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00038216 : SUDAN Upper Nile - Cattle at rest early in the morning. Their Nuer owners light small fires fuelled by cow dung in the 'cattle camp', so that the smoke keeps tsetse flies away. After sunrise the young boys will escort the cows to their grazing grounds. Cattle are the most important asset to the nomadic people of southern Sudan.
00038215 : SUDAN Upper Nile - Cattle at rest early in the morning. Their Nuer owners light small fires fuelled by cow dung in the 'cattle camp', so that the smoke keeps tsetse flies away. After sunrise the young boys will escort the cows to their grazing grounds. Cattle are the most important asset to the nomadic people of southern Sudan.
00038214 : SUDAN Upper Nile - Cattle rising early in the morning. Their Nuer owners light small fires fuelled by cow dung in the 'cattle camp', so that the smoke keeps tsetse flies away. After sunrise the young boys will escort the cows to their grazing grounds. Cattle are the most important asset to the nomadic people of southern Sudan.
00038213 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza - A pedestrian hurries through the street in an area destroyed by conflict.
00038212 : SUDAN Upper Nile - A young Nuer boy with tribal markings on his forehead. Instead of traditional scarification marks, the lines are drawn using school-board chalk.
00038211 : SUDAN Upper Nile - Young Nuer boys with tribal markings on their foreheads. Instead of traditional scarification marks, the lines are drawn using school-board chalk.
00038210 : SWEDEN - Jesper Nylund sits underwater with his mother in the swimming pool. He enjoys swimming. Six year old Jesper has Down Syndrome and although he is unable to talk, communicates through sign language.
00038209 : SWEDEN - Jesper makes a silhouette while playing in front of a light projector. Six year old Jesper has Down Syndrome and although he is unable to talk, communicates through sign language.
00038208 : SWEDEN - Six year old Jesper has Down Syndrome and although he is unable to talk, communicates through sign language.
00038207 : AZERBAIJAN Adgam - A woman laments her destroyed house after it was targeted by missiles and now lies in ruins. This Azeri town, bordering the Armenian-populated Nagorno Karabakh, experiences regular shelling.
00038206 : ARMENIA Stepanokert, Nagorno Karabakh - A boy sits with his younger brother among the rubble of his former home in the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Their parents were killed in the attack.
00038205 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Young street vendor at a train station.
00038204 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - People walk along the top of a vast man-made embankment over a sluice gate which was built to protect the capital from the annual flood waters.
00038203 : ARMENIA Nr Sadarak - A member of the Armenian militia at a post near the border with Azerbaijan overlooking the Azeri town of Sadarak.
00038202 : ARMENIA - An Armenian fighter smokes as he sits in a dugout near the Azerbaijan border. Fighting breaks out sporadically and attacks are frequent from both sides.
00038201 : ARMENIA - Anti-tank obstacles on the road at the Azerbaijan border.
00038200 : AZERBAIJAN Nagorno Karabakh - Armenian militia prepare to fire a Grad multiple rocket launcher and artillery cannon in the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Both sides in the conflict regularly attack each other's towns with such waponry.
00038199 : AZERBAIJAN Nakichevan - A 14 year old boy who has joined the team of volunteer irregular soldiers sits on the edge of a bed frame holding his rifle. He fights on the border with Armenia.
00038198 : ARMENIA Martakert, Nagorno Karabakh - The last Armenian tank flees the town in the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan after its capture by Azerbaijani forces.
00038197 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - A hut, which is immersed in water even in the dry season is by flooding once again inundated by floodwaters.
00038196 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Children play in the street.
00038195 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti - A man carries timber for firewood over sand dunes in the desert.
00038194 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Men in conversation.
00038193 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Sand gathers at the base of a desert plant.
00038192 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Tracks lead over the Sand dunes in the desert.
00038191 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A young boy sweeps sand away from the doorstep of his home. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038190 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A man walks through the ancient city streets. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038189 : BRAZIL Nr Santarem, Para - A truck speeds along the BR163 highway which serves as a major transport thoroughfare extending through the Amazon rainforest and providing access to the cleared land for loggers, ranchers and farmers.
00038188 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - The Fluvial Court boat docks at this remote village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. On it are judges, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors, teachers and election officials who bring law into the Brazilian jungle. The boat visits small Amazonian communities once every two months and provides government services that have previously been denied them due to their isolation.
00038187 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Priceless Korans and Hadith (Haddith), sit on a set of stone shelves in one of the city's ancient libraries. Collections of Hadith are regarded as important tools for determining the Muslim or Sunnah way of life, as they contain sayings by the Prophet Muhammad and his companions.
00038186 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - The Fluvial Court boat docks at this remote village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. On it are judges, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors, teachers and election officials who bring law into the Brazilian jungle. The boat visits small Amazonian communities once every two months and provides government services that have previously been denied them due to their isolation.
00038185 : BRAZIL Itamatatuba, Amapa Province - A villager collects coconuts from a palm tree in a village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. Most people in the area rely on fishing and small scale cultivation for food.
00038184 : BRAZIL Itamatatuba, Amapa Province - Young students at a primary school in a small village in the Bailique Archipeligo in the Amazon river's estuary. It is an extremely isolated community which is reached by river, specifically the Fluvial Court boat which stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038183 : ARGENTINA Iguassu, Parana - The Iguassu (Iguacu) Falls, viewed from the Argentinian side of the Iguassu River on the border between Argentina and Brazil. The waterfall stretches for two and a half miles, plunging 269 feet into the river below.
00038182 : BRAZIL Amapa Province - The estuary of the Amazon river which flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The dense jungle makes accessibility to the region difficult by all means other than river transport.
00038181 : BRAZIL Nr Santarem, Para - Land clearance by felling and burning takes place near Belterra along the BR163 highway, which serves as a major transport thoroughfare extending through the Amazon rainforest.
00038180 : ARGENTINA Iguassu, Parana - The Iguassu (Iguacu) Falls, viewed from the Argentinian side of the Iguassu River on the border between Argentina and Brazil. The waterfall stretches for two and a half miles, plunging 269 feet into the river below.
00038179 : BRAZIL Itamatatuba, Amapa Province - Young students at a primary school in a small village in the Bailique Archipeligo in the Amazon river's estuary. It is an extremely isolated community which is reached by river, specifically the Fluvial Court boat which stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038178 : BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro - Crowds sunbathe and surf on Ipanema beach.
