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00058819 : SWITZERLAND Basel - Artists in pink visiting Art Basel, the world's most important contemporary art fair. Over three hundred galleries from 30 countries and buyers from all over the world attended the show.
00058818 : SWITZERLAND Basel - A gallery owner and clients meeting at Art Basel, the world's most important contemporary art fair. Over three hundred galleries from 30 countries and buyers from all over the world attended the show.
00058817 : ROMANIA Cernavoda, Constanta - Children play amidst hanging washing on the streets of Cernavoda.
00058816 : AFGHANISTAN Ghaza, Herat Province - Disillusioned villagers look on at the eradication of their opium poppy fields. The Afghan government has started an eradication campaign that aims to deter farmers from growing poppies. However, since growing poppies is often the only means of an income for many farmers, and alternatives are scarce, farmers still take their chances on a massive scale. In spite of the efforts of the government, Afghan opium production remains the highest in the world.
00058815 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - ANA (Afghan National Army) soldiers march past during the yearly Victory Day parade, celebrating the toppling of the communist regime in 1996.
00058814 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - Political prisoners in the Omomi-Mahbas prison, Kandahar. Canadian and Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) forces intend to take over a part of this prison to detain the people they arrest.
00058813 : AFGHANISTAN Herat - The Herat Musalla, a group of minarets from the 15th century. These ancient religious buildings face the risk of collapse in the near future if nothing is done to preserve them. UNESCO is making efforts to prevent this.
00058812 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - A prison guard of the ANA (Afghan National Army) in the Omomi-Mahbas prison, Kandahar. Canadian and Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) forces intend to take over a part of this prison to detain people that they arrest.
00058811 : MADAGASCAR Morondava, Menabe Region - Zebu-Cart on Baobab Avenue.
00058810 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - Medicins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) Chronic Diseases Clinic in Siem Reap. Two patients are waiting for their consultations. In Cambodia, the prevalence of HIV is 2.6 % of the adult population, the highest in Southeast Asia. In Siem Reap province, the prevalence is 6.6 % - the highest in Cambodia.
00058809 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - AIDS patient Sokhun (20) on her third day at Sotnikum district hospital. Two days later, Sokhun died in her hospital bed. Due to lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, many AIDS patients in rural Cambodia arrive at Medicins Sans Frontieres Chronic Diseases Clinics very late, when their illness is at an advanced stage.
00058808 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - AIDS patient Sokhun (20) receiving treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and blood transfusions to counter her severe anaemia in Sotnikum district hospital. Due to lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, many AIDS patients in rural Cambodia arrive at Medicins Sans Frontieres' Chronic Diseases Clinics very late, when their illness is at an advanced stage.
00058807 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - After having been found in the hut of a traditional Cambodian healer, AIDS patient Sokhun (20) is carried out to be taken to Sotnikum district hospital. In Cambodia, the prevalence of HIV is 2.6 % of the adult population - the highest in Southeast Asia. In Siem Reap province, the prevalence is 6.6 % - the highest in Cambodia.
00058806 : GERMANY Nuremberg - The Capatina family (Monica, 31, Vasile, 35 and Maria, 7) shortly after their arrival in Nuremberg, Germany from Romania. Monica is working illegally as a social worker, taking care of old people. Vasile also used to work abroad, but he returned to Romania as he'd found a better paid job. The family came to Germany to help a Romanian relative for a few weeks who suddenly got ill. After that, Vasile will go back to Romania with their daughter, and Monica will stay and try to get a job.
00058805 : ROMANIA Nadlac - A Romanian bus waits at the Nadlac customs border with Hungary.
00058804 : ROMANIA Sibiu - Lutheran Church.
00058803 : ROMANIA Sibiu - Town Hall of Sibiu.
00058802 : ROMANIA Sibiu - A passenger smokes near the international destination board at Sibiu bus station.
00058801 : ROMANIA Cernavoda, Constanta - Iuliana, 16, from Cernavoda. She attended an alternative school run by the Nightingales Foundation, aimed at young people who, for various reasons, have been rejected by government schools. Iuliana dreams of owning her own shop in her city, Cernavoda, but the foundation fears she will turn to prostitution as many of the other older girls have.
00058800 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - An officer looks on while ANA (Afghan National Army) tanks roll past him during the yearly Victory Day parade, celebrating the toppling of the communist regime in 1996.
00058799 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - Prison guards of the ANA (Afghan National Army) at the gate of the Omomi-Mahbas prison, Kandahar. Canadian and Dutch ISAF (Internatonal Security Assistance Force) forces intend to take over a part of this prison to detain the people they arrest.
00058798 : AFGHANISTAN Ghaza, Herat Province - A police officer amidst a blossoming opium poppy field prepares for eradication of the crops. The Afghan government has started an eradication campaign that aims to deter farmers from growing poppies. However, since growing poppies is often the only means of an income for many farmers, and alternatives are scarce, farmers still take their chances on a massive scale. In spite of the efforts of the government, Afghan opium production remains the highest in the world.
00058797 : AFGHANISTAN Herat - A mosque in Herat.
00058796 : AFGHANISTAN Herat - A man takes his family on a motorcyle ride through the streets of Herat, his wife wearing her burqa.
00058795 : AFGHANISTAN Barnabad, Herat Province - Villagers look at the remains of one of their opium poppy fields that had been destroyed 20 days before. Only one poppy flower is still standing. The Afghan government has started an eradication campaign that aims to deter farmers from growing poppies. However, since growing poppies is often the only means of an income for many farmers, and alternatives are scarce, farmers still take their chances on a massive scale. In spite of the efforts of the government, Afghan opium production remains the highest in the world.
00058794 : MADAGASCAR Miandrivazo, Menabe Region - An old woman at her window.
00058793 : MADAGASCAR Antananarivo - People go about their daily business on a street with a colonial-style house.
00058792 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - Koeut Chrel (38) is HIV positive and receives antiretroviral (ARV) treatment from Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF). He lost his leg in a landmine explosion while serving in the army. He lost his joband forced to start begging. When he married he was not aware of the fact that he was HIV positive. Both he and his wife tested for HIV, were found positive and sent to MSF's chronic diseases clinic in Siem Reap. Thanks to having faithfully adhered to his treatment, Koeut Chrel is now able to work. He and his wife sell books in Siem Reap town. The couple has three children. Two of them have tested negative for HIV, the youngest has yet to be tested.
00058791 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) project coordinator Eric Legendre (34) observes as AIDS patient Sokhun (20) is being prepared for a bumpy ride in an ambulance to Sotnikum district hospital. At the hospital, she will receive treatment for AIDS. Due to lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, many AIDS patients in rural Cambodia arrive at MSF's Chronic Diseases Clinics very late, when their illness is at an advanced stage.
00058790 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - This woman is HIV positive and has tuberculosis. She is receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment from the NGO Esther, a partner of Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Siem Reap. This is at the women's tuberculosis ward of the Siem Reap Provincial Hospital, built by MSF. In Cambodia, the prevalence of HIV is 2.6 % of the adult population - the highest in Southeast Asia. In Siem Reap province, the prevalence is 6.6 % - the highest in Cambodia.
00058789 : ROMANIA Sibiu - British tourist buying traditional Romanian pickles from Cibin Market.
00058788 : ROMANIA Sibiu - Lutheran Church.
00058787 : ROMANIA Cernavoda, Constanta - Beatrice, a 20 year old prostitute from Cernavoda, with her family in the doorway of their house. She went back to her large (nine siblings), poor Roma family after working as a prostitute in Spain. Like almost all the Roma families in this area, Beatrice's family, including herself, are uneducated and struggle to earn a living. As long as Beatrice is the only one in the family earning money, they accept her choice to be a prostitute.
00058786 : ROMANIA Cernavoda, Constanta - Beatrice, a 20 year old prostitute from Cernavoda, with her family in the doorway of their house. She went back to her large (nine siblings), poor Roma family after working as a prostitute in Spain. Like almost all the Roma families in this area, Beatrice's family, including herself, are uneducated and struggle to earn a living. As long as Beatrice is the only one in the family earning money, they accept her choice to be a prostitute.
00058785 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - British Royal Marines from ISAF (the International Security Assistance Force) patrol Kabul's Bibi Mahro Hill at dusk. ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00058784 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - The doorman of the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel. On the wall behind him a sign tells visitors that weapons are not allowed in the hotel.
00058783 : AFGHANISTAN Ghaza, Herat Province - A disillusioned farmer sits on the fence surrounding his opium poppy field, waiting for it to be eradicated. Behind him a police officer inspects his crops. The Afghan government has started an eradication campaign that aims to deter farmers from growing poppies. However, since growing poppies is often the only means of an income for many farmers, and alternatives are scarce, farmers still take their chances on a massive scale. In spite of the efforts of the government, Afghan opium production remains the highest in the world.
00058782 : MADAGASCAR Antananarivo - The Queen's Palace constitutes the main building of the Royal City and was devastated by a fire in 1955. This Palace was originally built with wood, for the Queen Ranavalona I by architect Jean Laborde in 1839. In 1869,the architect James Cameron covered the wooden building with bricks.
00058781 : MADAGASCAR Antananarivo - Catholic Cathedral, built between 1873 and 1878, overlooking the city.
00058780 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Traditional medicine is used by the locals for treating everything from small wounds to HIV/AIDS. In Cambodia, the prevalence of HIV is 2.6% of the adult population, the highest in Southeast Asia. In Siem Reap province, the prevalence is 6.6% - the highest in Cambodia.
00058779 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - Koeut Chrel (38) is HIV positive and receives antiretroviral (ARV) treatment from Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF). He lost his leg in a landmine explosion while serving in the army. He lost his joband forced to start begging. When he married he was not aware of the fact that he was HIV positive. Both he and his wife tested for HIV, were found positive and sent to MSF's chronic diseases clinic in Siem Reap. Thanks to having faithfully adhered to his treatment, Koeut Chrel is now able to work. He and his wife sell books in Siem Reap town. The couple has three children. Two of them have tested negative for HIV, the youngest has yet to be tested.
00058778 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - HIV positive Lun Sineta (28) is now able to work in her familyÕs fields because she receives antiretroviral (ARV) treatment from Medicins Sans FrontieresÕ (MSF) chronic diseases clinic in Siem Reap. She also does voluntary work for the NGO Caritas in Siem Reap. In Cambodia, the prevalence of HIV is 2.6 % of the adult population - the highest in Southeast Asia. In Siem Reap province, the prevalence is 6.6 % - the highest in Cambodia.
00058777 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - This woman is HIV positive and has tuberculosis (TB). She is receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment from the NGO Esther, a partner of Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Siem Reap. This is at the women's tuberculosis ward at Siem Reap Provincial Hospital, built by MSF. In Cambodia, the prevalence of HIV is 2.6 % of the adult population - the highest in Southeast Asia. In Siem Reap province, the prevalence is 6.6 % - the highest in Cambodia.
00058776 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - AIDS patient Sokhun (20) being treated in Sotnikum district hospital. Her mother Hem Yoeun (56) fans Sokhun to try to cool her in the intense heat. Her father, Chhoeuy Chhory (54), tries to make his daughter comfortable in her hospital bed. In Cambodia, the prevalence of HIV is 2.6 % of the adult population - the highest in Southeast Asia. In Siem Reap province, the prevalence is 6.6 % - the highest in Cambodia.
00058775 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - AIDS patient Sokhun (20) arrives at Sotnikum district hospital. Her parents Hem Yoeun (56) and Chhoeuy Chhory (54) take their daughter to her room at the hospital. Due to lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, many AIDS patients in rural Cambodia arrive at Medicins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) Chronic Diseases Clinics very late, when their illness is at an advanced stage.
00058774 : ROMANIA Sebes - Razvan Pavel, 28, sleeps on the Bucharest-Germany bus. He has an Economics degree but earns more money as a driver in Belgium. He dreams that after a period of working abroad he will be able to buy his own flat and a car.
00058773 : ROMANIA Sibiu - View from the Bridge of Lies.
00058772 : ROMANIA Sibiu - View from the Bridge of Lies with the Lutheran Church Tower in the background.
00058771 : ROMANIA Sibiu - View from Sibiu's main square at dusk, with a Catholic Church on the left.
00058770 : ROMANIA Sibiu - A view from Sibiu's main square, with the Clock Tower on the right.
00058769 : ROMANIA Sibiu - Foggy morning in Sibiu.
00058768 : ROMANIA Sibiu - A Catholic Church can be seen in the background on a foggy morning in Sibiu's main square.
00058767 : ROMANIA Sibiu - Two people walk down into one of Sibiu's many squares.
00058766 : ROMANIA Sibiu - The clock tower of Sibiu.
00058765 : AFGHANISTAN Ghaza, Herat Province - Police oversee the eradication of an opium poppy field. The Afghan government has started an eradication campaign that aims to deter farmers from growing poppies. However, since growing poppies is often the only means of an income for many farmers, and alternatives are scarce, farmers still take their chances on a massive scale. In spite of the efforts of the government, Afghan opium production remains the highest in the world.
00058764 : AFGHANISTAN Herat Province - The Afghan government has started an eradication campaign that aims to deter farmers from growing poppies. However, since growing poppies is often the only means of an income for many farmers, and alternatives are scarce, farmers still take their chances on a massive scale. In spite of the efforts of the government, Afghan opium production remains the highest in the world.
00058763 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - Men with black turbans, a colour imposed by the Taliban, are a common sight on the streets of Kandahar, which remains a Taliban stronghold.
00058762 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - A burqa hangs out to dry in a Kandahar garden.
00058761 : MADAGASCAR Morondava, Menabe Region - Baobab Avenue at sunset.
00058760 : MADAGASCAR Antananarivo - Mother and baby.
00058759 : MADAGASCAR Antananarivo - Houses on a hill-side, at sunset.
00058758 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Child at an orphanage for HIV positive children in Phnom Penh. The orphanage is supplied with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs by Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
00058757 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Child at an orphanage for HIV positive children in Phnom Penh. The orphanage is supplied with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs by Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
00058756 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Sok Chan (aged one, left) is HIV positive and receives antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at an orphanage for HIV positive children in Phnom Penh. The orphanage is supplied with ARV drugs by Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
00058755 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) found Sokhun (20) in a thatched house in a small village in Sotnikum district, Siem Reap province. She has AIDS and her condition has been deteriorating for the last five months. Due to lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, many AIDS patients in rural Cambodia arrive at MSF's chronic diseases clinics very late, when their illness is at an advanced stage.
00058754 : ROMANIA Sibiu - The Bridge of Lies, at dusk.
00058753 : ROMANIA Cernavoda, Constanta - Nicoleta, 14, from Cernavoda. She attended an alternative school run by the Nightingales Foundation, aimed at young people who, for various reasons, have been rejected by government schools. Nicoleta dreams of owning her own shop in her city, Cernavoda, but the foundation fears she will turn to prostitution as many of the other older girls have.
00058752 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - Orughan people wait for the bus to bring them from Kandahar to Tirin Kowt in Oruzghan Province.
00058751 : AFGHANISTAN Herat Province - An opium poppy field. Poppies that have just lost their flowers and are almost ready to be harvested for their opium. The Afghan government has started an eradication campaign that aims to deter farmers from growing poppies. However, since growing poppies is often the only means of an income for many farmers, and alternatives are scarce, farmers still take their chances on a massive scale. In spite of the efforts of the government, Afghan opium production remains the highest in the world.
00058750 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A British Royal Marine in the back of a Landrover gestures to the cars behind his unit to keep their distance, during a patrol in Kabul at dusk. British troops are part of ISAF (the International Security Assistance Force), a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO.
00058749 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A British Royal Marine patrols the streets of Kabul beside two schoolboys returning home from school.
00058748 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - The command centre of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force). ISAF is a peacekeeping mission affiliated to the United Nations (UN) and NATO
00058747 : CZECH REPUBLIC Terezin - A large Star of David at the cemetery at the former Theresienstadt Nazi concentration camp. Though it was not an extermination camp, it is estimated that 33,000 Jews died here in the Holocaust between 1940-1945.
00058746 : SRI LANKA Mullaittivu - Men gather to listen to breakfast radio at the Mullaittvu shelter, built after the tsunami wiped out entire villages in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area previously ravaged by civil war.
00058745 : SRI LANKA Mullaittivu - Anitha, 22, stands in front of photos of her loved ones lost to the tsunami at her refugee hut in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. Anitha lost her only child, her mother, brother and sister to the waves. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed around 40,000 people along Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern shores, tearing thousands of families apart. The bulk of the dead were women and children - around 4,000 children lost one or both parents. Even before the tsunami struck, people here in the northeast had already been displaced four times by the Tamil Tigers' two-decade long war for autonomy. In some places, the scars of war and the tsunami have become one. Remnants of walls torn down by waves are pockmarked with bullet holes and shrapnel from shells fired before a 2002 ceasefire plunged a civil war that killed over 64,000 people into limbo.
00058744 : SRI LANKA - The uncle of housewife Viyarseeli Nadarajahlingam, 31, comforts her as she mourns for her six children lost to the tsunami in Mullaittivu village. She watched one son drown, tangled in fishing nets like the ones she and her husband depend on for a living. She buried four of her children in a sandy graveyard for tsunami victims nearby on the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed around 40,000 people along Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern shores, tearing thousands of families apart. The bulk of the dead were women and children - around 4,000 children lost one or both parents. Even before the tsunami struck, people here in the northeast had already been displaced four times by the Tamil Tigers' two-decade long war for autonomy. In some places, the scars of war and the tsunami have become one. Remnants of walls torn down by waves are pockmarked with bullet holes and shrapnel from shells fired before a 2002 ceasef
00058743 : SRI LANKA Mullaittivu - Ash leftover from a hasty cremation of tsunami deaths scars the roadside of Mullaittivu, a coastal town in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed around 40,000 people along Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern shores, tearing thousands of families apart. The bulk of the dead were women and children - around 4,000 children lost one or both parents. Even before the tsunami struck, people here in the northeast had already been displaced four times by the Tamil Tigers' two-decade long war for autonomy. In some places, the scars of war and the tsunami have become one. Remnants of walls torn down by waves are pockmarked with bullet holes and shrapnel from shells fired before a 2002 ceasefire plunged a civil war that killed over 64,000 people into limbo.
