December 26, 2005, exactly one year after the tsunami in the Indian Ocean Pak Meng beach in Thailand during a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the launch was held flashlights. Thousands of locals and foreigners gathered in southern Thailand, to commemorate the dead. Number of victims of the tsunami of 26 December 2004 was 5395 persons. When eto47 settlements located along the coast of the Andaman Sea, were razed to the ground. (REUTERS / Eddie Keogh)
Snow over Times Square in New York during an unexpected spring snowstorm April 5, 2006. (REUTERS / Brendan McDermid)
At sunset, May 24, 2006 Nigerian small runs along the river in Ibeshe near the Nigerian capital Lagos. Nigeria is the eighth in the world in exports of crude oil and its revenues have soared thanks to high oil prices, which are stored in the global markets to raise $ 36 billion foreign exchange reserves. However, Nigeria is also one of the world's poorest countries, since most of its 140 million population lives on less than one dollar a day. (REUTERS / George Esiri)
Fireworks on the background of the moon after a ceremony in Valencia, July 8, 2006. The ceremony was presided by Pope Benedict XVI at the Fifth World Meeting of families. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the country to proclaim the importance of traditional family values in Spain, whose government has been subjected to sharp criticism from the Catholic Church for legalizing gay marriage. (REUTERS / Victor Fraile)
A visitor with a paper lantern lighted against the backdrop of a bamboo grove near the temple in the ancient Japanese Shorenin capital of Kyoto November 13, 2006. (REUTERS / Issei Kato)
People on the Jemaa El Fnaa in Marrakech February 21, 2007. Djemaa el-Fna is a market in the old city of Marrakech, where every day are the jugglers, storytellers, snake charmers, musicians and acrobats. (REUTERS / Rafael Marchante)
Lights hang above the street on the eve of the Lunar New Year in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, February 21, 2007. (REUTERS / Tim Chong)
An Airplane in Front of the Moon comes in to land at Heathrow Airport in west London, May 30, 2007. (REUTERS / Toby Melville)
A number of statues on Easter Island in October 2003. (REUTERS)
Children playing in the background of bright balloons during a corporate Christmas party in Hamburg, northern Germany December 7, 2004. (REUTERS / Christian Charisius)
Bulgarian children are playing with fire during the celebration Mesni Zagovezni (Carnival) in the village of Lozen near Sofia, February 26, 2006. It is believed that the rituals associated with fire Pancake Day helps to scare away evil spirits from the house. (REUTERS / Stoyan Nenov)
A statement by artists at the opening race for the World Cup in Dubai, UAE, March 25, 2006. (REUTERS / Jack Dabaghian)
Chinese boy plays during the full moon in Shanghai October 17, 2005. (REUTERS / Aly Song)
View of the beach in the resort town of Cancun in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, during the approach of Hurricane Wilma October 19, 2005. Classified by meteorologists as potentially extremely dangerous Hurricane Wilma brought heavy rains to the coast of Honduras, and caused heavy wind, the speed of which reached 280 km / h. The authorities began evacuating 10,000 people living in the Mexican coastal state of Quintana Roo. (REUTERS / Daniel Aguilar)
Delray Beach, Florida, September 6, 2004, after the passage of Hurricane Frances. Due to Hurricane Frances, which was awarded the second category, and which brought rain and proline heavy wind, hundreds of thousands of Florida residents were without eletkroenergii. (REUTERS / Marc Serota)
People walk in front of a monument of Vittorio Emanuele in the so-called White Yochi, night extravaganza in Rome on 19 September 2004. Two million people gathered in the streets of Rome, near the monuments and attractions during the celebration of the second white nights in Rome. (REUTERS / Tony Gentile)
British Parliament building during heavy rain in London on 17 January 2005. (REUTERS / Russell Boyce)
Passer-by with an umbrella standing in the rain on a cold winter evening Azadi Square in Tehran on May 2, 2005. (REUTERS)
A boy rides on a swing from an old tire in one of Sydney parks at sunset May 12, 2003. (REUTERS / David Gray)
