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00033039 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Advertisement for a communist rally. The state of West Bengal has had an elected communist government for 25 years.
00033038 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A woman leans out a train carriage at Howrah Rail Station.
00033037 : INDIA Agra, Uttar Pradesh - A couple sitting on the marble steps outside the Taj Mahal.
00033036 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Kravica - The warehouse where over a thousand men fleeing Srebrenica were murdered. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033035 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Vogosca - Mevludin Oric, a survivor of a mass execution carried out by Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic. He fell when his nephew, standing beside him, was shot, and lay under his nephew's dead body until darkness fell. Fleeing from a field full of bodies, he and another man walked through the forests for eleven days before they came to safety. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033034 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Srebrenica - The town of Srebrenica under a layer of snow. Ten years after the end of the war, many buildings are still derelict.
00033033 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Potocari - Emir Suljagic, a UN translator who survived the massacre, revisiting the Battery factory in Potocari, where Serb soldiers under the command of Ratko Mladic began to separate Bosniak men from women prior to the men being murdered. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033032 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Lukavac - Forensic experts studying body parts at the Re-Association Centre in Lukavac as part of an identification process that uses DNA matching to try to reassemble bodies unearthed after the Srebrenica massacre. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033031 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A picture in British newspaper 'The Sun' depicting former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in his prison cell. The publication of a series of covert photographs of Hussein in US military custody provoked criticism for possibly breaching the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war (PoWs).
00033030 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Srebrenica - Sija Mustafic at her home in Srebrenica. Pictures of her husband and son, who were killed in the massacre there, hang on the wall behind her. She reclaimed her home from a Serb family three years earlier after gaining a court order to force them to relinquish the house. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033029 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla - Bodies exhumed from mass graves around Srebrenica are kept at the Podrinje Identification Project in Tuzla. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033028 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Srebrenica - Bullet holes, shrapnel and shell blasts still mark the buildings in Srebrenica ten years after the end of the war.
00033027 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - The cover of British newspaper 'The Sun' depicting former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in his prison cell, clad only in his underpants. The publication of a series of covert photographs of Hussein in US military custody provoked criticism for possibly breaching the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war (PoWs).
00033026 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Sabahet Fezic in her apartment in a Sarajevo suburb. Her husband and son were amongst the estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica who were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033025 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Srebrenica - The town of Srebrenica under a layer of snow. Ten years after the end of the war, many buildings are still derelict.
00033024 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Kravica - The warehouse where over a thousand men fleeing Srebrenica were murdered. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033023 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Liplja - Murat Hurtic, who works for the Commission for Missing Persons. He has discovered and opened 66 mass graves since the war. Here in the village of Liplja, he marks out another of the graves he has discovered. It is planned for this grave to be excavated in 2005. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033022 : NEW ZEALAND Nr. Milford Sound, South Island - Horse labelled cow. In the hunting season, shooting parties have been known to mistake horses for fair game, so local farmers paint the word 'cow' on their flanks to save them from being shot.
00033021 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Potocari - Nura and Ahmet Begovic, Bosniak returnees to Potocari. They returned in November 2004 bringing with them a cow and some sheep. During the night of their return, someone killed and skinned their cow, and left the carcass in front of their door. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the nearby town of Srebrenica were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995, and many Muslim residents have still not returned.
00033020 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Srebrenica - A skeletal model in a classroom in the secondary school in Srebrenica.
00033019 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Srebrenica - The town of Srebrenica under a layer of snow. Ten years after the end of the war, many buildings are still derelict.
00033018 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Glogova - Munira Risanovic, a reluctant Bosniak returnee to the village of Glogova, near Srebrenica. Her family lost 35 of its men during the war and in the massacre. A mass grave was discovered just 100 metres from her house. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033017 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Srebrenica - Milos Milanovic (right) and Cvetin Petrovic, who were members of the paramilitary Serbian Guard in 1992. Milanovic now sits on the municipal council for the SDS party, which was founded by Radovan Karadzic. He doesn't believe a massacre took place there. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033016 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Suceska - Hasib Huseinovic and his wife Tima. They led the Bosniak return to their village which was destroyed in July 1995. Suceska now has a community of seven men and thirty women. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the nearby town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033015 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Potocari - Ahmet Begovic, a Bosniak returnee to Potocari, tending his sheep in a snowbound field. He left Srebrenica in July 1995 and returned to Potocari with his wife Nura in November 2004 bringing with them a cow and some sheep. During the night of their return, someone killed and skinned their cow, and left the carcass in front of their door. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the nearby town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033014 : SOUTH KOREA Puyo - Guardian stone figures next to post box.
00033013 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - The cover of British newspaper 'The Sun' depicting former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in his prison cell, clad only in his underpants. The publication of a series of covert photographs of Hussein in US military custody provoked criticism for possibly breaching the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war (PoWs).
00033012 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Suceska - Hasib Huseinovic with fellow Bosniak returnees to the village of Suceska, which lies in the hills above Srebrenica and was destroyed by the Serbs. Suceska now has a community of seven men and thirty women. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033011 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Potocari - Nura Begovic, a Bosniak returnee to Potocari, tending her sheep in a snowbound field. She left Srebrenica in July 1995 and returned to Potocari with her husband Ahmet in November 2004 bringing with them a cow and some sheep. During the night of their return, someone killed and skinned their cow, and left the carcass in front of their door. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the nearby town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033010 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Srebrenica - Bullet holes, shrapnel and shell blasts still mark the buildings in Srebrenica ten years after the end of the war.
00033009 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - A picture in British newspaper 'The Sun' depicting former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sleeping in his prison cell. The publication of a series of covert photographs of Hussein in US military custody provoked criticism for possibly breaching the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war (PoWs).
00033008 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - A woman selling strawberries for 30 cents a kilo at a bazaar.
