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Malaysia's Indigenous Orang Asli children watch television ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:24:28 GMT

(AFP/File) - Malaysia's Indigenous Orang Asli children watch television inside a village house in Kampung Chang village. Girls as young as 11 have been giving birth among Malaysia's Orang Asli, or "original people," according to a report.(AFP/File/Billion Lim)

Brigadier General Larry Nicholson demonstrated the more open ...

(AFP) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:54:26 GMT

(AFP) - Brigadier General Larry Nicholson demonstrated the more open approach he wants to see among the new US troops sent to southern Afghanistan by going shopping for melons. Nicholson, commander of the 4,000 Marines deployed on Thursday in the mainly Taliban-held Helmand River valley, headed to Garmsir district centre to visit a bazaar selling fruit, vegetables and meat.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)

2nd US Marine Expeditionary Brigade Commanding Officer and Brigadier ...

(AFP) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:54:26 GMT

(AFP) - 2nd US Marine Expeditionary Brigade Commanding Officer and Brigadier General Larry Nicholson shakes hands with an Afghan child during patrols in Garmsir district in Afghanistan's Helmand province.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)

2nd US Marine Expeditionary Brigade Commanding Officer and Brigadier ...

(AFP) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:54:26 GMT

(AFP) - 2nd US Marine Expeditionary Brigade Commanding Officer and Brigadier General Larry Nicholson greets a local resident during patrols in Garmsir district in Afghanistan's Helmand province.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)

2nd US Marine Expeditionary Brigade Commanding Officer and Brigadier ...

(AFP) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:54:26 GMT

(AFP) - 2nd US Marine Expeditionary Brigade Commanding Officer and Brigadier General Larry Nicholson speaks with local residents during patrols in Garmsir district in Afghanistan's Helmand province.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)

Bolivia, the poorest country in South America, is sitting on ...

(AFPTV) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:01:30 GMT

(AFPTV) - Bolivia, the poorest country in South America, is sitting on a bonanza in the Salar de Uyuni. The desert contains 5.4 million tons of lithium, around half the world's total supply. The soft metal is already used extensively in batteries for mobile telephones and computers, and is a key element for the electric cars expected to be mass-produced tomorrow.(AFPTV)

Windskaters make a demonstration show in 2004 at the Uyuni salt ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:01:30 GMT

(AFP/File) - Windskaters make a demonstration show in 2004 at the Uyuni salt flat, 500 km south of La Paz. For years, the Salar de Uyuni has been a remote but popular tourist draw in southern Bolivia: the world's highest salt desert, whose blinding white expanse stretches to the horizon.(AFP/File/Aizar Raldes)

A woman smokes a cigarette. Dutch bar owners won a new victory ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:46:22 GMT

(AFP/File) - A woman smokes a cigarette. Dutch bar owners won a new victory in their fight against a smoking ban on their premises when an appeal court cleared two of them of breaking the law and quashed a 1,200 euro fine.(AFP/File/Thomas Coex)

A tourist sits on the statue of Don Quijote's companion ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:30:52 GMT

(AFP/File) - A tourist sits on the statue of Don Quijote's companion Sancho Panza (R), in Madrid's Spain square (Plaza de Espana) in 2005. The economic crisis means that Spanish hotels will have more domestic than foreign tourists this summer for the first time in decades.(AFP/File/Christophe Simon)

Ryan Moore riding "Presvis" (L) wins the Audemars ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:06:31 GMT

(AFP/File) - Ryan Moore riding "Presvis" (L) wins the Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup at the Sha Tin race course in Hong Kong in April 2009. The Hong Kong government said Friday it has approved a proposal to add five extra meetings to the horse racing season in a bid to lure punters away from the glitzy casinos of its neighbouring cities.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)

This picture taken in 2006 in Ho Chi Minh City shows children ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:02:06 GMT

(AFP/File) - This picture taken in 2006 in Ho Chi Minh City shows children sleeping inside the Tam Binh orphanage. Vietnam, concerned that too many boys are being born, will destroy more than 30,000 copies of books instructing couples on how to have a baby of their desired sex, state-linked media said Friday.(AFP/File/Str)

A model presents a creation by French designer Christian Lacroix ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:35:30 GMT

(AFP/File) - A model presents a creation by French designer Christian Lacroix during the autumn/winter 2009 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris, in March 2009. The haute couture shows for next autumn-winter open next week in a sombre mood, with the fate of the house of Christian Lacroix hanging in the balance since it went into administration in May.(AFP/File/Pierre Verdy)

