : CUBA Lomo Larga - A family watches the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) pass by.
00026084 : CUBA Baracoa - A competitor in the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) checks out girls lining the road just before the start of the Tour.
00026083 : CUBA San Cristobal - An elderly shoeshiner watches the Vuelta a Cuba (the Tour of Cuba cycling race) pass by.
00026082 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Residents outside typical North Korean tower blocks.
00026081 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Residents salvage precious firewood from a site cleared in the city centre.
00026080 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - A young boy peers out of the windown of a nursery.
00026079 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - A giant bronze statue of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung.
00026078 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - The Triumphal Arch. The North Korean authorities boast that it is larger than its Parisian equivalent. Spectators wait for the participants in an endurance race.
00026077 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Female soldier outside the National Sports Stadium, which has a capacity of 100,000.
00026076 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - The Great Leader, Kim Il Sung, appears suave and sophisticated as a movie star in a billboard resembling a movie poster.
00026075 : CUBA Havana - British journalist and writer AA Gill enjoying a drink in a bar.
00026074 : CHINA Shenzhen - A young woman waiting for her boyfriend in the entrance to the 'New York' nightclub.
00026073 : UNITED KINGDOM West Midlands, England, Great Britain, UK - BNP (British National Party) supporters fill a pub in Princes End, near Dudley, to hear speeches by their local candidate John Salvage and BNP Chairman Nick Griffin (seen here standing on the left).
00026072 : UNITED KINGDOM West Midlands, England, Great Britain, UK - BNP (British National Party) supporters fill a pub in Princes End, near Dudley, to hear speeches by their local candidate John Salvage and BNP Chairman Nick Griffin.
00026071 : UNITED KINGDOM West Midlands, England, Great Britain, UK - British National Party (BNP) Councillor Dave Edwards, who was elected to serve on Burnley Council after the 2002 local elections in which the BNP won 3 seats.
00026070 : UNITED KINGDOM Wales, Great Britain, UK - Cakes on sale at the British National Party's annual Red White and Blue festival near the village of Llanerfly in North Wales. A heavy police presence prevented a planned demonstration by the Anti Nazi League from reaching the field, which lies next to the farm of Nick Griffin, BNP Chairman.
00026069 : UNITED KINGDOM West Midlands, England, Great Britain, UK - BNP (British National Party) supporters fill a pub in Princes End, near Dudley, to hear a speech by BNP Chairman Nick Griffin.
00026068 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - Couple attending the British National Party's annual Red White and Blue festival in a field at Sawley, just north of Burnley. The BNP have 3 councillors on Burnley Council, elected in the 2002 local elections.
00026067 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - Anti Nazi League supporters protesting against the British National Party's annual Red White and Blue festival, held in a field at Sawley, just north of Burnley. The BNP have 3 councillors on Burnley Council, elected in the 2002 local elections. A BNP supporter sports a tattoo with the inscription 'Rule Britannia'.
00026066 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - The British National Party (BNP) held its annual Red White and Blue festival in a field at Sawley, just north of Burnley. The BNP have 3 councillors on Burnley Council, elected in the 2002 local elections.
00026065 : UNITED KINGDOM Burnley, Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - Old woman with an Anti Nazi League placard. The BNP (British National Party) have 3 councillors on Burnley Council, elected in the 2002 local elections.
00026064 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - Family attending the British National Party's annual Red White and Blue festival in a field at Sawley, just north of Burnley. The BNP have 3 councillors on Burnley Council, elected in the 2002 local elections.
00026063 : UNITED KINGDOM Lancashire, England, Great Britain, UK - An Anti Nazi league supporter is filmed by police during protests against the British National Party's annual Red White and Blue festival, held in a field at Sawley, just north of Burnley. The BNP have 3 councillors on Burnley Council, elected in the 2002 local elections.
00026062 : ALBANIA - Women working in tobacco field.
00026061 : ALBANIA - Portrait of old man.
00026060 : ALBANIA - Women working on loom weaving carpets.
00026059 : ANGOLA - Child soldiers with baby.
00026058 : ANGOLA Luanda - Children in slum conditions.
00026057 : ANGOLA Nr. Luanda - Family at a feeding centre in the Boa Esperanza camp for IDPs (internally displaced people) in Benga.
00026056 : ANGOLA Nr. Luanda - Internally-displaced (IDP) children living in a tent provided by the UNHCR.
00026055 : ANGOLA Luanda - Youths drinking beer at the side of the street.
00026054 : AUSTRALIA Winton, Queensland - ANZAC Day parade.
00026053 : ANTARCTICA - Tracked vehicle on the ice plateau, near Mawson station.
00026052 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Young girl in her grandfather's arms.
00026051 : BURUNDI Bujumbura - Hands of a detainee in Mbimba prison.
00026050 : BURUNDI Bujumbura - Clinic run by an NGO.
00026049 : CROATIA - Woman tilling field with hoe.
00026048 : BURUNDI Bujumbura - Maternity clinic run by an NGO.
00026047 : GUATEMALA - Patients waiting at a rural clinic.
00026046 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Bukavu - Family outside their home, which was provided by a European charity, with Lake Kivu in the background.
00026045 : HONDURAS - Wedding in the Garifuna community.
00026044 : HONDURAS - Garifuna father and child.
00026043 : KENYA West - Pokot camel herders measuring a camel's height.
00026042 : KENYA West - Pokot tribesmen on a tea break.
00026041 : KENYA West - Pokot children playing with camel (a bull called Nurobur).
00026040 : KENYA West - Pokot tribesman eating freshly congealed blood after slaughtering a goat.
00026039 : KENYA West - Pokot children playing with camel (a bull called Nurobur).
00026038 : KENYA West - Pokot tribeswoman milking a camel.
00026037 : KENYA West - Pokot tribeswoman.
00026036 : KENYA - Samburu warrior.
00026035 : KENYA West - Pokot herder in mountainous terrain.
00026034 : KENYA West - Pokot tribeswoman.
00026033 : KENYA West - Pokot tribeswoman.
00026032 : KENYA - Samburu warriors.
00026031 : KENYA - Samburu warrior.
00026030 : KENYA - Pokot boy with camel.
00026029 : KENYA - Pokot tribesman with young camel.
00026028 : KYRGYZSTAN Karakol - Boys on horseback.
00026027 : KENYA - Inquisitive camel.
00026026 : KYRGYZSTAN - Young girls on school bus.
00026025 : KYRGYZSTAN - Yak herd in the Tien shan mountains.
00026024 : KYRGYZSTAN - Tradiitional meal (bread, apples and yoghurt) in a herder's yurt in the Tien Shan mountains.
00026023 : KYRGYZSTAN - Stone carvings on steles near the Kazakh border depicting Kyrgyz warriors.
00026022 : KYRGYZSTAN Karakol - Priest and woman in a Russian Orthodox church.
00026021 : KYRGYZSTAN - Young boy herding flock of sheep in Tien Shan mountins.
00026020 : KYRGYZSTAN Nr. Arslanbob - Woman harvesting potatoes in a field high in the Tien Shan mountains.
00026019 : KYRGYZSTAN Nr. Arslanbob - Boy on track in the Tien Shan mountains.
00026018 : KYRGYZSTAN Nr. Arslanbob - Family harvesting potatoes.
00026017 : KYRGYZSTAN - Flour mill.
00026016 : KYRGYZSTAN - Harvest.
00026015 : KYRGYZSTAN Nr. Osh - Woman picking cotton in the Ferghana vallley.
00026014 : KYRGYZSTAN Nr. Osh - Woman with a handful of cotton in the Ferghana vallley.
00026013 : KYRGYZSTAN Deder-Bubu, Nr. Osh - Family of Tajik refugees in Deder-Bubu.
00026012 : KYRGYZSTAN Cholpon-Ata - Ethnic Russian woman in her garden with pig.
00026011 : KYRGYZSTAN Osh - Women in marketplace.
00026010 : KYRGYZSTAN Osh - Women in marketplace.
00026009 : KYRGYZSTAN - Tajik man.
00026008 : KYRGYZSTAN Nr. Arslanbob - Family harvesting potatoes.
00026007 : LAOS - Slash and burn farming.
00026006 : LAOS Vientiane - Hairdresser with outdoor salon.
00026005 : LAOS Nr. Luang Prabang - Teacher in a village school.
00026004 : LAOS Luang Prabang - Boats on the Mekong river.
00026003 : LAOS - Boy on bicycle with pet cock.
00026002 : MOZAMBIQUE Maputo - School boy.
00026001 : MOZAMBIQUE - Female farm workers.
00026000 : MOZAMBIQUE Maputo - Mother grooming her child for the first day at school.
00025999 : MOZAMBIQUE Maputo - Orphanage run by the SOS Children's Villages charity.
00025998 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Street child.
00025997 : RWANDA - Child soldiers on pick-up truck.
00025996 : RWANDA - Young men with machetes.
00025995 : RWANDA - Internally-displaced (IDP) child.
00025994 : RWANDA Kigali - HIV positive mother with child in the AIDS ward of Kigali's central hospital.
00025993 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - Group of people outside a neighbourhood shop in the Kayhelitsha township.
00025992 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - Mother and child in the Khayelitsha township.
00025991 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - People living in the Khayelitsha township.
00025990 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Sewing class run by the SOS children's villages charity, in the Memelodi township.
00025989 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - 'Coloured' people celebrating Nelson Mandela's victory in the country's first multiracial election.
00025988 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - People living in the Khayelitsha township.
00025987 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - Aerial view of homes in the Crossroads township.
00025986 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - Workshop in the Kayhelitsha township run by a women's group producing hand-woven rugs.
00025985 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Drinkers in a workers' hostel in the Mamelodi township.
00025984 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - Woman in Kayhelitsha township.
00025983 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Man in the Mamelodi township.
00025982 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Drinkers in a workers' hostel in the Mamelodi township.
00025981 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Creche in the Mamelodi township.
00025980 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Drinkers in a workers' hostel in the Mamelodi township.
00025979 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - Man in the Kayhelitsha township.
00025978 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - People in the Kayhelitsha township.
00025977 : SOUTH AFRICA Port Elizabeth - Mother and children in the supermarket.
00025976 : SENEGAL Kaolack - Maternity ward in an NGO-run hospital.
00025975 : SENEGAL Kaolack - Mother and child waiting in a clinic.
00025974 : SENEGAL North - Semi-nomadic herder in the arid northern border area of Senegal, holding one of his calves.
00025973 : SENEGAL - Pupils in a madrassah (Islamic school).
00025972 : SENEGAL North - Children fetching water from a river using a donkey cart.
00025971 : SENEGAL North - Woman fetching water in the semi-desert northern border district.
00025970 : SENEGAL North - Woman in the semi-desert northern border district.
00025969 : SOMALILAND Hargeisa - Men in a cafe.
00025968 : SOMALILAND Berbera - Youths playing football.
00025967 : SOMALILAND - Old man chewing qat in a warehouse.
00025966 : SOMALILAND Berbera - Soldiers in Berbera.
00025965 : SOMALILAND Hargeisa - The city lies in ruins after the civil war.
00025964 : SOMALILAND - Petrol station.
00025963 : SOMALILAND Hargeisa - Factory producing bricks for the post-war reconstruction of the city.
00025962 : SOMALILAND Berbera - Activity in the port of Berbera.
00025961 : SOMALILAND Hargeisa - Women in the marketplace.
00025960 : SOMALILAND Berbera - Offloading food aid, vegetable oil donated by the USA.
00025959 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - Clinic run by an NGO.
00025958 : TAIWAN Taipei - Chiang Kai-shek Memorial.
00025957 : TAIWAN Taipei - Woman working in a textile factory.
00025956 : TAIWAN Taipei - Morning joggers passing the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial.
00025955 : TAIWAN Taipei - Morning Tai-Chi outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial.
00025954 : TAIWAN Taipei - Girls in brass band.
00025953 : TAIWAN Taipei - Woman working in a textile factory.
00025952 : TANZANIA Ngara - Rwandan refugee boy with a mud mobile telephone, emulating the aid workers.
00025951 : TAIWAN Taipei - Woman working in a textile factory.
00025950 : TANZANIA Ngara - Outdoor classroom in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025949 : TANZANIA - Woman working in field in the morning mist.
00025948 : TANZANIA - Woman working in field.
00025947 : TANZANIA Ngara - Wedding in Lumasi camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025946 : TANZANIA Ngara - Wedding in Lumasi camp for Rwandan refugees. The bride and groom drink maize beer together as part of the traditional marriage ceremony.
00025945 : TANZANIA Ngara - Wedding in Lumasi camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025944 : TANZANIA Ngara - Wedding in Lumasi camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025943 : TANZANIA Ngara - United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) oil cans being reused to house seedlings.
00025942 : TANZANIA Ngara - Aerial view of the Benako camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025941 : TANZANIA Ngara - Firewood distribution to Rwandan refugees; the massive influx of refugees into the area led to widespread deforestation.
00025940 : TANZANIA Ngara - Sunday mass in an open field next to one of the Rwandan refugee camps.
00025939 : TANZANIA Ngara - Rwandan refugee boy with United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) cooking oil can.
00025938 : TANZANIA Ngara - Rwandan refugee woman.
00025937 : TANZANIA Ngara - Rwandan refugee children fetching drinking water from muddy pond contaminated with fuel.
00025936 : TANZANIA Ngara - Market in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025935 : TANZANIA Ngara - Rwandan refugee woman in camp.
00025934 : TANZANIA Ngara - Open-air school in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025933 : TANZANIA Ngara - Food distribution (vegetable oil donated by the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025932 : TANZANIA Ngara - Wedding ceremony in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025931 : TANZANIA Ngara - Women and children in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025930 : TANZANIA Ngara - Wedding ceremony in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025929 : TANZANIA Ngara - Rwandan refugees in camp.
00025928 : TANZANIA Ngara - Mother with malnourished child in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025927 : TANZANIA Ngara - Sewing service in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025926 : TANZANIA Ngara - Wedding ceremony in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025925 : TANZANIA Ngara - Open-air Sunday mass in Rwandan refugee camp.
00025924 : TANZANIA Ngara - Rwandan refugee children with water canisters and United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) oil can.
00025923 : TANZANIA Ngara - Open-air school in Benako camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025922 : TANZANIA Ngara - Benako camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025921 : TANZANIA Ngara - Emergency food aid warehouse and distribution centre for camps housing Rwandan refugees.
00025920 : TANZANIA Ngara - Emergency food aid warehouse and distribution centre for camps housing Rwandan refugees.
00025919 : TANZANIA Ngara - Aerial view of the Benako camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025918 : TANZANIA Ngara - Rwandan refugee collecting water from a puddle.
00025917 : TANZANIA Ngara - Aerial view of the Benako camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025916 : TANZANIA Ngara - Pottery skills project in Lumasi camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025915 : TANZANIA Ngara - Pottery skills project in Lumasi camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025914 : TANZANIA Ngara - Firewood distribution in a camp for Rwandan refugees.