00058742 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A fisherman takes to the sea again in Nagappattinam, on the southeastern coast of India, after his boat was smashed by the tsunami. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058741 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A fisherman repairs his fishing net in a village near Chennai, on the southeastern coast of India, after the tsunami destroyed his livelihood. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058740 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - Fishermen play cards in a village near Chennai, on the southeastern coast of India, after their boats were sunk by the tsunami. Many complain of slow assistance from the goverment.
00058739 : MADAGASCAR Antananarivo - An elderly homeless woman sits beside a statue of a well-to-do Malagasy, dating from the colonial era.
00058738 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - After having been found in the hut of a traditional Cambodian healer, AIDS patient Sokhun (20) is carried out to be taken to Sotnikum district hospital. Due to lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral (ARV), many AIDS patients in rural Cambodia arrive at Medicins San Frontieres' (MSF) Chronic Diseases Clinics very late, when their illness is at an advanced stage.
00058737 : ROMANIA Sibiu - General view of Sibiu, with the Lutheran Church Tower in the background.
00058736 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Romanians queue up in front of the UK embassy in Bucharest for visas.
00058735 : CZECH REPUBLIC Terezin - The words "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes us free") over the gate to the Theresienstadt Nazi concentration camp. Though it was not an extermination camp, it is estimated that 33,000 Jews died here in the Holocaust between 1940-1945.
00058734 : CZECH REPUBLIC Sedlec - The Ossuary Church (Kotnice) in Sedlec. This Roman Catholic chapel is decorated with approximately 40,000 human skeletons who died from the plague in the mid 14th Century.
00058733 : CZECH REPUBLIC Sedlec nr Kutna Hora - The Ossuary Church (Kotnice) in Sedlec. This Roman Catholic chapel is decorated with approximately 40,000 human skeletons who died from the plague in the mid 14th Century.
00058732 : CZECH REPUBLIC Pilsen - Pilsner Urquell (Prazdroj) Brewery
00058731 : CZECH REPUBLIC Pilsen - The large brew kettles at the Pilsner Urquell (Prazdroj) Brewery.
00058730 : CZECH REPUBLIC Prague - Karlstein castle, founded by King Charles IV in 1348.
00058729 : SRI LANKA Mullaittivu - A church ravaged by the tsunami stands on the beach in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed around 40,000 people along Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern shores, tearing thousands of families apart. The bulk of the dead were women and children - around 4,000 children lost one or both parents. Even before the tsunami struck, people here in the northeast had already been displaced four times by the Tamil Tigers' two-decade long war for autonomy. In some places, the scars of war and the tsunami have become one. Remnants of walls torn down by waves are pockmarked with bullet holes and shrapnel from shells fired before a 2002 ceasefire plunged a civil war that killed over 64,000 people into limbo.
00058728 : SRI LANKA Mullaittivu - A statue standing by the sea commemorates tsunami victims in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed around 40,000 people along Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern shores, devastating the lives of countless families. The bulk of the dead were women and children - around 4,000 children lost one or both parents. Even before the tsunami struck, people here in the northeast had already been displaced four times by the Tamil Tigers' two-decade long war for autonomy. In some places, the scars of war and the tsunami have become one. Remnants of walls torn down by waves are pockmarked with bullet holes and shrapnel from shells fired before a 2002 ceasefire plunged a civil war that killed over 64,000 people into limbo.
00058727 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - Koeut Chrel (38) is HIV positive and receives antiretroviral (ARV) treatment from Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF). He lost his leg in a landmine explosion while serving in the army. He lost his joband forced to start begging. When he married he was not aware of the fact that he was HIV positive. Both he and his wife tested for HIV, were found positive and sent to MSF's chronic diseases clinic in Siem Reap. Thanks to having faithfully adhered to his treatment, Koeut Chrel is now able to work. He and his wife sell books in Siem Reap town. The couple has three children. Two of them have tested negative for HIV, the youngest has yet to be tested.
00058726 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) Province - Sengtouch (26) waiting for her consultation outside Medicins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) Chronic Diseases Clinic in Siem Reap. Her husband died of AIDS and Sengtouch also has Tuberculosis (TB). She has been under antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for one month. Sengtouch lives in a village 25 kilometres away from MSF's chronic diseases clinic, where she has experienced stigmatization due to her fellow villagers' lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Due to this lack of knowledge, many AIDS patients in rural Cambodia arrive at MSF's chronic diseases clinics very late, when their illness is at an advanced stage.
00058725 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Children at an orphanage for HIV positive children in Phnom Penh. The orphanage is supplied with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs by Medicins Sans Frrontieres (MSF).
00058724 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - The gate of the Omomi-Mahbas prison, Kandahar. Canadian and Dutch ISAF (Internatonal Security Assistance Force) forces intend to take over a part of this prison to detain the people they arrest.
00058723 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - Prisoners at work in the bakery of the Omomi-Mahbas prison, Kandahar. Canadian and Dutch ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) forces intend to take over a part of this prison to detain the people they arrest.
00058722 : CZECH REPUBLIC Prague - Karlstein castle, founded by King Charles IV in 1348.
00058721 : CZECH REPUBLIC Prague - A headstone in the Old Jewish cemetery of Josefov, the Jewish Quarter of Prague.
00058720 : SRI LANKA North East - Five make-shift graves, marked by crucifixes, stand on the beach in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area ravaged first by civil war then by the tsunami. The crosses mark the deaths of a woman and her four children.
00058719 : SRI LANKA Mullaittivu - A teacher takes a class in a tent after their beach-side Catholic school in Mullaittivu was washed away by the tsunami on the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. The school's reconstruction is aided by UNICEF.
00058718 : SRI LANKA Mullaittivu - Children pray in front of a thatched classrom after their beach-side Catholic school in Mullaittivu was washed away by the tsunami in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. Out of the 768 students at the Mullaittivu Maga Vidylalyam secondary school, 88 died in the waves, 28 lost both parents and 160 lost one parent. The school's recontruction is aided by UNICEF.
00058717 : SRI LANKA Mullaittivu - Children pray in front of a thatched classrom after their beach-side Catholic school in Mullaittivu was washed away by the tsunami in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. Out of the 768 students at the Mullaittivu Maga Vidylalyam secondary school, 88 died in the waves, 28 lost both parents and 160 lost one parent. The school's reconstruction is aided by UNICEF.
00058716 : SRI LANKA Mullaittivu - Children study in tents after their beach-side Catholic school in Mullaittivu was washed away by the tsunami in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. Out of the 768 students at the Mullaittivu Maga Vidylalyam secondary school, 88 died in the waves, 28 lost both parents and 160 lost one parent. The school's reconstruction is aided by UNICEF.
00058715 : SRI LANKA Pallai - Fishermen rebuild a thatched house destroyed by the tsunami in Pallai, a village in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area ravaged also by civil war. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed around 40,000 people along Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern shores.
00058714 : SRI LANKA Kilinochchi - A Tamil Tiger (LTTE) official in Kilinochchi town discusses tsunami relief in the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, an area also ravaged by civil war. Behind him stands a poster of the reclusive Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
00058713 : MADAGASCAR Morondava, Menabe Region - Woman carrying a basket on her head makes her way down Baobab Avenue.
00058712 : MADAGASCAR Miandrivazo, Menabe Region - Young girl going to the Mahajilo river to collect water.
00058711 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - Women in Nagappattinam, on the southeastern coast of India, protest against inadequate relief for tsunami victims and their families. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058710 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A clown performs an act about the tsunami to help children get over their trauma in a village near Chennai, on the southeastern coast of India. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058709 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A clown performs an act about the tsunami to help children get over their trauma in a village near Chennai, on the southeastern coast of India. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058708 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - Workers build a de-salination tank after the tsunami washed out swathes of arable fields in Nagappattinam, on the southeastern coast of India. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058707 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A woman loads bricks on her head as she and other workers rebuild a toilet in a village near Chennai, on the tsunami-hit southeastern coast of India. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058706 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - Anjammal Kannappan, 50, displays her brain scan in front of her emergency shelter in Nagappattinam, on the tsunami-hit southeastern coast of India. The giant waves washed her one kilometre inland, fracturing bones. They also killed her sister, two daughters and two grand-daughters. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058705 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A medic in Nagappattinam, on the tsunami-hit southeastern coast of India, prepares an injection of antibiotics in an emergency shelter. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058704 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - Nirmala Kunjibabu, 15, continued to excel at school despite the loss of her mother to the tsunami in Nagappattinam, on the southeastern coast of India. As her father died when she was young, Kunjibabu is now cared for by an orphanage. At this school, the Natarajan Dhamayanthi High School, five students were swept away by the waves, 112 lost one parent and 42 students lost both parents. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058703 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A woman waters coconut saplings in Nagappattinam, southeastern coast of India. The saplings commemorate victims of the tsunami. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058702 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - Fishermen bathe in a house destroyed by the tsunami in Nagappattinam, on the southeastern coast of India. The house was later charred when piles of corpses were burnt in front of it. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058701 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A fisherman stands near boats laid waste by the tsunami in Nagappattinam, on the southeastern coast of India. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058700 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - Ship-breakers take apart a boat smashed by the tsunami in Nagappattinam, on the southeastern coast of India. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058699 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A fisherman ekes out a living in Nagappattinam, on the southeastern coast of India. Behind him are boats smashed by the tsunami. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058698 : INDIA Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu - A woman cries while her daughter examines their former house in Nagappattinam, the site of vast tsunami destruction on the southeastern coast of India. The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses, and devastating the lives of countless families.
00058697 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - Boys play-fight in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058696 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - Albanians arm-wrestle in a snack bar in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058695 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - Inside a bar in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058694 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - A hairdresser and her client in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058693 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - A Nigerian labourer sweeps the stairs of a building in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058692 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - Daily life in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058691 : GERMANY Hamburg - Houses reflected in the window of a restaurant in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058690 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - A shop in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058689 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - Women buy and sell material in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058688 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - Two boys fight in the playground of a primary school in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058687 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - A school in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058686 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - A primary school in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg area, one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058685 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - Men drink beer in Hamburg's Wilhemsburg district.
00058684 : GERMANY Wilhemsburg, Hamburg - Bulgarian immigrants swim in the Elbe River, which separates Hamburg from the island suburb of Wilhemsburg, which is one of the most ethnically diverse quarters of the city.
00058683 : HONG KONG China - Trams in central Hong Kong.
00058682 : CAMBODIA Phnom Pehn - A Cambodian wedding photographer prepares his subjects.
00058681 : CAMBODIA Phnom Pehn - Children playing on the waterfront of the Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia.
00058680 : BHUTAN Thimphu - Thimphu dzong (monastery).
00058679 : BHUTAN Punakha - The annual Punakha Festival draws people from all over Bhutan to the activities centred around the dzong, or monastery.
00058678 : THAILAND Sukhothai - During the festival of Loi Kratong, performed at Wat Mahathat. A golden tail is left in the night sky by a floating candle-lit paper balloon, rising up behind the Buddha.
00058677 : MALAYSIA Penang island - Horse riding on the west coast.
00058676 : MALAYSIA Penang island - Le Maison Blue (The Blue Mansion), a restored Chinese merchant's house.
00058675 : INDONESIA Jakarta - Cars stream around the main traffic circle outside the Hilton.
00058674 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Abu Dhabi - Camels with their masters walk through the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). Also known as the Great Sandy Desert, the Empty Quarter is one of the World's largest sandy deserts.
00058673 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Abu Dhabi - Young men meet in the desert to train their falcons to hunt.
00058672 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Abu Dhabi - A man sits reading his newspaper in a cafe in Abu Dhabi.
00058671 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Abu Dhabi - A young man ventures out to the desert to train his falcon.
00058670 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Abu Dhabi - Al Jahili Fort, Al Ain.
00058669 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Abu Dhabi - Bedouin women, wearing the burqa, weaving in the daily market.
00058668 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Abu Dhabi - Two men pick almonds from a palm tree in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). Also known as the Great Sandy Desert, the Empty Quarter is one of the largest sandy deserts in the World.
00058667 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Abu Dhabi - Young men meet in the desert to train their falcons to hunt, whilst chatting and drinking Arabic Coffee.
00058666 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Mall of the Emirates.
00058665 : MOROCCO Marrakech - Muslim caps for sale in the bazaar, made of wool, cotton and silk.
00058664 : MOROCCO Essaouira - Boats in the ancient fishing port of Essaouira.
00058663 : MOROCCO Marrakech - Dusk is the busiest time for the food vendors of the Djemma el Fna, the city's main square.
00058662 : MOROCCO Essaouira - Gulls fly over the walled harbour and ramparts of this ancient fishing port.
00058661 : MOROCCO Essaouira - Gulls fly over the walled harbour and ramparts of this ancient fishing port.
00058660 : MOROCCO Tazenakht - Local women out shopping on market day.
00058659 : MOROCCO Marrakech - Spices for sale in the bazaar of the Kasbah.
00058658 : INDONESIA Jakarta - The largest mosque in Asia - Istiqlal Mosque - during Friday prayers.
00058657 : MOROCCO Fez - The ancient tanneries of Fez.
00058656 : CHINA Beijing - Man selling Beijing 2008 Olympic Games T-shirts.
00058655 : CHINA Beijing - Portrait of elderly man with beard, inside the Frobidden City.
00058654 : CHINA Beijing - Guard stands at Tiananmen Gate, entrance to the Imperial Palace, or Forbidden City.
00058653 : CHINA Beijing - Stallholders catch up on the news.
00058652 : CHINA Beijing - A woman sits with a Chinese flag outside the walls of The Forbidden City (Imperial Palace).
00058651 : CHINA Beijing - Tiananmen Gate, The Forbidden City (Imperial Palace).
00058650 : CHINA Beijing - The Forbidden City (Imperial Palace).
00058649 : CHINA Lijiang, Yunnan Province - An elderly man sits with his cane in a doorway in Lijiang.
00058648 : MOROCCO Meknes - Friday prayers spill out of the mosque and into the streets of Meknes.
00058647 : VIETNAM Hoi An - Buddhist temple of Hoi An.
00058646 : VIETNAM Hoi An - Fishing boats on the beach of the traditional fishing community of Hoi An.
00058645 : VIETNAM Hoi An - Worshippers at a Buddhist temple in Hoi An.
00058644 : VIETNAM Hoi An - A woman rides her bicycle.
00058643 : VIETNAM Hoi An - Girls ride their bicycles.
00058642 : VIETNAM Hoi An - Women cultivate banana crops.
00058641 : VIETNAM Hoi An - An elderly woman wearing a traditional conical hat.
00058640 : MADAGASCAR Isoanala - Zebu breeder, with a comb in his hair.
00058639 : MADAGASCAR Ampanihy - Market scene.
00058638 : MADAGASCAR Toleara, South-West Coast - Schoolgirl reading her book at home.
00058637 : MADAGASCAR Toleara, South-West Coast - Man-powered rickshaw.
00058636 : MADAGASCAR Ranohira, Isalo Mounts, Highland - Young woman at her window.
00058635 : MADAGASCAR Isalo Mounts, Highlands - Sandstone mountain-range and savanna.
00058634 : MADAGASCAR Isalo Mounts, Highlands - Sandstone mountain-range and savanna.
00058633 : MADAGASCAR Isalo Mounts, Highlands - Man waiting for the bus, wrapped in a blanket.
00058632 : MADAGASCAR Ambohimandroso, Highlands - Young boy working as a brick-carrier.
00058631 : MADAGASCAR Ambohimandroso, Highlands - Ready-to-wear suits for women on sale at the weekly market.
00058630 : MADAGASCAR Antsirabe, Highlands - Man-powered rickshaws in the town centre.
00058629 : MADAGASCAR Ambalavao, Highlands - Family on the balcony of their home.
00058628 : MADAGASCAR Ambositra, Highlands - Paddy transplantation.
00058627 : MADAGASCAR Ambalavao, Highlands - Terraced rice fields.
00058626 : MADAGASCAR Ambalavao, Highlands - Terraced rice fields.
00058625 : MADAGASCAR Antsirabe, Highlands - Farmers' village.
00058624 : MADAGASCAR Antsirabe, Highlands - Farmers harvesting barley, near their village.
00058623 : MADAGASCAR Antsirabe, Highlands - Small village with market garden.
00058622 : MADAGASCAR Mahavonjy, Menabe Region - Salt harvest.
00058621 : MADAGASCAR Mahavonjy, Menabe Region - Father and son.
00058620 : MADAGASCAR Belo-sur-Mer, Menabe Region - Boat building.
00058619 : MADAGASCAR Morondava, Menabe Region - Workers harvest the rice crop, with a large Baobab tree in the background.
00058618 : MADAGASCAR Morondava, Menabe Region - Baobab trees.
00058617 : MADAGASCAR Antananarivo - Faravohitra Temple overlooking the city.
00058616 : MADAGASCAR Antananarivo - Jacaranda trees in full bloom, around Anosy Lake.
