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00044405 : LEBANON Qana - Destroyed cars and houses in the village of Qana. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.
00044404 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A truck laden with internally displaced persons (IDPs) makes its way north from the besieged village of Bent Jbail. The village, a Hezbollah (Hizbollah) stronghold, was the scene of heavy fighting between the militia group and the Israeli military.
00044403 : LEBANON Beirut - Lebanese soldiers form a chain in order to allow rescue workers access to the site, after an apartment building in the Shiyah district was hit by an Israeli air attack. At least 41 people were killed. The area, in the south of the city, had previously been seen as relatively safe, with little evidence of local sympathy for Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044402 : ISRAEL North - An Israeli artillery tank fires towards southern Lebanon. Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044401 : ISRAEL North - Israeli soldiers try to sleep on the ground early in the morning after returning from a night mission in southern Lebanon. Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044400 : LEBANON Beirut - Volunteer rescue workers search for survivors with their bare hands in the rubble of an apartment building in the Shiyah district which was hit by an Israeli air attack. At least 41 people were killed. The area, in the south of the city, had previously been seen as relatively safe, with little evidence of local sympathy for Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044399 : ISRAEL North - An Israeli infantry force patrols next to the Lebanese border, backdropped by a Lebanese village. Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044398 : LEBANON Beirut - Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble after an apartment building in the Shiyah district was hit by an Israeli air attack. At least 41 people were killed. The area, in the south of the city, had previously been seen as relatively safe, with little evidence of local sympathy for Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044397 : SOMALIA Gardo, Puntland - Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, then president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland. In October 2004 he was elected president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government. The blue flag with the white star on his desk symbolises the five regions of Somalia.
00044396 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) form a human chain to lift supplies and petrol over the Litani river. Israeli air attacks on bridges had effectively closed all the roads leading to Tyre, making it impossible for convoys with relief supplies to reach the city. These medical supplies were essential for creating a surgical theatre in Tyre, and without getting clearance from the Israeli military, two convoys of MSF vehicles met at each side of the river to transport the goods.
00044395 : ISRAEL Kiryat Shmona - Firemen put out a fire next to a building which was hit by a Katyusha rocket fired by Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The militant group fired dozens of rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon.
00044394 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers wave their trophy, a captured flag of Hezbollah (Hizbollah), as they exit Lebanon into Israel next to the Lebanese village of Marun A-Ras. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044393 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers wave their trophy, a captured flag of Hezbollah (Hizbollah), as they exit Lebanon into Israel next to the Lebanese village of Marun A-Ras. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044392 : ISRAEL Kiryat Shmona - Paramedics evacuate a woman for treatment after her building was hit by a Katyusha rocket. Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon. The American Friends of Magen David Adom Armdi is an aid organisation funding the MDA, Israel's national ambulance service (which is allied to the Red Cross / ICRC).
00044391 : ISRAEL Kiryat Shmona - A firemen inspects the damage to an apartment which was hit by a Katyusha rocket fired by Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The militant group fired dozens of rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon.
00044390 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers exit Lebanon into Israel next to the Lebanese village of Marun A-Ras. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044389 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers wave their trophy, a captured flag of Hezbollah (Hizbollah), as they exit Lebanon into Israel next to the Lebanese village of Marun A-Ras. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044388 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers relax near the northern Israeli village of Avivim after completing a mission in Lebanon. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044387 : ISRAEL Kiryat Shmona - Paramedics take shelter as Katyusha rockets land nearby. Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon.
00044386 : ISRAEL Kiryat Shmona - A man inspects the damage to his apartment after it was hit by a Katyusha rocket fired by Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The militant group fired dozens of rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon.
00044385 : ISRAEL Kiryat Shmona - A child cries out in fear after the building he resides in was hit by a Katyusha rocket fired by Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The militant group fired dozens of rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon.
00044384 : ISRAEL Kiryat Shmona - As paramedics evacuate him on a stretcher, an Israeli man is comforted by his son after their building was hit by a Katyusha rocket fired by Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The militant group fired dozens of rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon.
00044383 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers wave their trophy, a captured flag of Hezbollah (Hizbollah), as they exit Lebanon into Israel next to the Lebanese village of Marun A-Ras. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044382 : ISRAEL Kiryat Shmona - Two Israeli border policemen patrol a cemetery that was hit by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) missiles. The militants fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon.
00044381 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers from a special unit wait in an apple grove before crossing the Israeli-Lebanese border. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044380 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Blood stains the ground after a man was killed by two rockets from an Israeli MK drone at a bus stop in Tyre. He had been targeted as a possible member of Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044379 : NETHERLANDS Barneveld - The symbols of the region of Barneveld, the chicken and the egg, under threat due to an avian influenza (bird flu) outbreak 2.5km from this take-away chicken restaurant, The Egg.
00044378 : NETHERLANDS Voorthuizen - A man in a protective clothing outside a barn containing 25,000 chickens infected with avian influenza (bird flu). His task is to estimate the value of the poultry for compensation to the owner after they are destroyed.
00044377 : ISRAEL North - An Israeli soldier reorganises his equipment near the northern Israeli village of Avivim, after completing a mission in Lebanon. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044376 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli forces enter Lebanon, crossing the fence next to the Lebanese village of Marun A-Ras. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044375 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A student buys a snack from the tuck-shop of a school sponsored by Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Hezbollah is active in social, political and economic arenas, funding schools, hospitals and other social services particularly in southern Lebanon.
00044374 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Waiting at the Israeli-Lebanese border, Israeli soldiers with llamas prepare to enter southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044373 : ISRAEL North - An Israeli aeroplane drops water to put out a forest fire near the village of Kiriyat Tivon. The blaze was started by a Hezbollah (Hizbollah) rocket fired into northern Israel from southern Lebanon.
00044372 : ISRAEL Haifa - Relatives and a fellow Israeli soldier mourn over the grave of Asaf Namer, who was killed on duty in Lebanon, during his funeral at Haifa's military cemetery. Namer was killed when Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044371 : ISRAEL Haifa - Fellow Israeli soldiers march to the grave of Asaf Namer, who was killed on duty in Lebanon, before his funeral at Haifa's military cemetery. Namer was killed when Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044370 : LEBANON Israel border - An Israeli infantry force makes its way into southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044369 : UNITED KINGDOM Stoke on Trent, England, Great Britain, UK - John Caudwell, millionaire businessman and founder of the retail chain Phones4U.
00044368 : ISRAEL Nazareth - Civilians with shrapnel collected from the scene of a missile attack by Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The militants fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon.