00038177 : BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro - The sun sets over the hills surrounding Ipanema beach.
00038176 : BRAZIL Nr Santarem, Para - A woman walks along the BR163 highway which serves as a major transport thoroughfare extending through the Amazon rainforest, around which farms are being set up by agribusinesses.
00038175 : BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro - Surfer on Ipanema beach.
00038174 : BRAZIL Itamatatuba, Amapa Province - A nurse dispenses contraceptives to women on board the Fluvial Court boat, which has docked at the remote village in the Bailique Archipeligo in the Amazon river's estuary. It stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038173 : BRAZIL Nr Santarem, Para - 38 year old Pio Stefanelo is a large-scale soya farmer and seed producer who farms on cleared land outside Belterra near the BR163 highway. The road serves as a major transport thoroughfare extending through the Amazon rainforest.
00038172 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - Canoe at sunset.
00038171 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - Judge Sueli Pini (45) with the Fluvial Court boat, the Tribune, which she founded. The boat docks at this remote village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. On it are judges, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors, teachers and election officials who bring law into the Brazilian jungle. The boat visits small Amazonian communities once every two months and provides government services that have previously been denied them due to their isolation.
00038170 : BRAZIL Nr Santarem, Para - Hilton Jesus Oliveira (40) (left) and Cicero Alves Filho (65) from the village of Genipapo have refused to leave their village despite attempts by soya farmers, who burnt down a number of houses in the village to intimidate the Amazonian villagers into leaving and claim the cleared land.
00038169 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - Claimants wanting to see a solicitor board the Fluvial Court boat as it docks at this remote village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. On it are judges, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors, teachers and election officials who bring law into the Brazilian jungle. The boat visits small Amazonian communities once every two months and provides government services that have previously been denied them due to their isolation.
00038168 : BRAZIL Iguassu, Parana - The Iguassu (Iguacu) Falls, viewed from the Brazilian side of the Iguassu River on the border between Argentina and Brazil. The waterfall stretches for two and a half miles, plunging 269 feet into the river below.
00038167 : BRAZIL Nr Santarem, Para - Land clearance by felling and burning takes place near Belterra along the BR163 highway, which serves as a major transport thoroughfare extending through the Amazon rainforest.
00038166 : BRAZIL Macapa, Amapa Province - The line of the Equator is marked out on the ground in the port town near the mouth of the Amazon river. The town lies at zero degrees latitude along the line of the Equator.
00038165 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - School children read educational comics in a small village in the Bailique Archipeligo in the Amazon river's estuary. It is an extremely isolated community which is reached by river, specifically the Fluvial Court boat which stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038164 : BRAZIL Nr Santarem, Para - A tree sapling grows in a clearing created by the felling and burning of the Amazonian rainforest along the BR163 highway as smoke rises from further clearance taking place in the distance. The road serves as a major transport thoroughfare and extends through the Amazon rainforest.
00038163 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - School children read educational comics in a small village in the Bailique Archipeligo in the Amazon river's estuary. It is an extremely isolated community which is reached by river, specifically the Fluvial Court boat which stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038162 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - Claimants wanting to see a solicitor wait to board the Fluvial Court boat as it docks at this remote village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. On it are judges, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors, teachers and election officials who bring law into the Brazilian jungle. The boat visits small Amazonian communities once every two months and provides government services that have previously been denied them due to their isolation.
00038161 : ARGENTINA Iguassu, Parana - The Iguassu (Iguacu) Falls, viewed from the Argentinian side of the Iguassu River on the border between Argentina and Brazil. The waterfall stretches for two and a half miles, plunging 269 feet into the river below.
00038160 : BRAZIL Belem - Fish market at the old port near the mouth of the Amazon river.
00038159 : BRAZIL Iguassu, Parana - The Iguassu (Iguacu) Falls, viewed from the Brazilian side of the Iguassu River on the border between Argentina and Brazil. This point is called the 'Devil's Throat'. The waterfall stretches for two and a half miles, plunging 269 feet into the river below.
00038158 : BRAZIL Belem, Amapa Province - The estuary of the Amazon river which flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The dense jungle makes accessibility to the region difficult by all means other than river transport.
00038157 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - A newly divorced Jewish woman holds her wedding rings, which she can now remove, in her hand. Under Jewish law, a woman's status is questionable if she is still married and her husband has disappeared.
00038156 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - Judge Sueli Pini (45, right), founder of the Fluvial Court boat, discusses with police the finding of a body found floating in the river, in an area where murder has occurred before. The boat docks at this remote village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. On it are judges, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors, teachers and election officials who bring law into the Brazilian jungle. The boat visits small Amazonian communities once every two months and provides government services that have previously been denied them due to their isolation.
00038155 : BRAZIL Itamatatuba, Amapa Province - A young girl stands at a window with her schoolbooks in the village primary school. It is an extremely isolated community which is reached by river, specifically the Fluvial Court boat which stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038154 : BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro - Ipanema Beach.
00038153 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A boy ties his 'howli', a traditional turban, around his face to protect against the wind. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038152 : BRAZIL Itamatatuba, Amapa Province - Father and son outside their house in a small village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. Most people here live from fishing and some small scale cultivation.
00038151 : BRAZIL Nr Santarem, Para - A road cuts through the Amazon rainforest.
00038150 : BRAZIL Nr Santarem, Para - The BR163 highway which serves as a major transport thoroughfare extending through the Amazon rainforest and providing access to the cleared land for loggers, ranchers and farmers.
00038149 : BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro - View towards the city and Copacabana beach from a cablecar on the Sugar Loaf mountain.
00038148 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - School teachers hand out educational comics to children in a small village in the Bailique Archipeligo in the Amazon river's estuary. It is an extremely isolated community which is reached by river, specifically the Fluvial Court boat which stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038147 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - Judge Sueli Pini (45, right), founder of the Fluvial Court boat, discusses with police the discovery of a body found floating in the river, in an area where murder has occurred before. The boat docks at this remote village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. On it are judges, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors, teachers and election officials who bring law into the Brazilian jungle. The boat visits small Amazonian communities once every two months and provides government services that have previously been denied them due to their isolation.
00038146 : BRAZIL Itamatatuba, Amapa Province - The Fluvial Court boat docks at a jetty beside the small village in the Bailique Archipeligo in the Amazon river's estuary. The isolated community is reached by river and the boat stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038145 : BRAZIL Macapa, Amapa Province - A BR petrol station at one of the main towns and ports on the Amazon near its mouth.