00033007 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Lukavac - A body bag containing the remains of a Srebrenica victim is opened at the Re-Association Centre in Lukavac as part of an identification process that uses DNA matching to try to reassemble bodies unearthed after the massacre. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033006 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Lukavac - The bones of a Bosniak man are laid out at the Re-Association Centre in Lukavac as part of an identification process that uses DNA matching to try to reassemble bodies unearthed after the massacre. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033005 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla - The body of a Bosniak man is laid out at the Podrinje Identification Project in Tuzla as part of a process that uses DNA matching to try to reassemble bodies unearthed after the massacre. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033004 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Gornji Grbavci - A snow covered field that was the site of one of the massacres. Mevludin Oric (see ATE00812BOS) survived it and then escaped during the night. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033003 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Potocari - The graves of some of the estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica who were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033002 : COLOMBIA Medellin - A man carries a cow's head through the streets in the city centre.
00033001 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla - Personal possessions abandoned along the 'Road of Death', the route taken by residents of Srebrenica who tried to flee the town as it fell. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were massacred by Serb forces in July 1995.
00033000 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Glogova - Footsteps in the snow at the site of a mass grave in the Bosniak village of Glogova, just outside Bratunac. An estimated 8,000 Bosniak (Muslim) men and boys from the town of Srebrenica were murdered by Serb forces in July 1995.
00032999 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - A police officer patrolling a bazaar.
00032998 : UZBEKISTAN Andijan - A girl hangs off a kiosk just off Chulpon Prospect. Witnesses report that on May 13th, these streets were covered in blood. Hundreds of civilians were massacred by government security forces in Andijan during a largely peaceful protest.
00032997 : UZBEKISTAN Andijan - A taxi view of the narrow streets of the old town.
00032996 : UZBEKISTAN Andijan - Two boys play with a ball in the narrow streets of Andijan's old town. In the background the Hakimyat (mayoralty building) is blackened after being set alight when it was seized by the Akramisti during the disturbances eight days earlier. Hundreds of civilians were massacred by government security forces in Andijan during the largely peaceful protest. It is through these narrow alleys that many people escaped when the shooting started.
00032995 : UZBEKISTAN Andijan - A tree bears the mark of a bullet on Chulpon Street, where the bulk of the killings took place on May 13th. Hundreds of civilians were massacred by government security forces in Andijan during a largely peaceful protest.
00032994 : UZBEKISTAN Andijan - Soldiers guard the entrance of the UVD (Administration of Internal Affairs, the main city police building) around the corner from Prospect Navoyi. Hundreds of civilians were massacred by government security forces in Andijan during a largely peaceful protest eight days earlier.
00032993 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), sitting among supporters during the celebrations for Burmese New Year in the grounds of her home.
00032992 : INDIA Vapi, Gujarat - Worker in a Welspun India textile factory. Welspun exports towels and other products to 22 countries and to many of the largest retailers in the world.
00032991 : UNITED KINGDOM London, England, Great Britain, UK - Racially-diverse group of teenagers.
00032990 : CHAD Birak - A young Sudanese refugee from the Masaleet tribe with a traditional hairstyle. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00032989 : CHINA Shanghai - A man chats on his mobile telephone in front of a large advertisement for Lexus cars.
00032988 : NETHERLANDS Kampen, Overijssel - Jan Grootjen (66) at the door of the container which has been his home for eight years. 'I'm not anti-social', he claims. 'I suffered a stroke, and consequently had some troubles paying the rent. Eventually I ended up sleeping in the park for a year'. Grootjen likes his home and gets along with his neighbours just fine, but he 'wouldn't invite them in'. The Delta Housing Corporation started the container home initiative in 1993, rehousing people whose anti-social behaviour has caused difficulties in their local community. The containers are located in Bruneppe, an industrial area of the town of Kampen.
00032987 : CHINA Shanghai - A model stands beside a Ssang Yong all terrain vehicle made by Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp (SAIC) at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032986 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - Gavhar Avipova, centre, of the Free Women opposition party, protesting outside the Russian embassy. The demonstrators were expressing their opposition to President Islam Karimov and to Russia's role in upholding his regime.
00032985 : TURKEY Anatolia - Nemrud Dag, where King Antiochus Theos of Commagene built his tomb-sanctuary along with huge statues of himself and various Greek and Persian gods in 62 BC.
00032984 : CHINA Shanghai - A man stands under an advertisement for Volkswagen cars.
00032983 : RUSSIA Moscow - A customer walks out of the Versace store in central Moscow.
00032982 : CHINA Shanghai - Visitors at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032981 : BELGIUM Borgerhout, Antwerp, Flanders - Members of the Moroccan immigrant community grieving after the murder of a young boy who was shot by a white Belgian.
00032980 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), standing with performers during the celebrations for Burmese New Year in the grounds of her home.
00032979 : BELGIUM Borgerhout, Antwerp, Flanders - An old woman on her balcony in a block of flats in Stuyvenberg, dotted with satellite dishes.
00032978 : CHINA Shanghai - A man stands under an advertisement for Volkswagen cars.
00032977 : BELGIUM Borgerhout, Antwerp, Flanders - Children playing in Stuyvenberg, a district of Antwerp with a large immigrant population.
00032976 : TAIWAN Taipei - Wedding car decoration.
00032975 : BELGIUM Borgerhout, Antwerp, Flanders - Coach and players of Borgerhout football club, which was founded to assist in the integration of the district's large immigrant population.
00032974 : KENYA Nakuru - Thomas Cholmondeley, son of the 5th Baron Delamere and a descendant of one of Kenya's first white settlers, is accompanied by police on his way to the High Court. Cholmondeley was accused of murdering Samson ole Sisina, a Masai man working as a Kenya Wildlife Service warden on his estate near Naivasha. The case, which raised tensions relating to the appropriation of land when Kenya was colonised by the British, later collapsed.