00044367 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - A moment of escapism in war - an Israeli soldier talks on his mobile telephone while the Lebanese village of Kafar Kila is shelled. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044366 : ISRAEL Nitzanim - Internally displaced persons (IDPs) from northern Israel given refuge in a tent compound in the south of the country, funded by Russian multi-billionaire Arkadi Gaidamak.
00044365 : ISRAEL Nitzanim - Internally displaced persons (IDPs) from northern Israel given refuge in a tent compound in the south of the country, funded by Russian multi-billionaire Arkadi Gaidamak.
00044364 : ISRAEL Haifa - The coffin of Asaf Namer, an Israeli soldier who was killed on duty in Lebanon, is carried by his fellow soldiers before his funeral at Haifa's military cemetery. Namer was killed when Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044363 : UNITED KINGDOM Stoke on Trent, England, Great Britain, UK - John Caudwell, millionaire businessman and founder of the retail chain Phones4U, talks on the telephone.
00044362 : ISRAEL North - Israeli soldiers relax in a bus near the northern Israeli village of Avivim, after completing a mission in Lebanon. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044361 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - An Israeli infantry force prepares to make its way into southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044360 : LEBANON Israel border - An Israeli infantry force makes its way into southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044359 : LEBANON Israel border - An Israeli infantry force makes its way into southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044358 : USA Fort Irwin, California, United States of America - Fort Irwin NTC (National Training Centre), an army base and training range.
00044357 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - An Israeli artillery battery fires towards southern Lebanon. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044356 : ISRAEL Haifa - The sister and grandmother of Asaf Namer, an Israeli soldier who was killed on duty in Lebanon, mourn over his grave during his funeral at Haifa's military cemetery. Namer was killed when Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044355 : LEBANON Israel border - An Israeli infantry force makes its way into southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044354 : LEBANON Israel border - An Israeli infantry force makes its way into southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044353 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers take a nap after a long night of operations against Hezbollah (Hizbollah) along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
00044352 : NETHERLANDS Rotterdam - The Essalam Mosque, under construction in the south of Rotterdam, will become the biggest mosque in Western Europe on completion. The size of the building (which will hold 1,500 believers) and the height of its four minarets (50 metres each) raised resistance from non-Muslims. In the background the De Kuip Feyenoord football stadium is visible.
00044351 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers from a special unit wait in an apple grove before crossing the Israeli-Lebanese border. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044350 : ISRAEL Kiryat Shmona - An Israeli soldier runs to load another shell as an artillery battery fires towards south Lebanon. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044349 : ISRAEL North - Israeli soldiers gather for a rest near the northern Israeli village of Avivim, after completing a mission in Lebanon. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044348 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - Children in the playground of a school sponsored by Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Hezbollah is active in social, political and economic arenas, funding schools, hospitals and other social services particularly in southern Lebanon.
00044347 : LEBANON South - Israeli snipers provide cover for a rescue operation of wounded soldiers near the Lebanese village of Kafar Kila. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044346 : ISRAEL Nazareth - An Israeli-Arab girl who was lightly wounded in a missile attack by Hezbollah (Hizbollah). The militants fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel from southern Lebanon, as Israel retaliated for the capture of two of its soldiers by attacking Lebanon.
00044345 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Israeli soldiers take a rest after their artillery battery fired towards southern Lebanon. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044344 : ISRAEL Haifa - A relative of Asaf Namer, an Israeli soldier who was killed on duty in Lebanon, mourns over his grave during his funeral at Haifa's military cemetery. Namer was killed when Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044343 : ISRAEL Nitzanim - Internally displaced persons (IDPs) from northern Israel given refuge in a tent compound in the south of the country, funded by Russian multi-billionaire Arkadi Gaidamak.
00044342 : ISRAEL Nitzanim - Internally displaced persons (IDPs) from northern Israel given refuge in a tent compound in the south of the country, funded by Russian multi-billionaire Arkadi Gaidamak.
00044341 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Lebanese Army soldiers next to a burning Armoured Personel Carrier (APC) after an Israeli rocket attack on their position in which one soldier died. Israel had launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah (Hizbollah) militants.
00044340 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - The body of a man killed by two rockets from an Israeli MK drone at a bus stop in Tyre. He had been targeted as a possible member of Hezbollah (Hizbollah). Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044339 : ISRAEL North - An Israeli soldier exits a military van full of the dead bodies of alleged members of Hezbollah (Hizbollah), taken from Lebanon after an Israeli incursion. Israel launched attacks on Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
00044338 : LEBANON Qana - A rescue worker from the Lebanese Red Cross looks on as Chinese UNIFIL (UN) soldiers with heavy machinery try to retrieve bodies from the rubble. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.
00044337 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - A Red Cross (ICRC) ship carrying aid is docked in the harbour of Tyre to bring much needed supplies to hospitals in southern Lebanon. Israeli military attacks had cut off the region, and hundreds of civilians had been killed in the preceding weeks.
00044336 : LEBANON Qana - A Lebanese Red Cross rescue worker with a dead boy of about nine years old whose body had been retrieved from the rubble at Qana. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.
00044335 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - A car wreck on a quiet country road, blood stains all over the interior and road. White flags and a trunk full of luggage indicate that there were civilians inside. Next to it the road had been punctured by heavy calibre rounds, possibly fired from an Israeli Apache helicopter. The Israeli military had warned civilians to leave their homes in southern Lebanon, but there were a number of instances of Israeli air strikes killing people following those instructions.
00044334 : LEBANON Beirut - Hareth Hreik, a Hezbollah (Hizbollah) stronghold in the south Beirut district of Dahiye, is shelled by Israeli planes. The area had been under constant attack from the Israeli military for days.
00044333 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - An old woman is one of the last to be evacuated from Bent Jbail, after having lived through a terrifying ordeal lasting more than a week. The village, a Hezbollah (Hizbollah) stronghold, was the scene of heavy fighting between the militia group and the Israeli military.
00044332 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Surgical gloves and chalk discarded by soldiers from the Lebanese Army, who had used them to put badly bruised corpses in coffins. It was the third mass burial in Tyre in a matter of days. Some of the bodies were of people killed when the Israeli air force bombed the village of Qana on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.
00044331 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - A medic has a moment to himself before he continues to nail lids on coffins before a mass funeral for the victims of Israeli bombing. The bodies couldn't receive a proper burial because of the continuing air attacks. 110 people have been buried in mass graves in Tyre in two weeks.
00044330 : CUBA Havana - President Fidel Castro greets Cuban troops arriving back from Angola.
00044329 : CUBA Havana - President Fidel Castro.
00044328 : CUBA Havana - President Fidel Castro with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during the latter's visit to Cuba in April 1989.
