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00054786 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Indian sailors loading South Korean LG washing machines onto a dhow at Dubai Creek dockside for export. A dhow is a traditional Arab sailing vessel used to transport freight.
00054785 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Fashion advertising for a shop selling traditional Arab costume in a Dubai souk.
00054784 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Loading consumer goods onto sailing dhows at Dubai Creek dockside. Goods (mostly from Asian factories) are often exported from Dubai to countries, such as to Iranian and Somali locations, that are off western trading networks but which are still hungry for consumer durables.
00054783 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Loading consumer goods onto sailing dhows at Dubai Creek dockside. Goods (mostly from Asian factories) are often exported from Dubai to countries, such as to Iranian and Somali locations, that are off western trading networks but which are still hungry for consumer durables.
00054782 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Loading consumer goods onto sailing dhows at Dubai Creek dockside. Goods (mostly from Asian factories) are often exported from Dubai to countries, such as to Iranian and Somali locations, that are off western trading networks but which are still hungry for consumer durables.
00054781 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Small Chinese-run business, part of an increasing Chinese presence, in the souks of Deira.
00054780 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Deira, Dubai - Chinese-run store selling underwear in a Dubai souk.
00054779 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Pakistani migrant porter, waiting for business in a souk in the Deira district, consulting his mobile phone.
00054778 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Sign for a clothing store in the Deira souk.
00054777 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Men with boxes of Chinese textiles in a Deira souk. Chinese traders are a steadily growing presence in the city state's souks.
00054776 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - South Asian porter passing a small Chinese business, part of an increasing influx of small Chinese businesses, in the souks of Deira.
00054775 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Chinese woman talking to an Indian employee in a shoe shop selling Chinese shoes, part of an increasing mainland Chinese presence, in the souks of Deira.
00054774 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Pakistani employee (left), a Somalian buyer (right) and Chinese staff behind the desk of a small Chinese business, part of an increasing influx of small Chinese businesses, in a Deira souk.
00054773 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Sign reading 'Camels Only' at the entrance to a race track and training ground for camel racing.
00054772 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Men with boxes of Chinese textiles in a Deira souk. Chinese traders are a steadily growing presence in the city state's souks.
00054771 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Chinese businessman looking out onto a busy nighttime scene from a Chinese restaurant on the edge of the Deira souk district.
00054770 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - View from a Chinese restaurant out onto the busy Deira souk district. Chinese traders and Chinese-run shops are increasing steadily in Dubai's souks.
00054769 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Taking racing camels to a racetrack for a training session, with city skyscrapers rising out of the desert behind.
00054768 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Sign reading 'Camels Only' at the entrance to a race track and training ground for camel racing.
00054767 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Taking racing camels for a training session.
00054766 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Camel trainer (in vehicle) and camels heading for a racing training session, with light shining off the Burj Dubai luxury hotel in the distance behind.
00054765 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Racing camels being taken out for a morning training session. The practice of using children as jockeys officially no longer exists but, whilst now most camel riders are adults, some riders do still appear to be in early adolescence, as here. One solution to the problem has been to ban photography at the racetrack.
00054764 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Taking racing camels to a racetrack for a training session.
00054763 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Taking racing camels to a racetrack for a training session, with city skyscrapers rising out of the desert behind.
00054762 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Taking racing camels to a racetrack for a training session, with city skyscrapers rising out of the desert behind.
00054761 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Taking racing camels to a racetrack for a training session, with city skyscrapers rising out of the desert behind.
00054760 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Training camels for racing - coming to the finish line.
00054759 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Handlers preparing camels for race training.
00054758 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Trainers preparing racing camels for a training session.
00054757 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Racing camels being taken out for a morning training session. The practice of using children as jockeys officially no longer exists but, whilst now most camel riders are adults, some riders do still appear to be in early adolescence, as here. One solution to the problem has been to ban photography at the racetrack.
00054756 : CUBA Havana - Chaotic electrical wiring in an apartment building in Old Havana.
00054755 : UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Dubai - Modernisation of camel racing - a robot jockey, one of the responses to an official ban on child jockeys, mounted on a camel's back.
00054754 : CUBA Havana - Coffee Cuban style - private enterprise. People drinking small cups of strong coffee being sold for 1 Cuban peso in a doorway in Old Havana.
00054753 : CUBA Havana - Schoolgirls in Old Havana.
00054752 : THAILAND Bangkok (Krung Thep) - A young boy stands in the mouth of a model shark while having his photo taken at the largest aquarium in South-East Asia.
00054751 : CUBA Havana - Young woman performing Chinese Tai Chi in front of the Capitol building - all part of a state approved programme to improve Chinese-Cuban relations.
00054750 : THAILAND Pattaya, Chonburi (Chon Buri) - An animal handler poses with an orangutan monkey for tourists visiting one of the many sideshows at Sriracha Zoo.
00054749 : THAILAND Bangkok (Krung Thep) - A baby long-tailed macaque monkey in a cage. The young macaque was seized by the Thai Royal Forest Department from a pet shop in an inner city shopping centre.
00054748 : CAMBODIA Koh Kong Province - A ranger's boat from the Cambodian Department of Forestry patrols a river. The Department of Forestry is attempting to stop the poaching and related black market activities in the area by carrying out regular patrols and searches.
00054747 : THAILAND Bangkok (Krung Thep) - A sign outside one of the many restaurants selling shark fin and bird's nest soup in Chinatown.
00054746 : CAMBODIA Bokor - A young sun bear cub packaged in a cardboard box for its journey to the Cambodian capital. The bear was seized from a black market animal trader by the Cambodian Department of Forestry in the southern state of Bokor.
00054745 : CHINA Guangdong Province - A restaurant butcher drags a crocodile off to be slaughtered inside one of the most expensive restaurants in Guangdong.
00054744 : CHINA Guangdong Province - A restaurant butcher prepares to kill a crocodile for lunchtime customers inside one of the most expensive restaurants in Guangdong.
00054743 : CHINA Guangdong Province - A restaurant butcher prepares to kill a crocodile for lunchtime customers inside one of the most expensive restaurants in Guangdong.
00054742 : CHINA Guangdong Province - A restaurant butcher gutting a crocodile inside one of the most expensive restaurants in Guangdong.
00054741 : CHINA Kunming, Yunnan Province - Scorpions for sale in the open-air chemist market. Scorpions are traditionally eaten for their vitamins and other health properties.
00054740 : CHINA Mungla - Two women sell a pair of bear claws along with other black market animal products in the Burmese-Chinese border town of Mungla.
00054739 : CHINA Guangdong Province - A restaurant butcher gutting a crocodile inside one of the most expensive restaurants in Guangdong.
00054738 : CHINA Guangdong Province - A restaurant butcher preparing a crocodile for lunchtime customers inside one of the most expensive restaurants in Guangdong.
00054737 : CHINA Guangdong Province - A Tibetan trader selling tiger claws and an assortment of deer horns along with other black market animal parts on the streets of Guangdong.
00054736 : HONG KONG China - Turtles for sale in a market in central Hong Kong.
00054735 : HONG KONG China - Turtles for sale in a market in central Hong Kong.
00054734 : CHINA Shanghai - Shop assistants wearing face masks prepare remedies for customers in a traditional Chinese chemist. Traditional medicines are often made from wildlife products.
00054733 : CHINA Shanghai - Medicinal remedies being prepared for customers in a traditional Chinese chemist. Traditional medicines are often made from wildlife products.
00054732 : NEPAL Birgunj (Birganj) - Cyclists cross the border with India. Birgunj is a key entry point for Nepalese-Indian trading and, likewise, it is also a significant checkpoint for smugglers and black market traders.
00054731 : INDONESIA Aceh, Northern Sumatra - A poacher holds up a fruit bat that he has captured while hunting and will sell for use in traditional medicine preparations. The bats are often used in remedies to treat common colds.
00054730 : INDIA Sundarbans - 42-year-old Asitkumar Mondol has his wounds tended. Asitkumar was attacked by a tiger while foraging for crabs in the mangrove forests of the Sunderbans. He was dragged to safety by a companion and survived horrendous head wounds, but had to wait for eight hours before he could get medical attention. Another of his companions was killed in the attack.
00054729 : INDONESIA Medan, North Sumatra - A sun bear stands on its hind legs in a cage at Medan Zoo.
00054728 : INDIA Kaziranga, Assam - A rhinoceros horn seized by police near Kaziranga National Park. This rhino horn was discovered with another under a kitchen bench in the house of a female gang member of a black market poaching ring. The two horns were from a female rhino and her calf that had been poached from Kaziranga National Park two days earlier.
00054727 : INDIA Kaziranga, Assam - A small gang of black market poachers being questioned by police following the discovery of two rhinoceros horns in the house of a female gang member. The two horns were from a female rhino and her calf that had been poached two days earlier from Kaziranga National Park.
00054726 : INDIA Kaziranga, Assam - A group of rangers beginning their afternoon patrol on elephants in Kaziranga National Park.
00054725 : BURMA Moung La, Myanmar - A man sells wildlife products in the central market.
00054724 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A small sample of the seized black market animal products collected by Scotland Yard's animal protection unit in six months.
00054723 : CAMBODIA Koh Kong Province - A patrol from the Cambodian Department of Forestry crossing a river. The Department of Forestry is attempting to stop black market poaching in the area by carrying out regular patrols and searches.
00054722 : NEPAL Birgunj (Birganj) - Horses and carts cross the border with India. Birgunj is a key entry point for Nepalese-Indian trading and, likewise, it is also a significant checkpoint for smugglers and black market traders.
00054721 : INDONESIA Medan, North Sumatra - A long-tailed macaque monkey is having its tail treated by a tradesman at the market. The animal, which is currently on sale for $10 US, was injured in transit after poachers tied a rope to its tail.
00054720 : INDIA Kaziranga, Assam - A 26-year-old woman cries in the back of a police vehicle, having been arrested in possession of two rhinoceros horns that her brother and husband had poached two days earlier from Kaziranga National Park. On hearing of her arrest, her Muslim husband swiftly divorced her, releasing himself from any marital ties that would link him with the crime. As a result, while the men may receive a warning, the woman faces the death penalty.
00054719 : NEPAL Birgunj (Birganj) - A sign at the border with India. Birgunj is a key entry point for Nepalese-Indian trading and, likewise, it is also a significant checkpoint for smugglers and black market traders.
00054718 : BURMA Thakhilek, Myanmar - The Thailand-Burma border towns of Mae Sae (Mai Sai) and Thakhilek. The river, which marks the boundary of the Thai-Burmese border between Mae Sai and Thakhilek, is shallower during the dry season and often traversed by wildlife poachers and traders trafficking illegal black market goods. The market in Thakhilek has many shops that sell wildlife products.
00054717 : NEPAL Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP) - A small group of Royal Nepalese soldiers riding elephants patrol the Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP) at dawn.
00054716 : INDIA Kaziranga, Assam - A group of rangers on elephants patrol Kaziranga National Park.
00054715 : INDIA Sundarbans, West Bengal - 42-year-old Asitkumar Mondol was attacked by a tiger while foraging for crabs in the mangrove forests of the Sunderbans. He was dragged to safety by a companion and survived horrendous head wounds, but had to wait for eight hours before he could get medical attention. Another of his companions was killed in the attack.
00054714 : BURMA Myanmar - A view of the Salween River, which forms part of the Thai-Burmese border.
00054713 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Homeless people sleeping under the Howrah Bridge, one of the busiest bridges in the world. Some two million people cross the bridge each day.
00054712 : THAILAND Bangkok (Krung Thep) - A pangolin (scaly anteater) that was intercepted with hundreds of others at Bangkok International Airport as part of a crackdown on the black market trafficking in wild animals. A customs official reported that the 102 boxes of pangolin were marked as containing turtles. Pangolins are considered a delicacy in parts of Asia and prized for their use in both traditional medicine and as an aphrodisiac.
00054711 : NEPAL Kathmandu - The Kathmandu Valley.
00054710 : THAILAND Kaeng Krachan - A former black market poacher, who now works as a tracker and conservationist for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), in the jungle of Kaeng Krachan National Park.
00054709 : THAILAND Kanchanaburi - A tourist leads a tiger as it walks freely in the grounds of the Pha Luang Ba Tua temple. The small monastery has become an animal sanctuary for tigers rescued from private zoos and circuses.
00054708 : INDIA Kaziranga, Assam - Two rhinoceros horns from a female rhino and her calf seized by police near Kaziranga National Park. The horns were discovered under a kitchen bench in the house of a female gang member of a black market poaching ring.
00054707 : NEPAL Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP) - A boatman on the river at the Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP) at dawn. Boats are used as a common mode of transport during the wet season as the roads often become impassable.
00054706 : THAILAND Bangkok (Krung Thep) - Mr. Prasert Sri Yongtong stands between two huge elephant tusks. He has about 3,000 to 4,000 pieces, ranging from horns and elephant skulls to the extinct Schomburgk's horn, in his collection, which is probably one of the most extensive of its kind in the world.
00054705 : VIETNAM Hanoi - The blood, bile and heart of a snake are served for consumption at a city restaurant. The snake is cut open while it is still alive to remove its heart, blood and bile. The animal's organs are eaten in the belief that they increase sexual libido.
00054704 : INDIA Sundarbans, West Bengal - A woman and her daughter fishing with nets along the river. The woman's late husband was killed by a tiger along this same stretch of water two years earlier while he was out fishing. Tiger attacks are commonplace in the Sunderbans area and some 50-60 people are killed each year following tiger attacks in the delta region.
00054703 : CHINA Guangdong Province - Tibetan traders selling tiger claws and an assortment of deer horns along with other black market animal parts on the streets of Guangdong.
00054702 : BURMA Moung La, Myanmar - A woman sells wildlife products in the central market in the Chinese-Burmese border town of Moung La.
00054701 : BURMA Moung La, Myanmar - Traders sell wildlife products in the central market in the Chinese-Burmese border town of Moung La.
00054700 : INDIA Sundarbans, West Bengal - A portrait of a young girl. The girl's father was killed by a tiger two years earlier along the same stretch of water that she now fishes on. Tiger attacks are commonplace in the Sunderbans area and some 50-60 people are killed each year following tiger attacks in the delta region.
00054699 : INDIA Sundarbans, West Bengal - A portrait of a young girl. The girl's father was killed by a tiger two years earlier along the same stretch of water that she now fishes on. Tiger attacks are commonplace in the Sunderbans area and some 50-60 people are killed each year following tiger attacks in the delta region.
00054698 : THAILAND Isaan Region - Prawing Klinkai, a former black market ivory poacher, who now works as a tracker and conservationist for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), on patrol in Khao Yai National Park. Khao Yai is one of the biggest national parks in Thailand.
00054697 : INDONESIA Aceh, Northern Sumatra - A young poacher holds up a fruit bat that he has captured while hunting and will sell for use in traditional medicine preparations. The bats are often used in remedies to treat common colds.
00054696 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Women in headscarves shopping at downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054695 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Women wearing Muslim headscarves out shopping on Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman downtown.
00054694 : CHINA Beijing - The Mega Tower, China World Trade Center Phase 3 will be 300m high on completion and will contain a five-star hotel and premium-grade corporate office spaces. This prestigious project designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is situated in the Central Business District and is expected to be completed in 2009.
00054693 : CHINA Beijing - A peeling poster showing the planned skyline of the Central Business District in 2008. Many of the buildings are presently under construction.
00054692 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Man roasting chestnuts in the crowded Jalan Petaling Chinatown market.
00054691 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Female prisoners in a literacy class run by Tata Consulting at Hyderabad Central Prison. The women in white saris are sentenced prisoners while the women in civilian clothes are awaiting trial, which can take up to one year in Andhra Pradesh.
00054690 : GREENLAND Ilulissat - Icebergs float in the entrance to the famous tourist destination of the Ilulissat ice fjord on the coast of Greenland.
00054689 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Mother and grandmother, wearing Muslim headscarves, dressing children who have been playing in a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054688 : GREENLAND Ilulissat Glacier - A small fishing boat, which works out of the port of Ilulissat sails, past the famous icebergs that calve from the Ilulissat Glacier.
00054687 : INDIA Ekbalpur, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - The Beby family - Banno Begum with her daughters, Sanno and Sakila Beby, on the bed and her son, Mohammed, and his children sitting on the floor. Seven people live in this small two-room apartment in Ekbalpur, a poor predominantly Muslim neighbourhood.
00054686 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Traffic downtown, with the colonial era architecture of the Sultan Abdul Samad Building on Merdaka Square behind.
00054685 : INDIA Bhavanipur, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Prity Channa washing dishes in the tiny courtyard outside her home.
00054684 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Female prisoners in a literacy class at Hyderabad Central Prison. The women can wear civilian clothes while awaiting trial, which can take up to one year in Andhra Pradesh.
00054683 : MALAYSIA Kelantan State - Woman attending to a rubber tree in a plantation, with its white sap clearly visible.
00054682 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Sentenced female prisoners in white saris embroidering saris for commercial companies while on a skills training programme at Hyderabad Central Prison.
00054681 : INDIA New Delhi - A warning notice in the window of a diagnostic clinic at the Yusuf Sarai Market in south Delhi. The sign, which states that prenatal gender determinations are against the law, indicates that the clinic will not test for the sex of an unborn child.
00054680 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Female inmates worshipping at a shrine to Shirdi Sai at Hyderabad Central Prison. The woman in white is a sentenced prisoner, the other is still awaiting trial. Shirdi Sai was a guru who is regarded by both his Hindu and Muslim followers as a saint.
00054679 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Brother and sister playing in an artificial waterfall at a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054678 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Boy playing in an artificial waterfall at a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054677 : MALAYSIA Pahang State - Youth carrying palm fruit on a plantation that produces palm oil, a major agricultural export.
00054676 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian national flag flying in front of colonial era architecture of the Sultan Abdul Samad Building on Merdaka Square downtown.
00054675 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - City view - colonial era architecture of the Sultan Abdul Samad Building on Merdaka Square, with modern high-rise architecture behind, including the Menara Kuala Lumpur (KL Tower).
00054674 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - A class of children in a private school at Hyderabad Central Prison. Jailed women can have their children living with them at the prison while they are serving their sentence. The children's admission and monthly school fees (adm. 10,000 rs, 250 rs monthly) are paid by the prison authorities.
00054673 : INDIA Kalighat, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - 17-year-old Sakila Beby, a young female boxer and one of the Beby twins, training at her boxing club.
00054672 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Child with a balloon in a luxury shopping mall.