00025913 : TANZANIA Ngara - Aerial spraying of pesticides to prevent the spread of disease in Rwandan refugee camps.
00025912 : TANZANIA Ngara - Fumigating a rubbish heap to prevent the spread of disease in Rwandan refugee camps.
00025911 : TANZANIA Ngara - Rwandan refugee child fetching drinking water from muddy pond contaminated with fuel.
00025910 : TANZANIA Ngara - World Health Organization (WHO) doctor counting fleas and mosquitoes in an attempt to establish risk factors, during a study on the prevention of disease in Rwandan refugee camps.
00025909 : ZIMBABWE - Female AIDS activists (mostly former prostitutes) demonstrating the use of condoms to the patrons of a beer hall.
00025908 : USA Washington State - Boreal rainforest.
00025907 : ZIMBABWE Bindura - Computer class in a school run by the charity SOS Children's Villages.
00025906 : ZIMBABWE Bindura - Secondary school run by the charity SOS Children's Villages.
00025905 : ZIMBABWE - Worker on commercial farm with battery-powered radio.
00025904 : ZIMBABWE - Woman tending cotton crops on a commercial farm.
00025903 : NIGERIA Sokoto - Hausa children.
00025902 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Boy in kindergarten.
00025901 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Young children in public playground attached to apartment building.
00025900 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - 9 year old girls in school.
00025899 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Girl in kindergarten.
00025898 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Nursery children beneath portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
00025897 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Concerned mother with child suffering from diarrhoea at Yonsan County hospital, which has minimal facilities.
00025896 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Paediatric ward at Yonsan County hospital.
00025895 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Kindergarten children put on a show for visiting foreigners.
00025894 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Kim Il Sung Square.
00025893 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Kindergarten children put on a show for visiting foreigners.
00025892 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Kindergarten children put on a show for visiting foreigners.
00025891 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Woman and children at a water and sanitation project funded by Unicef.
00025890 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - High school boys playing football in their school yard.
00025889 : HUNGARY Budapest - The statue of the Little Princess on the River Danube has became one of the symbols of Budapest. The Royal Palace is across the river in the background.
00025888 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Woman and child (in military uniform) at a water and sanitation project funded by Unicef.
00025887 : HUNGARY Budapest - Vigado square and the Vigado concert hall. Inaugurated in 1865, this splendid pile has hosted performances by Liszt, Mahler, Wagner and Von Karajan. Badly damaged in wartime, it reopened in 1980.
00025886 : HUNGARY Budapest - Statue of Baro Eotvos Jozef in Roosevelt Square, next to the national flag and that of the Budapest municipality.
00025885 : HUNGARY Budapest - Hungary's parliament building, on the banks of the River Danube.
00025884 : HUNGARY Budapest - Detail of Hungary's parliament building.
00025883 : HUNGARY Budapest - The Chain Bridge, Matthias church and the Fishermen's Bastion.
00025882 : HUNGARY Budapest - The Royal Palace, lit up at night.
00025881 : HUNGARY Budapest - The neo-Gothic Matthias church is the main feature of Holy Trinity square, the historic heart of the Castle district of Buda.
00025880 : HUNGARY Budapest - The neo-Gothic Matthias church is the main feature of Holy Trinity square, the historic heart of the Castle district of Buda.
00025879 : HUNGARY Budapest - The Fishermen's Bastion in the Castle district of Buda. Although fishermen reputedly defended this part of the hill during the Middle Ages, the existing bastion is purely decorative.
00025878 : HUNGARY Budapest - Soldiers in Heroes' Square. The square was laid out in 1896 to mark the thousandth anniversary of the Magyar conquest. The Millenniary Monument at its centre consists of a 36-metre-high column topped by the figure of Archangel Gabriel who, according to legend, appeared to Stephen in a dream and offered him the crown of Hungary.
00025877 : HUNGARY - Houses in the city of Veszprem, near Lake Balaton.
00025876 : HUNGARY - Paprika drying in the sun. Hungary is Europe's biggest supplier of paprika, which also forms an important ingredient of its cuisine.
00025875 : HUNGARY - Bales of hay.
00025874 : HUNGARY - Shepherd with his flock of sheep in the Puszta, the great plain which covers about half of the country.
00025873 : HUNGARY - Cart pulled by Hungarian Grey cattle. Near to extinction fifty years ago, it is still a fairly rare animal.
00025872 : HUNGARY East - Man cycling in the Puszta, the great plain which covers about half of the country. Hungarian Grey cattle graze beside the road. Hortobagy National Park.
00025871 : HUNGARY East - Blonde Mangalica (Woolly pig), Rare Breed Park, Hortobagy National Park.
00025870 : HUNGARY - Hungarian Grey cow in the Puszta, the great plain which covers about half of the country. Near to extinction fifty years ago, it is still a fairly rare animal.
00025869 : HUNGARY East - Blonde Mangalica (Woolly pig), Rare Breed Park, Hortobagy National Park.
00025868 : HUNGARY Pecs - The baroque Trinity Column and the Mosque of Gazi Kasim Pasha (now a Catholic church) in Szechenyi ter, the central square of Pecs. Built around 1580, it was the main mosque in Hungary until its transformation into a church by the Jesuits after liberation from the Turks.
00025867 : HUNGARY Pecs - Detail of a building (formerly a bank) in Szechenyi ter, the central square of Pecs.
00025866 : NETHERLANDS - Tulips growing in Keukenhof Gardens.
00025865 : NETHERLANDS - Fields cultivated with bulb flowers.
00025864 : USA Santa Barbara, California, United States of America. - Monarch butterflies. On a migratory journey from north to central America, in January they can be found in southern California.
00025863 : USA New York, United States of America - The United Nations (UN) building.
00025862 : USA New York, United States of America - View of southern Manhattan, prior to the destruction of the World Trade Center.
00025839 : IVORY COAST - Women preparing manioc for a meal.
00025838 : UGANDA Entebbe - Water hyacinth choking Lake Victoria.
00025837 : IRAQ Baghdad - Mother and child in the street.
00025836 : RWANDA Giterama district - Marthe Nzabakurana is a member of a Women's Agricultural Association. "We were part of a co-op which existed before the genocide. We had money saved but the signatories died or went missing when we fled the country so we have started from scratch, clearing the land again and reforming the association."
00025835 : MOZAMBIQUE - Road building project.
00025834 : MOZAMBIQUE - Road building project.
00025833 : UGANDA - Water hyacinth choking Lake Victoria.
00025832 : SIERRA LEONE - Income generation: women's group making palm oil soap.
00025831 : SOMALILAND - A taxi driver, formerly a fighter in Somaliland's war of liberation, with his family.
00025830 : UNITED KINGDOM Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK - Intense rioting in Republican areas of Belfast following the decision by the authorities to allow the controversial Orange march by Loyalists through Drumcree.
00025829 : UNITED KINGDOM Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK - A Catholic girl plays with a toy gun in her mouth next to a patrolling British soldier.
00025828 : UNITED KINGDOM Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK - Intense rioting in Republican areas of Belfast following the decision by the authorities to allow the controversial Orange march by Loyalists through Drumcree.
00025827 : UNITED KINGDOM Hamilton, nr. Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain, UK - High levels of child poverty on a housing scheme in Hamilton.
00025826 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Teenage joyriders trash a stolen car on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00025825 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Teenage joyriders trash and burn a stolen car on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00025824 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Teenage joyriders trash a stolen car on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00025823 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Joyriders celebrate after trashing and burning a stolen car on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00025822 : UNITED KINGDOM Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK - A child plays in front of a line of armoured police Landrovers in the aftermath of Republican rioting. Tensions were high following the decision by the authorities to allow the controversial Orange march by Loyalists through Drumcree.
00025821 : UNITED KINGDOM Sheffield, England, Great Britain, UK - Teenage joyriders trash a stolen car on the Manor estate, which has one of the highest rates of crime in Europe.
00025820 : UNITED KINGDOM Northern Ireland, UK - British soldiers fire baton rounds at Republican rioters in Derry / Londonderry following the decision by the authorities to allow the controversial Orange march by Loyalists through Drumcree.
00025819 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - "Rita", an Asian prostitute who works the back streets of East London. Rita says that she does the work because of her pimp, with whom she is in love.
00025818 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Mostar - A grieving Croatian father attends the grave of his son who was killed two years earlier in vicious street fighting between Bosnian Croats and Muslims.
00025817 : USA Denver, Colorado, United States of America - Nathan Thill, a right wing skinhead, shows off his tattoos whilst awaiting trial on a charge of first degree murder. He is accused of having shot and killed a black man and crippled a Hispanic woman on a shooting spree in Denver.
00025816 : CROATIA Osijek - Croatian soldier suffering from shell shock during the fighting for control of the eastern town of Osijek. An estimated 10,000 people were killed in Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia.
00025815 : SOUTH AFRICA - Young AWB (Afrikaanse Weerstandsbeweging - Afrikaaner Resistance Movement) supporter at a rally held by the white supremacist movement in the run up to South Africa's first multiracial election.
00025814 : SOUTH AFRICA Lindelani township, Natal - Nelson Mandela addresses an African National Congress (ANC) rally in the run up to South Africa's first multiracial election.
00025813 : SOUTH AFRICA - Miners working in harsh conditions at a gold mine.
00025812 : SOUTH AFRICA Lindelani township, Natal - The first white child to attend a formerly all-black school in Lindelani township, following the election of Nelson Mandela to power.
00025811 : BURKINA FASO - Huge sand storm approaching.
00025810 : BANGLADESH Bheel Dakatia - Innoculating fowl against disease.
00025809 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Kisangani - The state-run INIBRA/Skol brewery. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
00025808 : CHAD Enderta, Ouaddai - Refugees have been registered by UNHCR aid workers and prepare themselves to be moved away from an assembly point close to the Sudanese border. Emotional scenes take place as refugees are temporarily split up to be transported to the UNHCR camp at Farchana, further inland. Weak and elderly people are going by bus, the others loaded on trucks. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025807 : DENMARK Copenhagen - Crown Prince Frederik and his Australian wife Mary Elizabeth Donaldson, greeting well-wishers after the royal wedding.
00025806 : MOZAMBIQUE Nr. Lugela - Construction of a rural road using a hand-operated roller.
00025805 : MOZAMBIQUE Nr. Ile - New school construction.
00025804 : INDIA Kochi (Cochin), Kerala - Family crossing bridge.
00025803 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Policeman directing busy motorcycle traffic.
00025802 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Shops selling electrical goods made by global manufacturers such as Siemens, Zanussi and LG.
00025801 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Coca Cola truck passing man on bicycle.
00025800 : VIETNAM Hanoi - One of many new computer schools in Hanoi. Vietnam is rapidly extending internet access in the major cities.
00025799 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Customer in a shop buying a mobile telephone.
00025798 : VIETNAM Hanoi - The new-found wealth in Vietnam means that businesses such as this designer wedding boutique are flourishing, no longer only available to the wealthy elite.
00025797 : VIETNAM Hanoi - A busy photographic studio in the city centre, which takes portraits of up to 30 clients a day. Binh, 23, is a motor taxi rider who has had a profitable month and decided to spend some money on himself.
00025796 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Motorcycle traffic outside the Hanoi Opera House.
00025795 : AUSTRALIA Amata, Pitjabjantjaira Country - Land rights meeting. Aborigines from all over Central Australia gathered to protest and protect their land from mining/mineral development. They succeeded for the time being.
00025794 : UGANDA - Clearing water hyacinth from Lake Victoria.
00025793 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Female worker in a factory producing explosives for industry.
00025792 : RWANDA Nr. Butare - A Canadian UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda) soldier sits on top of a tank as it enters the Kaohua camp for internally-displaced people (IDPs).
00025791 : RWANDA Nr. Butare - A little girl with her father in the Kaohua camp for internally-displaced people (IDPs), ready to be transported under the protection of Canadian UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda) soldiers.
00025790 : RWANDA Nr. Butare - Young girl in the Kaohua camp for internally-displaced people (IDPs).
00025789 : RWANDA - Young girl in a camp for internally-displaced people (IDPs). Her temporary shelter is made from a plastic sheet provided by the UNHCR.
00025788 : RWANDA - A running company of soldiers wearing no shirts, poor footwear and no arms.
00025787 : UGANDA Kampala - Labourer in a coffee storage depot.
00025786 : UGANDA Kampala - Carpenter making a child's coffin.
00025785 : UGANDA - A man pushing his bicycle loaded with green bananas.
00025784 : UGANDA - Taxi sign on the back of a bicycle.
00025783 : TANZANIA - Children picking tomatoes.
00025782 : UGANDA Kampala - A man operating a personal computer.
00025781 : TANZANIA - Boy pushing his friend on a wooden bicycle in Benako refugee camp, home to thousands of people escaping the genocide in Rwanda.
00025780 : KENYA - A nurse and doctor struggle to save the life of a child while its mother watches anxiously. Over 64,000 Somalian refugees fleeing famine were housed in the Libo refugee camp.
00025779 : TANZANIA - Rwandan boy in Benako refugee camp with a UNHCR T-shirt asking "What if the world had turned its back on Einstein?"
00025778 : KENYA - A severely malnourished child waits for aid in a medical tent. Over 64,000 Somalian refugees fleeing famine were housed in the Libo refugee camp.
00025777 : KENYA - A severely malnourished man waits for aid in a medical tent. Over 64,000 Somalian refugees fleeing famine were housed in the Libo refugee camp.
00025776 : KENYA - A young mother with her child, drinking water from a plastic container. They were among 64,000 Somalian refugees fleeing famine who were housed in the Libo refugee camp.
00025775 : KENYA - A young mother with her child, among 64,000 Somalian refugees fleeing famine who were housed in the Libo refugee camp.
00025774 : SIERRA LEONE Waterloo - A female teacher with young IDP (internally-displaced) children practising reading and writing.
00025773 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Two men digging a grave while the priest shares a joke with his friends.
00025772 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Three generations of a Crio family in their living room.
00025771 : BANGLADESH Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Province - Water is taken from a UNHCR lorry in the Dum-Dumia camp, which houses 70,000 Burmese refugees.
00025770 : SIERRA LEONE Waterloo - An IDP (internally-displaced) girl carrying a sewing machine on her head. When this picture later became a poster for the UNHCR it was distributed in the organisation's posts all around Africa. Spotting their daughter on one of the posters, her parents were able to track her down after two years apart.
00025769 : RUSSIA Prigorodny district, Chermen, North Ossetia - An old woman sits on the bed under which she cowered as the war raged outside, spraying bullet holes across her bedroom wall. She has now plastered the holes.
00025768 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - Destroyed building in the city centre.
00025767 : RUSSIA Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia - A Chechen refugee woman.