00044327 : CUBA Havana - President Fidel Castro with former Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega.
00044326 : CUBA Havana - President Fidel Castro making a speech.
00044325 : CUBA Havana - President Fidel Castro making a speech.
00044324 : CUBA Havana - President Fidel Castro making a speech.
00044323 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Waiting at the Israeli-Lebanese border, an Israeli infantry soldier prepares to enter southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044322 : LEBANON Israel border - An Israeli infantry force makes its way into southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044321 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - Waiting at the Israeli-Lebanese border, Israeli soldiers with llamas prepare to enter southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044320 : LEBANON Israel border - An Israeli infantry force makes its way into southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044319 : ISRAEL Lebanon border - An Israeli soldier waves goodbye for the camera, as an infantry force enters southern Lebanon as part of a large ground operation against Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00044318 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - Tubes (3 of the original 4) of a destroyed Hezbollah (Hizbollah) rocket launcher in a field near Bent Jbail. The weapon had been hit by the Israeli army, but 100 metres away another rocket launcher was still intact, hidden by camouflage. The village in south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. Hezbollah had fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel.
00044317 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - The Russian language manual of a 4 tube Hezbollah (Hizbollah) rocket launcher, next to a destroyed launcher in a field near Bent Jbail. The weapon had been hit by the Israeli army, but 100 metres away another rocket launcher was still intact, hidden by camouflage. The village in south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. Hezbollah had fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel.
00044316 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A destroyed Hezbollah (Hizbollah) truck with a Katyusha rocket launcher mounted on top in a field near Bent Jbail. The weapon had been hit by the Israeli army, but 100 metres away another rocket launcher was still intact, hidden by camouflage. The village in south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. Hezbollah had fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel.
00044315 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - A widow is comforted by a relative at a mass funeral for victims of Israeli bombing. The bodies couldn't receive a proper burial because of the continuing air attacks. 110 people have been buried in mass graves in Tyre in two weeks.
00044314 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Bodies collected from villages inaccessible during the Israeli bombing are put into a refrigerated truck before burial in a mass grave the following day.
00044313 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - A Lebanese Red Cross rescue worker walks past an ambulance (number 782) which was attacked by the Israeli air force on 23/07/2006. An Israeli drone fired missiles into a pair of clearly marked ambulances transferring casualties in the village of Qana, wounding an already injured family of three as well as six Red Cross volunteer paramedics. Attacks on medical personnel are forbidden by the Geneva Conventions, and in this case were described as a war crime. Claims that the attack was a hoax were later disproved.
00044312 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A destroyed shoe factory in Bent Jbail, a village in south Lebanon which had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks.
00044311 : LEBANON Qana - Lebanese Red Cross rescue workers carry a dead boy from the rubble of an apartment building in Qana. The Israeli air force bombed the village on 29/07/2006, killing at least 28 civilians including 16 children.
00044310 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A portrait of Hezbollah (Hizbollah) leader Hassan Nasrallah pierced by shrapnel. Bent Jbail has always been a Hezbollah stronghold in south Lebanon and was heavily fought over in the fighting which followed Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers in July 2006.
00044309 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - Nurse Jalal Alali looks at a hole in the ceiling of the Shaheed Salah Ghandour hospital, which was hit twice by Israeli bombs. Although the hospital had no power it continued to treat patients. Bent Jbail, a village in south Lebanon, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks.
00044308 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A Mercedes car and destroyed house in the rubble of Bent Jbail, a village in south Lebanon which had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. The owners had packed their belongings into the car to escape the fighting, but were unable to leave in time.
00044307 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A scene of destruction in Bent Jbail, a village in south Lebanon which had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks.
00044306 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A Hezbollah (Hizbullah) truck with a Katyusha rocket launcher mounted on top, hidden and camouflaged in a field near Bent Jbail. The village in south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. Hezbollah had fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel.
00044305 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - Displaced women and children from the village of Aaitaroun arrive in Bent Jbail, a village in south Lebanon which had itself come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks.
00044304 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A Hezbollah (Hizbullah) truck with a Katyusha rocket launcher mounted on top, hidden and camouflaged in a field near Bent Jbail. The village in south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. Hezbollah had fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel.
00044303 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A destroyed Hezbollah (Hizbollah) truck with a Katyusha rocket launcher mounted on top in a field near Bent Jbail. The weapon had been hit by the Israeli army, but 100 metres away another rocket launcher was still intact, hidden by camouflage. The village in south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. Hezbollah had fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel.
00044302 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - A Hezbollah (Hizbullah) truck with a Katyusha rocket launcher mounted on top, hidden and camouflaged in a field near Bent Jbail. The village in south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. Hezbollah had fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel.
00044301 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - The hydraulic system of a Hezbollah (Hizbullah) Katyusha rocket launcher with the launching tubes visible, mounted on a truck that was hidden and camouflaged in a field near Bent Jbail. The village in south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. Hezbollah had fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel.
00044300 : LEBANON Bent Jbail - The hydraulic system of a Hezbollah (Hizbullah) Katyusha rocket launcher, mounted on a truck that was hidden and camouflaged in a field near Bent Jbail. The village in south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, had come under sustained attack by the Israeli military in preceding weeks. Hezbollah had fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel.
00044299 : LEBANON Tyre (Sur) - Baby nappies are unloaded from a UNHCR aid convoy that was given safe passage to Tyre. The Israeli military provided a window of opportunity between attacks to give aid organisations a chance to provide much needed food and supplies to the war-torn south of Lebanon.
00044298 : GERMANY Berlin - A German Muslim man holds a picture of Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah (Hizbollah), at an anti-Israel demonstration held by the Lebanese and Palestinian communities in Berlin. Israel had launched attacks on Palestine and Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of three of its soldiers, two by Hezbollah.
00044297 : GERMANY Berlin - A rally held by the German Jewish community to express their solidarity with Israel, which had launched attacks on Palestine and Lebanon in retaliation for the capture of three of its soldiers.
00044296 : LEBANON Beirut - Sheik Muhammed Husayn Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hezbollah (Hizbollah - Party of God), making a speech in a mosque in the southern suburbs of Beirut. He has said: "What martyrdom is greater than making yourself a human bomb detonating it among the enemy? What spiritualism is greater than this spiritualism in which a person loses all feeling of his body and life for the sake of his cause and mission?"
00044295 : TURKEY - The northern cemetery at Hierapolis (Pamukkale) in Phrygia, which contains a variety of different types of tombs, from simple underground chambers, Roman sarcophaguses and mausoleums to conical brick tumuli owned by more wealthy families. The UNESCO World Heritage Site dates from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. (152)
00044294 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Facades of old colonial houses with modest entrances hiding grand courtyards.
