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00046403 : MEXICO Nayarit - Mexcaltitan in a lagoon on the pacific coast.
00046402 : UNITED KINGDOM Wiltshire, England, Great Britain, UK - Caravans on a campsite in the grounds of Longleat House, an Elizabethan country estate.
00046401 : PHILIPPINES - Roofs of a fishing village on Manila Bay.
00046400 : TANZANIA - Houses and tracks in a village between Lake Natron and the Serengeti.
00046399 : MEXICO Veracruz - Moving market in Boca del Rio.
00046398 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A worker at a 'Skylark' branded badminton shuttlecock workshop drills holes in a cork head for the stems of feathers.
00046397 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A taxi driver washes his Ambassador taxi in front of the Dreamland Restaurant.
00046396 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - The Science Park building near the Salt Lake suburb of the city.
00046395 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Man butchering chickens in a market.
00046394 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Children play a game of cricket in Maidan Park.
00046393 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A shopping centre complex in the Salt Lake suburb of the city.
00046392 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - The Kimling restaurant in Chinatown in the city's Tangra district. It is one of the first and most popular Chinese restaurants set up by the Chinese community.
00046391 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Chefs and kitchen staff in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant in the city's Chinatown.
00046390 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Boys do their stretches at Kalighat cricket club before a game.
00046389 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Worker operating a leather pelt stretching machine at a Chinese-owned tannery in the city's Tangra district.
00046388 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A worker operates a leather pelt stretching machine at a Chinese-owned tannery in the city's Tangra district.
00046387 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - An artisan at work making effigies from clay and straw in a workshop in the Shova Bazaar. The statues are used in major festivals (pujas) and traditionally set adrift in the Hooghly River.
00046386 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A potter crafts biodegradable mud tea cups, which are used for serving chai.
00046385 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A rickshaw wallah transports two passengers through a crowded market street.
00046384 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Painters add finishing touches to clay cups used as part of the Puja festival decorations.
00046383 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A worker at a workshop hand-carves cork for the head of a 'Skylark' branded badminton shuttlecock.
00046382 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Elderly man passing a shop selling rubber goods.
00046381 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A confectioner mixes a batch of sweetmeats in a bakery.
00046380 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Artisans eating lunch in a workshop specialising in making effigies from clay and straw in the Shova Bazaar. The statues are used in major festivals (pujas) and traditionally set adrift in the Hooghly River.
00046379 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A chef cooks deep fried samosas at a bakery.
00046378 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A young boy sleeping on the street. The wall bears posters advertising an English language course and call centre training.
00046377 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A confectioner counts pots of yoghurts at a bakery.
00046376 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Man buying potatoes at a street market.
00046375 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Children perform a dance during lessons in the Chinese school in Tangra, a district which has a large Chinese community.
00046374 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Children are taught a dance during lessons in the Chinese school in Tangra, a district which has a large Chinese community.
00046373 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Young men at a streetside small bakery stall.
00046372 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A barefoot rickshaw wallah sits in his vehicle waiting for a customer.
00046371 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Traffic passes a Colonial era building along a major road in the city centre.
00046370 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - An artisan at work making effigies from clay and straw in a workshop in the Shova Bazaar. The statues are used in major festivals (pujas) and traditionally set adrift in the Hooghly River.
00046369 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Woman using a mobile phone among shoppers at the shopping centre in the Salt Lake suburb of the city.
00046368 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Women in saris carry shopping past a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet at a shopping centre in the Salt Lake suburb of the city.
00046367 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - An Indian man, drives a Chinese child home from school on his motorbike.
00046366 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A boy watches a street barber cutting a client's hair.
00046365 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Residents of the Tangra district collect water at the communal water pump.
00046364 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A Chinese man riding a bicycle past pedestrians in the Tangra district, which has a large Chinese community.
00046363 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Boy frying Chinese bread sticks for sale as snacks in the market in the Tangra district, which has a large Chinese community.
00046362 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Man praying after washing at a communal water pump in the the Tangra district.
00046361 : FRANCE Neuf-Brisach - View over the city in the French department of Haut-Rhin.
00046360 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Indian and Chinese vendors on a stall in the market in the Tangra district, which has a large Chinese community.
00046359 : IRAN Bam, Kerman Province - The walled adobe citadel, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00046358 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Clay portraits of Harry Potter at an artisan's workshop wait to be made into badges for a Bengali festival. The pottery specialises in making effigies from clay and straw for pujas.
00046357 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A Chinese man buys food from Indian vendor on a vegetable stall in the market in in the Tangra district, which has a large Chinese community.
00046356 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Man transporting chickens back from the market tied to his bicycle.
00046355 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Young man washing himself at a communal street water pump.
00046354 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Chinese customers buy Chinese bread sticks fried by an Indian boy on a stall in the market in the Tangra district, which has a large Chinese community.
00046353 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A potter lifts a tray of hand-crafted mud tea cups onto supporting poles for drying. The biodegradable cups are used for serving chai.
00046352 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Shuttlecocks are quality controlled at the 'Skylark' branded badminton shuttlecock factory.
00046351 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Chai vendor making tea on a stall in the morning.
00046350 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A group of people enjoy a meal at one of the many Chinese restaurants set up by the Chinese community.
00046349 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Clock tower housing a shop selling suits at the edge of New Market.
00046348 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A rickshaw wallah pulls passengers through traffic in the street.
00046347 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Labourer carrying a pile of sackcloth on his head.
00046346 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A rickshaw wallah sits in his vehicle waiting for customers. He holds a bell which is used for attracting attention.
00046345 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Workers package handmade shuttlecocks at a workshop for 'Skylark' branded badminton shuttlecocks.
00046344 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A potter mixes raw clay with his feet for use in crafting biodegradable mud tea cups, which are used for serving chai.
00046343 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - An artisan at work making effigies from clay and straw in a workshop in the Shova Bazaar. The statues are used in major festivals (pujas) and traditionally set adrift in the Hooghly River.
00046342 : NEW ZEALAND Otago, South Island - Windsurfer on Lake Wanaka.
00046341 : ISRAEL Megiddo - Workers at the site of the long-term archaeological dig at Tel Megiddo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site which appears in both the Old Testament and the New Testament (as Armageddon).
00046340 : NEW ZEALAND Otago, South Island - Windsurfer on Lake Wanaka.
00046339 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Lupines growing along the Milford Road.
00046338 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Lupines growing along the Milford Road.
00046337 : NEW ZEALAND Christchurch, South Island - A woman embraces a giant tree in the botanical gardens.
00046336 : NEW ZEALAND Colac Bay, Nr. Riverton, South Island - Graffiti on the side of a house reading 'nearly / just married'.
00046335 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Swamp forest with giant fern trees.
00046334 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Kea sitting on a branch at Arthur's Pass.