00025766 : RUSSIA MTF Pliero Mudd, Yuzhny, Nasran - A Chechen refugee boy tests his strength outside his prefabricated house.
00025765 : RUSSIA MTF Pliero Mudd, Yuzhny, Nasran - A Chechen refugee boy stands on a broken water pipe.
00025764 : RUSSIA Moscow - A Congolese refugee meeting a representative from the UNHCR at its Moscow reception centre.
00025763 : BOTSWANA - Herero woman and boys in traditional outfits.
00025762 : ANGOLA Malanje - Landmine victim lying in a dirty bed resting his amputated leg.
00025761 : SOUTH AFRICA Nr. Johannesburg - White woman stopped at military checkpoint.
00025760 : MOZAMBIQUE - Rebuilding homes destroyed in war.
00025759 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and his followers pray in the street outside the Finsbury Park mosque in North London. The cleric is banned from preaching inside the mosque and so prays outside. Police officers monitor proceedings.
00025758 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and his followers pray in the street outside the Finsbury Park mosque in North London. The cleric had been banned from preaching inside the mosque. In February 2006, Abu Hamza was convicted of soliciting murder, inciting racial hatred and possessing a terrorist training manual.
00025757 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and his followers pray in the street outside the Finsbury Park mosque in North London. The cleric had been banned from preaching inside the mosque, and police officers were monitoring proceedings. In February 2006, Abu Hamza was convicted of soliciting murder, inciting racial hatred and possessing a terrorist training manual.
00025756 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and his followers pray in the street outside the Finsbury Park mosque in North London. The cleric had been banned from preaching inside the mosque, and police officers were monitoring proceedings. In February 2006, Abu Hamza was convicted of soliciting murder, inciting racial hatred and possessing a terrorist training manual.
00025755 : IRAQ Baghdad - The Iraqi national wrestling team trains at the al-Kadhamiya sports club. Four members of the team will be competing at the 2004 Olympic Games.
00025754 : IRAQ Baghdad - Raid Abbas, the only Iraqi athlete to qualify for the Tae Kwon-Do competition at the 2004 Olympic Games.
00025753 : IRAQ Baghdad - The Iraqi national wrestling team trains at the al-Kadhamiya sports club. Four members of the team will be competing at the 2004 Olympic Games.
00025752 : IRAQ Baghdad - Ahmed Nafeh of the Iraqi national wrestling team trains at the al-Kadhamiya sports club. He is one of four members of the team that will be competing at the 2004 Olympic Games.
00025751 : IRAQ Baghdad - Prisoners in the al-Bahya police station waiting to be judged and sentenced.
00025750 : IRAQ Baghdad - Iraqi police officers at a checkpoint on the bridge to al-Dorah. Iraqi police officers have been repeatedly targeted in attacks by anti-coalition forces.
00025749 : IRAQ Baghdad - Iraqi police escort convicted thieves through concrete security walls around a court justice building to be sentenced. Iraqi police officers have been repeatedly targeted in attacks by anti-coalition forces.
00025748 : IRAQ Baghdad - Handcuffed prisoners are seated on the floor of a court justice building while they wait to be sentenced for car theft and robbery.
00025747 : IRAQ Baghdad - Prisoners, who police say worked for Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi and who are accused of armed robbery and murder, being held at a police station.
00025746 : IRAQ Baghdad - Blindfolded prisoners, who police say worked for Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi and who are accused of armed robbery and murder, being held at a police station.
00025745 : IRAQ Baghdad - Security contractors from Global Risk Strategies on an escort mission at Baghdad International airport. The security and risk management firm has more than 1,000 personnel in Iraq.
00025744 : IRAQ Baghdad - A man detained for attacking Iraqi police, denouncing them as collaborators with the country's occupiers, being held in the al-Bahya police station. Iraqi police officers have been repeatedly targeted in attacks by anti-coalition forces.
00025743 : IRAQ Baghdad - An Iraqi police officer checks the permit of a man carring a gun in his car at a checkpoint in the al-Bahya district. Iraqi police officers have been repeatedly targeted in attacks by anti-coalition forces.
00025742 : IRAQ Baghdad - Captain Saleh Aziz Presum Khadum, 52, lost an eye and the vision in the other when a car bomb exploded on 29/10/2003 outside the police station where he worked in the al-Bayaa district. He has not received any compensation or medical assistance since the attack, and has had to sell his family's possessions to pay medical bills. Iraqi police officers have been repeatedly targeted in attacks by anti-coalition forces.
00025741 : IRAQ Baghdad - Security contractors from Global Risk Strategies in their operations centre in the 'Green Zone', the district of Baghdad which includes coalition headquarters and other Western interests. The security and risk management firm has more than 1,000 personnel in Iraq.
00025740 : IRAQ Baghdad - Security contractors from Global Risk Strategies on an escort mission at Baghdad International airport. The security and risk management firm has more than 1,000 personnel in Iraq.
00025739 : IRAQ Baghdad - Security contractors from Global Risk Strategies on an escort mission at Baghdad International airport. The security and risk management firm has more than 1,000 personnel in Iraq.
00025738 : IRAQ Baghdad - Iraqis gather at Firdous square to denounce the coalition occupation and the newly proposed Iraqi flag. Exactly a year earlier, President Bush had prematurely declared an end to major hostilities in Iraq.
00025737 : IRAQ Baghdad - A boy fills in the crater from a roadside bomb that exploded as a US army convoy passed. Exactly a year earlier, President Bush had prematurely declared an end to major hostilities in Iraq.
00025736 : IRAQ Baghdad - A US army Humvee patrol passes Iraqi women in a Sadr City market.
00025735 : UGANDA Gulu - Women and children having a meal in Pagak camp for internally-displaced people (IDPs).
00025733 : CHAD - Transport of relief supplies by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The supplies will be taken by truck to the border between Chad and Sudan, where thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur province have fled to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025730 : CHAD - Russian Antonov flight from N'Djamena to Abeche, filled with relief supplies from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The supplies will be taken by truck to the border between Chad and Sudan, where thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur province have fled to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025729 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Opening of a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic at the refugee camp in Tine. The main health problems are closely related to the difficult living conditions of the refugees: diarrhoea from unfiltered water that is taken out of a hole in a dry river bed, respiratory infections from the cold nights and malnutrition. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025728 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic at the refugee camp in Tine. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025727 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Queue outside the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic at the refugee camp in Tine. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025726 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Opening of a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic at the refugee camp in Tine. The main health problems are closely related to the difficult living conditions of the refugees: diarrhoea from unfiltered water that is taken out of a hole in a dry river bed, respiratory infections from the cold nights and malnutrition. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025725 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Opening of a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic at the refugee camp in Tine. The main health problems are closely related to the difficult living conditions of the refugees: diarrhoea from unfiltered water that is taken out of a hole in a dry river bed, respiratory infections from the cold nights and malnutrition. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025724 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Baby in a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic at the refugee camp in Tine. The main health problems are closely related to the difficult living conditions of the refugees: diarrhoea from unfiltered water that is taken out of a hole in a dry river bed, respiratory infections from the cold nights and malnutrition. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025723 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Child in a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic at the refugee camp in Tine. The main health problems are closely related to the difficult living conditions of the refugees: diarrhoea from unfiltered water that is taken out of a hole in a dry river bed, respiratory infections from the cold nights and malnutrition. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025722 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Children in the refugee camp in the border town of Tine. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025721 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Nurse Fabienne Gaborieau working in a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic at the refugee camp in Tine. The main health problems are closely related to the difficult living conditions of the refugees: diarrhoea from unfiltered water that is taken out of a hole in a dry river bed, respiratory infections from the cold nights and malnutrition. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025720 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Doctor Goddy Efula and nurse Fabienne Gaborieau working in a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic at the refugee camp in Tine. They are looking at the X-rays of Zenaba Ahamat (30), who was injured in an aerial bombardment by Sudanese government forces. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025719 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Refugee camp in the border town of Tine. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government. With the dry season having begun, food stocks are becoming limited.
00025718 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Family in the refugee camp in the border town of Tine. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025717 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Young woman in the refugee camp in the border town of Tine. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government. This woman's village came under bombardment from government Antonov planes.
00025716 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Woman gathering seeds in the refugee camp in the border town of Tine. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025715 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Woman and child in the refugee camp in the border town of Tine. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025714 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Gathering seeds in the refugee camp in the border town of Tine. With the dry season having begun and food resources scarce, most of the people in the camp are surviving on millet alone. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025713 : CHAD Birak - Malaria paracheck tests, revealing positive results, in a newly opened Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) dispensary.
00025712 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Child in the refugee camp in the border town of Tine. The refugees dig up dried river beds for water. Their reward is a dirty brown liquid, which they drink unfiltered. With their cattle also drinking from this source, there is a huge potential for the outbreak of disease. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025711 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Children in the refugee camp in the border town of Tine. The refugees dig up dried river beds for water. Their reward is a dirty brown liquid, which they drink unfiltered. With their cattle also drinking from this source, there is a huge potential for the outbreak of disease. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025710 : CHAD Birak - Sudanese refugees from the Masaleet tribe living in makeshift shelters. The plastic sheeting was provided by the local population. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025709 : CHAD Birak - A relative brings 3 year old cousins Amina Adam Ibrahim and Mariam Adoum Ibrahim to a newly opened Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) dispensary. They are suffering from severe diarrhoea, and tests reveal that they both have malaria.
00025708 : CHAD Birak - Sudanese refugees from the Masaleet tribe living in makeshift shelters under the shadow of a tree. The plastic sheeting was provided by the local population. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025707 : CHAD Feguerra - A Sudanese refugee sits in front of the straw shelter that she built to protect against the cold nights. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025706 : CHAD Birak - A traditional cure for the sick, practiced here by Sudanese refugees. Koranic verses are written on a wooden plate, the plate is then washed with water, and the water is drunk by the sick person. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025705 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Abubakar Hamid Nour, a commander with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), speaks into a Thuraya satellite phone. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025704 : CHAD - Chadian soldiers inspect one of their jeeps that they claim was bombed by a Sudanese plane in the Chadian village of Besa in late December 2003. The soldiers say they were attacked while approaching a Sudanese helicopter that crash landed in Chadian territory.
00025703 : CHAD East - Women pull water from a shallow dug well.
00025702 : CHAD Malaga - A Sudanese refugee stands in a dry river bed where she is trying to build a shelter to protect against the cold nights. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025701 : CHAD East - Women and children in a dry landscape.
00025700 : CHAD East - Drawing water from a well.
00025699 : CHAD - Sudanese refugee children stand next to straw walls constructed to block the wind at night, in a camp in Eastern Chad. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025698 : CHAD East - A woman walks while a man rides a donkey.
00025697 : CHAD - Sudanese refugees living in straw huts in a dry river bed in Eastern Chad. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025696 : CHAD - Sudanese refugees living in straw huts in a dry river bed in Eastern Chad. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025695 : CHAD - Sudanese refugees living in straw huts in a dry river bed in Eastern Chad. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025694 : CHAD - A Sudanese refugee boy sits between straw walls constructed to block the wind at night, in a camp in Eastern Chad. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025693 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - The main mosque in Tine.
00025692 : CHAD - Sudanese refugees in Eastern Chad. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00025691 : CHAD - Chadian soldier patrolling the Sudanese border.
00025690 : CHAD Ngalaba - Villagers in Ngalaba say their sacred grounds were desecrated by the building of an oil facility by Exxon Mobil (Esso). Now they fear that spirits have been spread throughout the village.
00025689 : CHAD - A woman carries cooking oil donated by the US government via the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP).
00025688 : CHAD Kome - A Chadian working as a security guard at an oil facility in Ngalaba. Most of the employees are foreigners.
00025687 : CHAD Kome - Natural gas flares at Exxon Mobil's (Esso) Kome5 oil facility.
00025686 : GHANA Accra - A student working on a computer at Ashesi University. Ashesi is a private university founded by a Ghanaian who made his fortune in America.
00025685 : CHAD Kome - Men stand behind wooden furniture made from scrap material discarded by oil companies. People from all over Chad flocked to the oil producing south, hoping that Exxon Mobil (Esso) and its contracters would hire them. When they were told that no one would be hired locally, they found other ways to survive.
00025684 : CHAD Kome - Power generation at the Kome 5 oil facility run by Exxon Mobil (Esso). Each of these four turbines produces as much power as the entire power supply of Chad.
00025683 : GHANA Obuasi - Workers of Ashanti Goldfields at the Obuasi gold mine. Ashanti recently merged with industry giant AngloGold.
00025682 : GHANA Obuasi - Workers of Ashanti Goldfields at the Obuasi gold mine. Ashanti recently merged with industry giant AngloGold.
00025681 : GHANA Obuasi - Workers of Ashanti Goldfields at the Obuasi gold mine. Ashanti recently merged with industry giant AngloGold.
00025680 : GHANA Accra - Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana's Minister of Foreign Affairs, in his office. A portrait of president John Agyekum Kufuor hangs on the wall.
00025679 : GHANA Accra - Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana's Minister of Foreign Affairs, in his office.
00025678 : GHANA Obuasi - An AIDS prevention poster for workers of Ashanti Goldfields at the Obuasi gold mine.
00025677 : GHANA Obuasi - Workers of Ashanti Goldfields chemically separate gold from ore at the Obuasi gold mine. Ashanti recently merged with industry giant AngloGold.
00025676 : GHANA Obuasi - Employee of Ashanti Goldfields at the Obuasi gold mine. Ashanti recently merged with industry giant AngloGold.
00025675 : GHANA Accra - Patrick Awuah, a former executive of Microsoft in America, returned to Ghana to found the private Ashesi University to compete with the under-funded and over-enrolled public university in Accra.
00025674 : GHANA Obuasi - An AIDS prevention poster for workers of Ashanti Goldfields at the Obuasi gold mine.
00025673 : GHANA Obuasi - Gold pouring into moulds that form gold bars at the gold mine, owned by Ashanti Goldfields. Ashanti recently merged with industry giant AngloGold.
00025672 : GHANA Obuasi - Obuasi gold mine, owned by Ashanti Goldfields. Ashanti recently merged with industry giant AngloGold.
00025671 : GHANA Accra - Patrick Awuah, a former executive of Microsoft in America, returned to Ghana to found the private Ashesi University to compete with the under-funded and over-enrolled public university in Accra.
00025670 : GHANA Accra - A street vendor sells posters depicting ex-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein a few days after his capture by American troops.
00025669 : NIGERIA Lagos - People sift through the smouldering rubble that was their homes the morning after a fire ripped through the Makoko district.
00025668 : GHANA Obuasi - Workers of Ashanti Goldfields at the Obuasi gold mine. Ashanti recently merged with industry giant AngloGold.
00025667 : SUDAN Tini - Abubakar Hamid Nour, a commander with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), speaks to a journalist. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025666 : NIGERIA Lagos - A woman operates a booth selling mobile telephones.