00044293 : TURKEY Nr Ephesus - St. John's Basilica, a cruciform church believed to have been built on the site of the grave of St. John the Apostle. The church on the Ayasoluk was built by Justinian between 527 AD and 565 AD. (204)
00044292 : ROMANIA - A circular sacred site at Sarmizegetusa Regia, comprising standing stones which would have been covered with a conical shingle roof to form the sanctuary. The remains of the construction, dating from the 1st century BC are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (159)
00044291 : ROMANIA - The fortified church at Viscri, which lies in a small valley to the west of Rupea. A small civilian settlement is believed to have existed here from the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD. The present late Gothic church dates from the 15th century AD and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (206)
00044290 : TURKEY - The sanctuary of Apollo at Didyma, a temple built in the late 4th century BC to replace the original old 6th century BC limestone building which was destroyed by the Persians. (197)
00044289 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - A red capped Lark, Calandrella Cinerea, on a signpost.
00044288 : RUSSIA Tuva Republic, Tuvinskaya, Siberia - Uyghur Island fortress in Lake Tere-Khol in a region ruled by the Uyghurs in the 8th and 9th centuries. The solid mud walls and corner towers of the fortress remain visible, along with the outlines of the buildings inside the site. (110)
00044287 : SWEDEN Kalmar Sound - Stone labyrinth on cliffs on the uninhabited island of Bla Jungfrun (Blue Maiden) in the Kalmarsund. Swedish labyrinths, or 'Trojaborg' can date from the 14th and 19th centuries and may be pagan or Christian arrangements, often associated with fertility rites. (165)
00044286 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Cartagena's 16th century cathedral and beautifully preserved Old Town.
00044285 : SYRIA Nr Homs - The historic settlement mound of Kadesh, which lies on the west bank of the Orontes and dates from the the second half of 2nd millennium BC. (119)
00044284 : SYRIA - The Arab fortress at Qalat Jaber, rising up as an island from Lake Assad and is connencted to the mainland by a small dam. The brick minaret of a destroyed mosque remains standing in the middle of the fortress, which dates to Byzantine times in the 5th century AD. (247)
00044283 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - Hippos, Hippopotamus Amphibius, in a water hole.
00044282 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - A storage tent holding construction materials to repair the grounds near the famous statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman. The city was undergoing a makeover to celebrate the 300th anniversary of its founding.
00044281 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Lord John Browne, CEO of energy company BP.
00044280 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Earthworks on Hambledon Hill, dating from the causewayed enclosures of 3000 BC to the Iron Age hillfort of 600 BC. The hill proved a significant defence site from the Romans. (96)
00044279 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Lord John Browne, CEO of energy company BP.
00044278 : POLAND Warsaw - Pensioners sitting on a bench in Lazienki Park, waiting for a free open-air performance of Chopin.
00044277 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - The hillfort at Maiden Castle, whose defensive ditches are visible. Occupation of the site began in the Neolithic period, around 3000 BC. (97)
00044276 : TANZANIA - The Olduvai Gorge, part of the East African Rift Valley which cuts across the Serengeti. Its geological layers record the last 2 million years in the earth's history and evolution. (7)
00044275 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - A flea market next to the Church of the Spilled Blood sells matruska dolls with the faces of George W. Bush, Vladimir Lenin and Osama Bin Laden, among others.
00044274 : TURKEY - Rock formations at Cappaodocia, which originated from volcanic activity of Mount Argaeus (Erciyes Dagi) and Hasan Dagi several million years ago. The irregularly eroded landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (8)
00044273 : TURKEY - The city and acropolis of Priene, which was refounded on the northern edge of the Latmic Gulf in the 4th century BC and stands at the foot of a steep cliff escarpment. (22)
00044272 : ARGENTINA Buenos Aires - The entrance of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, a private hospital.
00044271 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - The dome of the church of San Pedro reflected in the swimming pool of the Charleston Santa Maria hotel.
00044270 : SYRIA Nr Aleppo - The 'Dead City' of Serjilla, a town built from local limestone in a densely settled region, which lies in the middle of the southern mountain chain of Jebel Zawiya (Jebel Riha). Houses from the early settlement phase date from the 2nd century AD. (45)
00044269 : UNITED KINGDOM Dorset, England, Great Britain, UK - The Church Henge, an Neolithic earthwork henge dating from the 11th century AD, in an area known as the Knowlton Circles. The function of such a 'hanging stone' is not fully understood, yet it may have been a meeting place for festivals. (103)
00044268 : USA California, United States of America - The Giant, a geoglyphic figure lying on a terrace to the north of the town of Blythe. The image was formed by scraping away dark sediment to reveal the lighter ground underneath. It is believed to depict a mythical figure and to have been used as a ceremonial site at a time between the 10th and 18th centuries. (209)
00044267 : MEXICO - Monte Alban, the Zapotec Capital and Mexico's oldest city, which lies on a hill in the Oaxaca Valley. The settlement flourished between the 3rd and 7th centuries AD AND IS A UNESCO World Heritage Site. (173)
00044266 : ISRAEL - The rectangular fields and stone mounds known by Bedouins as the Tulelat al-Anab in the Negev Desert. It is believed that they date from the late Classical period and served as an irrigation system. (226)
00044265 : ISRAEL - The Roman aqueduct at Caesarea, which was constructed to transport water in the second half of 1st century AD. (220)
00044264 : SYRIA - The mound of Tell Knedig, an ancient settlement integrated into an oval tell and a flat settlement. The earliest structures in the complex date from the first half of 3rd millennium BC. (53)
00044263 : ROMANIA - The Dacian fortress at Blidaru, which lies on an elevation in the Orastie Mountains, part of the southern Carpathians. It consists of two adjacent castles with a trapezoid groundplan and four corner towers. The fortress, whose oldest part dates from the 1st century BC, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (102)
00044262 : RUSSIA - Kurgans, or burial mounds in the Sooru Valley in the Altai Mountains, which are attributed to the early nomads of the older Iron Age, known as the Scythians. The oldest date to the 9th century BC. (142)
00044261 : PERU - The great wall of Santa on the North coast of Peru, which runs for over 50 kilometres and is thought to have been built as an internal yet open border between various ethnic groups within the polity between 600 AD and 900 AD. (118)
00044260 : PERU - The 'Owl Man', a human figure delineated by stones on a hill at the edge of the Pampa de Nasca (Nazca). The geoglyph, which dates from around the 4th to the 1st centuries BC, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (212)