00038144 : BRAZIL Vila Progresso, Amapa Province - Judge Sueli Pini, right, hears a case concerning a stolen mattress (the man ended up with a fine). Judge Pini founded the Fluvial Court boat, which docks at this remote village in the Bailique Archipeligo of the Amazon river's estuary. On it are judges, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors, teachers and election officials who bring law into the Brazilian jungle. The boat visits small Amazonian communities once every two months and provides government services that have previously been denied them due to their isolation.
00038143 : BRAZIL Itamatatuba, Amapa Province - A schoolboy reads a book from his primary school in a small village in the Bailique Archipeligo in the Amazon river's estuary. It is an extremely isolated community which is reached by river, specifically the Fluvial Court boat which stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038142 : BRAZIL Belem - Fishing boats and fish market at the old port in one of the main towns near the mouth of the Amazon river.
00038141 : BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro - Ipanema Beach.
00038140 : BRAZIL Iguassu, Parana - The Iguassu (Iguacu) Falls, viewed from the Brazilian side of the Iguassu River on the border between Argentina and Brazil. This point is called the 'Devil's Throat'. The waterfall stretches for two and a half miles, plunging 269 feet into the river below.
00038139 : BRAZIL Itamatatuba, Amapa Province - Young students at a primary school in a small village in the Bailique Archipeligo in the Amazon river's estuary. It is an extremely isolated community which is reached by river, specifically the Fluvial Court boat which stops here for one morning every two months carrying doctors and social workers to the village to provide services and community support.
00038138 : VIETNAM Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) - A public information poster issued in the wake of an outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu).
00038137 : BRAZIL Para - The BR163 highway, which serves as a major transport thoroughfare extending through the Amazon rainforest, around which farms are being set up by agribusinesses.
00038136 : ISRAEL - Yehuda Gordon, a Jerusalem based Rabbi, looks through files in the Rabbinical Court for information on a Jewish husband. He is commissioned by the Rabbinical courts to trace errant husbands who deny their wives access to their rights under Jewish law by refusing a divorce.
00038135 : ISRAEL - Yehuda Gordon, a Jerusalem based Rabbi, is commissioned by the Rabbinical courts to trace errant husbands who refuse to divorce their wives. In doing so, they deny their wives access to the their rights under Jewish law.
00038134 : ISRAEL - Yehuda Gordon, a Jerusalem based Rabbi, uses a public telephone. He is commissioned by the Rabbinical courts to trace errant husbands who refuse to divorce their wives. In doing so, they deny their wives access to the their rights under Jewish law.
00038133 : ISRAEL - Ultra Orthodox ghetto of Meir Sharim.
00038132 : ISRAEL - Yehuda Gordon, a Jerusalem based Rabbi, in his office. He is commissioned by the Rabbinical courts to trace errant husbands who refuse to divorce their wives. In doing so, they deny their wives access to the their rights under Jewish law.
00038131 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Yehuda Gordon, a Jerusalem based Rabbi, sits in front of an Israeli flag. He is commissioned by the Rabbinical courts to trace errant husbands who refuse to divorce their wives. In doing so, they deny their wives access to the their rights under Jewish law.
00038130 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Yehuda Gordon, a Jerusalem based Rabbi, arrests a Jewish husband in order to force him to divorce his wife. Yehuda is commissioned by the Rabbinical courts to trace errant husbands who refuse to divorce their wives, denying them access to the their rights under Jewish law.
00038129 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - The Rabbinical court in session to grant a divorce for a woman whose husband has left her.
00038128 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - A couple sign the legal marriage documents at an Orthodox Jewish wedding.
00038127 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - A couple sign the legal marriage documents at an Orthodox Jewish wedding.
00038126 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - A couple are married by a Rabbi at an Orthodox Jewish ceremony.
00038125 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - An Orthodox Jewish boy prays by the Western (Wailing) Wall.
00038124 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - A woman, known as an 'agunot' or chained woman is still waiting for her divorce despite her husband disappearing years before. Under Jewish law, her status is questionable until she is divorced.
00038123 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - A woman is granted a divorce from the Rabbinical Court after her husband disappeared. The divorce, called a 'get' is dropped into her hands.
00038122 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti - A sandstorm blows over the desert plains surrounding the ancient city of Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, which is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038121 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - During a desert sandstorm, a man walks over the dunes that surround the city. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038120 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Young girl in traditional dress.
00038119 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A young librarian sits with an ancient copy of the Koran in an antiquated library. The city, regarded as one of Islam's holiest, is known for its Koranic libraries.
00038118 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Women dry cloth on the roof of a house in Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, which is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038117 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Priceless Korans and tablets, or Lahs, inscribed with Hadith (Haddith), sit on a set of stone shelves in one of the city's ancient libraries. Collections of Hadith are regarded as important tools for determining the Muslim or Sunnah way of life, as they contain sayings by the Prophet Muhammad and his companions.
00038116 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - The librarian of the main Mosque reads from his Koran. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is known for its Koranic libraries and is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038115 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A librarian views a book in one of the city's ancient libraries. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038114 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Woman and her child beside a doorway.
00038113 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Traditional mud wall.
00038112 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A man shovels sand away from the base of a wall of his house that has collected there overnight as his children play nearby.
00038111 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti - Sand dunes in the desert.
00038110 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Woman and her child.
00038109 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038108 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A desert sandstorm blows over the plains surrounding the ancient city of Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, which is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038107 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A man wearing a 'howli', a traditional turban around his face to protect against the wind.
00038106 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Men rebuild and repair a traditional house. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038105 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A dying tree with stripped bark remains rooted in the sand.
00038104 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Men talk together.
00038103 : MAURITANIA Ouadane - The ancient mosque of the city remains on the horizon. The settlement is almost entirely abandoned due to desertification.
00038102 : MAURITANIA Adrar - The Adrar mountain range during a desert sandstorm.
00038101 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti - Sand dunes in the desert surrounding Chinguetti, shaped by the wind.
00038100 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti - A man wearing a boubou, a traditional Hassaniya outfit, walks over a desert sand dune overlooking Chinguetti.
00038099 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti, Sahara - A nomad sits in his tent in the Sahara desert between the cities of Chinguetti and Choum. Moorish nomads live by trading camels and buying and selling produce.