00054671 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Female prisoners in a literacy class run by Tata Consulting at Hyderabad Central Prison. The women in white saris are sentenced prisoners while the women in civilian clothes are awaiting trial, which can take up to one year in Andhra Pradesh. Women can have their children living with them at the prison.
00054670 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Female prisoners in a literacy class at Hyderabad Central Prison. The women can wear civilian clothes while awaiting trial, which can take up to one year in Andhra Pradesh.
00054669 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Father with his son at a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054668 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Little India - Indian entertainment store selling imported Bollywood movies with one being played (showing a love scene) on a Sony television in the window.
00054667 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Children swimming and playing in an artificial waterfall at a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054666 : GREENLAND - Chunks of ice fall from the edge of a glacier as the sun warms its face on the coast of Greenland.
00054665 : INDIA Rohtak District, Haryana - Young unmarried men in the village of Sunderpur. There is currently a gender imbalance in Haryana of approximately 70 females to 100 males. Many of these young men will therefore not be able to find local brides.
00054664 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - The Petronas Twin Towers.
00054663 : GREENLAND Helheim Glacier - The 'calving' edge of Helheim Glacier on the coast of Greenland, the point where the glacier meets the sea. Pieces of ice break off into the sea and form bergs.
00054662 : GREENLAND - Chunks of ice fall from the edge of a glacier as the sun warms its face on the coast of Greenland.
00054661 : GREENLAND - Glacial landscape on the South East coast of Greenland, showing broken and melting ice.
00054660 : GREENLAND Helheim Glacier - The 'calving' edge of Helheim Glacier on the coast of Greenland. Pieces of ice break off into the sea and form bergs.
00054659 : GREENLAND - An aerial view of a glacier, showing moraine deposits and exposed bedrock.
00054658 : GREENLAND - Icebergs off the coast of Greenland weathered by the winds into complex shapes.
00054657 : INDIA Bhavanipur, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - The Channa family at home.
00054656 : GREENLAND - Icebergs off the coast of Greenland.
00054655 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - 21-year-old Shapna with her 3-year-old son and her 18-month-old daughter at Hyderabad Central Prison. Shapna, who is accused of theft, is currently awaiting trial. Her husband was recently killed in a shoot-out after committing a robbery. Women can have their children living with them at the prison while they are awaiting trial, which can take up to one year, and they wear civilian clothes until sentenced.
00054654 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Contrast between the Petronas Twin Towers (and a luxury hotel) with a nearby slum housing area.
00054653 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - People eating and drinking at tables at a mostly Chinese night food market on Jalan Alor in the Golden Triangle.
00054652 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Women awaiting trial sit with their young children outside the cells at Hyderabad Central Prison. Women can have their children living with them at the prison while they are awaiting trial, which can take up to one year, and they wear civilian clothes until sentenced.
00054651 : INDIA Kalighat, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Two young female boxers, 17-year-old Sanno Beby and 14-year-old Prity Channa, in a training fight.
00054650 : CHINA Beijing - Memorial at a communal compound in Ya Yun Cun celebrating the 1990 Asian Games.
00054649 : CHINA Beijing - Zhu Jiang Luo Ma Jia Yuan Gardens, a residential estate whose name translates as Zhu Jiang Roman Gardens. The name and architectural style is drawn from Western influences and aims to target the middle and upper classes as potential residents. The average price per square metre in this estate is approximately 10,000 Yuan (1,000 Euro).
00054648 : CHINA Beijing - Women and children outside a residential compound with a construction site in the background. Environmental laws state that new construction projects should set aside at least 30% of the land for green space (which equates to approximately two square metres per person).
00054647 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Young women in headscarves shopping for clothes at downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054646 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Stallholder adjusting a Muslim headscarf for sale while decorating a mannequin at the downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054645 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Female inmates with their children in an alley between cellblocks at Hyderabad Central Prison. Jailed women can have their children living with them at the prison while they are serving their sentence. The women in white saris are sentenced prisoners. The inmates can wear civilian clothes while awaiting trial, which can take up to one year in Andhra Pradesh.
00054644 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Desserts for sale as snacks on a stall at the downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054643 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Man openly selling counterfeit Hollywood movies on DVD and music CDs at Jalan Petaling Chinatown market.
00054642 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Chinatown view showing a mix between traditional architecture of shophouses and modern high-rise office buildings behind.
00054641 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Chinese eating at outdoor tables at a mostly Chinese night food market on Jalan Alor in the Golden Triangle.
00054640 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Server at a Chinese food stall (selling pork liver noodles) at a mostly Chinese night food market on Jalan Alor in the Golden Triangle.
00054639 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Evening rush hour - people going to catch a bus.
00054638 : INDIA Kalighat, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - 17-year-old Sakila Beby, a young female boxer, training at her boxing club.
00054637 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Chinese traders, openly selling counterfeit Hollywood movies on DVD and music CDs, counting their profits by their stalls at Jalan Petaling Chinatown market.
00054636 : GREENLAND - A dense piece of an iceberg on Greenland.
00054635 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Multi-ethnic society - Malay, Indian and Chinese people waiting at a bus stop during rush hour downtown.
00054634 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Woman wearing a Muslim headscarf holding her hand to her face to protect against traffic pollution as she waits to cross a main road downtown.
00054633 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Muslim woman, wearing a headscarf, with her baby at a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054632 : CHINA Beijing - Construction site in Wangjing, Chaoyang district. This area is the largest residential district in the city is also becoming an important business centre.
00054631 : CHINA Beijing - Construction site of a new real estate development named 'SOHO'. The Western name aims to target the middle and upper classes as potential residents.
00054630 : GREENLAND - Scientist attending to cameras, which collect data about glaciers on the ice cap, in Eastern Greenland. They are powered by a small solar panel that feeds a rechargeable cell in the camera case. The scientist can later piece together time-lapse images of the glacier, which will show any recession in its position.
00054629 : GREENLAND - A snow-white iceberg off the coast of Greenland, containing a tiny melt pool. The inside is weathered by the melted ice and the outside by the fierce Atlantic waves and wind.
00054628 : MALAYSIA Butterworth, Penang State - Ship docked by oil containers.
00054627 : CHINA Beijing - A traditional Beijing courtyard, of a type that is fast disappearing. Duan Qi Rui Fu was built at the end of the Qing dynasty and was the residence of the King's relatives. During the Communist Revolution these buildings were used as offices by the army. At present the courtyard houses are home to 122 ordinary families. The place is rundown, and the courtyard is not as old as the surrounding buildings. The government has issued warnings that the houses are a fire hazard and would like the families to move out.
00054626 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Cook at a Chinese food stall (pork liver noodles stall) at a mostly Chinese night food market on Jalan Alor in the Golden Triangle.
00054625 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Assembly at a Chinese high school in Chinatown.
00054624 : INDIA Bohar, Rohtak District, Haryana - 20-year-old Punam, her husband 38-year-old Jaikisham and their two-year-old daughter, Sonia, on the porch of their home in the village of Bohar. Jaikisham bought his wife from another state for 20,000 rs. There is currently a gender imbalance in Haryana of approximately 70 females to 100 males and many young men cannot find local brides.
00054623 : CHINA Beijing - The construction site of the 2008 Olympic Games stadium, designed in the style of a bird's nest by architects Herzog & de Meuron. The national stadium is being built with 36 km of unwrapped steel, with a weight of 45,000 tonnes.
00054622 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - People eating and drinking at tables at a mostly Chinese night food market on Jalan Alor in the Golden Triangle.
00054621 : INDIA New Delhi - A warning notice in the window of a diagnostic clinic at the Yusuf Sarai Market in south Delhi. The sign, which states that prenatal gender determinations are against the law, indicates that the clinic will not test for the sex of an unborn child.
00054620 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Multi-ethnic society - Malay, Indian and Chinese people waiting at a bus stop downtown.
00054619 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - 40-year-old Chinamma and her two-year-old son Saraswati at Hyderabad Central Prison. Chinamma, who is accused of robbery after working as a maidservant, is currently awaiting trial. Women can have their children living with them at the prison while they are awaiting trial, which can take up to one year, and they wear civilian clothes until sentenced.
00054618 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - 24-year-old Rosa and her one-year-old son, Banni, at Hyderabad Central Prison. Rosa, who was homeless, is currently awaiting trial for robbery. Rosa likes the security of prison life and its regular meals. Women can have their children living with them at the prison while they are awaiting trial, which can take up to one year, and they wear civilian clothes until sentenced.
00054617 : INDIA Bhavanipur, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Joshnajana oversees her daughter, Prity Channa, washing dishes in the tiny little courtyard outside their home.
00054616 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Multi-ethnic society - Malay, Indian and Chinese people during rush hour downtown.
00054615 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Young Muslim woman writing SMS text messages on her mobile telephone.
00054614 : INDIA Rohtak District, Haryana - 20-year-old Punam, her husband 38-year-old Jaikisham and their two-year-old daughter, Sonia, on the porch of their home in the village of Bohar. Jaikisham bought his wife from another state for 20,000 rs. There is currently a gender imbalance in Haryana of approximately 70 females to 100 males and many young men cannot find local brides.
00054613 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Stall selling sunglasses at the downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054612 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Assembly at a Chinese high school in Chinatown.
00054611 : INDIA Kalighat, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - 17-year-old Sanno Beby holds a punch bag steady for 20-year-old Noor Faroze. Noor is currently the most promising female boxer at the club.
00054610 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Muslim girl wearing a headscarf playing in an artificial waterfall at a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054609 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Muslim boy playing in an artificial waterfall at a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054608 : CHINA Beijing - Private security guards being trained at a residential compound. According to the Ministry of Public Security there are more security guards employed in the private sector than there are national troops.
00054607 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Women wearing traditional clothing, including Muslim headscarves, going home from work.
00054606 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Young women wearing Muslim headscarves downtown.
00054605 : GREENLAND - Chunks of ice fall from the edge of a glacier on the coast of Greenland.
00054604 : INDIA Kalighat, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - The Beby twins, two young female boxers, watching a training boxing fight with their friends at the entrance to the training hall.
00054603 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Snack food for sale at the downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054602 : INDIA New Delhi - Advertisements for diagnostic clinics and abortions at Yusuf Sarai Market in south Delhi.
00054601 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Contrast between the Petronas Twin Towers (and a luxury hotel) with a nearby slum housing area.
00054600 : CHINA Beijing - A recently demolished building in Wangjing, Chaoyang district, soon to become another high-rise construction site. This area is the largest residential district in the city is also becoming an important business centre.
00054599 : MALAYSIA Kelantan State - Woman attending to a rubber tree in a plantation, with its white sap clearly visible.
00054598 : MALAYSIA Georgetown, Penang - An Indian man sleeping rough outside a Buddhist temple with ornate painted decorations. Georgetown has a majority Chinese population.
00054597 : CHINA Beijing - The last days of a small water station that once supplied mineral water to a surrounding village. Now the village has been demolished and replaced by new residential estates, the water station is no longer required. The high rise behind the water station forms part of a residential estate in the suburbs of Beijing whose name in Chinese tranlates as 'The Silver Collared Worker International Compound'.
00054596 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Juice stall at the downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054595 : INDIA Kalighat, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Two young female boxers, Sanno and Sakila Beby, practise shadow boxing. The 17-year-old twins have been boxing since they were very young.
00054594 : CHINA Beijing - Temporary accommodation for construction workers at the Motorola building site in Wangjing, soon to be their headquarters in Beijing. Wangjing, in Chaoyang district, is the largest residential area in the city is also becoming an important business centre.
00054593 : GREENLAND - A detail of melting ice on an iceberg.
00054592 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Jalan Petaling Chinatown market. Man with souvenir stall and Malaysian flag flying over the crowds in the market, which is mostly dedicated to illegal counterfeit (pirated) goods.
00054591 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Jalan Petaling Chinatown market. Taxis waiting for customers as crowds flock to the market, which is mostly dedicated to illegal counterfeit (pirated) goods.
00054590 : MALAYSIA Georgetown, Penang - Woman applying her make-up before performing in a Chinese Opera during Chinese New Year celebrations in Georgetown.
00054589 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Chinese woman setting up her stall of counterfeit brand name (Louis Vuitton) handbags at Jalan Petaling Chinatown market.
00054588 : GREENLAND Nr. Timmiarmiut - Scientist Jason Box from the Byrd Polar Research Centre drills a long hole in the ice to extract ice core samples. These enable him to map precipitation and melt levels, building a map of weather and climate changes over a period of years in a local area south of Timmiarmiut, north of Kap Cort Adelaer, on the South Eastern tip of Greenland.
00054587 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - A class of children in a private school at Hyderabad Central Prison. Jailed women can have their children living with them at the prison while they are serving their sentence. The children's admission and monthly school fees (adm. 10,000 rs, 250 rs monthly) are paid by the prison authorities.
00054586 : CHINA Beijing - A residential block in Wangjing, Chaoyang district, the largest residential area in the city which is also becoming an important business centre.
00054585 : CHINA Beijing - Serviced apartments catering for top business professionals living in the Central Business District.
00054584 : CHINA Beijing - The Mega Tower, China World Trade Center Phase 3 will be 300m high on completion and will contain a five-star hotel and premium-grade corporate office spaces. This prestigious project designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is situated in the Central Business District and is expected to be completed in 2009.
00054583 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Young women waiting for snacks to be prepared at a stall in the downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054582 : CHINA Beijing - A residential estate surrounding a school compound and football pitch in the city centre. In some cases real estate developers plan for schools to be built in new residential developments, adding to the value of the apartments.
00054581 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Sentenced female prisoners in white saris learning sewing and embroidery while on a skills training programme at Hyderabad Central Prison.
00054580 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Young women waiting for snacks to be prepared at a stall in the downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054579 : CHINA Beijing - A view from a luxury hotel in the west of the city onto its compound, adorned with an ornate gold sculpture. Many real estate developers imitate Western architectural styles to appeal to rich Chinese customers.
00054578 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Boy playing in an artificial waterfall at a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054577 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Multi-ethnic society - Malay, Indian and Chinese people waiting at a bus stop during rush hour downtown.
00054576 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Woman wearing Muslim headscarf downtown during evening rush hour.
00054575 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - People waiting for buses downtown, with young women wearing Muslim headscarves and girls in Western-style clothing.
00054574 : GREENLAND Ilulissat Glacier - A small fishing and whaling boat, which works out of the port of Ilulissat, sails past the famous icebergs that calve from the Ilulissat Glacier.
00054573 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - A father sleeping while a Chinese family group take a break in a shopping mall.
00054572 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - A father sleeping while a Chinese family group take a break in a shopping mall.
00054571 : GREENLAND Nr. Timmiarmiut - Scientist Jason Box from the Byrd Polar Research Centre drills a long hole in the ice to extract ice core samples. These enable him to map precipitation and melt levels, building a map of weather and climate changes over a period of years in a local area south of Timmiarmiut, north of Kap Cort Adelaer, on the South Eastern tip of Greenland.
00054570 : GREENLAND Narsaq - A fisherman in a tiny boat. An iceberg floats in the bay, houses in the Greenlandic town of Narsaq are in the background.
00054569 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Street scene showing multi-ethnic society downtown.
00054568 : CHINA Beijing - Security guards being trained in front of Pan Pan, the mascot for the 1990 Asian Games, just outside a residential estate.
00054567 : GREENLAND Narsaq - An iceberg floats in the bay, houses in the Greenlandic town of Narsaq are in the background.
00054566 : MALAYSIA Penang - Businessman making offerings and paying for prayers by monks and priests at a Chinese Buddhist temple.
00054565 : MALAYSIA Georgetown, Penang - Giant dragon incense sticks burning outside a city temple at Chinese New Year. Georgetown has a majority Chinese population.
00054564 : CHINA Beijing - Western-styled residential compound. Real estate developers who want to cater to the middle and upper classes design residential estates that mimic Western styles.
00054563 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Multi-ethnic society. Indian man reading a magazine at a newsstand, displaying Malay, Indian and Chinese language publications, in Little India.
00054562 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Freshly painted traditional Chinese architecture in Chinatown.
00054561 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Physical education class at a Chinese high school in Chinatown.
00054560 : GREENLAND Nr. Timmiarmiut - Scientist Jason Box from the Byrd Polar Research Centre drills a long hole in the ice to extract ice core samples. These enable him to map precipitation and melt levels, building a map of weather and climate changes over a period of years in a local area south of Timmiarmiut, north of Kap Cort Adelaer, on the South Eastern tip of Greenland.
00054559 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Sentenced female prisoners in white saris sewing uniforms for commercial company employees while on a skills training programme at Hyderabad Central Prison.
00054558 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Sales assistants standing at the entry to a women's clothing shop, next to models displaying dresses, on Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054557 : MALAYSIA Georgetown, Penang - Chinese Opera performer during Chinese New Year celebrations in Georgetown, seen from the stage wings.
00054556 : GREENLAND Nr. Timmiarmiut - A lonely scientist on top of a glacier covered with snow just south of Timmiarmiut, north of Kap Cort Adelaer, on the South Eastern tip of Greenland.
00054555 : GREENLAND - Aerial view of a glacier on Greenland, showing the exposed bedrock and the calving front.
00054554 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - The Petronas Twin Towers at sunset.
00054553 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - View from the edge of the city showing electricity pylons and the Petronas Twin Towers rising behind.
00054552 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Traffic jam on the highway during morning rush hour, with construction in process.
00054551 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Mixed downtown architecture, ranging from the Petronas Twin Towers (rear left) to colonial era church in foreground, with LRT trains at centre.
00054550 : GREENLAND Greenland ice sheet, Western side. - A hole in the ice made by a scientist's ice corer, the different coloured rings are caused by the varying rates of snowfall and compression over each year.
00054549 : INDIA Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Children on their way to elementary school in the back of a school bus outside the Women's Department at Hyderabad Central Prison. Jailed women can have their children living with them at the prison while they are serving their sentence.
00054548 : INDIA Rohtak District, Haryana - 38-year-old Vedpal and his 24-year-old wife, Bassanti. Vedpal could not find a wife locally and so paid 40,000 rs to a bride broker to find him a wife in another state. There is currently a gender imbalance in Haryana of approximately 70 females to 100 males and many young men cannot find local brides. The trafficking of brides and the employment of bride brokers has developed into a profitable trade in some rich northern Indian states.
00054547 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Old Muslim beggar at the downtown Saturday night Pasar Malam (night market) close to Little India and Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman.
00054546 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Multi-ethnic society - Malay, Indian and Chinese people waiting at a bus stop during rush hour downtown.