00032973 : RUSSIA Moscow - A woman applauds a passing procession of sailors in Red Square as part of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of VE Day, the end of World War II in Europe.
00032972 : RUSSIA Moscow - Viktor Nikolayevich Babkov, 85, a World War II veteran, dances in Gorky Park during celebrations for the 60th anniversary of VE Day, the end of WWII in Europe.
00032971 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay) - Models showcase clothes in a fashion show featuring many of India's best designers.
00032970 : CHINA Shanghai - A man rides his bicycle past an advertisement for Nissan cars.
00032969 : RUSSIA Moscow - Police officers and military troops in Red Square for rehearsals for the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of VE Day, the end of World War II in Europe.
00032968 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Group of teenagers chatting.
00032967 : RUSSIA Moscow - World War II veterans gather in Gorky Park during celebrations for the 60th anniversary of VE Day, the end of WWII in Europe.
00032966 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Celebrations marking the 51st birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), in the compound of her home. Daw Suu is receiving a portrait of her father General Aung San, Burma's founding father. The late U Kyi Maung, former chairman of the NLD, is seated left.
00032965 : INDIA Vapi, Gujarat - Worker in a Welspun India textile factory. Welspun exports towels and other products to 22 countries and to many of the largest retailers in the world.
00032964 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Kinshasa - Woman and child.
00032963 : KOSOVO Djakova / Djakovica - Sufism. Kosovar Albanian Dervishes pierce themselves during festivities to celebrate the beginning of spring.
00032962 : CHINA Shanghai - A man chats on his mobile telephone in front of an advertisement for General Motors (GM). GM is in partnership with Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp (SAIC) to supply cars to the Chinese market.
00032961 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - Nigara Khidoyatova (centre), General Secretary of the opposition Free Peasants Party (Ozod Dehkonlar - ODP), at a press conference with Nadira Khidoyatova and Sanjar Umarov, both entrepreneurs, to announce the launch of the "Sunshine Uzbekistan" reform movement.
00032960 : BELGIUM Borgerhout, Antwerp, Flanders - A hair dressing salon in Borgerhout, a district of Antwerp with a large immigrant population.
00032959 : CHAD Birak - With the dry season having begun and food resources scarce, many Sudanese refugees are surviving on millet alone. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00032958 : INDIA Vapi, Gujarat - Worker in a Welspun India textile factory. Welspun exports towels and other products to 22 countries and to many of the largest retailers in the world.
00032957 : CHINA Shanghai - A model poses with a Lamborghini sports car at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032956 : BELGIUM Hofstade, nr. Mechelen, Flanders - Mother and child from the Moroccan immigrant community bathing in a lake.
00032955 : NETHERLANDS Kampen, Overijssel - A tenant of a container home disposes of his garbage. The Delta Housing Corporation started the container home initiative in 1993, rehousing people whose anti-social behaviour has caused difficulties in their local community. The containers are located in Bruneppe, an industrial area of the town of Kampen. Behind the container are the roofs of newly built family homes. People living in the area are quite positive about the project.
00032954 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay) - Models showcase clothes in a fashion show featuring many of India's best designers.
00032953 : NETHERLANDS Kampen, Overijssel - Henk van der Kolk (50) lights up a pipe of cocaine in his container home. As a frequent drug user, he has been living in a container for twelve years now. He is happy with his present situation. The Delta Housing Corporation started the container home initiative in 1993, rehousing people whose anti-social behaviour has caused difficulties in their local community. The containers are located in Bruneppe, an industrial area of the town of Kampen.
00032952 : CHINA Shanghai - Two men wearing screens to display mobile advertisements on the street.
00032951 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Cattle herd travelling close to the border with Sudan.
00032950 : CHINA Shanghai - Young women working at a Toyota booth at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032949 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - President Islam Karimov addresses a press conference.
00032948 : CHAD Birak - Refugee children collect water by digging a hole in the dry river bed. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00032947 : NETHERLANDS Kampen, Overijssel - Jan Grootjen (66) in the living room of the container which has been his home for eight years. 'I'm not anti-social', he claims. 'I suffered a stroke, and consequently had some troubles paying the rent. Eventually I ended up sleeping in the park for a year'. Grootjen likes his home and gets along with his neighbours just fine, but he 'wouldn't invite them in'. The Delta Housing Corporation started the container home initiative in 1993, rehousing people whose anti-social behaviour has caused difficulties in their local community. The containers are located in Bruneppe, an industrial area of the town of Kampen.
00032946 : NETHERLANDS Kampen, Overijssel - A boy rides a moped on the Loswalweg in Bruneppe, an industrial area of the town of Kampen. In the background are container homes built for socially dysfunctional people. The Delta Housing Corporation started the container home initiative in 1993, rehousing people whose anti-social behaviour has caused difficulties in their local community.
00032945 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - Nigara Khidoyatova, General Secretary of the opposition Free Peasants Party (Ozod Dehkonlar - ODP), stands at the doorway to the party's Tashkent office, which was broken into earlier that day before a colleague of hers was hauled away by the authorities. Four days earlier, hundreds of civilians were massacred by government security forces in Andijan during a largely peaceful protest, and the ODP had been trying to compile a list of the victims.
00032944 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - U Tin Oo, then Deputy Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), delivering a speech to supporters alongside Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the NLD.
00032943 : CHAD Birak - People travelling on donkeys across a dry river bed during a sandstorm.