00038098 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A man walks through the deserted streets of the old ksour in the city. The ksour are trading and religious centres along the ancient Sahara trading routes. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038097 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti, Sahara - A Moorish nomad sits in his tent in the Sahara desert between the cities of Chinguetti and Choum.
00038096 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Shadows of children at play are projected onto walls of houses in the evening sunlight.
00038095 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti, Sahara - Nomads with their camels in the Sahara desert between the cities of Chinguetti and Choum. Moorish nomads live by trading camels and buying and selling produce.
00038094 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti, Sahara - An elderly Moorish nomad woman draws patterns in the sand.
00038093 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti, Sahara - Nomads sit in their tent in the Sahara desert between the cities of Chinguetti and Choum. Moorish nomads live by trading camels and buying and selling produce.
00038092 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti, Sahara - A Moorish nomad lights a fire by waiving a brazier in the wind.
00038091 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti, Sahara - A Moorish nomad sits in his tent in the Sahara desert between the cities of Chinguetti and Choum.
00038090 : MAURITANIA Sahara - Desert rocks weathered by sand and wind.
00038089 : MAURITANIA Nr Ben Amira - Neolithic cave paintings on a monolith in the desert, depicting a hunter with spear chasing an animal, possibly a gazelle.
00038088 : PAKISTAN Lahore - Imran Khan, the former captain of the Pakistan international cricket team and current member of the National Assembly, is mobbed by fans at the Badshahi Mosque.
00038087 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Walking across a mound of sand.
00038086 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Sand dunes in the desert.
00038085 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Young woman with a headscarf.
00038084 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A tree grows out of the sand within the walls of an abandoned building. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038083 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Priceless Korans and Hadith (Haddith), sit on a set of stone shelves in one of the city's ancient libraries. Collections of Hadith are regarded as important tools for determining the Muslim or Sunnah way of life, as they contain sayings by the Prophet Muhammad and his companions.
00038082 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - The ancient city of Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, which is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038081 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti, Sahara - An elderly Moorish nomad woman draws patterns in the sand.
00038080 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A man and his camels walk past an ancient graveyard in Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, which is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038079 : MAURITANIA Nr Chinguetti - Men walk through the desert landscape in a sandstorm.
00038078 : MAURITANIA Sahara - A Moorish nomad lights a fire by waiving a brazier in the wind.
00038077 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A young librarian in an ancient library holds two 'lahs', wooden tablets inscribed with verses from the Koran or Hadith (Haddith), which contain sayings by the Prophet Muhammad and his companions. The city, regarded as one of Islam's holiest, is known for its Koranic libraries.
00038076 : PAKISTAN Lahore - Imran Khan, the former captain of the Pakistan international cricket team and current member of the National Assembly, reading at home.
00038075 : MAURITANIA Sahara - Nomads sit in their tent in the Sahara desert between the cities of Chinguetti and Choum. Moorish nomads live by trading camels and buying and selling produce.
00038074 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - An Imam escorts a small boy to prayer. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities, known for its ancient Mosque.
00038073 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A woman's hands whose palms have been painted with henna.
00038072 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A boy stands by a wall with a loaf of bread.
00038071 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - The main Mosque. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities, known for its ancient Mosque.
00038070 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A young librarian sits with an ancient copy of the Koran in an antiquated library. The city, regarded as one of Islam's holiest, is known for its Koranic libraries.
00038069 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Sand gathers against a traditionally built dry stone wall after a sandstorm.
00038068 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Priceless Korans and Hadith (Haddith), sit on a set of stone shelves in one of the city's ancient libraries. Collections of Hadith are regarded as important tools for determining the Muslim or Sunnah way of life, as they contain sayings by the Prophet Muhammad and his companions.
00038067 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A man walks through the ancient city streets. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038066 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - The librarian of the main Mosque reads from his Koran. The city, regarded as one of Islam's holiest, is known for its Koranic libraries.
00038065 : MAURITANIA Ouadane - The ancient mosque of the city remains on the horizon. The settlement is almost entirely abandoned due to desertification.
00038064 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - The librarian of the main Mosque reads from his Koran. The city, regarded as one of Islam's holiest, is known for its Koranic libraries.
00038063 : MAURITANIA Sahara - A nomad sits in his red tent in the Sahara desert. Moorish nomads live by trading camels and buying and selling produce.
00038062 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - The main Mosque. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities, known for its ancient Mosque.
00038061 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Boy wearing a 'howli', a traditional turban around his face to protect against the wind in the desert.
00038060 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Camels are fed by their nomad owners. Moorish nomads live by trading camels and buying and selling produce.
00038059 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Patterns formed by wind in the sand dunes in the desert.
00038058 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A man in his traditional mud and brick home. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038057 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A boy wearing a 'howli', a traditional turban around his face to protect against the wind. He stands in front of buildings in Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, which is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038056 : INDIA Ayamenam, Kerala - A toddy shop. Toddy is a local alcoholic drink.
00038055 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Boy and goats in the street. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038054 : RWANDA Kibileze - Saidi Ruhimbana (40) comforts his wife Anastasie Hwamerera (40). Both have AIDS but Anastasie is very sick. In order to pay for medicine for their treatment they have spent their savings and taken some of their children out of school. Saidi was formerly a builder but is now too weak to lift anything heavy.
00038053 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - Sand dunes in the desert.
00038052 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A boy stands in the street at dawn. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038051 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A young librarian sits with a copy of the Koran in an antiquated library. The city, regarded as one of Islam's holiest, is known for its Koranic libraries.
00038050 : INDIA Calicut, Kerala - A stall selling paraphernalia bearing the red flag of the Communist Party of India and photographs and paintings of the former leader of the party E.M.S. Namboodiripad (1909-1988). In 1957, the province of Kerala was the first in the world to democratically elect a Communist government.
00038049 : MAURITANIA Chinguetti - A man walks through the ancient city streets. Chinguetti, a settlement over 700 years old, is regarded as one of Islam's holiest cities.
00038048 : INDIA Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh - Radha, a low caste Hindu priestess, worships at the River Ganges.
00038047 : INDIA New Delhi - 86 year old Chand Baba is a renowned magician in Shadipur Depot and still does the occasional show.
00038046 : RWANDA Kibileze - Saidi Ruhimbana (40), who has AIDS, works in his fields, which he must continue to do throughout his illness as his wife also suffers from the disease.
00038045 : INDIA Ayamenam, Kerala - An Indian woman whose house backs onto a waterway, leans out of her doorway.
