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Photos from left to right: A researcher from Japan's mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. wears a prototype of a device that may allow calls without uttering a word. The user would wear the detector on the thumb, forefinger and middlefinger, and rest them around the mouth to pick up myoelectric signals. ...An Iraqi boy holds a leaflet in broken English that reads "Fallujah, the cemetery of the Americans", near a burning car in the flashpoint town of Fallujah, 50 kms west of Baghdad.

Photos from left to right: A model performs at a hairdressing and make-up show at the China International Fashion Show Week in Beijing. Pop singer Michael Jackson waves an Israeli flag to reporters and fans before visiting with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee, Democrat of Texas to discuss the global fight against AIDS/HIV with US lawmakers, make-up show at the China International Fashion Week in Beijing
 

 

 

 

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Photos from left to right: Americans Kimiko Soldati and Erin Quinn dive at the final of the 3m synchronised springboard during the 14th Diving World Cup in Athens  Revelers dressed as Vikings parade down a street in Braunschweig 22 February 2004 during Germany' s carnival period.

 

Photos from left to right: Models wear creations by Austrian designer Ines Valentinitsch in the Autumn/Winter collection shown as part of Milan's fashion week.  Hitomi, an Exotic short-hair cat, wears a cow outfit during a beauty pageant at a cat park in Tokyo.
 

 

 

 

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Photos from left to right: A Mexican healer performs during a ceremony in front of the Pyramid of the Sun at the ruins of Teotihuacan, 60km north of Mexico City. Hundreds gather here every year to welcome the spring. A Salvadoran man looks for his name and booth number outside a voting station before casting his ballot in the presidential elections in Suchitoto, El Salvador.

Photos from left to right: The 27-metre Chinese Junk Kublai Kahn sails through Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. Two German adventurers will retrace Marco Polo's voyage home from China to Venice, taking two to three years for the journey.  Haitians walk among burning garbage near La Saline market in Port au Prince. Eighty per cent of the population live in extreme poverty.

 

 

 

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Photos from left to right: Bulgarian children spin ritual fireballs in the village of Lozen, 15 km east from Sofia. Bulgarians mark Sirni Zagovezni, an Orthodox Christian holiday during which they chase away evil spirits, with fire rituals.   Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor performs during the Filmfare Indian movie awards, in Bombay.

 

Photos from left to right: Revelers belonging to the Fofo de Belem Carnival Band perform during a nautical carnival parade along the Guajara bay in Belem, northern Brazil. Mariner Eti Esela relaxes in the pristine waters off Tepuka Islet on Funafuti Atoll.

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