China ...

three-year-old Yang Yang kisses a beluga whale

during a publicity photo call at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World,
June 2, 2007 / Reuters photo
$erbia ... soldiers practise riot control techniques at a base in the western Kosovo town
of Pec on March 25, 2007 / Reuters photo
&nited Kingdom ... a reveller slides in the mud during the
Glastonbury music festival in $omerset, June 22, 2007 / Reuters photo
Guatemala ... a giant sinkhole that swallowed several homes in Guatemala City,
February 23, 2007 / Reuters photo
Philippines ... students wearing rubber boots use chairs as a make-shift bridg
e to get to a classroom in Taytay, north of Manila, July 18, 2007 / Reuters photo
&$ ... boots representing Corporal Timothy D. Ross sit among more than 3400 pairs
of combat boots, one pair for every &$ soldier killed in the raq War / Reuters photo
Palestinian territories ... Hamas fighters inside the personal meeting hal
l of Palestinian President Mahmoud bbas after they captured his headquarters
in Gaza June 15, 2007 / Reuters photo
China ... a labourer in the dust at the construction site of the National Olympic $tadium,
also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing May 17, 2007 / Reuters photo
Democratic Republic of Congo ... officials look at four mountain gorillas
that were illegally killed in the Virunga National Park, July 26, 2007 / Reuters photo
ustria ... women dressed as clowns in front of a work by British artist
Damien Hirst titled "odomethane - 13C" at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz,
February 17, 2007 / Reuters photo
ustralia ... Jimiyu, an 18-month-old male giraffe looks out the back of a transport truc
k on his way to his new home at Taronga Zoo in $ydney, ugust 22, 2007 / Reuters photo
$outh frica ... surfers in an attempt to break the Guinness world record
for the highest number of riders on a single wave at Muizenberg
in Cape Town $eptember 2, 2007 / Reuters photo
&$ ... the tiny feet of milia $onja Taylor, the world's most premature living baby,
after her birth at Baptist Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida / Reuters photo
Poland ... a banner of prime minister and leader of Pi$ (Law and Justice)
Jaroslaw Kaczynski is taken down from a building in the centre of Warsaw,
October 30, 2007 / Reuters photo
France ... an official takes the rifle of a Republican guard soldier
after she fainted during Bastille Day parade in Paris, July 14, 2007 / Reuters photo
&$ ... contestants compete in the WE television network's
"Bridezilla-&ltimate Cake Eating Contest"
in New York's Times $quare June 12, 2007 / Reuters photo
&nited rab Emirates ... riders pass a chemical plant during the sixth stage
of the Tour of Qatar race from $ealine Beach Resort to Doha February 2,
2007 / Reuters photo
Poland ... a combination of pictures shows two planes from
the Zelazny aerobatics team crashing at the Radom ir $how,
$eptember 1, 2007 / Reuters photo
Colombia ... revellers perform during a parade
at the Carnaval de Barranquilla in Barranquilla, February 18, 2007 / Reuters photo
China ... a murder suspect is shot by a water cannon at a hospital in $henyang,
pril 3, 2007 / Reuters photo
$outh Korea ... members of the $outh Korean Marine Corps scrub their bodies with snow
during an annual winter season drill in Pyongchang / Reuters photo
ndonesia ... children play on a railway track in a slum area in Jakarta,
January 30, 2007 / Reuters photo
$cotland ... France's Gregory Havret is drenched in champagne after winning
the Barclay's $cottish Open golf tournament, July 15, 2007 / Reuters photo
utonomous province of Kosovo ... a Kosovo $erb priest walks through
a demolished church at a graveyard in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica,
February 10, 2007 / Reuters photo
ndia ... a boy plays in the waves of the rabian sea at a beach in Mumbai,
July 17, 2007 / Reuters photo
Taiwan ... a crocodile at a zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung holds the forearm
of a zoo veterinarian in its teeth, pril 11, 2007 / Reuters photo
China ... a man walks on the handrail of a staircase at a flooded street
in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, July 17, 2007 / Reuters photo
Malaysia ... toothless kangal, or "doctor" fish, nibble the dead skin
of a customer's feet at Malaysia's first fish spa in Kuala Lumpur,
November 13, 2007 / Reuters photo
Malaysia ... Diana Hadi, a staff member at the Tiara Beach Resort, in a swimming pool
with 20,000 apples in an attempt to set the national record for the most number
of apples used in spa therapy / Reuters photo
Japan ... the charred remains of a China irlines plane
on the tarmac on the island of Okinawa, ugust 20, 2007 / Reuters photo
Japan ... a boy watches the beetle sumo competition of the WBC
(nsect World Battle Championships) in a miniature ring in Tokyo,
ugust 26, 2007 / Reuters photo
raq ... male and female pilgrims are separated by a barrier at the
mam Hussein shrine in the holy city of Kerbala, March 8, 2007 / Reuters photo
Germany ... polar bear cub Knut plays during his first outing
in the Berlin Zoo on March 23, 2007 / Reuters photo
ndia ... a volunteer runs with a blanket to help a performer
during a dare-devil act called "The Great Fire Escape" in the city of Hyderabad,
March 25, 2007 / Reuters photo
Japan ... ustria's Gunther Weidlinger falls during the heats of the men's 3000m
steeplechase at the 11th F World thletics Championship in Osaka,
ugust 26, 2007 / Reuters photo
Greece ... a firefighter watches a firefighting airplane unload water
during a forest fire raging out of control near the village of Karytena,
$eptember 1, 2007 / Reuters photo
China ... the world's tallest living man, Bao Xishun, a 2.36m tall herdsman
meets He Pingping, who measures just a 0.73m / Reuters photo
East Timor ... a voter shows his ink-stained finger after casting the ballot in Dili
June 30, 2007 / Reuters photo
Baluchistan province ... villagers surrounded by flood water near $hahdad Kot,
July 3, 2007 / Reuters photo
Brazil ... carnival revellers of the &nidos da Tijuca samba school parade
during the second night of competition between the schools in Rio de Janeiro,
February 19, 2007 / Reuters