00044259 : PERU - Craters left by looters at Cahuachi, the former centre of the Nasca culture dating from between 100 BC and 300 AD. The settlement is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (239)
00044258 : USA New Mexico, United States of America - Pueblo Bonito ('Beautiful Village'), a ruined village of the Anasazi culture in Chaco Canyon. The complex was built in stages from 819 AD to 1250 AD and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (38)
00044257 : USA Arizona, United States of America - Sandfields of the Hopi Indians, a special farming method develpoed to create enough moisture for cultivated plants, dating from the 12th century AD. (227)
00044256 : MALI - Settlements of the Dogon people, on the escarpment and plateau of Bandiagara, which has been occupied by the Dogon since the 11th century. The settlement is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (6)
00044255 : USA Ohio, United States of America - The Great Serpent Mound, which dates from to the period between 500 BC and 500 AD. Made from clay and stones and situated on a rolling hill next to a river, it is attributed to the Adena village culture. (213)
00044254 : MALI - Tumulus in the inland delta of the Niger River Delta, the site of hundreds of burial mounds. The graves have been dated to the 12th to the 16th century AD. (235)
00044253 : TURKEY Nr Sultanhisar - Theatre and stadium at the ruined ancient city of Nysa at the edge of the upper valley of the Meander. The settlement dates from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. (73)
00044252 : TURKEY - The Roman theatre at Miletus, on Kaletepe hill, dating from the 2nd century AD, although the oldest remains discovered on the site date from the hellenistic period. (80)
00044251 : SYRIA Nr Aleppo - The cruciform memorial church in the complex of St. Simeon's Monastery (Qalat Siman), an early Christian pilgrimage site dating from the late 5th-6th century AD. (205)
00044250 : UNITED KINGDOM Orkney Islands, Scotland, Great Britain, UK - The Broch of Gurness, dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Brochs are Iron Age defended settlements which are unique to Scotland. (104)
00044249 : RUSSIA Moscow - Lord John Browne (second left), CEO of energy company BP announces a deal creating TNK - BP, a merger of BP's Russian oil and gas assets and those of Alfa Access Renova (AAR).
00044248 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - The dome of the church of San Pedro stands out above the Old City.
00044247 : ARGENTINA Buenos Aires - Doctor Marcelo Gruenberg (left) at work in the orthopaedic department of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, a private hospital.
00044246 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - Grass of the plains.
00044245 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Traditional architecture and the walls around Cartagena's beautifully preserved Old Town.
00044244 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Traditional architecture in Cartagena's beautifully preserved Old Town.
00044243 : RUSSIA Tuva Republic, Tuvinskaya, Siberia - Scythian kurgans, or grave fields, at Arzhan in the valley of the River Uyuk, dating from the 9th and 8th centuries BC. (143)
00044242 : UNITED KINGDOM Orkney Islands, Scotland, Great Britain, UK - The Broch of Birsay separated by the mainland at low tide. The traces of stone and earthwork longhouses dating from the 11th century AD are visible on the headland. (62)
00044241 : UNITED KINGDOM Echt, Scotland, Great Britain , UK - Barmkin hillfort, a Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age fortification with five concentric dry-stone rings of defence, dating from around 1000 BC to 700 BC. (94)
00044240 : ITALY - The Piazza Navona in Rome, from AD 86, Italy, 1974. World Heritage Site (83)
00044239 : ITALY - The Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, a monumental Roman funerary monument on the River Tiber. This mausoleum of emperor Hadrian, which was completed in 139 AD is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (114)
00044238 : SWITZERLAND Pfaffikon parish, Zurich canton - The snow-covered restored walls of the late Roman castellum at Irgenhausen, which dates from the 4th century AD. (116)
00044237 : SYRIA Nr Aleppo - The ruins at Tell Mardikh, identified as the city of Ebla, which dates from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age from around 2370 BC to 1600 BC. The site, comprising a typical ringed hill with a central elevation, lies in the middle of a fertile plain (14)
00044236 : MEXICO - Tombs on a spur projecting from the side of a weathered Cerro de los Metates volcanic chimney. The temples at Quiahuiztlan date from the 15th century Totonac culture. (174)
00044235 : SYRIA Nr Raqqa - The ruins at Haraqlah, an Arab complex believed to be a military memorial from the early 9th century AD. (63)
00044234 : PERU - The capital of the Chimu polity at Chan Chan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site dating from the Peruvian pre-hispanic era of the 12th to 15th centuries AD. Around 1470 AD Chan Chan was overrun by the Inca and the Chimu poilty was incorporated into the Inca state. (47)
00044233 : JORDAN - The Omayyad palace at Qasr Amra, dating from the first half of the 8th century AD. The complex, which includes an three barrel-vaulted audience chamber and baths designed along the lines of Roman Thermae, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (69)
00044232 : UNITED KINGDOM Northumberland, England, Great Britain, UK - Housesteads Roman Fort, in Hadrian's Wall. The wall takes its name from the Roman emperor who ordered its construction in 122 AD, to separate the English and Scottish tribes. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (122)
00044231 : UNITED KINGDOM Dorset, England, Great Britain, UK - The Cerne Abbas Giant, a chalk-cut figure and fertility symbol enclosed by a small earthwork enclosure, believed to date from the 2nd century AD. (210)
00044230 : TURKEY - The mound at Hisarlik on the Dardanelles, where the ruins of Homer's Troy or Ilium are believed to lie. The citadel lies on top of the mound, which has been the site of various settlements between the 3rd millennium BC to the 4th century AD and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (127)
00044229 : TURKEY - The Maltepe tumulus close to the hellenistic town of Pergamon. The burial site is believed to contain the graves of the Pergamon royal family or high-ranking Roman officials and dates from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. (151)
00044228 : JAPAN Kyushu island - Excavations at the prehistoric settlement of Yoshinogari, which lies on the Saga Plain. Dating from the Yayoi period in the 3rd century BC, it may have been the prehistoric capital of the Yamataikoku kingdom. (148)
00044227 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - A spotted hyena, Crocuta Crocuta, on the plains.
00044226 : JORDAN - Rock tombs at the Jebel Al-Khubtha in Petra, the capital of the Nabataean kingdom. Fissured sandstone massifs served as a defence for the town, which dates from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD and is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (5)
00044225 : GERMANY Berlin - A young man hides from a guard and his dog in Berlin's Kottbusser Tor metro station.
00044224 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Traditional architecture in Cartagena's beautifully preserved Old Town.
