BUDAPEST: Hungarians release balloons during a commemoration by the Hungarian right-wing party FIDESZ of the 59th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Communist regime.
BUDAPEST: MANILA: Alexandra Braun Waldeck of Venezuela waves as she is crowned Miss Earth 2005, flanked by winners Jovana Marjanovic of Serbia and Montenegro as Miss Fire, Amell Sanata of Dominican republic as Miss Air and Katarzyna Borowivz of Poland as Miss Water. The newly crowned Miss Earth will campaign for nature and environmental issues. Eighty women from all over the world competed in the pageant.
Arlington: Performers race around the ring in the Roman Riding portion of Cavalia, a dream-like encounter between horse and man, during a preview of the show, just outside Washington, as the critically acclaimed Canadian production arrives in the DC area for several weeks of shows. The show was created by Normand Latourelle, one of the co-founders of the Cirque du Soleil, and features 47 horses with riders, acrobats, aerialists, dancers, and musicians.
HAVANA: A huge wave lashes the city’s seafront as Hurricane Wilma battered the west side of the island where more than half a million people were evacuated. Reinvigorated after a deadly strike on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Hurricane Wilma roared last week towards Florida where storm-weary US authorities ordered widespread evacuations.
MODERNIZATION: A Vietnamese farmer checks email in his rice field outside Hanoi. With the help of wireless connectivity through Intel’s Asian Broadband Campaign, vast reaches of Asia — villages, provinces, cities and countries — are being connected to the World Wide Web.
PARIS: Two parrots in a bird shop on the Seine riverbank. The discovery of an H5N1 virus infected parrots imported to Britain on Oct 23 does not alarm owners of this exotic birds shop, largely supplying European breeding.
BUDAPEST: Hungarians release balloons during a commemoration by the Hungarian right-wing party FIDESZ of the 59th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Communist regime.
BUDAPEST: MANILA: Alexandra Braun Waldeck of Venezuela waves as she is crowned Miss Earth 2005, flanked by winners Jovana Marjanovic of Serbia and Montenegro as Miss Fire, Amell Sanata of Dominican republic as Miss Air and Katarzyna Borowivz of Poland as Miss Water. The newly crowned Miss Earth will campaign for nature and environmental issues. Eighty women from all over the world competed in the pageant.
Arlington: Performers race around the ring in the Roman Riding portion of Cavalia, a dream-like encounter between horse and man, during a preview of the show, just outside Washington, as the critically acclaimed Canadian production arrives in the DC area for several weeks of shows. The show was created by Normand Latourelle, one of the co-founders of the Cirque du Soleil, and features 47 horses with riders, acrobats, aerialists, dancers, and musicians.
HAVANA: A huge wave lashes the city’s seafront as Hurricane Wilma battered the west side of the island where more than half a million people were evacuated. Reinvigorated after a deadly strike on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Hurricane Wilma roared last week towards Florida where storm-weary US authorities ordered widespread evacuations.
MODERNIZATION: A Vietnamese farmer checks email in his rice field outside Hanoi. With the help of wireless connectivity through Intel’s Asian Broadband Campaign, vast reaches of Asia — villages, provinces, cities and countries — are being connected to the World Wide Web.
PARIS: Two parrots in a bird shop on the Seine riverbank. The discovery of an H5N1 virus infected parrots imported to Britain on Oct 23 does not alarm owners of this exotic birds shop, largely supplying European breeding.
