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Members of the Free Burma Alliance cover their faces with photos of political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma (Myanmar) during the Burmese Child Refugees Fundraiser Benefit hosted by Free Burma Alliance & Network 355 at the New York Friars Club in New York City. -- PHOTO: AFP




A girl carries her sister as she breaks rocks into smaller pieces to be sold for construction purposes in Juba, south of the Sudan capital. One of the world's poorest regions, where four out of five people are illiterate and one in five children fail to make it to their fifth birthday, the south's economy has been turned on its head since the end of a 22-year civil war in 2005. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Tourists stand in the Blue Lagoon outside Reykjavik. The Blue Lagoon's blue and green waters come from natural hot water springs flowing through rocks of lava. -- PHOTO: AFP