A man walks past a mannequin wearing fashion made of banana ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:29:25 GMT

(AFP/File) - A man walks past a mannequin wearing fashion made of banana fibre mixed with indigenous Filipino fabric by Dita Sandico Ong of the Philippines on display at "thekey.to" sustainable fashion trade fair, in Berlin July 2, 2009. Goodbye "fashionista" brands, where neither the price nor the planet counts. The recession has made recycled "recessionista chic" a hit at Berlin Fashion Week.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)

A visitor passes mannequins wearing fashion made from the spathe ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:29:25 GMT

(AFP/File) - A visitor passes mannequins wearing fashion made from the spathe of palm trees by designer Patrick Lafrontiere on display at "thekey.to" sustainable fashion trade fair, in Berlin July 2, 2009. Goodbye "fashionista" brands, where neither the price nor the planet counts. The recession has made recycled "recessionista chic" a hit at Berlin Fashion Week -- some of it even organic and free trade.(AFP/File/John Macdougall)

This picture released by the Institute for Reformation Research ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:45:23 GMT

(AFP/File) - This picture released by the Institute for Reformation Research in Apeldoorn in June 2009 shows a statue of French theologist John Calvin created by Reymond, to mark on July 10, the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth. The Vatican newspaper Friday praised influential Calvin, a critic of the Roman Catholic Church, hailing him an "extraordinary" figure.(AFP/File/Str)

Students and their families visit the temple of Literature in ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:55:35 GMT

(AFP/File) - Students and their families visit the temple of Literature in Hanoi. They believe that praying at the temple will boost their chances at the up-coming college admission exams that start this week-end nationwide.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)

A mother prays for her daughter to be successful at the up-coming ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:55:35 GMT

(AFP/File) - A mother prays for her daughter to be successful at the up-coming college admission exams, inside the temple of Literature in Hanoi. Each day thounsands of contestants and their families visit the temple to pray.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)

Students and their parents pray to be successful at the up-coming ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:55:35 GMT

(AFP/File) - Students and their parents pray to be successful at the up-coming college admission exams, inside the temple of Literature in Hanoi. Each day thounsands of contestants and their families visit the temple to pray.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)

Members of the transgender, gay and lesbian communities walk ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:38:49 GMT

(AFP/File) - Members of the transgender, gay and lesbian communities walk under a rainbow flag as they celebrate an Indian court's ruling decriminalising gay sex between consenting adults, in Mumbai on July 1. The Indian media hailed the court ruling and urged the government to respond by striking a colonial-era ban on homosexuality from the statute books.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)

An Indian gay activist celebrates a high court rulin in Kolkata. ...

(AFP) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:38:49 GMT

(AFP) - An Indian gay activist celebrates a high court rulin in Kolkata. The Indian media hailed a court ruling to decriminalise gay sex and urged the government to respond by striking a colonial-era ban on homosexuality from the statute books.(AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)

Palestinian children spend the day on the beach in Gaza City ...

(AFP) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:20:45 GMT

(AFP) - Palestinian children spend the day on the beach in Gaza City on June 19. The raw sewage dumped straight into the Mediterranean has failed to cure Gazans' itch for the beach and many in the Palestinian enclave brave nasty rashes for a dip in the polluted sea.(AFP/Mohammed Abed)

A Palestinian rides a motorcycle past sewage canals flowing ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:20:45 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Palestinian rides a motorcycle past sewage canals flowing into the Mediterranean Sea from Gaza City on June 17. The raw sewage dumped straight into the Mediterranean has failed to cure Gazans' itch for the beach and many in the Palestinian enclave brave nasty rashes for a dip in the polluted sea.(AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)

A Palestinian boy is reflected in a water canal polluted with ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:20:45 GMT

(AFP/File) - A Palestinian boy is reflected in a water canal polluted with sewage that flows into the Mediterranean Sea from Gaza City on June 17. Every day some 20,000 cubic meters (706,000 cubic feet) of untreated wastewater is dumped into the sea(AFP/File/Mahmud Hams)

A Mexican federal policeman stands next to a Mexican Army vehicle ...

(AFP) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:11:46 GMT

(AFP) - A Mexican federal policeman stands next to a Mexican Army vehicle at the Samalayuca checkpoint, near Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico. Scorched by a blistering desert sun, military troops here form the frontline security cordon in a bitter battle against crime playing out in the heart of Mexico's bloody drug wars.(AFP/Omar Torres)

A Mexican federal policeman stands guard at the Samalayuca checkpoint, ...

