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00040342 : SPAIN - Women work peeling oranges on a production line in a canning factory producing agricultural and processed food products. They earn 6 Euros per hour and work 36 hours a week during the orange growing season which runs from October to January.
00040341 : BURMA Shan State, Myanmar - The track of the Aung Ban to Loikaw railway line, which was built by thousands of unpaid workers living in nearby villages. Cuttings and embankments along the route were made by hand.
00040340 : TURKEY Izmir - Textile factory staffed mainly by women.
00040339 : TURKEY Isparta - Girl working in a carpet workshop, where most workers are female and from rural areas. The daily wage is around 3 Euros.
00040338 : BANGLADESH Nr Dhaka - Imilufar Aktar works as a stonebreaker, cutting rocks and bricks into pieces to produce material for use in road and pavement construction. She works 12 hours a day, earning 50 takas, the equivalent of 40 pence.
00040337 : TUNISIA Sousse - Date palm, laden with dates beside the medieval city walls of the Medina.
00040336 : THAILAND - Elephants, employed in illegal logging operations along the river on the Thai-Burmese border, return to camp in the rain.
00040335 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Visitors in the National Museum, where a display case containing a specimen of a female snow leopard is on show. Most of the specimens in the Natural History section of the museum were killed by British hunters in the nineteenth-century.
00040334 : TUNISIA Tunis - Rooftop in the Medina quarter of the city, richly decorated with traditional patterned ceramic tiles. The minaret of the Aghlabid Ez-Zitouna Mosque (Jemaa Zitouna) stands behind.
00040333 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - A sheep seller smokes a cigarette as he sits with his livestock during the weekly animal market which takes place under date palms at the oasis.
00040332 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man carries a kadavi (portable shrine) along a pilgrimage trail during the annual Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving, commemorating the birth and triumph over evil of the Hindu Lord Murugan. The shrines can weigh up to 50 lbs, and the route involves climbing 272 steps. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040331 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - Passengers wait for boats on the Rangoon River.
00040330 : RUSSIA Moscow - A supporter of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky demonstrating outside a Moscow court. Khodorkovsky has been sentenced to nine years in a penal colony, while the most lucrative fields of his oil empire have been transferred to state oil company Rosneft.
00040329 : NEPAL - A group of Royal Forestry Department officers display seized tiger and snow leopard skins at the barracks of Chitwan National Park. The 5 year old stockpile has an estimated value of $750,000 USD.
00040328 : BURMA Shan State, Myanmar - Boiling down sugar cane sap.
00040327 : TUNISIA Tunis - The French colonial era cathedral Saint Vincent de Paul is reflected in a puddle on Avenue Bourguiba in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town) area of the city.
00040326 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A visitor pokes his umbrella into the leopard enclosure at Kolkata Zoo. The zoo is over a century old and is in a state of decay.
00040325 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Ethnic Tamil men carry clay pots filled with flames along a pilgrimage trail during the annual Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040324 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Construction labourers building a 22-storey shopping mall and business centre in Uttora, a modern suburb about 12km from the centre of Dhaka.
00040323 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil woman carries a pot of milk as an offering along a pilgrimage trail during the annual Tamil Hindu Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. Her face is covered in red powder which symbolises her devotion to Hindu Lord Murugan, whose birth and triumph over evil is commemorated during the festival. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040322 : VIETNAM Hanoi - A snake is cut open and removed of its heart, blood and bile in a restaurant in the city. The animal's organs are consumed in the belief that they increase sexual libido.
00040321 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man with a skewer through his tongue, a form of mortification of the flesh undertaken after a long fasting and prayer as part of the annual Thaipusam festival. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040320 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil woman is ritually released from her trance-like state by a pilgrim group leader, pushing her forehead, at the ecstatic climax to her pilgrimage to the Batu Caves as part of the annual Thaipusam festival. The Tamil Hindu festival of penance and thanksgiving commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040319 : RUSSIA Centoroy (Tsentoroy), Chechnya - Chechnya's Russian-backed Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov shows off one of his weapons. Kadyrov's militia forces are blamed by human rights groups for abductions, extra-judicial killings and torture.
00040318 : INDIA Kaziranga, Assam - A 26 year old woman cries in the back of a police vehicle, having been arrested in possession of two rhinoceros horns that her brother and husband had poached two days earlier from Kaziranga National Park. On hearing of her arrest, her Muslim husband swiftly divorced her, releasing himself from any marital ties that would link him with the crime. As a result, while the men may receive a warning, the woman faces the death penalty.
00040317 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, on her first visit there in thirty years.
00040316 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man has a skewer put through his tongue, a form of mortification of the flesh undertaken after a long fasting and prayer as part of the annual Thaipusam festival. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040315 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Ethnic Tamil pilgrims perform ritual washing and prayer in a river close to the Batu Caves in preparation for the annual Tamil Hindu Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. Ritual washing plays an integral part in the festival, which commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040314 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - Ethnic Tamil men with skewers through their tongues, a form of mortification of the flesh undertaken after a long fasting and prayer as part of the annual Thaipusam festival. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040313 : NEPAL Bharatpur - A group of Royal Forestry Department officers display seized tiger and snow leopards skins at the Bharatpur barracks in Chitwan National Park. The 5 year old stockpile has an estimated value of $750,000 USD.
00040312 : RUSSIA Moscow - The headquarters of the state-controlled gas company Gazprom, which controls one fifth of the world's gas reserves.
00040311 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man experiences a moment of collapse at the ecstatic climax to his pilgrimage to the Batu Caves as part of the annual Thaipusam festival. The Tamil Hindu festival of penance and thanksgiving commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040310 : RUSSIA Moscow - The headquarters of the state-controlled gas company Gazprom, which controls one fifth of the world's gas reserves.
