
1. Lightning bolts appear above and around the
Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano,
as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2,
2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes
are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them. Picture
taken May 2, 2008. (REUTERS/Carlos Gutierrez)
Kartoula, 14, a
refugee from Sudan's western Darfur region, enters a distribution centre to
receive monthly food rations at Djabal camp near Gos Beida in eastern Chad, June
5, 2008. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

The Space Shuttle
Discovery lifts off from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center on May 31, 2008
in Cape Canaveral, Florida, en route to the International Space Station on a
construction mission. (Eliot J. Schechter /Getty Images) #

An aerial view of
floods caused by Tropical Storm Hanna is seen in Gonaives, Haiti on September 3,
2008. Haiti's civil protection office said 37 of the 90 Hanna-related deaths had
occurred in the port city of Gonaives. (REUTERS/Marco Dormino/Minustah) #

A U..S. Marine, from
the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters
opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008. The
Marine was not injured. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) #

The hand of a dead
body lies on the ground amongst the rubble of the earthquake ravaged town May
15, 2008 in Beichuan, Sichuan province, China. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #

The right hand of a
young visitor is silhouetted against a jellyfish exhibition hall at the Ocean
Park aquarium-amusement complex in Hong Kong on January 20, 2008.
(REUTERS/Victor Fraile) #

Buildings and debris
are seen floating in the Cedar River against a railroad bridge Saturday, June
14, 2008, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Days after it rose out of its banks on its way
to record flooding in Cedar Rapids, the Cedar River has forced at least 24,000
people from their homes, emergency officials said. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) #

Kenyan athletes train
at Eldoret's Chepkoilel stadium on May 30, 2008 in preparation for the upcoming
Beijing Olympic Games 2008. Recently the Kenyan athletics federation announced
the setting up of two training camps in Eldoret and Nairobi to cater for a
selected team of 120 athletes ahead of the Beijing Olympic trials on July 4-5.
(TONY KARUMBA/AFP/ Getty Images) #

Time exposure of the
Swiss mountain resort of Grindelwald next to the north face of the Eiger
mountain, seen on January 10, 2008. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)#

Department of Water
and Power workers are emptying out bales of plastic balls in the Ivanhoe
reservoir in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2008. Department of Water and Power
released about 400,000 black plastic 4-inch balls as the first installment of
approximately 3 million to form a floating cover over 7 acres of the reservoir
to protect the water from sunlight. When sunlight mixes with the bromide and
chlorine in Ivanhoe's water, the carcinogen bromate can form. (Irfan Khan/AP) #

A man dressed as a
tiger carries a small whip made from rope in Zitlala, Guerrero state, Mexico,
Monday, May 5, 2008. Every year, inhabitants of this town participate in a
violent ceremony to ask for a good harvest and plenty of rain, at the end of the
ceremony men battle each other with their whips while wearing tiger masks and
costumess. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) #

A baseball is
illuminated by the sun as Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Ted Lilly throws during
the first inning of a game against the Milwaukee Brewers Saturday, Sept. 27
2008, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck) #

Children of slain
Philadelphia police sergeant Stephen Liczbinski, Amber and Steve embrace after
their father's funeral mass on the steps of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints
Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 9, 2008 Sergeant Liczbinski was
gunned down as he investigated a bank robbery on May 3. (REUTERS/Tim Shaffer) #

A policeman carries a
child away during a gun battle in Tijuana, in Mexico's state of Baja California,
January 17, 2008. A shootout on Thursday, after police agents moved in on a drug
cartel group, left four people injured and forced the emergency evacuation of a
school in Tijuana, according to the local media. (REUTERS/Jorge Duenes) #

A man stands in front
of the Marriott hotel after a bomb blast in Islamabad September 20, 2008. A
truck bomb was detonated outside the Marriott in the Pakistani capital Islamabad
on Saturday, killing at least 54, injuring at least 266 and starting a fire
which swept through the hotel. (REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood) #

Locals and tourists
walk around the Dutch ship Artemis which ran aground on the beach of les Sables
d'Olonne, southern French Britanny, western France, March 10, 2008. The boat had
been driven onto the coast by the wind blowing more than 130 km per hour.
(REUTERS/Stephane Mahe) #
A fire rages out of
control at the backlot filled with movie sets at Universal Studios in Universal
City, California, 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Los Angeles June 1, 2008. A
portion of the set used in Steven Spielberg's film "War of the Worlds" including
a jet airplane is shown foreground. (Fred Prouser /Reuters) #

Swiss pilot Yves
Rossy, the world's first man to fly with a jet-powered fixed-wing apparatus
strapped to his back, flies during his first official demonstration, on May 14,
2008 above Bex, Switzerland. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/ Getty Images) #

Cyclone Nargis victims
huddle in torrential rain as they await assistance in Dedaye Township, southwest
of Yangon, Myanmar on May 19, 2008. Political resistance to outside aid and a
slow response by the government worsened an already devastating situation - an
estimated 146,000 people lost their lives. (REUTERS/Stringer) #

Tear gas cannisters
fired by Israeli soldiers fall from the sky on Palestinian and Israeli peace
activists during a protest agaisnt the construction of Israel's controversial
security barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, on June 6,
2008. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images) #

Maasai warriors cover
a battle field as they clash with bows and arrows with members of the Kalenjin
tribe in the Kapune hill overlooking the Olmelil valley located in the Transmara
District in Western Kenya on March 01, 2008. The Massai, the Kalenjin and the
Kisii tribes have recently clashed over ongoing land disputes that erupted after
botched local elections during the general elections held in Kenya in December
of 2007. Over twenty warriors from the tribes have been killed in bow and arrow
battles near the borders of these tribes in the last couple of months.
(Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images) #