00025665 : NIGERIA Lagos - Nigerians gather in a bar to cheer for their national team, the Super Eagles, as they play in the African Nations Cup football tournament.
00025664 : NIGERIA Lagos - People sift through the smouldering rubble that was their homes the morning after a fire ripped through the Makoko district.
00025663 : NIGERIA Lagos - People sift through the smouldering rubble that was their homes the morning after a fire ripped through the Makoko district. A boy collects a few surviving possessions.
00025662 : NIGERIA Lagos - Doses of the polio vaccine. Health officials are trying to vaccinate as many children as possible after several states lifted their ban on the vaccine.
00025661 : NIGERIA Argungu Sokoto - A soldier from Niger at the Argungu fishing festival.
00025660 : NIGERIA Argungu Sokoto - A soldier from Benin Republic at the Argungu fishing festival.
00025659 : NIGERIA Lagos - A child receives a dose of the polio vaccine. Health officials are trying to vaccinate as many children as possible after several states lifted their ban on the vaccine.
00025658 : NIGERIA Lagos - A man votes in the local government elections for Councillor and Chairman. Nigeria has been a democracy since 1999.
00025657 : NIGERIA Lagos - A polio vaccination team walks through the streets. Health officials are trying to vaccinate as many children as possible after several states lifted their ban on the vaccine.
00025656 : NIGERIA Lagos - A polio vaccination team walks through the streets. Health officials are trying to vaccinate as many children as possible after several states lifted their ban on the vaccine.
00025655 : NIGERIA Lagos - A health worker says goodbye to a child and its mother after checking to see that the child had been vaccinated against polio. Health officials are trying to vaccinate as many children as possible after several states lifted their ban on the vaccine.
00025654 : NIGERIA Otta - A massed crowd of worshippers in Winners' Church. The church boasts the largest regular attendance of any church in the world.
00025653 : NIGERIA Lagos - A boy stands under a pair of ballot boxes on election day. Nigeria has been a democracy since 1999.
00025652 : NIGERIA Lagos - A government election officials marks a woman's identity card to indicate that she has voted in local government elections. Nigeria has been a democracy since 1999.
00025651 : NIGERIA Lagos - Flags for the Alliance for Democracy (AD) party wave on the day of elections. Nigeria has been a democracy since 1999.
00025650 : NIGERIA Lagos - Election officials remove marked ballots from a ballot box and divide them by party in preparation for counting. Nigeria has been a democracy since 1999.
00025649 : NIGERIA Lagos - Parishioners hold signs proclaiming that they have HIV/AIDS and hoping to be cured at The Synagogue Church of All Nations. Pastor T.B. Joshua claims to be able to 'cure' parishioners of illness. People come to the church from all over Africa to be cured of evils such as AIDS, cancer and infertility.
00025648 : NIGERIA Lagos - Mohammed Farrouk (centre), who is HIV positive, hosts the 'AIDS On Line' television show with guests Dr. Charles Okanny (left) and Abigael Obeten. The program appears live on government owned television stations weekly to educate and inform the public about HIV and AIDS.
00025647 : NIGERIA Lagos - Parishioners give testimony into a microphone so that as many as 5,000 people can watch on television screens at The Synagogue Church of All Nations after Pastor T.B. Joshua 'cured' them of HIV/AIDS. People come to the church from all over Africa to be cured of evils such as AIDS, cancer and infertility.
00025646 : NIGERIA Lagos - Pastor T.B. Joshua of The Synagogue Church of All Nations, who claims to be able to 'cure' parishioners of illness. People come to the church from all over Africa to be cured of evils such as AIDS, cancer and infertility.
00025645 : NIGERIA Lagos - A man reads a mobile phone text message (SMS) warning against the dangers of casual sex and HIV/AIDS sent by the Nigerian federal government in conjunction with the telephone operator MTN.
00025644 : NIGERIA Lagos - Pastor T.B. Joshua speaks to parishioners at The Synagogue Church of All Nations, absolving them of their sins and 'curing' them of HIV/AIDS. People come to the church from all over Africa to be cured of evils such as AIDS, cancer and infertility.
00025643 : NIGERIA Lagos - Pastor T.B. Joshua speaks to a man at The Synagogue Church of All Nations, absolving him of his sins and 'curing' him of the scars remaining from his burns. People come to the church from all over Africa to be cured of evils such as AIDS, cancer and infertility.
00025642 : NIGERIA Lagos - Pastor T.B. Joshua speaks to a woman at The Synagogue Church of All Nations, absolving her of her sins and 'curing' her of skin disease. People come to the church from all over Africa to be cured of evils such as AIDS, cancer and infertility.
00025641 : NIGERIA Lagos - Musician Femi Anikulapo Kuti, son of the legendary Fela Kuti, poses on a billboard to warn Nigerians about the dangers of AIDS. The billboard, written in pigeon English, says that AIDS does not always make itself visible on a patient. The elder Kuti is widely believed to have died of complications related to AIDS.
00025640 : BENIN Cotonou - A boy, who was a slave in neighbouring Nigeria working in quarries, shows a scar he received from punishment. He is being rehabilitated by a French NGO before being returned to his family, who probably knowingly sold him into indentured servitude.
00025639 : NIGERIA Lagos - A man reads a mobile phone text message (SMS) warning against the dangers of casual sex and HIV/AIDS sent by the Nigerian federal government in conjunction with the telephone operator MTN.
00025638 : NIGERIA Otta - Women pray at the Winners' Church on Christmas day. As many as 50,000 people filled Africa's largest church for the Christmas service.
00025637 : NIGERIA Lagos - Prayers at an Apostolic Church on New Year's Day.
00025636 : GREECE Tinos - Greek Orthodox festival.
00025635 : BENIN Za-Kpota - A child stands in a doorway. Za-Kpota is a major source of the children who work as indentured servants and slaves in neighbouring Nigeria.
00025634 : BENIN Za-Kpota - Masons work on a house owned by Adohinzin Houkintinde, who has sold two of her sons into indentured servitude in neighbouring Nigeria. The money for work on the house comes from the sons' labour. Za-Kpota is a major source of the children who work as indentured servants and slaves in Nigeria.
00025633 : BENIN Koutagba - Men wearing T-shirts depicting Osama bin Laden and Tupac Shakur.
00025632 : RUSSIA Khakassia - A worker monitors the production of aluminium casts at the Russian Aluminium (Rusal) plant, which is owned by Oleg Deripaska.
00025631 : GREECE Tinos - Greek Orthodox festival.
00025630 : RUSSIA Moscow - Muscovites pass the Bolshoi theatre on their way to work.
00025629 : RUSSIA Khakassia - Alexei Lebed, Governor of the Khakassia region.
00025628 : RUSSIA Moscow - Avgusta Andreeva,who works as a gardener at the Bolshoi theatre, surveys the flower bed for spaces to plant more shoots. The landscaping of the theatre grounds is part of its modernisation plans.
00025627 : RUSSIA Khakassia - The Sayano-shushenkaya dam, Russia's biggest, lies on the Yenisey river. Alexei Lebed, Governor of the Khakassia region, has proposed that it be renationalised so that his electorate can continue to receive inexpensive electricity.
00025626 : RUSSIA Khakassia - Alexei Lebed, Governor of the Khakassia region.
00025625 : RUSSIA Khakassia - The Sayano-shushenkaya dam, Russia's biggest, lies on the Yenisey river. Alexei Lebed, Governor of the Khakassia region, has proposed that it be renationalised so that his electorate can continue to receive inexpensive electricity.
00025624 : RUSSIA Moscow - A young couple enjoy a romantic evening in Bolshoi Square, in front of the Bolshoi theatre.
00025623 : RUSSIA Abakan, Khakassia - Lyudmilla, a worker at Abakan's museum on Khakassian history, monitors an exhibit depicting mannequins of the ethnic Khakass people in their native dress.
00025622 : RUSSIA Khakassia - A worker watches aluminium casts being removed from the smelter at the Russian Aluminium (Rusal) plant, which is owned by Oleg Deripaska.
00025621 : RUSSIA Khakassia - Interior of the Sayano-shushenkaya dam, Russia's biggest, which lies on the Yenisey river. Alexei Lebed, Governor of the Khakassia region, has proposed that it be renationalised so that his electorate can continue to receive inexpensive electricity.
00025620 : AZERBAIJAN Baku - Oil derricks in the Bailovo neighbourhood.
00025619 : RUSSIA Abakan, Khakassia - University students jogging through a park past a WWII monument.
00025618 : AZERBAIJAN Baku - Oil derricks in the Bailovo neighbourhood.
00025617 : RUSSIA Khakassia - A worker monitors aluminium casts just removed from the smelter at the Russian Aluminium (Rusal) plant, which is owned by Oleg Deripaska.
00025606 : MALI Timbuktu (Tombouctou) - Man making tea.
00025605 : INDIA - Young boy.
00025604 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Eyal Cochva (37), marketing manager of a high-tech company and a reservist commander in the Israeli army, talks on the phone in the Ma'ale Shormon base. Military service is compulsory in Israel for men and women. Men are required to serve for about a month each year until well into middle age unless they have a special exemption.
00025603 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Ramallah, West Bank - Palestinian youths demonstrate at the place where Israel plans to build a security barrier between the Palestinian village of Bidou and the Ha-Hadasha Israeli settlement. In February 2004 five Palestinians were killed during clashes with the Israeli army in Bidou. The controversial separation fence, which is one-third complete, will run about 400 miles through the West Bank.
00025602 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Ramallah, West Bank - Palestinian boys demonstrate at the place where Israel plans to build a security barrier between the Palestinian village of Bidou and the Ha-Hadasha Israeli settlement. In February 2004 five Palestinians (their faces on the poster) were killed during clashes with the Israeli army in Bidou. The controversial separation fence, which is one-third complete, will run about 400 miles through the West Bank.
00025601 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Ramallah, West Bank - A Palestinian Imam expounding the wisdom of the Koran during Friday prayers at the place where Israel plans to build a security barrier between the Palestinian village of Bidou and the Ha-Hadasha Israeli settlement (visible in the background). In February 2004 five Palestinians were killed during clashes with the Israeli army in Bidou. The controversial separation fence, which is one-third complete, will run about 400 miles through the West Bank.
00025600 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Ramallah, West Bank - A Palestinian youth looks towards the Givon Israeli settlement in the West Bank. He is standing on land where Israel plans to build a security barrier between the Palestinian village of Bidou and the Ha-Hadasha settlement. In February 2004 five Palestinians were killed during clashes with the Israeli army in Bidou. The controversial separation fence, which is one-third complete, will run about 400 miles through the West Bank.
00025599 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Ramallah, West Bank - Friday prayers at the place where Israel plans to build a security barrier between the Palestinian village of Bidou and the Ha-Hadasha Israeli settlement. In February 2004 five Palestinians were killed during clashes with the Israeli army in Bidou. The controversial separation fence, which is one-third complete, will run about 400 miles through the West Bank.
00025598 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Eyal Cochva (37), marketing manager of a high-tech company and a reservist commander in the Israeli army, with his wife Stavit and their son Yuval (2). Military service is compulsory in Israel for men and women. Men are required to serve for about a month each year until well into middle age unless they have a special exemption.
00025597 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Eyal Cochva (37), marketing manager of a high-tech company and a reservist commander in the Israeli army, on patrol in a jeep near the Ma'ale Shormon base. Military service is compulsory in Israel for men and women. Men are required to serve for about a month each year until well into middle age unless they have a special exemption.
00025596 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Eyal Cochva (37), marketing manager of a high-tech company and a reservist commander in the Israeli army, on patrol near the Ma'ale Shormon base. Military service is compulsory in Israel for men and women. Men are required to serve for about a month each year until well into middle age unless they have a special exemption.
00025595 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Eyal Cochva (37), marketing manager of a high-tech company and a reservist commander in the Israeli army, talks to a female soldier in the Ma'ale Shormon base. Military service is compulsory in Israel for men and women. Men are required to serve for about a month each year until well into middle age unless they have a special exemption.
00025594 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Eyal Cochva (37), marketing manager of a high-tech company and a reservist commander in the Israeli army, with his wife Stavit and their son Yuval (2). Military service is compulsory in Israel for men and women. Men are required to serve for about a month each year until well into middle age unless they have a special exemption.
00025593 : INDIA Bombay / Mumbai - Street kid sleeping amidst commuter rush at the railway station.
00025592 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Eyal Cochva (37), marketing manager of a high-tech company and a reservist commander in the Israeli army, with his son Yuval (2). Military service is compulsory in Israel for men and women. Men are required to serve for about a month each year until well into middle age unless they have a special exemption.
00025591 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - Eyal Cochva (37), marketing manager of a high-tech company and a reservist commander in the Israeli army, talks to his unit in the Ma'ale Shormon base. Military service is compulsory in Israel for men and women. Men are required to serve for about a month each year until well into middle age unless they have a special exemption.
00025590 : PAKISTAN Lahore - Suzuki 'taxis' queueing for fares.
00025589 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Bengali women and children in Shadwell.
00025588 : TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat - Statue in the city's main square. In the background is a portrait of Saparmurat Niyazov 'Turkmenbashi', president of Turkmenistan from 1985 to 2006.
00025586 : TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat - A portrait of Saparmurat Niyazov 'Turkmenbashi', president of Turkmenistan from 1985 to 2006, hangs from a public building.
00025585 : TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat - Norsel textile factory, which is supported by Turkish investors.
00025584 : TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat - People waiting at bus stop.
00025583 : TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat - 'Russian' market.
00025582 : NEPAL - Icy river tumbling down from the Himalaya mountains.
00025581 : JAPAN Kobe - Buckled train track, part of the destruction in the aftermath of the Hyogo earthquake which killed over 6,000 people.