00040309 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man carries a kadavi (portable shrine) along a pilgrimage trail during the annual Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. He has a skewer through his tongue, a form of mortification of the flesh undertaken after a long fasting and prayer. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040308 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man experiences a moment of collapse at the ecstatic climax to his pilgrimage to the Batu Caves as part of the annual Thaipusam festival. The Tamil Hindu festival of penance and thanksgiving commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040307 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man lies on the ground having lost consciousness after a ritual release from his trance-like state, achieved at the climax to his pilgrimage for the Thaipusam festival. The annual Tamil Hindu festival of penance and thanksgiving commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040306 : INDIA Assam - Rangers at Kaziranga National Park prepare to patrol an area, which is known to be a feeding ground for the Asian rhinoceros. During their patrol they will be on the lookout for poachers.
00040305 : RUSSIA Noviy Urengoi - An oil derrick operated by state-controlled oil and gas company Gazprom.
00040304 : ETHIOPIA - Woman working in a flour mill. She receives payment in wheat rather than a salary.
00040303 : RUSSIA Moscow - Supporters of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky on a demonstration to mark the jailed oil billionaire's birthday. Khodorkovsky has been sentenced to nine years in a penal colony, while the most lucrative fields of his oil empire have been transferred to state oil company Rosneft.
00040302 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Young boy selling lotus heads on the city's waterfront at Sisowath Quay next to the Tonle Sap River.
00040301 : TUNISIA Dougga, Le Tell - Pesant farmer on a donkey with his wife in an olive grove during the olive harvest.
00040300 : NEPAL Pokhara District - Woman working as a stonebreaker. She earns 60 Rupees, the equivalent of around 75 pence per day.
00040299 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - Amputees, former soldiers of the Burmese Army, use their prosthetic legs to rest their heads on as they sleep on a pile of building rubble in Rangoon train station.
00040298 : COLOMBIA Muzo - The Cortina Roja brothel in an emerald mine. People from all over the country travel to the Minero River in search of the 'green dream'.
00040297 : TUNISIA Tunis - A Sony television and boxed mobile phone sit on the bonnet of a car outside a shop selling imported phones and electrical goods. A neon sign for telephone company, Nokia forms part of the window display.
00040296 : BURMA Myanmar - Boys with spades and shovels working on the consturction of a shop.
00040295 : INDIA Assam - An adult male Asian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) crosses a grassy plain in Kaziranga National Park.
00040294 : BANGLADESH Narayanganj, Nr. Dhaka - Workers at a garment factory listen to a speech by a Union activist following the killing by police of several workers. The employees of the factory who were killed were campaigning for the payment of unpaid salaries.
00040293 : TUNISIA Tunis - Elderly man wearing traditional Tunisian clothing; a shawl wrapped around his head covering a red felt chechia hat, decorated with a flower.
00040292 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Cages line the walls of a warehouse at a bear farm in the city. The farm keeps over 290 adult bears in captivity.
00040291 : NEPAL Moung La - A sign at a backpackers bar in Chitwan National Park advertises cocktails containing rhinoceros and tiger.
00040290 : BURMA Moung La, Myanmar - A man displays a hornbill at the local food market. The asking price for the bird equivalent to a month's wages in the town.
00040289 : MEXICO Nr Ensenada, Baja California - Migrant workers from the poor state of Oaxaca run while they work picking tomatoes on a farm. They are paid 2 Pesos per bucket, the equivalent of around 10 pence.
00040288 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man with a skewer through his cheeks, a form of mortification of the flesh undertaken after a long fasting and prayer as part of the annual Thaipusam festival. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040287 : TUNISIA Tunis - Repairs take place on the rooftop in the old Medina, where aerials and a satellite dish are attached to the roof.
00040286 : NEPAL Birgunj (Birganj) - A boy sits in a truck next to a sign welcoming travellers to Nepal. It is the major crossing point in Nepal for the smuggling of wildlife into Nepal and India.
00040285 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Unloading sheep from the back of a Peugeot pick-up truck at the weekly animal market at the oasis.
00040284 : MEXICO Nr Ensenada, Baja California - Prudencia, a migrant worker from the poor state of Oaxaca, picks radish on a farm. She earns around 70 Pesos per day, the equivalent of £3.60.
00040283 : RUSSIA Noviy Urengoi - An oil derrick operated by state-controlled oil and gas company Gazprom.
00040282 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - A sheep seller grips the sheep with his legs in an effort to control it, at the weekly animal market at the oasis.
00040281 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young Muslim men dressed in sports jackets shop at the 'Chinese Market' between the Nouvelle Ville (New Town) and the Medina. The market is so-called because the merchandise on sale on the stalls is predominantly imported from China.
00040280 : TUNISIA Carthage - A headstones of a child grave at the Carthaginian child cemetery, the Biblically-named Sanctuary of Tophet. The Carthaginians were thought to have sacrificed children to the god Tanit in times of hardship.
00040279 : BURMA Thakhilek, Myanmar - A shop selling wildlife products in the Thailand-Burma border town of Thakhilek. The town is a staging post for the smuggling of poached animals.
00040278 : RUSSIA Centoroy (Tsentoroy), Chechnya - Chechnya's Russian-backed Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov.
00040277 : RUSSIA Centoroy (Tsentoroy), Chechnya - Chechnya's Russian-backed Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov in a mosque in his home village.
00040276 : BURMA Mandalay, Myanmar - Mandalay international and domestic telephone office.
00040275 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young woman cleaning window of fashion shop 'Prince de Galles' (Prince of Wales) in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town) in the city centre.
00040274 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil woman, carrying a small kadavi (shrine) climbs steps to the Batu Caves as part of the annual Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. She has a skewer through her tongue, a form of mortification of the flesh undertaken after a long fasting and prayer. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040273 : SWEDEN Lund - A female engineer at the Tetra pak factory modifies a piece of machinery at the company headquarters. Tetra pak is a multinational enterprise based in Sweden which produces food packaging.