00054545 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Multi-ethnic society - Malay, Indian and Chinese people waiting at a bus stop during rush hour downtown.
00054544 : GREENLAND Nr. Timmiarmiut - Scientist Jason Box from the Byrd Polar Research Centre drills a long hole in the ice to extract ice core samples. These enable him to map precipitation and melt levels, building a map of weather and climate changes over a period of years in a local area south of Timmiarmiut, north of Kap Cort Adelaer, on the South Eastern tip of Greenland.
00054543 : GREENLAND Equip Sermia - The sheer edge of the Equip Sermia glacier that calves into a fjord within the cluster of islands to the East of the famous Disko Bay. The glacier was photographed from the air on the West Greenland coast.
00054542 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Young Muslim woman writing SMS text messages on her mobile telephone.
00054541 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Contrasting lifestyles - girl wearing traditional Muslim clothing and a modern punk with dyed hair getting off a bus.
00054540 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Muslim girl playing in an artificial waterfall at a popular paddling pool in a landscaped park.
00054539 : GREENLAND - A small iceberg being hauled out of the water for use in scientific reseach on the coast of Greenland.
00054538 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Portrait of a young woman wearing a Muslim headscarf.
00054537 : GREENLAND Equip Sermia - The sheer edge of the Equip Sermia glacier that calves into a fjord within the cluster of islands to the East of the famous Disko Bay. The glacier was photographed from the air on the West Greenland coast.
00054536 : GREENLAND Equip Sermia - The sheer edge of the Equip Sermia glacier that calves into a fjord within the cluster of islands to the East of the famous Disko Bay. The glacier was photographed from the air on the West Greenland coast.
00054535 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - To mark the 4th anniversary of the Sudanese conflict, protesters held a 'Day for Darfur' around the world. In Whitehall, in front of Downing Street, a giant hour glass filled with fake blood was inverted to make the point that time is running out. Children hold their own hour glasses.
00054534 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - To mark the 4th anniversary of the Sudanese conflict, protesters held a 'Day for Darfur' around the world. In Whitehall, in front of Downing Street, a giant hour glass filled with fake blood was inverted to make the point that time is running out.
00054532 : CHINA Shanghai - Children play before the opening of the first Toys "R" Us store in mainland China.
00054531 : CHINA Shanghai - A man walks past a Guangdong Development Bank advertisement. A group of investors led by Citigroup have acquired a controlling stake in the GDB, the first time a foreign-led consortium has won the right to manage a major Chinese bank.
00054530 : CHINA Shanghai - A sales person assists a prospective buyer at a real estate expo. The city's per capita amount of land is approximately one twentieth of the national average. Subsequently, Shanghai has been designated as a testing ground for a more centralized, and hopefully more effective, vertical land administration system.
00054529 : CHINA Guangxi Province - Scenery along the Li River between Guilin and Yangshuo that is also depicted on the back of a 20 RMB bill.
00054528 : CHINA Shanghai - A monkey handler leads a group of monkeys down the street.
00054526 : CHINA Shanghai - A homeless man sleeping outside a storefront.
00054525 : CHINA Shanghai - A man cleans the sign of an Agricultural Bank of China branch.
00054524 : CHINA Shanghai - Metal toys and other children's wares from the 1970s and 80s on sale at the Dongtai antiques market.
00054522 : CHINA Shandong Province - Cricket collectors compare their purchases in their hotel room near Yanzhou. Every August tens of thousands of cricket enthusiasts from major cities flock to rural Shandong, a place famed for its strong and ferocious crickets, to look for champions. The crickets, some fetching hundreds even thousands of dollars, are then fought in late September, drawing what insiders estimate to be some 25 to 35 million dollars a year.
00054521 : CHINA Beijing - A soldier and a woman stand in front of Tiananmen.
00054520 : CHINA Yangquan, Shanxi Province - A walkway with the almost dry Tao River on the one side and a ten-kilometre long city beautification project, which cost 12 million USD, on its right. The demand for water in Yangquan often exceeds the supply.
00054519 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - Pedestrians walk through the downtown area of the city at night.
00054516 : CHINA Shanghai - Visitors stand in front of the neon light installation called "Landscape: A Tribute to Huang Binhong" by Shen Fan at the Shanghai Art Museum. The exhibit is part of the Shanghai Biennale.
00054515 : CHINA Gaotang, Guangdong Province - A woman harvests rice with a sickle in a village field near Gaotang Township.
00054514 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Forty-eight-year-old Li Rifu looks at Geely salesman Wang Jingping filling out a purchase order form at the automaker's dealership, which is attached to its factory complex in Taizhou.
00054512 : CHINA Shandong Province - Cricket collectors compare their purchases in their hotel room near Yanzhou. Every August tens of thousands of cricket enthusiasts from major cities flock to rural Shandong, a place famed for its strong and ferocious crickets, to look for champions. The crickets, some fetching hundreds even thousands of dollars, are then fought in late September, drawing what insiders estimate to be some 25 to 35 million dollars a year.
00054508 : CHINA Shanghai - A Buddhist monk shops for groceries at a high-end supermarket.
00054506 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Forty-eight-year-old Li Rifu and his son Li Fengyang listen to Geely salesman Wang Jingping showing the features of a Geely car at the automaker's dealership, which is attached to its factory complex in Taizhou.
00054505 : CHINA Yangquan, Shanxi Province - A man stands on a street next to a coal burning power plant. A survey from China's State Environmental Protection Agency shows that the province of Shanxi contains the top three cities with the worst air pollution in China. The city of Yangquan, which is reported to have the second worst case of air pollution in the country, has a very high concentration of power plants using readily available coal to supply China's major cities with electricity.
00054504 : CHINA Shanghai - A worker operates a lift with the Jin Mao Grand Hyatt building in the background.
00054503 : CHINA Shanghai - A couple look at apartment models at a real estate expo. The city's per capita amount of land is approximately one twentieth of the national average. Subsequently, Shanghai has been designated as a testing ground for a more centralized, and hopefully more effective, vertical land administration system.
00054501 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - An artist and his two children eat dinner in his studio at Dafen Village near Shenzhen. The village houses some 6,000 painters and produces near 80% of the world's made-to-order and stock oil paintings.
00054500 : CHINA Shanghai - A view of Pudong at night.
00054499 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong Province - An audience eagerly grabs for boxes of supposedly "giveaway" shampoo, which later turned out to be sale items, at a square in Guangzhou.
00054496 : CHINA Shanghai - A woman holding a shopping list stands by a market stall selling meat.
00054495 : CHINA Yangquan, Shanxi Province - A power plant and its surrounding regions seen through thick smog. A survey from China's State Environmental Protection Agency shows that the province of Shanxi contains the top three cities with the worst air pollution in China. The city of Yangquan, which is reported to have the second worst case of air pollution in the country, has a very high concentration of power plants using readily available coal to supply China's major cities with electricity.
00054494 : CHINA Shanghai - A man smokes a cigarette behind his vegetables at a market.
00054493 : CHINA Shanghai - A couple push a stroller through a market.
00054492 : CHINA Shanghai - A man rearranges his vegetables at a market.
00054489 : CHINA Shandong Province - Farmers crowd near a table of cricket collectors to offer their recent catches at a night cricket market dubbed the "lit market" near Yanzhou. Every August tens of thousands of cricket enthusiasts from major cities flock to rural Shandong, a place famed for its strong and ferocious crickets, to look for champions. The crickets, some fetching hundreds even thousands of dollars, are then fought in late September, drawing what insiders estimate to be some 25 to 35 million dollars a year.
00054488 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - A worker passing rows of cars below a row of Chinese characters on the wall that read, 'Geely sedans walk all over the world', at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054486 : CHINA Yanzhou, Shandong Province - A chimney from a small village factory bellows out a thick cloud of black smoke into the morning sky.
00054485 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - The city seen through a haze at dusk.
00054483 : CHINA Shanghai - A view from the Jin Mao Tower's 88th floor observation deck brings to life the immensity of the city's urbanisation.
00054482 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Workers take a training session test at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054481 : CHINA Shanghai - A man peddles his goods (strapped into his belt) while holding a mannequin head.
00054480 : CHINA Shanghai - A People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer chats on his mobile phone outside of the railway station in Shanghai.
00054477 : CHINA Shanghai - A worker dangles over the road while fixing a power line.
00054475 : CHINA Shanghai - A man wearing a hammer and sickle shirt waiting to get on the subway.
00054472 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - The city of Shenzhen seen from above.
00054471 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - Artist Wen Xiaoqiang paints a replica of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa in his tiny studio at Dafen Village near Shenzhen. Wen specialises in painting the Mona Lisa and has painted over 100 of them in the past two years. Dafen village houses some 6,000 painters and produces near 80% of the world's made-to-order and stock oil paintings.
00054470 : CHINA Quzhou, Zhejiang Province - The Quzhou Chemical Factory seen at night.
00054469 : CHINA Shanghai - Soon-to-be weds wait for a photographer to take their wedding pictures on a street.
00054468 : CHINA Shanghai - Seventy-seven-year-old retired police officer Chen Alu goes to have a work unit sponsored physical examination. Most state-run companies and institutions pay for their retired former employees to have a physical check-up every year.
00054467 : CHINA Beijing - A Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier stands guard at Tiananmen Square with the Monument to the People's Heroes in the background.
00054465 : CHINA Quzhou, Zhejiang Province - A elderly farmer carrying a sop bucket walks near pipings at the Quzhou Juhua Chemical Factory.
00054463 : CHINA Shanghai - Laundry poles on a building in Shanghai.
00054461 : CHINA Shanghai - Shoppers walk past large posters advertising items on sale in front of a Hualian GSM Supermarket, one of several hypermarket chains owned by the Chinese retail conglomerate Shanghai Bailian Group.
00054458 : CHINA Ningbo, Zhejiang Province - Workers on the assembly line at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054457 : CHINA Shanghai - A man asks questions at an information booth for education in the UK at the 2006 International Education Fair. There is increasing pressure on students to obtain a career edge by studying overseas. China now has more than 300,000 students studying abroad.
00054455 : CHINA Shanghai - Konami hostesses take a break at the 2006 China Joy Digital Entertainment Expo. China has one of the fastest growing online gaming markets in the world.
00054453 : CHINA Yangquan, Shanxi Province - A power plant and its surrounding regions seen through thick smog. A survey from China's State Environmental Protection Agency shows that the province of Shanxi contains the top three cities with the worst air pollution in China. The city of Yangquan, which is reported to have the second worst case of air pollution in the country, has a very high concentration of power plants using readily available coal to supply China's major cities with electricity.
00054452 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - Visitors have their pictures taken with waxwork figures of Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher at an exhibition on the history of Hong Kong.
00054451 : CHINA Shanghai - A wall with many number eights stands near a new housing development. The number eight is often considered to be lucky as it is phonetically similar to the word 'to prosper' in Chinese.
00054450 : CHINA Shanghai - A Buddhist monk shops for groceries at a high-end supermarket.
00054448 : CHINA Beijing - Afternoon commuters ride their bicycles near the Tiananmen Square.
00054446 : CHINA Shanghai - A young girl points to the tiger tattoo of a young woman on a subway train.
00054445 : CHINA Shanghai - Two migrant workers take a break on top of their belongings outside of the railway station in Shanghai. According to the State Population and Family Planning Commission, China's migrant population has reached 150 million and has doubled in the past 10 years.
00054444 : CHINA Shanghai - Workers make backpacks at the Xinxin Bag Factory.
00054443 : CHINA Shanghai - Shoppers go through the checkout counters at a GSM Hualian Supermarket, one of several hypermarket chains owned by the Chinese retail conglomerate Shanghai Bailian Group.
00054442 : CHINA Shanghai - Commuters in a subway train carriage.
00054441 : CHINA Quzhou, Zhejiang Province - A cyclist peddles a bike on a muddy track near the Quzhou Juhua Chemical Factory.
00054439 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong Province - Workers walk across a construction site in front of a bank building.
00054438 : CHINA Yangquan, Shanxi Province - A man strolls down a walkway with the almost dry Tao River on the one side and a ten-kilometre long city beautification project, which cost 12 million USD, on its right. The demand for water in Yangquan often exceeds the supply.
00054436 : CHINA Beijing - Workers sanding the railing above the Mao portrait in Tiananmen Square.
00054430 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong Province - A worker looks onto the foundation of a residential development.
00054427 : CHINA Shanghai - A view of a road jammed with cars.
00054424 : CHINA Ningbo, Zhejiang Province - A worker on the assembly line at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054423 : CHINA Quzhou, Zhejiang Province - A view of the Quzhou Juhua Chemical Factory seen from a nearby abandoned apartment building.
00054422 : CHINA Shanghai - Shoppers take a break under a poster showing the history of the Wal-Mart company at a Wal-Mart supermarket store.
00054421 : CHINA Shanghai - A homeless man sleeps on a concrete block under an elevated highway.
00054420 : CHINA Ningbo, Zhejiang Province - Workers at the Geely Automobile Factory during dinner break at the company's canteen.
00054418 : CHINA Guilin, Guangxi Province - Dancing in a nightclub.
00054416 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - The city of Shenzhen seen from above.
00054415 : CHINA Guangxi Province - Visitors on a tourist boat cruising the Li River between Guilin and Yangshuo.
00054413 : CHINA Yangquan, Shanxi Province - Two men stroll down a walkway with the almost dry Tao River on the one side and a ten-kilometre long city beautification project, which cost 12 million USD, on its right. The demand for water in Yangquan often exceeds the supply.
00054411 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - Artist Wen Xiaoqiang paints a replica of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa in his tiny studio at Dafen Village near Shenzhen. Wen specialises in painting the Mona Lisa and has painted over 100 of them in the past two years. Dafen village houses some 6,000 painters and produces near 80% of the world's made-to-order and stock oil paintings.
00054410 : CHINA Shanghai - A woman opens up her umbrella as she walks past a large Reebok advertisement featuring NBA basketball star Yao Ming.
00054407 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - Artist Le Jiangchao works on a replica of Van Gogh's Sunflowers in his studio at Dafen Village near Shenzhen. Le Jiangchao also manages a sex shop from his studio in order to make ends meet. Dafen village houses some 6,000 painters and produces near 80% of the world's made-to-order and stock oil paintings.
00054406 : CHINA Beijing - Two men walk past a construction site.
00054399 : CHINA Shanghai - A young girl laughs out loud while playing a computer game at the 2006 China Joy Digital Entertainment Expo. China has one of the fastest growing online gaming markets in the world.
00054396 : CHINA Shanghai - Visitors takes in a birds-eye view of the city on the 88th floor observation deck of the Jin Mao Tower.
00054394 : CHINA Shanghai - A scavenger walks by a demolished neighbourhood.
00054393 : CHINA Shanghai - Children play before the opening of the first Toys "R" Us store in mainland China.
00054392 : CHINA Shanghai - Ceramic statues of Qing Dynasty and Cultural Revolution figures, as well as those of Chairman Mao, on display at the Dongtai antiques market.
00054391 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - The city of Shenzhen seen from above.
00054389 : CHINA Beijing - A man dressed up in a Qing Dynasty emperor costume waves to the crowds below in an attempt to attract them for costume rental in Tiananmen Square.
00054387 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Li Rifu (2nd left), his wife Chen Yanfei and his two sons Li Fengyang (1st right) and Li Fengwei (1st left) have a meal at their house in a village near Taizhou.
00054386 : CHINA Shanghai - Sales persons take a rest at a real estate expo. The city's per capita amount of land is approximately one twentieth of the national average. Subsequently, Shanghai has been designated as a testing ground for a more centralized, and hopefully more effective, vertical land administration system.
00054382 : CHINA Shanghai - An almost empty shopping space.
00054381 : CHINA Yanzhou, Shandong Province - A chimney from a small village factory bellows out a thick cloud of black smoke into the morning sky.
00054379 : CHINA Ningbo, Zhejiang Province - A worker on the assembly line at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054378 : CHINA Beijing - A worker stands on scaffolding near the Monument to the People's Heroes.
00054377 : CHINA Linfen, Shanxi Province - Workers building a chimney at a factory. A survey from China's State Environmental Protection Agency shows that the province of Shanxi contains the top three cities with the worst air pollution in China, with the city of Linfen topping the list.
00054376 : CHINA Shanghai - Workers make backpacks at the Xinxin Bag Factory.
00054374 : CHINA Ningbo, Zhejiang Province - A worker wearing a face mask on the assembly line at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054373 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Chen Yanfei holds a bundle of Chinese yuan at home before her husband, Li Rifu, sets off to buy a car in cash.
00054372 : CHINA Beijing - Pedestrians pass an image of Liu Xiang, China's athletics hurdling champion, on a milk advert.
00054371 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Worker's teacups on a shelf at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054367 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong Province - A worker applies paste onto a wall near a just-completed office building.
00054366 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - The city of Shenzhen seen from above.
00054365 : CHINA Shanghai - A woman looks at prices while shopping for vegetables at a Century Mart store, one of several hypermarket chains owned by the Chinese retail conglomerate Shanghai Bailian Group.
00054364 : CHINA Shanghai - A view from the Jin Mao Tower's 88th floor observation deck brings to life the immensity of the city's urbanisation.
00054363 : CHINA Shanghai - A worker repairs power lines.
00054362 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Zhang Jiahong makes adjustments to the steering wheel of a car at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054361 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - The Li family (from left to right: Chen Yanfei, Li Rifu, Li Fengwei, and Li Fengyang) in front of their newly purchased Geely car outside their home in a village near Taizhou.
00054359 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Forty-eight-year-old Li Rifu pays cash (RMB 66800) for a new Geely car at the automaker's dealership, which is attached to its factory complex in Taizhou.
00054358 : CHINA Shanghai - A worker takes a cigarette break while sitting near an advertisement for Johnnie Walker whisky.
00054353 : CHINA Shanghai - An archway in the Yu Yuan Garden.
00054349 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - A man sits next to a replica of Michelangelo's David at Dafen Village near Shenzhen. The village houses some 6,000 painters and produces near 80% of the world's made-to-order and stock oil paintings.
00054347 : CHINA Shanghai - A visitor walks past an advert for education in the UK at the 2006 International Education Fair. There is increasing pressure on students to obtain a career edge by studying overseas, China now has more than 300,000 students studying abroad.
00054346 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - A large lion statue stands outside of the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054345 : CHINA Shanghai - A guard stands next to a Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) display at the 2006 China Joy Digital Entertainment Expo. China has one of the fastest growing online gaming markets in the world.