00046333 : GERMANY Berlin - A German Muslim man rides his bicycle on the 'Fan Mile' during a match in the 2006 football World Cup.
00046332 : CHINA Tianjin - Workers check the spokes on newly formed tyres on the assembly line at the Flying Pigeon bicycle factory.
00046331 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Fern plant on the Routeburn track.
00046330 : CHINA Tianjin - A worker cuts steel rods on the assembly line at the Flying Pigeon bicycle factory.
00046329 : CHINA Tianjin - A worker checks the spokes on newly formed tyres on the assembly line at the Flying Pigeon bicycle factory.
00046328 : NEW ZEALAND Central Otago, South Island - Landscape with horse, pasture and mountains near Lake Hawea.
00046327 : CHINA Tianjin - A worker cuts steel rods on the assembly line at the Flying Pigeon bicycle factory.
00046326 : NEW ZEALAND Nr. Queenstown, South Island - Rafting down river rapids near Queenstown.
00046325 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Lighthouse at Nugget Point.
00046324 : NEW ZEALAND Otago Peninsula, South Island - Tourists walk along a headland on a wildlife tour in a private conservation area.
00046323 : NEW ZEALAND Karitane, Otago, South Island - Man riding a horse in a bay.
00046322 : CHINA Tianjin - Newly painted bicycle frames at the Flying Pigeon bicycle factory.
00046321 : LAOS Phanop, Khammouane province - A villager reaches for a watering can fashioned from the nose of a cluster bomb unit. Decades on, Laos is still living with the effects of the Vietnam war. Millions of bombs were dropped by US aircraft in Laos in an attempt to destroy the supply lines of North Vietnamese forces. Many remain deadly, with frequent accidents involving unexploded ordnance (UXO). At the same time, ingenuity has transformed the detritus of war, adapting it for multitudinous everyday uses.
00046320 : NEW ZEALAND Queenstown, South Island - A Japanese tourist prepares for a bungee jump at the historic 1880 Kawarau Bridge, which became the world's first commercial bungee site in 1988 and offers a 43 metre high leap.
00046319 : POLAND Wislica - Ewa Haduniu prays at the Basilica of the Revered Virgin Mary.
00046318 : SUDAN Juba - A group of children pose for a picture as a herd of cows meander into the town centre.
00046317 : PAKISTAN Peshawar, North West Frontier Province (NWFP) - Afghan refugee Gul Rahman demolishes his house and loads the timber, windows and his family's other belongings on a truck as they prepare to return home to Afghanistan.
00046316 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Tourists look through a gap in the ice on a guided walk on the Franz Josef Glacier in Westland National Park. The glacier was first explored in 1865 by Austrian Julius Haast, who named it after the Austrian emperor.
00046315 : NEW ZEALAND Canterbury, South Island - Deforestation on Banks Peninsula.
00046314 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Port Moresby - A boy painted in charcoal takes part in a traditional dance.
00046313 : IVORY COAST Agboville, nr Abidjan - An ethnic Dioula (Dyula) youth prays in the Grand Mosque in the town.
00046312 : ANGOLA Cazombo - A teenager with white cornflour on his face after grinding corn at a mill in a camp organised by United Nations (UN) High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). He was displaced during Angola's brutal civil war, which revealed one of the worst nutritional emergencies seen in Africa in a decade.
00046311 : SIERRA LEONE - A young Liberian refugee at school in a camp run by United Nations (UN) High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
00046310 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nablus, West Bank - Elazer Sadaqa, the High Priest of the Samaritan community, at his home on Mount Gerizim. The religion of Samaritanism is based on the Torah. Samaritans descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but broke away from mainstream Judaism 2,800 years ago. Today, they number just 700, many of whom live here beside the Palestinian city of Nablus.
00046309 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Ramallah, West Bank - Jibril Rajoub, former head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Force in the West Bank and a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, at his office in Ramallah beneath a photograph of Yasser Arafat. Jibril Rajoub is the brother of Nayef Rajoub, Palestinian minister of Waqf (Religious Affairs) and a senior member of Hamas.
00046308 : ISRAEL Sderot - Israeli flags fly near a fake rocket, part of a protest in front of the city hall of the southern town of Sderot. The rocket is mounted on a coffin with a sign which reads: "We don't want burial, we want security!" Being close to the border with the Gaza Strip, the town suffers daily from Qassam rocket attacks fired by Palestinian militants.
00046307 : ISRAEL Sderot - A resident fixes a fake rocket, part of a protest in front of the city hall of the southern town of Sderot. The rocket is mounted on a coffin with a sign which reads: "We don't want burial, we want security!" Being close to the border with the Gaza Strip, the town suffers daily from Qassam rocket attacks fired by Palestinian militants.
00046306 : ZAMBIA Nr Kawamba - Congolese boys pull faces at the Kala refugee camp.
00046305 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Girl crossing a rope bridge along the Routeburn Track near Glenorchy and Harris Saddle. Routeburn traverses 32 kilometres of Mount Aspiring and Fiordland National Parks and is part of the South West New Zealand World Heritage Area.
00046304 : IVORY COAST Agboville, nr Abidjan - Ethnic Dioula (Dyula) children play in the rain in the courtyard of Grand Mosque.
00046303 : ETHIOPIA Bonga - Ruth, a pregnant ethnic Sudanese Uduk teenager, is fanned by a midwife as she is in labour in the Bonga Refugee camp on the sudanese border. The Uduk tribe was threatened with extinction in 1989 when its population dwindled to around 7,000 as they fled to Ethiopia from Sudan during the civil war. Since then, the tribe's population has risen to over 17,000 in the camp where there are on average 100 births a year.
00046302 : ISRAEL Megiddo - Israel Finkelstein, a professor at the Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, at the site of the long-term archaeological dig at Tel Megiddo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site which appears in both the Old Testament and the New Testament (as Armageddon).
00046301 : AFGHANISTAN Khyber Pass - A refugee family return to Afghanistan after years of exile in Pakistan. Gul Rahman (left, dark turban), his brother (white turban) and children on top of the rented truck that brings them and their belongings home. One of the drivers signals that he is ready to leave after a brief stop. The women of the family travel separately.
00046300 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - A trekker walks along the Kepler Track, a 60 km circular alpine track, which traverses the Fiordland National Park. The park is a World Heritage Area in the South West of the island.
00046299 : CHINA Beijing - Chinese tourists reflected in a puddle in Tiananmen Square outside Tiananmen Gate.
00046298 : CHINA Beijing - A young student in a mathematics lesson at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046297 : CHINA Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang - A worker operates heavy machinery in a coal yard, without using safety equipment.
00046296 : CHINA Beijing - Boy reading from his textbook in a mathematics lesson at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046295 : NEW ZEALAND Christchurch, South Island - Couple sitting on a bench in the botanical gardens.