00040272 : TUNISIA Tunis - The illuminated minaret of the Aghlabid Ez-Zitouna Mosque (Jemaa Zitouna) dominates the Medina quarter of the city, overlooking the Rue Sidi Ben Arous near the souk.
00040271 : TUNISIA Tunis - View towards the clock tower at Place Novembre along the city's main street, Avenue Bourguiba, which traverses the Ville Nouvelle.
00040270 : BURMA Hpa-An (Pa-An), Kayin State, Myanmar - The Salween River.
00040269 : TUNISIA Tunis - A Muslim woman wearing a headscarf buys fruit at a stall in the central market.
00040268 : ALBANIA Durres - Women caulking a fishing boat and mending rope.
00040267 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - Women wait with children at a bus stop in the city centre, in front of a billboard featuring a motobike advertising imported Lucky Strike cigarettes.
00040266 : BANGLADESH Nr Dhaka - Women working as porters carry baskets to collect sand and other debris left by a recent flood. Each woman works 10 hours a day, earning 50 takas, the equivalent of 40 pence.
00040265 : SPAIN - 19 year old Lorena Delgado takes part in military training at an air base. She has been a soldier in the Special Forces of the Spanish Army for a year.
00040264 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young Muslim men in American-style sports jackets, one using a mobile telephone, stand outside a stall at the 'Chinese Market' between the Nouvelle Ville (New Town) and the Medina. The market is so-called because the merchandise on sale on the stalls is predominantly imported from China.
00040263 : BURMA Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar - Women wait to be connected at the telephone office to make a domestic phone call.
00040262 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil bathes under a shower close to the Batu caves in preparation for the annual Tamil Hindu Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. Ritual washing plays an integral part in the festival, which commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040261 : RUSSIA Sakhalin - A ship operated by Sakhalin Energy in the Pacific ocean to the the north of Sakhalin island. The company, which is part owned by Shell, is developing a major oil and gas project on the Sakhalin Shelf.
00040260 : TUNISIA Tunis - A boy street seller pushes his cart of merchandise into the covered souk where jeans for sale hang over the entrance, in the Medina quarter of the city.
00040259 : TUNISIA Tunis - A hand painted sign on a wall advertises a restaurant specialising in local speciality Cassecroute, on Rue de la Kasbah in the Medina. Both Arabic and French are used on the mural and the street signs.
00040258 : USA Los Angeles, United States of America - Female police officers Reyes and Curtin patrol Venice Beach. They are on a yearly salary of $45,000.
00040257 : TUNISIA Tunis - Medina alleyway at night.
00040256 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young men outside a shop selling televisions and satellite dishes, emblazoned with branding for the electronics company Philips.
00040255 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Children in the Milton Margai School for the Blind, the only blind school in Sierra Leone, which has about 85 pupils between the ages of four and eighteen. The school was bombed during the civil war, after being evacuated, and some of the children lost their sight as victims of rebel atrocities.
00040254 : TUNISIA Tunis - Woman usig an ATM bank machine, which accepts Visa and Mastercard.
00040253 : RUSSIA Noviy Urengoi - An oil derrick operated by state-controlled oil and gas company Gazprom.
00040252 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young man and woman in discussion in the Place de la Victoire.
00040251 : GUATEMALA - Juana carries her child with her as she works on the rubbish tip, near where she lives, scavenging for items for resale.
00040250 : TUNISIA Tunis - Woman wearing a traditional Muslim headscarf, passing a giant advertisement for Virgin Cola and Danone yoghurt, on the side of a building in the Ville Nouvelle.
00040249 : INDIA Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal - Women from the Hariyan cast work as street sweepers in a municipal park. They earn 75 rupees per day, the equivalent of 1 GBP.
00040248 : KAZAKHSTAN - Workers lay an oil pipeline for Hurricane Kumkol Munai (formerly the state-owned oil company, Yuzhneftegazin, until it was taken over by Hurricane Hydrocarbons).
00040247 : TUNISIA Tunis - View along the city's main street, Avenue Bourguiba, which traverses the Ville Nouvelle.
00040246 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man falls into a trance-like state as he performs the Vel Kavadi ritual as part of the annual Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. The practice involves dragging a portable altar by a set of hooks that pierce the back, a form of mortification which follows a session of fasting and prayer. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040245 : PAKISTAN Peshawar, North West Frontier Province (NWFP) - An Afghan teacher gives a lesson in a primary school classroom. She is a refugee from the bordering country where, as a female she would be prohibited to work as a teacher under the Taliban regime.
00040244 : TUNISIA Tunis - A man has his hair cut in a small barber's shop next to a wedding dress boutique with a bridal window display.
00040243 : TUNISIA Tunis - A market salesman wearing a red traditional Tunisian chechia hat, serves customers at his stall on Rue des Teinturiers in the Medina quarter.
00040242 : TUNISIA Tunis - Taxi with female passenger.
00040241 : TUNISIA Tunis - A morning commuter uses his mobile telephone on his way to work in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town) area in the city centre.
00040240 : CAMBODIA Bokor - A father and son are stopped and searched by the National Forestry Department in the Bokor National Park having been caught returning from the forest with a sloth. The forestry department is trying to stop the trade of wildlife between the hills and the lowlands.
00040239 : TUNISIA Tunis - View towards a restaurant in the Medina quarter of the city through the Bab Bhar (Porte de France), also known as the Sea Gate.
00040238 : TUNISIA Kairouan - Muslim women in headscarves walk through the Medina.
00040237 : VIETNAM Hanoi - A snake is presented to a group of customers at a restaurant who have selected it for their lunch. Its heart, blood and bile will be removed and consumed, in the belief that it will increase sexual libido.