00058615 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A Christian Iraqi refugee learns Swedish at a school run by fellow Assyrians (also called Syriacs and Chaldean) in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058614 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Christian Iraqi refugees learn Swedish at a school run by fellow Assyrians (also called Syriacs and Chaldean) in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058613 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A Syrian activist rests in the underground resource centre that she created to help newly arrived Christian Iraqi refugees. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058612 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - A Southern Highlands women whose mouth and teeth are stained with buai or betelnut. It is chewed with lime and the resulting mix is an intoxicating stimulant that the majority of the population enjoy if not continually then certainly often.
00058611 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - Dorothy Huku prepares a chicken for dinner, having grain fed and raised it at the family home.
00058610 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - A heavy police and military presence in Mendi during polling and counting processes in the 2007 general election. At the time of the 2002 election there was widespread violence in the region.
00058609 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - People selling peanuts under an umbrella in the colours of the national flag.
00058608 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - Election officials start the process of counting the Moresby NW votes in the 2007 general election.
00058607 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - People's Democratic Movement (PDM) candidate Miria Ikupu and his wife cast their votes in the 2007 general election in Hanuabada.
00058606 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - An election rally for People's Democratic Movement (PDM) candidate Miria Ikupu in Hanuabada, the densely populated traditional Motuan village of Port Moresby which now houses many rural migrants. Free education and implementation of services are important issues in the 2007 general election.
00058605 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - Unrest at a rally in Joyce Bay for Justin Tkachencko, a candidate in the 2007 general election. A cousin of an opposition candidate ran amok with a machete smashing the sound system and forcing the rally to be postponed.
00058604 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - Dorothy Huku , President of the Provisional Council of Women in Mendi.
00058603 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - Timoti Tala MP, member of parliament for Imbongu and Vice Minister for Industry and Commerce. He is wearing a headband traditonally worn by members of his Southern Islands clan.
00058602 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A Christian Iraqi refugee works doing the laundry in a launderette. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058601 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - Five year old Georgewell Hapsi carries a chicken that is going to be killed and eaten for dinner, having been grain fed and reared at the family home.
00058600 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - Stilt houses in Hanuabada, a traditional Motuan village which is becoming densely populated as rural migrants move to Port Moresby. Most of the houses have electricity but often do not have running water.
00058599 : NORWAY Bastoy Island - The public beach near Bastoy Prison. Bastoy is an open prison located on an island. There are few guards and the living quarters resemble homes rather than prison cells.
00058598 : NORWAY Bastoy Island - A prisoner in a woodwork workshop at Bastoy Prison. Bastoy is an open prison located on an island. There are few guards and the living quarters resemble homes rather than prison cells. The inmates undertake different kinds of work during their incarceration.
00058597 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Two young boys fighting in a boxing ring during a kung fu martial arts tournament for boys (aged 12 to 16 years old) at Kabul Stadium.
00058596 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A young girl playing with a water pump.
00058595 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Popcorn for sale at the Murad Khane market.
00058594 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A popcorn maker wearing goggles to protect himself from flying popcorn in the Murad Khane market.
00058593 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Assyrian Christians celebrate a wedding in an Iraqi-owned banquet hall in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058592 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Two young boys fighting in a boxing ring during a kung fu martial arts tournament for boys (aged 12 to 16 years old) at Kabul Stadium.
00058591 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A young fighter at a kung fu martial arts tournament for boys (aged 12 to 16 years old) at Kabul Stadium.
00058590 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A popcorn maker wearing goggles to protect himself from flying popcorn in the Murad Khane market.
00058589 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A popcorn maker wearing goggles to protect himself from flying popcorn in the Murad Khane market.
00058588 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A popcorn maker wearing goggles to protect himself from flying popcorn in the Murad Khane market.
00058587 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A boy leaning against an old wooden door leading to the Great Serai. The building is currently undergoing renovation work as part of a restoration project managed by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058586 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Carpenters working inside a historic building undergoing renovation work as part of a restoration project managed by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058585 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A labourer working on scaffolding at Peacock House, which is undergoing renovation work as part of a restoration project managed by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058584 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - An elderly labourer props up a beam to support a wall at Peacock House, which is undergoing renovation work as part of a restoration project managed by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058583 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Christian Iraqi refugees pray during a memorial service for a priest killed in their homeland. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058582 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Christian Iraqi refugees shop at a supermarket in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058581 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A woman engraving a wood panel in a workshop during a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058580 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A carpenter engraving a wooden box in a workshop during a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058579 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Carpenters making a window frame in a workshop during a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058578 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Carpenters making a window frame in a workshop during a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058577 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Rory Stewart, a writer and former British diplomat who is now Chief Executive of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058576 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Workmen clearing away the rubble around a historic building during a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058575 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - The Murad Khane market district with the Abu Fazl mosque in background. The area is part of a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, an organisation working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058574 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A bedroom inside the Kart-e-Parwan fort. The fort is part of a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, an organisation working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058573 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Craftsmen at work on a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058572 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - Martin Pat, an election official, shows the ink mark on his finger which shows that he has cast his vote in the 2007 general election. The measure was introduced to combat the double voting which was widespread in the 2002 election. Despite his position on the electoral steering committee in Mendi, he is critical of the electoral commission's handling of voter registration and the counting process.
00058571 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - A heavy police and military presence in Mendi during polling and counting processes in the 2007 general election. At the time of the 2002 election there was widespread violence in the region.
00058570 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - Men show the ink marks on their fingers which show that they have cast their votes in the 2007 general election. The measure was introduced to combat the double voting which was widespread in the 2002 election.
00058569 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - An elderly man shows a stub of a finger, amputated by his mother as a small child when there was a death in the family, following an old Highlands tradition which is no longer practiced.
00058568 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - Young women line up to cast their votes in the 2007 general election.
00058567 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Nurse Muhammad Shafir of the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) washes his hands after delivering a patient with head trauma to the specialist clinic in the background. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058566 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A soldier with the Afghan National Army (ANA) is transported by the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) from an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base to a Kabul military hospital for further care. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058565 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A map of the local area in the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) call centre office. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058564 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A uniform badge of the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS). The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058563 : NORWAY Bergen, Hordaland County - A narrow alleyway with wooden buildings in Bryggen, the old wharf in Bergen. Bryggen is the city's best-preserved quarter and is now on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
00058562 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - Election officials waiting to start the process of counting the Moresby NW votes in the 2007 general election.
00058561 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - An Electoral Commission poster, supported by Caritas and AusAID, tells voters that PNG is at a crossroads, and the country's future depends on their votes in the 2007 general election.
00058560 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - The main street of Hanuabada, a traditional Motuan village which is becoming densely populated as rural migrants move to Port Moresby. A banner carries a message about the 2007 general election.
00058559 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - Local villagers and clanspeople congregate at the remote Kiburu polling station to cast their votes in the 2007 general election.
00058558 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Two young boys fighting during a kung fu martial arts tournament for boys (aged 12 to 16 years old) at Kabul Stadium.
00058557 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A community school in Murad Khane.
00058556 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Nurse Said Munir tends to a patient with head trauma while out working with the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS). The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058555 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Team leaders working for the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) gather in the office of Director Nazir Ahmad (right) for a morning briefing. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058554 : NORWAY Flam - The Aurlandsfjord (as seen from the town of Flam). Aurlandsfjord is an inlet of the Sognefjord, the world's longest fjord (204 km). Since roads along the fjords are scarce, boats are the most common means of transport here.
00058553 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - Local villagers and clanspeople congregate at the remote Kiburu polling station to cast their votes in the 2007 general election.
00058552 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Architect Andre Ullal of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058551 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - The courtyard of the Great Serai, the only remaining historic guesthouse in Kabul. The building is currently undergoing reconstruction as part of a restoration project managed by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058550 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A restored tower at the historic, royal Kart-e-Parwan fort. The fort is part of a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, an organisation working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058549 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - 12-year-old Toryalai arrives at a children's hospital with a suspected embolism accompanied by his worried father (left). The young patient was brought to the hospital by the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS). The service, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058548 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Nurse Said Isa and ambulance driver Hafiz S. Ullah, who work for the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS), strap 12-year-old Toryalai to a stretcher while his family anxiously looks on. The ambulance service will take the young boy to the nearest children's hospital. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058547 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - An Assyrian Christian with a loudspeaker cheers for his soccer team during a football match. Some of the supporters are Iraqi refugees. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058546 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Assyrian Christians cheer for their soccer team during a football match. Some of the supporters are Iraqi refugees. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058545 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A young boy has his hand bandaged during a kung fu martial arts tournament for boys (aged 12 to 16 years old) at Kabul Stadium.
00058544 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - The historic Peacock House undergoing reconstruction as part of a restoration project managed by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058543 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A labourer props up a beam to support a wall at Peacock House, which is undergoing renovation work as part of a restoration project managed by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058542 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A decorative doorway at Peacock House, which is undergoing renovation work as part of a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058541 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A man carving chess pieces in a workshop during a restoration project supported by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The Foundation is working to preserve Afghanistan's historical buildings and traditional crafts.
00058540 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Nurse Said Isa of the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) carries one-year-old Satara through a hospital corridor after transporting her from one hospital, where she had a CT-scan, to another. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058539 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Nurse Said Isa of the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) holds one-year-old Satara on his lap in the back of the ambulance while transporting her from one hospital, where she had a CT-scan, to another. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058538 : SWEDEN Stockholm - Iraqi refugees during a lesson at a driving school. The centre is owned by an Iraqi refugee who also teaches. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland.
00058537 : SWEDEN Stockholm - Iraqi refugees wait for appointments at an asylum office. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland.
00058536 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Christian Iraqi refugees pray during a memorial service for a priest killed in their homeland. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058535 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A newly arrived Christian Iraqi refugee shows a picture of her children, who she had to leave behind, to a fellow Assyrian in an underground refugee resource centre. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058534 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Young men, who are Christian Iraqi refugees, play cards at night in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058533 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A young man, who is a Christian Iraqi refugee, smokes a traditional water pipe in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058532 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Christian Iraqi refugee boys hang out in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058531 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A Christian Iraqi refugee shapes another woman's eyebrows in a beauty salon in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058530 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - A Highlander in traditional dress.
00058529 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Two young boys fighting in a boxing ring during a kung fu martial arts tournament for boys (aged 12 to 16 years old) at Kabul Stadium.
00058528 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Assyrian Christians cheer for their soccer team during a football match. Some of the supporters are Iraqi refugees. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058527 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Christian Iraqi refugees receive communion. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058526 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - An Iraqi man walks through the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058525 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Assyrian Christians celebrating a high school graduation.
00058524 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A Christian Iraqi refugee celebrates graduating from a Swedish high school. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058523 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Christian Iraqi refugees pray during a memorial service for a priest killed in their homeland. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058522 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Christian Iraqi refugees pray during a memorial service for a priest killed in their homeland. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058521 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - Electoral Commissioner Andrew Trawen answers questions from the media at the end of the eleven day polling process in the 2007 general election. A number of issues had arisen, such as incomplete electoral rolls, questions over the movement of ballot boxes in remote areas and teachers assigned to counting when they should have been in school.
00058520 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - Election officials counting the Moresby NW votes in the 2007 general election. The process goes on round the clock with shifts of officials counting ballot papers for days on end.
00058519 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - Young skinheads help one of their friends along during the annual festival of Thingyan (the Burmese New Year Water Festival). Water plays an important symbolic role in the Thingyan festivities and water-throwing (when ice-cold water is power-hosed at or poured on passers-by) is a distinctive feature of the event. In addition, many of the normal social taboos, particularly those relating to minority groups and women's public behaviour, are lifted for the duration of the festival. The celebrations, which last for several days, mark the start of the Burmese New Year.
00058518 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - A jeep passes one of the many pandals (parade stages) set up for the annual festival of Thingyan (the Burmese New Year Water Festival). Water plays an important symbolic role in the Thingyan festivities and water-throwing (when ice-cold water is power-hosed at or poured on passers-by) is a distinctive feature of the event. In addition, many of the normal social taboos, particularly those relating to minority groups and women's public behaviour, are lifted for the duration of the festival. The celebrations, which last for several days, mark the start of the Burmese New Year.
00058517 : SWEDEN Stockholm - An Iraqi refugee family pushing a pram past a shop. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland.
00058516 : SWEDEN Stockholm - An Iraqi Shi'ite mosque. Some of the worshippers are Iraqi refugees. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland.
00058515 : SWEDEN Stockholm - Iraqi refugees make up the largest percentage of the applicants at an asylum office. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland.
00058514 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - 'Deborah's baby' was born two months premature and has been cared for at Mendi hospital to full term, but has been abandoned probably permanently by the young mother.
00058513 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - A young Southern Highlands mother carries her baby in a billam - a string bag worn from the head on the back or over the shoulders at the front.
00058512 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mendi, Southern Highlands - Local villagers and clanspeople congregate at the remote Kiburu polling station to cast their votes in the 2007 general election.
00058511 : NORWAY Bastoy Island - A prisoner sunbathing near his living quarters at Bastoy Prison. Bastoy is an open prison located on an island. There are few guards and the living quarters resemble homes rather than prison cells.
00058510 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - A jeep passes one of the many pandals (parade stages) set up for the annual festival of Thingyan (the Burmese New Year Water Festival). Water plays an important symbolic role in the Thingyan festivities and water-throwing (when ice-cold water is power-hosed at or poured on passers-by) is a distinctive feature of the event. In addition, many of the normal social taboos, particularly those relating to minority groups and women's public behaviour, are lifted for the duration of the festival. The celebrations, which last for several days, mark the start of the Burmese New Year.
00058509 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - Revellers fill their bottles, which they will use to douse people, from running hoses at a pandal during the annual festival of Thingyan (the Burmese New Year Water Festival). The water here is pumped directly from a nearby lake. Water plays an important symbolic role in the Thingyan festivities and water-throwing (when ice-cold water is power-hosed at or poured on passers-by) is a distinctive feature of the event. In addition, many of the normal social taboos, particularly those relating to minority groups and women's public behaviour, are lifted for the duration of the festival. The celebrations, which last for several days, mark the start of the Burmese New Year.
00058508 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - A jeep passes one of the many pandals (parade stages) set up for the annual festival of Thingyan (the Burmese New Year Water Festival). It is considered bad form to wind the windows up, so local drivers have to cover themselves (and their car interiors) as best they can. Water plays an important symbolic role in the Thingyan festivities and water-throwing (when ice-cold water is power-hosed at or poured on passers-by) is a distinctive feature of the event. In addition, many of the normal social taboos, particularly those relating to minority groups and women's public behaviour, are lifted for the duration of the festival. The celebrations, which last for several days, mark the start of the Burmese New Year.
00058507 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - A pick-up truck full of young revellers heads to the pandals during the annual festival of Thingyan (the Burmese New Year Water Festival). Hiring these vehicles for the day is not cheap by Myanmar standards - each person pays up to 15,000 kyats (equivalent to around $12US).
00058506 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - Youths hose down passing revellers from on top of the government-sponsored 'Old School' pandal during the annual festival of Thingyan (the Burmese New Year Water Festival). Water plays an important symbolic role in the Thingyan festivities and water-throwing (when ice-cold water is power-hosed at or poured on passers-by) is a distinctive feature of the event. In addition, many of the normal social taboos, particularly those relating to minority groups and women's public behaviour, are lifted for the duration of the festival. The celebrations, which last for several days, mark the start of the Burmese New Year.
00058505 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - Stilt houses in Hanuabada, a traditional Motuan village, with the CBD of Port Moresby in the distance.
00058504 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - Overlooking the CBD of Port Moresby.
00058503 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - A women holds her pet adult cuscus or tree kangaroo, an endangered species native to PNG.
00058502 : AFGHANISTAN Bagram - A member of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near Bagram.
00058501 : AFGHANISTAN Bagram - Members of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near Bagram.
00058500 : AFGHANISTAN Bagram - A member of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near Bagram.
00058499 : AFGHANISTAN Bagram - A member of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near Bagram.
00058498 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A man with head trauma is transported by the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) from a hospital to a specialist clinic in another part of town. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058497 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Nurse Mohammad Shafir and driver Noor Mohammad of the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) carry a patient on a stretcher from their ambulance to a clinic to have a head wound looked at by a specialist. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058496 : ANGOLA Kuito - The pattern of a mortar round lies next to the outlines of football pitches painted for a child's game of bottle top football.
00058495 : ANGOLA Kuito - A homemade football.
00058494 : ANGOLA Luanda - Crowds of football supporters are dispersed by police prior to a match at the national stadium.
00058493 : ANGOLA Luanda - An image of the football World Cup trophy on a wall at the national stadium.
00058492 : NORWAY Sogn og Fjordane - A small village along the Sognefjord, the world's longest fjord (204 Km).
00058491 : NORWAY Naeroyfjord, Sogn og Fjordane - Tourists cruising along the Naeroyfjord in Norway, the narrowest, wildest and probably most famous of the inlets of the Sognefjord, the world's longest fjord (204 km). Since roads along the fjords are scarce, boats are the most common means of transport here.
00058490 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Nurse Muhammad Shafir of the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) signs papers after delivering a patient with head trauma to a specialist clinic for further treatment. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058489 : NORWAY Naeroy Valley - The Naeroy Valley in southwestern Norway (as seen from the Stalheim Hotel).
00058488 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A modern house belonging to a wealthy resident.
00058487 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A modern building filled with shops selling computers and other electronics in central Kabul.
00058486 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A modern building covered with coloured glass, which seems to be very popular with property developers, in the centre of Kabul.
00058485 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - The Safi Landmark hotel and shopping centre, representative of modern development in the Afghan capital.