00046294 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Girl with backpack near a waterfall along the Routeburn Track near Glenorchy and Harris Saddle. Routeburn traverses 32 kilometres of Mount Aspiring and Fiordland National Parks and is part of the South West New Zealand World Heritage Area.
00046293 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Mount Cook in the Aoraki and Mount Cook National Park, which is part of New Zealand's South East World Heritage Site. At 3755 metres, Mount Cook is the highest peak in Australasia.
00046292 : NEW ZEALAND Otago Peninsula, South Island - A native New Zealand Sealion yawns on a beach in a private conservation area.
00046291 : CHINA Beijing - Girls playing with a skipping rope during breaktime at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046290 : CHINA Beijing - A teacher takes an English lesson at the blackboard in a classroom at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046289 : CHINA Beijing - Teenage students in an English lesson at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046288 : CHINA Beijing - A girl sits next to a broken window in a classroom at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046287 : NEW ZEALAND Otago Peninsula, South Island - A Yellow-eyed penguin in a private conservation area. The species is one of the rarest types of penguin, which is native to New Zealand.
00046286 : CHINA Beijing - A girl sits at her desk during a lesson at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046285 : FRANCE Paris - The newly opened Musee du Quai Branly, a museum displaying indigenous art from Africa, Asia and Australasia.
00046284 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Children cleaning car windscreens at Camberwell Green.
00046283 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Tourists scale the ice on a guided walk on the Franz Josef Glacier in Westland National Park. The glacier was first explored in 1865 by Austrian Julius Haast, who named it after the Austrian emperor.
00046282 : NEW ZEALAND Canterbury, South Island - The roots and lower trunks of trees remain in the pasture after deforestation on Banks Peninsula.
00046281 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nablus, West Bank - Elazer Sadaqa, the High Priest of the Samaritan community, at his home on Mount Gerizim. The religion of Samaritanism is based on the Torah. Samaritans descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but broke away from mainstream Judaism 2,800 years ago. Today, they number just 700, many of whom live here beside the Palestinian city of Nablus.
00046280 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Halperin at his desk at the Institute for Science and Halacha. The institute, led by Halperin, deals with the development of products helping to combine Judaism with a modern lifestyle.
00046279 : NEW ZEALAND Moeraki, South Island - Tourists stand on ancient boulders along the beach. The rocks are believed to have been formed by erosion of the surrounding mudstone cliffs.
00046278 : CHINA Beijing - Boys read during a lesson at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046277 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Fence where tourists have left underpants and other underwear on the road between Wanaka and Queenstown.
00046276 : FRANCE Paris - The newly opened Musee du Quai Branly, a museum displaying indigenous art from Africa, Asia and Australasia.
00046275 : VENEZUELA Caracas - Briefcase at the ready: military reserve units training at Fort Tiuna. Earlier in 2006 Venezuela announced that it had increased the number of reservists in its army to two million, about one in five of the adult population.
00046274 : VENEZUELA Caracas - Military reserve units training at Fort Tiuna. Earlier in 2006 Venezuela announced that it had increased the number of reservists in its army to two million, about one in five of the adult population.
00046273 : VENEZUELA Caracas - Military reserve units training at Fort Tiuna. Earlier in 2006 Venezuela announced that it had increased the number of reservists in its army to two million, about one in five of the adult population. Not all appear to be 100% fighting fit, and the country's lack of weaponry is also apparent.
00046272 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Lake Harris on the Routeburn Track, which traverses 32 kilometres of Mount Aspiring and Fiordland National Parks and is part of the South West New Zealand World Heritage Area.
00046271 : FRANCE Paris - The newly opened Musee du Quai Branly, a museum displaying indigenous art from Africa, Asia and Australasia.
00046270 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - The Franz Josef Glacier in Westland National Park, an ice formation which was first explored in 1865 by Austrian Julius Haast, who named it after the Austrian emperor.
00046269 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Al-Azariyah, West Bank - Nayef Rajoub, Palestinian minister of Waqf (Religious Affairs) and a senior member of Hamas, talks on the phone with his brother Jibril, at his office in the West Bank town of Al-Azariyah. Jibril Rajoub is the former head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Force in the West Bank and a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council.
00046268 : CHINA Beijing - Passengers sit in a subway carriage as it passes an advertisement for cosmetics in the centre of Beijing.
00046267 : NEW ZEALAND Nr. Invercargill, South Island - Sheep graze on the pasture in the Catlins, between Invercargill and Balclutha, overlooking the South Pacific.
00046266 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Al-Azariyah, West Bank - Nayef Rajoub, Palestinian minister of Waqf (Religious Affairs) and a senior member of Hamas, at his office in the West Bank town of Al-Azariyah. Jibril Rajoub is the former head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Force in the West Bank and a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council.
00046265 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Fern plant on the Routeburn track.
00046264 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Lake Harris along the Routeburn Track near Glenorchy and Harris Saddle. Routeburn traverses 32 kilometres of Mount Aspiring and Fiordland National Parks and is part of the South West New Zealand World Heritage Area.
00046263 : VENEZUELA Caracas - Military reserve units training at Fort Tiuna. Earlier in 2006 Venezuela announced that it had increased the number of reservists in its army to two million, about one in five of the adult population. Not all appear to be 100% fighting fit.
00046262 : VENEZUELA Caracas - An arms fair at Fort Tiuna with Russian arms sellers exhibiting their wares. The Venezuelan military has agreed to buy 100,000 of these Kalashnikov AK103 assault rifles, and has struck a licensing deal with the Russian manufacturer to build a factory to produce the rifle in Venezuela in future.
00046261 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Western Province - Elderly woman with bare feet.
00046260 : NEW ZEALAND Nr. Christchurch, South Island - Landscape with horse, pasture and creek on the road between Christchurch and Arthur's Pass.
00046259 : VENEZUELA Caracas - Military reserve units training at Fort Tiuna. Earlier in 2006 Venezuela announced that it had increased the number of reservists in its army to two million, about one in five of the adult population.
00046258 : GERMANY Berlin - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German Minister of Foreign Affairs.
00046257 : NEW ZEALAND Moeraki, South Island - Ancient boulders along the beach. They are believed to have been formed by erosion of the surrounding mudstone cliffs.
00046256 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - A trekker stands on a lookout point over a lake on the Kepler Track, which traverses Fiordland National Park. The park is a World Heritage Site in the South West of the island.
00046255 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Fence where tourists have left bras and other underwear on the road between Wanaka and Queenstown.
00046254 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Western Province - Aerial view of Lake Murray.
00046253 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Western Province - Aerial view of Lake Murray.
00046252 : CHINA Ningan, Heilongjiang - A woman has her toenails painted in a beauty salon in a shopping centre.