00032942 : NETHERLANDS Kampen, Overijssel - Jan Grootjen (66) outside the container which has been his home for eight years. 'I'm not anti-social', he claims. 'I suffered a stroke, and consequently had some troubles paying the rent. Eventually I ended up sleeping in the park for a year'. Grootjen likes his home and gets along with his neighbours just fine, but he 'wouldn't invite them in'. The Delta Housing Corporation started the container home initiative in 1993, rehousing people whose anti-social behaviour has caused difficulties in their local community. The containers are located in Bruneppe, an industrial area of the town of Kampen.
00032941 : CHINA Shanghai - A model stands beside a vehicle made by Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp (SAIC) at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032940 : BELGIUM Borgerhout, Antwerp, Flanders - A Muslim boy running down a street in Borgerhout, a district of Antwerp with a large immigrant population.
00032939 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - Elmira Hasanova, a human rights activist, wearing a black ribbon of mourning, lights candles at an impromptu memorial at the Courage Monument in Courage Square to honour the victims of the Andijan shootings. Four days earlier, hundreds of civilians were massacred by government security forces in Andijan during a largely peaceful protest. About two dozen people showed up at the square to pay their respects and express their outrage. Hasanova helped to organise the ceremony through the internet site www.freeuz.org. During the event, several members of the press were taken away by police.
00032938 : CHAD Birak - Refugee girl herding cattle. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00032937 : CHINA Shanghai - A child plays beside a Renault Formula One (F1) race car on display at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032936 : RUSSIA Moscow - An elderly woman begging on Stoleshnikov Street amongst affluent shoppers.
00032935 : RUSSIA Moscow - A woman selling calendars featuring Vladimir Ilych Lenin, and copies of the newspaper Pravda at a May Day rally.
00032934 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Celebrations marking the 51st birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), in the compound of her home.
00032933 : CHINA Shanghai - A security guard at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. Behind him is a Mercedes-Benz prototype car incorporating fuel cell technology. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032932 : CHAD Birak - A traditional cure for the sick, practiced here by Sudanese refugees. Koranic verses are written on a wooden plate, the plate is then washed with water, and the water is drunk by the sick person. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00032931 : KOSOVO Djakova / Djakovica - Sufism. Kosovar Albanian Dervishes dance during festivities to celebrate the beginning of spring.
00032930 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay) - Models showcase clothes in a fashion show featuring many of India's best designers.
00032929 : CHAD Tine, Biltine - Collecting water in a refugee camp in the border town of Tine. The refugees must dig in sandy and empty riverbeds in order to obtain water. Their reward is a dirty brown liquid, which they drink unfiltered, adding to the risk of disease. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00032928 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), delivering a speech to supporters at the gates of her home.
00032927 : RUSSIA Moscow - Images of Josef Stalin and a flag of the Communist party (KPRF) at a May Day rally.
00032926 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Celebrations marking the 51st birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), in the compound of her home. Daw Suu is about to release a basket of sparrows, a Buddhist custom that symbolises freedom. NLD leaders U Tin Oo and the late U Kyi Maung look on.
00032925 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), delivering a speech to supporters at the gates of her home.
00032924 : CHAD Birak - A refugee collects water for himself and his horse by digging a hole in the dry river bed. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00032923 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - A boy looks after a kiosk selling Nestle products and other goods outside the Oloy bazaar.
00032922 : INDIA Vapi, Gujarat - Worker in a Welspun India textile factory. Welspun exports towels and other products to 22 countries and to many of the largest retailers in the world.
00032921 : CHINA Shanghai - A model stands beside a Ford Sedan at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032920 : CHINA Shanghai - View of the Audi showroom at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032919 : CHAD Birak - Refugees collect water for themselves and their horses by digging a hole in the dry river bed. Thousands of refugees from Darfur province in Sudan have fled to Chad to escape attacks by Arab militias allied to the Sudanese government.
00032918 : RUSSIA Moscow - A veteran sailor waves the flag of the Communist party (KPRF) at a May Day rally.
00032917 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - Police, who are omnipresent in Tashkent, intimidate protesters outside the Russian embassy. The demonstrators were expressing their opposition to President Islam Karimov and to Russia's role in upholding his regime.
00032916 : KENYA Nr. Naivasha - The brother, wife and children of Samson Ole Sisina, a Masai man who worked as a Kenya Wildlife Service warden. Sisina was killed in a dispute with Thomas Cholmondeley, son of the 5th Baron Delamere and a descendant of one of Kenya's first white settlers. Cholmondeley was charged with murder but the case, which raised tensions relating to the appropriation of land when Kenya was colonised by the British, later collapsed.
00032915 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - Elvira Urlayeva, a worker at the Uzbek human rights organisation SOS, lays flowers at the Courage Monument in Courage Square to honour the victims of the Andijan shootings. Four days earlier, hundreds of civilians were massacred by government security forces in Andijan during a largely peaceful protest.
00032914 : UZBEKISTAN Andijan - A young boy holds his baby sister in the narrow streets of Andijan's old town.
00032913 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - Gavhar Avipova, right, of the Free Women opposition party, protesting outside the Russian embassy. The demonstrators were expressing their opposition to President Islam Karimov and to Russia's role in upholding his regime.
00032912 : UZBEKISTAN Andijan - Children look at the bullet holes left on a building on the west side of Chulpon Street, eight days after hundreds of civilians were massacred by government security forces in Andijan during a largely peaceful protest.
00032911 : CHINA Shanghai - Visitors examine the interior of an SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032910 : UZBEKISTAN Tashkent - A woman protests about the disappearance of her son and husband, which she believes was orchestrated by the Uzbek government, at a demonstration opposite the US Embassy.
00032909 : RUSSIA Moscow - Women outside a currency exchange kiosk. Many Russians speculate on exchange rates and frequently buy and sell roubles.
00032908 : UKRAINE - Dead trees in front of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, exactly ten years after the accident there.