00058484 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A modern building with a glass facade typical of so many newly erected buildings in the centre of the city.
00058483 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Mortar and RPG (rocket propelled grenade) rounds lie in a pit awaiting destruction by a Weapons and Ammunition Disposal unit from the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO). The collected munitions are blown up at a remote site.
00058482 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - The destruction of various munitions by a Weapons and Ammunition Disposal unit from the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO). Collected munitions are blown up at a remote site.
00058481 : AFGHANISTAN Bagram - A member of the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life-Support Organisation), an NGO involved in the clearing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), during an anti-personnel landmine search in a small village near Bagram.
00058480 : SYRIA Damascus - Iraqi refugees, who have just disembarked from a bus, pass a billboard emblazoned with the image of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while they search for family members who travelled in another bus. One of the refugees commented, 'The Syrian people are hospitable. They give us place to live. They help us with food.' Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058479 : SYRIA Damascus - A girl riding a bicycle through the Jaramana neighbourhood. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058478 : SYRIA Damascus - Salah and Mouna sit with their four-year-old daughter, Dalia, on the sofa near a TV in their small flat. The family, who are Iraqi refugees, fled to from their homeland after their daughter was kidnapped on her way to the local kindergarten. After a week, they managed to secure the money (equivalent to around 5,000 dollars) for their daughter's release. They left their home for Syria the next day. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058477 : SYRIA Damascus - A busy street scene in the Jaramana neighbourhood. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058476 : NORWAY Bergen, Hordaland County - The distinctive wooden gabled warehouses along the old wharf in Bryggen, the site of the city's original settlement. Bryggen is also the city's best-preserved quarter and is now on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
00058475 : NORWAY Bergen, Hordaland County - The distinctive wooden gabled warehouses along the old wharf in Bryggen, the site of the city's original settlement. Bryggen is also the city's best-preserved quarter and is now on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
00058474 : SYRIA Damascus - Families of Iraqi refugees families arrive in Damascus on a bus after making the dangerous journey from their homeland at night. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058473 : SYRIA Damascus - Children playing football on the square in the Saida Zainab neighbourhood. Up to 20 buses filled with Iraqi refugees arrive at this square every night. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058472 : SYRIA Damascus - A guard at a registration centre run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Douma on the outskirts of Damascus. The centre can receive up to around 3,000 Iraqi refugees in one day. Due to the large numbers, many of the refugees have to wait several months to get their identity (ID) papers during which time they are not able to work. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland.
00058471 : SYRIA Damascus - Iraqi refugees waiting for food distribution at the Christian Church of Abraham in the Jaramana neighbourhood. The church provides some of the poorer refugee families with a free daily meal. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058470 : SYRIA Damascus - A line of Iraqi refugees at a registration centre run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Douma on the outskirts of Damascus. The centre can receive up to around 3,000 Iraqi refugees in one day. Due to the large numbers, many of the refugees have to wait several months to get their identity (ID) papers during which time they are not able to work. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland.
00058469 : SYRIA Damascus - A guard at a registration centre run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Douma on the outskirts of Damascus. The centre can receive up to around 3,000 Iraqi refugees in one day. Due to the large numbers, many of the refugees have to wait several months to get their identity (ID) papers during which time they are not able to work. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland.
00058468 : SYRIA Damascus - A bus packed with Iraqi refugees arrives in the Saida Zainab neighbourhood. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058467 : SYRIA Damascus - Iraqi refugees outside a food distribution centre run by the Caritas NGO in the Jaramana neighbourhood. The refugees wait in line every day to get food coupons. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058466 : NORWAY Bergen, Hordaland County - A view of Bergen. Founded in 1070, Bergen was the largest town in medieval Norway. It became the capital city by 1240 and later a Hanseatic League port.
00058465 : NORWAY Bergen, Hordaland County - A panoramic view of Bergen. Founded in 1070, Bergen was the largest town in medieval Norway. It became the capital city by 1240 and later a Hanseatic League port.
00058464 : BRAZIL Congonhas, Minas Gerais - The sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Matozinhos. A masterpiece of the Minas Baroque architecture, it is surrounded by soapstone statues of Old Testament prophets sculpted by Aleijadinho (Antonio Francisco Lisboa) between 1800 and 1805.
00058463 : BRAZIL Congonhas, Minas Gerais - The sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Matozinhos. A masterpiece of the Minas Baroque architecture, it is surrounded by soapstone statues of Old Testament prophets sculpted by Aleijadinho (Antonio Francisco Lisboa) between 1800 and 1805.
00058462 : BRAZIL Congonhas, Minas Gerais - An episode of the Passion of Christ sculpted from cedarwood by Aleijadinho (Antonio Francisco Lisboa) between 1800 and 1805. Considered masterpieces of the Minas Baroque architecture, many of Aleijadinho's statues can be found in one of the small chapels outside the sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Matozinhos.
00058461 : BRAZIL Sao Joao del Rey, Minas Gerais - The church of Sao Francisco de Assis. The church, a fine example of Minas Baroque architecture, was finished in 1774 and has an ornate exterior carved by a pupil of Aleijadinho. The grave of Tancredo Neves lies in the cemetery behind the church.
00058460 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A Syrian activist cares for newly arrived Christian Iraqi refugee children while their parents apply for asylum, search for houses and find jobs. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058459 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A Christian Iraqi refugee working in the kitchen of a pizza restaurant. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058458 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Mohammed Rahim (right) and Abdullah Amiri (left) using mobile phones to answer calls in the Kabul Ambulance Service (KAS) call centre. The KAS, which is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, is the first such service in Afghanistan. It currently serves a population of about 4.5 million people using less than 15 ambulances.
00058457 : SYRIA Damascus - Iraqi children, who are living as refugees in Syria, sit below a wall mural depicting former Syrian president Hafez El-Assad at a day care centre run by nuns. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058456 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A Christian Iraqi refugee working at McDonald's. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058455 : SYRIA Damascus - A family of Iraqi refugees living in a small flat in the Saida Zainab neighbourhood. One of their young son's has suffered brain damage and is not able to talk or walk. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058454 : SYRIA Damascus - A young Iraqi refugee lies on the floor in a small flat in the Saida Zainab neighbourhood. He has suffered brain damage and is not able to talk or walk. He lives here with his father, Saed, and other members of his family. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058453 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Yeukaui cooking lunch for her friend Portia and their children on a kerosene stove in the Epworth suburb of the city.
00058452 : ZIMBABWE Harare - A young labourer working on a building site.
00058451 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Young men on a building site.
00058450 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Election posters for the 2005 parliamentary elections depicting Gift Chimanikire for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and Robert Mugabe for Zanu-PF (Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front).
00058449 : ZIMBABWE Harare - A shop selling solar electricity set-ups.
00058448 : ZIMBABWE Harare - A shop selling solar electricity panels.
00058447 : ZIMBABWE Harare - A shop selling solar electricity panels.
00058446 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A Christian Iraqi refugee working at McDonald's. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058445 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - An Assyrian Christian man sits in a park playing cards in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058444 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - A girl, who is a Christian Iraqi refugee, stands in front of a television showing the Iraqi news during a birthday party in an apartment in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058443 : SWEDEN Sodertalje - Christian Iraqi refugees in their apartment in the Ronna ghetto. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Many of them have settled in the poorer neighbourhoods of Sodertalje.
00058442 : SYRIA Damascus - An Iraqi shop owner sitting near Christian artworks in his store in the Jaramana neighbourhood. An increasing number of small cafes and shops have been set up by Iraqi refugees coming to the area. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058441 : SYRIA Damascus - A bus filled with Iraqi refugees arrives in the Saida Zainab neighbourhood. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058440 : SYRIA Damascus - Saed, an Iraqi refugee now living in Syria, welcomes his sister and her daughter who have just arrived on a bus fleeing their homeland. The woman will now stay with the rest of her family in Saed's small flat in the Saida Zainab neighbourhood. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058439 : SYRIA Damascus - An Iraqi refugee now living in Syria welcomes newly arrived relatives to the Saida Zainab neighbourhood. The woman and her young daughter have just arrived on a bus fleeing their homeland and have come to stay with the woman's brother, Saed. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058438 : SYRIA Damascus - Ornella, whose parents are Iraqi refugees living in Syria, is baptised in the Christian Church of Abraham in the Jaramana district. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058437 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Yeukaui having lunch with her friend Portia and their children in the Epworth suburb of the city.
00058436 : ZIMBABWE Nyamhuka, Nyanga - Talent, one of a family of five living in this tiny room, does his homework by the light of the one diesel oil lamp at home in the Nyamhuka suburb of Nyanga (known locally as the Dark City of Nyanga). The tiny room smells strongly of diesel smoke and the other children must wait their turn to use the dim light to do their homework.
00058435 : BRAZIL - Dentist and patient.
00058434 : BRAZIL Picos, Piaui State - An adult education lesson, part of an alphabetisation literacy programme sponsored by the Banco do Brasil (Bank of Brazil).
00058433 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - Revellers bathe in the runoff from the pandals during the annual festival of Thingyan (the Burmese New Year Water Festival). Water plays an important symbolic role in the Thingyan festivities and water-throwing (when ice-cold water is power-hosed at or poured on passers-by) is a distinctive feature of the event. In addition, many of the normal social taboos, particularly those relating to minority groups and women's public behaviour, are lifted for the duration of the festival. The celebrations, which last for several days, mark the start of the Burmese New Year.
00058432 : SYRIA Damascus - Iraqi refugees outside a food distribution centre run by the Caritas NGO in the Jaramana neighbourhood. One of the refugees petitioned, 'Please help up. Please get us out of here. We do not have any money. We are not able to feed our children.' Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana on the outskirts of Damascus.
00058431 : SYRIA Damascus - One of the most popular restaurants in Baghdad has reopened in the Jaramana neighbourhood in Damascus. The owner and the workers here are all Iraqi refugees. Over one million Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria after fleeing the conflict in their homeland. Many have settled in the neighbourhoods of Saida Zainab and Jaramana.
00058430 : ZIMBABWE Harare - A female student cooking at home. This shared house full of students is lucky to have mains power with enough capacity for cooking, heating and lighting.
00058429 : SWEDEN Stockholm - Iraqi Shi'ite refugees shopping at a local market. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland.
00058428 : SWEDEN Stockholm - An Iraqi Shi'ite refugee pushes a stroller through a shopping mall, past an H&M fashion clothing store. Thousands of Iraqi refugees are now living in Sweden after fleeing to Europe from their war-torn homeland.
00058427 : ZIMBABWE Nyamhuka, Nyanga - Talent, one of a family of five living in this tiny room, does his homework by the light of the one diesel oil lamp at home in the Nyamhuka suburb of Nyanga (known locally as the Dark City of Nyanga). The tiny room smells strongly of diesel smoke and the other children must wait their turn to use the dim light to do their homework.
00058426 : ZIMBABWE Nyamhuka, Nyanga - Talent goes to his uncle's house to use a candle in order to do his homework in the Nyamhuka suburb of Nyanga (known locally as the Dark City of Nyanga). There is no electric power here so those who can afford it light candles after dark. Poorer people buy fill glass bottles with small quantities of diesel fuel to make a dim, smoky lamp. It gets dark at about six every evening so many children are generally unable to do their homework.
00058425 : ZIMBABWE Nyamhuka, Nyanga - Unable to afford a candle, "Jonas" sits outside gazing into his neighbour's fire in the Nyamhuka suburb of Nyanga (known locally as the Dark City of Nyanga). There is no electric power here so those who can afford it light candles after dark. Poorer people buy fill glass bottles with small quantities of diesel fuel to make a dim, smoky lamp. It gets dark at about six every evening so many children are generally unable to do their homework.
00058424 : ZIMBABWE Nyarumvurwe - Farmer Fiona, who lives without electric power, nursing her baby by candlelight at home in Nyarumvurwe village.
00058423 : ZIMBABWE Nyarumvurwe - Farmer Fiona, who lives without electric power, nursing her baby by candlelight at home in Nyarumvurwe village.
00058422 : ZIMBABWE Nyarumvurwe - Farmer Fiona cooking with wood in her large traditional kitchen at home in Nyarumvurwe village.
00058421 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Agnes (left) and Precious (right) do their homework by electric light in the evening at Nyafaru secondary boarding school. There is no mains power in this area, but the school receives electricity from a micro hydro-electric scheme. This allows the children to eat and do their homework after dark. It also helps teachers maintain discipline and mark the children's work.
00058420 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Children doing their homework in the evening at Nyafaru secondary boarding school. There is no mains power in this area, but the school receives electricity from a micro hydro-electric scheme. This allows the children to eat and do their homework after dark. It also helps teachers maintain discipline and mark the children's work.
00058419 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Willard Mubvuta does his homework by electric light in the dormitory at Nyafaru secondary boarding school. There is no mains power in this area, but the school receives electricity from a micro hydro-electric scheme. This allows the children to eat and do their homework after dark. It also helps teachers maintain discipline and mark the children's work.
00058418 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Children eating at Nyafaru secondary boarding school. There is no mains power in this area, but the school receives electricity from a micro hydro-electric scheme. This allows the children to eat and do their homework after dark. It also helps teachers maintain discipline and mark the children's work.
00058417 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Children eating at Nyafaru secondary boarding school. There is no mains power in this area, but the school receives electricity from a micro hydro-electric scheme. This allows the children to eat and do their homework after dark. It also helps teachers maintain discipline and mark the children's work.
00058416 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - A micro hydro-electric scheme installed by the NGO Practical Action. The project supplies power to the local Nyafaru village clinic. This allows the clinic to run a refrigerator to store drugs in and enables the use of electric lights so that the clinic can stay open in the evenings.
00058415 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Edith cooking over an indoor open wood fire at home with her eight-month-old baby boy, Mytanya, in Nyafaru village. Cooking inside causes smoke inhalation and respiratory diseases contracted this way are extremely common.
00058414 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Edith collecting firewood for cooking in Nyafaru village.
00058413 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Edith with her eight-month-old baby boy, Mytanya, at home in Nyafaru village.
00058412 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - A "Tumbling E" eye chart used for sight tests on very young children or illiterate adults at Nyafaru village clinic.
00058411 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Male nurse Stephen Madziwanzira gives an antibiotic injection to eight-month-old Mytanya while his mother, Edith, holds him at the Nyafaru village clinic. The Nyafaru clinic has access to hydro-electric power from a micro-hydro scheme. This allows the clinic to run a refrigerator to store drugs in and enables the use of electric lights so that the clinic can stay open in the evenings.
00058410 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Male nurse Stephen Madziwanzira gives a young crying child an injection at the Nyafaru village clinic. The Nyafaru clinic has access to hydro-electric power from a micro-hydro scheme. This allows the clinic to run a refrigerator to store drugs in and enables the use of electric lights so that the clinic can stay open in the evenings.
00058409 : ZIMBABWE Nyafaru - Edith and Anna bring their children to the Nyafaru village clinic for their injections, which are prepared by male nurse Stephen Madziwanzira. The Nyafaru clinic has access to hydro-electric power from a micro-hydro scheme. This allows the clinic to run a refrigerator to store drugs in and enables the use of electric lights so that the clinic can stay open in the evenings.
00058408 : ZIMBABWE Troutbeck - Labourers burning waste wood in a fire at Troutbeck sawmill. The cost of transporting the wood to urbanised areas where it is desperately needed for firewood is unfortunately too high to be economical.
00058407 : ZIMBABWE Troutbeck - Burning waste wood in a fire at Troutbeck sawmill. The cost of transporting the wood to urbanised areas where it is desperately needed for firewood is unfortunately too high to be economical.
00058406 : ZIMBABWE Troutbeck - A huge hill of sawdust from the Troutbeck sawmill.
00058405 : ZIMBABWE Temaruru - The local bar at Temaruru. The drink of choice is a factory-produced version of opaque village beer wittily called 'Scud'. The canisters it comes in are recyclable.
00058404 : ZIMBABWE Temaruru - A small wind farm in Temaruru village. The cost of maintaining and replacing the necessary batteries limits the farm's output to providing power for the local bar.
00058403 : ZIMBABWE Harare - 21-year-old Edith cooking indoors on a wood fire in the Epworth suburb. Edith, who lives without electricity or modern fuels, spends a large part of her income on purchasing a few sticks of wood to cook with each day. However, cooking inside causes smoke inhalation and respiratory diseases contracted this way are extremely common.
00058402 : ZIMBABWE Harare - 21-year-old Edith cooking indoors on a wood fire in the Epworth suburb. Edith, who lives without electricity or modern fuels, spends a large part of her income on purchasing a few sticks of wood to cook with each day. However, cooking inside causes smoke inhalation and respiratory diseases contracted this way are extremely common.
00058401 : ZIMBABWE Harare - A driver at a petrol station, filling up a vehicle with diesel fuel reserved for diplomats using special coupons.
00058400 : ZIMBABWE Harare - 21-year-old Edith cooking indoors on a wood fire in the Epworth suburb. Edith, who lives without electricity or modern fuels, spends a large part of her income on purchasing a few sticks of wood to cook with each day. However, cooking inside causes smoke inhalation and respiratory diseases contracted this way are extremely common.
00058399 : ZIMBABWE Harare - A local resident holding a candle in the Epworth suburb. Few houses have electricity here and even candles are a major expense for the residents.