00044223 : SPAIN - The Roman theatre and ampitheatre at Merida, a town founded by Augustus in 25 BC, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The amphitheatre was opened in around the 8th century BC. (78)
00044222 : SUDAN - The temples and pyramids of Gebel Barkal, known by Nubians as 'Sacred Mountain' from 750 BC. The desert beyond the plateau mountain contains pyramids and two gravefields. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (168)
00044221 : JAPAN Kyoto - The Fushimi-Inari Shrine which lies in the Fushimi district of the city. Founded in 711 AD and built in the Momoyama style, the shrine was dedicated to the Shinto godess of rice and fertility. (193)
00044220 : JAPAN Nr Nagoya - The Inner Shrine (Naiku) at Ise on the main Japanese Island of Honshu, a Shinto sanctuary, which dates to the 4th century BC, and was transferred to the isle in the 5th century AD. (192)
00044219 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - Maria, a vendor selling souvenirs and Russian dolls, works at a flea market next to the Church of the Spilled Blood.
00044218 : SYRIA - The island of Arwad (Ruad), which flourished in 1st millennium BC as an important Phoenician maritime power on the Syrian coast. (27)
00044217 : GERMANY Berlin - German fans watch live television coverage of a football match in the 2006 World Cup at a public screening inside the Sony Centre.
00044216 : SYRIA - The town of Aleppo, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, was established as an important trading centre as long ago as the Middle Bronze Age in the first half of 2nd millennium BC. The Islamic citadel dominates the modern city and remains a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (112)
00044215 : SYRIA - The Krak des Chevaliers, or 'Qalat al-Hosn', and example of Crusader architecture which was occupied by Christians in a Muslim-ruled country. The fortification, which dates from 1150 AD, is surrounded by two concentric defensive walls. (113)
00044214 : ISRAEL Masada - The desert fortress-palace at Masada, which stands on a pointed sheer rocky plateau on the West side of the Dead Sea and was built by Jewish King Herod the Great in the 1st century BC. Rebels in the Jewish revolt of 70 AD sought refuge here after the destruction of Jerusalem under the Romans. The site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (61)
00044213 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - The dome of the church of San Pedro stands out above the Old City.
00044212 : ITALY Nr Rome - Ostia Antica, the port town of ancient Rome, close to the mouth of the River Tiber. Originally founded as a castrum in around 325 BC, the granaries and large multi-story apartment blcoks were built in the 2nd century AD. (42)
00044211 : INDONESIA Cianjur, Western Java - I. Ketut Noarsa (left) and Djatnika are police inspectors. Noarsa earns 1.5 million rupiah (150 euro) each month, Djatnika 1.7 million rupiah (170 euro). The difference is explained because Djatnika has three children to Noarsa's two.
00044210 : ARGENTINA Buenos Aires - The entrance of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, a private hospital.
00044209 : JAPAN Nr Osaka - The Kofun, or burial mound of the emperor Nintoku in the Yamato Plain on the main Japanese Island of Honshu. The Kofun is the characteristic keyhole shape surrounded by a moat and dates from the early 5th century AD. (140)
00044208 : JAPAN - The Horyu-ji Temple at Nara, which was Japan's main city from 710 AD to 784 AD. The temple, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is historically and religiously significant and dates from the Asuka period in the 7th century AD. (190)
00044207 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - A woman passes construction crews repairing Dvotsovaya Square in front of the General Staff Building and Arch. The city was undergoing a makeover to celebrate the 300th anniversary of its founding.
00044206 : ARGENTINA Buenos Aires - Doctor Marcelo Gruenberg (left) with a patient who received a head injury in a car accident. Gruenberg works in the orthopaedic department of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, a private hospital.
00044205 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) West Bank - The agricultural settlement at Qumran, believed to be the location of the Essene community around 0 BC. (203)
00044204 : UNITED KINGDOM Essex, England, Great Britain, UK - The grass labyrinth at Saffron Walden, a 17th century earthwork maze which would have been associated with ancient fertility rites. (166)
00044203 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr Bethlehem, West Bank - The palace complex at Herodium, an artificial mound on which a palace was built by Herod the Great in the 1st century AD. (59)
00044202 : SYRIA - The Colonnaded Street among the architectural remains at the town of Apamea (Apameia), which was formerly the capital of the Eastern Roman province Syria Secunda in the 5th century AD. (44)
00044201 : UNITED KINGDOM Wiltshire, England, Great Britain, UK - The White Horse and Bratton Castle, on the chalk slopes above the small town of Westbury. The function of the south-facing horse figure, cut into the hillside in 1778, is unknown. There is much evidence of Neolithic activity on the area many years before the Iron Age hillfort of Bratton Castle was built. (214)
00044200 : SYRIA Nr Latakia - Remains of the city of Ugarit, on the hill of Ras Shamra ('Fennel Headland'). Ugarit was the capital of a small Syrian kingdom which flourished during the Middle and Late Bronze Age from around 2000 BC and 1200 BC. (46)
00044199 : PERU - The ruins at Sipan pock-marked by craters left by digging looters. The site in the Lambayeque Valley contains the tomb of a Moche prince from the 3rd century AD, and evidence of the settlement having been a centre for the Moche culture. (240)
00044198 : PERU - Ruins of the Huaca del Sol (Pyramid of the Sun), at the edge of the fertile Moche Valley. The burial site formed part of the political and religious centre of the well organised Moche state from 1 to 750 AD. (243)
00044197 : PERU - The fortress at Paramonga, which stands on a rocky spur in the foothills of the Andes. The complex, thought to have been a military stronghold in the 15th century, is constructed from adobe, unfired mud bricks. (101)
00044196 : SPAIN - The fortified Iron Age 'castro' of Citana de Santa Tecla a hilltop settlement and pilgrimage church which is surrounded by a dry stone wall. The site dates from the second half of the 1st millennium BC, yet some finds date to the the Roman era. (39)
00044195 : RUSSIA Moscow - Lord John Browne, CEO of energy company BP, in front of St. Basil's Cathedral. Browne was in Moscow to sign a deal creating TNK - BP, a merger of BP's Russian oil and gas assets and those of Alfa Access Renova (AAR).
00044194 : SPAIN Minorca (Menorca), Balearic Islands - Es Tudons, a chambered complex dating from around 1000 BC and constructed from stone blocks laid together without the use of mortar. This style of structure, distinctive of the Balearics, was occasionally used as a dwelling. (137)
00044193 : UNITED KINGDOM Wiltshire, England, Great Britain, UK - The standing stones at Stonehenge, a Bronze Age stone circle dating from around 2600 BC to around 1800 BC. The monolithic archaeological site, believed to be an astronomical calendar, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (160)
00044192 : SOUTH KOREA - Burial mounds of the Silla rulers at Kyongju, dating from the 3rd to the 10th century AD. The tumuli are protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (146)
00044191 : PERU - The ruins of the fortress at Chanquillo in the Casma Valley. Comprising three concentric ring walls, the complex dates from the late phase of the early Horizon period from 400 BC to 100 BC. (99)
00044190 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - A flea market sells matruska dolls with the faces of Silvio Berlusconi, Jacques Chirac, George W. Bush, Mao, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Lenin, Osama Bin Laden, Joseph Stalin and Harry Potter characters.