00054343 : CHINA Shanghai - A beggar crosses a street in front of a BMW car.
00054342 : CHINA Shanghai - A youngster sits alone in a toy shopping cart at a Wal-Mart supermarket store.
00054335 : CHINA Shanghai - A man reacts to an approach from a street beggar.
00054334 : CHINA Beijing - A Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier stands guard at Tiananmen Square with the Monument to the People's Heroes in the background.
00054333 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - An artist paints the face of a customer onto a Thomas Jefferson painting at Dafen Village near Shenzhen. The village houses some 6,000 painters and produces near 80% of the world's made-to-order and stock oil paintings.
00054331 : CHINA Quzhou, Zhejiang Province - A man walking on a dirt road near the Quzhou Juhua Chemical Factory.
00054329 : CHINA Yanzhou, Shandong Province - A wealthy cricket collector squats near his BMW SUV to look at crickets on sale. Every August tens of thousands of cricket enthusiasts from major cities flock to rural Shandong, a place famed for its strong and ferocious crickets, to look for champions. The crickets, some fetching hundreds even thousands of dollars, are then fought in late September, drawing what insiders estimate to be some 25 to 35 million dollars a year.
00054327 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - A view of a smoggy city from an aeroplane.
00054326 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - A worker pushing the frame of a car at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054325 : CHINA Shandong Province - A train conductor on a passenger train to Yanzhou.
00054323 : CHINA Beijing - Visitors pass through Tiananmen, or the Gates of Heavenly Peace, in Tiananmen Square.
00054322 : CHINA Quzhou, Zhejiang Province - Workers brick up a wall near the Quzhou Juhua Chemical Factory.
00054321 : CHINA Shanghai - A man digs into a rubbish bin on a busy street.
00054320 : CHINA Shanghai - A man selling dolls walks past a decorative castle in front of a shopping mall.
00054319 : CHINA Shanghai - A child picks up an item from an aisle while shopping with his parents at a Century Mart store, one of several hypermarket chains owned by the Chinese retail conglomerate Shanghai Bailian Group.
00054318 : CHINA Shanghai - Workers make backpacks at the Xinxin Bag Factory.
00054316 : CHINA Shanghai - A young boy uses a cellphone at an airport in Shanghai.
00054315 : CHINA Beijing - Afternoon commuters ride their bicycles near the Tiananmen Square.
00054314 : CHINA Shanghai - A curious traffic assistant looks into a new shop that is soon to be opened.
00054312 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong Province - A man sits behind a bus window that displays an advertisement depicting a happy family.
00054311 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - A young girl plays near a portrait of the Chinese President Hu Jintao in her father's studio at Dafen Village. The village houses some 6,000 painters and produces near 80% of the world's made-to-order and stock oil paintings.
00054310 : CHINA Ningbo, Zhejiang Province - A worker on the assembly line at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054309 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Workers take a training session test at the Geely Automobile Factory.
00054308 : CHINA Linfen, Shanxi Province - A cyclist rides past a coking factory discharging thick plumes of smoke. A survey from China's State Environmental Protection Agency shows that the province of Shanxi contains the top three cities with the worst air pollution in China, with the city of Linfen topping the list.
00054306 : CHINA Shanghai - Pedestrians walk past a Citibank branch.
00054304 : CHINA Shanghai - A worker repairs power lines.
00054303 : CHINA Shanghai - Ceramic statues of Cultural Revolution figures, as well as those of Chairman Mao, on display at the Dongtai antiques market.
00054302 : CHINA Shanghai - Seventy-seven-year-old retired police officer Chen Alu goes to have a work unit sponsored physical examination. Most state-run companies and institutions pay for their retired former employees to have a physical check-up every year.
00054301 : CHINA Shanghai - A worker cleans a window reflecting the image of a crane in the banking district.
00054299 : CHINA Linfen, Shanxi Province - Smoke bellows from a coking factory behind a traditional building. A survey from China's State Environmental Protection Agency shows that the province of Shanxi contains the top three cities with the worst air pollution in China, with the city of Linfen topping the list.
00054298 : CHINA Guilin, Guangxi Province - Dancing in a nightclub.
00054297 : CHINA Shanghai - A family of four strolls through a Wal-Mart supermarket store.
00054296 : CHINA Shanghai - Workers carry a large door frame on a street.
00054293 : CHINA Gaotang, Guangdong Province - An elderly farmer unloads a basket of harvested rice, just separated from its stalks, into his tractor in a village field near Gaotang Township.
00054292 : CHINA Taizhou, Zhejiang Province - Forty-eight-year-old Li Rifu listens to Geely salesman Wang Jingping while sitting in a Geely car at the automaker's dealership, which is attached to its factory complex in Taizhou.
00054291 : CHINA Shanghai - A child of a migrant worker plays near his mother and their belongings outside of the railway station in Shanghai. According to the State Population and Family Planning Commission, China's migrant population has reached 150 million and has doubled in the past 10 years.
00054290 : CHINA Shandong Province - Cricket collectors place themselves on a village road to wait for the first wave of catchers coming in from the fields near Yanzhou. Every August tens of thousands of cricket enthusiasts from major cities flock to rural Shandong, a place famed for its strong and ferocious crickets, to look for champions. The crickets, some fetching hundreds even thousands of dollars, are then fought in late September, drawing what insiders estimate to be some 25 to 35 million dollars a year.
00054288 : CHINA Shanghai - Airport employees collect luggage carts at Pudong International Airport.
00054287 : CHINA Shanghai - The Pudong financial district seen from the inside of a China Telecom phone booth.
00054285 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - Pedestrians walk across a walkway in the city.
00054281 : CHINA Shanghai - A worker operates a lift with the Jin Mao Grand Hyatt building in the background.
00054280 : CHINA Linfen, Shanxi Province - A woman herds a flock of sheep past a coking factory. A survey from China's State Environmental Protection Agency shows that the province of Shanxi contains the top three cities with the worst air pollution in China, with the city of Linfen topping the list.
00054279 : CHINA Shanghai - A woman pedals a rickshaw while her husband sits in the back holding their baby.
00054278 : CHINA Shanghai - An elderly couple sit outside a store.
00054276 : CHINA Beijing - Passengers wait for their flights at the airport.
00054275 : CHINA Shanghai - A worker repairs power lines.
00054274 : CHINA Shanghai - Kids browse through toys at the opening of the first Toys "R" Us store in mainland China.
00054273 : CHINA Yangquan, Shanxi Province - A bridge crosses the almost dry Tao River. The demand for water in Yangquan often exceeds the supply.
00054272 : CHINA Shanghai - A couple look at a baby walker on the opening day of the first Toys "R" Us store in mainland China.
00054271 : CHINA Shanghai - A woman and her son pick up items from an aisle at a Century Mart store, one of several hypermarket chains owned by the Chinese retail conglomerate Shanghai Bailian Group.
00054269 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - Visitors have their pictures taken with waxwork figures of Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher at an exhibition on the history of Hong Kong.
00054268 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong Province - A worker shovels sand near a half-completed office building.
00054265 : CHINA Shanghai - A visitor has her picture taken near a window on the 88th floor observation deck of the Jin Mao Tower.
00054263 : CHINA Shanghai - Chairman Mao pins for sale at the Dongtai antiques market.
00054262 : CHINA Shanghai - People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers shop at a Carrefour supermarket.
00054260 : CHINA Shanghai - Visitors line up to try out a shooting game at the 2006 China Joy Digital Entertainment Expo. China has one of the fastest growing online gaming markets in the world.
00054259 : CHINA Yangquan, Shanxi Province - Two men stroll down a walkway with the almost dry Tao River on the one side and a ten-kilometre long city beautification project, which cost 12 million USD, on its right. The demand for water in Yangquan often exceeds the supply.
00054258 : CHINA Shanghai - A mother pushes her child in a toy shopping cart at a Century Mart store, one of several hypermarket chains owned by the Chinese retail conglomerate Shanghai Bailian Group.
00054256 : CHINA Yangquan, Shanxi Province - A teenage boy teases another as they cross an intersection.
00054255 : CHINA Shanghai - A man squats beside bags of shopping on a busy street.
00054253 : CHINA Guangzhou, Guangdong Province - A worker shovels sand near a half-completed office building.
00054252 : CHINA Guilin, Guangxi Province - Dancing in a nightclub.
00054251 : CHINA Shanghai - A female butcher at work at a meat wholesale market.
00054249 : CHINA Shanghai - An elderly couple walks past a large Reebok advertisement featuring NBA basketball star Yao Ming.
00054248 : CHINA Shanghai - A woman opens up her umbrella as she walks past a large Reebok advertisement featuring NBA basketball star Yao Ming.
00054246 : CHINA Linfen, Shanxi Province - Farmers look at once fertile farm land near a coking factory. The land is now almost useless. A survey from China's State Environmental Protection Agency shows that the province of Shanxi contains the top three cities with the worst air pollution in China, with the city of Linfen topping the list.
00054245 : CHINA Shanghai - People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers shop at a Carrefour supermarket.
00054244 : CHINA Shanghai - An investor looks at the board in a securities trading house.
00054243 : CHINA Shanghai - Two children enjoy reading a book at a summer book fair. The Chinese publishing industry has significantly loosened its censorship restrictions on printable books due to increasing commercial pressure. However, China still bans some of the more controversial works by both Chinese and foreign writers, inadvertently making them top sellers on the black market.
00054242 : CHINA Linfen, Shanxi Province - Smoke and flames are discharged from a coking factory. A survey from China's State Environmental Protection Agency shows that the province of Shanxi has the top three cities with the worst air pollution in China, with the city of Linfen topping the list.
00054241 : CHINA Shanghai - Images from the street reflect in a window case displaying items for sale at the Dongtai antiques market.
00054240 : CHINA Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - Pedestrians walk through the downtown area of the city at night.
00054239 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Indian women on Zanaki Street in the downtown area known as Little India. The long-standing Indian community is part of the commercial backbone of Tanzania's largest city.
00054238 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - An African employee working in an Indian-owned shop on Zanaki Street in the downtown area known as Little India. The long-standing Indian community is part of the commercial backbone of Tanzania's largest city.
00054237 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Indian woman on Zanaki Street in the downtown area known as Little India. The long-standing Indian community is part of the commercial backbone of Tanzania's largest city.
00054236 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Indian woman on Zanaki Street in the downtown area known as Little India. The long-standing Indian community is part of the commercial backbone of Tanzania's largest city.
00054235 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - An African employee working in an Indian-owned shop on Zanaki Street in the downtown area known as Little India. The long-standing Indian community is part of the commercial backbone of Tanzania's largest city.
00054234 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Freshly carved Makonde style wood carvings being covered with shoe polish to resemble ebony at the Mwende Carvers' Village on the edge of Dar es Salaam.
00054233 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Tinga Tinga style paintings for sale at a shop in Mwende Carvers' Village on the edge of Dar es Salaam.
00054232 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Craftsman at work, carving the face of a warrior figure in the Makonde style, at the Mwende Carvers' Village on the edge of Dar es Salaam.
00054231 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Craftsman at work, carving the face of a warrior figure in the Makonde style, at the Mwende Carvers' Village on the edge of Dar es Salaam.
00054230 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Youths about to dive into the Indian Ocean on Stone Town's waterfront, with boats at anchor beyond.
00054229 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Layers of society - Western and Tanzanian guests being served by waiters and entertained by tribal dancers at a reception on the lawns of one of the city's luxury hotels.
00054228 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Layers of society - Western and Tanzanian guests being served by waiters and entertained by tribal dancers at a reception on the lawns of one of the city's luxury hotels.
00054227 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Woman on a rooftop with laundry and a TV satellite dish with St. Joseph's Cathedral behind.
00054226 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Tourists ordering a fish dinner from food stalls in the Forodhani Gardens in Stone Town. Formerly a local market, it is now dominated by tourists.
00054225 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Youths diving into the Indian Ocean on Stone Town's waterfront, with boats at anchor beyond.
00054224 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Youth staring out at the Indian Ocean at sunset on Zanzibar's Stone Town waterfront.
00054223 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Tourism - a passing local Muslim boy looks at a Western woman in a bikini on the beach.
00054222 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Young Muslim women at the night food market in Forodhani Gardens with the House of Wonders (Beit el-Ajaib) behind.
00054221 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Potatoes for sale at Kariakoo market.
00054220 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Potatoes for sale at Kariakoo market.
00054219 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Indian man eating an ice lolly outside a tea shop in the downtown area of Dar es Salaam known as Little India. The long-standing Indian community is part of the commercial backbone of Tanzania's largest city.
00054218 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Coke seller off to set up stall at Forodhani Gardens.
00054217 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Young Muslim women on the waterfront in Stone Town.
00054216 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Packing up tourist stalls in Forodhani Gardens at the end of the day. Most stalls are held by migrants from the mainland, such as the Masai tribal people behind.
00054215 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Small square in Stone Town where local men (many showing Arab roots) gather to discuss politics, drink coffee and play dominoes.
00054214 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - 'No AIDS here - go away' graffiti. 'No AIDS' is the name of a local youth football team.
00054213 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - People (with Arab ethnicity visible) in discussion in Four Corner Square, a meeting point where four narrow lanes meet in the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town.
00054212 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Generic paintings for sale for tourists in a narrow lane in Stone Town, including an image of Masai warriors that have nothing to do with Zanzibar.
00054211 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Cultural clash - public notice for tourists at entry to the Beit el-Ajaib, the 'House of Wonders', asking for modest conduct and dress in public.
00054210 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Woman stallholder at Kariakoo market.
00054209 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Landcruiser going through crowds at Kariakoo market.
00054208 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Coke and onion seller's Nelson Mandela top at Kariakoo market.
00054207 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Woman selling tomatoes at Kariakoo market.
00054206 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Young Muslim women on the waterfront in Stone Town.
00054205 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Sign with a pensive looking monkey and the words 'I miss you' painted on the back of a public bus.
00054204 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Sign for an agricultural supplies shop in Kariakoo market.
00054203 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Brightly dressed Muslim women talking in the Forodhani Gardens.
00054202 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Painting for sale for concerned tourists showing local Mnazimmoja hospital and malaria, TB and AIDS patients.
00054201 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Coffee seller in Four Corner Square, a meeting point where four narrow lanes meet in the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town.
00054200 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Sign for tourist car and motorbike rental.
00054199 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - 'No AIDS here - go away' graffiti. 'No AIDS' is the name of a local youth football team.
00054198 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Couple after their wedding on Coco Beach (also known as Oyster Bay Beach).
00054197 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Couple having their wedding video shot on Coco Beach (also known as Oyster Bay Beach).
00054196 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Couple kissing on Coco Beach (also known as Oyster Bay Beach) after their wedding.
00054195 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - 'No AIDS' graffiti. 'No AIDS' is the name of a local youth football team.
00054194 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Boys jumping and doing somersaults while playing in the sand on Coco Beach (also known as Oyster Bay Beach).
00054193 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Wedding couple and their entourage going down onto Coco Beach to take their wedding video and photos.
00054192 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Boy buried up to his head, the only part of him visible, in sand on Coco Beach. His name (Sam) is written in the sand next to him.
00054191 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Boys at Coco Beach (also known as Oyster Bay Beach).
00054190 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Boys jumping and doing somersaults while playing in the sand on Coco Beach (also known as Oyster Bay Beach).
00054189 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Boys jumping and doing somersaults while playing in the sand on Coco Beach (also known as Oyster Bay Beach).
00054188 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Boy on Coco Beach (also known as Oyster Bay Beach).
00054187 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Cheap shoes imported from China for sale on a street corner close to Kariakoo market.
00054186 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Man selling coconuts on Coco Beach, carrying his wares in a basket on his head as he walks along by the Indian Ocean.
00054185 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Recycling - David Magomwa making sandals from old truck tyres. He has been making these shoes in the same place, in a busy lane close to Kariakoo market, for 25 years.
00054184 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Recycling - David Magomwa making sandals from old truck tyres. He has been making these shoes in the same place, in a busy lane close to Kariakoo market, for 25 years.
00054183 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Man drinking water sold in plastic bags downtown - the tap water is undrinkable.
00054182 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Unloading bananas at Kariakoo market.
00054181 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Unloading bananas at Kariakoo market.
00054180 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Cheap shoes imported from China for sale at a street stall close to Kariakoo market.
00054179 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Unloading bananas at Kariakoo market.
00054178 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Recycling - cutting up the old rubber inner tube of a tyre into strips in a busy lane close to Kariakoo market.
00054177 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Recycling - David Magomwa making sandals from old truck tyres. He has been making these shoes in the same place, in a busy lane close to Kariakoo market, for 25 years.
00054176 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Recycling - David Magomwa making sandals from old truck tyres. He has been making these shoes in the same place, in a busy lane close to Kariakoo market, for 25 years.
00054175 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Women standing on their buckets during an auction at the city's Magogoni fish market. The women - small-scale enterpreneurs - will then prepare the fish and sell it on the city's streets.
00054174 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - People facing the Indian Ocean on Coco Beach, the most popular bathing place in the city and a prime outing spot at weekends.
00054173 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - People facing the Indian Ocean on Coco Beach, the most popular bathing place in the city and a prime outing spot at weekends.
00054172 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Young women at a bar on Coco Beach, which at the weekends is one of the most popular spots in the city.
00054171 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Young women at a bar on Coco Beach.
00054170 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Young woman at the city's Magogoni fish market.
00054169 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Fried snacks for sale at Coco Beach, a prime outing spot at weekends.
00054168 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Women with plastic buckets on their heads going to the fish market. A new harbour tower, which is being built by a Chinese construction company, is taking shape behind them.
00054167 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Looking for fishing boats to arrive at Magogoni fish market.
00054166 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Young woman with wood for frying fish at the city's Magogoni fish market.
00054165 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Collecting water from a standpipe at the city's Magogoni fish market.
00054164 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Washing buckets at the city's Magogoni fish market, with a man chopping wood for frying fish behind.
00054163 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Porters with a block of ice at the city's Magogoni fish market. The present ice producing facilities are a result of Japanese aid funding.
00054162 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Frying fresh fish at Magogoni fish market.
00054161 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Frying fresh fish in a large vat at Magogoni fish market.
00054160 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Woman at the city's Magogoni fish market.
00054159 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Man with a Manchester United football cap at the city's Magogoni market.
00054158 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Cooks in the food hall of the city's Magogoni fish market.
00054157 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Porter with a block of ice at the city's Magogoni fish market. The present ice producing facilities are a result of Japanese aid funding.