00058398 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Vaishali, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, holds up a photograph taken on her wedding anniversary. Her husband, Abhijeet Shembekar, is an engineer. Like many of the unit's women, Vaishali's marriage was arranged by her parents. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058397 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Christlina, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, talks to one of the boys in the neighbourhood near her barracks while other children collect water nearby. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058396 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers conduct a cordon and search operation in Monrovia. Several suspects are apprehended after drugs (marijuana and heroin) are found on the premises. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058395 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers conduct a cordon and search operation in Monrovia. Several suspects are apprehended after drugs (marijuana and heroin) are found on the premises. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058394 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers conduct a cordon and search operation in Monrovia. Several suspects are apprehended after drugs (marijuana and heroin) are found on the premises. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058393 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers conduct a cordon and search operation in Monrovia. Several suspects are apprehended after drugs (marijuana and heroin) are found on the premises. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058392 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers conduct a cordon and search operation in Monrovia. Several suspects are apprehended after drugs (marijuana and heroin) are found on the premises. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058391 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia out on night patrol in the 'old road' area of the city. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058390 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Vaishali (centre) and Jayshree (right), members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, out on night patrol in the 'old road' area of the city. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058389 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Vaishali (centre) and Jayshree (left), members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, talk to a woman collecting sand to sell during one of their evening patrols. It is believed that the female peacekeepers appear more approachable to other women, especially regarding incidences of sexual violence, than their male counterparts. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058388 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A UN patrol car parked outside the Liberian National Police (LNP) sub-station for District 3. The vehicle is used by Monrovia's peacekeepers to carry out Joint Task Force (JTF) patrols with LNP officers. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058387 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia attending church on Easter Sunday. The unit reflects India's religious diversity and counts Hindi, Christian, Muslim and Sikh believers amongst its ranks. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058386 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Christlina (left) and Sabita (right), members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, share a joke after Christlina receives a text message from home. She is dressed in a sari to attend church. The unit reflects India's religious diversity and counts Hindi, Christian, Muslim and Sikh believers amongst its ranks. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058385 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Christlina (left) and Sheeba (right), members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, out on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol in a UN vehicle. The unit provides essential armed back up to the fledging Liberian National Police (LNP). United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058384 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Christlina, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, carries her gun while out on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol in the Duport Road area of Monrovia. The unit provides essential armed back up to the fledging Liberian National Police (LNP). United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058383 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Sheeba, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, passes a crowd of people gathered outside a video parlour while out on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol. The unit provides essential armed back up to the fledging Liberian National Police (LNP). United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058382 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Christlina (left) and Sheeba (right), members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, take their guns out on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol in a UN vehicle. The unit provides essential armed back up to the fledging Liberian National Police (LNP). United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058381 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Itee, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, laughs with Winnefred, a Liberian National Police (LNP) officer, while out on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol in the Duport Road area. "On the Job" training forms a vital aspect of the unit's role in helping to build capacity in the Liberian National Police. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058380 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Winnefred, a Liberian National Police (LNP) officer, tells Itee, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, about the ingredients used in local dishes while out on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol in the Duport Road area. "On the Job" training forms a vital aspect of the unit's role in helping to build capacity in the Liberian National Police. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058379 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Winnefred, a Liberian National Police (LNP) officer, and Varsha, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, discuss potential problems while on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol in the Duport Road area. "On the Job" training forms a vital aspect of the unit's role in helping to build capacity in the Liberian National Police. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058378 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Itee, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, supervises Winnefred, a Liberian National Police (LNP) officer, while out on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol in the Duport Road area. "On the Job" training forms a vital aspect of the unit's role in helping to build capacity in the Liberian National Police. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058377 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Itee (left) and Jayshree (right), members of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, share a joke together before going on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058376 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Female peacekeeping soldiers, part of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, watching Bollywood films on the television in the mess hall while relaxing off duty. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058375 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Female peacekeeping soldiers, part of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, play an evening game of badminton. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058374 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Female peacekeeping soldiers, part of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, aim their guns during a weapons training exercise near their barracks. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058373 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Gheeta, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, prepares chapattis for lunch. She will make over two hundred. The unit is entirely self-sufficient at their base. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058372 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Female peacekeeping soldiers, part of the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, falling in for a briefing before their daily exercises shortly after daybreak. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058371 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia watches Bollywood films on the television in the mess hall while relaxing off duty. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058370 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Vaishali, a female peacekeeping soldier belonging to the all-female unit of Indian UN peacekeepers in Monrovia, scans the street and passing cars while on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol in the Duport Road area. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
00058369 : BANGLADESH - A sex worker helping a friend apply her make-up.
00058368 : BANGLADESH - A sex worker holds up her scarred arm. She bears these scars after attempting to engrave the name of her lover on her arm.
00058367 : BANGLADESH - A young sex worker smoking a cigarette outside a local brothel.
00058366 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Sima, a 15-year-old sex worker, waiting for her clients in Tangail brothel. The area is home to around 3000 prostitutes and their families.
00058365 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Shilpi, a 16-year-old sex worker, with a client in a local brothel.
00058364 : BANGLADESH - A sex worker hides her face.
00058363 : BANGLADESH - A sex worker in Kandaportte Potitalow. The area is home to around 3000 prostitutes and their families.
00058362 : BANGLADESH Kandupatti, Dhaka - Prostitutes from the Kandupatti brothel wait for clients.
00058361 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - Banu, an 18-year-old prostitute, leans against the Faridpur brothel where she has been working for the past seven years.
00058360 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - Banu, an 18-year-old prostitute, leans against the Faridpur brothel where she has been working for the past seven years.
00058359 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - Banu, an 18-year-old prostitute, leans against the Faridpur brothel where she has been working for the past seven years.
00058358 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Rani, a 15-year-old sex worker is pictured with a client. There are more than 3000 sex workers working in this red light district.
00058357 : BANGLADESH - Clients waiting for sex workers in an alleyway. The men wander back and forth through these labyrinthine alleys in search of the most beautiful girls.
00058356 : BANGLADESH - A man smoking a cigarette passes a young prostitute in an alleyway. Clients wander back and forth through these labyrinthine alleys in search of the most beautiful girls.
00058355 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - A young sex worker resting on a bed in a local brothel.
00058354 : BANGLADESH Tangail - A young sex worker resting in a tiny room, which is only slightly larger than her bed.
00058353 : BANGLADESH - A sex worker applying her make-up.
00058352 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - A sex worker taking care of her skin.
00058351 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - Sex workers bathing in the river.
00058350 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - A sex worker taking a bucket shower in Faridpur brothel.
00058349 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - A sex worker with her daughter in a local brothel.
00058348 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - A sex worker lying on her bed with her daughter.
00058347 : BANGLADESH - A sex worker lies with her newborn baby in a local brothel.
00058346 : BANGLADESH - A sex worker feeds her newborn baby at a local brothel.
00058345 : BANGLADESH - Sex workers passing the time while waiting for clients.
00058344 : BANGLADESH Tangail - A child sex worker in the Tangail red light district.
00058343 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Sex workers waiting for clients at a local brothel.
00058342 : BANGLADESH - A sex worker with her boyfriend at a local brothel. Some of the women claim to have fallen in love with their clients and a few have ended up paying to support their former customers.
00058341 : BANGLADESH Tangail - A police officer making a routine visit to Tangail brothel.
00058340 : BANGLADESH - Forida, who works as a prostitute, with her 'babus' inside a brothel.
00058339 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - A sex worker with her boyfriend at a local brothel. Some of the women claim to have fallen in love with their clients and a few have ended up paying to support their former customers.
00058338 : BANGLADESH Tangail - A sex worker working at a restaurant inside Tangail brothel. Older sex workers often become maid servants for the sardarni (madam) and the prostitutes in the brothel.
00058337 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Anxious sex workers during eviction day at the Tangail brothel. The existence of the brothel is under threat from both Islamists and land grabbers. Many of the region's brothels, which were generally established in the early 1900s, have now become prime real estate, tempting more powerful groups to evict the prostitutes and seize the land.
00058336 : BANGLADESH Tangail - An anxious sex worker with her child during eviction day at the Tangail brothel. The existence of the brothel is under threat from both Islamists and land grabbers. Many of the region's brothels, which were generally established in the early 1900s, have now become prime real estate, tempting more powerful groups to evict the prostitutes and seize the land.
00058335 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Police officers with anxious sex workers during eviction day at the Tangail brothel. The existence of the brothel is under threat from both Islamists and land grabbers. Many of the region's brothels, which were generally established in the early 1900s, have now become prime real estate, tempting more powerful groups to evict the prostitutes and seize the land.
00058334 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Sex workers wait with heavy sticks and a Boti (a sickle-shaped kitchen knife) determined to beat off the Islamists and land grabbers trying to evict them from the Tangail brothel. The existence of the brothel is under threat from both Islamists and land grabbers. Many of the region's brothels, which were generally established in the early 1900s, have now become prime real estate, tempting more powerful groups to evict the prostitutes and seize the land.
00058333 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Sex workers wait with heavy sticks and a Boti (a sickle-shaped kitchen knife) determined to beat off the Islamists and land grabbers trying to evict them from the Tangail brothel. The existence of the brothel is under threat from both Islamists and land grabbers. Many of the region's brothels, which were generally established in the early 1900s, have now become prime real estate, tempting more powerful groups to evict the prostitutes and seize the land.
00058332 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Sex workers wait with heavy sticks and a Boti (a sickle-shaped kitchen knife) determined to beat off the Islamists and land grabbers trying to evict them from the Tangail brothel. The existence of the brothel is under threat from both Islamists and land grabbers. Many of the region's brothels, which were generally established in the early 1900s, have now become prime real estate, tempting more powerful groups to evict the prostitutes and seize the land.
00058331 : BANGLADESH Faridpur - Banu, an 18-year-old prostitute, leans against the Faridpur brothel where she has been working for the past seven years.
00058330 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Sex workers protesting against the eviction of prostitutes from a local brothel. The existence of the brothel is under threat from both Islamists and land grabbers. Many of the region's brothels, which were generally established in the early 1900s, have now become prime real estate, tempting more powerful groups to evict the prostitutes and seize the land.
00058329 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Sex workers protesting against the eviction of prostitutes from a local brothel. The existence of the brothel is under threat from both Islamists and land grabbers. Many of the region's brothels, which were generally established in the early 1900s, have now become prime real estate, tempting more powerful groups to evict the prostitutes and seize the land.
00058328 : BANGLADESH Tangail - Sex workers protesting against the eviction of prostitutes from a local brothel. The existence of the brothel is under threat from both Islamists and land grabbers. Many of the region's brothels, which were generally established in the early 1900s, have now become prime real estate, tempting more powerful groups to evict the prostitutes and seize the land.
00058327 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A local artist at work.
00058326 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A potter checking the handiwork in a pottery.
00058325 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A potter working on a pottery wheel in his workshop.
00058324 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A portrait of a young boy.
00058323 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A young girl feeding the pigeons.
00058322 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A portrait of an elderly man.
00058321 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A woman carrying a baby.
00058320 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A dog sleeping on a bench below an information sign for the 'tourist police'.
00058319 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A woman sitting in the shade of an umbrella.
00058318 : NEPAL Kathmandu - Two children standing in a doorway.
00058317 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A man reading a newspaper.
00058316 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A bearded sadhu (holy man).
00058315 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A woman making flower garlands on a street stall.
00058314 : NEPAL Kathmandu - Women selling fruit on a street market stall.
00058313 : NEPAL Kathmandu - Soldiers on a training exercise run beneath Lolane advertising and a banner depicting a leopard.
00058312 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A Buddhist monk with a colourful umbrella passes the Boudhanath Stupa.
00058311 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A man lighting candles at a shrine.
00058310 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A stallholder selling vegetables on a street stall in the city.
00058309 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A man wearing an Adidas top making flower garlands on a street stall in the city.
00058308 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A woman covers her face with her scarf to protect herself from the dust while passing a street sweeper.
00058307 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A car passing a man carrying a heavy load.
00058306 : NEPAL Kathmandu - Stallholders selling bananas, pomegranates and other fruit at a street stall in the city.
00058305 : NEPAL Kathmandu - Stallholders selling newspapers on their street stall.
00058304 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A woman selling cauliflowers and other vegetables at a street stall.
00058303 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A cyclist passing soldiers on patrol in the city at night.
00058302 : NEPAL Kathmandu - Cycle rickshaw drivers waiting for customers at night.
00058301 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A woman standing among Kathmandu's nightlife.
00058300 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A young child lighting offerings at a shrine in the city at night.
00058299 : NEPAL Kathmandu - Schoolgirls at a viewpoint looking over the Kathmandu cityscape.
00058298 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A woman selling jewellery, cameras and Kodak photographic film on a market stall.
00058297 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A bearded sadhu (holy man).
00058296 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A reflection of a Buddhist monk is captured in a mirror as he walks past.
00058295 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A young boy walking through the city's streets at night.
00058294 : NEPAL Kathmandu - A local market store at night.
00058293 : INDONESIA Timika, West Papua (Irian Jaya) - Deposits from the Ertsberg and Grasberg copper and gold mines run by Freeport McMoran have changed the bed of the Aikwa river into a vast sandy plain. More than 95% of the material from the mine is dumped into the river after the ore is separated. The company denies using poisonous materials for the separation, but the tailings certainly contain heavy metals. Local authorities have already warned against eating fish caught in the river. There has been no independent scientific survey of the environmental effects of the mining operation.
00058292 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - A woman shopping in the market.
00058291 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama in front of her home. She is the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058290 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama in front of her second hut, where she cooks and keeps food. She is the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058289 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama, the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058288 : KENYA Nyanza province - A pupil outside the gates of the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School, which was recently renamed in honour of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obama's father was born and brought up in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo, and his grandmother still lives here.
00058287 : KENYA Nyanza province - A pupil outside the gates of the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School, which was recently renamed in honour of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obama's father was born and brought up in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo, and his grandmother still lives here.
00058286 : NORWAY Oslo - A cyclist collapsed after crossing the finish line. Strykeproven, 'the trial of strength', is an annual bicycle race that takes riders 540km from Trondheim to Oslo in as little as 14 hours.
00058285 : SIERRA LEONE Koidu, Kono district - A worker removing damaged parts from a house with a pickaxe in the mining town of Koidu.
00058284 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama in front of her second hut, where she cooks and keeps food. She is the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058283 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama working in her field. She is the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058282 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama looking at old family photographs, this one of herself and her grandson. She is the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058281 : NORWAY - A cyclist climbs the Dovre mountains. Strykeproven, 'the trial of strength', is an annual bicycle race that takes riders 540km from Trondheim to Oslo in as little as 14 hours.
00058280 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - Dutch football legend Johan Cruijff and his wife Danny shopping at Hoog Catharijne, the then very modern shopping mall. The couple are standing in front of a parking ticket machine.
00058279 : INDONESIA West Papua (Irian Jaya) - The exhausted Ertsberg copper and gold mine at around 4000 metres altitude in the mountains of West Papua.
00058278 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - A mosque in the old centre of Gaza City. On the wall are posters with the image of Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin, former spiritual leader of Hamas.
00058277 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - A shop still selling souvenir mugs with pictures of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) and Yasser Arafat. A week earlier, Hamas had taken control in Gaza following violent clashes with the Fatah faction of Abbas and Arafat.
00058276 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama in front of her home. She is the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058275 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama working in her field. She is the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058274 : INDIA Bir, Himachal Pradesh - An exiled Tibetan monk in Bir. The monk was educated in his homeland under the Chinese education system, but decided to learn pure Tibetan Buddhism, which is prohibited by the Chinese authorities, in India.
00058273 : NETHERLANDS Hoogeveen - The production of carbon armoured composite parts for aeroplanes at a Fokker Aviation (Stork Aerospace) factory. This company is also involved in the production of F16 and JSF fighter planes.
00058272 : INDONESIA West Papua (Irian Jaya) - A heavy truck climbs the steep road from Timika (at sea level) to Tembagapura and the Grasberg mines run by Freeport McMoran at an altitude of around 4000 metres in the mountains of West Papua.
00058271 : KENYA Nyanza province - A child on a bicycle passes the gates of the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School, which was recently renamed in honour of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obama's father was born and brought up in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo, and his grandmother still lives here.
00058270 : KENYA Nyanza province - A pupil outside the gates of the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School, which was recently renamed in honour of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obama's father was born and brought up in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo, and his grandmother still lives here.
00058269 : NORWAY - Cyclists cross the Dovre mountains at an altitude of more than 1000 metres, amidst driving rain. Strykeproven, 'the trial of strength', is an annual bicycle race that takes riders 540km from Trondheim to Oslo in as little as 14 hours.
00058268 : INDIA Bir, Himachal Pradesh - Storm clouds cover the sky over a Tibetan monastery in Bir, one of the Tibetan exile settlements in northern India.
00058267 : INDONESIA Nabire, West Papua (Irian Jaya) - Boys playing football in the surf of the Pacific Ocean at dusk.
00058266 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - A boy looking after a stall selling household goods.
00058265 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Overview of a refugee camp on the northern outskirts of Gaza City.
00058264 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - A man relaxing on the beach.
00058263 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama, the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058262 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - Muslim students discuss the results of their Preparatory Secondary Professional Education examinations in the canteen at the Gerrit Rietveld College high school.
00058261 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - A student finishing her geography examination during the final exams at the Gerrit Rietveld College high school.
00058260 : NETHERLANDS Lake Naarden - A calf among a herd of Galloway cows in a field of wild flowers at the Lake Naarden nature reserve. Lake Naarden is the oldest nature reserve in The Netherlands. Nature-lovers founded the Nature Monuments Society and bought the area in 1905 to preserve it following after a failed reclamation attempt by Amsterdam's authorities.
00058259 : NETHERLANDS Lake Naarden - A dandelion and buttercups in a field of wild flowers at the Lake Naarden nature reserve. Lake Naarden is the oldest nature reserve in The Netherlands. Nature-lovers founded the Nature Monuments Society and bought the area in 1905 to preserve it following after a failed reclamation attempt by Amsterdam's authorities.