00032907 : CHINA Shanghai - Crowds pack into the Volkswagen showroom at the Auto Shanghai 2005 exposition. With global car manufacturers increasingly interested in the potential of the Chinese market, the exhibition has become one of the largest of its kind in Asia.
00032906 : RUSSIA Moscow - Elderly women wait for a bus next to an advertisement for the TV soap opera 'Talisman of Love'.
00032905 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla - A convoy of Muslim internally-displaced people (IDPs) from the besieged town of Srebrenica, victims of Serb ethnic cleansing, arrive in Tuzla where they were given shelter. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032904 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - AIDS awareness billboard promoting the use of condoms.
00032903 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - In a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), a girl leads a blind woman.
00032902 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A child looks through a wall made from cardboard boxes used to carry American food aid. He was living in an old factory (the National Workshop), which had become a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
00032901 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Children in school uniform and carrying exercise books play on the wreck of a car which was burned out three months earlier during the RUF rebel invasion of Freetown. Schools have only just reopened.
00032900 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla - Muslim internally-displaced people (IDPs) from the besieged town of Srebrenica, victims of Serb ethnic cleansing, are given shelter after arriving in Tuzla. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032899 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - A woman transports water home in a wheel barrel, passing a boy lieing atop a burnt out car wreck. Across the bridge is the destroyed library of Sarajevo, which was shelled by the Serbs at the beginning of the war in a deliberate attempt to destroy Bosnia's cultural heritage. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032898 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Interior of the destroyed library of Sarajevo, which was shelled by the Serbs at the beginning of the war in a deliberate attempt to destroy Bosnia's cultural heritage. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032897 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Inhabitants of the besieged city of Sarajevo walk amongst the destruction. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032896 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A pregnant woman has a check-up at a clinic in the Grafton camp for internally displaced people (IDPs).
00032895 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Inhabitants of the besieged city of Sarajevo carry water over a bridge that was destroyed by Serb shells. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032894 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA - Bosnian Muslim soldiers at the front line twenty miles north of Tuzla. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032893 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Women in the waiting room of a clinic run by the Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone (PPASL) .
00032892 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Schoolgirls in uniform walking home past an educational mural depicting the letters of the alphabet.
00032891 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Women visiting a Mary Stopes clinic in the Aberdeen district.
00032890 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - 'If you cannot help us, please do not corrupt us' - a sign welcoming visitors arriving at Lungi airport in Freetown. A UN vehicle passes by.
00032889 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A nurse checks the weight of an infant in the children's wing at the Princess Christina Maternity Hospital.
00032888 : SIERRA LEONE - Indian peacekeeping troops at a UN base near Port Loko.
00032887 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - At a camp for people wounded in the civil war, an amputee listens to the radio. Amputation was used as a weapon against civilians by RUF rebels.
00032886 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Displaced children living amongst the machinery at an old factory (the National Workshop), which had become a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
00032885 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Mostar - A Bosnian Croat soldier running from Serb sniper fire in the centre of old Mostar. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032884 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Nr. Bjelo Polje - Serb prisoners of war (PoWs) are forced to dig up remains from a mass grave while Croat and Bosnian soldiers look on. The same Serb soldiers are suspected to have carried out the massacres and burial of the victims here. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032883 : KOSOVO - A horse-drawn cart passes a burnt out vehicle in the countryside between Pec and Djakovo, shortly after the end of the war.
00032882 : SIERRA LEONE Makeni - Shortly after the town of Makeni was liberated from rebels and the military junta, civilians take revenge by lynching a suspected collaborator.
00032881 : SIERRA LEONE Magbureka - A commander from the West African peacekeeping force ECOMOG discusses the military situation with a militia of Kamajors, traditional hunters who fought the rebels and later became known as the Civil Defence Forces (CDF).
00032880 : KOSOVO Djakovo - After the NATO-led liberation of Kosovo, American FBI forensic detectives are posted there to collect evidence of war crimes committed by Serbian forces against Kosovan civilians. The aim was to amass evidence for the future International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
00032879 : KOSOVO Nr. Djakovo - An old man paying his respects at a graveyard containing the bodies of ethnic Albanians killed during the war.
00032878 : KOSOVO Pec (Pej) - Italian NATO troops about to be deployed in the town of Pec, shortly after the end of the war and the setting up of the Kosovo Peace Implementation Force (KFOR).
00032877 : KOSOVO Macedonian border - Ethnic Albanian refugees returning to Kosovo from Macedonia after the NATO-led liberation.
00032876 : NEPAL Nr. Gorkha - A Royal Nepalese Army patrol, on a search and destroy mission in pursuit of Maoist rebels, passes a primary school. The region around Gorkha is a Maoist stronghold.
00032875 : MACEDONIA Kosovo border - Ethnic Albanian refugees waiting to return to Kosovo after the NATO-led liberation.
00032874 : MACEDONIA Kosovo border - A refugee camp emptying out as ethnic Albanian refugees return to Kosovo after the NATO-led liberation.
00032873 : NEPAL Nr. Gorkha - A Royal Nepalese Army patrol, on a search and destroy mission in pursuit of Maoist rebels, passes through a village. The region around Gorkha is a Maoist stronghold.
00032872 : NEPAL Nr. Gorkha - A Royal Nepalese Army patrol on a search and destroy mission in pursuit of Maoist rebels. The region around Gorkha is a Maoist stronghold.
00032871 : NEPAL Nr. Gorkha - A Royal Nepalese Army patrol on a search and destroy mission in pursuit of Maoist rebels, at the break of dawn. The region around Gorkha is a Maoist stronghold.
00032870 : NEPAL Nr. Gorkha - Women and children in a village in the Gorkha region.
00032869 : USA New York, United States of America - Brooklyn Bridge and the twin towers of the World Trade Center, before they were destroyed.
00032868 : NEPAL Nr. Gorkha - An old woman with a nose ring and a young girl in a village in the Gorkha region.