00025580 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - A girl and her baby brother weep for their father, Saleh Ahmet Torkala, who was killed during a Janjaweed raid while herding his cattle. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025579 : CHAD Adre, Ouaddai - Three Chadian men at Adre hospital who received gunshot wounds when Janjaweed militias made a cross-border raid. Janjaweed incursions are frequent and make the border area a dangerous place for Sudanese refugees as well as the local population. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025578 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - Farchana UNHCR refugee camp. A Sudanese woman watches as her baby is weighed to check for possible malnutrition by a doctor from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The Farchana camp, about 50 kilometres from the Sudan border, houses some 6000 refugees, their number increasing every day. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025577 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - A donkey lies in the streets of Tine. Because of the heat and the lack of water and food many livestock have died. Their remains are now causing the outbreak of diseases. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025576 : CHAD Mahamatta, Ouaddai - A Sudanese refugee girl waits to be examined at a mobile clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The mobile clinics visit remote areas that are largely cut off from basic healthcare. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025575 : CHAD Lake Cariari, Biltine - A desert vehicle with an anti-tank gun being used by rebels of the JEM (Justice and Equality Movement). At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025574 : CHAD Farchana, Ouaddai - Farchana UNHCR refugee camp. Sudanese women hope for a miracle as the son of the woman on the left struggles for his life in the hands of a doctor from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Despite her efforts the baby, only a few weeks old, later died of malnutrition on the way to a nearby hospital. The Farchana camp, about 50 kilometres from the Sudan border, houses some 6000 refugees, their number increasing every day. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,00
00025573 : SUDAN Furawiya, West Darfur - Burnt out houses in the village of Furawiya. Janjaweed militias backed by the Sudanese army and airforce attacked the village and killed at least 10 people. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025572 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - Refugees from Darfur have built a shelter under a tree, close to a wadi that forms the border with Sudan. The border area is an unsafe place due to the frequent incursions of Janjaweed militias. The reason the refugees stay is that most of the wells in this very dry area are on the Sudanese side of the wadi. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025571 : CHAD Enderta, Ouaddai - Refugees have been registered by UNHCR aid workers and prepare themselves to be moved away from an assembly point close to the Sudanese border. Emotional scenes take place as refugees are temporarily split up to be transported to the UNHCR camp at Farchana, further inland. Weak and elderly people are going by bus, the others loaded on trucks. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025570 : SUDAN West Darfur - JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) rebels listen to the BBC World Service on a portable radio for news regarding the West Darfur peace negotiations being held in N'djamena, Chad. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025569 : SUDAN West Darfur - A rebel gestures to his companions to get some water for children who have waited for their trucks to pass by. Many refugees come out at night to wait alongside routes in rebel heartland and beg for rations. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025568 : SUDAN West Darfur - Children come out of hiding places beside the road when they see a convoy of rebels passing. They beg the rebels for water and food, claiming to have lost their parents in the ethnic violence in Darfur. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025567 : SUDAN West Darfur - Mohammed Saleh, General Secretary of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025566 : SUDAN West Darfur - A fighter with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025565 : SUDAN West Darfur - In the early morning, two JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) rebels share a carefree moment before breaking up their campsite in the desert. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025564 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Women waiting at bus stop.
00025563 : SUDAN West Darfur - Two pickup trucks full of fighters of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) speed through the desert. The rebels operate in small groups of 30-40 fighters and stay constantly on the move to evade the Sudanese army. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025562 : SUDAN Furawiya, West Darfur - Books lie scattered in a fence behind a local school. Janjaweed militias attacked the school during an raid on the village of Furawiya. Dozens of people were killed during the attack. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025561 : PHILIPPINES Olongapo - Tricycle motorbike taxi.
00025560 : USA Seattle, Washington - A protester against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference takes part in a procession in Seattle's Capitol Hill district in the run up to the Millennium Round talks on global trade. Seattle was a landmark protest for anti-globalisation campaigners.
00025559 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Family of pavement dwellers.
00025558 : PAKISTAN Karachi - Heroin addict on the street, next to crucifix.
00025557 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Orchestra playing in the ruins of a building destroyed in the war.
00025556 : POLAND Warsaw - Poles queue up to purchase European Union (EU) and Polish flags on the last day before Poland's accession into the EU. Poland, along with nine other countries, joined the EU on May 1st 2004 in the largest expansion in the institution's 47-year history.
00025555 : POLAND Warsaw - Leszek Balcerowicz, head of the Polish central bank, in his office.
00025554 : POLAND Warsaw - Adam Michnik, editor in chief of Polish daily newspaper 'Gazeta Wyborcza'.
00025553 : POLAND Warsaw - Crowds gather at midnight in Pilsudski Square to celebrate Poland's accession into the European Union (EU). Poland, along with nine other countries, joined the EU on May 1st 2004 in the largest expansion in the institution's 47-year history.
00025552 : POLAND Warsaw - Fireworks display at midnight in Pilsudski Square to celebrate Poland's accession into the European Union (EU). Poland, along with nine other countries, joined the EU on May 1st 2004 in the largest expansion in the institution's 47-year history.
00025551 : POLAND Warsaw - Crowds gather in Zamkowy Square to celebrate Poland's accession into the European Union (EU). Poland, along with nine other countries, joined the EU on May 1st 2004 in the largest expansion in the institution's 47-year history.
00025550 : POLAND Warsaw - Gabriela Szymanska waves European Union (EU) and Polish flags in front of her home, on the last day before Poland's accession into the EU. Poland, along with nine other countries, joined the EU on May 1st 2004 in the largest expansion in the institution's 47-year history.
00025549 : POLAND Warsaw - European Union (EU) and Polish flags. Poland, along with nine other countries, joined the EU on May 1st 2004 in the largest expansion in the institution's 47-year history.
00025548 : POLAND Warsaw - Hundreds of police officers on duty during the annual march by neo-Nazi groups.
00025547 : POLAND Warsaw - Hundreds of police officers on duty during the annual march by neo-Nazi groups.
00025546 : POLAND Warsaw - A banner at a neo-Nazi march equates the European Union (EU) with communism. Poland, along with nine other countries, joined the EU on May 1st 2004 in the largest expansion in the institution's 47-year history.
00025545 : POLAND Warsaw - Image of a Kalashnikov rifle on the T-shirt of a man attending a neo-Nazi march.
00025544 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla - A convoy of Muslim refugees arrive in Tuzla from the east of the country, where the Serbs have launched an offensive.
00025543 : POLAND Warsaw - Young man at a neo-Nazi march.
00025542 : POLAND Bialystok - Traditional thatched wooden house.
00025541 : POLAND Bialystok - The Abrowski family celebrate a national holiday with a traditional Polish meal.
00025540 : MACEDONIA Skopje - Police photographs showing the scene of the killing of six Pakistanis and an Indian by Macedonian police. The government at the time claimed that they were al Qaeda terrorists, but it is now alleged that the then Interior Minister, Ljube Boskovski, arranged the killings to curry favour with the US in its war on terror.
00025539 : MACEDONIA Skopje - Police photographs showing the scene of the killing of six Pakistanis and an Indian by Macedonian police. The government at the time claimed that they were al Qaeda terrorists, but it is now alleged that the then Interior Minister, Ljube Boskovski, arranged the killings to curry favour with the US in its war on terror.
00025538 : RWANDA South West - Displaced Hutus fleeing on the road to Zaire during the 1994 genocide.
00025537 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - An old couple and their horse turn the earth in the early morning. Farmers in Lithuania are still using old farming techniques.
00025536 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Shah Mohammed Rais in his bookshop in Kabul. Rais was made famous by Norwegian writer Asne Sierstad in her book 'The Bookseller of Kabul', but he is taking legal action against the book which he alleges contains lies about him and his family.
00025535 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - A well camouflaged Lithuanian border guard sits in the bushes on the border between Lithuania and Belarus. This is also now the European Union (EU) border, a frontline for illegal immigrants and smugglers.
00025534 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - Lithuanian border guards clean their guns after a patrol along the border between Lithuania and Belarus. This is also now the European Union (EU) border, a frontline for illegal immigrants and smugglers.
00025533 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - Customs officials at Medininkai border crossing, the border between Lithuania and Belarus. This is also now the European Union (EU) border, a frontline for illegal immigrants and smugglers.
00025532 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - Lithuanian border guards sit in the bushes on the border between Lithuania and Belarus. This is also now the European Union (EU) border, a frontline for illegal immigrants and smugglers.
00025531 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - A variety of passports used as props at Medininkai Border Guard School. The students learn to distinguish a real passport from a fake one. The students here will work along the border between Lithuania and Belarus. This is also now the European Union (EU) border, a frontline for illegal immigrants and smugglers.
00025530 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - A student at Medinikai Border Guard School studies a passport. The students learn to distinguish a real passport from a fake one. The students here will work along the border between Lithuania and Belarus. This is also now the European Union (EU) border, a frontline for illegal immigrants and smugglers.
00025529 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - Former Prime Minister Vytautas Landsbergis plants a tree during a ceremony at the Medininkai border crossing to mark Lithuania's entry into the European Union (EU).
00025528 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - A man waits patiently in his car at a border crossing between Lithuania and Belarus. This is also now the European Union (EU) border, and the lines of cars waiting to enter or exit Lithuania can be long at times.
00025527 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - The European Union (EU) flag flies alongside the Lithuanian flag the day before the country joined the EU.
00025526 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - Sun setting on a Lithuanian border guard patrolling the border between Lithuania and Belarus. This is also now the European Union (EU) border, a frontline for illegal immigrants and smugglers.
00025525 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - Lithuanian customs officials watch a fireworks display during a ceremony at Medininkai border crossing on the night Lithuania joined the European Union (EU).
00025524 : INDONESIA Bali - Women washing laundry.
00025523 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - At eight minutes to midnight, a Lithuanian border guard checks his watch to see if his country has entered the European Union (EU) yet. New rules applied at the Medininkai border crossing with Belarus from the 1st of May 2004.
00025522 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - Vladimir Talaiko (centre) smiles as he is given a diploma by border guards declaring him to be the first person to enter Lithuania after the country joined the European Union (EU). Medininkai border crossing.
00025521 : LITHUANIA Medininkai - A border guard checks the passports of Vladimir Talaiko and his family, officially declared the first to enter Lithuania after the country joined the European Union (EU). Medininkai border crossing.
00025520 : NIGER - Women building protective diguette walls for crops as part of a community building project.
00025519 : BOLIVIA Challacollo, nr. Coipasa - Woman with Quinoa, a Graminaea grain.
00025518 : TURKEY Adarpazari - Collapsed buildings and rubble in the completely destroyed centre of the town. The devastating earthquake, with its epicentre at Izmit in the heavily populated north-west of the country, killed over 17,000 people.
00025517 : PHILIPPINES Luzon Island - Child labourers collecting water in a slum area of Pasay City.
00025516 : SAUDI ARABIA Najran - Trader at a date wholesale market.
00025515 : JAMAICA - Coconut palm tree.
00025514 : MALAWI - Smiling boy.
00025513 : PHILIPPINES Gumaca, Quezon - Boy washing.
00025512 : POLAND Warsaw - A mother with her newborn baby at the hospital.
00025511 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Pyongyang Airport.
00025510 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Pupils put on a musical performance at Kangan primary school in the Sonkyo District of Pyongyang. UNICEF provides the school with supplies (erasers, pencils, paper etc.).
00025509 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Monument to the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung - a masterpiece of Socialist Realist sculpture.
00025508 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Boys playing football outside Kangan primary school in the Sonkyo District of Pyongyang. UNICEF provides the school with supplies (erasers, pencils, paper etc.).
00025507 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Pupils put on a dance performance at Kangan primary school in the Sonkyo District of Pyongyang. UNICEF provides the school with supplies (erasers, pencils, paper etc.).
00025506 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Woman and child (in military uniform) at a water and sanitation project funded by Unicef.
00025505 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Pupils put on a musical performance at Kangan primary school in the Sonkyo District of Pyongyang. UNICEF provides the school with supplies (erasers, pencils, paper etc.).
00025504 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Pupils put on a musical performance at Kangan primary school in the Sonkyo District of Pyongyang. UNICEF provides the school with supplies (erasers, pencils, paper etc.).
00025503 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Tiled mosaic featuring Kim Il Sung, the Great Leader, at a plant which produces milk powder. The factory is financed by the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) and Unicef.
00025502 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Grey cityscape of central Pyongyang.
00025501 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Child in military uniform at a water and sanitation project funded by Unicef.
00025500 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Paediatric ward at Yonsan County hospital.
00025499 : NORTH KOREA Yonsan County, North Hwanghae Province - Baby in maternity ward at Yonsan County hospital.
00025498 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Apartment blocks in the city centre.
00025497 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Monument to the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung - a masterpiece of Socialist Realist sculpture.
00025496 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Mural depicting the invincible might of the North Korean military.
00025495 : MALAYSIA Penang Island - The modern Penang Tower contrasts with old Chinese architecture.
00025494 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Two workers transport a portrait painting of Antonio Jose de Sucre from the Naval Museum in Cartagena.
00025493 : INDIA Jaipur, Rajasthan - Street market inside the walled city.
00025492 : INDIA Nr. Jaipur, Rajasthan - The Jal Mahal (Water Palace).
00025491 : INDIA Agra, Uttar Pradesh - The sun fades over the Taj Mahal on the Yamuna River.
00025490 : INDIA Jaipur, Rajasthan - Elderly man playing an old lute to earn a few rupees.
00025489 : INDIA Jaipur, Rajasthan - Snake charmers in front of the Palace of the Winds.
00025488 : THAILAND Nr. Phuket - Karsts - dramatic limestone crags protruding from the water - in Pang Nga Bay.
00025487 : THAILAND Nr. Phuket - Boat in Pang Nga Bay sailing around karsts - dramatic limestone crags protruding from the water.
00025486 : THAILAND Nr. Phuket - Tapu Island, more famous as 'James Bond Island' after its appearance in the 1974 film 'The Man with the Golden Gun'. It is one of many karsts - dramatic limestone crags protruding from the water - in Pang Nga Bay.
00025485 : THAILAND Ayutthaya - The 20 metre long Reclining Buddha of Wat Lokaya Sutharam. Ayutthaya was the most powerful kingdom in Siam in the mid-14th century. Its end came after years of conflict, when the capital was sacked by the Burmese in 1767. Today, Ayutthaya Historical Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00025484 : THAILAND Damnoensaduak - Market traders on mobile phones at the floating market.
00025483 : THAILAND Bangkok - Terrace of the Oriental Hotel overlooking the Chao Phrata River.
00025482 : THAILAND Bangkok - Bodybuilders in Lumphini Park.
00025481 : THAILAND Bangkok - Construction site in Central Bangkok.
00025480 : EGYPT Cairo - Moustafa pouring paint in the workshop of Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025479 : EGYPT Cairo - Moustafa shapes a mannequin in the workshop of Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025478 : EGYPT Cairo - Moustafa sprays the final layer of paint on a mannequin in the workshop of Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025477 : EGYPT Cairo - Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker, speaks on the phone in his small office. He uses the paints on his desk to bring the mannequins' faces to life. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025476 : EGYPT Cairo - Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker, inspects some of his work. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025475 : EGYPT Cairo - Samples of work by Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025474 : EGYPT Cairo - Moustafa delivers a mannequin to a client by taxi from the workshop of Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025473 : EGYPT Cairo - Woman looking at clothes displayed on mannequins in a downtown store.
00025472 : EGYPT Cairo - Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025471 : EGYPT Cairo - Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025470 : EGYPT Cairo - Arms and hands hang up to dry in the workshop of Hosni Fares (71), Egypt's first and premier mannequin maker. He started making mannequins in 1952. Each one takes three days and is made entirely by hand.
00025469 : EGYPT Cairo - A child walks into a shop past a display of mannequins.