(AFP) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:11:46 GMT

(AFP) - A Mexican federal policeman stands guard at the Samalayuca checkpoint, near Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico. Hundreds of men, who painstakingly search vehicles for drugs and weapons, are at the frontline of the massive military deployment Mexican President Felipe Calderon ordered following his 2006 election.(AFP/Omar Torres)

A Gamma ray detection system operated by Mexican federal police ...

(AFP) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:11:46 GMT

(AFP) - A Gamma ray detection system operated by Mexican federal police at the Samalayuca checkpoint, near Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico. Despite controls on the Mexican side of the border, firearms continue to flow into the country from the United States. On the side of the road that leads to Chihuahua, capital of the northern Mexican state, the military is at pains to confiscate illegal weapons(AFP/Omar Torres)

A sales assistant holds up a Nokia handset featuring a new mobile ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:39:35 GMT

(AFP/File) - A sales assistant holds up a Nokia handset featuring a new mobile internet music download platform at a store in Hong Kong. Rampant piracy and a crumbling market for CDs has put the music industry in Asia under immense pressure, but experts are hoping that technology like Nokia's music services will help to fill the gap.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)

A sales assistant shows a customer a Nokia handset at a store ...

(AFP/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:39:35 GMT

(AFP/File) - A sales assistant shows a customer a Nokia handset at a store in Hong Kong. Rampant piracy and a crumbling market for CDs has put the music industry in Asia under immense pressure, but experts are hoping that technology like Nokia's music services will help to fill the gap.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)

The Washington Post building in Washington, DC. Amid an outcry ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:33:47 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - The Washington Post building in Washington, DC. Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on Thursday canceled plans to host events offering lobbyists access to US government officials, members of Congress and Post reporters.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)

Gay men exchanging rings at their wedding in Spain. Slovenia's ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:24:43 GMT

(AFP/File) - Gay men exchanging rings at their wedding in Spain. Slovenia's government could soon prepare a law to legalise same-sex marriage and in certain cases the adoption of children by homosexual couples, a Slovenian official said here on Thursday.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)

View of a mast on a Russian tall ship. The world's most ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:09:47 GMT

(AFP/File) - View of a mast on a Russian tall ship. The world's most breathtaking tall ships arrived with sails billowing in the Polish Baltic Sea port of Gdynia on Thursday, ahead of the launch of the month-long Tall Ships Races 2009.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)

Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on ...

(Washington Post) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:02:09 GMT

(Washington Post) - Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on Thursday canceled plans to host events offering lobbyists access to US government officials, members of Congress and Post reporters.(Washington Post)

Michelin-starred British chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:55:28 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Michelin-starred British chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay in January 2009, Ramsay's restaurants in Britain suffered a 90-percent drop in profits as the recession began to bite, it was revealed Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jesse Grant)

A woman smokes a cannabis cigarette in a legal cannabis cafe, ...

(AFP/ANP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:37:28 GMT

(AFP/ANP/File) - A woman smokes a cannabis cigarette in a legal cannabis cafe, in the Dutch city of Maastricht in 2006. Dutch coffee shops that sell cannabis should should cater mainly for local people and not bulk-buying drugs tourists from abroad, a government commission proposed Thursday.(AFP/ANP/File)

Algerian Cheb Khaled performs during the 12th Gnaoua Festival ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:23:15 GMT

(AFP/File) - Algerian Cheb Khaled performs during the 12th Gnaoua Festival and Musics of the World of Essaouira early in 2008. Khaled will perform at the Second Pan-African Cultural Festival at the request of the African Union, 40 years after the north African country staged the first such event, when several nations were still struggling for independence.(AFP/File/Fadel)

Dancers perform at the Estonian Nationwide Song and Dance Festival ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:22:24 GMT

(AFP/File) - Dancers perform at the Estonian Nationwide Song and Dance Festival in Tallinn in 2004. Estonia's "To Breathe as One" festival runs July 2-5 in the capital Tallinn with some 37,000 performers -- singers, dancers and musicians -- due on stage.(AFP/File/Rauno Volmar)

Members of the Indian homosexual community in Bangalore celebrate ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:48:34 GMT

(AFP) - Members of the Indian homosexual community in Bangalore celebrate the New Delhi High Court ruling decriminalising gay sex. The landmark ruling decriminalising gay sex between consenting adults has overturned colonial-era legislation that outlawed homosexuality.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)

Members of the transgender, gay and lesbian communities in Mumbai ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:48:34 GMT

(AFP) - Members of the transgender, gay and lesbian communities in Mumbai celebrate a high court rulig decriminalising gay sex between consenting adults. A top Indian court has issued a landmark ruling that decriminalised gay sex between consenting adults by declaring a colonial-era ban on homosexuality unconstitutional.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)

An Indian gay activist celebrates a high court rulin in Kolkata. ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:48:34 GMT

(AFP) - An Indian gay activist celebrates a high court rulin in Kolkata. A top Indian court has issued a landmark ruling that decriminalised gay sex between consenting adults by declaring a colonial-era ban on homosexuality unconstitutional.(AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)

Arne Soerensen, a retired Danish doctor and expert on kidney ...

