France’s UMP political party presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy speaks with accompanying journalists aboard a tractor as he rides “Universe” on a ranch in Saintes-Maries de la Mer, southeastern France, April 20, 2007.
REUTERS/Piotr Snuss
Palestinian and peace activist demonstrators are hosed by a water cannon during a protest against Israel’s controversial barrier near the West Bank village of Bilin April 27, 2007.
REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen
Afghans walk down a hill in Kabul April 23, 2007.
REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
A boy jumps from roof to roof of sulphide baths during the Tbilisoba city day celebration in Tbilisi, Georgia, October 21, 2007.
REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
Dogs wait to be harnessed up to pull sleds across snows covering the Norwegian Arctic island of Spitsbergen April 26, 2007.
REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
Bolivian Roderick Eloy Qolque, 28, struggles with policemen after he had chained himself to a lamppost during a protest in front of the presidential palace in La Paz August 30, 2007. Qolque was protesting the Bolivian embassy’s treatment of its citizens in Brazil.
REUTERS/Jose Luis Quintana
A miner washes himself in a bathhouse of a coal mine, in Changzhi, north China’s Shanxi province April 16, 2007.
REUTERS/Stringer
Palestinian children play with toy guns on the outskirts of Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon city, southern Lebanon, October 4, 2007.
REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
Palestinian children sit in the boot of a car as they flee Nahr al-Bared refugee camp to go to Beddawi refugee camp in northern Lebanon May 23, 2007.
REUTERS/Jamal Saidi
A general view shows a soon-to-be completed solar park at Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, Spain, May 16, 2007. The first of two solar thermal power plants uses mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays onto the top of a 100 metre (300 foot) tower where it produces steam to drive a turbine. The lines in the photograph are due to reflections on the solar panels.
REUTERS/Javier Barbancho
A woman and girl walk alongside Doris Salcedo’s work, Shibboleth - a giant crack in the floor of the Tate Modern in London October 8, 2007.
REUTERS/Luke Macgregor
Two Chinese competitors participate in the Men’s 66-kilogram category at the Good Luck 2007 Beijing Judo Open at the University of Science and Technology Beijing Gymnasium November 15, 2007.
REUTERS/David Gray
Children gesture during a traffic-directing competition in Yili, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, October 12, 2007. More than 2,000 students from local primary schools took part in this safety awareness activity, local media reported.
REUTERS/China Daily
Anna Paula Connelly of Brazil hits a shot during a practice session one day before the FIVB Women’s Beach Volleyball Singapore Open May 23, 2007.
REUTERS/Nicky Loh
Believers attend a religious service at the 6th century monastery of Dzhvari near the town of Mtskheta outside Tbilisi, Georgia, May 30, 2007.
REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
A would-be immigrant climbs onto an Armed Forces of Malta ship after being transferred from a trawler, around 80 nautical miles south of Malta, May 31, 2007. Twenty-seven would-be immigrants, believed to all be from Somalia, were rescued by the Sicilian trawler “Esaco” when their boat capsized as they attempted to reach European soil from Africa, authorities said.
REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
A Brazilian soldier gives water to a suspected Haitian gang member after a patrol in the volatile neighbourhood of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince May 16, 2007.
REUTERS/Kena Betancur
Words painted onto the wall of a house are illuminated by car lights on a deserted street in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, August 18, 2007.
REUTERS/Lee Celano
Catherine Nichols of Honolulu trains before the Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, October 12, 2007.
REUTERS/Hugh Gentry
The M/S Explorer cruise ship sinks hours after hitting an iceberg off the coast of the Antarctic, in this photo released by the Chilean Army November 23, 2007.
REUTERS/Chilean Navy