00046251 : ETHIOPIA Bonga - Sudanese ethnic Uduk children carry their siblings in the Bonga Refugee camp on the border of the Sudan. The Uduk tribe was threatened with extinction in 1989 when its population dwindled to around 7,000 as they fled to Ethiopia from Sudan during the civil war. Since then, the tribe's population has risen to over 17,000 in the camp where there are on average 100 births a year.
00046250 : ZAMBIA Nr Kawamba - A Congolese refugee looks through a hole in the wall of a hammer mill, used to grind corn in the Kala refugee camp.
00046249 : CHINA Mutianyu, nr Beijing - The Great Wall of China.
00046248 : CHINA Beijing - A cyclist passes a construction site in the city centre.
00046247 : CHINA Mutianyu, nr Beijing - The Great Wall of China.
00046246 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Ogia Village, Lake Murray, Western Province - A community elder wearing a headdress and traditional body decoration takes part in a village gathering to herald the arrival of a portable saw mill which will be used in an eco-forestry project in the Lake Murray area.
00046245 : CHINA Jiujiang, Jiangxi province - Knockers on a set of doors with peeling paintwork at a Daoist (Taoist) temple.
00046244 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mumus, nr Lake Murray, Western Province - A man makes a traditional canoe out of a tree trunk.
00046243 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Western Province - Men paddle a caone on Lake Murray.
00046242 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Western Province - Aerial view of Lake Murray.
00046241 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Lake Murray, Western Province - Exotic bird sitting in a tree.
00046240 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Ogia Village, Lake Murray, Western Province - Villagers gather to herald the arrival of a portable saw mill which will be used in an eco-forestry project in the Lake Murray area.
00046239 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Mumus, nr Lake Murray, Western Province - Woman breastfeeding her child.
00046238 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Ogia Village, Lake Murray, Western Province - Village children with painted faces gather to herald the arrival of a portable saw mill which will be used in an eco-forestry project in the Lake Murray area.
00046237 : CHINA Tianjin - A worker fits a wheel onto a new bike on the assembly line at the Flying Pigeon bicycle factory.
00046236 : CHINA Tianjin - A worker checks the spokes on newly formed tyres on the assembly line at the Flying Pigeon bicycle factory.
00046235 : CHINA Tianjin - A worker fits a mudguard onto the frame of a new bike on the assembly line at the Flying Pigeon bicycle factory.
00046234 : RUSSIA Moscow - Two boys playing with a toy gun and pretending to shoot at their friend.
00046233 : CHINA Beijing - A girl sits at her desk during a lesson at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046232 : CHINA Beijing - A girl takes notes at her desk during a lesson at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046231 : CHINA Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang - Women workers shape bars of steel in a steelyard.
00046230 : CHINA Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang - Women workers shape bars of steel in a steelyard.
00046229 : CHINA Beijing - Beijing apartment block.
00046228 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Western Province - A road built by a logging company through the forest near Lake Murray.
00046227 : CHINA Mutianyu, nr Beijing - The Great Wall of China.
00046226 : GERMANY Berlin - Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
00046225 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Fence where tourists have left pairs of shoes on the road between Wanaka and Queenstown.
00046224 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Man fishing in a river.
00046223 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nablus, West Bank - Zvulun Altif, a Samaritan, at his home on Mount Gerizim. The religion of Samaritanism is based on the Torah. Samaritans descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but broke away from mainstream Judaism 2,800 years ago. Today, they number just 700, many of whom live here beside the Palestinian city of Nablus.
00046222 : ETHIOPIA Bonga - An ethnic Sudanese Uduk woman breastfeeds her baby in the Bonga Refugee camp on the border of the Sudan. The Uduk tribe was threatened with extinction in 1989 when its population dwindled to around 7,000 as they fled to Ethiopia from Sudan during the civil war. Since then, the tribe's population has risen to over 17,000 in the camp where there are on average 100 births a year.
00046221 : VENEZUELA Caracas - An arms fair at Fort Tiuna with Russian arms sellers exhibiting their wares. The Venezuelan military has agreed to buy 100,000 of these Kalashnikov AK103 assault rifles, and has struck a licensing deal with the Russian manufacturer to build a factory to produce the rifle in Venezuela in future.
00046220 : GERMANY Berlin - Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
00046219 : VENEZUELA Caracas - Military reserve units training at Fort Tiuna. Earlier in 2006 Venezuela announced that it had increased the number of reservists in its army to two million, about one in five of the adult population. Not all appear to be 100% fighting fit.
00046218 : ETHIOPIA Bonga - Pregnant ethnic Sudanese Uduk women wait to receive antenatal care at a clinic in the Bonga Refugee camp on the border of the Sudan. The Uduk tribe was threatened with extinction in 1989 when its population dwindled to around 7,000 as they fled to Ethiopia from Sudan during the civil war. Since then, the tribe's population has risen to over 17,000 in the camp where there are on average 100 births a year.
00046217 : NEW ZEALAND Christchurch, South Island - Ducks in the botanical gardens.
00046216 : NEW ZEALAND Queenstown, South Island - Bungee jumping at the historic 1880 Kawarau Bridge, which became the world's first commercial bungee site in 1988. The river runs 43 metres below the bridge.
00046215 : PAPUA NEW GUINEA Kubut Village, Western Province - A child looks out from a traditional home.
00046214 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Road sign for the fire brigade along Arthur's Pass.
00046213 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - The cliffs of Milford Sound, a fjord which is dominated by cliffs and peaks surrounding it in Fiordland National Park. The area's high rainfall makes it one of the wettest places on earth.
00046212 : CHINA Beijing - Children during a lesson at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046211 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay) - Women in front of a construction site for housing for pavement-dwellers in suburban Mankhurd. Mahila Milan ('Women Together' - a network of community-based women's collectives) organised a community initiative to build solid brick buildings for homeless people.
00046210 : NEW ZEALAND Nr. Invercargill, South Island - Rainbow on the beach of Porpoise Bay between Invercargill and Papatowai.
00046209 : NEW ZEALAND Nr. Invercargill, South Island - Dairy cows in pasture in front of a cluster of wind-blown macrocarpas trees in the Catlins, between Invercargill and Balclutha.
00046208 : AFGHANISTAN Nr. Jalalabad - A refugee family return to Afghanistan after years of exile in Pakistan. Gul Rahman (left, dark turban), his brother (white turban) and children on top of the rented truck that brings them and their belongings home. The women of the family travel separately.
00046207 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Two tourists at Slope Point, the southernmost point of the island, with a sign indicating the distances and directions to the equator and the South Pole.
00046206 : NEW ZEALAND Otago Peninsula, South Island - A native New Zealand Fur Seal nurses her pup on a rocky outcrop in a private conservation area.