00058258 : INDONESIA West Papua (Irian Jaya) - A woman wearing a football shirt in the colours of the Brazilian national squad outside her hut in the village of Wollou in the Great Baliem Valley. The woman has collected a few branches to light the fire in her hut.
00058257 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - A shop selling artworks including an image of Hamas leader and former Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
00058256 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Families relaxing on the beach.
00058255 : KENYA Nyanza province - Sarah Hussein Obama looking at old family photographs. She is the grandmother of Democrat Senator and US presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose father was born and brought up here in the village of Nyangoma Kogelo.
00058254 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - The folded hands of Jo Willebrands lying in state in his coffin with a rosary around his fingers. He died aged 96. The Roman Catholic cardinal was once Archbishop of Utrecht and chairman of the Vatican organisation for the unity of churches.
00058253 : NETHERLANDS Ede - A German working on his computer in his tent at the Megabit symposium. Hundreds of computer professionals and amateurs attended workshops and lectures regarding not only the technical but also the political, legal and ethical aspects of the Internet.
00058252 : NETHERLANDS Ede - Two young Germans working on their computers in their tent at the Megabit symposium. Hundreds of computer professionals and amateurs attended workshops and lectures regarding not only the technical but also the political, legal and ethical aspects of the Internet.
00058251 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - Muslim students discuss the results of their Preparatory Secondary Professional Education examinations in the canteen at the Gerrit Rietveld College high school.
00058250 : NETHERLANDS Rotterdam - An elderly Turkish woman waters her vegetable garden in the Old West quarter of Rotterdam. She cultivates this garden, which is situated in between the houses, in order to provide food for a Turkish restaurant nearby.
00058249 : NETHERLANDS Uithoorn, North Holland - A building development site, a former IBM complex, in Uithoorn. Only one office building will be saved to become part of the newly developed project on this estate.
00058248 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - Goth visitors at the Summer Darkness festival for gothic music, fashion and lifestyle. The festival opened with a medieval music concert by Ataraxia and Gor in the Dome of Utrecht.
00058247 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - Goth visitors at the Summer Darkness festival for gothic music, fashion and lifestyle. The festival opened with a medieval music concert by Ataraxia and Gor in the Dome of Utrecht.
00058246 : NETHERLANDS Rotterdam - Supervisors observe the CCTV video screens surveying a river tunnel under the Nieuwe Maas.
00058245 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - The undertaker closes the coffin of Jo Willebrands. He died aged 96. The Roman Catholic cardinal was once Archbishop of Utrecht and chairman of the Vatican organisation for the unity of churches.
00058244 : NETHERLANDS Amsterdam - A woman holding a glass of champagne near a Maserati car at a trade exhibition in the RAI International Exhibition and Congress Centre during the 2006 Millionaire Fair.
00058243 : NETHERLANDS Amsterdam - A Marilyn Monroe lookalike surrounded by street poles covered by condoms on a float that is promoting safe sex in the Canal Parade during the 2006 Gay Pride Festival. More than 100,000 people gathered alongside the Amsterdam canals to watch the procession.
00058242 : NETHERLANDS Amsterdam - Crowds of visitors watching a canal float in the Canal Parade during the 2006 Gay Pride Festival. More than 100,000 people gathered alongside the Amsterdam canals to watch the procession.
00058241 : NETHERLANDS Amsterdam - A woman with an umbrella looks anxiously at the sky while waiting in line for the Rijksmuseum.
00058240 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - Goth visitors at the Summer Darkness festival for gothic music, fashion and lifestyle. The festival opened with a medieval music concert by Ataraxia and Gor in the Dome of Utrecht.
00058239 : NETHERLANDS Rotterdam - More than one hundred powerful spotlights cover the sky over Rotterdam at night to mark the area bombed by the German air force on 14 May 1940.
00058238 : NETHERLANDS Rotterdam - More than one hundred powerful spotlights cover the sky over Rotterdam at night to mark the area bombed by the German air force on 14 May 1940.
00058237 : NETHERLANDS Rotterdam - More than one hundred powerful spotlights cover the sky over Rotterdam at night to mark the area bombed by the German air force on 14 May 1940.
00058236 : NETHERLANDS Amersfoort - Mourning football players and supporters at The Posthorn amateur football club during a commemoration service for Cor Strik, a 21-year-old Dutch soldier who died in Afghanistan while serving with the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force).
00058235 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - This photomontage contains one hundred photographs of lost gloves spotted between 6 November 2006 and 19 March 2007. The gloves were photographed just as they were found.
00058234 : INDIA Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh - Tibetan children playing in the playground at the Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) in Dharamsala, the largest Tibetan exile settlement in northern India. The TCV provides the children living here with the traditional Tibetan education that is prohibited in their homeland by the Chinese authorities.
00058233 : INDIA Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh - A portrait of an exiled Tibetan man wearing a hat at the Tibetan refugee centre. Dharamsala is the largest Tibetan exile settlement in northern India.
00058232 : INDIA Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh - Dharamsala, the biggest Tibetan exile colony in northern India.
00058231 : INDIA Bir, Himachal Pradesh - Tibetan children in class at a school in Bir, a Tibetan exile settlement in northern India. The school provides the children living here with the traditional Tibetan education that is prohibited in their homeland by the Chinese authorities.
00058230 : NETHERLANDS Zeist, Utrecht - A schoolboy places a wooden silhouette against the fence during a protest outside Camp Zeist (Kamp Zeist) against the detention of illegal migrant detainees and their children. Artist Jessica Heijkoop made these shadow figures to symbolise the emptiness that the arrested refugees leave in their communities. On the first Sunday of every month, a vigil is held outside the camp in support of the few dozen children who are held here. Two Rwandan classmates of the boy pictured were recently woken up, arrested and locked up in this prison.
00058229 : NETHERLANDS Utrecht - The principal asks a pupil to open the sealed envelope containing examination papers during the final VWO (Preparatory Scientific Education) mathematics exams at the Gerrit Rietveld College high school.
00058228 : NETHERLANDS Uithoorn, North Holland - A tangled heap of cable on a building development site, a former IBM complex, in Uithoorn.
00058227 : NETHERLANDS Loenersloot, Utrecht - A passing high speed Inter City Express (ICE) train on the railway line between Amsterdam and Utrecht.
00058226 : INDIA Bir, Himachal Pradesh - An old Tibetan woman, who was exiled from her homeland in 1959, at her home in Bir.
00058225 : INDIA Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh - "Exiled Brother", a Tibetan music band, play at a concert in a Tibetan school. Dharamsala is the largest Tibetan exile settlement in northern India.
00058224 : INDIA Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh - Exiled Tibetan nuns in a convent.
00058223 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Stallholders selling an assortment of medicines at the street market in central Freetown. The proud owners have a number of different medicines in stock (prescription and non-prescription by European standards), but many are not in their original box or are out of date.
00058222 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - A woman amongst families of Palestinian prisoners protesting on the anniversary of the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit by Hamas. Palestinian women and children used the occasion to call for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Some families asked for their sons to be exchanged for Shalit.
00058221 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Two boys on a bicycle.
00058220 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza City - Children splash about in the sea as families relax on the beach.
00058219 : NORWAY - Strykeproven, 'the trial of strength', is an annual bicycle race that takes riders 540km from Trondheim to Oslo in as little as 14 hours. Tom and Anna Rodequist camped on the Dovre mountain to cheer on the cyclists. They arrived on Friday, and stayed until the last rider passed on Saturday night. "We are shouting for the riders, but also to all the tourists passing by", they said.
00058218 : NORWAY - Cyclists cross the Dovre mountains at an altitude of more than 1000 metres. Strykeproven, 'the trial of strength', is an annual bicycle race that takes riders 540km from Trondheim to Oslo in as little as 14 hours.
00058217 : INDIA Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh - A group of newly arrived Tibetan refugees listen to the head of the Tibetan refugee centre in Dharamsala, the largest Tibetan exile settlement in northern India.
00058216 : INDIA Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh - A doctor examines a young boy at a Tibetan clinic in Dharamsala, the largest Tibetan exile settlement in northern India.
00058215 : INDIA Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh - An old woman prepares the wool used to make Tibetan carpets at a Tibetan carpet factory in Dharamsala, the largest Tibetan exile settlement in northern India.
00058214 : INDIA Bir, Himachal Pradesh - Tibetan exiles making noodles, one of the main sources of income for the exiled Tibetan communities in the region, at a noodle factory in Bir.
00058213 : NETHERLANDS Amsterdam - An IBM float in the Canal Parade during the 2006 Gay Pride Festival. More than 100,000 people gathered alongside the Amsterdam canals to watch the procession.
00058212 : NETHERLANDS Zeist, Utrecht - Protestors wave at prisoners in the cells of Camp Zeist (Kamp Zeist) while two guards with bullet proof vests watch from a nearby minibus with their engine running. On the first Sunday of every month, a vigil is held outside the camp in protest of the detention of illegal migrant detainees and their children.
00058211 : NETHERLANDS Zeist, Utrecht - A woman attaches flowers to the fence outside Camp Zeist (Kamp Zeist) next to a sign that says, 'Entrance is illegal. Danger. Surveillance with dogs.' On the first Sunday of every month, a vigil is held outside the camp in protest of the detention of illegal migrant detainees and their children.
00058210 : INDONESIA Wamena, West Papua (Irian Jaya) - An AMA Cessna 172 aeroplane is refuelled at Wamena Airport. The pilot uses an umbrella to protect the fuel from the rain near a pig looking for food nearby. The AMA (Associated Mission Aviation) and MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) fly cargo and passengers between approximately 500 airstrips all over West Papua.
00058209 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - White Tajinaste plants in El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058207 : BULGARIA Sofia - Writer Stefan Kissiov sitting among fallen autumn leaves.
00058206 : ANTARCTICA - An iceberg surrounded by drifting pack ice.
00058205 : IRAQ Malkiye, Kurdistan - A man pointing to his bible, which is written in Aramaic, in the small Christian village of Malkiye in northern Iraq.
00058204 : IRAQ Dahok, Kurdistan - A girl watches over her little brother in a typical Kurdish cradle.
00058203 : SPAIN Madrid - Cristina Iglesias, a sculptor and graphic artist, working on the new doors for Madrid's Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado).
00058202 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Tourists in the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun at the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00058201 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The ancient Egyptian temple complex at Karnak. Tourists in front of an image of the Theban god Amun in the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun.
00058200 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The ancient Egyptian temple complex at Karnak. An image of the Theban god Amun in the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun.
00058199 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The ancient Egyptian temple complex at Karnak. Detail of a relief, showing Ramses II kneeling before the Theban god Amun, on the interior southern wall of the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun.
00058198 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The ancient Egyptian temple complex at Karnak. Detail of a relief showing the head of Ramses II, one of monumental structure's builders, on the interior southern wall of the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun.
00058197 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - A felled section of mangrove forest. The forest was initially destroyed to make space for construction works, but, after the natural coastal protection of the mangrove forest was removed, the area was badly hit by storms and flooding.
00058196 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - Fishermen offloading goods from a wooden boat near rainforest.
00058195 : ANTARCTICA - An iceberg.
00058194 : ANTARCTICA - An Antarctic landscape covered with melting glaciers.
00058193 : IRAQ Kurdistan - A Kurdish peshmerga fighter from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) at one of the party's base camps.
00058192 : IRAQ Kurdistan - A sleeping child at a nomadic camp.
00058191 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - Solidified volcanic lava on Mount Teide, also known as the White Mountain, in El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058189 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The ancient Egyptian temple complex at Karnak. Reliefs on the southern exterior wall, showing Theban gods Amun (right) and Mut (left), in the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun.
00058188 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A portrait of an Egyptian man, who works as a temple guardian, in traditional dress at the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00058187 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A new oil palm plantation, part of a monoculture project, cultivated in an area of former rainforest.
00058186 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - Shifting cultivation land use techniques used by members of the Dayak (Dajak) tribe on hill slopes inside the tropical rainforest.
00058185 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - Two tribesmen from the Dayak (Dajak) tribe travel home in their wooden canoe after collecting non-timber forest products in the rainforest.
00058184 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - A tribesman from the Penan tribe travelling home in his wooden boat on the Baram River through the tropical rainforest in the late afternoon.
00058183 : ANTARCTICA - An iceberg surrounded by pack ice in front of mountains and glaciers in an Antarctic landscape.
00058182 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058181 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A large felled area of rainforest that has been cleared to plant a commercial oil palm plantation.
00058180 : IRAN Kermanshah, Kurdistan - A palace in Kermanshah.
00058179 : IRAQ Erbil (Arbil), Kurdistan - Schoolgirls singing a Kurdish hymn during flag raising.
00058178 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - Lava rocks (known as Teide's Eggs) on Mount Teide, the White Mountain, at El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058177 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - Visitors at the famous Los Roques de Garcia at El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058176 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - View of the Precinct of Amun, showing columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall, at the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00058175 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The ancient Egyptian temple complex at Karnak. View of the two obelisks (right) and columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall (centre) at the Precinct of Amun from across the Sacred Lake.
00058174 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Child labour - a boy delivering a tray of drinks to customers in a shop late in the evening.
00058173 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Child labour - a boy delivering a tray of drinks to customers in a shop late in the evening.
00058172 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Local youths by advertising for McDonald's, which is mainly targeted at tourists.
00058171 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A large felled area of rainforest that has been cleared to plant a commercial oil palm plantation.
00058170 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A timber company labourer with a chainsaw logging big trees inside an area of tropical rainforest.
00058169 : MALAYSIA Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Bor - The Pinnacles mountains and surrounding tropical rainforest.
00058168 : ANTARCTICA - Icebergs and drifting pack ice.
00058167 : SYRIA Kamishli - A congregation of Christian women during Sunday prayer in Kamishli church.
00058166 : EGYPT Cairo - Belly dancing on a leisure boat cruising along the Nile.
00058165 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - The famous Los Roques de Garcia at El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058164 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The ancient Egyptian temple complex at Karnak. Hieroglyphics and carvings showing offerings being made to the Theban god Amun on the columns in the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun.
00058163 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Temple guardians looking for the opportunity to earn baksheesh in the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun at the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00058162 : SYRIA - An open Bible written in Aramaic.
00058161 : SYRIA - A tea set.
00058160 : EGYPT Cairo - A young couple visiting the pyramids.
00058159 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - The Volcan Fasnia volcano covered in black ash.
00058158 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A meranti tree with large buttress roots inside secondary rainforest that has been transformed into a production forest.
00058157 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A logger with a chainsaw logging big trees for the timber industry inside the tropical rainforest.
00058156 : IRAN Kurdistan - Local residents from the village of Sapur Abad. The boy on the right previously starred in a Kiarostami film.
00058155 : SPAIN Madrid - Cristina Iglesias, a sculptor and graphic artist, at work.
00058154 : ANTARCTICA - Blue barrels filled with kerosene unloaded from a supply vessel in a glacial landscape.
00058153 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - Montana Rajada at El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058152 : SPAIN Madrid - Sculptor and graphic artist Cristina Iglesias.
00058151 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun at the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00058150 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - Traditional wooden canoes and a boat operating as a petrol station on the Baram River near a logging camp inside the rainforest.
00058149 : ANTARCTICA - Drifting icebergs and pack ice.
00058148 : ANTARCTICA - Drifting icebergs and pack ice in an Antarctic landscape.
00058147 : IRAQ Sulaimaniya (Sulaymaniyah), Kurd - A patient, who was injured by a landmine, fits a prosthetic leg in a rehabilitation centre.
00058146 : EGYPT Cairo - A leisure boat on the River Nile.
00058145 : EGYPT Cairo - Two butchers with an animal carcass outside their store.
00058144 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058143 : SYRIA Aleppo - A boy crossing the street at night.
00058142 : IRAQ Sulaimaniya (Sulaymaniyah), Kurd - A patient in bed at Sulaimaniya Hospital.
00058141 : IRAQ Kurdistan - A Kurdish man in a tractor.
00058140 : EGYPT Cairo - Visitors at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities.
00058139 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - A view of the San Jose mines at El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058138 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A man using his mobile phone in the ruins of Karnack.
00058137 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A man using his mobile phone in the ruins of Karnack.
00058136 : ANTARCTICA - A Chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica) among a colony of birds in a coastal area.
00058135 : ANTARCTICA - An Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) with its wings open standing on the ice.
00058134 : SYRIA - Arabic text relating to a Christian subject.
00058133 : IRAN Tehran - Shoppers browsing the window displays of clothing shops.
00058132 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jerusalem - Priest and tourist at the entrance to the tomb of Jesus Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
00058131 : EGYPT Cairo - The Khufu (Cheops), Khafre (Chefren) and Menkaure (Mycerinus) pyramids at Giza.
00058130 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - Mount Teide at sunrise in El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058129 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - A view of the San Jose mines at El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058128 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - Los Llanos de Ucanca at El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058127 : ANTARCTICA - Rusty barrels dumped in the glacial landscape near a base camp.
00058126 : ANTARCTICA - An iceberg surrounded by drifting pack ice in an Antarctic landscape.
00058125 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058124 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun at the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00058123 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Temple guardians in the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun at the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00058122 : EGYPT Cairo - Guests at a wedding in a luxury hotel.
00058121 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - 'The Cake' at El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058120 : IRAQ Malkiye, Kurdistan - Christian women praying in a small church in Malkiye.
00058119 : SPAIN Tenerife, Canary Islands - El Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00058118 : SPAIN Madrid - Cristina Iglesias, a sculptor and graphic artist, working on a new installation.