00032867 : USA New York, United States of America - The Citigroup Center building in Midtown Manhattan.
00032866 : USA New York, United States of America - The Flatiron building in Manhattan, one of the most distinctive landmarks in the city.
00032865 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Bunia, Ituri Province - A hospital ward in a camp for internally-displaced persons (IDPs), where Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is providing medical facilities.
00032864 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - Congolese soldiers sorting through a pile of discarded weapons and ammunition clips on the border with Rwanda. The Hutu dominated regime in Rwanda had been defeated by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), and hundreds of thousands of Hutus, including the perpetrators of the genocide and the defeated army, had flooded into DR Congo (then known as Zaire). The Congolese authorities instructed the former Rwandan army to leave their weapons behind.
00032863 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - Soldiers from the Tutsi led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) patrolling at the border. The Hutu dominated regime in Rwanda had been defeated by the RPF, and hundreds of thousands of Hutus, including the perpetrators of the genocide and the defeated army, had flooded into DR Congo (then known as Zaire).
00032862 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - A pile of hand grenades discarded on the border with Rwanda. The Hutu dominated regime in Rwanda had been defeated by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), and hundreds of thousands of Hutus, including the perpetrators of the genocide and the defeated army, had flooded into DR Congo (then known as Zaire). The Congolese authorities instructed the former Rwandan army to leave their weapons behind.
00032861 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - The bodies of hundreds of Rwandan refugees who died in a cholera epidemic which swept through the camp. In the background, a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic treats other victims. Hundreds of thousands of Hutus had crossed into DR Congo (then known as Zaire) fleeing the aftermath of the genocide.
00032860 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - The bodies of hundreds of Rwandan refugees who died in a cholera epidemic are buried in mass graves. Hundreds of thousands of Hutus had crossed into DR Congo (then known as Zaire) fleeing the aftermath of the genocide.
00032859 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - Rwandan refugee children watch as the bodies of hundreds of people who died in a cholera epidemic are buried in mass graves. Hundreds of thousands of Hutus had crossed into DR Congo (then known as Zaire) fleeing the aftermath of the genocide.
00032858 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - A cholera epidemic sweeps through a camp for Rwandan refugees. A woman comforts a dying man. Hundreds of thousands of Hutus had crossed into DR Congo (then known as Zaire) fleeing the aftermath of the genocide.
00032857 : SIERRA LEONE Bo - Children in school uniform pose in front of a poster promoting peace and disarmament.
00032856 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Boys at a water tap in Brookfields, a poor district of Freetown. The tap has a set of rules painted on the wall next to it.
00032855 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Female supporters of Foday Sankoh, leader of the RUF rebels, perform a traditional dance to celebrate the transition of the RUF into a political party.
00032854 : SIERRA LEONE Makeni - A jet from the West African peacekeeping force ECOMOG has bombed Makeni, which was at that time a stronghold of the military AFRC and RUF rebel junta, a coalition of army officers and rebels. A woman cries when she finds the body of a relative killed in the ECOMOG attack.
00032853 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Girl with her favourite doll.
00032852 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Goma, Kivu Province - The bodies of hundreds of Rwandan refugees who died in a cholera epidemic are buried in mass graves. Hundreds of thousands of Hutus had crossed into DR Congo (then known as Zaire) fleeing the aftermath of the genocide.
00032851 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Mostar - Goran, a self styled punk warrior in the Bosnian army, poses next to graffiti which says "Punk's not dead". Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032850 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Children play on the wreck of a car which was burned out three months earlier during the RUF rebel invasion of Freetown.
00032849 : SIERRA LEONE - A diamond mine between Bo and Kenema. Workers dig away the top soil, revealing a layer of gravel which may contain diamonds.
00032848 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - A woman with her child, an amputee. Amputation was used as a weapon against civilians by RUF rebels during the civil war.
00032847 : IRAQ Baghdad - A man outside the monumental Khadimiyah mosque, one of the most sacred shrines for Shia Muslims.
00032846 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Mostar - The first wave of Muslim internally-displaced people (IDPs) are given temporary shelter. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032845 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla - Muslim internally-displaced people (IDPs) from the besieged town of Srebrenica, victims of Serb ethnic cleansing, wait in Tuzla for registration and food distribution. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032844 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla - The multi-ethnic town of Tuzla is besieged by Serb forces. An elderly couple decide to join other Bosnian Serb residents boarding a bus to leave for the Serbian part of Bosnia. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032843 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Boris Herak, a Serb soldier who was accused of being in charge of a house where Muslim women were imprisoned and raped. He made chilling testimonies about his involvement. Behind him are posters of Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Biljana Plavsic, also accused of war crimes. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032842 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - Civilians surviving in a city devastated by war.
00032841 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla - A shoe shine man waiting for customers in the war-torn town of Tuzla, under siege by Serb forces. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032840 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - A view across 'Sniper Alley' to the Holiday Inn hotel in the depths of winter. To reach the hotel, where most foreign journalists were based during the war, one had to cross this area exposed to Serb sniper fire. A sign warns: "Opasna Zona (Dangerous Zone) -RUN or R.I.P." Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032839 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - Dead soldiers in the morgue of Sarajevo hospital. Around 250,000 people died in the civil war between Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs in the years 1992-1995, during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
00032838 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - The Russian army blow up unexploded ordnance in the destroyed city.
00032837 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - A Russian APC on patrol in the war-ravaged city.
00032836 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - Civilians surviving in a city devastated by war. A woman walks in front of the bombed parliament building.
00032835 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - Civilians surviving in a city devastated by war. A woman clears rubble from her destroyed home.
00032834 : RUSSIA Vedeno, Chechnya - Inhabitants of Vedeno flee their town (a rebel stronghold) in advance of an imminent Russian military offensive.