00038044 : INDIA Old Delhi - Children get ready for bed in a dormitory at a night shelter for child workers.
00038043 : RWANDA Mugombwe district - Nadine Uhatswenayo (11) plays with her friend and her grandmother. Nadine is an AIDS orphan who, like many Rwandan children, is looked after by her grandparents. She says "I don't go to school because of the illness - especially the coughing, that is really bad sometimes...".
00038042 : RWANDA Kibileze - Venant Shyirambere is tested for the HIV virus at Kibayi health centre.
00038041 : RWANDA Kibileze - Sister Beatha Mukakaba conducts a counselling session before an HIV testing session in Kansi Health Centre.
00038040 : RWANDA Kibileze - A woman is given the results of her HIV test at Kibayi Health centre.
00038039 : RWANDA Kibileze - Health educator Theogene Niyongana gives a lecture on HIV and AIDS to a group of people waiting to be tested for the virus at Kibayi Health Centre. By addressing their status, sufferers learn how to increase their life expectancy.
00038038 : RWANDA Kibileze - A patient walks past a window, having had an HIV test at Kibayi Health Centre, while a health worker develops a tests in a locked room.
00038037 : RWANDA Kibileze - A woman receives her AIDS test result with shock at Kibayi Health Centre. The result is 'undetermined' which means she will have to be re-tested.
00038036 : RWANDA Kibileze - Photographer Leonard Hakizayezu (45), who is HIV positive, talks to a friend. He says: "I am getting thinner but I just have to have courage... even those who do not have the disease will die - not just me."
00038035 : RWANDA Kanage village, Mugombwa District - Jean Pierre Sibomana (31) who is HIV positive, talks with his wife and children who are HIV negative in Kanage village. He has been receiving counselling and is provided with free contraception in order to protect his wife from contracting the disease.
00038034 : RWANDA Kibileze - Teacher Potamienne Komezusenge (37) plays with her youngest child. She contracted HIV from her husband who died of the diesase and is buried in the back garden, under a wooden cross. She says "As long as I feel strong, I feel OK emotionally... sometimes there is stigma here... but the biggest problem is money".
00038033 : RWANDA Kibileze - Emmanuel Singizumakiza (L), a health educator shows a boy how to use a condom.
00038032 : RWANDA Kibileze - Narcisse, HIV positive and the president of his local AIDS Association - Girimpuhwe ('Have compassion') - works in his field with a neighbour.
00038031 : RWANDA Kibileze - Narcisse, who is HIV positive and the president of his local AIDS Association - Girimpuhwe ('Have compassion') - prays with his family at home.
00038030 : RWANDA Kirarambogo - Traditional Rwandan dancers perform and villagers dance for a spectacle warning of the dangers of HIV and AIDS.
00038029 : RWANDA Kibileze - Teacher Potamienne Komezusenge (37) plays with her youngest child. She contracted HIV from her husband who died of the diesase and is buried in the back garden under a wooden cross. She says "As long as I feel strong, I feel OK emotionally... sometimes there is stigma here... but the biggest problem is money".
00038028 : RWANDA Kirarambogo - Traditional Rwandan dancers perform and villagers dance for a spectacle warning of the dangers of HIV and AIDS.
00038027 : RWANDA Kibileze - A man peers into the room where his HIV test results are being prepared at Kibayi Health Centre.
00038026 : RWANDA Kibayi - A woman has her blood taken during an AIDS test in Kibayi Health Centre.
00038025 : RWANDA Mugombwe district - Nadine Uhatswenayo (11) and her grandmother. Nadine is an AIDS orphan who, like many Rwandan children, is looked after by her grandparents. Mugombwe, Rwanda
00038024 : RWANDA Kibileze - Venant Shyirambezre (50) is told that he is HIV positive. He is comforted by Sister Beatha Mukakaba in Kansi Health Centre.
00038023 : RWANDA Kibileze - A group of people wait for their HIV/AIDS tests at Kibayi Health Centre.
00038022 : RWANDA Kibileze - Dorothy Mbazumutima (27) with other members of the AIDS Association at Kansi Health Centre take part in basket and handicraft-making. All the women are HIV positive and for one or two days a week come to the centre to make the products which will be sold for a small profit. The association's name is 'Abatanyuranya' which loosely translates as 'Those that bond together'.
00038021 : RWANDA Kanage village, Mugombwa District - Jean Pierre Sibomana (31) who is HIV positive, lives with his wife and childen who are HIV negative. He has been receiving counselling and is provided with free contraception in order to protect his wife from contracting the disease.
00038020 : RWANDA Kanage village, Mugombwa District - Yellow flowers inserted into the cracks of a mud wall.
00038019 : KENYA Nairobi - Masai herdsmen driving their cattle in the city streets. In the dry season, hundreds of herdsmen leave their villages and drive their animals to the city, often walking for several days. The name Nairobi means "place of cool waters", and the Masai see the city as part of their traditional grazing lands.
00038018 : KENYA Nairobi - Masai herdsmen driving their cattle in the city streets. In the dry season, hundreds of herdsmen leave their villages and drive their animals to the city, often walking for several days. The name Nairobi means "place of cool waters", and the Masai see the city as part of their traditional grazing lands.
00038017 : KENYA Nairobi - Masai herdsmen driving their cattle in the city streets. In the dry season, hundreds of herdsmen leave their villages and drive their animals to the city, often walking for several days. The name Nairobi means "place of cool waters", and the Masai see the city as part of their traditional grazing lands.
00038016 : AFGHANISTAN Nangarhar - Awaz Khan (11) shows a chunk of opium, wrapped in leaves, which was given to him by his father as pocket money. It's worth about $40, money that he'll use to buy new clothes, a tea glass and presents for Eid, the celebration of the end of Ramadan. He also wants to throw a party for his friends.
00038015 : CHINA Beijing - People's Liberation Army soldiers march through Tiananmen Square as dusk falls.
00038014 : CHINA Beijing - A Chinese tourist carries her twins as they visit Tiananmen Square.
00038013 : RUSSIA Beslan, North Ossetia - The gymnasium where 330 people, many of them children, died in the shootout between Russian security forces and Chechen rebels which took place in Beslan's School Number One after it was seized by terrorists in September 2004.