00040236 : ROMANIA - Peasant women harvest hay by hand as much of the farming in the region is not mechanised.
00040235 : TUNISIA Dougga, Le Tell - The ruins of Dougga (Thugga), occupied by the Romans in the 2nd Century BC. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
00040234 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - A father shaves his son's head in an act of humility alongide other pilgrims bathing in preparation for the annual Tamil Hindu Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. Ritual washing plays an integral part in the festival, which commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040233 : INDIA Assam - A ranger at the main entrance to Kaziranga National Park searches a vehicle for weapons which could be used for wildlife poaching. The security barrier wall bears the words 'Save Rhinoceros'.
00040232 : MEXICO Ciudad Juarez - Women at work on the factory floor of the multinational company, Delphi. Delphi operates as a 'maquiladora', an assembly production line which employs competitively-priced Mexican labour, temporarily importing component parts for assembly before exporting the finished product.
00040231 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Sheep sellers with their livestock during the weekly animal market which takes place under date palms at the oasis.
00040230 : MEXICO Ciudad Juarez - A couple walk along a railway track on their way to work in a factory. Many factories in the town operate as 'maquiladoras', multinational assembly production lines which employ competitively-priced Mexican labour, temporarily importing component parts for assembly before exporting the finished product.
00040229 : CAMBODIA - A worker adjusts the looms of wool at the Chinese-managed Mighty Spectra knitting factory.
00040228 : COLOMBIA Muzo - Emerald mining. Families from all over the country travel to the Minero River in search of the 'green dream'.
00040227 : BURMA Thakhilek, Myanmar - A horn from an Asian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is held on display in a shop in the border town. The asking price is $8,000 USD.
00040226 : TUNISIA Tunis - Traffic jam in the rush hour.
00040225 : TUNISIA Tunis - Youths playing football at night in the Place de la Victoire next to the Bab Bhar (Porte de France), which is also known as the Sea Gate. The archway divides the Ville Nouvelle from the Medina quarter of the city.
00040224 : INDIA Rajasthan - Women work shovelling salt at Sambar salt plains. Most of them belong to the lowly Sudra caste. They are paid 28 Rupees, around 35 pence, for each ton of salt that they collect.
00040223 : TUNISIA Tunis - Pouring gold into a crucible mould in a jewellery workshop in the Medina's souk.
00040222 : TUNISIA Tunis - Youth selling fish on a stall in the central market.
00040221 : TUNISIA Tunis - A youth wearing a T-shirt with the image of rap singer Eminem, works at a fish stall in the central market.
00040220 : RWANDA Nr Kigali - Women hoeing a tea plantation.
00040219 : BURMA Prome, Pegu Division, Myanmar - Pilgrims eat noodles bought from a stall in front of the temple.
00040218 : BANGLADESH Nr Dhaka - Women working as porters at a brick factory next to a quarry, carrying piles of bricks on their heads. They work 10 hours a day, earning 100 takas, the equivalent of 80 pence.
00040217 : TUNISIA Tunis - Women look in the window of an expensive bridal shop, with mannequins displaying beaded wedding dresses.
00040216 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man with a skewer through his ear and lip, a form of mortification of the flesh undertaken after a long fasting and prayer as part of the annual Thaipusam festival. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040215 : SOUTH AFRICA - Peasant selling vegetables on the roadside.
00040214 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Unloading a camel from the back of a Peugeot pick-up truck at the weekly animal market at the oasis.
00040213 : TUNISIA Sousse - Muslim women in headscarves pass the Ribat (medieval fortress) in the Medina. The Ribat is a chain of fortified monastries with a watch tower, built by the Aghlabids in the 9th century AD. It served in times of war to house warrior monks and to defend the poulation against enemy attack.
00040212 : SWEDEN Lund - 24 year old Liselatt Fornander tests a piece of equipment for radiation at the Baserback nuclear plant.
00040211 : FRANCE Paris - Scientists researching a vaccine for whooping cough inspect a petri dish in a laboratory at the Pasteur institute.
00040210 : TUNISIA Tunis - The Place de la Victoire next to the Bab Bhar (Porte de France), which is also known as the Sea Gate. The archway divides the Ville Nouvelle from the Medina quarter of the city.
00040209 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Workers at the state run Jinhuagong mine sort coal.
00040208 : TUNISIA Tunis - Businessmen on the city's main street Avenue Bourguiba in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town).
00040207 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, meets up with her cousin Arthur Yaskey on her first visit there in thirty years.
00040206 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - A worker at the state run Jinhuagong mine sorts coal.
00040205 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young Tunisian woman wearing a pink Ralph Lauren baseball cap talks on her mobile phone, on Avenue Bourguiba in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town).
00040204 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, on her first visit there in thirty years.
00040203 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Construction labourer.
00040202 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Delia Jarrett-Macauley (left) interviews Saleem Vahidy (right), the head of witness protection at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, for a BBC radio documentary. The court was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes. Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, was making her first visit there in thirty years.
00040201 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Efraim Halevy, former head of Mossad.
00040200 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Construction labourer.
00040199 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A staircase at Ronsabs preparatory school.
00040198 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - View of the east end of Freetown from Tower Hill.
00040197 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A Mongolian United Nations soldier stands guard outside the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the UN to investigate war crimes.
00040196 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - View of the Aberdeen peninsula of Freetown.
00040195 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A mural depicting a member of the Armed Forces Ruling Council Junta.
00040194 : NETHERLANDS The Hague - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, then a member of the Dutch parliament. She was born in Somalia but sought asylum in the Netherlands, and became prominent for her views on the position of women within Islam. In 2006 she resigned as an MP and took a job at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in the USA
00040193 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Houses in the east end of Freetown.
00040192 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Woman walking along a pathway leading to Forah Bay University.