Firefighters battle a
blaze at the Namdaemun gate, one of South Korea's most historic sites, in
central Seoul, on February 11, 2008. An arsonist started the fire, destroying
the gate - the oldest wooden structure in Seoul, first constructed in 1398 and
rebuilt in 1447. (Kim Jae-hwan/AFP/ Getty Images) #
The head of a male
student, still alive, trapped under the debris is pictured at the scene of the
church school that collapsed on the outskirts of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince,
November 7, 2008. At least 30 people were killed when the three-story La
Promesse school building collapsed while class was in session and some of the
walls and debris crushed neighboring homes in the Nerettes community near
Port-au-Prince. (REUTERS/Joseph Guyler Delva) #

Wounded Palestinians
lay near Reuters news agency reporter Fadel Shaana's car after it was hit by an
Israeli missile on April 16, 2008 in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli air
strike killed a Palestinian cameraman working for the Reuters news service and
two other civilians, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. (MOHAMMED
ABED/AFP/Getty Images) #

A rescue helicopter
prepares to hoist aboard surviving Japanese climber Hideaki Nara near the summit
of Aoraki Mount Cook in New Zealand on December 5, 2008. A Japanese climber
stranded for six days just below the summit had died just hours before rescuers
reached him and a compatriot, local media reported. The two Japanese climbers
were forced to huddle in a tent 50 meters below the 3,754-meter (12,349 feet)
peak, as poor weather and high winds foiled attempts to rescue the men by
helicopter. (REUTERS/The Christchurch Press/John Kirk-Anderson) #

A Kenyan boy screams
as he sees kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the
Kibera slum of Nairobi 17 January 2008. Hundreds of police who had earlier
clashed with supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga at the
entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and did a house to house search
for protestors. (WALTER ASTRADA/AFP/ Getty Images) #

An Afghan refugee
child hides from a dust storm behind a tent at a refugee camp in Kabul,
Afghanistan on October 7, 2008. Over a quarter million Afghans have returned
home this year from Pakistan and Iran, many of them reportedly due to economic
and security uncertainties faced in exile, the United Nations said. (MANPREET
ROMANA/AFP/Getty Images) #

The Guizer Jarl is
silhouetted as members of his Viking Squad walk around a long boat with burning
torches during the annual Up Helly Aa Festival, in Lerwick, Shetland Islands on
January 29th, 2008. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian
vikings in the Shetland Islands. (Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images) #
Comoran and Tanzanian
African Union soldiers (not seen) arrest an injured Anjouanese man after
shooting three rockets at his house in Mutsamudu on 25 March 2008. The Comoran
army said it had located the renegade leader of the isle of Anjouan, Mohamed
Bacar, during the operation it launched earlier March 25, 2008 with the African
Union to oust him. Some 400 AND troops backed by around 1,000 soldiers from
Sudan and Tanzania launched a offensive before dawn to wrest back control of the
isle of Anjouan from Bacar, its self-proclaimed leader, and capture him. Bacar
was captured, and after some legal wrangling, evaded extradition back to the
Comoros, and is now living in exile in Benin. (JOSE CENDON/AFP/Getty Images) #

Fishermen try to catch
fish during the Argungu fishing festival in Nigeria on March 15, 2008. Over
30,000 fishermen from different parts of Nigeria and neighbouring West Africa
took part in the final of the yearly Argungu fishing festival in Kebbi,
northwestern Nigeria. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images) #

A firefighter uses a
flare gun to set a backfire in the rugged area of Little Tujunga Canyon, 20
miles (32 km) north of downtown Los Angeles in the early hours of October 12,
2008. Fifty miles per hour gusty winds spread the fire towards ranches and
houses in the heavily-forested canyon. (REUTERS/Gene Blevins) #
Flames from a wreckage
of a passenger plane are seen after crash Goma in the east of the Democratic
Republic of Congo on April 15, 2008. 40 people were killed, most of them were on
the ground in the marketplace where the plane crashed. (Lionel Healing/AFP/
Getty Images) #

A polar bear shakes
his body to remove water at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec
on March 6, 2008. (REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger) #

Cambodian families
living on the grounds of the disputed 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple, along
the Thai-Cambodian border October 16, 2008. Nearly 200 Cambodian residents
living near the temple have taken refuge on its grounds, after recent fighting
killed two Cambodian soldiers, a local Cambodian newspaper reported. The
International Court of Justice awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962, but the
court failed to determine the ownership of 1.8 square miles (4.6 sq km) Hindu
ruins, a ruling that has rankled with Thais ever since. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)
#

A man in a traditional
"Perchten" costume performs during an Austrian league soccer match in Ried,
Austria November 12, 2008. (REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler (AUSTRIA) #
A man carries the body
of a child recovered from the rubble of a destroyed house after an air strike in
Baghdad's Sadr City in Iraq on April 29, 2008. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem) #

Finland's Harri Olli soars
through the air during the large hill ski jumping FIS World Cup event in
Liberec, Czech Republic on February 9, 2008. (REUTERS/David W Cerny) #

Kerby Brown rides a
huge wave in an undisclosed location southwest of Western Australia July 6,
2008, in this picture released November 7, 2008 by the Oakley-Surfing Life Big
Wave Awards in Sydney.. Picture taken July 6. (REUTERS/Andrew Buckley). #
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