00046205 : CHINA Beijing - A boy raises his hand to answer a question during a lesson at Shehui School, which teaches the children of migrant workers and other low-income backgrounds.
00046204 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Cathedral caves on the beach along the southern scenic route in the Catlins. The caves are only accessible at low tide.
00046203 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Road sign alerting drivers to crossing penguins and urging drivers to slow down.
00046202 : NEW ZEALAND South Island - Road sign alerting drivers to crossing wildlife.
00046201 : NORWAY Oslo - Madonna by Edvard Munch is shown publicly for the first time in over two years. It was one of two paintings stolen during a violent robbery on 22/08/2004 from the Munch Museum in Oslo. The paintings were recovered by police in the summer of 2006 and handed back to the museum, with some damage due to poor handling by the robbers.
00046200 : NORWAY Oslo - The Scream (foreground) and Madonna by Edvard Munch are shown publicly for the first time in over two years. The paintings were stolen during a violent robbery on 22/08/2004 from the Munch Museum in Oslo. The paintings were recovered by police in the summer of 2006 and handed back to the museum, with some damage due to poor handling by the robbers.
00046199 : NORWAY Oslo - The Scream by Edvard Munch is shown publicly for the first time in over two years. It was one of two paintings stolen during a violent robbery on 22/08/2004 from the Munch Museum in Oslo. The paintings were recovered by police in the summer of 2006 and handed back to the museum, with some damage due to poor handling by the robbers.
00046198 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Two men in a fishing boat row towards the muslim shrine which remains submerged in the reservoir created by the Mangla Dam. The Mangla dam project in the 1960s displaced over 100,000 people when water inundated surrounding settlements.
00046197 : MOROCCO Essaouira - Woman and her daughter looking out from the ramparts of the former city fortress of Skala.
00046196 : TURKEY Selime, Cappadocia - A young girl standing in a doorway in her house in the small, isolated village in the Ihlara Valley.
00046195 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - A tailor stands outside his shop, which has been set up with remittances sent by the large expatriate community living in Britain. There is an English sign in the window, reading 'Top Man Tailor's and Cloth House'. Over 300,000 people who live in Britain's Pakistani communities have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir.
00046194 : CAMBODIA Preahput - A family living on land in an area which has been cleared of landmines and unexploded ordinance (UXO) by the Mines Advisory Group (MAG).
00046193 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Muslim funeral of a man who lived in the UK and whose body was flown to Mirpur for the burial after his death. Over 300,000 people who live in Britain's Pakistani communities have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir.
00046192 : TURKEY Cappadocia - A camel in front of the rocks of Uchisar, which have been carved into houses. The geological features are formed when a layer of volcanic ash, known as 'tuff' is capped by more resistant rock such as basalt, which impedes the erosion of the softer tuff beneath it and creates their unique conical forms.
00046191 : CAMBODIA Toul Khpos village - Young boy watching cattle in a minefield where there are signs warning of the dangers of unexploded ordinance (UXO).
00046190 : PAKISTAN Chakswari, Azad Kashmir - Bus passing through the town which is one of many built on the edge of the reservoir to rehouse people whose homes had been submerged following the building of the Mangla Dam. The Mangla dam project in the 1960s displaced over 100,000 people when water inundated surrounding settlements.
00046189 : PAKISTAN Dhudial, Mirpur district, Azad Kashmir - The mosque in the new town, which was built with remittances sent by the large expatriate community living in Britain. Over 300,000 people who live in Britain's Pakistani communities have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir.
00046188 : CAMBODIA Preahput - Children play in an area which has been cleared of landmines and unexploded ordinance (UXO) by the Mines Advisory Group (MAG).
00046187 : PAKISTAN Kharak, Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Graveyard and house built with remittances from Britain in the town of Kharak in Mirpur. This is one of the many towns and villages that is threatened with being submerged if plans for extension of the Mangla Dam go ahead. At least 75% of the Pakistani community living in Britain have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir, a total of over 300,000 people who maintain very close links between their present homes and area of origin.
00046186 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Donkeys carry bricks from Workers a factory which produces bricks for the growing housing development in the region. As more emigrants send remittances home with which to build houses, the demand for construction materials has increased greatly.
00046185 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Communist-era housing block on a street corner.
00046184 : ALBANIA Tirana - Soviet-era housing blocks with redecorated exteriors on Bajram Curri Boulevard. Edi Rama, the mayor since 2000, decided to brighten up the drab appearance of the city by having Communist era housing blocks painted in bright colours.
00046183 : ALBANIA Korce (Korca) - Restored Orthodox Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ at the end of a main street.
00046182 : FRANCE Normandy - A British veteran of World War II (WW2) lies down for a rest after the remembrance ceremony in the war cemetery during the annual D-Day commemoration. The Normandy invasion by Allied forces against Nazi troops in northern Europe on 6th June 1944 remains the largest seaborne invasion in history. Commonly known as D-Day, the operation involved almost three million troops crossing the English Channel to German-occupied France.
00046181 : FRANCE Normandy - Albert Stephens (born 1917), an American veteran of World War II (WW2). "On D-Day, at half-past two in the morning, I was air-dropped into Normandy. The war was a good experience. I met many good people and I didn't mind the killing. It never kept me awake at night." "I don't really like reunions, but I did go back to Normandy twice for commemoration ceremonies. The first time was fine, but the second time everyone was old, bald, fat and tired. They don't remember the same things as me. In those speeches they always say the same things: all that 'thank you É', 'never forget É' and 'tell your children É.' It's behind me now and I'm not going to do it again. What I do like, though, is that people are sometimes so grateful. There was a girl who asked if I was a veteran. I said 'yes' and she gave me a kiss."
00046180 : FRANCE Normandy - Jack Schlegel (born 1923), an American veteran of World War II (WW2). "I was born in Bremerhaven, Germany. I moved to the US with my parents because of the Depression in the 1930s. When the war broke out, I was constantly being pointed at because I was of German origin. I found that so unpleasant that I wanted to prove myself and volunteered for service." "During the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium in 1944, a group of 500 Germans was taken prisoner. One of the guards came up to me and said: 'Your name's Schlegel, isn't it? I've got a German here who's also called Schlegel.' I went over to him and said: 'What are you doing here?' It was my cousin Harry! We talked a bit about the family and he told me that Grandpa was OK. I told the guards that they had to treat my cousin well. Today Harry also lives in America but he still believes that if the Germans had won, the world would be a better place."
00046179 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Workers among the piles of bricks at a factory which produces bricks for the growing housing development in the region. As more emigrants send remittances home with which to build houses, the demand for construction materials has increased greatly.
00046178 : ALBANIA Tirana - Soviet-era housing blocks with redecorated exteriors on Bajram Curri Boulevard. Edi Rama, the mayor since 2000, decided to brighten up the drab appearance of the city by having Communist era housing blocks painted in bright colours.