00054156 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Preparing coconuts outside the food hall of the city's Magogoni fish market.
00054155 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Cooks in the food hall of the city's Magogoni fish market.
00054154 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Women standing on their buckets during an auction at the city's Magogoni fish market. The women - small-scale enterpreneurs - will then prepare the fish and sell it on the city's streets.
00054153 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Cooks sifting rice outside the food hall of the city's Magogoni fish market.
00054152 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Man praying at a Hindu Temple in the downtown area of Dar es Salaam known as Little India. The long-standing Indian community is part of the commercial backbone of Tanzania's largest city.
00054151 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Owner at the entrance to his shop selling Makonde style wooden sculptures, some antique and some produced on site at the Mwende Carvers' Village on the edge of Dar es Salaam.
00054150 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Vegetable stalls outside Kariakoo market, the city's largest.
00054149 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Graffiti in the Kariakoo district of the city.
00054148 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Little India - an entertaining but serious sign in one of the city's Hindu temples against the evils of drink.
00054147 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Sign warning tourists against black market money changing downtown.
00054146 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Children with Western greeting.
00054145 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Stone Town's Central Market in the Darajani district, dating from 1904.
00054144 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Fish stall in Zanzibar Stone Town's Central Market in the Darajani district.
00054143 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Mangos for sale at the Central Market.
00054142 : SINGAPORE - City view with contrasting architecture, showing shophouses of Chinatown in foreground and downtown business district skyscrapers behind.
00054141 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Boy with his pet monkey at dusk on Zanzibar's Stone Town waterfront.
00054140 : SINGAPORE - City view with contrasting architecture, showing shophouses of Chinatown in foreground, housing blocks at left and downtown business district skyscrapers behind, seen from a high floor of a public housing block.
00054139 : SINGAPORE - Indonesian migrant labourer cleaning the pavement of the Marina Promenade across the Singapore River from the skyscrapers of the main downtown business district.
00054138 : SINGAPORE - Public housing blocks and skyscrapers.
00054137 : SINGAPORE - Public housing blocks downtown.
00054136 : SINGAPORE - View of Singapore downtown business district skyscrapers from across Marina Bay.
00054135 : SINGAPORE - Lunchtime crowds in Raffles Place, the centre of the main business district.
00054134 : SINGAPORE - Dusk view of skyscrapers in the main business district by the Singapore River.
00054133 : SINGAPORE - Downtown skyscrapers in the main business district.
00054132 : SINGAPORE - Businessmen in Raffles Place, the centre of the main business district.
00054131 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Anti malaria poster comparing fishermen's nets and nets to protect against mosquitoes.
00054130 : TANZANIA Dar es Salaam - Indian barbershop in the downtown area of Dar es Salaam known as Little India. The long-standing Indian community is part of the commercial backbone of Tanzania's largest city.
00054129 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Food stall cooking in Forodhani Gardens at dusk.
00054128 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Cyclist passing the Beit el-Ajaib, the 'House of Wonders', built for the Sultan and now a national museum.
00054127 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Man consulting his mobile telephone.
00054126 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Declaration of 'Children's Rights' on the outside wall of a Christian school.
00054125 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Declaration of 'Children's Rights' on the outside wall of a Christian school.
00054124 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Girl and painting of a schoolgirl on the outside wall of a school.
00054123 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Setting out fish on a food stall for the night market in Forodhani Gardens. Formerly a local market, it is now dominated by tourists.
00054122 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - A tourist ordering a fish dinner from food stalls in the Forodhani Gardens in Stone Town. Formerly a local market, it is now dominated by tourists.
00054121 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Food stalls in Forodhani Gardens at night.
00054120 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Dirty backstreet - most of Zanzibar remains extremely poor despite the growth in the tourism industry.
00054119 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Muslim fathers and sons after Friday prayers in a lane in Stone Town.
00054118 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Setting out food stalls for the night market in Forodhani Gardens. Formerly a local market, it is now dominated by tourists.
00054117 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Preparing greens for a food stall at Forodhani Gardens night food market in Stone Town.
00054116 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Poor housing makes up most of Zanzibar's main city outside the historic Stone Town.
00054115 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Memorial of the slave trade on the site of the former slave market (now the grounds of the Anglican Cathedral).
00054114 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Muslim women in a lane in Stone Town.
00054113 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Boy carrying a bowl on his head in Stone Town.
00054112 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Muslims in Stone Town.
00054111 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Muslim woman, covered apart from her eyes, passing a political slogan for the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party in Stone Town.
00054110 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - People attending a service in the Anglican Cathedral, built on the site of a former slave market.
00054109 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Political slogan for the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party in Stone Town.
00054108 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Altar boys leading the procession out at the end of a service in the Anglican Cathedral, built on the site of the former slave market.
00054107 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Transporting cooked biriani (rice steamed with spices) to a wedding celebration.
00054106 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Memorial of the slave trade on the site of a former slave market (now the grounds of the Anglican Cathedral).
00054105 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Holding cells for slaves - the only physical remains of Zanizibar's slave market in the grounds of the Anglican Cathedral.
00054104 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Spices ready to mix with rice to make a biriani for a wedding celebration.
00054103 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Cooking biriani on a large scale for a wedding celebration. The bread around the rim is from the dough used to seal the lid on so that the mixture of rice and spices steams properly.
00054102 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Transporting cooked biriani (rice steamed with spices) to a wedding celebration.
00054101 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Decaying city - old building propped up with wooden joints. Despite efforts at restoration, much of the historic city is in a state of collapse.
00054100 : TANZANIA Stone Town, Zanzibar - Stone Town's Central Market in the Darajani district, dating from 1904.
00054099 : SINGAPORE - Western businessman in discussion on the terrace of a cafe in the main business district.
00054098 : SINGAPORE - Multi-ethnic businessmen and office workers by Raffles Place at lunchtime in the main business district.
00054097 : SINGAPORE - Lunchtime crowds in Raffles Place, the centre of the main business district.
00054096 : SINGAPORE - Young woman, an office worker, in Raffles Place, the centre of the main business district.
00054095 : SINGAPORE - Businessmen on the terrace of a cafe in the main business district.
00054094 : SINGAPORE - Businessmen talking on their mobile telephones at Raffles Place in the main business district.
00054093 : SINGAPORE - Businessmen using a laptop computer during a meeting around a snack restaurant table downtown.
00054092 : SINGAPORE - Lunchtime crowds of office workers eating at Lau Pa Sat (Old Market) Festival Market downtown in the main business district.
00054091 : SINGAPORE - Young woman passing a downtown bank advertisement showing a happy couple being guided through financial choices with the title 'Wealth Management'.
00054090 : SINGAPORE - Multi-ethnic society - an Indian man, sitting next to a Chinese woman and Malay man, using a mobile telephone while travelling in carriage of MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) train.
00054089 : SINGAPORE - Businessman in the lunchtime crowds talking on his mobile telephone at Raffles Place in the main business district.
00054088 : SINGAPORE - Businessman smoking a cigarette and talking on his mobile telephone near Raffles Place in the main business district.
00054087 : SINGAPORE - Young woman using her mobile telephone while out shopping.
00054086 : SINGAPORE - Young woman consulting her mobile telephone while travelling on an MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) train.
00054085 : SINGAPORE - Newspaper reader waiting for a subway train on the platform of an MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) station.
00054084 : SINGAPORE - People on an MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) train.
00054083 : SINGAPORE - Train on raised tracks, part of the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) system, passing a temple.
00054082 : SINGAPORE - Youth listening to an MP3 player while waiting for a train on the platform of an MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) station.
00054081 : SINGAPORE - Multi-cultural society - a danger sign in four languages on the exterior of a construction site.
00054080 : SINGAPORE - Multi-racial society - Chinese, Indian, Malay and Western people waiting at a pedestrian crossing in the shopping crowds on Orchard Rd.
00054079 : SINGAPORE - Anti-smoking campaign - a sign as a road marking on Orchard Road proclaiming, 'Are you a smoker? This is the state of your lungs after 2 years.'
00054078 : SINGAPORE - Alternative youth hanging out at the Skateboard Park close to Orchard Rd, organised by the Government as the only free space to skateboard (and graffiti) in the city.
00054077 : SINGAPORE - Sign in MRT (Mass Rapid Transport) station banning smoking (fine S$1000), flammable liquids (fine S$5000), eating and drinking (fine S$500) and durian fruit.
00054076 : SINGAPORE - Sign against dropping litter - fine S$1000.
00054075 : SINGAPORE - Malay woman passing a public health notice encouraging cleanliness at a market . The poster, which is entitled '8 habits of OK people', includes anti-SARS measures such as the instruction to "Spit, Cough and Sneeze Into Tissue".
00054074 : SINGAPORE - Lion dancers celebrating the coming Chinese New Year at Raffles Place in the main business district.
00054073 : SINGAPORE - Alternative youth couple hanging out at the Skateboard Park close to Orchard Rd, organised by the Government as the only free space to skateboard (and graffiti) in the city.
00054072 : SINGAPORE - Youth covering a skateboard ramp with another layer of graffiti at the Skateboard Park close to Orchard Rd. It is the only public place in the city where graffiti is allowed.
00054071 : SINGAPORE - Bird lover carrying his six pet birds in cages while waiting to cross the road with apartment buildings behind.
00054070 : SINGAPORE - Women playing mahjong (mah jong) in the corridor of a public housing block in Chinatown, with downtown business district visible behind.
00054069 : SINGAPORE - Contrasting architecture, showing the shophouses of Chinatown along South Bridge Road and downtown business district skyscrapers behind.
00054068 : SINGAPORE - Restored Chinese shophouses, now fashionable shops and bars, along Mosque Street in Chinatown, with office buildings in the main district visible behind.
00054067 : SINGAPORE - Reflection of traditional Chinese shophouses in the windscreen of a car in Chinatown.
00054066 : SINGAPORE - Chinese New Year statue.
00054065 : SINGAPORE - Women playing mahjong (mah jong) in a corridor of a public housing block in Chinatown.
00054064 : SINGAPORE - Women playing mahjong (mah jong) in a corridor of a public housing block in Chinatown.
00054063 : SINGAPORE - Mother and daughter in the Chinatown night market during the build up to Chinese New Year.
00054062 : SINGAPORE - Chinatown night market busy in the lead up to Chinese New Year.
00054061 : SINGAPORE - Chinatown night market busy in the lead up to Chinese New Year.
00054060 : SINGAPORE - Chinatown shop with Japanese Toshiba and South Korean LG and Daewoo refrigerators and washing machines.
00054059 : SINGAPORE - Stall selling pomello fruit for Chinese New Year in Chinatown night market.
00054058 : SINGAPORE - Cleaners at work in a restored Chinese shophouse brightly decorated with flowers in Chinatown.
00054057 : SINGAPORE - Neon feet advertising in Chinatown.
00054056 : SINGAPORE - Chinese woman praying at the Thian Hock Keng Temple, which has both Buddhist and Taoist elements, in Chinatown.
00054055 : SINGAPORE - Drinks stand advertising a wide range of menu items, from "Grass Jelly and Water Chestnut" to "Bubble Tea" and "Lychee Snow Shake", in a Chinatown hawker centre.
00054054 : SINGAPORE - Father having a drink with his two children at a hawker centre in Chinatown.
00054053 : SINGAPORE - Hawker centre crowds.
00054052 : SINGAPORE - Man in crowds of customers at a busy hawker centre near Bugis Street.
00054051 : SINGAPORE - Women preparing dumplings at a table in a Chinatown hawker centre.
00054050 : SINGAPORE - Cook cooking a noodle dish in a wok at a Chinatown hawker centre.
00054049 : SINGAPORE - Cook cooking a noodle dish in a wok at a Chinatown hawker centre.
00054048 : SINGAPORE - Man passing advertising in the window of a department store on Orchard Rd.
00054047 : SINGAPORE - Steamed dumplings in a bamboo basket at a stand in a Chinatown hawker centre.
00054046 : SINGAPORE - Obese woman ordering from a menu in a downtown cafe.
00054045 : SINGAPORE - Obese woman ordering from a menu in a downtown cafe.
00054044 : SINGAPORE - Housing blocks in the Jurong district.
00054043 : SINGAPORE - Advertising for Japanese Casio 'Baby-G' watches at a bus stop on Orchard Rd.
00054042 : SINGAPORE - Young women at a bus stop.
00054041 : SINGAPORE - Japanese influence - people eating at a revolving (Kaiten) sushi bar in the city centre.
00054040 : SINGAPORE - Bangladeshi migrants, working as construction labourers, finishing a break on the site of a commercial development downtown before continuing to work into the night.
00054039 : SINGAPORE - A construction labourer working on a bridge support in the Singapore River.
00054038 : SINGAPORE - Bangladeshi migrants, working as construction labourers, asleep on the pavement during a break from work on a downtown office development.
00054037 : SINGAPORE - Islamic headscarves on display on the heads of mannequins at a Malay market.
00054036 : SINGAPORE - Bangladeshi migrants, working as construction labourers, finishing a break on the site of a commercial development downtown before continuing to work into the night.
00054035 : SINGAPORE - Sunday evening crowds of migrant workers from the Indian subcontinent in Little India.
00054034 : SINGAPORE - Migrant labourers from the Indian subcontinent buying vegetables at the Sunday night market in Little India.
00054033 : SINGAPORE - Ethnic minority - Indian men in an MTR (Mass Rapid Transit) train.
00054032 : SINGAPORE - Ethnic minority - Malay magazines for sale at a Malay market.
00054031 : SINGAPORE - Ethnic minority - Malay Muslim men in discussion (as a Malay woman and child passes behind) at a Malay market.
00054030 : SINGAPORE - An Indian man with a second-hand computer monitor, which will be packed for export to Indonesian destinations, in Little India.
00054029 : SINGAPORE - Indian man in his public housing apartment.
00054028 : SINGAPORE - United by low incomes - Chinese, Malay and Indian people at a clothing stand at the Thieves Market, a weekly bazaar selling second-hand goods, next to Little India.
00054027 : SINGAPORE - People looking at Malay karaoke playing on a TV for sale at the Thieves Market, a weekly bazaar selling second-hand goods, next to Little India.
00054026 : SINGAPORE - Second-hand computer monitors, which are being packed for export to Indonesian destinations, in Little India.
00054025 : SINGAPORE - Indian men with second-hand computer monitors, which are being packed for export to Indonesian destinations, in Little India.
00054024 : SINGAPORE - An Indian man with second-hand computer monitors, which are being packed for export to Indonesian destinations, in Little India.
00054023 : SINGAPORE - Man shifting old televisions, which will be packed for export to African destinations, in Little India.
00054022 : SINGAPORE - Second-hand computer monitors, which are being packed for export to Malaysian destinations for recycling, in Little India.
00054021 : SINGAPORE - Indian man repairing a used computer at the entrance to a shop selling second-hand computer equipment in Little India. Much of the stock will be exported to Asian and African countries.
00054020 : SINGAPORE - Potential customers outside stores selling second-hand computer equipment in Little India. Much of their trade is for export to developing countries.
00054019 : SINGAPORE - Trouble sleeping - a homeless man sleeping rough on a concourse in a public housing block in Chinatown.
00054018 : SINGAPORE - Preparing cardboard, collected on the street, for export to India for recycling at a deport in Little India. Collectors, mostly elderly people without pensions, earn S$2 for every kilo of cardboard that they bring.
00054017 : SINGAPORE - Poverty - an old woman in Chinatown earning a few dollars by collecting waste paper and cardboard, which she will sell on to depots that export the material to Indian and Chinese recyclers.
00054016 : SINGAPORE - Poverty - man sleeping on an upper floor of a multi-storey car park.
00054015 : CHINA Shahe, Beijing - A McDonald's employee working at a new drive-through in a northern Beijing suburb. McDonald's opened its first restaurant in China in 1990 and has grown to manage 780 outlets with approximately 50,000 employees in 120 cities.
00054014 : SINGAPORE - Poverty - a homeless man sleeping rough on a concourse in a public housing block in Chinatown.
00054013 : SINGAPORE - Man fishing from the support of a bridge over the mouth of the Singapore River.
00054012 : SINGAPORE - Man fishing from the support of a bridge over the mouth of the Singapore River.
00054011 : TIBET Lhasa - A Buddhist monk chanting at Drepung Monastery outside Lhasa.
00054010 : CHINA Shahe, Beijing - A server hands a tray to a customer at a McDonald's outlet in a northern Beijing suburb. McDonald's opened its first restaurant in China in 1990 and has grown to manage 780 outlets with approximately 50,000 employees in 120 cities.
00054009 : CHINA Shahe, Beijing - A McDonald's employee waits for customers at a newly opened outlet in the Beijing suburbs. McDonald's opened its first restaurant in China in 1990 and has grown to manage 780 outlets with approximately 50,000 employees in 120 cities.
00054008 : TIBET Lhasa - Buddhist monks attend prayers as a shaft of light shines into the room at Drepung Monastery outside Lhasa.
00054007 : TIBET Lhasa - Buddhist monks chanting as a shaft of light shines into the room at Drepung Monastery outside Lhasa.
00054006 : TIBET Lhasa - Yak butter lanterns burn at the Deprung Monastery.
00054005 : TIBET Lhasa - Women wearing numbers on a stage at the New Salon Night Club on Sunny Island, a Han Chinese neighbourhood in Lhasa. The women will sit at the tables of customers who pay 200 RMB (about $22) for their company.
00054004 : TIBET Lhasa - Monks emerge from the main hall of the Deprung Monastery after midday prayers.
00054003 : TIBET Gyantse - Devotees pay homage to a photo of the late 10th Panchen Lama at Baiju Monastery.
00054002 : TIBET Lhasa - A shopper looks at a blender, which is used for making yak butter, for sale in Lhasa.
00054001 : TIBET Lhasa - A female farmer with a face mask sitting in the back of a truck while on her way to Lhasa with supplies, including a goat, for the Tibetan New Year.
00054000 : TIBET Lhasa - Tibetan karaoke singer Dawa, 24, sings traditional songs in at the Century Club, a bar in the Han Chinese neighbourhood of Sunny Island.
00053999 : TIBET Gyantse - A child tries on a new coat on market day in a small village near Gyantse.
00053998 : TIBET Lhasa - Tibetan karaoke singer Dawa, 24, sings traditional songs in at the Century Club, a bar in the Han Chinese neighbourhood of Sunny Island in Lhasa.
00053997 : TIBET Lhasa - A pilgrim holds his child inside his coat as he circles the Jokhang Temple.