00032833 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - A Russian soldier in the middle of the war-ravaged city.
00032832 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - A Russian APC on patrol in the war-ravaged city.
00032831 : CROATIA Nustar, nr. Vinkovci - Croatian soldiers in the front line village of Nustar. An estimated 10,000 people were killed in Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia.
00032830 : CROATIA Vinkovci - Croatian soldiers in the front line village of Nustar are startled by an incoming shell nearby. An estimated 10,000 people were killed in Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia.
00032829 : CROATIA Vinkovci - Croatian soldiers holed up in a house on the front line. An estimated 10,000 people were killed in Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia.
00032828 : IRAQ Baghdad - An old woman and child in the remains of a warehouse which was bombed during the American-led invasion eight months earlier. Many homeless and displaced people are squatting in bombed out buildings like this one.
00032827 : CROATIA Nustar, nr. Vinkovci - A Croatian soldier cycling past a damaged building in the front line village of Nustar, on a cold winter morning. An estimated 10,000 people were killed in Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia.
00032826 : IRAQ Baghdad - Young girl in a Palestinian refugee camp in Baghdad. Former president Saddam Hussein had a benevolent policy towards Palestinian refugees and offered them asylum and decent housing. After Saddam's downfall, most of the refugees were expelled from their appartments and found shelter in a tent camp in the north of the city.
00032825 : IRAQ Baghdad - A Palestinian refugee camp in Baghdad. Former president Saddam Hussein had a benevolent policy towards Palestinian refugees and offered them asylum and decent housing. After Saddam's downfall, most of the refugees were expelled from their appartments and found shelter in a tent camp in the north of the city.
00032824 : IRAQ Baghdad - To avoid the long queues at petrol stations, drivers buy fuel from entrepreneurs who set themselves up on street corners. The gas here costs twenty cents a litre instead of the normal price of one cent a litre.
00032823 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - A man carrying a suspiciously large amount of money has been detained by American troops. Transporting their prisoner back to base, the Americans amuse themselves by drawing an unhappy smile on the bag covering the detainee's head. The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment were engaged on a mission named 'Rifle Blitz' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032822 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032821 : IRAQ Baghdad - In an effort to curb stolen car traffic, the new Iraqi police force have set up a random checkpoint to check drivers and their papers.
00032820 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032819 : IRAQ Baghdad - A donkey on the street in the impoverished Shia district of Sadr City.
00032818 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Schoolgirls walking past a billboard from the Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone (PPASL) promoting education amongst teenage girls.
00032817 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - An amputee girl proudly shows off the sculptures she has made. Amputation was used as a weapon against civilians by RUF rebels during the civil war.
00032816 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - An amputee man playing football on the beach. Amputation was used as a weapon against civilians by RUF rebels during the civil war.
00032815 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - At a camp for people wounded in the civil war, a woman helps an amputee brush her teeth. Amputation was used as a weapon against civilians by RUF rebels.
00032814 : USA New York, United States of America - The MetLife building on Park Avenue, Manhattan.
00032813 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - Canadian journalist Sacha Trudeau embedded with the US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment on a mission in the north west of Iraq.
00032812 : KOSOVO Djakovo - Human remains of ethnic Albanians allegedly killed by Serbian forces and thrown in a mass grave. After the war, the remains were recovered and given a proper burial in the presence of the victims' families.
00032811 : KOSOVO Djakovo - Human remains of ethnic Albanians allegedly killed by Serbian forces and thrown in a mass grave. After the war, the remains were recovered and given a proper burial in the presence of the victims' families. In this case, members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) carry the coffin.
00032810 : USA New York, United States of America - A Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
00032809 : USA New York, United States of America - Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, decorated for the Christmas holidays.
00032808 : RWANDA Kigali - The genocide had started a few days before. Foreigners, among them the Belgian crew from Sabena Airlines, had been trapped in the Hotel des Mille Collines. They were evacuated with a French military escort.
00032807 : USA New York, United States of America - The bright lights and billboards of Times Square in Manhattan.
00032806 : USA New York, United States of America - The Westin hotel on Times Square changed the Midtown Manhattan skyline on its opening in 2002.
00032805 : RWANDA Kigali - Hundreds of thousands of Hutu civilians fleeing the capital city during the genocide, as UN peacekeeping troops look on. The Tutsi led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) had by this stage taken half of Kigali.
00032804 : RWANDA Kigali - The genocide had started a few days before. Foreigners had been trapped in the Hotel des Mille Collines. Catholic nuns wait to be evacuated, pondering the horrors they had witnessed.
00032803 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - American soldiers carrying out a raid on a deserted house where hostile militants were suspected to be hiding. In the event, only three terrified women were found in the house. The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment were engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032802 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - American soldiers carrying out a raid on a deserted house where hostile militants were suspected to be hiding. The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment were engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032801 : TANZANIA Ngara region - Hutu children trying to collect corn from a leaking bag in the Benaco camp for people fleeing the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda.
00032800 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - American soldiers carrying out a raid on a deserted house where hostile militants were suspected to be hiding. In the event, it was empty. The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment were engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032799 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - American soldiers carrying out a raid on a deserted house where hostile militants were suspected to be hiding. In the event, only three terrified women were found in the house. The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment were engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032798 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - American soldiers carrying out a raid on a deserted house where hostile militants were suspected to be hiding. In the event, only three terrified women were found in the house. The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment were engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032797 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - A boy looks on as American soldiers search his family's home. The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment were engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032796 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - American soldiers carrying out a raid on a deserted house where hostile militants were suspected to be hiding. In the event, only three terrified women were found in the house. The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment were engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032795 : IRAQ Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment on a mission in the north west of Iraq. A military commander listens to the grievances of a local man complaining about material damage inflicted by US personnel. The 'Tigerstrike' operation saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the Americans conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032794 : IRAQ Nr. Husaybah, Al Anbar Province - Hearts and minds - an American soldier greets a little girl who was waving at the troops. The US army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment were engaged on a mission named 'Tigerstrike' which saw three villages near the Syrian border - Husaybah, Al Karabilah and Sa'dah - sealed off while the American troops conducted house to house searches, confiscated weapons and arrested hostile elements.