00046177 : ALBANIA Korce (Korca) - Dairy section of Korca market.
00046176 : SPAIN Nr Gibraltar, Mediterranean - A coastguard helicopter lowers a rescuer down to where a small passenger boat has been reported sailing in in the western Mediterranean. Since the implementation of more stringent coastguard patrols in the Strait of Gibraltar, would-be immigrants to Europe have been taking longer routes across the Spanish coast, risking bad weather conditions for days on end in order to avoid detection. The surveillance system in the waters around Gibraltar, called SIVE (Sistema Integrado de Vigilancia Exterior) was conceived not only to identify foreign vessels but also to provide rapid rescue for those containing migrants making the treacherous crossing to mainland Europe.
00046175 : SPAIN Campo de Calatrava, La Mancha - Tablas de Daimiel National Park.
00046174 : TURKEY Nr Goreme, Cappadocia - Tufa rock formations at the edge of a vineyard. The geological features are formed when a layer of volcanic ash, known as 'tuff' is capped by more resistant rock such as basalt, which impedes the erosion of the softer tuff beneath it and creates their unique conical forms.
00046173 : ROMANIA Bucharest - The Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill (COCP).
00046172 : CAMBODIA Kampong Cham - Boys ride a bicycle and a cow along a street in Kampong Cham Province.
00046171 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Sign featuring a trolley advertising a nearby supermarket.
00046170 : TURKEY Dikme, Cappadocia - Man in the street.
00046169 : ROMANIA Bucharest - High school students reading contraceptive educational materials during a talk on sexual health.
00046168 : CAMBODIA Toul Khpos village - 22 year old On Roen works with one of the Locality Demining Teams (LDT) with the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) to clear the area of unexploded ordinance (UXO). The LDTs are mostly made up of people from the affected community in which MAG and its partners are working.
00046167 : PAKISTAN Old Dhudial, Azad Kashmir - Dusk at the Muslim shrine which was submerged in the reservoir created by the Mangla Dam. The Mangla dam project in the 1960s displaced over 100,000 people when water inundated surrounding settlements. In the dry season Old Dhudial re-emerges as the water in the reservoir recedes.
00046166 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Man blessing graves in a Muslim graveyard at Kharri Sharif, a place of pilgrimage where the saint Peray Shah Ghazi is buried. The Kharri Sharif is one of Mirpur's holiest places.
00046165 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Rickshaws stop in the road in the new area of the city.
00046164 : SPAIN Campo de Calatrava, La Mancha - Peasants work harvesting olives in an olive grove.
00046163 : ALBANIA Tirana - Home-grown tobacco for sale in the market.
00046162 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Workers arrange bricks in rows to dry near the kiln at a factory which produces bricks for the growing housing development in the region. As more emigrants send remittances home with which to build houses, the demand for construction materials has increased greatly.
00046161 : ALBANIA Tirana - The Tanners bridge, dating from the Ottoman Empire, which stands in front of a housing block with a redecorated exterior on Bajram Curri Boulevard. Edi Rama, the mayor since 2000, decided to brighten up the drab appearance of the city by having Communist era housing blocks painted in bright colours.
00046160 : GERMANY - Baron Philipp von Boeselager (born 1917), a German veteran of World War II (WW2). He became Field Marshall von Kluge's orderly in Smolensk, Russia. "In June 1942 we were informed that five Gypsies had received a 'Sonderbehandlung' ('special treatment') in the SS area of Ostland. We didn't understand what this meant so we asked for an explanation. The SS officer in charge told us that they had been ordered to kill Jews and Gypsies because they were enemies of the Reich. Rumours were already circulating but this was the first time that I had been told directly that there were orders from above to kill Jews and Gypsies. This was the turning point. For me, becoming an officer did not mean committing war crimes. I joined Colonel Tresckow 's group of conspirators who were planning to kill Hitler. I was by far the youngest. As an orderly I have met Hitler four or five times. When I approached him, I always felt as if I were shrinking. I never spoke with him, I simply shook his hand
00046159 : ALBANIA Korce (Korca) - Mother with her baby, who is recovering from pneumonia.
00046158 : SPAIN Almagro, La Mancha - Plaza Mayor.
00046157 : GERMANY - Heinrich Netz (born 1926), a German veteran of World War II (WW2). "I was still at school when I was called up in 1944. We thought that the war could still be won, because we had secret weapons. At the front we had guns which had to be towed by four horses. We usually towed them ourselves, as we only had two horses and they were too old and weak. When the Americans came I hid in a barn. 'I'm only eighteen!', I cried when I surrendered. I ended up in a camp in France. My prison number was 958,031. I'll never forget that. It was cold there and I was warming my hands on the exhaust of a truck. A black soldier saw me and sent me packing with a kick up the backside. During the Ardennes offensive, we were transferred in a great hurry to another camp. As we climbed into the wagons, each prisoner got a kick from a furious Brit who was shouting 'fucking Germans'. We sat in a locked train carriage without water. We shouted that we were thirsty, but we didn't get anything. We were
00046156 : GERMANY - Hans Noppeney (born 1921), a German veteran of World War II (WW2). "Many years ago I was with my wife in a restaurant in Egmond aan Zee, Holland. At the table next to ours were two Dutch couples of around forty years of age. When they had finished eating, they put their dirty plates with the leftover bones on our table as a gesture of protest. They said nothing and left. I said to my wife: 'Why do they hate us Germans so much?' That was hatred as I'd never experienced it before. Why?" "We couldn't do anything about what happened, and neither could they. Ordinary people like us didn't have any say about the war. We were led there like lambs to the slaughter. If you refused, you were shot dead. I still have nightmares about it. The responsibility you got as a young lad, that was terrible! People that I had trained were suddenly lying dead at my feet. I can still see their faces. I often go to my home town and my wife once said: 'It's odd that you never meet any of your old sc
00046155 : SPAIN Almeria, Mediterranean - Migrants are helped aboard a sea rescue vessel as their small passenger boat is intercepted by coastguards in the Alboran sea in the western Mediterranean. Since the implementation of more stringent coastguard patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, would-be immigrants to Europe have been taking longer routes across the Spanish coast, risking bad weather conditions for days on end in order to avoid detection.
00046154 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - The opening ceremony of a Jewellers Shop in the new town. It has been set up with remittances sent by the large expatriate community living in Britain and uses its British name in association with good quality products. Over 300,000 people who live in Britain's Pakistani communities have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir
00046153 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Craftsmen carve headstones for graves in a stonemason's workshop. Many headstones are exported to Britain where the number of Muslim burials is growing with the size of the community. Over 300,000 people who live in Britain's Pakistani communities have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir.