00038012 : RUSSIA Beslan, North Ossetia - Alexandra Mikhailova Smirnova, whose granddaughters Inna (16) and Alla (15) died in the siege of School Number One after it was seized by Chechen terrorists in September 2004. Alexandra, an ethnic Russian, used to live in Chechnya with her youngest granddaughter, leaving after their apartment was destroyed in 1996. "She knew some Chechen. She had many Chechen friends." 330 people, many of them children, died in the shootout between Russian security forces and Chechen rebels.
00038011 : SPAIN Tarifa - A group of would-be asylum seekers come ashore having crossed the Strait of Gibraltar by boat from Africa.
00038010 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - Children playing on swings at kindergarten.
00038009 : CHINA Nr. Yianji, Jilin - A wild black bear in a cage at a 'bear farm'. A rusty metal instrument is permanently inserted in the bear's belly, extracting its bile juice, a substance prized by the Chinese as a medicine. This farm houses about 30 adult and young bears, and there are none remaining in the wild in this area.
00038008 : AFGHANISTAN Charbach, Nangarhar - Farmer's children who work on the land in the province of Nangarhar, behind a pile of cut opium plants. About 10 acres of the fields they work on are used to cultivate poppies. The farmers on this strip of land end up harvesting about 70 kg of opium. One kilogram is sold to traders for about $100.
00038007 : SOUTH AFRICA Riemvasmaak, Northern Cape - An elderly woman and her son, members of the Riemvasmaak community who were removed from their ancestral land during the time of apartheid, and sent to Namibia and the Eastern Cape. In 1995, following the victory of Nelson Mandela and the ANC in the country's first multiracial election, they returned to start their lives again.
00038006 : BELGIUM Brussels, Flanders - Gunther Verheugen, European Union (EU) Commissioner for Industry and Entreprise.
00038005 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - A stallholder selling vegetables at Kotoma Kifle market.
00038004 : BELGIUM Brussels, Flanders - Louis Michel, European Union (EU) Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid.
00038003 : SPAIN Tarifa - A group of would-be asylum seekers are given clothes by emergency workers having crossed the Strait of Gibraltar by boat from Africa.
00038002 : RUSSIA Nalchik, Kabardino Balkaria - Russian troops storm a building containing Chechen-backed gunmen, who had suffered heavy losses one day earlier when they launched an attack on Nalchik and sparked fighting in which at least 86 people were killed. The militants, all local men, were from Yarmuk, a North Caucasus Islamic extremist organisation, and were backed by Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. Political and religious repression in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria and the continuing war in Chechnya has led to a rise in fundamentalism.
00038001 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - Women in a discussion group for health workers and victims of HIV/AIDS.
00038000 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - An opium addict takes his daily dose of medecine in the Nejat Drug Treatment Centre, which has a two week programme to help drug addicts to kick the habit. In the first week the 'inmates' face a week of 'cold turkey' detoxification. After that comes a week of treatment. Once the two weeks are over, the patients are on their own.
00037999 : RUSSIA Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia - Nur-Pashi Kulayev, a 24 year old Chechen carpenter, pictured on a television screen on trial for his alleged role as one of the hostage-takers at School Number One in Beslan in September 2004. 330 people, many of them children, died in the shootout between Russian security forces and Chechen rebels after the school was seized.
00037998 : CHINA Nr. Yianji, Jilin - A wild black bear in a cage at a 'bear farm'. A rusty metal instrument is permanently inserted in the bear's belly, extracting its bile juice, a substance prized by the Chinese as a medicine. This farm houses about 30 adult and young bears, and there are none remaining in the wild in this area.
00037997 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - A stallholder in Kotoma Kifle market.
00037996 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - The Nejat Drug Treatment Centre hands out free condoms and Glaxo hypodermic needles. The ongoing spread of heroin addiction and the subsequent sharing of needles among addicts threatens to cause an AIDS epidemic. The Nejat centre is one of the few clinics in Afghanistan where addicted men and women can go for help.
00037995 : RUSSIA Nalchik, Kabardino Balkaria - Local people gather around the body of a militant fighter, one day after Chechen-backed gunmen suffered heavy losses when they launched an attack on Nalchik and sparked fighting in which at least 86 people were killed. The militants, all local men, were from Yarmuk, a North Caucasus Islamic extremist organisation, and were backed by Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. Political and religious repression in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria and the continuing war in Chechnya has led to a rise in fundamentalism.
00037994 : ERITREA Asmara - Asmara's tenpin bowling alley is one of the few remaining examples in the world of a 1950s alley. The automatic skittle reloading system has been broken for years, so instead young boys are paid to reload after each strike. Asmara is a showcase of 1930s Italian Art Deco architecture. Initially created by colonial-era Italians, the style continued to flourish in the 1960s as local architects carried on the tradition.
00037993 : ERITREA Asmara - Detail on the staircase at Asmara's tenpin bowling alley, one of the few remaining examples in the world of a 1950s alley. Asmara is a showcase of 1930s Italian Art Deco architecture. Initially created by colonial-era Italians, the style continued to flourish in the 1960s as local architects carried on the tradition.
00037992 : CHINA Baotou, Inner Mongolia - A worker monitors production at an aluminium plant.
00037991 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - An HIV+ woman receiving a home visit from a health worker as her daughter looks on.
00037990 : MALI Bamako - Amadou and Mariam, a musical duo from Mali who have achieved international success. Mariam Doumbia (vocals) and Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) are both blind.
00037989 : GERMANY Berlin - The concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00037988 : GERMANY Berlin - The concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00037987 : JAPAN Tokyo - Clients in a massage centre at 0:21am.
00037986 : GIBRALTAR - A cannon pointing out over the rock.
00037985 : EGYPT Sharm el Sheik - Quad bikes in the Sinai desert.
00037984 : BELGIUM Brussels, Flanders - Louis Michel, European Union (EU) Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid.
00037983 : GIBRALTAR - One of around 250 Barbary Apes, the only wild monkeys in Europe, living on the rock. Superstition holds that if ever the Apes leave Gibraltar, the British will go too.
00037982 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - VIP members of the Baja Beach Club bar can opt to have a microchip implanted into their arms, which means that their bar bill is paid automatically without the need to carry cash or credit cards. Alexandra was one of the first to sign up.
00037981 : ETHIOPIA Goffa, SNNPR region - A father carries his daughter home after visiting a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic. She was lucky to receive treatment in time for Plasmodium Falciparum malaria, which killed 300,000 people in Ethiopia last year.
