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
Slovenia ... soldiers practice riot control techniques at a base in the western Kosovo town of Pec on March 25, 2007 / Reuters photo
Kenya ... a riot police dog goes for a suspected Mungiki gang member at Nairobi's Mathare slums, June 7, 2007 / Reuters photo
Netherlands ... naked volunteers pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick on an "invisible" bridge constructed for the photoshoot in Amsterdam, June 3, 2007 / Reuters photo
Colombia ... Daisy and Julian Rodriguez with their daughters, who are joined together at their heads, in Bogota, January 15, 2007 / Reuters photo
Thailand ... villagers boil rats to make ends meet in Suphan Buri province, 120 km north of Bangkok, November 1, 2007 / Reuters photo
Palestinian territories ... Hamas fighters inside the personal meeting hall of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas 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 Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing May 17, 2007 / Reuters photo
United Arab Emirates ... a guest has a drink in the Chill Out ice lounge in Dubai, the first to open in the Middle East, August 13, 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
Austria ... women dressed as clowns in front of a work by British artist Damien Hirst titled "Iodomethane - 13C" at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, February 17, 2007 / Reuters photo
Israel ... a Jewish man wearing a ring featuring the Star of David prays after placing a prayer note in a crack in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem's old city, August 22, 2007 / Reuters photo
Australia ... Jimiyu, an 18-month-old male giraffe looks out the back of a transport truck on his way to his new home at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, August 22, 2007 / Reuters photo
South Africa ... 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 September 2, 2007 / Reuters photo
Afghanistan ... Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel takes a helicopter flight to the German ISAF headquarters in Masar-i-Sharif, November 3, 2007 / Reuters photo
Philippines ... students wearing rubber boots use chairs as a make-shift bridge to get to a classroom in Taytay, north of Manila, July 18, 2007 / Reuters photo
Palestinian territories ... BBC journalist Alan Johnston is released in Gaza after being held hostage for four months, July 4, 2007 / Reuters photo
USA ... the tiny feet of Amilia Sonja 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 PiS (Law and Justice) Jaroslaw Kaczynski is taken down from a building in the centre of Warsaw, October 30, 2007 / Reuters photo
Japan ... workers butcher a 10-tonne Baird's Beaked Whale at Wada Port in Japan, June 21, 2007 / Reuters photo
Israel ... Israeli soldiers move into position during clashes with Palestinian protesters on the edge of the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 16, 2007 / Reuters photo
Indonesia ... all that can be seen of a passenger on board a train at a station in Jakarta, October 9, 2007 / Reuters photo
United Arab Emirates ... US first lady Laura Bush with Emirati breast cancer survivors at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi, October 22, 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
USA ... Britain's David Beckham holds his new team jersey during a LA Galaxy news conference in Carson, California, July 13, 2007 / Reuters photo
USA ... the space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, October 23, 2007 / Reuters photo
USA ... contestants compete in the WE television network's "Bridezilla-Ultimate Cake Eating Contest" in New York's Times Square June 12, 2007 / Reuters photo
Norway ... climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell sunbathe on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Arctic town of Longyearbyen, April 25, 2007 / Reuters photo
United Arab Emirates ... riders pass a chemical plant during the sixth stage of the Tour of Qatar race from Sealine Beach Resort to Doha February 2, 2007 / Reuters photo
Belgium ... a young member of the folkloric brotherhood of Blancs Moussis adjusts his mask during a carnival celebrating its 60th anniversary in Stavelot, August 12, 2007 / Reuters photo
Poland ... a combination of pictures shows two planes from the Zelazny aerobatics team crashing at the Radom Air Show, September 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 Shenyang, April 3, 2007 / Reuters photo
Poland ... kayakers in the Rospuda nature reserve near Augustow, July 26, 2007 / Reuters photo
China ... a worker cleans the windows of an apartment block in Beijing's central buisiness district, April 4, 2007 / Reuters photo
Egypt ... 12-year-old Nashwa Ahmed Khalil, whose face was disfigured when someone threw battery acid over her, shows her identity card, September 12, 2007 / Reuters photo
South Korea ... members of the South Korean Marine Corps scrub their bodies with snow during an annual winter season drill in Pyongchang / Reuters photo
United Kingdom ... Lemon Marilyn by artist Andy Warhol is displayed at Christie's auction house in London, March 19, 2007 / Reuters photo
China ... paramilitary recruits practice goose-stepping in Nanjing, January 19, 2007 / Reuters photo
USA ... a bloodied and mud covered woman is led away from the scene of an explosion near Grand Central Station in New York July 18, 2007 / Reuters photo
India ... a Tibetan exile is led out by guards from inside the Chinese Embassy compound in New Delhi, October 10, 2007 / Reuters photo
USA ... students hold their candles aloft during a vigil after a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, April 17, 2007 / Reuters photo
Indonesia ... children play on a railway track in a slum area in Jakarta, January 30, 2007 / Reuters photo
United Kingdom ... a reveller slides in the mud during the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset, June 22, 2007 / Reuters photo
Guatemala ... a giant sinkhole that swallowed several homes in Guatemala City, February 23, 2007 / Reuters photo
Israel ... ultra-Orthodox Jews dance around a bonfire during Lag Ba-Omer festivities in Jerusalem, May 5 , 2007 / Reuters photo
Bolivia ... President Evo Morales controls the ball at the 6000m high snow-covered Sajama peak, the highest in Bolivia / Reuters photo
Iraq ... US soldiers push the car of an Iraqi man to start the engine at a checkpoint in north Baghdad, June 13, 2007 / Reuters photo
USA ... boots representing Corporal Timothy D. Ross sit among more than 3400 pairs of combat boots, one pair for every US soldier killed in the Iraq War / Reuters photo
China ... a burial master smashes a body to feed vultures during a celestial burial ceremony at the Chalang Temple in northwest China's Qinghai province, November 17, 2007 / Reuters photo
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