00044189 : ZIMBABWE - Ruins at Great Zimbabwe between the granite mountains and the savannah. The complex, dating from 1000 to 1500 AD comprises the 'Great Enclosure' in the south and the 'Hill complex' in the north and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (9)
00044188 : PERU - The Candelabro, a three-armed shape cut into the hillside above the Paracas Peninsula to a depth of three metres. Its origins and significance remain a mystery. (208)
00044187 : USA Arizona, United States of America - The ball court of the Wupatki Pueblo, a recreation ground for a nearby settlement with two convex shell walls that house a playing area. The construction dates from between 1065 and 1212 AD. (84)
00044186 : PERU - Figure of a whale in one of the driest regions of the world, the Pampa de Nasca (Nazca). The geoglyph, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was created between 200 BC and 600 AD at the time of the Nasca culture. (215)
00044185 : SYRIA - The royal residence at Qadmus, one of a series of remote and often inaccessable castles along the Jebel Ansariye mountain chain, which functioned as a retreat for feared local ruler and political representative, Sinan ibn Salman in the 12th century AD. (58)
00044184 : SYRIA - The settlement mound at Tell Brak, exhibiting gullies and hollows by erosion from heavy rainfall. Surrounded by fertile land near the Khabur triangle, the site first came to prominence in the 3rd millennium BC during the Akkadian and neo-Sumerian period. (32)
00044183 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - Three young women drink champagne on a night out at a new bar and club called Che.
00044182 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Cartagena's impregnable fort seen from beyond the Old City's walls.
00044181 : ARGENTINA Buenos Aires - Doctor Marcelo Velacco performing a routine check-up. He works in the orthopaedic department of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, a private hospital.
00044180 : SPAIN - The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, an example of the Roman investment in infrastructure in the second half of 1st century AD. The structure, which was used to transport water, is UNESCO World Heritage Site. (219)
00044179 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - A Topi antelope, Damaliscus Lunatus, with young on the plain.
00044178 : ARGENTINA Buenos Aires - Doctor Marcelo Gruenberg with a patient who received a head injury in a car accident. Gruenberg works in the orthopaedic department of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, a private hospital.
00044177 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - A visitor to the Hermitage Museum passes through a sculpture gallery.
00044176 : SPAIN Nr Madrid - The Celtiberian settlement at Numantia, a town which was the centre of the Arevaci and situated on a plateau on the Castilian high plateau. Traces of human habitaion on the site date back to the Iron Age, around 850 BC. (123)
00044175 : SYRIA - Ruins of the ancient city of Zenobia (Halabiye) on the bank of the Euphrates. Founded as a fortified settlement to control the river traffic through the desert oasis of Palmyra in 266 AD, it was destroyed in the 7th century AD. (109)
00044174 : SYRIA - The remains of the Harbaqa Dam, which supplied water to the nearby Qasr al-Heir al-Gharbi estates and date from Roman times in the first half of the 8th century AD. The former arificial lake is now dry land. (221)
00044173 : PORTUGAL - A section of the Roman hilltop settlement at Santa Luzia, surrounded by three concentric ring walls, which date from the second half of the 1st millennium BC. The roundhouses contained in the complex have polygonal foundations and were built without mortar. (40)
00044172 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Jericho, West Bank - Tell es-Sultan, the oldest known large-scale settlement in the world, dating from the Pre-pottery Neolithic period in the late 9th century BC. (23)
00044171 : MEXICO - The pyramids at Teotihuacan, in a cove in the Basin of Mexico, which date from the 1st to the 5th century AD. The city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (176)
00044170 : MEXICO - Chinampas, fields dug between channels in a marshy area, wih trees planted at their edges to stabilise them. The basin near Xochimilco with its unique agricultural format dates from the 2nd millennium BC and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (228)
00044169 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A dog is tempted by the sausages on sale at 'Une Normande a Londres', a stall selling French produce at a continental food market in Duke of York Square, Chelsea.
00044168 : LEBANON Saida (Sidon) - Palestinian Fatah fighters in the Ain Al-Hilweh refugee camp. Opened in 1948, the camp is home to 70,000 Palestinian refugees in a 1.5 square kilometre piece of land. The Lebanese authorities have no presence inside the camp, which is secured by militia groups like Fatah.
00044167 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - A female lion, Panthera Leo.
00044166 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - Wildebeest grazing on the plains, with a thunderstorm on the horizon.
00044165 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - Wildebeest on the move, passing a tree at sunset.
00044164 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - Male Impala, Aepyceros Melampus.
00044163 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - Workmen clean up after repairing the pavement in front of the Hermitage Museum. The city was undergoing a makeover to celebrate the 300th anniversary of its founding.
00044162 : JORDAN - The Oval Plaza at Jerash, which was almost completely rebuilt in Roman times in the 3rd century AD. (43)
00044161 : SRI LANKA - The remains of a royal residence on the rocky massif of the Sigiriya Towers. The fortress-like residence, which is an example of urban planning in the 5th century AD is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (60)
00044160 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Cartagena's 16th century cathedral and beautifully preserved Old Town.
00044159 : UNITED KINGDOM Wiltshire, England, Great Britain, UK - Harvesting the wheat around a Bronze Age round barrow, an ancient burial mound. Barrows, which often suffer damage from agricultural activity are protected from ploughing by law. (128)
00044158 : ITALY - The Roman city of Pompeii, occupied between the 6th century BC and the 1st century AD when a volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed and completely buried the city.The site is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (49)
00044157 : JAPAN Kyoto - The Old Imperial Palace, in a rectangular Imperial park in the Kamigyo-ku district, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Founded in 794 AD, the building was rebuilt in the Shinden style in 1855 after it was destroyed in a fire. (67)
00044156 : SUDAN Nr Shendi - The pyramids in the Northern Cemetery at Meroe, an ancient city situated on the Butana plateau. The settlement was the capital of the Kush empire from 300 BC, having emerged as a Napatan settlement in the 7th century BC. (132)
00044155 : SWEDEN Oland Island - The ring-fort at Ismantorp, used between the 3rd and 7th centuries AD and comprising 93 houses and nine gates in the wall giving access to the centre. (92)
00044154 : SYRIA - A flat tell surrounded by irrigation channels in the fertile plain of the Khabur Valley. The Khabur Triangle is an ancient fertile settlement area. (236)
00044153 : GERMANY Berlin - A German Muslim woman in the crowd on the 'Fan Mile' watching a match in the 2006 football World Cup.