(AFP/Scanpix/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:39:47 GMT

(AFP/Scanpix/File) - Arne Soerensen, a retired Danish doctor and expert on kidney diseases, poses with his book at his home in Aalborg. In the book, he argues that Napoleon Bonaparte did not die from poisoning, but from kidney and urinary problems, which inflicted him for many years.(AFP/Scanpix/File/Henning Bagger)

Retired Danish doctor Arne Soerensen and his wife Birte pose ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:39:47 GMT

(AFP) - Retired Danish doctor Arne Soerensen and his wife Birte pose at their home in the northern Danish city of Aalborg. The kidney specialist says he found the cause of death of Napoleon: he died of a kidney infection and not of poisonning.(AFP/Slim Allagui)

Indian homosexual men hold hands as they participate in a gay ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:06:14 GMT

(AFP) - Indian homosexual men hold hands as they participate in a gay pride march in Bangalore on June 28. New Delhi's highest court has issued a landmark ruling that decriminalised gay sex between consenting adults in India by declaring a colonial-era ban on homosexuality unconstitutional.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)

An Indian gay activist participates in a gay pride march in ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:42:21 GMT

(AFP) - An Indian gay activist participates in a gay pride march in Bangalore. New Delhi High Court ruled that an existing statute prohibiting homosexual acts was discriminatory and therefore a "violation of fundamental rights" accorded under the constitution.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)

Indian gay rights activists and their supporters carry a rainbow ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:42:21 GMT

(AFP/File) - Indian gay rights activists and their supporters carry a rainbow flag during a gay pride march in Bangalore, on June 28. A top Indian court has issued a landmark ruling decriminalising gay sex between consenting adults, overturning colonial-era legislation that outlawed homosexuality.(AFP/File/Dibyangshu Sarkar)

A worker makes violins at a small workshop in Pinggu, on the ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:34:26 GMT

(AFP/File) - A worker makes violins at a small workshop in Pinggu, on the outskirts of Beijing. A district near Beijing has become one of the world's centres of violin production in just 20 years -- an industry that is aiming to look upwards and inwards amid growing domestic demand.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)

A woman worker makes a violins at a small workshop in Pinggu, ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:34:26 GMT

(AFP/File) - A woman worker makes a violins at a small workshop in Pinggu, on the outskirts of Beijing. A district near Beijing has become one of the world's centres of violin production in just 20 years -- an industry that is aiming to look upwards and inwards amid growing domestic demand.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)

A worker makes a violin at a musical instrument factory in Pinggu, ...

(AFP/File) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:34:26 GMT

(AFP/File) - A worker makes a violin at a musical instrument factory in Pinggu, on the outskirts of Beijing. A district near Beijing has become one of the world's centres of violin production in just 20 years -- an industry that is aiming to look upwards and inwards amid growing domestic demand.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)

The mass-produced violinsproducing heroic music during China's ...

(AFPTV) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:34:26 GMT

(AFPTV) - The mass-produced violinsproducing heroic music during China's Cultural Revolution have given way to a new generation of sophisticated instruments. A handful of violin makers are even carving a name for themselves on the international music scene. Duration: 01:52(AFPTV)

Lebanese fishermen clean fresh fish in the southern port city ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:54:09 GMT

(AFP) - Lebanese fishermen clean fresh fish in the southern port city of Tyre. Over-fishing, pollution and dynamite fishing have all but wiped out marine life in the Mediterranean waters off the 220-kilometer-long (136-mile-long) Lebanese coast, leaving many of the country's estimated 8,000 fishermen destitute.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

A Lebanese carpenter makes a fishing boat at his workshop in ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:54:09 GMT

(AFP) - A Lebanese carpenter makes a fishing boat at his workshop in the southern port city of Tyre. Over-fishing, pollution and dynamite fishing have all but wiped out marine life in the Mediterranean waters off the 220-kilometer-long (136-mile-long) Lebanese coast, leaving many of the country's estimated 8,000 fishermen destitute.(AFP/Joseph Eid)