00053996 : TIBET Gyantse - A Buddhist monk adds yak butter to lanterns in the Baiju Monastery.
00053995 : CHINA Shanghai - The construction of the Shanghai World Financial Centre underway in the Pudong district. Once complete, the structure will be one of the world's tallest buildings at 101 storeys and measuring 492 metres tall.
00053994 : TIBET Lhasa - A man shops for a new television in a Lhasa shop.
00053993 : TIBET Lhasa - A Tibetan family aboard a train from Beijing to Lhasa.
00053992 : TIBET Lhasa - A young mother makes noodles in a traditional house. The homes in the area are scheduled to be knocked down and the occupants will be moved to more modern dwellings.
00053991 : TIBET Gyantse - Political posters featuring Chinese leaders in the home of a farmer. Local authorities often insist that people put such pictures up in their homes.
00053990 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A woman selling skipjack tuna that were caught by her husband earlier that day. Local fishermen are disgruntled by the practice of foreign purse seiners selling their by-catch at heavily reduced prices to the community.
00053989 : TIBET Lhasa - People walk past a traditional house with the Chinese word 'chai', which means 'demolish', painted on its exterior. The homes in the area are scheduled to be knocked down and the occupants will be moved to more modern dwellings.
00053988 : TIBET Lhasa - A woman walks past a traditional house with the Chinese word 'chai', which means 'demolish', painted on its exterior. The homes in the area are scheduled to be knocked down and the occupants will be moved to more modern dwellings.
00053987 : KIRIBATI South Tarawa - Garbage on a beach in Tarawa. The rapidly increasing urban population are facing serious health and environmental problems in South Tarawa. With over 36,700 people living on the island of 15.76 sq km, the population density exceeds 2,300 persons per sq. km.
00053986 : KIRIBATI South Tarawa - Garbage on a beach in Tarawa. The rapidly increasing urban population are facing serious health and environmental problems in South Tarawa. With over 36,700 people living on the island of 15.76 sq km, the population density exceeds 2,300 persons per sq. km.
00053985 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A portrait of a young girl.
00053984 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A girl goes for a swim in a lagoon.
00053983 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - An Asian sailor drinks at a bar while his ship is at anchor in Tarawa harbour.
00053982 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A portrait of a young girl.
00053981 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A group of teenage girls in their school uniforms.
00053980 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A mother and her child wait for Sunday Mass to begin in a Catholic church.
00053979 : KIRIBATI Betio, South Tarawa - A young girl wearing a flower garland on her head as she performs a traditional dance.
00053978 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - Children arrive at a church to attend Sunday Mass.
00053977 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - Catholics attend Sunday Mass in Tarawa.
00053976 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - Women attend a Sunday Mass.
00053975 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - An elderly woman with her granddaughter in a Catholic church.
00053974 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A lab worker tests blood samples for HIV/AIDS at Tarawa Hospital. Aid workers are concerned about the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases amongst the small population of Kiribati.
00053973 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A sea view from Tarawa.
00053972 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A lab worker tests blood samples for HIV/AIDS at Tarawa Hospital. Aid workers are concerned about the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases amongst the small population of Kiribati.
00053971 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - Mainland Chinese purse seiner workers transship fish while in Tarawa port.
00053970 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A young man has a blood test in Tarawa Hospital. Aid workers are concerned about the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases amongst the small population of Kiribati.
00053969 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A naked boy rides a bicycle along the Betio jetty.
00053968 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - Linda gets a ride back on a Taiwanese fishing boat after several days of serving as a sex worker on a visiting trade ship. Increasing numbers young women (known locally as "te korekorea") appear to be working in Kiribati's commercial sex trade, which seems to be largely fuelled by the crews of foreign fishing vessels visiting Tarawa's port. Since no criminal provisions exist in Kiribati's law for overseas child sex tourism or prostitution, human rights groups are concerned that teenagers and children may be under threat.
00053967 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A sex worker boards a Taiwanese boat while it is in Tarawa's port. Increasing numbers young women (known locally as "te korekorea") appear to be working in Kiribati's commercial sex trade, which seems to be largely fuelled by the crews of foreign fishing vessels visiting Tarawa's port. Since no criminal provisions exist in Kiribati's law for overseas child sex tourism or prostitution, human rights groups are concerned that teenagers and children may be under threat.
00053966 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A young woman, who claimed to have a "Chinese boyfriend" and joked that they had sex every hour, on a Taiwanese purse seiner. Increasing numbers young women (known locally as "te korekorea") appear to be working in Kiribati's commercial sex trade, which seems to be largely fuelled by the crews of foreign fishing vessels visiting Tarawa's port. Since no criminal provisions exist in Kiribati's law for overseas child sex tourism or prostitution, human rights groups are concerned that teenagers and children may be under threat.
00053965 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A family selling skipjack tuna on the roadside.
00053964 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - Linda, a 21-year-old sex worker who says she has "Chinese boyfriends" and sometimes spends days and nights on visiting purse seiners in the Tarawa harbour, lying on her bed. Increasing numbers young women (known locally as "te korekorea") appear to be working in Kiribati's commercial sex trade, which seems to be largely fuelled by the crews of foreign fishing vessels visiting Tarawa's port. Since no criminal provisions exist in Kiribati's law for overseas child sex tourism or prostitution, human rights groups are concerned that teenagers and children may be under threat.
00053963 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - Skipjack tuna for sale on the street.
00053962 : KIRIBATI Betio, South Tarawa - Women labour in a small textile workshop.
00053961 : KIRIBATI Betio, South Tarawa - Schoolgirls chat after classes.
00053960 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A young girl looks out over the sea at sunset.
00053959 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A class of teenagers in a government school.
00053958 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A class of teenagers in a government school.
00053957 : KIRIBATI Tarawa - A traditional Kiribati dance.
00053956 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen (centre), a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, is escorted by her father as she prepares to leave her family home on her wedding day and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053955 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen (left), a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, prepares to leave her family home and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053954 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, with friends on her wedding day as she prepares to leave her family home and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053953 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, prepares to leave her family home on her wedding day and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053952 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen (centre), a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, is escorted by her father and brother as she prepares to leave her family home on her wedding day and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053951 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Relatives of Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old woman from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, weep on her wedding day as Arwad prepares to leave her family home and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053950 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen (left), a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, talks with relatives on her wedding day as she prepares to leave her family home and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053949 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, prepares to leave her family home on her wedding day and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053948 : ISRAEL Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, prepares to cross a UN zone crossing along the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053947 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Relatives of Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old woman from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, stand near the wedding car as Arwad prepares to leave her family home and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053946 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, prepares to leave her family home on her wedding day and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053945 : ISRAEL Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, prepares to cross a UN zone crossing along the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053944 : ISRAEL Netanya - Haifa supporters light flares during a football match between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Netanya at Hakufsa (Sar-Tov) Stadium.
00053943 : ISRAEL Netanya - Supporters of the Maccabi Netanya football team welcome supporters of rival team Maccabi Haifa at Hakufsa (Sar-Tov) Stadium.
00053942 : ISRAEL Bukata, Golan Heights - Arwad Abu Shaheen (centre), a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, talks with relatives on her wedding day as she prepares to leave her family home and travel across the Israeli-Syrian border to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053941 : ISRAEL Golan Heights - A relative of Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, watches from a UN zone crossing along the Israeli-Syrian border as Arwad leaves Israel in order to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053940 : ISRAEL Golan Heights - Relatives of Arwad Abu Shaheen, a twenty-five-year-old bride from the Druze (Druse) village of Bukata, watch from a UN zone crossing along the Israeli-Syrian border as Arwad leaves Israel in order to marry her Syrian fiance, thirty-year-old Muhanad Hareb. The Druze community of the Golan Heights, an area occupied by Israel in the Six-Day war, maintain Syrian relations and many of the Druze residents remain loyal to the Syrian regime.
00053939 : ISRAEL Netanya - Netanya supporters before a football match between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Netanya at Hakufsa (Sar-Tov) Stadium.
00053938 : ISRAEL Netanya - Members of the Green Apes group, supporters of the Maccabi Haifa football team, outside Hakufsa (Sar-Tov) Stadium.
00053937 : ISRAEL Netanya - A musician with a violin and a cello player, part of the orchestra playing before a football match between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Netanya, watch the football players training at Hakufsa (Sar-Tov) Stadium.
00053936 : KOSOVO Meja - The graves of Albanian Catholics and Muslims at a burial ground near the Albanian border. One of the worst massacres of the war took place on this spot when nearly 500 people, mostly men, were taken from refugee convoys and executed by Serbs at the side of the road.
00053935 : ISRAEL Netanya - A cello player, part of an orchestra playing before a football match between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Netanya, leaves the ground at Hakufsa (Sar-Tov) Stadium.
00053934 : ISRAEL Netanya - A policeman watches Netanya supporters during a football match between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Netanya at Hakufsa (Sar-Tov) Stadium.
00053933 : ISRAEL Netanya - A border policeman watches Netanya supporters during a football match between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Netanya at Hakufsa (Sar-Tov) Stadium.
00053932 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Jerusalem football supporters and an ultra-orthodox Jew, who is collecting charity before a match between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv, outside Bloomfield Stadium.
00053931 : ISRAEL Netanya - Smoke rises from flares lit by Haifa supporters during a football match between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Netanya at Hakufsa (Sar-Tov) Stadium.
00053930 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Jerusalem supporters cheering after their team scored a goal during a football match between Beitar Jerusalem and Macabbi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield Stadium.
00053929 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - A Jerusalem football supporter wraps his team scarf around an ultra-orthodox Jew, who is collecting charity before a match between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv, outside Bloomfield Stadium.
00053928 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Tel Aviv supporters light a flare during a football match between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield Stadium.
00053927 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Two Jerusalem supporters are arrested after lighting flares and smoke grenades during a football match between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield Stadium.
00053926 : ISRAEL Sakhnin - Abbas Suan (right), a football player for Maccabi Haifa, with his father at his home in the northern Israeli-Arab town of Sakhnin. Suan is one of the leading Israeli-Arab players, and an Israeli internationalist.
00053925 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Jerusalem supporters celebrating with a player after their team scored a goal during a football match between Beitar Jerusalem and Macabbi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield Stadium.
00053924 : ISRAEL Sakhnin - Abbas Suan (right), a football player for Maccabi Haifa, with his father at his home in the northern Israeli-Arab town of Sakhnin. Suan is one of the leading Israeli-Arab players, and an Israeli internationalist.
00053923 : ISRAEL Degania - Diti (right) and Sergio Wainer-Mazzini (left) with their daughters, Eden and Shoham, at the northern Degania kibbutz. Degania, the first Jewish kibbutz, is currently in the process of being privatised.
00053922 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - A female referee exchanges looks with supporters of the Ha'poel (Hapoel) Tel Aviv football team before a match against Bnei Yehuda at the Bloomfield Stadium.
00053921 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Flags waved by the "Ultras" supporters of the Ha'poel (Hapoel) Tel Aviv football team, which is known for its original left-wing orientation, during a match against Bnei Yehuda at Bloomfield Stadium.
00053920 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - A leader of "Ultras" supporters of the Ha'poel (Hapoel) Tel Aviv football team during a match against Bnei Yehuda at Bloomfield Stadium. The flag of the past communist hero Che Guevara symbolises the original left-wing orientation of the Ha'poel team.
00053919 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Two ultra-orthodox Jewish girls, dressed up for the holiday of Purim, walk through the ultra-orthodox neighbourhood of Me'a She'arim.
00053918 : ISRAEL Degania - Shai, the Secretary of the northern Degania kibbutz, at the local museum. Degania, the first Jewish kibbutz, is currently in the process of being privatised.
00053917 : ISRAEL Degania - Kibbutz members at the northern Degania kibbutz. Degania, the first Jewish Kibbutz, is currently in the process of being privatised.
00053916 : KOSOVO Pristina - A new shopping centre on the outskirts of Pristina.
00053915 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Next to an old beggar, a group of ultra-orthodox Jewish men dance and sing as they celebrate the holiday of Purim in the ultra-orthodox neighbourhood of Me'a She'arim.
00053914 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Ultra-orthodox Jewish men dance and sing as they celebrate the holiday of Purim in the ultra-orthodox neighbourhood of Me'a She'arim.
00053913 : KOSOVO Krushe e Vogel / Mala Krusa - On 26th March 1999 over 100 men from this village were rounded up, allegedly by their Serbian neighbours, and shot dead in a stable, which was then set on fire. The bodies of the men have never been recovered. The massacre here formed part of the indictment against Slobodan Milosevic by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
00053912 : KOSOVO Prekaz - The night of the fires. On the 7th March 1998, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Commander Adem Jashari was killed along with 28 members of his family during a battle with Serb forces who had come to his house to apprehend him. His death has become legend, and every year it is commemorated by up to 50,000 people who attend a bonfire ceremony in his village.
00053911 : KOSOVO Suva Reka - The Kalabria pizzeria, the scene of one of the most infamous massacres during the war in Kosovo. 57 members of the Berisha family, mostly women and children, were murdered here in March 1999. Their bodies were buried at a nearby army base, then dug up and transported to a mass grave at Batajnica, just outside the Serbian capital. Eight Serbian policemen are now on trial for the murders.
00053910 : KOSOVO Suva Reka - The Kalabria pizzeria, the scene of one of the most infamous massacres during the war in Kosovo. 57 members of the Berisha family, mostly women and children, were murdered here in March 1999. Their bodies were buried at a nearby army base, then dug up and transported to a mass grave at Batajnica, just outside the Serbian capital. Eight Serbian policemen are now on trial for the murders.
00053909 : KOSOVO Nr. Pristina - The infamous Kosovo A Power Station, just outside Pristina. Since the UN took control of the province in 1999, power cuts have been an almost daily occurrence, especially during the winter when it is not unusual for the electricity to be off for up to eight hours per day.
00053908 : KOSOVO Suva Reka - The Kalabria pizzeria, the scene of one of the most infamous massacres during the war in Kosovo. 57 members of the Berisha family, mostly women and children, were murdered here in March 1999. Their bodies were buried at a nearby army base, then dug up and transported to a mass grave at Batajnica, just outside the Serbian capital. Eight Serbian policemen are now on trial for the murders.
00053907 : KOSOVO Pristina - Members of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) attend a ceremony in Pristina. The KPC, which was formed from the ranks of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), will be disbanded under the independence plan for Kosovo and its soldiers will be retrained.
00053906 : KOSOVO Obilic - A young boy walks home near the town of Obilic.
00053905 : KOSOVO Suva Reka - The Kalabria pizzeria, the scene of one of the most infamous massacres during the war in Kosovo. 57 members of the Berisha family, mostly women and children, were murdered here in March 1999. Their bodies were buried at a nearby army base, then dug up and transported to a mass grave at Batajnica, just outside the Serbian capital. Eight Serbian policemen are now on trial for the murders.
00053904 : KOSOVO Obilic - A Serbian Orthodox Church in the town of Obilic, which was once ethnically diverse, but is now almost exclusively Albanian.
00053903 : KOSOVO Gjakova / Djakovica - A new cathedral is being built by Albanian Catholics, who are a large minority in this part of Kosovo, on a Yugoslav military base that was destroyed by NATO in the 1999 war. Behind lies the edge of Gjakova, a town badly damaged during the war.
00053902 : KOSOVO Meja - The graves of Albanian Catholics and Muslims at a burial ground near the Albanian border. One of the worst massacres of the war took place on this spot when nearly 500 people, mostly men, were taken from refugee convoys and executed by Serbs at the side of the road.
00053901 : USA New Jersey, United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone (left), a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, talks with Moshe Mairowitz (right), the Plant Manager of A&B Famous Gefilte Fish Inc. A&B is one of the 72 food processing businesses that Rabbi Stone certifies as kosher. Rabbi Stone keeps an inventory of every ingredient used by all the businesses that he deals with. He records all the information on his laptop.
00053900 : USA United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, visits one of the 72 food processing businesses that he certifies as kosher. Rabbi Stone keeps an inventory of every ingredient used by all the businesses that he deals with. He records all the information on his laptop.
00053899 : USA New Jersey, United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, driving from New Jersey into Pennsylvania to make an unannounced visit to one of the 72 food processing businesses that he certifies as kosher. Rabbi Stone keeps an inventory of all the ingredients used by all the 72 businesses that he endorses and makes visits, both announced and unannounced, to check that things are running satisfactorily.
00053898 : USA New Jersey, United States of America - Fish is mixed with various other ingredients to make gefilte fish at a A&B Famous Gefilte Fish Inc. kosher foods factory.
00053897 : USA New Jersey, United States of America - Moshe Mairowitz (right), the Plant Manager of A&B Famous Gefilte Fish Inc., checks whitefish on a lightbox for worm infestations at a A&B kosher foods factory. Once checked, the fish is mixed with various other ingredients to make gefilte fish.
00053896 : USA Pennsylvania, United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, checks the vats, containers and piping work at a Technical Oil Products factory, which produces emulsifiers and various fish oils, to make sure that nothing can contaminate the food. Rabbi Stone keeps an inventory of all the ingredients used by all the 72 businesses that he certifies as kosher and makes visits, both announced and unannounced, to check that things are running satisfactorily.
00053895 : USA Pennsylvania, United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, prays at a rest stop in Pennsylvania on his way home from a visit to one of the 72 food processing businesses that he certifies as kosher.
00053894 : USA Pennsylvania, United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, at one of the 72 businesses that he certifies as kosher. Rabbi Stone keeps an inventory of all the ingredients used by all the 72 businesses that he endorses and makes visits, both announced and unannounced, to check that things are running satisfactorily.
00053893 : USA Pennsylvania, United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, at one of the 72 businesses that he certifies as kosher. Rabbi Stone keeps an inventory of all the ingredients used by all the 72 businesses that he endorses and makes visits, both announced and unannounced, to check that things are running satisfactorily.
00053892 : USA Pennsylvania, United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, at one of the 72 businesses that he certifies as kosher. Rabbi Stone keeps an inventory of all the ingredients used by all the 72 businesses that he endorses and makes visits, both announced and unannounced, to check that things are running satisfactorily.
00053891 : USA Pennsylvania, United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, checks the vats, containers and piping work at a Technical Oil Products factory, which produces emulsifiers and various fish oils, to make sure that nothing can contaminate the food. Rabbi Stone keeps an inventory of all the ingredients used by all the 72 businesses that he certifies as kosher and makes visits, both announced and unannounced, to check that things are running satisfactorily. He records all the relevant information on his laptop.