00025458 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie sits in her adjustable support chair by the window. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025457 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Doctor Gray, Chief Radiology Consultant at Colchester General Hospital, cradles Rosie during a Barium X-ray examination to observe her swallowing and to determine the severity of her aspiration - the swallowing of saliva and food into the lungs. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025456 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie undergoing reflexology at the Stepping Stones drop-in centre for children with special needs, which she visits once a week. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025455 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Dan kisses his daughter Rosie. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025454 : UNITED KINGDOM Brightlingsea, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie and her family enjoy a day out at the beach. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025453 : UNITED KINGDOM Brightlingsea, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie and her family enjoy a day out at the beach. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025452 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie sits by the window as her mother and brother arrange holly leaves on the mantelpiece for Christmas. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025451 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie with her mother Lucy. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025450 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie, who is cortically blind, sits in her adjustable support chair and plays with a multi-sensory toy. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025449 : UNITED KINGDOM Brightlingsea, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie sits in her pram as her brother Will plays on the slides. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025448 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie, her mother Lucy and brother Will. Lucy goes to great lengths to ensure that Will does not feel neglected but worries about the inevitable impact of Rosie's condition on his life. Will is beginning to ask why his sister doesn't walk or talk like he does. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025447 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie had a weak swallowing reflex, which led to aspiration - the swallowing of saliva and food into the lungs - and made her vulnerable to infections. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025446 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie is enveloped in a bundle of fibre optic lights as part of her multi-sensory stimulation therapy at the Stepping Stones drop-in centre for children with special needs, which she visits once a week. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025445 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie with her mother Lucy. In order to prevent bone and muscle wastage as well as dislocation of the joints Rosie needs regular massaging and must spend an hour a day in her standing frame. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025444 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie plays with her mother after being washed and dressed. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025443 : UNITED KINGDOM Colchester, England, Great Britain, UK - Rosie on a trip to the supermarket with her mother. Rosie Lavender suffered from a rare brain disorder known as Isolated Lissencephally Sequence. She died at the age of two and a half.
00025442 : TURKEY Istanbul - The Cemberlitas Hamam, one of the few bath houses in the city that has a regular female clientele (at separate times from male visitors). The masseurs are gypsy women. Turkish baths.
00025441 : CHINA - Advertising hoarding for Maxwell House coffee.
00025440 : VENEZUELA Sinamaica Lagoon, Zulia Province - Children of the Anu-Parajuana ethnic group paddle a canoe in the Sinamaica Lagoon. Living much like their ancestors the Anu-Parajuana build simple houses on stilts.
00025439 : VENEZUELA Sinamaica Lagoon, Zulia Province - A girl of the Anu-Parajuana ethnic group paddles a canoe in the Sinamaica Lagoon.
00025438 : VENEZUELA Guasdualito, Tachira Province - Only 15 years old, holding her baby, a newly arrived Colombian refugee receives information and documents from an NGO working to improve conditions for refugees.
00025437 : VENEZUELA Caracas - A man begins to paint the colours of the Venezuelan flag onto a Che Guevara mural. Political murals are on walls throughout the city.
00025436 : VENEZUELA Guasdualito, Tachira Province - A Colombian refugee selling vegetables he has grown on land rented from a local NGO.
00025435 : VENEZUELA Sinamaica Lagoon, Zulia province - A man of the Anu-Parajuana ethnic group throws a fishing net in the Sinamaica Lagoon. Living much like their ancestors the Anu-Parajuana build simple houses on stilts. Fishing is their main source of income.
00025434 : VENEZUELA Guasdualito, Tachira Province - A Colombian refugee with her son outside housing provided by an NGO. Her husband was killed and she fled across the border to escape further fighting between the guerillas and government troops.
00025433 : VENEZUELA Sinamaica, Zulia Province - A boy reads the slogans on the side of a truck filled with equipment for daycare centres. A social program started by president Hugo Chavez aims to provide free daycare to the entire country.
00025432 : VENEZUELA Guasdualito, Tachira Province - A Colombian refugee makes dinner in her kitchen. Living on government land, an increasing number of Colombians try to carve out a living in Venezuela.
00025431 : VENEZUELA Guasdualito, Tachira Province - Sitting in the doorway of a coffee shop, an old man watches people pass by on the street.
00025430 : VENEZUELA El Amparo de Apure, Tachira Province - A border patrol soldier inspects a car coming from Colombia. The soldiers are mainly looking for drugs, weapons and refugees.
00025429 : BOTSWANA Gabarone - HIV+ woman (right) educating others about AIDS and HIV.
00025428 : VENEZUELA Guasdualito, Tachira Province - A baby sleeps by an electrical fan. The child of Colombian refugees, she is the only person in the family with any legal rights in Venezuela.
00025427 : VENEZUELA Caracas - Political slogans refering to the military coup that temporarily ousted president Hugo Chavez in April 2002. Political murals and graffiti are on walls throughout the city.
00025426 : BOTSWANA Gabarone - Mobile health educator teaching family about HIV/AIDS prevention.
00025425 : BOTSWANA Gabarone - Peer educators handing out condoms in market.
00025424 : MALI Bamako - Girl selling mangoes on the street.
00025423 : MALI Sikasso region - Girl with well-worn doll.
00025422 : MALI Sikasso region - A Mali Red Cross theatre group performing a play about the dangers of HIV and AIDS in the Senoufou village of Coulibalybongou.
00025421 : MALI Segou - Young woman carrying bowls on her head.
00025420 : MALI Sikasso region - A Mali Red Cross theatre group performing a play about the dangers of HIV and AIDS in the Senoufou village of Coulibalybongou.
00025419 : MALI Bamako - Watching TV at a kiosk in the suburbs.
00025418 : MALI Sikasso - Poster promoting the use of condoms.
00025417 : MALI Bamako - Poster promoting the use of condoms.
00025416 : MALI Segou - Members of a women's group making batik cloth. The finished products are sold in a shop owned by the group.
00025415 : MALI Segou - Members of a women's group making batik cloth. The finished products are sold in a shop owned by the group.
00025414 : MALI Segou - Roving clothes peddler.
00025413 : JAPAN Yokosuka - Pupils at Morisaki primary school leaving at the end of the day. Most Japanese primary school children carry the same type of leather backpack, red for girls and black for boys.
00025412 : JAPAN Yokosuka - Pupils in classroom at Morisaki primary school.
00025411 : JAPAN Yokosuka - Children serving lunch in Morisaki primary school.
00025410 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Chickens for sale in a food market.
00025409 : JAPAN Yokosuka - Children in mathematics class at Morisaki primary school.
00025408 : JAPAN Yokosuka - Pupils in classroom at Morisaki primary school.
00025407 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Chickens are grilled in a food market.
00025406 : CHAD Lake Cariare, Biltine - Tahrar is a 14 year old soldier fighting with the JEM (Justice and Equality Movement). His father, mother and 4 brothers were killed in bombing raids by the Sudanese airforce on their village Sasa. Arab Janjaweed militias then abducted his two sisters. Tahrar managed to escape and after a journey of several days reached a village held by rebel forces (JEM) whom he joined; 'I now only have a future as a fighter. I have to take revenge'. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their home
00025405 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Hamiza Dahiya and her daughter warm themselves at a camp fire in their improvised shelter near Tine on the Sudanese border. Hamiza and her daughter walked for 15 weeks before reaching Chad. During an attack by the Janjaweed militia on her village, Adar in Darfur, she lost her husband and her three other children. She fears they are all dead. Other refugees have told her that 20 people lost their lives in the attack on Adar. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at lea
00025404 : CHAD Enderta, Ouaddai - Women crying at an assembly point for refugees close to the Sudanese border. Most of the people there are women and children. Some of them told of their husbands and brothers killed by Janjaweed militias. Many of the women and young girls were raped, sexually abused or abducted by the Janjaweed militias. At the assembly point they are now waiting to be transported to the relative safety of the UNHCR camp at Farchana, further into the country. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled thei
00025403 : CHAD Bahay, Biltine - At the Sudanese border a refugee girl shows the seeds she and her family pick from the trees surrounding their improvised homes, in order to battle starvation. Normally it would be their cattle that ate the seeds. An aid worker from the International Rescue Commitee, one of the few NGO's in the area, warns that the people in the Bahay region will start dying of starvation within a couple of weeks. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in
00025402 : CHAD Mahamatta, Ouaddai - A Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) nurse feeds a malnourished baby at a mobile clinic.
00025401 : CHAD Mahamatta, Ouaddai - People line up at a mobile clinic while a father has his malnourished daughter examined by a Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) doctor. MSF use mobile clinics to reach people in remote areas who are deprived of basic health services.
00025400 : CHAD Adre, Ouaddai - Halime Yaya (35) and her son, two of the victims of the ethnic violence in Darfur. When Janjaweed militias raided the village of Sildi, a bullet fractured Halime's arm and she and her son were only just able to escape. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025399 : CHAD Enderta, Ouaddai - After refugees have been registered by UNHCR workers they are moved away from an assembly point close to the Sudanese border, to the UNHCR camp at Farchana. Most of them have only a few possessions left, in this case the family bed. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025398 : CHAD Enderta, Ouaddai - Refugees lining up for trucks to take them to safety. After been registered by UNHCR workers they are moved away from an assembly point close to the Sudanese border to the UNHCR camp at Farchana, further into the country. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025397 : CHAD Enderta, Ouaddai - Sudanese refugees wave as they pass trough the village of Enderta, on their way to the UNHCR camp at Farchana. The journey from the assembly point close to the Sudanese border to Farcahana takes half a day. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025396 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - A Sudanese refugee girl collects water at night from a Red Cross standpipe. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025395 : CHAD Enderta, Ouaddai - A sick old man is moved away from an assembly point close to the Sudanese border, in a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) ambulance to the UNHCR camp at Farchana. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025394 : SUDAN West Darfur - JEM (Justice and Equality) rebels prepare a camp in the West Darfur desert at dusk. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025393 : SUDAN West Darfur - A rebel from JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) examine a Sudanese tank they claim to have demolished in a battle with the Sudanese Army in 2003. According to JEM they lost 20 men while the Sudanese lost 100. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025392 : SUDAN Furawiya, West Darfur - Villagers of Furawiya expose a bomb that was dropped there by the Sudanese airforce in a recent attack during which Janjaweed militias raided the village. Many houses were destroyed and at least 10 inhabitants were killed. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025391 : SUDAN West Darfur - A pickup truck carrying JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) rebels speeds through the desert of West Darfur. The rebels operate in small groups of 30-40 fighters and are constantly on the move to evade the Sudanese army. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025390 : SUDAN Sigekaro, West Darfur - Rebels of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) seek shelter from the burning sun under a tree, near the village of Sigekaro in West Darfur. At the point when it appeared the 20 year civil war in Sudan was nearing a conclusion a new conflict has broken out in the province of Darfur. The conflict is between black Africans, who claim the government has been oppressing them, and the local Arab population. Two rebel movements, the SLA and the JEM, have been attacking government targets. In response to this the government mobilised an Arab militia - the Janjaweed - to fight the rebels. The militias have been accused of numerous human rights abuses and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes with at least 100,000 seeking refuge in Chad.
00025389 : MACEDONIA Matejce - An ethnic Albanian youth looks out over the heavily damaged mosque in Matejce. The village was part of the front line in the war in 2001. It is now a staging post on one of the main routes used to smuggle trafficked women into Macedonia.
00025388 : MACEDONIA Ohrid - Sex workers at a bar in the lakeside resort of Ohrid wait in the police station after a raid. The police will check their immigration status, then they will be offered a lawyer and a place in a government-run safe house. Many of the women have been trafficked into the country.
00025387 : MACEDONIA Ohrid - Sex workers at a bar in the lakeside resort of Ohrid wait with their passports after a police raid. The police will check their immigration status, then they will be offered a lawyer and a place in a government-run safe house. Many of the women have been trafficked into the country.
00025386 : MACEDONIA - Macedonian soldiers patrol the border with Kosovo, a front line in the smuggling of women, drugs, weapons and cigarettes.
00025385 : MACEDONIA Ohrid - Sex workers at a bar in the lakeside resort of Ohrid wait with their passports after a police raid. The police will check their immigration status, then they will be offered a lawyer and a place in a government-run safe house. Many of the women have been trafficked into the country.
00025384 : IRAQ Baghdad - A portrait of ex-president Saddam Hussein remains on the 1970s style office wall in the derelict Baghdad train station.
00025383 : MACEDONIA - Macedonian soldiers patrol the border with Kosovo, a front line in the smuggling of women, drugs, weapons and cigarettes.
00025382 : MACEDONIA - Macedonian soldiers patrol the border with Kosovo, a front line in the smuggling of women, drugs, weapons and cigarettes.
00025381 : MACEDONIA Ohrid - Sex workers at a bar in the lakeside resort of Ohrid wait in the police station after a raid. The police will check their immigration status, then they will be offered a lawyer and a place in a government-run safe house. Many of the women have been trafficked into the country.
00025380 : IRAQ Baghdad - American troops arrest four Iraqis who they suspect of looting and possession of weapons. The men turned out to be innocent of the charges made against them.
00025379 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - An Israeli soldier denies access to an Arab man on his way to Friday prayers at the Al Aqsa mosque in the old city of Jerusalem. At the time the prayers were often followed by protests and violence.
00025378 : LEBANON - Palestinian girl in the Ain el Helweh refugee camp. On the floor is a pistol left behind by a militant.
00025377 : ROMANIA Reghin - Violin making in the Gliga instrument factory. The family-owned business employs 1,200 people.
00025376 : ROMANIA Reghin - Maria Damian paints, varnishes and polishes a violin. Each instrument gets seven such coats. The Gliga instrument factory is a family-owned business which employs 1,200 people.
00025375 : ROMANIA Reghin - Claudia Gyorke polishes holes in a piece of wood which will become a violin. The Gliga instrument factory is a family-owned business employs 1,200 people.
00025374 : ROMANIA Reghin - Violin making in the Gliga instrument factory. The family-owned business employs 1,200 people.
00025373 : LITHUANIA Vilnius - Vika Nosova helps her grandmother Iliana to vote in Lithuania's referendum on joining the European Union (EU). A massive majority voted Yes to joining in May 2004.
00025372 : ROMANIA Reghin - Violin making in the Gliga instrument factory. The family-owned business employs 1,200 people.
00025371 : ROMANIA Toplita - The Gliga instrument factory, a family-owned business which employs 1,200 people.
00025370 : ROMANIA Reghin - Violin making in the Gliga instrument factory. The family-owned business employs 1,200 people.
00025369 : LITHUANIA Vilnius - Jaroslaw Pilkowski clings to a speeding car as he slides behind it on home-made metal shoes.
00025368 : LITHUANIA Vilnius - Children in Europa Park explore a sculpture called "LNK Infotree" by Gintaras Karosas, which is made up of thousands of TV sets in the forest.
00025367 : POLAND Szczawnica - Tourists on a raft on the Dunajec river in the Pieniny mountains.