00037980 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - VIP members of the Baja Beach Club bar can opt to have a microchip implanted into their arms, which means that their bar bill is paid automatically without the need to carry cash or credit cards. Conrad Chase, the manager of the club, demonstrates the system.
00037979 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - An old man pulling a train of shopping trolleys with rubbish collected for recycling, in the Barri de Gracia.
00037978 : NETHERLANDS The Hague - Carla del Ponte, United Nations (UN) chief war crimes prosecutor, in her office at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
00037977 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi - A child looks at a weathered Buddha in the Yungang Grottoes. Construction of these caves began in 454 AD under the patronage of the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Wen-ch'eng. Over a period of approximately fifty years, twenty major caverns and numerous smaller caves were carved out of the sandstone cliff.
00037976 : ETHIOPIA Axum, Tigray region - A priest collecting money for the church outside a music and photocopying shop.
00037975 : JAPAN Tokyo - Two old men in a restaurant at 0:16am.
00037974 : MALI Bamako - Manu Chao, a folk singer of Spanish origin, in Bamako to work with local world music stars Amadou and Mariam.
00037973 : JAPAN Tokyo - A girl on a mobile telephone at 0:11am.
00037972 : GERMANY Berlin - The concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005, with the skyline of Potsdamer Platz in the background.
00037971 : RUSSIA Nalchik, Kabardino Balkaria - Russian troops gather around the body of a militant fighter, one day after Chechen-backed gunmen suffered heavy losses when they launched an attack on Nalchik and sparked fighting in which at least 86 people were killed. The militants, all local men, were from Yarmuk, a North Caucasus Islamic extremist organisation, and were backed by Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. Political and religious repression in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria and the continuing war in Chechnya has led to a rise in fundamentalism.
00037970 : GERMANY Berlin - The Dome of the Reichstag, which houses the German Parliament, and the concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00037969 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A guard searches a new patient's ears for hidden drugs on the first day of a two week rehabilitation programme for opium addicts at the Nejat Drug Treatment Centre. In the first week the 'inmates' face a week of 'cold turkey' detoxification. After that comes a week of treatment. Once the two weeks are over, the patients are on their own.
00037968 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A sign at the Nejat Drug Treatment Centre warns of the danger of contracting AIDS. The ongoing spread of heroin addiction and the subsequent sharing of needles among addicts threatens to cause an AIDS epidemic. The Nejat centre is one of the few clinics in Afghanistan where addicted men and women can go for help. These two women are friends and have been addicted to opium for six years. After three months of treatment in the centre, they are now clean.
00037967 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Supporters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party demonstrate against the presidential election results which saw their candidate George Weah lose out.
00037966 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A woman injured during fighting is taken to safety. Supporters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party were demonstrating against the presidential election results which saw their candidate George Weah lose out. They converged on the US Embassy where they were baton charged by Jordanian UN riot police.
00037965 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - VIP members of the Baja Beach Club bar can opt to have a microchip implanted into their arms, which means that their bar bill is paid automatically without the need to carry cash or credit cards.
00037964 : RUSSIA Beslan, North Ossetia - Grieving women in the gymnasium where 330 people, many of them children, died in the shootout between Russian security forces and Chechen rebels which took place in Beslan's School Number One after it was seized by terrorists in September 2004.
00037963 : CHINA Baotou, Inner Mongolia - A worker monitors production at an aluminium plant.
00037962 : MALI Bamako - Amadou and Mariam, a musical duo from Mali who have achieved international success. Mariam Doumbia (vocals) and Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) are both blind.
00037961 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Girls on Lumley beach on Easter Sunday.
00037960 : MALI Bamako - Manu Chao (left), a folk singer of Spanish origin, performing with local musicians in Bamako. Chao was in Bamako to work with local world music stars Amadou and Mariam.
00037959 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Omar, an 18 year old Moroccan immigrant, sniffing glue on the street in the Poblenou district.
00037958 : ERITREA Asmara - Asmara's tenpin bowling alley is one of the few remaining examples in the world of a 1950s alley. The automatic skittle reloading system has been broken for years, so instead young boys are paid to reload after each strike. Asmara is a showcase of 1930s Italian Art Deco architecture. Initially created by colonial-era Italians, the style continued to flourish in the 1960s as local architects carried on the tradition.
00037957 : ETHIOPIA Axum, Tigray region - One of the huge granite stelae (obelisks) in the ancient city of Axum (Aksum), which dates from around 100BC.
00037956 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - Berhanu Nega (right), a senior figure in the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), being taken back to prison with other opposition politicians after a court appearance. A group of 131 opposition leaders, aid workers and journalists face treason, conspiracy and genocide charges relating to protests over the ruling party's disputed election win.
00037955 : CHINA Baotou, Inner Mongolia - Workers bind newly formed aluminium bars into bundles on the production line at an aluminium plant.
00037954 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - A young Moroccan immigrant on the streets late at night in the Poblenou district. In the background, police officers stop to question a group of youths sniffing glue.
00037953 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Omar (centre), an 18 year old Moroccan immigrant, sniffing glue with a friend on the street in the Poblenou district. In the background, police officers interview another youth.
00037952 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Kabul City Gate police officers, assisted by British custom officers, search cars for drugs on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway. Despite the occasional interception of shipments by teams like this, drug trafficking in and from Afghanistan has increased dramatically in recent years.
00037951 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - Stallholders and children at Kotoma Kifle market.
00037950 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Supporters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party demonstrate against the presidential election results which saw their candidate George Weah lose out. They converged on the US Embassy where they were baton charged by Jordanian UN riot police.
00037949 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Supporters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party demonstrate against the presidential election results which saw their candidate George Weah lose out. The practice of wearing grass harks back to traditional warfare and symbolizes struggle and violence.
00037948 : RUSSIA Nalchik, Kabardino Balkaria - Local people gather around the body of a militant fighter, one day after Chechen-backed gunmen suffered heavy losses when they launched an attack on Nalchik and sparked fighting in which at least 86 people were killed. The militants, all local men, were from Yarmuk, a North Caucasus Islamic extremist organisation, and were backed by Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. Political and religious repression in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria and the continuing war in Chechnya has led to a rise in fundamentalism.
00037947 : AFGHANISTAN Nangarhar - Awaz Khan (11) weighs a chunk of opium, wrapped in leaves, which was given to him by his father as pocket money. It's worth about $40, money that he'll use to buy new clothes, a tea glass and presents for Eid, the celebration of the end of Ramadan. He also wants to throw a party for his friends.