00040191 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A man wearing a Cameroon football shirt outside the offices of Sierra National Airlines in downtown Freetown.
00040190 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, on her first visit there in thirty years. Here she poses outside the Lion Photo store on Siaka Stevens Street.
00040189 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, meets up with her cousin Manilius Garber on her first visit there in thirty years.
00040188 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A traditional Creole house on Campbell Street. Freetown was settled by freed slaves in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Some of the first settlers came from the Southern states of America bringing with them an approach to architecture, unique to Africa, which had evolved from the building style of the deep south. These newcomers came to be known as 'Krio' or Creole.
00040187 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Schoolgirls from the Annie Walsh secondary school on their way home.
00040186 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, on her first visit there in thirty years. Delia talks to the pastor at the College Chapel Chruch on Rawdon Street, which was designed by her uncle Joseph Ransford Jarrett-Yaskey.
00040185 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, on her first visit there in thirty years. Here she is visiting the home of Professor Eldred Jones.
00040184 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, on her first visit there in thirty years. Here she has her picture taken by a street studio photographer at Lion Photo on Siaka Stevens Street.
00040183 : TUNISIA Tunis - Passenger on a tram with advertisement for Nestle Nescafe instant coffee, featuring the image of an Arab man.
00040182 : TUNISIA Tunis - Bus with passengers in traffic jam.
00040181 : NEPAL Pokhara District - Women work as stone porters amidst plumes of dust in a quarry. The daily wage for employees is around 100 Nepalese rupees, the equivalent of 80 pence.
00040180 : PAKISTAN Peshawar, North West Frontier Province (NWFP) - A student reads aloud in front of the class during a lesson in a primary school. The teacher is an Afghan refugee from the bordering country where as a female under the Taliban regime she would be prohibited to work.
00040179 : TUNISIA Kairouan - Muslim cemetery outside the Medina with the minaret of the Mosque of Sidi Oqba (The Great Mosque) beyond the wall. The minaret, reconstructed in the 8th century, is the oldest minaret in North Africa.
00040178 : USA Salinas, Monterey County, California, United States of America - Illegal Mexican workers pick lettuces and load them onto a harvesting vehicle. The hourly wage for the work is around 7 US dollars, the equivalent of £4.
00040177 : TUNISIA Tunis - Workmen and scaffolding are silhouetted as repairs take place on the top of the minaret of the Aghlabid Ez-Zitouna Mosque (Jemaa Zitouna) in the Medina quarter.
00040176 : TUNISIA Sousse - Child sitting in a wheelbarrow with a bunch of carrots at the market.
00040175 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young boy smiling.
00040174 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Chickens for sale at the weekly animal market at the oasis.
00040173 : SRI LANKA - Tamil women harvesting tea on a plantation in the central highlands. Ceylon tea is world renowned and still picked by hand.
00040172 : INDIA - Women work as porters in a slate mine.
00040171 : KENYA - Villagers selling fruit and vegetables on the roadside to passing vehicles.
00040170 : BURMA Shan State, Myanmar - Homeless mother, wearing a Peanuts T-shirt works on a rubbish tip with her daughter. They scavenge the dump collecting recyclable items for resale.
00040169 : TUNISIA Sousse - View over the rooftops of the historic Medina.
00040168 : TUNISIA Tunis - A shop assistant uses clothing to hide his face, imitating a Muslim woman, between two mannequins displaying countierfeit Chanel T-shirts. The shop sells reproductions of designer clothing in the covered souk in the Medina quarter of the city.
00040167 : TUNISIA Tunis - Pedestrians and cars on the street outside the french colonial building of the 'Musee des Finances' in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town) area of the city.
00040166 : MEXICO Ciudad Juarez - Women work cleaning vehicle carburators on the factory floor of the multinational company, Delphi. Delphi operates as a 'maquiladora', an assembly production line which employs competitively-priced Mexican labour, temporarily importing component parts for assembly before exporting the finished product.
00040165 : TUNISIA Sousse - Tunisian flag flying from a building overlooking the rooftops of the city, towards the Mediterranean.
00040164 : TUNISIA Tunis - Advertising for a low calorie version of soft drink Orangina, influenced by the local Muslim culture. The text reads 'During Ramadan drink it fresh and stay slim!'.
00040163 : MOROCCO Rift mountains - Elderly women carrying firewood home.
00040162 : MEXICO Ciudad Juarez - Women work cleaning vehicle carburators on the factory floor of the multinational company, Delphi. Delphi operates as a 'maquiladora', an assembly production line which employs competitively-priced Mexican labour, temporarily importing component parts for assembly before exporting the finished product.
00040161 : TUNISIA Kairouan - Father and baby in the Medina.
00040160 : TUNISIA Tunis - Men wearing chechias, the traditional Tunisian felt hat, in discussion at a chechia shop next to the Souk des Chechias in the Medina.
00040159 : TUNISIA Kairouan - Children passing a stall selling carpets in the Medina.
00040158 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - A camel owner in a suit and tie stands with camel hands next to his animals at the weekly animal market at the oasis.
00040157 : TUNISIA Sousse - Woman with a bunch of fennel and mint at the vegetable market.
00040156 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young Muslim women wearing headscarves walk past pavement cafes on the city's main street Avenue Bourguiba, in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town).
00040155 : TUNISIA Tunis - Women wearing headscarves walk past stalls in the souk in the Medina quarter.
00040154 : TUNISIA Tunis - Satellite dish on a Medina rooftop.
00040153 : SPAIN La Rioja - Gypsy migrant seasonal worker harvesting potatoes.
00040152 : TUNISIA Tunis - The minaret of the Aghlabid Ez-Zitouna Mosque (Jemaa Zitouna) dominates the Medina quarter of the city.