00046152 : SPAIN Campo de Calatrava, La Mancha - The Miguel Calatayud winery in Valdepenas.
00046151 : ALBANIA Tirana - Market selling imported second-hand clothing.
00046150 : ROMANIA Bucharest - High school students examine a condom advice leaflet and other contraceptive educational materials during a talk on sexual health.
00046149 : ALBANIA Korce (Korca) - Blacksmith making axe heads on an anvil.
00046148 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - A Muslim young man wears a garland during his arranged marriage wedding ceremony. He is a British Kashmiri and will be marrying a bride from a village in Mirpur. Over 300,000 people who live in Britain's Pakistani communities have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir.
00046147 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Facade of the former Securitate headquarters in which the Romanian Architectural Association have built their office.
00046146 : CAMBODIA Kampong Cham - Boys gather around unexploded BLU 26 cluster bomblets that they have found in a field.
00046145 : SPAIN Campo de Calatrava, La Mancha - Windmills on a hill silhouetted against the sunset.
00046144 : SPAIN Almeria, Mediterranean - A migrant sits on the floor of a sea rescue vessel, having been brought aboard by coastguards after the passenger boat in which he was travelling was intercepted in the Alboran sea in the western Mediterranean. Since the implementation of more stringent coastguard patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, would-be immigrants to Europe have been taking longer routes across the Spanish coast, risking bad weather conditions for days on end in order to avoid detection.
00046143 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - A cyclist passes 'London Tailors', a businesses which has been set up with remittances sent by the large expatriate community living in Britain and uses its British name in association with good quality products. Over 300,000 people who live in Britain's Pakistani communities have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir.
00046142 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Women visit the shrine at Kharri Sharif, a place of pilgrimage where the saint Peray Shah Ghazi is buried. The Kharri Sharif is one of Mirpur's holiest places.
00046141 : RUSSIA Moscow - A veteran of World War II (WW2) shows his old wounds he and other veterans sit at a bus stop on Victory Day. The annual commemoration on 9th May marks the Soviet victory in 1945.
00046140 : RUSSIA Moscow - A veteran of WWII (WW2) is carried away by paramedics as he is taken ill on Victory Day. The annual ccommemoration on 9th May marks the Soviet victory in 1945.
00046139 : RUSSIA Moscow - A tipsy veteran of World War II (WW2) is collected by her daughter after the Victory Day commemoration. The annual event 9th May marks the Soviet victory in 1945.
00046138 : PAKISTAN Dudial, Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Mohammed Aslam Khawaja and his family outside their home. Mohammed returned to Pakistan to run a grocery shop after spending 25 years working as a bus driver in the UK. Over 300,000 people who live in Britain's Pakistani communities have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir.
00046137 : RUSSIA - Polina Svyatogorskaya (born 1925), a Russian veteran of World War II (WW2). She trained as a nurse. "When war broke out, I wanted to help to defeat the fascists. But no military unit was willing to take me because I was only 16. The railway troops were in Kazan and I said: 'Take me with you. You need me because I'm a nurse.' But they also felt that I was too young. So I kept on nagging until they finally took me." "The Germans had put mines across the rails so that there were a lot of accidents. I was the operating assistant. A leg was amputated during my first operation. The doctor handed me the leg. I wanted to give it back and said: 'Put that leg back on again.' They told me that I had to bury it. I went outside with it and cried my eyes out. The soldiers, who saw me there, took the leg and buried it. I had no idea that that was what war was like."
00046136 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Workers pile bricks beside the kiln chimney at a factory which produces bricks for the growing housing development in the region. As more emigrants send remittances home with which to build houses, the demand for construction materials has increased greatly.
00046135 : ROMANIA Sighisoara - 'No Parking' traffic sign aimed primarily at gypsy vehicles.
00046134 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Men having returned from Britain visit the site of a house in their former village which was submerged in the reservoir created by the Mangla Dam. The Mangla dam project in the 1960s displaced over 100,000 people when water inundated surrounding settlements. In the dry season Old Dudial re-emerges as the water in the reservoir recedes.
00046133 : PAKISTAN Mirpur, Azad Kashmir - Man walking through plots of land used for agriculture and pasture.
00046132 : PAKISTAN Dhudial, Mirpur district, Azad Kashmir - Students read at a Madrassah (Madrasa) religious school attached to the mosque in the new town, which was built with remittances sent by the large expatriate community living in Britain. Over 300,000 people who live in Britain's Pakistani communities have their roots in and around the Mirpur District of Azad Kashmir.
00046131 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Intrauterine device (IUD) contraceptive.
00046130 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Public awareness poster on a bus stop aimed at destigmatising HIV.
00046129 : RUSSIA - Nikolay Gavrilov (born 1922), a Russian veteran of World War II (WW2). "When I left school, I wanted to start a career in the Red Army. I was accepted at the artillery college and did my officer training there. On the day the Germans invaded Russia, I was standing in the kitchen making breakfast for myself. Suddenly a German plane flew over. He kept circling above the barracks. We were so shocked that we forgot to shoot at him." "Later we were sent to Kiev. We were completely surrounded by Germans there. We couldn't hold our position. The Germans dropped messages from the planes saying: 'Go home, and you'll be well treated.' The Ukrainians among us did go home, but I fled. Completely alone, I walked through the woods to Kursk. I was picked up there by Russian troops and transferred to Smert Shpionam ('Death to Spies'). They blamed me for running away instead of shooting myself. A Russian officer doesn't run away, but fights to the death or commits suicide. If you don't, you
00046128 : ALBANIA Tirana - Rapid housing development on the outskirts of the city.
00046127 : RUSSIA - Yosif Kuchvalsky (born 1913), a Russian veteran of World War II (WW2). "I come from a good family from White Russia. My grandfather was a colonel in the Tsar's army. After the Communists seized power, our family was sent to a labour camp in Archangelsk. My mother had already fled to her brother's in Moscow. In 1937 she was found and shot. My father and I managed to escape from the camp after two attempts." "When war broke out, I suppressed my negative feelings for the Communist regime. I chose to fight for my fatherland. I wasn't fighting for Stalin. It's Stalin's fault that millions of Russian soldiers were killed. He had all the talented senior officers executed, so the army wasn't run properly. Stalin didn't win the war, the people did."
00046126 : RUSSIA - Praskovya Abalikhina (born 1922), a Russian veteran of World War II (WW2). "People were starving during the Siege of Leningrad. I saw a woman working in the streets. She started to sway a bit, then sat down and died. Because I was a telegraph operator in the army I got 300 grams of bread a day instead of the 125 grams that the ordinary civilians got. Each day I saved some of my food and took it every five days to my family in the city centre. I had to walk fifteen kilometres because the trams weren't running any more." "Despite the bread that I took, my sister-in-law starved to death. Her husband, my brother Nicolay, had already been killed. My mother took their children in. When I visited, they were lying on the bed, just skin and bone. I was wounded twice myself and have an artificial leg. I didn't get married after the war. I had to look after my brother's children and my crippled mother. Nobody wanted me any more."
