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A JORDANIAN Shepard directs his sheep at the farm of Omar Zumot in the village of Sama AL-Sarhan, north of Jordan. Omar Zumot goes to extremes when making his organic wine. Specially cultivated sheep slurp the dry leaves off the vines, their saliva serving as an antibacterial, while fish...

A PALESTINIAN man walks through an alley in Jerusalem's Old City. -- PHOTO: AP JEWISH children play with a kite in Jerusalem's Old City. -- PHOTO: AP AN INDIAN hand rickshaw puller manoeuvres his vehicle through a water logged street of Kolkata on Saturday. Following overnight heavy...

MUSICAL instruments sit on the ground prior to a ground breaking ceremony for the construction of a power line from Itaipu dam, near the border with Brazil, to Villa Hayes on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay. Paraguay will sell to Brazil its excess electricity capacity generated by the...

Labourers install an awning for a pile of logs at a timber market in Huaibei, Anhui province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS A NINE-MONTH-OLD rhinoceros called Vuma (centre) rests with two others rhinoceros at the animal orphanage of the private Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Krugersdorp, north of...

A member of the Engineering Regiment of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) makes his rescue dog jump across a platform during a demonstration for journalists at a military base, outskirts of Beijing, China. China's military on Friday criticised remarks by US Secretary of State Hillary...

Mat Rebeaud of Switzerland competes in the Moto X Freestyle Final during X Games 16 at the LA Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. -- PHOTO: AFP Workers of PCCS Garments Ltd look out from gaps between their factory gates during a strike in protest against the suspension of a local union...

An Indian idolmaker works in clay to make a models of Hindu Gods in a workshop at Kumartoli, the artists' village in Siliguri. Kumartoli - the artists village is buzzing with hundreds of artists who live and work there preparing models of various Hindu Gods and Goddesses ahead of forthcoming...

Palestinian children in Gaza attending UNRWA?s (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) Summer Games attempt to smash their own world record for the number of kites flown simultaneously on the beach in Gaza City. -- PHOTO: AFP An Israeli soldier rests next to a doll during a Home Front...

Firefighter Michael Nokes escapes out of a second storey window after fire came between him and his crew while battling a house fire on Cumberland St in Clear Spring, Md. Fire destroyed four row houses in the small community west of Hagerstown, Md. -- PHOTO: AP A man sits near mortars...

An M-14 sniper rifle sits beside a watch tower as smoke rises in the background after US soldiers blew up a m&d wall which Taliban insurgents were using as cover to attack troops from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the...

A plume of smoke is seen after a plane crashes on the Elmendorf Air Force in Anchorage, Alaska. The Alaska National Guard says a military cargo plane has crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage. -- PHOTO: AP Kit Sheppard waits for her husband, Lieutenant junior grade Adam...

Palestinian Abdullah Inshasi takes a leap as he performs parkour at an old cemetery, in the Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. In back rooms, refugee camps and vacant lots across this impoverished territory, young men are rapping over hip hop beats, flipping over metal bars and spinning on...

Sabah Zaib wears Halal certified make-up in Birmingham, central England. Samina Akhter has launched a company that offers a range of Halal make-up, which is free from alcohol and animal products and marketed towards Muslim customers. -- PHOTO: REUTERS Rome's ancient Colosseum is seen from...

Models present creations by students of design school Colegiaturas during the Colombiamoda fashion show in Medellin. -- PHOTO: REUTERS Cadets of the Francisco Morazan Military Academy carry a coffin with the relics of Saint Ioannes Bosco in Tegucigalpa. The relics of the Italian saint -...

Samuel Aldaraca holds a US flag and a sign outside the Arizona's State Capital after US District Judge Susan Bolton blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona's new Senate Bill 1070 immigration law in Phoenix. Judge Bolton on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona's tough new...

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A clown attends a mass at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Hundreds of clowns ended their annual pilgrimage to the Basilica to pay their respects to the Virgin of Guadalupe. -- PHOTO: AP Thousands of signatures are signed to a petition during the Rally for Economic Survival...

A rock climber scales the face of a mountain called The Chief in Squamish, British Columbia. The flat faced 700m granite mountain in Stawamus Chief Provincial Park just north of Vancouver is a popular spot for rock climbers and base jumpers. -- PHOTO: REUTERS Palestinian mourners stand...

Emperor George II of Atlantium, (aka George Cruickshank), displays the 25 imperial solidi note featuring a portrait of himself in Sydney. A man struggles his way in the flooded field in Tieling County, north China. Skateboarder Alex Halford performs during the Tony Hawk and Friends...

A Palestinian man works to recycle cement at a factory that does not receive raw materials from Israel, east of Jebaliya, Gaza Strip. Some of the hundreds of Gaza factories idled by Israel. Water is discharged from the Three Gorges Dam to lower the level in its reservoir in Yichang...