00025366 : POLAND Krakow - Girls wave European Union (EU) flags at a pro-EU rally in the build-up to Poland's referendum on membership. Poland joins the EU in May 2004.
00025365 : POLAND Krakow - A crowd wave European Union (EU) flags at a pro-EU rally in the build-up to Poland's referendum on membership. Poland joins the EU in May 2004.
00025364 : POLAND Piaseczno - Ukrainian and Belarussian migrants looking for work hang around on a street corner in Piaseczno, near Warsaw.
00025363 : POLAND Warsaw - Customers in a Carrefour hypermarket.
00025362 : POLAND Warsaw - The newly built Siekierki bridge over the Vistula river in central Warsaw.
00025361 : POLAND Nr. Poznan - Construction of an A2 motorway.
00025360 : POLAND Warsaw - Trolley pusher outside a Geant hypermarket.
00025359 : POLAND Warsaw - Customer at a Carrefour hypermarket.
00025358 : POLAND Warsaw - Special promotions at a Carrefour hypermarket.
00025357 : POLAND Warsaw - Customers in a Carrefour hypermarket.
00025356 : POLAND Warsaw - A young man embraces his girlfriend as he prepares to embark the bus to London. The journey takes one and half days.
00025355 : POLAND Warsaw - Customers look at a bank of television screens in a Geant hypermarket.
00025354 : POLAND Warsaw - Exhausted customer in the IKEA store in Warsaw.
00025353 : POLAND Warsaw - Unemployed people check advertisements at a Job Centre. Jobs are offered not only in Poland but also in the European Union (EU). The most popular destination for work abroad is Germany.
00025352 : POLAND Rawa Maz - Woman with a European Union (EU) flag at a pro-EU rally in the build-up to Poland's referendum on membership. Poland joins the EU in May 2004.
00025351 : POLAND Warsaw - Unemployed people check advertisements at a Job Centre. Jobs are offered not only in Poland but also in the European Union (EU). The most popular destination for work abroad is Germany.
00025350 : POLAND Warsaw - Customer collecting a trolley at an Auchan supermarket situated in the Wola Park shopping arcade.
00025349 : POLAND Warsaw - Women operating the tills in a Carrefour hypermarket.
00025348 : RWANDA Nyamata - In the church people take a last look at the remains of victims before they are finally re-buried. After the end of the genocide, a monument was built next to the church in Nyamata where in 1994 thousands of people were killed. Bones and skulls which were on display for some years are now washed, cleared away and some of them buried in special commemoration ceremonies.
00025347 : RWANDA Nyamata - After the end of the genocide, a monument was built next to the church in Nyamata where in 1994 thousands of people were killed. Bones and skulls which were on display for some years are now washed, cleared away and some of them buried in special commemoration ceremonies.
00025346 : RWANDA Kigali - Women washing the bones of victims of the 1994 genocide, which were amongst about 300 bodies in a newly discovered mass grave in Kigali. During the excavations attempts are made to identify the victims using teeth, jewellery and skull characteristics.
00025345 : RWANDA Kigali - Examining the skull of a victim of the 1994 genocide, which was amongst about 300 bodies in a newly discovered mass grave in Kigali. During the excavations attempts are made to identify the victims using teeth, jewellery and skull characteristics.
00025344 : RWANDA Nyamata - Young man working at the underground burial vault in Nyamata. After the end of the genocide, a monument was built next to the church in Nyamata where in 1994 thousands of people were killed. Bones and skulls which were on display for some years are now washed, cleared away and some of them buried in special commemoration ceremonies.
00025343 : RWANDA Nyamata - Claudette (23), a survivor of the genocide with scars visible on her head, visiting the memorial to the victims. After the end of the genocide, a monument was built next to the church in Nyamata where in 1994 thousands of people were killed. Bones and skulls which were on display for some years are now washed, cleared away and some of them buried in special commemoration ceremonies.
00025342 : SOUTH AFRICA Vryheid, KwaZulu Natal - ANC supporters celebrating South Africa's third multiracial election, next to a poster of president Thabo Mbeki.
00025341 : RWANDA Kigali - Two brothers console their sister during an event commemorating the beginning of the genocide exactly ten years earlier.
00025340 : RWANDA Kigali - During a commemorative gathering to mark the tenth anniversary of the genocide, a coffin with the remains of victims is lowered into a vault to be re-buried.
00025339 : RWANDA Nyamata - Young man working at the underground burial vault in Nyamata. After the end of the genocide, a monument was built next to the church in Nyamata where in 1994 thousands of people were killed. Bones and skulls which were on display for some years are now washed, cleared away and some of them buried in special commemoration ceremonies.
00025338 : SOUTH AFRICA Ulundi, KwaZulu Natal - Queue outside a polling station during the 2004 election.
00025337 : SOUTH AFRICA Ulundi, KwaZulu Natal - Woman casting her vote in the 2004 election.
00025336 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - The recently unveiled statue of Nelson Mandela on Nelson Mandela Square.
00025335 : SOUTH AFRICA Ulundi, KwaZulu Natal - Queue outside a polling station during the 2004 election.
00025334 : SOUTH AFRICA Ulundi, KwaZulu Natal - Woman showing her identity card as she queues to cast her vote in the 2004 election.
00025333 : SOUTH AFRICA Ulundi, KwaZulu Natal - Woman voting in the 2004 election.
00025332 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Elisabeta Stanru (66) with her husband, who is mentally ill. She was a factory worker, and now suffers from skin cancer. "Under Ceaucescu health services were free. Now they only want banknotes. We have run into debts because of doctors and drugs. Since 1989 we have never been able to buy meat."
00025331 : SOUTH AFRICA Ulundi, KwaZulu Natal - Queue outside a polling station during the 2004 election.
00025330 : SOUTH AFRICA Ulundi, KwaZulu Natal - Voting in the 2004 election.
00025329 : ROMANIA Cluj - Doina (62) with her husband. "We didn't have it bad in the old times, but now it is better for us. In 1991 the government gave us our land back. We now grow sheep, pigs, cows and have our own vegetable garden."
00025328 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Olga Bejenaru (80), a widowed housewife. She lives in the garage next to her old house. "My husband got ill. Because of the doctors' bills we ran into debts and had to sell our house." Every summer she makes wine and jam. "With this money I can pay the heating bill for half of the winter."
00025327 : ROMANIA Cluj - Old woman fetching water in a snow bound winter landscape.
00025326 : ROMANIA Cluj - Old woman fetching water in winter.
00025325 : ROMANIA Salva - Ilie Cotut (59), who used to work as an official in the Ministry of Public Affairs. "Before 1989 we listened secretly to Radio Free Europe, thinking of freedom and believing in earning more money and having an easier life. Can you understand what a disappointment the present situation is for us?"
00025324 : ROMANIA Salva - Old woman walking in the snow.
00025323 : ROMANIA Cluj - Elderly couple farming their land.
00025322 : ROMANIA Cluj - Dimitri (64) used to be a truck driver in the army. "We can't complain. We have a big piece of land. We cultivate more food than we can eat, have a car and an appartment in the city."
00025321 : ROMANIA Cluj - Margaret Csiser, an ethnic Hungarian, lives in a retirement home. "I come from a noble family from Budapest. I studied opera and wanted to be a singer. When my parents divorced, we moved to Cluj and I lost my dreams. After the war, under socialism I had to work in a collective and make plastic flowers."
00025320 : ROMANIA Salva - Ion Furcea (63) with his wife and chickens in their smallholding. He worked as a school director in town, but they returned to his home village after retirement. "I have no idea how we could hve survived if we didn't have this house with some land. The only people who have enough pension are the politicians and the army. The rest of the population only got some crumbs."
00025319 : ROMANIA Salva - Ion Onita (62) with his wife on a rickety bridge. Ion used to work in a railway workshop - "a friendly mafiosi. When I was chief of the department, I was in charge of a team of workers. I sent them to my home village, ostensibly to repair a water pump, but in fact they were there to work on my small farm. My wife gave them good food, jam, eggs and vodka. They returned home happy."
00025318 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Elisabeta Maria (69), a retired widow who used to work in accounting at the state petroleum factory. "I never had sympathy for Ceaucescu. But I feel nostalgic about the old times when we could go every week to the theatre, to exhibitions and parties."
00025317 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Old woman begging on the streets.
00025316 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Retired couple Claudia (62) and Vasile (64). She was a dental assistant, he was a sports teacher.
00025315 : ROMANIA Bucharest - The relief organisation Omenia, which is run by and for elderly people. They offer a variety of subsidised services to poor pensioners, including small loans, repairing shoes and clothes, hairdressing and food distribution.
00025314 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Magdalena Bojenarv (61). "After the revolution everybody had the chance to buy their apartment. We didn't have enough money. In 1998 my husband died and I had to share the flat with a family of gypsies. They moved away and left me with unpaid bills of 250 Euros. A fortune, more than 8 months pension."
00025313 : ROMANIA Bucharest - The relief organisation Omenia, which is run by and for elderly people. They offer a variety of subsidised services to poor pensioners, including small loans, repairing shoes and clothes, hairdressing and food distribution.
00025305 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Workers emerging from the HSBC bank call centre. In recent years up to 800 call centres have opened in India as Western companies seek to take advantage of cheaper operating costs. Average salaries of around £1,200 in India are about a tenth of the equivalent cost in the West.
00025304 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - The minarets of 'King Fahd's Mosque' viewed against shell-ridden flats in Sarajevo. The building of the mosque was funded by the Saudi Relief Committee.
00025303 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - The minarets of 'King Fahd's Mosque' viewed against shell-ridden flats in Sarajevo. The building of the mosque was funded by the Saudi Relief Committee.
00025301 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Modern building in Hi-tech City.
00025300 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Satellite dish on the roof of a new office building in Hi-tech City.
00025299 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - A labourer works in Hi-tech City, in front of a modern building which is headquarters to an IT company.
00025298 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - A labourer works in Hi-tech City, in front of a modern building which is headquarters to an IT company.
00025297 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - A young couple sit in a park in Hi-tech City.
00025296 : INDIA Bangalore - Presentation theatre at the headquarters of Infosys Technologies Ltd., an Indian company which provides consulting and IT services to clients globally.
00025295 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Construction workers in front of cyber towers, Hi-tech City.
00025294 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Construction workers in front of a new building in Hi-tech City.
00025293 : INDIA Chamrajnagar, nr. Mysore - View through the window of an ambulance on a rural road.
00025292 : INDIA Bangalore - Homeless man sitting next to an internet cafe.
00025291 : INDIA Bangalore - Surgeons in the operating theatre at a Bangalore hospital.
00025288 : INDIA Bangalore - Woman cleaning the floor in the offices of an IT company.
00025287 : INDIA Bangalore - Woman watering gardens in front of the headquarters of an IT company.
00025286 : INDIA Bangalore - Group 4 security guard working in an IT company.
00025285 : INDIA - Traffic chaos - cars, bicycles, motorcycles, horse-drawn carts.
00025284 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Street scene.
00025283 : INDIA Bangalore - Woman using mobile phone at a coffee shop.
00025282 : INDIA Bangalore - Young couple in front of a condom advertisement.
00025281 : VENEZUELA Caracas - Barrio in the Petare district of Caracas, which is renowned for street gangs, violence and crime.
00025280 : ECUADOR Las Claritas, Bolivar - A Mercury pool is all that remains of an abandoned gold mining operation on the Placer Dome concession, in Imataca Forest Reserve. Mercury is used to refine gold. If it reaches the food chain through fish or through people drinking river water, it can cause mercury poisoning.
00025279 : VENEZUELA Caracas - Brick and corrugated iron shack in the barrios, advertised for sale. The location, perhaps its best selling point, offers a stunning view over the city.
00025278 : CHINA Guangdong - Deng Bi Fang, 60, wife of a prominent lawyer, plays with her pet Pekingese dog 'Bobo'.
00025277 : CHINA Jin Gui, Guangdong Province - Aided by his wife, farmer Chen Li Yi slips a noose around the neck of his two year old pet dog 'Yellow' before hanging her, cutting her up and eating her for Sunday lunch. Children Chen De Xin, 11, Chen De Li, 10, Chen De Wen, 10 and Chen De Yan, 8, look on.
00025276 : CHINA Jin Gui, Guangdong Province - Farmer Chen Li Yi and other family members hang and beat their pet dog 'Yellow' to death before cutting her up and eating her for Sunday lunch.
00025275 : CHINA Jin Gui, Guangdong Province - Farmer Chen Li Yi and other family members hang and beat their pet dog 'Yellow' to death before cutting her up and eating her for Sunday lunch.
00025274 : CHINA Wei Jing, Guangdong - Chen Yun, 8, hugs her pet dog, which is being reared for her family to eat at some later date.
00025273 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong - Charismatic Chinese businessman Li Yang holds a mass meeting to convert his audience to China's new religion - the English language. Using techniques borrowed from American evangelism, he gets his followers to chant self-help mantras based on the premise that learning English will better their lives.
00025272 : CHINA Zhaoqing, Gunagdong Province - Dancers perform at a welcoming party for new students at Zhaoqing University.
00025271 : CHINA Zhaoqing, Gunagdong Province - The first two weeks of a Chinese University student's life is spent in military uniform learning marching and basic battlecraft. This culminates in a passing out parade in front of military generals and university academic staff. Zhaoqing University.
00025270 : CHINA Zhaoqing, Gunagdong Province - The first two weeks of a Chinese University student's life is spent in military uniform learning marching and basic battlecraft. This culminates in a passing out parade in front of military generals and university academic staff. Zhaoqing University.
00025269 : CHINA Zhaoqing, Gunagdong Province - English language class at Zhaoqing University. English is now a core subject running throughout all degree courses taught at the university.
00025268 : CHINA Zhaoqing, Gunagdong Province - English language class at Zhaoqing University. English is now a core subject running throughout all degree courses taught at the university.
00025267 : CHINA Guangdong - Zhaoqing Rowing School. Out on the lake before dawn, students start the day with a 10km row.
00025266 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong - Charismatic Chinese businessman Li Yang holds a mass meeting to convert his audience to China's new religion - the English language. Using techniques borrowed from American evangelism, he gets his followers to chant self-help mantras based on the premise that learning English will better their lives.
00025265 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong - Charismatic Chinese businessman Li Yang holds a mass meeting to convert his audience to China's new religion - the English language. Using techniques borrowed from American evangelism, he gets his followers to chant self-help mantras based on the premise that learning English will better their lives.
00025264 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong - Charismatic Chinese businessman Li Yang holds a mass meeting to convert his audience to China's new religion - the English language. Using techniques borrowed from American evangelism, he gets his followers to chant self-help mantras based on the premise that learning English will better their lives.
00025263 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong - Charismatic Chinese businessman Li Yang, one of the most prominent exponents of China's new religion - the English language. Using techniques borrowed from American evangelism, he gets his followers to chant self-help mantras based on the premise that learning English will better their lives.
