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
Serbia ... soldiers practise riot control techniques at a base in the western Kosovo town
of Pec on March 25, 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
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
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
Palestinian territories ... Hamas fighters inside the personal meeting hal
l 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
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
Australia ... 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 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
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
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 ... contestants compete in the WE television network's
"Bridezilla-Ultimate Cake Eating Contest"
in New York's Times Square June 12, 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
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
South Korea ... members of the South Korean Marine Corps scrub their bodies with snow
during an annual winter season drill in Pyongchang / Reuters photo
Indonesia ... children play on a railway track in a slum area in Jakarta,
January 30, 2007 / Reuters photo
Scotland ... France's Gregory Havret is drenched in champagne after winning
the Barclay's Scottish Open golf tournament, July 15, 2007 / Reuters photo
Autonomous province of Kosovo ... a Kosovo Serb priest walks through
a demolished church at a graveyard in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica,
February 10, 2007 / Reuters photo
India ... a boy plays in the waves of the Arabian 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, April 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 Airlines plane
on the tarmac on the island of Okinawa, August 20, 2007 / Reuters photo
Japan ... a boy watches the beetle sumo competition of the IWBC
(Insect World Battle Championships) in a miniature ring in Tokyo,
August 26, 2007 / Reuters photo
Iraq ... male and female pilgrims are separated by a barrier at the
Imam 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
India ... 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 ... Austria's Gunther Weidlinger falls during the heats of the men's 3000m
steeplechase at the 11th IAAF World Athletics Championship in Osaka,
August 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,
September 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 Shahdad Kot,
July 3, 2007 / Reuters photo
Brazil ... carnival revellers of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school parade
during the second night of competition between the schools in Rio de Janeiro,
February 19, 2007 / Reuters