00040151 : TUNISIA Tunis - Man rearranging a display of chechias, the traditional Tunisian felt hat like a Fez, in the Souk des Chechias in the Medina.
00040150 : CAMBODIA Bokor - A handcuffed poacher sits in a hammock waiting to be questioned by members of the National Cambodian Forestry Security service. He was arrested while operating as part of a poaching team in Bokor National park.
00040149 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Sheep sellers with their livestock during the weekly animal market which takes place under date palms at the oasis.
00040148 : TUNISIA Tunis - A child with a Teletubbies bag waits for a car to pass on the street in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town).
00040147 : TUNISIA Tunis - A stall-holder passes an egg sandwich in a French baguette to a customer at his stand on the edge of the Medina.
00040146 : SPAIN Lleida (Lerida), Catalonia - Women employed as metal workers at the Ferrofet Catalana factory.
00040145 : TUNISIA Carthage - Headstones of graves at the Carthaginian child cemetery, the Biblically-named Sanctuary of Tophet. The Carthaginians were thought to have sacrificed children to the god Tanit in times of hardship.
00040144 : PERU - Elderly peasant.
00040143 : TUNISIA Tunis - Two female students walk along the central tree-lined pavement on Avenue Bourguiba in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town).
00040142 : SPAIN - Female worker among the clothes rails in a textile factory.
00040141 : TUNISIA Tunis - The French colonial era cathedral Saint Vincent de Paul on Avenue Bourguiba in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town) area of the city.
00040140 : TUNISIA Tunis - A waiter carrying glasses of fresh orange juice to pavement tables at a cafe on the city's main street, Avenue Bourguiba, in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town).
00040139 : TUNISIA Tunis - Stall selling general household goods and toiletries at the 'Chinese Market' between the Nouvelle Ville (New Town) and the Medina. The market is so-called because the merchandise on sale on the stalls is predominantly imported from China.
00040138 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Man selling dates in the souk at the oasis.
00040137 : TUNISIA Tunis - A pedestrian walks across the street amidst rush-hour traffic in the centre of the city.
00040136 : TUNISIA Tunis - Men wearing chechias, the traditional Tunisian felt hat, in discussion in the centre of town.
00040135 : TUNISIA Tunis - Women buy fabrics in a busy cloth souk in the Medina quarter of the city.
00040134 : TUNISIA Tunis - The 1970s futurist luxury Hotel du Lac.
00040133 : TUNISIA Tunis - Businessmen in the city centre stand beside an image of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
00040132 : TUNISIA Tunis - Backstreet close to the Medina at dusk.
00040131 : TUNISIA Tunis - Women looking in a jeweller's window in the gold souk in the Medina quarter.
00040130 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young man and woman in discussion in the Place de la Victoire.
00040129 : TUNISIA Tunis - Alleyway in the Medina with arch, leading to the souk.
00040128 : TUNISIA Tunis - Fish seller using his mobile telephone at his stall in the central market.
00040127 : TUNISIA Tunis - Fish stall at the central market.
00040126 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - The weekly animal market takes place under date palms at the oasis, selling mostly sheep and camels.
00040125 : TUNISIA Tunis - Young women pass shops on the Avenue de France in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town), in the centre of the city.
00040124 : TUNISIA Tunis - Fathers sit with their children on the street in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town).
00040123 : TUNISIA Tunis - Olives and chillies for sale at a shop near the Central Market in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town).
00040122 : TUNISIA Sousse - Boy serving customers at a bread stall.
00040121 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Camel for sale at the weekly animal market at the oasis.
00040120 : TUNISIA Tunis - Man selling stewed beans as a snack from a stall by the Chinese Market, on the edge of the Medina.
00040119 : TUNISIA Kairouan - A Muslim woman wearing a headscarf walks past a shop selling drinks and ice cream from a freezer with an image of a blonde woman. The French slogan reads 'Ola; The Italian Ice Cream'.
00040118 : TUNISIA Sousse - Fruit seller wearing a traditional Tunisian chechia hat.
00040117 : RUSSIA Centoroy (Tsentoroy), Chechnya - Chechnya's Russian-backed Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov in a mosque in his home village.
00040116 : TUNISIA El Djem - Children run up the steps outside the Roman amphitheatre, which was constructed between 230 and 238 BC under proconsul Gordian, but was never completed. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
00040115 : TUNISIA Kairouan - Pulpit in the courtyard of the Mosque of Sidi Oqba (The Great Mosque) in front of the minaret. Reconstructed in the 8th century, the minaret is the oldest in North Africa.
00040114 : TUNISIA Kairouan - City walls surrounding the Medina, with the minaret of the Mosque of Sidi Oqba (The Great Mosque) visible behind. The minaret, reconstructed in the 8th century, is the oldest minaret in North Africa.
00040113 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - A camel handler, wrapped up against the early morning desert cold, stands with his camel for sale at the weekly animal market at the oasis.
00040112 : TUNISIA Tunis - Orange seller arranging fruits on his stall in the Medina quarter.
00040111 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Elderly men in discussion at the weekly animal market at the oasis.
00040110 : TUNISIA Kairouan - A craftsman spins blue dyed wool in a workshop in the Medina, which remains a centre for carpet production.
00040109 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Unloading sheep from trucks at the weekly animal market at the oasis.
00040108 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil woman in a trance-like state holds a candle on her tongue during the final stage of her pilgrimage to the Batu Caves, as part of the annual Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. She will pass out after reaching a point of religious ecstasy. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040107 : TUNISIA Sousse - The Great Mosque, seen through the gate in the walls of the Medina. The Medina was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.
00040106 : TUNISIA Kairouan - Fruit stall selling oranges in the Medina.
00040105 : TUNISIA Douz, Sahara Desert - Dates for sale on a stall in the souk at the oasis.
00040104 : TUNISIA Tunis - Passengers on a tram with advertisement for Nestle Nescafe instant coffee.