00053890 : USA New York, United States of America - Sunset over the Manhattan cityscape as seen from Brooklyn.
00053889 : USA Pennsylvania, United States of America - Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) employed by the Orthodox Union, checks the vats, containers and piping work at a Technical Oil Products factory, which produces emulsifiers and various fish oils, to make sure that nothing can contaminate the food. Rabbi Stone keeps an inventory of all the ingredients used by all the 72 businesses that he certifies as kosher and makes visits, both announced and unannounced, to check that things are running satisfactorily. He records all the relevant information on his laptop.
00053888 : USA New York, United States of America - An office block displaying a religious slogan in Brooklyn.
00053887 : USA New York, United States of America - Workers prepare smoked salmon at the Banner Smoked Fish Inc. factory on Coney Island in Brooklyn. The factory is run by Avi Banner, an Orthodox Jew, and Banner produce is certified as kosher.
00053886 : USA New York, United States of America - Low income housing in Brooklyn.
00053885 : USA New York, United States of America - An Orthodox Jew passing a grocery store.
00053884 : USA New York, United States of America - Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn.
00053883 : USA New York, United States of America - Gilda Angel serves a kosher salmon dish for lunch at the apartment she shares with her husband, Rabbi Mark Angel, in Manhattan. Rabbi Angel has written over 20 books detailing the disputes surrounding Jewish teachings.
00053882 : USA New York, United States of America - Workers prepare smoked salmon at the Banner Smoked Fish Inc. factory on Coney Island in Brooklyn. The factory is run by Avi Banner, an Orthodox Jew, and Banner produce is certified as kosher.
00053881 : USA New York, United States of America - Rabbi Chaim Goldberg, the rabbinical head of the fish department at the New York Orthodox Union, enters a sukkah. The Orthodox Union is the world's largest licenser of kosher products.
00053880 : USA New York, United States of America - Bobov Hassidim Jews wait for the arrival of their Rabbi as the holiday nears its end during the Sukkot in Brooklyn. The festival of Sukkot (Festival of Booths) concludes with the following prayer recited upon leaving the sukkah (booth), "May it be your will, Lord our God and God of our forefathers, that just as I have fulfilled and dwelled in this sukkah, so may I merit in the coming year to dwell in the sukkah of the skin of Leviathan. Next year in Jerusalem."
00053879 : USA New York, United States of America - Fulton Street Fish Market.
00053878 : USA New York, United States of America - A couple standing in the snow in Borough Park in Brooklyn. The Borough Park neighbourhood is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the USA.
00053877 : USA New York, United States of America - Mackerel, one of 75 species of fish that are kosher, being processed at Banner Smoked Fish Inc. on Coney Island in Brooklyn. The factory is run by Avi Banner, an Orthodox Jew, and Banner produce is certified as kosher. Jewish organisations, like the Orthodox Union, often employ a rabbi as a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) to monitor kosher businesses in order to ensure that all ingredients and processes used are kosher.
00053876 : USA New York, United States of America - Jewish worshippers in a sukkah in Brooklyn. The festival of Sukkot (Festival of Booths) concludes with the following prayer recited upon leaving the sukkah (booth), "May it be your will, Lord our God and God of our forefathers, that just as I have fulfilled and dwelled in this sukkah, so may I merit in the coming year to dwell in the sukkah of the skin of Leviathan. Next year in Jerusalem."
00053875 : USA New York, United States of America - Jewish worshippers in a sukkah in Brooklyn. The festival of Sukkot (Festival of Booths) concludes with the following prayer recited upon leaving the sukkah (booth), "May it be your will, Lord our God and God of our forefathers, that just as I have fulfilled and dwelled in this sukkah, so may I merit in the coming year to dwell in the sukkah of the skin of Leviathan. Next year in Jerusalem."
00053874 : USA New York, United States of America - Borough Park in Brooklyn. The Borough Park neighbourhood is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the USA.
00053873 : USA New York, United States of America - Zalmen Teitelbaum serves kosher fish at the Mehadrin Fish Market in Borough Park in Brooklyn.
00053872 : USA New York, United States of America - A neon sign for a kosher day spa in Brooklyn.
00053871 : USA New York, United States of America - An Orthodox Jew in the snow in Brooklyn.
00053870 : USA New York, United States of America - An Orthodox Jew in the snow in Brooklyn.
00053869 : USA New York, United States of America - Mackerel, one of 75 species of fish that are kosher, ready for processing at Banner Smoked Fish Inc. on Coney Island in Brooklyn. The factory is run by Avi Banner, an Orthodox Jew, and Banner produce is certified as kosher. Jewish organisations, like the Orthodox Union, often employ a rabbi as a mashgiach (kosher food standards inspector) to monitor kosher businesses in order to ensure that all ingredients and processes used are kosher.
00053868 : USA New York, United States of America - Rabbi Chaim Goldberg, the rabbinical head of the fish department at the New York Orthodox Union, checks a delivery of fish at Eden Wok restaurant in Manhattan. The Orthodox Union is the world's largest licenser of kosher products.
00053867 : NETHERLANDS Apeldoorn - Riot police watch over members of the extreme right Nederlandse Volks-Unie (Dutch People's Union) political party on an NVU demonstration against asylum seekers. Two of the neo-Nazi demonstrators on the march perform a Nazi salute.
00053866 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA - A British gunner in a helicopter, part of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
00053865 : FRANCE Normandy - Steve Stevens, a Canadian veteran from World War II (WW2), with his medals.
00053864 : NETHERLANDS The Hague, South Holland - An African asylum seeker participating in a running contest.
00053863 : NETHERLANDS Amsterdam - A customs officer checks the passports of passengers disembarking from an Iranian flight at Schiphol Airport.
00053862 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Taxis and cars in rush hour traffic on Mohammed Ali Road in a Muslim quarter of the city centre.
00053861 : NETHERLANDS Oirschot - A Dutch peacekeeping SFIR soldier says goodbye to his grandmother, who sits in a wheelchair, before he leaves for a mission.
00053860 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Evening traffic on Mohammed Ali Road in a Muslim quarter of the city centre.
00053859 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Public buses, cars and other traffic on Mohammed Ali Road in a Muslim quarter of the city centre.
00053858 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Street vendors and shopping crowds at a market in a Muslim quarter of the city centre near Mohammed Ali Road.
00053857 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - A Muslim quarter of the city centre near Mohammed Ali Road in the evening.
00053856 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Evening traffic on Mohammed Ali Road in a Muslim quarter of the city centre.
00053855 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra - Traffic, street vendors and crowds in a Muslim quarter of the city centre near Mohammed Ali Road.
00053854 : INDIA Udaipur, Rajasthan - Forty-year-old Mrs. Tara with her son, eighteen-year-old Rahul, in their small grocery shop, which opens from 7am to 11pm. Mrs. Tara hopes that her son will take over the shop in the future.
00053853 : INDIA Udaipur, Rajasthan - Evening rush hour traffic in the city centre.
00053852 : INDIA Udaipur, Rajasthan - Evening rush hour traffic in the city centre.
00053851 : INDIA Udaipur, Rajasthan - Evening traffic in the busy city centre.
00053850 : KOSOVO Pusto Selo / Postoselo - A Dutch NATO KFOR soldier surrounded by Albanian children.
00053849 : NETHERLANDS Amsterdam - Nelson Mandela poses with a young boy.
00053848 : KOSOVO Velica Hoca - Two women crying and saying farewell as German and Dutch NATO KFOR soldiers evacuate Serbs from the area.
00053847 : KOSOVO Pusto Selo / Postoselo - A Dutch NATO KFOR soldier talks to an Albanian woman whose house has been destroyed.
00053846 : NETHERLANDS - Henk Paulus (born 1917), a Dutch East Indian veteran of World War II (WW2). He became a war volunteer in 1941. "We tried to hold back the Japanese, but that only lasted a few minutes. We had no experience at all. We were captured as prisoners of war and taken to Burma. I worked on the Burma railway there, wearing only a loincloth, just like Adam and Eve. So many died there from exhaustion and malnutrition. We were abused and tortured. There was a Japanese guard who took pleasure in thrashing people. He would beat the living daylights out of you. And afterwards, he would be really kind and gave you his last cigarette." "I got dysentery and black water fever, my urine turned black and I had hallucinations. I was so ill that they gave up on me and took me to the death cell. It was full of dying people. I thought to myself, if I stay here I'll die too. And I crawled out. There was a Dutchman lying outside, sick and groaning. He introduced himself as Vijfvinkel. He turned out to be my siste
00053845 : FRANCE Bayeux, Normandy - Bystanders wave Union Jack flags as they watch a parade of British D-Day veterans, who fought in Normandy during World War II (WW2).
00053844 : FRANCE Bayeux, Normandy - British D-Day veterans, who fought in Normandy during World War II (WW2), remember their dead.
00053843 : SUDAN South Darfur - Typical village layout as seen from the air. Most of the villages in southern Darfur have been attacked, looted and destroyed during the recent conflict.
00053842 : SUDAN South Darfur - Typical village layout as seen from the air. Most of the villages in southern Darfur have been attacked, looted and destroyed during the recent conflict.
00053841 : SUDAN South Darfur - An IDP camp in Gereida, seen from an AU (African Union) peacekeeping mission helicopter. Most of the villages in Southern Darfur have been attacked, looted and destroyed during the recent conflict. Consequently, there are about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in and around Gereida. Their living conditions are very basic and they are entirely dependant on provisions distributed by international humanitarian aid agencies.
00053840 : SUDAN South Darfur - An IDP camp in Gereida, seen from an AU (African Union) peacekeeping mission helicopter. Most of the villages in Southern Darfur have been attacked, looted and destroyed during the recent conflict. Consequently, there are about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in and around Gereida. Their living conditions are very basic and they are entirely dependant on provisions distributed by international humanitarian aid agencies.
00053839 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Displaced women carrying firewood outside an IDP camp in Gereida. The immediate environment around the IDP refugee camps is changing rapidly due to the constant demand for firewood. Additional pressure is placed on the surrounding resources since people collecting wood do not want to venture far from the camps for fear of being attacked or raped by roaming militants. There are about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in and around Gereida. Their living conditions are very basic and they are entirely dependant on provisions distributed by international humanitarian aid agencies.
00053838 : SUDAN South Darfur - An IDP camp in Gereida, seen from an AU (African Union) peacekeeping mission helicopter. Most of the villages in Southern Darfur have been attacked, looted and destroyed during the recent conflict. Consequently, there are about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in and around Gereida. Their living conditions are very basic and they are entirely dependant on provisions distributed by international humanitarian aid agencies.
00053837 : SUDAN South Darfur - Nigerian AMIS (African Union Mission in Sudan) peacekeeping soldiers at their base. At the beginning of March, two Nigerian peacekeepers were shot in Gereida town. Since the incident, the African Union (AU) forces have suspended their peacekeeping measures and have not left their camp.
00053836 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - A supply helicopter landing at an AMIS (African Union Mission in Sudan) peacekeeping base, which is located next to an IDP (internally displaced persons) camp in Gereida. At the beginning of March, two Nigerian peacekeepers were shot in Gereida town. Since the incident, the African Union (AU) forces have suspended their peacekeeping measures and have not left their camp.
00053835 : SUDAN South Darfur - A supply helicopter landing at an AMIS (African Union Mission in Sudan) peacekeeping base, which is located next to an IDP (internally displaced people) camp in Gereida. At the beginning of March, two Nigerian peacekeepers were shot in Gereida town. Since the incident, the African Union (AU) forces have suspended their peacekeeping measures and have not left their camp.
00053834 : SUDAN South Darfur - A supply helicopter landing at an AMIS (African Union Mission in Sudan) peacekeeping base, which is located next to an IDP (internally displaced people) camp in Gereida. At the beginning of March, two Nigerian peacekeepers were shot in Gereida town. Since the incident, the African Union (AU) forces have suspended their peacekeeping measures and have not left their camp.
00053833 : SUDAN South Darfur - A reserved parking space for a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) representative at AMIS (Mission of the African Union in Sudan) headquarters in El Fasher. After the signing of a ceasefire agreement between the government and one of the SLA rebel fractions, AMIS set up a ceasefire peacekeeping commission to uphold the agreement and investigate any violations. However, the ceasefire commission is currently paralysed due to issues of mistrust.
00053832 : SUDAN South Darfur - Nigerian AMIS (African Union Mission in Sudan) peacekeeping soldiers at their base. At the beginning of March, two Nigerian peacekeepers were shot in Gereida town. Since the incident, the African Union (AU) forces have suspended their peacekeeping measures and have not left their camp.
00053831 : SUDAN South Darfur - A Nigerian AMIS (African Union Mission in Sudan) peacekeeping soldier escorting a water truck to a military camp on the outskirts of Gereida town. At the beginning of March, two Nigerian peacekeepers were shot in Gereida town. Since the incident, the African Union (AU) forces have suspended their peacekeeping measures and have not left their camp.
00053830 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) rebels in Gereida. Abu el Gasim, a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) rebel commander, is currently controlling the town, which is surrounded by nomads and Arab militias, with a couple of dozen rebel soldiers.
00053829 : SUDAN South Darfur - Abu el Gasim, a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) rebel commander, in his office in Gereida town. He is currently controlling the town, which is surrounded by nomads and Arab militias, with a couple of dozen rebel soldiers.
00053828 : SUDAN South Darfur - Abu el Gasim, a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) rebel commander, in front of his office in Gereida town. He is currently controlling the town, which is surrounded by nomads and Arab militias, with a couple of dozen rebel soldiers. The commander is wearing charms, which are made up of Koranic verses wrapped in leather pouches, in order to ward off harm and protect himself against bullets.
00053827 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Abdullah, a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) judge, below a symbol of the scales of justice in his office. Guns are kept close by in case conflict arises from people challenging Abdullah's rule of law. SLA forces are currently controlling Gereida, but they have no means to provide security outside the town. They are surrounded by Arab Janjaweed nomadic tribes who they blame for all the security incidents in the area. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053826 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) rebels in a truck on the outskirts of Gereida town. Abu el Gasim, a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) rebel commander, is currently controlling the town, which is surrounded by nomads and Arab militias, with a couple of dozen rebel soldiers.
00053825 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Abdullah, a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) judge, below a symbol of the scales of justice in his office. Guns are kept close by in case conflict arises from people challenging Abdullah's rule of law. SLA forces are currently controlling Gereida, but they have no means to provide security outside the town. They are surrounded by Arab Janjaweed nomadic tribes who they blame for all the security incidents in the area. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked raped by roaming militants.
00053824 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - A woman holding a gun in a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) office in Gereida. SLA forces are currently controlling Gereida, but they have no means to provide security outside the town. They are surrounded by Arab Janjaweed nomadic tribes who they blame for all the security incidents in the area. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053823 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Abdullah, a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) judge, below a symbol of the scales of justice in his office. Guns are kept close by in case conflict arises from people challenging Abdullah's rule of law. SLA forces are currently controlling Gereida, but they have no means to provide security outside the town. They are surrounded by Arab Janjaweed nomadic tribes who they blame for all the security incidents in the area. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053822 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Prisoners in a local Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) prison. SLA forces are currently controlling Gereida, but they have no means to provide security outside the town. They are surrounded by Arab Janjaweed nomadic tribes who they blame for all the security incidents in the area. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053821 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Broken pots found amongst the rubble of the now-destroyed village of Edd Elmiarum. The SLA report that the village, some kilometres outside of Gereida town, was attacked and burnt down at the end of last year by Arab militias. SLA forces are currently controlling Gereida, but they have no means to provide security outside the town. They are surrounded by Arab Janjaweed nomadic tribes who they blame for all the security incidents in the area. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053820 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Abdullah, a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) judge, visits the now-destroyed village of Edd Elmiarum armed with a Kalashnikov rifle. The SLA report that the village, some kilometres outside of Gereida town, was attacked and burnt down at the end of last year by Arab militias. SLA forces are currently controlling Gereida, but they have no means to provide security outside the town. They are surrounded by Arab Janjaweed nomadic tribes who they blame for all the security incidents in the area. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053819 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Abdullah, a Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) judge, visits the now-destroyed village of Edd Elmiarum armed with a Kalashnikov rifle. The SLA report that the village, some kilometres outside of Gereida town, was attacked and burnt down at the end of last year by Arab militias. SLA forces are currently controlling Gereida, but they have no means to provide security outside the town. They are surrounded by Arab Janjaweed nomadic tribes who they blame for all the security incidents in the area. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053818 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) soldiers cruising through an IDP (internally displaced persons) camp in a modified Toyota pick-up, also known as a technical or battlewagon. Abu el Gasim, an SLA rebel commander, is currently controlling Gereida town, which is surrounded by nomads and Arab militias, with a couple of dozen rebel soldiers.
00053817 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) soldiers cruising through an IDP (internally displaced persons) camp in a modified Toyota pick-up, also known as a technical or battlewagon. Abu el Gasim, an SLA rebel commander, is currently controlling Gereida town, which is surrounded by nomads and Arab militias, with a couple of dozen rebel soldiers.
00053816 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) soldiers cruising through an IDP (internally displaced persons) camp in a modified Toyota pick-up, also known as a technical or battlewagon. Abu el Gasim, an SLA rebel commander, is currently controlling Gereida town, which is surrounded by nomads and Arab militias, with a couple of dozen rebel soldiers.
00053815 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - The only doctor still working in Gereida going through his list of casualties. He received three wounded victims this morning after a raid by bandits on a convoy a few kilometres outside Gereida. Many humanitarian aid agencies and NGOs have left this area due the recent violence and widespread insecurity in the region.
00053814 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) soldiers cruising through an IDP (internally displaced people) camp in a modified Toyota pick-up, also known as a technical or battlewagon. Abu el Gasim, an SLA rebel commander, is currently controlling Gereida town, which is surrounded by nomads and Arab militias, with a couple of dozen rebel soldiers.
00053813 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Two displaced children in Gereida. There are about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in and around Gereida. Their living conditions are very basic and they are entirely dependant on provisions distributed by international humanitarian aid agencies.
00053812 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - A grandmother with her daughter and grandchild, who is suffering from malaria, in a local hospital. Many humanitarian aid agencies and NGOs have left this area due the recent violence and widespread insecurity in the region. Consequently, the healthcare situation has been deteriorating.