00058117 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The Pharaonic Colossi of Memnon.
00058116 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The Pharaonic Colossi of Memnon.
00058115 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A couple during a national holiday (the Eid festival celebrating the end of Ramadan) in downtown Luxor, with advertising for McDonald's behind.
00058114 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - Rainforest deforestation caused by timber companies.
00058113 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Abandoned railway tracks at a disused shunting yard on the edge of Sheffield.
00058112 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A shepherd boy with sheep on a street corner in the bazaar district. The animals are ready to be slaughtered early next morning to celebrate the Eid festival (the end of Ramadan).
00058111 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A tree nursery near Balikpapan with a fast growing monoculture species of seedlings planted as part of a reforestation project.
00058110 : ANTARCTICA - Penguins near snow-capped glacial mountains in an Antarctic landscape.
00058109 : ANTARCTICA - Penguins on an iceberg surrounded by pack ice off the coast of Antarctica.
00058108 : ANTARCTICA - Confrontation between two Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) among a colony of birds in a coastal area.
00058107 : ANTARCTICA - Pack ice and a mountain glacier in an Antarctic landscape.
00058106 : ANTARCTICA - Drifting pack ice and bare rock.
00058105 : ANTARCTICA - Ice, snow and glaciers on black mountains in an Antarctic coastal landscape.
00058104 : IRAN Tehran - Zur Khaneh (literally meaning 'House of Strength) is a very common sport in Iran. The participants practise the old techniques of the Assyrian soldiers.
00058103 : ANTARCTICA - The reflection of a mountain glacier on seawater covered with drifting pack ice.
00058102 : IRAN Tehran - A young girl wearing a headscarf at a market.
00058101 : IRAN Tehran - A young couple having tea in Darvand.
00058100 : IRAN Sanandaj, Kurdistan - Snow on a mountain in Sanandaj.
00058099 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A tree nursery with meranti tree seedlings that have been planted as part of a reforestation project.
00058098 : ANTARCTICA - Adult Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) huddle together with their chicks on the rocks along the Antarctic coast.
00058097 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Abandoned railway tracks at a disused shunting yard on the edge of Sheffield.
00058096 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Abandoned railway tracks at a disused shunting yard on the edge of Sheffield.
00058095 : IRAN Kurdistan - An oven made of mud, which is used for baking bread.
00058094 : IRAQ Malkiye, Kurdistan - A man pointing to his bible, which is written in Aramaic, in the small Christian village of Malkiye in northern Iraq.
00058093 : EGYPT Cairo - A typical cafe in Khan el Khalili.
00058092 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) farmer checks his mobile phone while working in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058091 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The remains of a giant colossus of Ramses II lying on its back at the Ramesseum. This figure is said to be the inspiration for Shelley's famous poem, 'Ozymandias', about a forgotten tyrant and the vanity of all men.
00058090 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Bare landscape of the Theban Hills.
00058089 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A felucca on the Nile at sunset.
00058088 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Sunset on the Nile.
00058087 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - A stream inside primary tropical rainforest.
00058086 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - Tropical rainforest along on the South China Sea coast.
00058085 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) youth by a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058084 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) youth with a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058083 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) youth with a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058082 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Temple guardians, waiting for tourists, sitting on the pedestals of giant statues at the Ramasseum.
00058081 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The remains of a giant colossus of Ramses II lying on its back at the Ramesseum. This figure is said to be the inspiration for Shelley's famous poem, 'Ozymandias', about a forgotten tyrant and the vanity of all men.
00058080 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The remains of a giant colossus of Ramses II lying on its back at the Ramesseum. This figure is said to be the inspiration for Shelley's famous poem, 'Ozymandias', about a forgotten tyrant and the vanity of all men.
00058079 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Tourists visiting the Pharaonic Colossi of Memnon.
00058078 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The Pharaonic Colossi of Memnon.
00058077 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A man at dusk on jetty used by feluccas on the Nile.
00058076 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A minaret rising up from a suburb of the oasis town of Luxor with the line of the Theban Hills (across the Nile) behind. The Valley of the Kings sits in those bare hills.
00058075 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A small shop with advertising for Coca Cola and Marlboro cigarettes near a mural of a face on the wall.
00058074 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A waiter waiting for customers near an advertising image of a blond waitress (right) at a bar by the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00058073 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen (peasant) youth with a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058072 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen (peasant) farmers with a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058071 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen (peasant) farmers and a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley.
00058070 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen (peasant) farmers in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley.
00058069 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Feluccas on the Nile at sunset.
00058068 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Passengers sitting on the top deck of local cross-Nile ferry waiting for it to depart from the jetty at Luxor.
00058067 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Boats and feluccas at dock on the River Nile next to the Corniche at dusk.
00058066 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A youth having a donkey ride during a national holiday for the Muslim religious festival Eid el Adha in the centre of Luxor.
00058065 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The illuminated Pharaonic Luxor Temple, its 25m obelisk (its twin, removed by the French, stands in the French Place de la Concorde) and the colossal statues of Ramses II are seen from the Corniche, Luxor's waterfront promenade, at dusk.
00058064 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A mud hut with a satellite TV dish.
00058063 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - Fishing boats and mangrove trees near rainforest on the coast at high tide.
00058062 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - Mangrove trees, which protect the nearby tropical rainforest.
00058061 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen (peasant) farmers on a highway passing the Pharaonic Colossi of Memnon.
00058060 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Mass tourism at the Deir el-Medina (Hatshepsut's temple) at the base of the Theban Hills. Luxor saw some of the earliest adventures in modern tourism with the Cook's Tours in the 19th century. More recently 60 tourists were killed here in a terrorist attack in 1997.
00058059 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Youths posing for a photo during a public holiday as they return to Gezira from Luxor on a ferry across the River Nile.
00058058 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A captain steering a public ferry boat across the River Nile between Luxor and Gezira.
00058057 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Girls amongst the holiday passengers returning from Luxor after a day out on a Nile public ferry about to dock at Gezira.
00058056 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Holiday passengers, who are returning from Luxor on a Nile public ferry after a day out, dock at Gezira.
00058055 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A public ferry boat on the River Nile about to dock at Luxor.
00058054 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Youths on the Corniche by the River Nile.
00058053 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A new oil palm plantation, part of a monoculture project, cultivated in an area of former rainforest.
00058052 : MALAYSIA Sarawak, Borneo - A waterfall and stream inside primary tropical rainforest.
00058051 : SYRIA Maloula - A woman and child outside Saint Thecla (Tecla) sanctuary in Maloula.
00058050 : IRAN Tehran - Two women with shopping bags walk amongst the traffic.
00058049 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A camel and donkey for hire as fun rides waiting for custom by the embankment ferry dock for the cross-Nile boats during a national holiday.
00058048 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Camels for hire as a fun ride waiting for custom by the embankment ferry dock for the cross-Nile boats during a national holiday.
00058047 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) agriculturalist carrying goods off a ferry from Luxor on the far bank of the River Nile.
00058046 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Passengers about to board a ferry to cross the Nile to Luxor at dusk.
00058045 : ANTARCTICA - Drifting icebergs.
00058044 : ANTARCTICA - Small fragments of ice surrounding an iceberg in an Antarctic landscape.
00058043 : ANTARCTICA - Rusty barrels dumped in the glacial landscape near a base camp.
00058042 : ANTARCTICA - An Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) with its wings open standing on the ice.
00058041 : ANTARCTICA - Elephant seals (Mirounga leonina).
00058040 : SYRIA Damascus - Two women walking with a child along a city street.
00058039 : SYRIA Kamishli - A man carries out maintenance on a church bell.
00058038 : IRAN Kurdistan - A Kurdish woman making bread in a village near Tak-i-Bustan (Tak-e-Bustan).
00058037 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Mass tourism at the Deir el-Medina (Hatshepsut's temple) at the base of the Theban Hills. Luxor saw some of the earliest adventures in modern tourism with the Cook's Tours in the 19th century. More recently 60 tourists were killed here in a terrorist attack in 1997.
00058036 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Mass tourism at the Deir el-Medina (Hatshepsut's temple) at the base of the Theban Hills. Luxor saw some of the earliest adventures in modern tourism with the Cook's Tours in the 19th century. More recently 60 tourists were killed here in a terrorist attack in 1997.
00058035 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Taxi drivers on the West Bank of the Nile.
00058034 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Silhouettes of people on an embankment by the Nile during a national holiday (Eid festival).
00058033 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Muslim ferry dock workers during their evening prayers on an embankment by the Nile at dusk.
00058032 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Youths on an embankment by the Nile at the ferry dock of Gezira, opposite Luxor.
00058031 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Young women just off a ferry boat by the Nile going home from Luxor after a day out during a national holiday (the Eid festival for the end of Ramadan).
00058030 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) farmer looking out over the Nile at dusk.
00058029 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) farmer looking out over the Nile at dusk.
00058028 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A passenger contemplates the River Nile while crossing between Luxor and Gezira in the early morning on a public ferry boat.
00058027 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Passengers contemplating the River Nile as they cross between Luxor and Gezira in the early morning on a public ferry boat.
00058026 : IRAQ Kurdistan - Women working out in the fields.
00058025 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A public ferry boat across the River Nile heading towards Luxor (with the Pharaonic Luxor Temple clearly visible) from Gezira.
00058024 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A logging vehicle helps to move rainforest timber for transportation down the river.
00058023 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - Research equipment gathering information about the climate at a weather station inside the tropical rainforest.
00058022 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A female labourer harvesting rubber from trees on a large rubber tree plantation that was once an area of rainforest.
00058021 : MALAYSIA Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Bor - The Pinnacles mountains.
00058020 : MALAYSIA Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Bor - Clouds above the canopy of the tropical rainforest.
00058019 : IRAN Kermanshah, Kurdistan - A car parked in the remote Kurdish village of Siah Dareh.
00058018 : IRAN Kurdistan - The remote Kurdish village of Sapur Abad.
00058017 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen (peasant) youth with a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058016 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen (peasant) youth with a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058015 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen (peasant) youth with a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058014 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen (peasant) youth with a donkey cart in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058013 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A nut seller and child customers on the Corniche, Luxor's promenade by the River Nile, with the Phaoronic Luxor Temple behind.
00058012 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A horse-drawn carriage, known as a calesh and mostly used by tourists, carries guests to a wedding celebration.
00058011 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A boy on his horse racing down a side street in the centre of Luxor during the national holiday for the Muslim religious festival Eid el Adha.
00058010 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A boy on his horse racing down a side street in the centre of Luxor during the national holiday for the Muslim religious festival Eid el Adha.
00058009 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A mud hut with a satellite TV dish.
00058008 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A man going home with his shopping near a mud hut style house with satellite TV dish in the suburbs of Luxor.
00058007 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan, Borneo - A large felled area of rainforest that has been cleared for agricultural use (mostly for subsistence farming).
00058006 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Fellaheen fishermen fishing with nets from a boat along the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley.
00058005 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) farmer checks his mobile phone while working in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00058004 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) farmer working in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley.
00058003 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) farmer working in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley.
00058002 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) farmer working in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley.
00058001 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen (peasant) farmer working in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley.
00058000 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - A fellaheen youth working in the fertile flood plain of the Nile River Valley with the barren Theban Hills, the site of the Valley of the Kings, behind.
00057999 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Tourist shops (and touts) advertising their products and services, which include Coca Cola, Nestle ice creams, Kodak film, papyruses and antiquities, by the entry to the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00057998 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Policemen by statues in the Precinct of Amun at the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00057997 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - View from Cachette Court to the Tuthmosis Obelisk in the Precinct of Amun at the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00057996 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - The obelisks (Tuthmosis in foreground and Hatshepsut behind) in the Precinct of Amun at the ancient Egyptian temple complex at Karnak.
00057995 : IRAQ Kurdistan - A man, who was injured by a landmine, with a prosthetic leg rests on the ground.
00057994 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Tea shop (with an ad for Coca Cola), which also sells cigarettes and soft drinks, by the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00057993 : EGYPT Luxor, Upper Egypt - Tourist shop owners and staff chatting and smoking near advertising for Kodak film while waiting for customers by the entry to the ancient Egyptian temple complex in Karnak.
00057985 : PHILIPPINES Pampanga, Luzon - Children playing on the surface of an accumulated lahar flow from Mount Pinatubo. Lahar is a mixture of rain and ash that forms a slurry that flows down the mountain at high speeds, causing huge amounts of damage.
00057984 : CHINA Beijing - Elevated highways criss-cross in front of the Central Business District (CBD) skyline.
00057983 : CHINA Beijing - Office worker in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057982 : LESOTHO Nr. Maseru - A child is inoculated by assistant nurse Mapaseka Mahloane against Measles, DPT Diptheria, Pertussis and Tetanus, and Polio at the Mabote Clinic outside Maseru.
00057981 : LESOTHO Nr. Maseru - A child is inoculated by assistant nurse Mapaseka Mahloane against Measles, DPT Diptheria, Pertussis and Tetanus, and Polio at the Mabote Clinic outside Maseru.
00057980 : SRI LANKA Hikkaduwa - Hikkaduwa, a popular beach for western tourists.
00057979 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Helga de Silva, who runs Helga's Folly, a famous hotel, with her dalmation dog Scarlet.
00057978 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Young elephants having their daily bath near Pinnawela elephant orphanage.
00057977 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Busy shopping street in an area where textiles are sold.
00057976 : SWAZILAND - The Ndela family children and their neighbour's children help to work their father's fields in the Zombodze area near Manzini.
00057975 : SWAZILAND - The Ndela family children and their neighbour's children help to work their father's fields in the Zombodze area near Manzini.
00057974 : SWAZILAND - Ngeti Tsela with her child. She is a smallholding farmer in the Zombodze area near Manzini.
00057973 : SWAZILAND - Zwakele Tsela is a smallholding farmer in the Zombodze area near Manzini.
00057972 : SWAZILAND Nr. Manzini - Patrick Masibuko works to fix a tractor for the Agricultural department in the Zombodze area near Manzini.
00057971 : NORWAY Oslo - Warm winter resulted in poor condtitions during Holmenkollen World Cup skiing competition. Artificial snow had to be used to cover bare spots, but the competition went ahead as planned.
00057970 : NORWAY Oslo - Norway experienced an extremely mild winter in 2006, which forced the Holmenkollen FIS World Cup Nordic skiing event to helicopter in tons of artificial snow.
00057969 : NORWAY Oslo - The main street of Oslo, Karl Johansgate, leads directly to the Royal Palace.
00057968 : NORWAY Oslo - Shoppers return from Ikea past the Norwegian parliament.
00057967 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Lawyers protest after a Supreme Court hearing into the suspension of Pakistan's former chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry.
00057966 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Political opposition parties march past burning tyres outside Pakistan's Supreme Court in protest of President Musharraf's decision to suspend chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry.
00057965 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Lawyers chant anti-Musharraf slogans at a hearing into the suspension of former chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, at the Supreme Court in Islamabad.
00057964 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Lawyers chant anti-Musharraf slogans during a face-off with pro-Musharraf supporters at a hearing on the suspension of former Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry at the Supreme Court in Islamabad.
00057963 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Members of Islamic fundamentalist group Jamaat-e-Islami protest outside Pakistan's Supreme Court against President Musharraf's suspension of the chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry.
00057962 : CUBA Santiago de Cuba - A family watches television under a picture of Fidel Castro in their home.
00057961 : BELARUS Nr Minsk - Identity (ID) documents of World War II (WW2) vetaran Arkdai Fiodorovic Veraksic, in Kolodisti village near Minsk.
00057960 : BELARUS Baranovitchi - The Kricko family prepare to leave for their daca (summer house).
00057959 : BELARUS Minsk - Young boy returning from school in Samohvalovici village, central Belarus.
00057958 : NORWAY Oslo - A panoramic view of Oslo harbour.
00057957 : NORWAY Lillesand - Diver investigates underwater sewage pipe lines. As they are wrapped in lead to hold them down, the pipes pose a threat to the environment. Pollution, in the form of dissolved lead, may be affecting the waters and surrounding ecosystem.
00057956 : ARGENTINA Upsala Glacier, Patagonia - The Upsala Glacier, which forms part of Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
00057955 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A teller inside Kabul Bank hands out American dollars to a customer.
00057954 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Armed guards step out of a security van outside Kabul Bank.
00057953 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Smokey Mountain was once a two million ton landfill site where people used to scavenge for a living. Families built homes adjacent to the landfill, which has since closed, forcing many residents to relocate. There is however still a notable human presence that lives beside the dump.
00057952 : PHILIPPINES Olongapo - Ten-year-old Amerasian girl at school in Olongapo. The US Navy's departure in 1992 from the huge naval base at Subic Bay left the adjacent city of Olongapo a virtual ghost town. The vast majority of women whose children have American fathers worked in the sex industry.
00057951 : PHILIPPINES Olongapo - Mother and her three daughters - the two girls on the left are twins - stand by the window of their house in Olongapo. The US Navy's departure in 1992 from the huge naval base at Subic Bay left the adjacent city of Olongapo a virtual ghost town. The vast majority of women whose children have American fathers worked in the sex industry.
00057950 : SRI LANKA Galle - Boys watch a game of cricket from the ramparts of the fort at Galle.
00057949 : SRI LANKA Hikkaduwa - Hikkaduwa, a popular beach for western tourists.
00057948 : ARGENTINA Upsala Glacier, Patagonia - The Upsala Glacier, which forms part of Southern Patagonian Ice Field.
00057947 : ARGENTINA Upsala Glacier, Patagonia - Ice floes on Lago Argentino (Lake Argentino).