00044152 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - Young people play hackeysack in Hermitage Square.
00044151 : TURKEY - The stadium at Aphrodisias in Caria, a Roman circus whose shorter sides were rounded as an amphitheatre to enable it to be used for a variety of spectacles, from gladiatorial games to religious festivals. The building dates from around the 1st century AD. (82)
00044150 : TURKEY - The Asclepion, a colonaded sanctuary in the hellenistic city of Pergamon, which dates from the 4th century BC to the 2nd century AD. (85)
00044149 : MALI - The mausoleum of Askia Mohammed Tourree, which stands at the centre of a courtyard in the Great Mosque and dates from 1538 AD. (135)
00044148 : MALTA - Tracks, running up the side of a valley at Clapham Junction near Mdina on the highest point of the island. The origin and purpose of these 'cart ruts' is unknown. (229)
00044147 : MOROCCO - Ruins at Volubilis, originally a Berber settlement, which became one of the urban centres of the Berber kingdom of Mauretania in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (48)
00044146 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Traditional architecture in Cartagena's beautifully preserved Old Town.
00044145 : MOROCCO Nr. Tangier (Tangiers) - Ruins at Lix, or Lixus, a classical Phoenician settlement on the River Lixus, dating from the 8th century BC. (25)
00044144 : NETHERLANDS The Hague - Hans Hoogervorst, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports in the Dutch government.
00044143 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - 'Une Normande a Londres', a stall selling French cheese and other produce at a continental food market in Duke of York Square, Chelsea.
00044142 : UNITED KINGDOM Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Great Britain, UK - The Loanhead of Daviot, a stone circle around an inner cairn-circle, believed to have been used as a cremation pyre. Atifacts have been discovered here which date back to 2000 BC with evidence of Bronze Age and Iron Age occupation. (161)
00044141 : UNITED KINGDOM Wiltshire, England, Great Britain, UK - The Avebury henge and stone circles, surrounded by a ditch, which is one of the largest prehistoric enclosures in Europe. The monolithic was first erected in around 2600 BC and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (162)
00044140 : UNITED KINGDOM Uffington, Oxfordshire, England, Great Britain, UK - The White Horse at Uffington, on the chalk scarp above the village, dating from the Late Bronze or Early Iron Age, around 1200 BC. (207)
00044139 : LIBYA - The Roman theatre at Leptis Magna, a town founded by the Phoenicians in the late 7th centry BC. The ancient city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (76)
00044138 : SYRIA - The Roman theatre at Bosra, built in the 3rd century AD while it was occupied by the Roman army. The site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (72)
00044137 : MEXICO - Laguna de los Cerros, which lies on an alluvial plain in the southern part of Veracruz. The Olmec culture emerged here in 1500 BC and it was once served as a Mesoamerican cultural centre. (1)
00044136 : ARGENTINA Buenos Aires - Veronica Cosso, Marcelo Gruenberg, Eligio Ortolan, Carlos Sola, Marcelo Valacco and Carlos Yacuzzi, doctors in the orthopaedic department of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, a private hospital.
00044135 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - A Hartlaub's bustard, Eupodotis Hartlaubii, displaying his plumage.
00044134 : MALTA - The megalithic temple at Hagar Qim, which dates to the 3rd millennium BC and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (154)
00044133 : MEXICO - El Tajin, an ancient city which flourished in the 7th to 12th centuries AD. The settlement, which was a seat of government in ancient Mexico, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (175)
00044132 : RUSSIA St. Petersburg - The study of writer Alexander Pushkin in his former home on the Moika Canal.
00044131 : TURKEY Phrygia - The city of Hierapolis, which was founded by Seleucid kings at the edge of the Lycus Valley in the 3rd century BC. The sinter terraces of the area now named Pamukkale, were formed by the calcareous thermal springs. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (87)
00044130 : TURKEY - The remains of the medieval citadel at Ephesus on top of Ayasoluk Hill. Occupied during Mycenaean times, the city was extended in the hellenistic and Roman eras. The castle was built in the 7th century. (90)
00044129 : FRANCE Paris - As if being chased, a couple passes a sculpture of a giant baby, part of an art exhibition in the grounds of the Palais Royal.
00044128 : SPAIN Minorca (Menorca), Balearic Islands - A talayot-culture settlement at Trepuco, surrounded by a star-shaped fortification dating from the 18th century AD. The dry stone tower dates from the Late Bronze Age in the early 1st century BC. The purpose of the sanctuary is unclear. (157)
00044127 : SYRIA - The caravan city of Palmyra, in the heart of the Syrian desert, which was an important oasis on the course of trade routes between Syria and Mesopotamia between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD. The Temple of Bel is surrounded by a thick wall and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (170)
00044126 : ITALY - The Banditaccia cemetery at the Etruscan city of Cerveteri, which lies on a high plateau near the Tyrrhenian coast. The burial site dates from the Villanovan period in the 9th century BC. (150)
00044125 : ITALY Rome - The Pantheon, a Roman temple situated in the heart of the old city and the Campus Martius. Built by Agrippa in 27-25 BC, it was completely rebuilt by Hadrian bedween 118 and 125 AD. Originally a dynastic temple dedicated to all the gods of Rome, it remains a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (199)
00044124 : ITALY Rome - The Imperial Forums alongside the Via dei Fori Imperiali. Built in stages from the middle of 1st century BC, they were the work of emperors Augustus, Vespasian Nerva and Trajan and reflect the imperial power of Rome. The complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains the gladiatorial amphitheatre of the Colosseum, or Flavian amphitheatre. (41)
00044123 : ITALY - The Villa Adriana, situated at the foot of the Sabine Hills below Tivoli, is the largest of all Italian villas. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it was built between 118 and 134 AD. (64)
00044122 : SRI LANKA - The Buddhist centre at Anuradhapura, also known as the 'City of Anuradha'. The city was founded in the 5th century BC and became the capital of the Sinhalese empire in 377 BC. The site, which was an international Buddhist pilgrimage destination before its abandonment in 1017, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (184)
00044121 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - Lappet-faced vulture (Nubian Vulture).
00044120 : TANZANIA Serengeti National Park - A female cheetah or hunting leopard, Acinonyx Jubatus, with her cub.
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