00046125 : RUSSIA - Sergey Rozanov (born 1925) , a Russian veteran of World War II (WW2). "I was so pleased with those new boots! I had walked from Russia to Hungary in my old boots and they were completely worn out. My comrades bought new ones for me at a leather factory near Lake Balaton. While I was trying them on, a shell landed on the house where we were. Three comrades were killed and a piece of shrapnel went through my new leather boots. Oh, I was so upset." "My foot was slightly injured and I was admitted to hospital. I was given hospital clothes and I never saw my new boots again. I remember exactly what they looked like: beautiful shiny black leather. Real craftsmanship."
00046124 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Sign for an internet and gaming point outside the Asigurarea Romaneasca insurance company branch in the city centre.
00046123 : RUSSIA - Zinaida Mamlenova (born 1924), a Russian veteran of World War II (WW2). "I was with the railway troops. When the Germans invaded our country, we had to pull back to the east and destroy all the railway lines. Later, we attacked the Germans again and advanced to the west; then we rebuilt the railway again." "On 9 May 1945, I was in Czechoslovakia in a small town three kilometres from the front. I was doing administrative work in the headquarters. It was quiet outside and I was asleep. Suddenly I heard machine gun fire. I thought the Germans were attacking us again. All of a sudden there was the sound of many footsteps on the stairs. I thought it was German soldiers. I was so terrified that I couldn't speak and was ready to jump out of the window. Then the door burst open and my comrades came running in. They embraced and kissed me and congratulated me on our victory! The war was over."
00046122 : ALBANIA Korce (Korca) - Boy cycling past an early communal apartment block.
00046121 : TURKEY Cappadocia - Goreme monastic complex, located among the 'Fairy Chimneys' rock formations in the Goreme National Park. The geological features are formed when a layer of volcanic ash, known as 'tuff' is capped by more resistant rock such as basalt, which impedes the erosion of the softer tuff beneath it and creates their unique conical forms.
00046120 : TURKEY Nr Gurup, Cappadocia - View over the Guvercinlik Valley, whose unusual geological landforms are the result of the erosion of its soft, 'tuff' geology and resistance of its harder volcanic basalt.
00046119 : PAKISTAN Dhudial, Mirpur district, Azad Kashmir - Donkeys graze around a flooded and abandoned mosque, which was submerged in the reservoir created by the Mangla Dam. The Mangla dam project in the 1960s displaced over 100,000 people when water inundated surrounding settlements. In the dry season Old Dhudial re-emerges as the water in the reservoir recedes.
00046118 : CAMBODIA Komreang District, Battambang province - 10 year old Yeourn Khuen lost an eye and sustained severe abdominal injuries when he discovered a landmine and it exploded.
00046117 : ALBANIA Korce (Korca) - Fabric and second-hand clothing for sale in a market.
00046116 : RUSSIA - Konstantin Sharov (born 1923), a Russian veteran of World War II (WW2). "I got to know the Germans in Stalingrad. After the war I went to Germany a few times. We drank vodka together, but I still don't trust the Germans. They wanted to conquer Europe then and they still do."
00046115 : GERMANY - Johannes Neubert (born 1915), a German veteran of World War II (WW2). "As we were pulling back from Moscow, we walked past five or six wounded Germans. In temperatures of 40 degrees below freezing they were lying on the side of the road, waiting for someone to pick them up. No-one did, and nor did we. We no longer had vehicles and on foot we just couldn't take them with us. They must have frozen to death. I still have nightmares about that." "I was a battalion commander, but after that retreat from Moscow, I no longer believed in victory. I thought we should stop and surrender. But I didn't dare to say it out loud. No-one did, because it was much too dangerous. The only protest I ever saw was when, during a dinner held for us officers, no-one proposed the usual toast: 'To the health of our Fuhrer and Commander-in-Chief!' Everyone went quiet, but nothing else happened. The present generation doesn't understand that opposition was impossible against the Nazis. Nowadays you can
00046114 : GERMANY - Walter Schaefer-Kehnert (born 1918), a German veteran of World War II (WW2). "The Russians were cruel. At the start of the Russian campaign of 1941, we had to retreat rapidly. We were unable to take our wounded with us. When we retook the area, we discovered that they had been murdered. The Russians had smashed their skulls with their pioneers' shovels. Our men were furious and didn't take any more prisoners. All the Russian soldiers were shot, even the ones who wanted to surrender. As a reprisal, the Russians naturally also decided to take no prisoners. This situation continued for several weeks until both sides realised that it was counter-productive." "The Russians, who had already been taken prisoner, were never harmed although an exception was made for the political commissars. Hitler had given an order that all commissars were to be summarily executed. Our division also received this order but with the verbal addition that it contravened the laws of war and should theref
00046113 : GERMANY - Gerhard Hiller (born 1921), a German veteran of World War II (WW2). "In the spring of 1944 we were feeling pretty relaxed in our bunker by the Normandy beach. When we were on duty, we had to stand guard and keep watch. When we were off, we used to walk between the mines to the beach to swim and sunbathe. On 6 June I was on guard in my bunker. When it got light I suddenly saw them appear: so many boats, too many to count. We were stunned. We had expected the Allies to land in Calais, not near us in Normandy. Some of us started to pray. A few men wet themselves. The recruits, who had just had six weeks' training, panicked completely. We, old soldiers from the front, could hear by the sound where the shells were going to hit and were able to take cover. The recruits didn't do that and most of the casualties were among them." "I was taken as a prisoner of war and shipped to Texas. In America I had to pick cotton with the Negroes. The Americans treated us prisoners of war bette
00046112 : CAMBODIA Preahput - Men play cards and pool as children watch, in a village which has been cleared of landmines and unexploded ordinance (UXO) by the Mines Advisory Group (MAG).
00046111 : SPAIN Campo de Calatrava, La Mancha - Visitor standing on a jetty on a lake in Tablas de Daimiel National Park.
00046110 : SPAIN Almeria, Mediterranean - Coastguards pull an exhausted migrant to safety onboard their rescue vessel in the Alboran sea in the western Mediterranean, where his small passenger boat was reported. Since the implementation of more stringent coastguard patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, would-be immigrants to Europe have been taking longer routes across the Spanish coast, risking bad weather conditions for days on end in order to avoid detection.
00046109 : SPAIN Nr Gibraltar, Mediterranean - Coastguards on a sea rescue vessel survey the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar in the western Mediterranean, where a small passenger boat has been reported. Since the implementation of more stringent coastguard patrols in the Strait of Gibraltar, would