00037946 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A boy selling the Kabul Weekly newspaper beneath a sign saying that drug abuse is forbidden within Islam. The paper, launched in 2002, is published in Dari, Pachtou and English, and covers Afghan and international news.
00037945 : CHINA Beijing - A security guard outside a Nike sports store with a large mural of NBA basketball player LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
00037944 : LIBERIA Monrovia - 'Operation Pothole', initiated and financed by UNMIL, the United Nations Mission in Liberia. Former soldiers and rebels are paid and trained by the UN to repair the capital city's badly damaged roads, filling the largest potholes.
00037943 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - An unemployed metal worker.
00037942 : GERMANY Berlin - The concrete slabs of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a holocaust memorial opened in 2005.
00037941 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Supporters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party demonstrate against the presidential election results which saw their candidate George Weah lose out. The practice of wearing grass harks back to traditional warfare and symbolizes struggle and violence.
00037940 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A girl in the Nejat Drug Treatment Centre, beneath a poster of a man strangled by poppies, emphasising the danger of opium addiction.
00037939 : ETHIOPIA Axum, Tigray region - A young woman fetching water from what is reputed to have been the bath of the Queen of Sheba.
00037938 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Supporters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) party demonstrate against the presidential election results which saw their candidate George Weah lose out. The practice of wearing grass harks back to traditional warfare and symbolizes struggle and violence.
00037937 : SPAIN Barcelona, Catalonia - Homeless friends David (39) and Joaquin (66) huddle together for heat.
00037936 : ERITREA Asmara - Asmara's tenpin bowling alley is one of the few remaining examples in the world of a 1950s alley. The automatic skittle reloading system has been broken for years, so instead young boys are paid to reload after each strike. Asmara is a showcase of 1930s Italian Art Deco architecture. Initially created by colonial-era Italians, the style continued to flourish in the 1960s as local architects carried on the tradition.
00037935 : ERITREA Asmara - Asmara's tenpin bowling alley is one of the few remaining examples in the world of a 1950s alley. The automatic skittle reloading system has been broken for years, so instead young boys are paid to reload after each strike. Asmara is a showcase of 1930s Italian Art Deco architecture. Initially created by colonial-era Italians, the style continued to flourish in the 1960s as local architects carried on the tradition.
00037934 : GIBRALTAR - The King Fahd ben Abdelaziz Al Saaud Mosque, also known as the Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque, at Europa Point, the most southerly part of Gibraltar, with the rock in the background.
00037933 : AFGHANISTAN Charbach, Nangarhar - A farmer scraping opium from notches on a poppy. About 10 acres of the fields he works on are used to cultivate poppies. The farmers on his strip of land end up harvesting about 70 kg of opium. One kilogram is sold to traders for about $100.
00037932 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - A poster in the Nejat Drug Treatment Centre points out that opium addiction inflicts a lot of damage on families, with some children of addicts unable to go to school because they have to work to support the family.
00037931 : CHINA Beijing - A People's Liberation Army soldier guards his post in front of Tiananmen Gate as dusk falls.
00037930 : MOZAMBIQUE - Pupil at a school for the blind.
00037929 : MOZAMBIQUE Beira - Pupil at a school for the blind.
00037928 : CHINA Yungang, Shanxi - A Buddha in the Yungang Grottoes. Construction of these caves began in 454 AD under the patronage of the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Wen-ch'eng. Over a period of approximately fifty years, twenty major caverns and numerous smaller caves were carved out of the sandstone cliff.
00037927 : CHINA Baotou, Inner Mongolia - A worker shovels raw material into a smelter at an aluminium plant.
00037926 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - Children playing on swings at kindergarten.
00037925 : NORWAY Tonsberg, Vestfold County - The main structure of the Ormen Lange gas field is rolled out and assembled for the first time at the quayside, where the floating crane Uglen lifts the manifolds into place. A 750 mile pipeline will go under the North Sea linking the Ormen Lange gas field in Norway with the UK, where it will be capable of meeting up to 20% of gas demand.
00037924 : NORWAY Farsund, Rogaland County - Pipes constructed by Bredero Shaw Norway for a major gas pipeline. The 750 mile pipeline will go under the North Sea linking the Ormen Lange gas field in Norway with the UK, where it will be capable of meeting up to 20% of gas demand.
00037923 : NORWAY Bud, county of More and Romsdal - The research ship Cehili, moored above the spot where marine archeologists discovered a two hundred year old shipwreck in the future path of a major gas pipeline. The 750 mile pipeline will go under the North Sea linking the Ormen Lange gas field in Norway with the UK, where it will be capable of meeting up to 20% of gas demand.
00037922 : NORWAY Tonsberg, Vestfold County - The main structure of the Ormen Lange gas field is rolled out and assembled for the first time at the quayside, where the floating crane Uglen lifts the manifolds into place. A 750 mile pipeline will go under the North Sea linking the Ormen Lange gas field in Norway with the UK, where it will be capable of meeting up to 20% of gas demand.
00037921 : NORWAY Tonsberg, Vestfold County - The main structure of the Ormen Lange gas field is rolled out and assembled for the first time at the quayside, where the floating crane Uglen lifts the manifolds into place. A 750 mile pipeline will go under the North Sea linking the Ormen Lange gas field in Norway with the UK, where it will be capable of meeting up to 20% of gas demand.
00037920 : NORWAY Farsund, Rogaland County - A pipe's cage being welded in a Bredero Shaw Norway factory producing pipes for a major gas pipeline. The 750 mile pipeline will go under the North Sea linking the Ormen Lange gas field in Norway with the UK, where it will be capable of meeting up to 20% of gas demand.
00037919 : NORWAY Farsund, Rogaland County - A Bredero Shaw Norway factory producing pipes for a major gas pipeline. At this stage, the pipes are inspected after being coated with enamel and asphalt. The 750 mile pipeline will go under the North Sea linking the Ormen Lange gas field in Norway with the UK, where it will be capable of meeting up to 20% of gas demand.
00037918 : NORWAY Farsund, Rogaland County - A welder employed by Bredero Shaw Norway in the construction of pipes for a major gas pipeline. The 750 mile pipeline will go under the North Sea linking the Ormen Lange gas field in Norway with the UK, where it will be capable of meeting up to 20% of gas demand.
00037917 : NORWAY Farsund, Rogaland County - A freight vessel loading pipes constructed by Bredero Shaw Norway for a major gas pi