
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

Guatemala ... a giant sinkhole that swallowed several homes in Guatemala City,February 23, 2007 / Reuters photo

United Kingdom ... a reveller slides in the mud during the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset, June 22, 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

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 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

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