00040103 : TUNISIA Tunis - Man wearing the traditional Tunisian chechia hat reading a newspaper as he walks along Avenue Bourguiba in the Ville Nouvelle (New Town).
00040102 : TUNISIA Sousse - A Muslim mother wearing a headscarf and her daughter walk past a road sign reading 'Stop' in both Arabic and English.
00040101 : TUNISIA Tunis - An elderly short-sighted man reads an Arabic language newspaper as he sits on a bench in the Place de la Victoire.
00040100 : TUNISIA Mahdia - Fishermen arranging nets in the port, with fishing trawlers docked behind.
00040099 : TUNISIA El Djem - Man on a cart drawn by a donkey.
00040098 : MALAWI Lake Malawi - A young man cycles along a track towards Lake Malawi in the early morning.
00040097 : COLOMBIA Chapparral, Tolima - Aerial fumigation of coca and poppy plantations by anti-narcotics forces.
00040096 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Waterfront street seller carrying produce on her head beside Tonle Sap River.
00040095 : MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur - An ethnic Tamil man reaches the ecstatic climax of his pilgrimage to the Batu Caves, as part of the annual Thaipusam festival of penance and thanksgiving. A skewer has been removed from his tongue and he will pass out after reaching a moment of ritual release. The Tamil Hindu festival commemorates the birth of Hindu Lord Murugan and his triumph over evil. Pilgrims engage in various acts of devotion such as carrying burdens, flagellation and body piercing as they take part in a 15-kilometre procession to the Batu Caves.
00040094 : RUSSIA Centoroy (Tsentoroy), Chechnya - Chechnya's Russian-backed Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov shows off one of his weapons. Kadyrov's militia forces are blamed by human rights groups for abductions, extra-judicial killings and torture.
00040093 : RUSSIA Centoroy (Tsentoroy), Chechnya - Chechnya's Russian-backed Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov relaxing at home with his dog. He also has a pet lion.
00040092 : CHINA Beijing - The lowering of the Chinese flag in a vail of smog in front of the Forbidden City. Seven of the ten most polluted cities in the world are in China.
00040091 : BOLIVIA El Chapare - UMOPAR (anti-narcotics police) on an aerial patrol. El Chapare, in Bolivia's central lowlands, is the country's principal coca producing region and at the heart of the war on drugs.
00040090 : COLOMBIA Chapparral, Tolima - Aerial fumigation of coca and poppy plantations by anti-narcotics forces.
00040089 : NEPAL Bharatpur - A group of Royal Forestry Department officers display seized tiger and snow leopards skins at the Bharatpur barracks in Chitwan National Park. The 5 year old stockpile has an estimated value of $750,000 USD.
00040088 : BURMA Moung La, Myanmar - Local men attempt to sell various animal parts on the street. One holds the head of a buffalo while another holds a tiger's penis and the gall bladder of a bear.
00040087 : MALAWI - Women return to their village after collecting water from Lake Malawi in the early evening.
00040086 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Air pollution near the Number One coal fired power station. 75% of China's growing energy demand is satisfied by coal, the cheapest and dirtiest form of energy.
00040085 : KAZAKHSTAN - Workers lay an oil pipeline for Hurricane Kumkol Munai (formerly the state-owned oil company, Yuzhneftegazin, until it was taken over by Hurricane Hydrocarbons).
00040084 : CHINA Shanghai - Nanjing Donglu, Shanghai's main shopping street.
00040083 : CHINA Shanghai - Business travellers at Shanghai airport.
00040082 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Miners at the state run Jinhuagong coal mine.
00040081 : BOLIVIA Villa 14 Septiembre, El Chapare - Sacks of coca leaves at a village market. El Chapare, in Bolivia's central lowlands, is the country's principal coca producing region and at the heart of the war on drugs.
00040080 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - A miner walks through a haze of coal dust at a regional coal mine.
00040079 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - A worker at the state run Jinhuagong mine sorts coal.
00040078 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Coal mines and miners' housing in the region around Datong known as the 'sea of coal'.
00040077 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Coal mines and miners' housing in the region around Datong known as the 'sea of coal'.
00040076 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - The Number One coal fired power station. 75% of China's growing energy demand is satisfied by coal, the cheapest and dirtiest form of energy.
00040075 : CHINA Beijing - A shroud of smog envelopes Tiananmen Square. Seven of the ten most polluted cities in the world are in China.
00040074 : CHINA Beijing - Pedestrians stroll along a boulevard shrouded in smog. Seven of the ten most polluted cities in the world are in China.
00040073 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Coal mines and miners' housing in the region around Datong known as the 'sea of coal'.
00040072 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Miners at a regional mine sorting coal.
00040071 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Coal carriages being off-loaded at a small, private mine.
00040070 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - A worker at the state run Jinhuagong mine sorts coal.
00040069 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Miners at a regional mine sorting coal.
00040068 : KENYA Nairobi - A curator from the British Museum making final preparations for a collaborative exhibition between the National Museums of Kenya and the British Museum. The Siwa ivory side-blown horn, from Malindi, is one of several artefacts being put on display in East Africa, their place of origin, for the first time.
00040067 : NIGERIA Abuja - Archbishop Peter Akinola in an Anglican church in Abuja. Akinola is Anglican Primate of Nigeria.
00040066 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Seats for the accused in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes.
00040065 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes.
00040064 : NIGERIA Abuja - Archbishop Peter Akinola in an Anglican church in Abuja. Akinola is Anglican Primate of Nigeria.
00040063 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The Awoko newspaper reports the capture of former Liberian president Charles Taylor and his transfer to the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
00040062 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The Awoko newspaper reports the capture of former Liberian president Charles Taylor and his transfer to the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
00040061 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A judge's gavel in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes.
