Spanish bullfighter Juan José Padilla watches as the bull tumbles during a bullfight at the bullring of El Plantio in Burgos, northem Spain.
27 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Ricardo Ordonez
Chinese soldiers take an oath in front of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) flag in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province, June 29, 2005. The soldiers vow to be loyal to the country and its people during the ceremony, which is part of activities to celebrate the upcoming 84th anniversary of the founding of the CCP.
29 Jun 2005
REUTERS/China Newsphoto
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Some 3,800 illegal firearms burn as they are destroyed by police in Nairobi June 29, 2005. Most of the firearms were collected from residents living in the North Rift region after an ultimatum to surrender their firearms or face the full force of the law. The military operation is still in progress in the region where there had been shooting incidents among nomad herders.
29 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Radu Sigheti
Greece’s Apostolos Nanos aims during the men’s individual archery competition elimination round at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almeria, southern Spain.
28 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Victor Fraile
Singer Stevie Wonder performs at the 5th annual BET Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
28 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
A boy wears a mask with blue tape over the mouth during an anti-gay marriage demonstration in central Madrid June 30, 2005. Spain legalised same-sex marriages on Thursday, becoming only the fourth country to do so after Belgium, Canada and the Netherlands and dealing a blow to the Catholic Church in a traditional stronghold. Some of the demonstrators wore the masks to symbolize their view that Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is silencing traditional Spanish families.
30 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Susana Vera
Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang (R) is greeted by residents carrying Chinese and Hong Kong flags as he arrives to attend a ceremony marking the eighth anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule.
01 Jul 2005
REUTERS/Bobby Yip
A White Band Day protester dressed as a Millennium Development Goal statue participates in a rally in Sydney July 1, 2005. Australia, a nation which spends roughly as much on its pets as it does on foreign aid, kicked off a week of global action against poverty with nationwide vigils and calls by activists to double its aid contribution.
01 Jul 2005
REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
A Rajasthani nomad holds his grandson as he stands near his ox on the outskirts of Panipat in the northern state of Haryana June 30, 2005. Thousands of nomads from India’s desert state of Rajasthan move to other states with their animals for greener pastures.
30 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Kamal Kishore
An Indian cattle herder leads his animals near the Bagodra-Tarapur highway, 98 km (61 miles) west from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
29 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Amit Dave
Malnourished infants receive treatment at a feeding centre run by the medical charity group Medecins Sans Frontiers in the town of Maradi in southern Niger June 30, 2005. Aid workers say cases of malnutrition have rocketed among children in Niger in the past few months after the worst drought in years aggravated chronic food shortages in one of the world’s poorest countries, which lies just south of the Sahara.
30 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Finbarr O’reilly
Indonesian villagers carry baskets containing oysters on their heads as they walk home from a beach in Pasuruan, East Java June 30, 2005. Villagers can collect up to three kilograms of oysters daily which are sold to local restaurants for about 5,000 rupiah ($0.51) a kilogram.
30 Jun 2005
REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas
A young girl takes a break from tilling a field with her family in southern Niger July 1, 2005. International donors, including the European Union, ignored urgent calls for food aid for Niger, exposing thousands of children to the risk of dying of hunger, an official at a medical charity said on Friday. The situation in Niger highlights Africa’s plight days ahead of next week’s Group of Eight industrialised nations summit in Scotland, where Britain plans to put fighting poverty on the continent at the top of the agenda.
01 Jul 2005
REUTERS/Finbarr O’reilly
Iraqi women mourn during the funeral for a slain Shi’ite cleric in Baghdad July 2, 2005. Nearly two thousand people marched through Baghdad’s Allawi Al-Hilla district to mourn Kamal al-Din al-Ghoureify, a representative of Iraq’s top Shi’ite authority Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Gunmen killed al-Ghoureify, shooting him and two of his aides as he went to Friday prayers at his mosque in central Baghdad, police said.
02 Jul 2005
REUTERS/Namir Noor-eldeen
Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with their bodies painted, demonstrate outside a Benetton clothing store in downtown Rome July 1, 2005. PETA activists urged the international clothing retailer to stop using Australian wool until the industry ends what they say are particularly cruel practices.
01 Jul 2005
REUTERS/Alessandro
Thema, a member of the Italian hip-hop band Gemelli Diversi (Different Twins) rests on the stage during a sound-check for the upcoming Live 8 concert inside Rome’s ancient Circus Maximus July 1, 2005. Many of Italy’s biggest pop stars have shaken off their initial skepticism about Live 8 and agreed to perform on the Rome stage of the international anti-poverty rock extravaganza on Saturday.
01 Jul 2005
REUTERS/Max Rossi
A child looks at a globe cut in two parts to symbolise the north and south of the world during the international day of mobilisation against poverty near the Eiffel tower in Paris July 1, 2005.
01 Jul 2005
REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
The shadow of a Palestinian militant standing next to an Israeli flag on the ground is seen during an anti-Israeli protest at the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip July 1, 2005. Israeli opinion has swung back in favour of evacuating the occupied Gaza Strip and away from pro-settler radicals who clashed with troops and blocked roads during a week of turmoil, a newspaper poll showed on Friday.
01 Jul 2005
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu
Chinese soldiers crawl forward during a military exercise on a beach in Yuhuan county, east China’s Zhejiang province July 4, 2005. China and Russia have vowed to promote their strategic and cooperative partnership steadily and continuously and boost military cooperation and exchanges after visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the issues of military cooperation and anti-terrorism, Xinhua reported on Sunday.
04 Jul 2005
REUTERS/China Newsphoto
Firemen fight a fire at a lubricants manufacturing terminal in Karachi July 3, 2005. A large fire engulfed a terminal owned by Pakisan’s largest oil marketing firm, injuring four firefighters, before it was put out on Sunday but authorities said it was unlikely to the hit the country’s supplies.
03 Jul 2005
REUTERS/Zahid Hussein