00032793 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Bunia, Ituri Province - Young women bring their children to a consulting room in a camp for internally-displaced persons (IDPs), where Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is providing medical facilities.
00032792 : TANZANIA Ngara region - A Hutu man carrying the body of his child to an improvised graveyard in the Benaco camp for people fleeing the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda. The child died from dysentery.
00032791 : TANZANIA Ngara region - Hutu children collect water from a river near the Benaco camp for people fleeing the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda.
00032790 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Bunia, Ituri Province - A camp for internally-displaced persons (IDPs), where Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is providing medical facilities.
00032789 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Bunia, Ituri Province - Surgeon performing an abdominal operation in a camp for internally-displaced persons (IDPs), where Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is providing medical facilities.
00032788 : INDIA New Delhi - A poster advertising wind power at New Delhi train station.
00032787 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A taxi and a political slogan.
00032786 : INDIA New Delhi - Rickshaw in Connaught Place, the city's most famous shopping district.
00032785 : INDIA New Delhi - A street outside the Jama Masjid, India's largest mosque.
00032784 : INDIA New Delhi - Children on their way to school by rickshaw.
00032783 : INDIA New Delhi - Homeless men and rickshaw wallahs sleeping.
00032782 : INDIA New Delhi - A Sikh taxi driver. Sikhs are famous for their engineering abilities and dominate much of India's transportation and freight sectors.
00032781 : INDIA New Delhi - A policeman at New Delhi train station.
00032780 : INDIA Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh - Morning rowing tours on the Ganges river.
00032779 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Street children in the Maidan, the huge strip of parkland that runs through the city centre.
00032778 : INDIA Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh - Women bathing in the Ganges river.
00032777 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - The old Howrah bridge across the Hooghly river, with a Calcutta-Howrah ferry in the foreground.
00032776 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Statue in the Millennium Park next to the Hooghly river.
00032775 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Calcutta's old and stretched tram system. There has been talk of terminating the tramways, because they are blamed for slowing down traffic flow. Environmentalists are against such a move.
00032774 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - A view across the Maidan (a huge strip of parkland in the centre of the city) to the Victoria Memorial.
00032773 : INDIA Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh - The ghats on the Ganges river, by night.
00032772 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Washing hanging out to dry by the lake in the middle of BBD Bagh (formerly Dalhousie Square).
00032771 : UNITED KINGDOM Folkestone, Kent, England, Great Britain, UK - An illegal immigrant being led to a detention facility at the port of Folkestone. He was arrested after having crossed the English Channel aboard a Eurostar train.
00032770 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - Street scene.
00032769 : UNITED KINGDOM Folkestone, Kent, England, Great Britain, UK - An illegal immigrant running away after having crossed the English Channel aboard a Eurostar train.
00032768 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal - The Indian Coffee House, near Calcutta University, is a well-known meeting place for the city's intellectuals as well as young graduates.
00032767 : NEPAL Kathmandu - Evening view south over Kathmandu.
00032766 : INDIA Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh - Bathers along the ghats beside the Ganges river.
00032765 : NEPAL Kathmandu - Evening view south over Kathmandu.
00032764 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Ramallah, West Bank - Hassan Yussef, head of Hamas in the West Bank, in his office.
00032763 : INDIA Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh - Corpses are burnt at the Manikarnika ghat beside the Ganges river.
00032762 : TAIWAN Taipei - China Airlines maintenance technicians working on a jet engine in a hangar at Chiang Kai-Shek international airport. China Airlines is the Taiwanese national carrier.
00032761 : TAIWAN Taipei - China Airlines maintenance personnel on the tarmac at Chiang Kai-Shek international airport with one of their fleet's jets in the hangar behind them. China Airlines is the Taiwanese national carrier.
00032760 : TAIWAN Taipei - A China Airlines maintenance technician checking the rotors on a repaired jet engine in a hangar at Chiang Kai-Shek international airport. China Airlines is the Taiwanese national carrier.
00032759 : THAILAND Bangkok - Actors in a travelling Chinese theatre group performing in a Chinese neighbourhood in central Bangkok. Thailand has a large minority of ethnic Chinese.
00032758 : THAILAND Bangkok - Actress in a travelling Chinese theatre group performing in a Chinese neighbourhood in central Bangkok. Thailand has a large minority of ethnic Chinese.
00032757 : INDIA Wagah, Punjab - Indian soldiers carry out the daily flag-lowering ceremony at the Wagah border crossing with Pakistan, with their Pakistani counterparts in the background. This is the only road crossing between the two countries.
00032756 : INDIA Wagah, Punjab - Indian soldier on guard at the Wagah border crossing with Pakistan, with his Pakistani counterparts in the background. This is the only road crossing between the two countries.
00032755 : INDIA Wagah, Punjab - Indian soldiers carry out the daily flag-lowering ceremony at the Wagah border crossing with Pakistan, with their Pakistani counterparts in the background. This is the only road crossing between the two countries.
00032754 : INDIA Wagah, Punjab - The daily bus service between Delhi and Lahore passes through a crowd of patriotic Indian onlookers at the Wagah border crossing between India and Pakistan. This is the only road crossing between the two countries.
00032753 : INDIA Wagah, Punjab - Indian soldiers carry out the daily flag-lowering ceremony at the Wagah border crossing with Pakistan. This is the only road crossing between the two countries.
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