00057946 : ARGENTINA Estancia Nibepo Aike, Patagonia - Argentine gaucho (cowboy).
00057945 : ARGENTINA Estancia Nibepo Aike, Patagonia - An Argentine gaucho, or cowboy, on the estancia (ranch).
00057944 : ARGENTINA Upsala Glacier, Patagonia - Ice floes in Lago Argentino (Lake Argentino) on the way to the vast Upsala Glacier.
00057943 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Workers from the Itefaq Sports factory work making footballs.
00057942 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Women work at the Itefaq Sports factory stitching together footballs
00057941 : CUBA Santiago de Cuba - Soldiers walk past a revolutionary monument.
00057940 : BELARUS Minsk - A woman walks past the "Republic Palace" in Minsk.
00057939 : BELARUS Minsk - A public minibus sits in traffic in Minsk.
00057938 : BELARUS Minsk - Young women in Minsk.
00057937 : BELARUS Minsk - People wait for the train at the station in Kolodisti village, central Belarus.
00057936 : CHINA Beijing - Rush hour in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057935 : CHINA Beijing - Office workers in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057934 : CHINA Beijing - Beijing's Central Business District (CBD).
00057933 : CHINA Beijing - Elevated highways criss-cross in front of the Central Business District (CBD) skyline.
00057932 : NORWAY Oslo - Akershus Castle in the centre of Oslo dates back to the 13th Century.
00057931 : NORWAY Oslo - The royal yacht Norge sits in the bay beside Akershus Castle.
00057930 : NORWAY Oslo - Norway's stock exchange in the centre of Oslo.
00057929 : ARGENTINA Estancia Nibepo Aike, Patagonia - A traditional Argentine asado, or barbeque, is prepared.
00057928 : BELARUS Minsk - Young women use their mobile phones on the street in Minsk.
00057927 : BELARUS Nr Minsk - Young mothers with their prams stand out on the street in Kolodisti village, near Minsk.
00057926 : PHILIPPINES Luzon - Ash and lahar accumulation (grey material in the drainage channel) in the valleys on the slopes of Mount Pinatubo following the 1991 eruption. Lahar is a mixture of rain and ash that forms a slurry that flows down the mountain at high speeds, causing huge amounts of damage.
00057925 : PHILIPPINES - Ash and lahar accumulation in a river valley near the slopes of Mount Pinatubo following the 1991 eruption. Lahar is a mixture of rain and ash that forms a slurry that flows down the mountain at high speeds, causing huge amounts of damage.
00057924 : CHINA Beijing - An international business meeting in progress in a hotel in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057923 : SWAZILAND - A child from the Ndela family poses in a field of corn in the Zombodze area near Manzini.
00057922 : SWAZILAND - The Ndela family children and their neighbour's children help to work their father's fields in the Zombodze area near Manzini.
00057921 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Swimming pool at luxury hotel Mount Lavinia.
00057920 : SRI LANKA Galle - A man cycles past the old colonial town of Galle.
00057919 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - President Hamid Karzai in his office in Kabul.
00057918 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A women working at the Itefaq Sports factory stitching together footballs.
00057917 : BELARUS Nr Minsk - World War II (WW2) vetaran Dmitri Mihalovitch Smirnoff and his grandson Vladislav, at home in Kolodisti village, near Minsk.
00057916 : BELARUS Minsk - Children at a kindergarten in Minsk settle down for their midday sleep.
00057915 : BELARUS Minsk - At the music school in Minsk, music teacher Olga Skobeius instructs her student Katia Kalecic on the cymbali, a traditional Belarusian instrument.
00057914 : CHINA Beijing - Rush hour in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057913 : CHINA Beijing - Migrant workers returning home during rush hour in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057912 : SRI LANKA Hikkaduwa - Footprints in the sand of Unawatuna, a popular beach for western tourists.
00057911 : NORWAY Oslo - Looking out of town from the centre of Oslo to the city's surrounding forrests.
00057910 : NORWAY Oslo - Oslo City Hall, home to the City Council, City administration, art studios and galleries, also hosts the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
00057909 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Mr Delawari, Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank inspects bundles of Afghani notes inside the vault.
00057908 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Mr Delawari, Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank inspects bundles of Afghani notes inside the vault.
00057907 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A shiny black Hummer outside Azizi Bank.
00057906 : POLAND Piaski - Fishermen retrieve fish from their net in Wislany bay.
00057905 : BELARUS Minsk - Long line of cars on the eastern border of the European Union (EU) between Poland and Belarus.
00057904 : BELARUS Minsk - A Polish border guard checks documents on the eastern border of the European Union (EU) between Poland and Belarus.
00057903 : BELARUS Minsk - Minsk's Presidential building.
00057902 : PHILIPPINES Cordillera Region - Market in a mountain village along the Baguio - Sagada road in the Cordillera Region.
00057901 : PHILIPPINES Luzon - Ash and lahar accumulation in the valleys on the slopes of Mount Pinatubo following the 1991 eruption. Lahar is a mixture of rain and ash that forms a slurry that flows down the mountain at high speeds, causing huge amounts of damage.
00057900 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Michael Grevitt, a doctor at Queen's Medical Centre, an NHS University Hospital in Nottingham.
00057899 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Michael Grevitt, a doctor at Queen's Medical Centre, an NHS University Hospital in Nottingham.
00057898 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - A nurse and patient at Queen's Medical Centre, an NHS University Hospital in Nottingham.
00057897 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Workers using modern machinery at Afghanistan's Coca Cola franchise factory, the most high tech in the country.
00057896 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Hamid Gulzar, owner of the Coca Cola Franchise for Afghanistan, at his new 21st century Coke Factory.
00057895 : CUBA - An art student has the back of her body painted with the face of Cuban revolutionary Jose Marti in Guantanamo.
00057894 : CUBA Trinidad - A resident of a colonial house spends the evening relaxing with a very placid crocodile.
00057893 : POLAND Piaski - Andrzej Wroblewski (centre) works at sea with other fishermen in freezing winter temperatures.
00057892 : TANZANIA Ngorongoro Crater - An elephant comes to take a closer look at a safari vehicle beside the Ngorongoro Crater, on the Eastern edge of the Serengeti.
00057891 : TANZANIA Nr. Lake Manyara - People walk along a road cut through cultivated land, east of Lake Manyara.
00057890 : PHILIPPINES Luzon - Erosion is clearly visible on a steep hillside beside the road from Baguio to Sagada, Luzon.
00057889 : PHILIPPINES Luplupa Village, Northern Luzon - Clothes hang out on a washing line whilst children play, in Luplupa Village.
00057888 : PHILIPPINES Olongapo - Eight-year-old Amerasian girl stands to address her class in Olongapo. The US Navy's departure in 1992 from the huge naval base at Subic Bay left the adjacent city of Olongapo a virtual ghost town. The vast majority of women whose children have American fathers worked in the sex industry.
00057887 : PHILIPPINES Manila - A young girl stands beside a house in the Smokey Mountain housing area. Smokey Mountain was once a two million ton landfill site where people used to scavenge for a living. Families built homes adjacent to the landfill, which later closed, forcing residents to relocate.
00057886 : CHINA Beijing - Cityscape of the Central Business District (CBD).
00057885 : CHINA Beijing - World Trade Tower Phase 3 under construction in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057884 : LESOTHO Nr. Maseru - A child is inoculated by assistant nurse Mapaseka Mahloane against Measles, DPT Diptheria, Pertussis and Tetanus, and Polio at the Mabote Clinic outside Maseru.
00057883 : LESOTHO Nr. Maseru - Women queue up with their children to be weighed before inoculation at the Qualing Filter Clinic in Ha Seoli Qualing outside Maseru. The childdren are being vaccinated against Measles, DPT Diptheria, Pertussis and Tetanus, and Polio.
00057882 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - A nurse and patient at Queen's Medical Centre, an NHS University Hospital in Nottingham.
00057881 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Queen's Medical Centre, an NHS University Hospital in Nottingham.
00057880 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - President Hamid Karzai in his office in Kabul.
00057879 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Workers from the Itefaq Sports factory work making footballs.
00057878 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Afghani men walk accross the street with a billboard advertising Kabul Bank next to billboard featuring President Hamid Karzai.
00057877 : BELARUS Minsk - The Kuncevstina housing estate sits beside a collective farm field on the outskirts of Minsk.
00057876 : TANZANIA Ngaroi - A Masai guide stands on a rock on the edge of the Serengeti.
00057875 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Prostitutes outside their brothel on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
00057874 : IRAN Tehran - A transsexual hides behind her veil while visiting Dr. Mirjilali's clinic.
00057873 : NEW ZEALAND Ruatoria, East Cape, North Island - A Maori child wearing a blue wig and glasses on the sidelines of a rugby pitch during the National Provincial Championship 3rd division rugby final.
00057872 : CHINA Beijing - A large billboard advertising real estate looms over a pedestrian. The booming economy in China has meant a massive growth in property market and a large percentage of billboard advertising in cities tend to be for luxury apartments.
00057871 : CHINA Beijing - An office worker returns home after a day at work in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057870 : CHINA Beijing - Jianwai SOHO commercial area in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057869 : CHINA Beijing - Jianwai SOHO commercial area in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057868 : IRAN Tehran - 25-year-old Soheil in the clinic of Dr. Mirdjalali. Soheil was once a woman, but had a sex change operation two years ago. He now has a job as a manager at a university in Tehran and a girlfriend of four years who, until now, has never known that he once was a woman.
00057867 : IRAN Tehran - 'Shida' is pictured just a few moments before she goes to the operating theatre. Shida is a transsexual awaiting her second operation in Dr. Mirjilali's clinic. She had her original sex change operation some nine years ago, but has come back for follow-up surgery.
00057866 : IRAN Tehran - 'Shida' is pictured just a few moments before she goes to the operating theatre. Shida is a transsexual awaiting her second operation in Dr. Mirjilali's clinic. She had her original sex change operation some nine years ago, but has come back for follow-up surgery.
00057865 : IRAN Tehran - 'Sheherazade', an Iranian transsexual, had a sex change operation a couple of years ago. Only a few people know of her former existence as a man and her new life as a female brings her great happiness.
00057864 : IRAN Qom - Mullah Karimin at home in his library in the city of Qom. Karimin is a cleric who wrote a thesis on the subject of transsexuality within Islam. In his thesis, he supports the concept of being born into the wrong gender.
00057863 : IRAN Tehran - A portrait of 'Mahtab', an Iranian transsexual. Mahtab feels trapped in her own (male) body and is hoping to have a gender operation in the near future. Mahtab has a boyfriend and is planning to get married as soon as her operation is completed.
00057862 : IRAN Tehran - 'Mahtab', an Iranian transsexual, is pictured with her father, who doesn't approve of her lifestyle. Mahtab feels trapped in her own (male) body and is hoping to have a gender operation in the near future. Mahtab has a boyfriend and is planning to get married as soon as her operation is completed.
00057861 : IRAN Tehran - 25-year-old 'Mani', a gay transvestite, dresses like a woman in secret. Tranvestitism is not generally condoned and homosexuality is still illegal in Iran.
00057860 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Young couples meet on the grass of Galle Face Green under large umbrellas.
00057859 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Doorman outside luxury hotel Mount Lavinia, a hotel popular with western tourists and local newlyweds.
00057858 : CUBA Havana - Roosters, hens and pigeons for sale in the Quatro Caminos market.
00057857 : CUBA Havana - Chairs are set out in preparation for a celebration for Fidel Castro's belated 80th birthday near the giant sculpture of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara outside the Ministry of the Interior building in Plaza De La Revolucion (Revolution Square). Castro's original birthday celebration was delayed for three and a half months due to poor health.
00057856 : CUBA Havana - Supporters of Fidel Castro congregate along the Malecon for a concert at the "Anti-Imperialist Amphitheatre" opposite the United States Interests Section (USINT).
00057855 : CHAD Goz Beida - A map of the world painted on the wall of a school building in eastern Chad.
00057854 : CHAD Goz Beida - A map of Africa painted on the wall of a school building in eastern Chad.
00057853 : POLAND Piaski - A fisherman retrieves herring from his net.
00057852 : POLAND Piaski - Fisherman Grzegorz Jaroszek repairs his aging car.
00057851 : POLAND Piaski - Fishermen Jarek and Maciej work on the boat in freezing winter temperatures.
00057850 : LESOTHO Nr. Maseru - Women queue up with their children to be weighed before inoculation at the Qualing Filter Clinic in Ha Seoli Qualing outside Maseru. The childdren are being vaccinated against Measles, DPT Diptheria, Pertussis and Tetanus, and Polio.
00057849 : LESOTHO Nr. Maseru - Women queue up with their children to be weighed before inoculation at the Qualing Filter Clinic in Ha Seoli Qualing outside Maseru. The childdren are being vaccinated against Measles, DPT Diptheria, Pertussis and Tetanus, and Polio.
00057848 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Traditional fire dance performed at a wedding at luxury hotel Mount Lavinia.
00057847 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Traditional fire dance performed at a wedding at luxury hotel Mount Lavinia.
00057846 : SRI LANKA Colombo - Traditional dance performed at a wedding at luxury hotel Mount Lavinia.
00057845 : POLAND Piaski - Mrs Alina removes some smoked fish from a makeshift device.
00057844 : POLAND Piaski - Seagulls, waiting for their portion of fish remains, fly over a Polish fishing boat on the Baltic sea.
00057843 : PHILIPPINES - House buried by lahar flow from Mount Pinatubo. Lahar is a mixture of rain and ash that forms a slurry that flows down the mountain at high speeds, causing huge amounts of damage.
00057842 : PHILIPPINES Luzon - Ash and lahar accumulation (grey material in the river channel in background) in the valleys on the slopes of Mount Pinatubo following the 1991 eruption. Lahar is a mixture of rain and ash that forms a slurry that flows down the mountain at high speeds, causing huge amounts of damage.
00057841 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Smokey Mountain was once a two million ton landfill site where people used to scavenge for a living. Families built homes adjacent to the landfill, which has since closed, forcing many residents to relocate. There is however still a notable human presence that lives beside the dump.
00057840 : PHILIPPINES Baguio, Luzon - Houses in the town of Baguio.
00057839 : ARGENTINA Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia - The Perito Moreno glacier drops into Lago Argentino (Lake Argentino) with an 80 metre high vertical wall of ice. Lago Argentino is the largest lake in Argentina and the third largest in South America.
00057838 : ARGENTINA Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia - The Perito Moreno glacier drops into Lago Argentino (Lake Argentino) with an 80 metre high vertical wall of ice. Lago Argentino is the largest lake in Argentina and the third largest in South America.
00057837 : CUBA Havana - A woman sells peanuts in front of her home in Old Havana.
00057836 : BELARUS Ivanec - A picture of the late Pope John Paul II hangs under a crucifix at a meeting held by the Polish minority of Ivenec, central Belarus.
00057835 : BELARUS Minsk - Worshippers at Sunday mass at a catholic church in Minsk.
00057834 : BELARUS Nr Minsk - A man carries his shopping down the street in Kolodisti village, central Belarus.
00057833 : BELARUS - A young horse gets scared by a car on a road in central Belarus.
00057832 : BELARUS Nr Minsk - Kurgan Slavy (Hill of Glory), a man-made mountain built as tribute to the Red Army's liberation of Belarus in World War II (WW2).
00057831 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Traders at the Central Kabul Hawala sit out on the street, with the gold bazaar in the background.
00057830 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Bundles of old Afghani notes stored in the vault of Da Afghanistan Bank. Even though the exchange rate is 50 Afghanis to the dollar, these piles add up to over a million dollars.
00057829 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A teller at Da Afghanistan Bank. There are no computers within the main hall of Da Afghanistan Bank with all operations being done by hand.
00057828 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Mr Dayani, Chief Business Developer for Azizi Bank, walks into the bank from his Hummer surrounded by armed guards.
00057827 : CUBA Remedios, Villa Clara - Teenagers leave a bicycle mechanic's shop after having their bikes repaired.
00057826 : CUBA Havana - A custodian stands among paraphernalia tributes to Vladimir Lenin including a carpet, painting and vase in Parque Lenin on the outskirts of Havana.
00057825 : CUBA Havana - People socialising in a parked bus.
00057824 : CUBA Havana - A man walks past a mural depicting scenes from the Cuban revolution.
00057823 : CUBA Havana - A rickshaw driver rests in front of a sign depicting Fidel and Raul Castro.
00057822 : CUBA Havana - Shopping for pork meat in the Quatro Caminos market.
00057821 : CHINA Beijing - Rush hour in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057820 : CHINA Beijing - Rush hour in the Central Business District (CBD).
00057819 : ARGENTINA Nr. Calafate, Patagonia - Estancia (Ranch) Nibepo Aike outside Calafate in southern Argentina.
00057818 : ARGENTINA Perito Moreno Glacier, Patagonia - The Perito Moreno glacier drops into Lago Argentino (Lake Argentino) with an 80 metre high vertical wall of ice.
00057817 : CUBA Havana - Workers in a furniture repair workshop rest between jobs in Old Havana.
00057816 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Coastal cliff erosion at Cove Hithe in Suffolk.
00057815 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Coastal cliff erosion at Cove Hithe in Suffolk.
00057814 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Coastal cliff erosion at Cove Hithe in Suffolk.
00057813 : UNITED KINGDOM Wales, Great Britain, UK - Hillwalkers at the peak of Mount Snowdon in Snowdonia National Park.
00057812 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - A boy fishing by the canal in Ancoats, the old industrial part of East Manchester.
00057811 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - A modern building built by the property developer Dandara in Manchester.

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