00053811 : SUDAN South Darfur - Twenty-two-year-old Khadija shows the stitches of her head wound. Khadija was attacked while collecting firewood just outside the IDP camp where she lives. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053810 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - A translator working for the African Union (AU) inspects the broken arm of a young boy. The boy was injured while being chased away by nomadic tribes people outside the IDP camp where he now lives. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053809 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - A young girl carrying water at one of the water points in an IDP camp. There are about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in and around Gereida. Their living conditions are very basic and they are entirely dependant on provisions distributed by international humanitarian aid agencies.
00053808 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - There are about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in and around Gereida. Their living conditions are very basic and they are entirely dependant on provisions distributed by international humanitarian aid agencies.
00053807 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - A man in a barbershop at Gereida market.
00053806 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - A man climbing a water tower to check the water level at an IDP camp. There are about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in and around Gereida. Their living conditions are very basic and they are entirely dependant on provisions distributed by international humanitarian aid agencies.
00053805 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Young girls carrying water at one of the water points in an IDP camp. There are about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in and around Gereida. Their living conditions are very basic and they are entirely dependant on food distributed by international humanitarian aid agencies.
00053804 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Older men teaching a young boy Arabic verses. Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have moved to camps in and around Gereida town.
00053803 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - Teachers sitting together during their break from classes in an IDP camp. Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, about 120,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have moved to camps in and around Gereida town.
00053802 : BELGIUM Flanders - Bicycle race at a kermis (village fete).
00053801 : SUDAN Gereida, South Darfur - A Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) soldier looks through the window of a derelict building. SLA forces armed with Kalashnikov AK47 rifles are currently controlling Gereida but have no means to provide security outside the town. They are surrounded by Arab Janjaweed nomadic tribes who they blame for all the security incidents in the area. Government-backed Janjaweed militias have been terrorising the population of Darfur since 2003, provoking violence and widespread insecurity. In the countryside, where a state of lawlessness exists, villages are often looted and local people risk being attacked by roaming militants.
00053800 : BELGIUM Snellegem, West Flanders - Portrait of a cycling enthusiast at a village cycle race wearing a hat advertising heating stoves.
00053799 : FRANCE Roubaix - Rider in the showers at the end of the Paris-Roubaix cycle race.
00053798 : BELGIUM Schellebelle, East Flanders - Children wearing cycling caps playing at a kermis (village fete). Bicycle races are often the centrepieces of Flemish village fairs.
00053797 : BELGIUM Mater, Flanders - A cobbled section on the route of the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) cycle race. The initials VDB on the electricity pole refer to Frank Vandenbroucke, the great hope of Belgian cycling in the 1990s. After showing early promise in his career, his reputation and his performance nosedived following a number of doping allegations and drug busts. On one occasion in 2002, after police found doping products in his house, he famously claimed that they were for his dog. In spite of this, he has retained a fanatical following among some Belgian cycling fans.
00053796 : FRANCE Saulzoir - A cobbled section on the route of the Paris-Roubaix cycle race in the year that it was nearly cancelled due to atrocious weather.
00053795 : FRANCE Auchy-les-Orchies - A small town on the route of the Paris-Roubaix cycle race.
00053794 : FRANCE Wallers - A woman sits with her bicycle resting against the wall of her house next to the route of the Paris-Roubaix cycle race.
00053793 : RUSSIA Moscow - Citizens outside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour during the funeral of former president Boris Yeltsin, two days after his death from heart failure at the age of 76.
00053792 : RUSSIA Moscow - Citizens outside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour during the funeral of former president Boris Yeltsin, two days after his death from heart failure at the age of 76.
00053791 : RUSSIA Moscow - The body of former president Boris Yeltsin lies in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, one day after his death from a heart failure at the age of 76.
00053790 : RUSSIA Moscow - Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich leaves the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour after attending the funeral of former president Boris Yeltsin, two days after his death from heart failure at the age of 76. Abramovich became rich thanks to Yeltsin's hasty privatisation drive in the 1990s, concentrating Russia's wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs.
00053789 : RUSSIA Moscow - The coffin of former president Boris Yeltsin is carried out of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour following his funeral, two days after his death from heart failure at the age of 76.
00053788 : RUSSIA Moscow - Thousands of citizens wait in line to file past the body of former president Boris Yeltsin in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, one day after his death from a heart failure at the age of 76.
00053787 : RUSSIA Moscow - Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich leaves the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour after attending the funeral of former president Boris Yeltsin, two days after his death from heart failure at the age of 76. Abramovich became rich thanks to Yeltsin's hasty privatisation drive in the 1990s, concentrating Russia's wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs.
00053786 : RUSSIA Moscow - Thousands of citizens wait in line to file past the body of former president Boris Yeltsin in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, one day after his death from a heart failure at the age of 76.
00053785 : RUSSIA Moscow - Thousands of citizens wait in line to file past the body of former president Boris Yeltsin in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, one day after his death from a heart failure at the age of 76.
00053784 : RUSSIA Moscow - Thousands of citizens wait in line to file past the body of former president Boris Yeltsin in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, one day after his death from a heart failure at the age of 76.
00053783 : NIGERIA Lagos - An election worker writes voting totals on a results sheet at an voting collation centre on the day of presidential elections.
00053782 : NIGERIA Lagos - Men sit around a campaign sign for Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria's vice president and a leading contender in that day's presidential election.
00053781 : NIGERIA Lagos - An election worker writes voting totals on a results sheet at an voting collation centre on the day of presidential elections.
00053780 : NIGERIA Lagos - A voter uses a thumbprint to cast his ballot during the presidential election.
00053779 : NIGERIA Lagos - A boy has his hair cut in a barber's shop.
00053778 : NIGERIA Lagos - An election worker receives voting totals on results sheets at an voting collation centre on the day of presidential elections.
00053777 : NIGERIA Lagos - An election worker receives voting totals on results sheets at an voting collation centre on the day of presidential elections.
00053776 : NIGERIA Lagos - A woman casts her vote in the presidential election.
00053775 : NIGERIA Lagos - An election worker receives voting totals on results sheets at an voting collation centre on the day of presidential elections.
00053774 : NIGERIA Lagos - A policeman at a polling station on the day of the presidential election.
00053773 : NIGERIA Lagos - A man receives a ballot paper to cast his vote in the presidential election.
00053772 : NIGERIA Lagos - A man casts his vote in the presidential election at a polling station next to a car workshop.
00053771 : NIGERIA Lagos - Police sit at a polling station on the day of the presidential election.
00053770 : NIGERIA Lagos - Full ballot boxes wait to be counted during the presidential election.
00053769 : NIGERIA Lagos - A man casts his ballot at a polling station located within a school during the presidential election.
00053768 : NIGERIA Lagos - Election workers count ballots at a polling station on the day of presidential elections.
00053767 : NIGERIA Lagos - Election workers count ballots at a polling station on the day of presidential elections.
00053766 : NIGERIA Lagos - A man casts his vote in the presidential election.
00053765 : NIGERIA Lagos - A group of European Union (EU) election observers at a polling station on the day of the presidential election.
00053764 : NIGERIA Lagos - Citizens wait in line to vote in the presidential election.
00053763 : NIGERIA Lagos - Officials carry ballot boxes, right, and other election materials towards their polling station on the day of the presidential election.
00053762 : NIGERIA Lagos - A woman marks her ballot with her thumbprint during the presidential election.
00053761 : NIGERIA Lagos - Men read newspapers on election day.
00053760 : NIGERIA Lagos - A man casts his ballot at a polling station located within a school during the presidential election.
00053759 : NIGERIA Lagos - A woman casts her ballot during the presidential election.
00053758 : NIGERIA Lagos - Citizens watch the collection of voting tallies at a polling station on the day of presidential elections.
00053757 : NIGERIA Lagos - An election worker counts ballots at a polling station on the day of presidential elections.
00053756 : NIGERIA Lagos - An election worker writes the total votes for different parties in the presidential election on a scrap of paper at a polling station.
00053755 : NIGERIA Lagos - A European Union (EU) election observer speaks with her Nigerian police escort during a visit to a polling station on the day of the presidential election.
00053754 : NIGERIA Lagos - Men play football at a Mobil petrol station which was closed because of that day's presidential elections.
00053753 : NIGERIA Lagos - A policeman at a polling station on the day of the presidential election.
00053752 : NIGERIA Lagos - A policeman and a group of European Union (EU) election observers at a polling station on the day of the presidential election.
00053751 : NIGERIA Lagos - Election workers count ballots at a polling station on the day of presidential elections.
00053750 : NIGERIA Lagos - Election workers count ballots at a polling station on the day of presidential elections.
00053749 : NIGERIA Lagos - Election workers check the identity card of a voter at a polling station in the presidential election.
00053748 : NIGERIA Lagos - Men play football on the street.
00053747 : NIGERIA Lagos - Men read newspapers at a newsstand on the day of the presidential election.
00053746 : NIGERIA Lagos - A police officer, left, helps election workers count ballots at a polling station on the day of presidential elections.
00053745 : NIGERIA Lagos - An election worker counts voting materials at the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office, the day before the presidential election.
00053744 : NIGERIA Lagos - A policeman stands guard while an election worker loads balloting materials into a van for distribution at the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office, the day before the presidential election.
00053743 : NIGERIA Lagos - Policemen stand guard at the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office the day before the presidential election.
00053742 : NIGERIA Lagos - A policeman stands guard while an election worker counts balloting materials at the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office, the day before the presidential election.
00053741 : NIGERIA Lagos - A policeman shows the guidelines for police officers on election day while guarding the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office.
00053740 : NIGERIA Lagos - Police Sergeant Osawe Francis stands guard at the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office, with his police general election identity card on display.
00053739 : NIGERIA Lagos - An election worker counts voting materials at the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office, the day before the presidential election.
00053738 : NIGERIA Lagos - A packet of General Election voting materials at the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office.
00053737 : NIGERIA Lagos - A policeman stands guard at the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office as voting materials are prepared for distribution, the day before the presidential election.
00053736 : NIGERIA Lagos - Policemen stand guard at the INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) office the day before the presidential election.
00053735 : FRANCE Paris - Presidential candidate Francois Bayrou, leader of the UDF party, meets with members of his team and journalists at his campaign headquarters a week before the first round of the election.
00053734 : FRANCE Paris - Voters listen to a speech by presidential candidate Francois Bayrou, leader of the UDF party, during a political rally at the Bercy Omnisport Arena in the last days of campaigning before the first round of the election.
00053733 : NIGERIA Lagos - A young girl tries to sell oranges in the Olusosun landfill site. Shortly before, a fire raged through the rubbish dump, destroying over three hundred homes. The Olusosun dump is Nigeria's largest trash heap comprising over 100 acres of garbage and is believed to be the largest in Africa. There are around a thousand houses built within its boundaries.
00053732 : NIGERIA Lagos - Residents carry away their belongings after a fire burned through a village at the Olusosun landfill site. The fire raged through the rubbish dump, destroying over three hundred homes. The Olusosun dump is Nigeria's largest trash heap comprising over 100 acres of garbage and is believed to be the largest in Africa. There are around a thousand houses built within its boundaries.
00053731 : NIGERIA Lagos - The remains of a village continue to burn at the Olusosun landfill site. A fire raged through the rubbish dump, destroying over three hundred homes. The Olusosun dump is Nigeria's largest trash heap comprising over 100 acres of garbage and is believed to be the largest in Africa. There are around a thousand houses built within its boundaries.
00053730 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Flowers and personal messages left at a memorial for victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University two days earlier. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053729 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Personal messages and prayers left at a memorial for victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University two days earlier. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053728 : NIGERIA Lagos - A scavenger looks out over his destroyed home after a fire burned through a village at the Olusosun landfill site. The fire raged through the rubbish dump, destroying over three hundred homes. The Olusosun dump is Nigeria's largest trash heap comprising over 100 acres of garbage and is believed to be the largest in Africa. There are around a thousand houses built within its boundaries.
00053727 : NIGERIA Lagos - Residents try to recover their belongings after a fire burned through a village at the Olusosun landfill site. The fire raged through the rubbish dump, destroying over three hundred homes. The Olusosun dump is Nigeria's largest trash heap comprising over 100 acres of garbage and is believed to be the largest in Africa. There are around a thousand houses built within its boundaries.
00053726 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Ramon Cruz, a freshman student, weeps at a memorial to victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University two days earlier. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history. Gigi Giridhar, the mother of his best friend Sanjay and Sanjay's sister Salvia comfort Cruz, who lost a friend in the massacre.
00053725 : NIGERIA Lagos - Residents carry away their belongings after a fire burned through a village at the Olusosun landfill site. The fire raged through the rubbish dump, destroying over three hundred homes. The Olusosun dump is Nigeria's largest trash heap comprising over 100 acres of garbage and is believed to be the largest in Africa. There are around a thousand houses built within its boundaries.
00053724 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Mourners grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053723 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Ramon Cruz, a freshman student, weeps at a memorial to victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University two days earlier. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history. Gigi Giridhar, the mother of his best friend Sanjay and Sanjay's sister Salvia comfort Cruz, who lost a friend in the massacre.
00053722 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Virginia Tech cadets hold flags at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053721 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Ramon Cruz, a freshman student, weeps at a memorial to victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University two days earlier. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history. Gigi Giridhar, the mother of his best friend Sanjay, comforts Cruz, who lost a friend in the massacre.
00053720 : NIGERIA Lagos - A man's identity card among the rubble after a fire burned through a village at the Olusosun landfill site. The fire raged through the rubbish dump, destroying over three hundred homes. The Olusosun dump is Nigeria's largest trash heap comprising over 100 acres of garbage and is believed to be the largest in Africa. There are around a thousand houses built within its boundaries.
00053719 : NIGERIA Lagos - Residents try to recover their belongings after a fire burned through a village at the Olusosun landfill site. The fire raged through the rubbish dump, destroying over three hundred homes. The Olusosun dump is Nigeria's largest trash heap comprising over 100 acres of garbage and is believed to be the largest in Africa. There are around a thousand houses built within its boundaries.
00053718 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Mourners Brianna Arthurs, Steven McArthur (a Virginia Tech cadet) and Emily Kirschner, left to right, grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053717 : NIGERIA Lagos - A scavenger at the Olusosun landfill site. The rubbish dump is Nigeria's largest trash heap comprising over 100 acres of garbage and is believed to be the largest in Africa. There are around a thousand houses built within its boundaries.
00053716 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Virginia Tech cadets pray at a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053715 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Students pledge allegiance to the American flag during a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053714 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Indian students grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053713 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Mourners grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053712 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Mourners grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053711 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Mourners grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053710 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Stephanie Parker and Virginia Tech cadet Charles Watson grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053709 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Mourners grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053708 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Stephanie Parker and Virginia Tech cadet Charles Watson grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053707 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Mourners grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053706 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - A correspondent from the Fox News TV network sits in front of the Virginia Inn waiting to broadcast a story about the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053705 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Mourners grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053704 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - TV trucks with satellite dishes fill the parking lot to cover the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053703 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Flags fly at half mast as TV trucks fill the parking lot to cover the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053702 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Virginia Tech cadets hold flags at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053701 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Students retrieve belongings from their dormitories after the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053700 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Virginia Tech cadets and other mourners gather for a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053699 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Students gather for a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053698 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Virginia Tech cadets gather for a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053697 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Virginia Tech cadet Tim McCartin comforts girlfriend Christine George at a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053696 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Students stand as President George W. Bush arrives at a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053695 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Students gather for a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053694 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Virginia Tech cadets mourn at a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053693 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Students gather for a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053692 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Mourners grieve at a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053691 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Students at a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053690 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Virginia Tech cadet Neal Ballas and Jill Weikert at a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053689 : USA Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America - Virginia Tech cadets pray at a memorial for the victims of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University the previous day. 33 people died in what was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
00053688 : AFGHANISTAN Shomali Plains - Afghan returnees building houses in a deserted area of the Shomali plains. The Afghan government provided this land for the refugees in order to relocate them from the capital. However, most of the returned refugees do not have any money to build homes and so are currently living on this land in plastic tents and in local caves. Around 3.7 million Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland since the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001.
00053687 : CHINA Beijing - Young woman walking along a hutong behind the historic Drum Tower.
00053686 : AFGHANISTAN Shomali Plains - Afghan returnees building houses in a deserted area of the Shomali plains. The Afghan government provided this land for the refugees in order to relocate them from the capital. However, most of the returned refugees do not have any money to build homes and so are currently living on this land in plastic tents and in local caves. Around 3.7 million Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland since the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001.
00053685 : PAKISTAN Balakot, North West Frontier Province (NWFP) - An elderly man walks with his cane across a suspension bridge that was damaged in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. Six months after the earthquake, hundreds of thousands of people faced new obstacles in rebuilding their shattered communities.
00053684 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - A street scene in a poor neighbourhood that is home to many Afghan refugees. There are more than two million Afghan refugees still living in Pakistan. The number of refugees returning to their homeland has been dramatically declining in the last year due to renewed fighting in the southern Afghan regions. Moreover, many of the refugees remaining in Pakistan have become a well-integrated part of Pakistani society and are reluctant to be repatriated.
00053683 : AFGHANISTAN Mullah Khail - Children playing in the small village of Mullah Khail. The village, which lies two hours north of the capital, has been rebuilt with support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The former residents of Mullah Khail fled from the village during the war and many of the buildings were destroyed. However, the original inhabitants of Mullah Khail are now beginning to return home. Around 3.7 million Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland since the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001.
00053682 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - A group of Afghan refugees sit in the street outside a cafe owned by an Afghan family. There are more than two million Afghan refugees still living in Pakistan. The number of refugees returning to their homeland has been dramatically declining in the last year due to renewed fighting in the southern Afghan regions. Moreover, many of the refugees remaining in Pakistan have become a well-integrated part of Pakistani society and are reluctant to be repatriated.
00053681 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A uniformed soldier guards the bombed presidential palace in Kabul.
00053680 : AFGHANISTAN Mullah Khail - Children playing in the small village of Mullah Khail. The village, which lies two hours north of the capital, has been rebuilt with support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The former residents of Mullah Khail fled from the village during the war and many of the buildings were destroyed. However, the original inhabitants of Mullah Khail are now beginning to return home. Around 3.7 million Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland since the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001.
00053679 : AFGHANISTAN Shomali Plains - A group of young Afghan men, who have recently returned to their homeland after years as refugees, training to become welders. "I wish to start my own business together with my two friends. I would like to earn my own money", says twenty-seven-year-old Iqbal. He will finish his training in a week. Around 3.7 million Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland since the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001.
00053678 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A street scene - a man passes Fuji and Konica advertisements as he walks through a local market in the snow.

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