00025262 : SENEGAL Dakar - Traffic on Boulevard Charles de Gaulle.
00025261 : CHINA Guangdong - Students from the Zhaoqing Rowing School.
00025260 : CHINA Guangdong - Zhaoqing Rowing School. Although they have been training for months on the lake, many of the rowing school students still can't swim. Here students are pushed into the lake tied to a rope and ordered to swim.
00025259 : CHINA Guangdong - Students from the Zhaoqing Rowing School.
00025258 : CHINA Guangdong - Students from the Zhaoqing Rowing School.
00025256 : SENEGAL Dakar - Ngone N'Dour Kouyate, Director General of the Xippi recording studio where Youssou N'Dour records his music.
00025255 : SENEGAL Dakar - Three members of Daara J, one of Senegal's top rap groups. (L-R) Freddy Abdul Bathou Seck, Aladji Man Mansour Jacques Sagna and Ndongo D Mamadou Lamine Seck.
00025254 : SENEGAL Dakar - Street scene in the Medina district.
00025253 : SENEGAL Dakar - Youssou N'Dour performing at the Thiossane club.
00025252 : SENEGAL Dakar - Fans watch a Youssou N'Dour concert at the Thiossane club.
00025251 : SENEGAL Dakar - Youssou N'Dour recording a music video at the Xippi recording studio.
00025250 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Electrical appliances on sale in a department store.
00025249 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - A military honour guard stand to attention.
00025248 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Women working in an American-owned suit factory.
00025247 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Women working in an American-owned suit factory.
00025246 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Woman working in an American-owned suit factory.
00025245 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Woman working in an American-owned suit factory.
00025244 : CHINA Beijing - An elderly resident of a hutong sits next to a wall marked with the character "chai" - "demolish" - in the Chongwenmen district. The traditional hutongs are being systematically knocked down in an effort to spruce up the city.
00025243 : CHINA Beijing - A woman gets "double eye-lids" at a cosmetic surgery clinic. The effect of this surgery is that the eyelid folds as the eye is opened, and it is one of the most popular forms of plastic surgery in China. Cosmetic surgery clinics can now be found in cities across the country.
00025242 : CHINA Beijing - A woman gets "double eye-lids" at a cosmetic surgery clinic. The effect of this surgery is that the eyelid folds as the eye is opened, and it is one of the most popular forms of plastic surgery in China. Cosmetic surgery clinics can now be found in cities across the country.
00025241 : CHINA Beijing - A woman gets "double eye-lids" at a cosmetic surgery clinic. The effect of this surgery is that the eyelid folds as the eye is opened, and it is one of the most popular forms of plastic surgery in China. Cosmetic surgery clinics can now be found in cities across the country.
00025240 : CHINA Beijing - Cosmetic surgery patient Hao Lulu holds up a picture of herself taken before she had any surgery. Hao made headlines worldwide when she announced that she is undergoing 14 kinds of plastic surgery in order to transform herself into an actress. Her program will cost about $50,000 US and is reportedly being funded by a movie studio. It includes creating "double-eyelids", liposuction of buttocks, legs and arms, rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, having her hairline moved back by laser treatment and a possible eyelash transplant (but she hasn't decided yet).
00025239 : CHINA Beijing - Cosmetic surgery patient Hao Lulu holds up a picture of herself taken before she had any surgery. Hao made headlines worldwide when she announced that she is undergoing 14 kinds of plastic surgery in order to transform herself into an actress. Her program will cost about $50,000 US and is reportedly being funded by a movie studio. It includes creating "double-eyelids", liposuction of buttocks, legs and arms, rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, having her hairline moved back by laser treatment and a possible eyelash transplant (but she hasn't decided yet).
00025238 : CHINA Beijing - A woman strolls past the rubble of recently demolished homes and shops in the Chongwenmen district. The traditional hutongs are being systematically knocked down in an effort to spruce up the city.
00025237 : CHINA Beijing - A cyclist rides past a partially demolished home, still decorated with an old Hollywood poster of Bette Davis. The traditional hutongs are being systematically knocked down in an effort to spruce up the city.
00025236 : CHINA Beijing - Residents of a traditional hutong walk past a sign encouraging them to start a new life, hanging amid the rubble of recently demolished homes in the Chongwenmen district. The hutongs are being systematically knocked down in an effort to spruce up the city.
00025235 : CHINA Beijing - Residents of a rapidly disappearing hutong play cards in the rubble of recently demolished homes in the Chongwenmen district. The traditional hutongs are being systematically knocked down in an effort to spruce up the city.
00025234 : CHINA Shanghai - Tourists take photos on the Bund, overlooking the skyscrapers of the Pudong district.
00025233 : CHINA Beijing - A cyclist rides past recently demolished homes in the Chongwenmen district. The traditional hutongs are being systematically knocked down in an effort to spruce up the city.
00025232 : PAKISTAN Karachi - Downtown Karachi.
00025231 : CHINA Beijing - A dog looks out from the door of his home in the Chongwenmen district, which is slated to be demolished. The traditional hutongs are being systematically knocked down in an effort to spruce up the city.
00025230 : PAKISTAN Karachi - A banner near the airport welcoming visitors to the city.
00025229 : PAKISTAN Karachi - Private dentists advertise their skills.
00025228 : PAKISTAN Quetta, Baluchistan - A heroin addict, who has injected into his neck, gets a hit in full public view.
00025227 : PAKISTAN Karachi - A flyover in central Karachi.
00025226 : PAKISTAN Nr. Karachi - The 'Edhi Village'. Mentally and physically handicapped men (women are kept in a different facility) are kept here in extremely primitive conditions. Orphaned and abandoned children are also cared for here.
00025225 : POLAND Grudziadz - The championship fight. Girls' boxing is becoming increasingly popular in Poland.
00025224 : PAKISTAN Karachi - The Polo Park, central Karachi. A family fly a kite in front of a replica of the Chagai mountain inside which Pakistan conducted its first nuclear test. The country is very proud of its status as the only Muslim nuclear power.
00025223 : PAKISTAN Dera Bugti, Baluchistan - Armed Bugti tribesmen keeping watch above the compound of their leader, Mohammed Akbar Bugti.
00025222 : PAKISTAN Dera Bugti, Baluchistan - Bugti tribesmen gathered for a meeting with their leader, Mohammed Akbar Bugti.
00025221 : POLAND Grudziadz - Training on the punchbag. Girls' boxing is becoming increasingly popular in Poland.
00025220 : POLAND Grudziadz - Coaching session. Girls' boxing is becoming increasingly popular in Poland.
00025219 : POLAND Grudziadz - The championship fight. Girls' boxing is becoming increasingly popular in Poland.
00025218 : POLAND Grudziadz - The championship fight. Girls' boxing is becoming increasingly popular in Poland.
00025217 : POLAND Grudziadz - The championship fight. Girls' boxing is becoming increasingly popular in Poland.
00025216 : POLAND Suchowola - Dairy farmer Krzysztof Boguszewski pouring milk into a container.
00025215 : AUSTRIA Pitztal - Ski lift on Pitztal Glacier.
00025214 : AUSTRIA Pitztal - Skiing on Pitztal Glacier.
00025213 : POLAND Suchowola - The Boguszewski family working on the potato harvest.
00025212 : POLAND Suchowola - Farmer Zbigniew Boguszewski on his tractor during the potato harvest.
00025211 : POLAND Suchowola - Agnieszka Boguszewska working on the potato harvest.
00025210 : RUSSIA Moscow - Students Boris Zaitsev, 16, right, and his brother Nikita Zaitsev, 17, after class in Manezh Square.
00025209 : RUSSIA Moscow - A police officer walks in Red Square near the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin.
00025208 : RWANDA Gitarama District - Rebuilding houses destroyed in the war.
00025207 : RWANDA - Victims of a massacre, during the 1994 genocide.
00025206 : RWANDA - Hutu refugees making a small fire.
00025205 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - Dead child, just across the road from a Red Cross (ICRC) food distribution point for refugees from the genocide in Rwanda. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
00025204 : RWANDA - Victims of a massacre, during the 1994 genocide.
00025203 : KOSOVO Mitrovice / Mitrovica - Serbian doctors at the hospital in Northern Mitrovice watch as three injured American police officers are transferred to the American base, Camp Bondsteel. Two Americans and one Jordanian, all UN police officers, were killed in an extraordinary gunfight between the two groups.
00025202 : KOSOVO Mitrovice / Mitrovica - French KFOR troops moving an injured American policewoman from the hospital in Northern Mitrovice to their base nearby. She was later taken by helicopter to the American base, Camp Bondsteel. Two Americans and one Jordanian, all UN police officers, were killed in an extraordinary gunfight between the two groups.
00025201 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Palestinians carry the body of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi to his home. Rantisi and two bodyguards were killed in an Israeli missile attack on their car.
00025200 : KOSOVO Mitrovice / Mitrovica - French KFOR troops prepare to move three injured American police officers from the hospital in Northern Mitrovice to their base nearby. Two Americans and one Jordanian, all UN police officers, were killed in an extraordinary gunfight between the two groups.
00025199 : KOSOVO Mitrovice / Mitrovica - A Serbian man leaves the hospital as French KFOR troops prepare to move three injured American police from the hospital in Northern Mitrovice to their base nearby. Two Americans and one Jordanian, all UN police officers, were killed in an extraordinary gunfight between the two groups.
00025198 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Palestinians carry the body of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi to his home. Rantisi and two bodyguards were killed in an Israeli missile attack on their car.
00025197 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Palestinians lower the body of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi into his grave. Rantisi and two bodyguards were killed in an Israeli missile attack on their car.
00025196 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Family members of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi wait for his body to be brought home. Rantisi and two bodyguards were killed in an Israeli missile attack on their car.
00025195 : BENIN Porto Novo region - Women in the village of Avrankou cracking palm oil seeds to extract black oil, used in the cosmetics industry.
00025194 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Palestinians carry the corpse of one of the bodyguards of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi to be buried. Rantisi and two bodyguards were killed in an Israeli missile attack on their car.
00025193 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Palestinians crowd around the grave of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi during his funeral. Rantisi and two bodyguards were killed in an Israeli missile attack on their car.
00025192 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - A member of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's personal militia, the Mehdi Army, in the poor Shia neighbourhood of Sadr City.
00025191 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather at his organization's office in Sadr City after US forces attacked the building with tanks and helicopter gunships.
00025190 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - The remains of an American AGM-114 guided missile that was fired at the office of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's organization in Sadr City during nightly confrontations with Sadr's militia, the Mehdi Army.
00025189 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Said Ahmer al-Husseini, director of radical Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr's office in Sadr City, talking to journalists at the organization's office after it was attacked by US forces during nightly battles with al-Sadr's militia, the Mehdi Army.
00025188 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - A member of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia on guard at his organization's headquarters in Sadr City.
00025187 : IRAQ Kerbala - Shia pilgrims arrive in the holy city of Kerbala to take part in the religious mourning ceremony Arbayine.
00025186 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Members of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's personal militia, the Mehdi Army.
00025185 : IRAQ Baghdad - Exactly one year after US forces symbolically pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdous square, troops close off the area around the square to prevent demonstrations against the occupation.
00025184 : IRAQ Baghdad - Automatic weapons being brought into Friday prayers at the sacred Sunni mosque Abu Hanitha in the Aadhemiya district. Calls were made for solidarity with the people of Falluja and the Shia followers of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, engaged in fighting against coalition forces.
00025183 : IRAQ Baghdad - Sunni men at the Abu Hanifa mosque prepare to bury Jassim Mohammed Ali al-Hajani, 60, who they claim was shot by US snipers during military operations against insurgents in the "Sunni Triangle" near Abu Ghraib.
00025182 : IRAQ Kerbala - Shia pilgrims pray outside the al-Abbas mosque during the religious mourning ceremony Arbayine.
00025181 : IRAQ Kerbala - Shia pilgrims ritually flagellate themselves during the religious mourning ceremony Arbayine.
00025180 : IRAQ Kerbala - Shia pilgrims ritually cut their scalps during the religious mourning ceremony Arbayine.
00025179 : IRAQ Latifiya - An American convoy of seven trucks transporting armoured vehicles and containers was destroyed by insurgents 40km south of Baghdad.
00025178 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Thousands of supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather for Friday prayers in Sadr City.
00025177 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Thousands of supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr hold hands to show solidarity before Friday prayers in Sadr City.
00025176 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Thousands of supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather for Friday prayers in Sadr City.
00025175 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Thousands of supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather for Friday prayers in Sadr City.
00025174 : IRAQ Sadr City, Baghdad - Thousands of supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather for Friday prayers in Sadr City.
00025173 : SUDAN Narus - Toposa mother and daughter cultivating land.
00025172 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Boys playing football.
00025171 : KOSOVO Mitrovice / Mitrovica - French KFOR troops moving an injured American policewoman from the hospital in Northern Mitrovice to their base nearby. She was later taken by helicopter to the American base, Camp Bondsteel. Two Americans and one Jordanian, all UN police officers, were killed in an extraordinary gunfight between the two groups.
00025170 : NORTH KOREA - Main highway from Kaesong to the border. With very little vehicular traffic on the road two pedestrians use it, one carrying produce (animal feed) on her back.
00025169 : NORTH KOREA Nr. Kaesong - Farmers carry produce (animal feed) through the frozen winter landscape on barefoot.
00025168 : NORTH KOREA Nr. Kaesong - Farmers carry produce (animal feed) through the frozen winter landscape on barefoot.
00025167 : NORTH KOREA Kaesong - Ubiquitous propaganda poster and a plain-clothes policeman keeping an eye on foreigners.
00025166 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Cyclist crossing a bridge entering the city at dawn.
00025165 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Hotel lobby with poster of Kim Jong Il, the Dear Leader.
00025164 : NORTH KOREA Changjeon - Changjeon port, below snow-covered mountains.
00025163 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Winter scene in the capital city. A few factories and power stations are still running, sending out plumes of smoke, though at night the city is virtually blacked-out.
00025162 : NORTH KOREA Onjung Ri - Arrival in North Korea, at the customs building in Onjung Ri. As tourists clear customs they are greeted by two bowing ladies and a bear. The women are ethnic Korean, Chinese nationals - not North Koreans.
00025161 : NORTH KOREA Panmunjeom (Panmunjom) - North Korean border guard patrolling the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea.
00025160 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Downtown Pyongyang at dusk, workers head home in the cold. Transport is rare and many people walk long distances home. In the distance the Juche Tower is lit up as part of the faltering visual propaganda show that is the North Korean capital.
00025159 : NORTH KOREA Pyongyang - Downtown Pyongyang at dusk, workers head home in the cold. Transport is rare and many people walk long distances home.
00025158 : SOUTH KOREA Kosung - South Korean tour bus crossing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea, on the first official overland trip since the 1953 Korean War. The tour is organised by Hyundai, the South's largest business conglomerate.

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