00040060 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Hebron, West Bank - Voting in the Israeli election at a polling station in the Kyriat Arba settlement.
00040059 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert celebrating his Kadima party's victory in the election.
00040058 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former PM Shimon Peres celebrating their Kadima party's victory in the election.
00040057 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Women voting in the Israeli election.
00040056 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Ramallah, West Bank - A child in the Beit El settlement helping his father to vote in the Israeli election.
00040055 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A prison guard at the detention centre of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes. This cell had been prepared to accommodate former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was eventually transferred to the court in March 2006.
00040054 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A prison guard at the detention centre of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes. This cell had been prepared to accommodate former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was eventually transferred to the court in March 2006.
00040053 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - The detention centre of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was set up jointly by the government and the United Nations to investigate war crimes. This cell had been prepared to accommodate former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was eventually transferred to the court in March 2006.
00040052 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - A nun leaves the Church of the Nativity.
00040051 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - Three young women and two nuns inside the Church of the Nativity.
00040050 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - Christian pilgrims light candles on a visit to the Shepherd's Field Church in Bethlehem.
00040049 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Bethlehem, West Bank - Father Luciano at the winery of the Cremisan monastery.
00040048 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - The reflection of the mosque in Manger Square on the window of a Christian souvenir shop. In recent years, the number of tourists visiting the city has declined dramatically.
00040047 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - Minarets and spires of mosques and churches amid the rooftops of Bethlehem.
00040046 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - Tourists and Christian pilgrims in the Church of the Nativity, where Christ is said to have been born.
00040045 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Belly dancers performing at the Stanga dance bar in central Jerusalem.
00040044 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - The market in the centre of Bethlehem at night.
00040043 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - Palestinians walk in Manger Square, with the Church of the Nativity on the left.
00040042 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Bethlehem, West Bank - A statue of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, located outside a monastery, is backdropped by the Palestinian village of Artas.
00040041 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - A nun and a Christian pilgrim sit in the Church of the Nativity, at the spot where Christ is said to have been born.
00040040 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - A man plays the organ beneath a stained glass window at the Church of the Nativity.
00040039 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Bethlehem, West Bank - A piece by the graffiti artist Banksy on the Israeli separation wall surrounding Bethlehem. Banksy described the barrier as "the ultimate activity holiday destination for graffiti writers."
00040038 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Homeless Palestinian man Muhamed Hammad, 39, eats food from a bin in central Jerusalem. Hammad, originally from Qalandiya in the West Bank, says he was a collaborator for 12 years with the Israeli security services, and was exposed in 1987. He fled, and since then has been living in an abandoned house in central Jerusalem. He regrets his circumstances, but in general, he doesn't regret his actions, as he believes "the Jews are truly the chosen people".
00040037 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - Mary Anastas cuts a Christmas cake.
00040036 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Bethlehem, West Bank - A general view of the Palestinian village of Artas, with a mosque in the foreground and the Artas monastery on the hillside in the background.
00040035 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Bethlehem, West Bank - The Palestinian village of Abaidah, between Bethlehem and the Judean desert.
00040034 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Yonathan (Ayalah Tadesah), a homeless Falashmura Jew, in an abandoned house in central Jerusalem where he has been living for the last four years.
00040033 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Hagit Grailsummer, a belly dancer, during a performance at the Stanga dance bar in central Jerusalem.
00040032 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Nr. Bethlehem, West Bank - The Mar Saba Greek Orthodox monastery, carved into the walls of a canyon between Bethlehem and the Judean desert. It was founded by Saint Sabas in the 5th century AD.
00040031 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Homeless man Yonathan (Ayalah Tadesah) at his current refuge, an abandoned house in central Jerusalem where he has been living for the last four years.
00040030 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - A Palestinian woman smoking a hookah in the popular Dar Judoudna coffee shop in the centre of Bethlehem.
00040029 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - Manger Square at night, with the Bethlehem Peace Centre on the right.
00040028 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Bethlehem, West Bank - A Palestinian man puts decorations on his Christmas tree.
00040027 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Yonathan (Ayalah Tadesah), a homeless Falashmura Jew, in an abandoned house in central Jerusalem where he has been living for the last four years.
00040026 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Impoverished Israelis eat lunch at Karmei Ha'ir, a restaurant which provides free meals to several hundred people a day.
00040025 : LIBERIA - Charles Taylor (left) with ECOMOG peacekeeping soldiers. Taylor's rebel forces had signed a peace deal which led to him being elected president two years later.
00040024 : NIGERIA Calabar - The presidential villa in Calabar, Nigeria, where former Liberian president Charles Taylor lived after going into exile in 2003.
00040023 : NIGERIA Calabar - The presidential villa in Calabar, Nigeria, where former Liberian president Charles Taylor lived after going into exile in 2003.
00040022 : ISRAEL Tel Aviv - Shimon Peres, twice Prime Minister of Israel, at an election campaign meeting at the docks of Tel Aviv. Peres is now a member of the Kadima party.
00040021 : ISRAEL Ashdod - Benjamin Netanyahu, chairman of Likud and former Prime Minister, at a pre-election meeting aimed at Russian voters in the city of Ashdod. To his right is Russian MK Nathan Scharanski and to his left is Russian MK Yuri Stern.
00040020 : ISRAEL Bat Yam - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni speaks at an election campaign meeting for the Kadima party. In the background are images of hospitalised Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
00040019 : USA Claremont, California, United States of America - Children dressed up as Princess Leia and Darth Vader, both characters from science fiction film Star Wars, with a girl in fairy fancy dress, at a Halloween parade.
00040018 : UKRAINE Pripyat - Remains of trees on a hill less than 2 km downwind of the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. They died in the nuclear fallout from the disaster and caught fire as result of radioactive contamination. On 26th April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a series of explosions which led to a nucle