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  • A man allows himself to be carried out to sea by the flow of draining tide water in Monrovia, Liberia. Some houses near the beach are flooded by trapped tide waters several times a month, requiring young men with shovels to dig a drainage ditch. ..

  • Bounty hunter Brian Uptgraft trains his handgun on a fugitive hiding in an attic in Los Angeles, California.

  • A model smokes while cradling her dog in her shirt at a D&G show backstage before the show.

  • Images taken in Rome's Colosseum at night, during one of the evenings the facility was open to visitors until 11pm.

  • Children play games after school in Piazza Gramsci, in Milan, Italy.

  • Images from the roof of the Duomo in Milan, with pedestrians walking through Piazza Duomo below. The roof of the duomo, the world's third-largest church, has more spires than any other cathedral in the world. It is possible to pay for an elevator ride to the roof, or for a reduced rate take the stairs.

  • Pictures of the crowd watching the Italy vs France world cup finals at circo massimo in Rome, Italy

  • Moscardini e cozze alla diavola (baby octopus and mussels) at Da Antonio in Stintino, Sardinia, Italy.

  • Mourners at the Vatican shortly after the death of Pope John Paul II.

  • Seamstresses wait backstage for last-minute tailoring before a Burberry show in Milan.

  • Pilgrims mingle with a few tourists at the tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion and standard bearer of the Prophet Muhammad, adjacent to the Eyup Sultan Mosque, Istanbul. In this photo people examine, some weeping, at a stone said to bear the footprint of Muhammad. Today it's considered as the second place of pilgrimage for Muslims after Mecca.

  • Decontee Sohn at the Liberian National Leprosy and TB Control Program/TB Annex in Monrovia, Liberia. She was being treated for TB. Decontee, 22, was unable to walk when she first visited the center and now she is walking normally again...

  • A local Italian couple pause in their stroll for a kiss on a street close to the Pantheon in Rome.

  • The Pantheon, Rome, taken from the Albergo del Senato next to the Pantheon in Rome.

  • A young circus performer plays in her home's backyard. Some circus families in Peru have trapeze bars instead of swingsets.

  • View of the coastline at Costa Paradiso in Sardinia, Italy.

  • A mother and daughter walk the narrow path between towers at the Châteaux de Lastours in Lastours, France. The towers were a Cathar holdout that eventually fell to crusaders.

  • Mourners at the Vatican shortly after the death of Pope John Paul II.

  • A model's face seen through champagne glasses backstage at a Gucci fashion show in Milan.

  • A model takes to the air after exiting the catwalk at a Valentino show in Paris.

  • A young woman attacks a horse-drawn cart during Ivrea, Italy's Orange Battles.

  • Staff lounge outside the restaurant after the lunch shift at Trattoria Milanese in Milan, Italy.

  • Teenagers practice for their high-wire act during rehearsals for the Peru Circus in Peru, Indiana, USA.

  • A woman reads at the Arco della Pace in Milan, Italy.

  • Models pose backstage at Prada in Milan.

  • Visitors and faithful rub shoulders in the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

  • A French woman visits the Trevi Fountain in the early morning hours just before Dawn, when the fountain is largely void of tourists.

  • A couple kiss during a break in the fighting in Ivrea, Italy's Orange Battles.

  • Visitors walk across Cerkvenic Bridge in the Skocjan caves in Slovenia, a structure that crosses the cavern 45 meters above the Reka River below.

  • On the outskirts of Reggio Emilia, the Credito Emiliano Bank accepts deposits of parmigiano cheese as collateral for loans to cheese producers. They hold 250,000 wheels of the famous cheese until it is aged and can be sold to repay the loans. Antonio Vincenti works high in the stacks all day placing and removing wheels of parmigiano as they reach maturation.

  • Models wait backstage for a Gianfranco Ferre' show to begin in Milan, Italy.

  • The Colosseum in Rome, Italy, photographed at night. The lower part is the hypogeum, the underground area of the structure.

  • Photographs from Teatro Alla Scala (La Scala), the world's most famous opera house, in Milan, Italy, before and during an intermission for the production of the ballet The Sleeping Beauty.

  • Teenagers hang out at dusk on the banks of the Danube in Esztergom, Hungary.

  • Male models trade places in a large water tank as party props at a Calvin Klein party in Milan during fashion week.


  • Locals smoke Hookah pipes in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul.

  • An inverted medusa's head watches visitors tour the 6th-century caverns at the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul.


  • A model waits backstage at Bottega Veneta during the Milan women's Fall/Winter 2009 fashion show to start.

  • Marija Gec, a relative to the Skerlj family, picks cherries from their trees at the tourism farm for serving to guests and diners.

  • Paola Fazi is the face of Trattoria der Pallaro--she owns and runs the Campo de Fiori restaurant, and becomes friendly with her guests in ways few restaurants can. There is no menu: You get whatever she is making that night, a rarity in the Rome restaurant scene.

  • The obelisk Obelisco Sallustiano, at the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome, taken from a suite at the Hotel Hassler in Rome.

  • Locals frequent a fish shop in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia.

  • Artist Ragnar Kjartansson in Venice's Palazzo Michiel dal Brusa during the Venice Biennale, in Italy. He is painting his last painting of model and fellow artist Pall Haukur Bjornsson on the last night of their six-month painting stint in the event.

  • Teenagers hang out at dusk on the banks of the Danube in Esztergom, Hungary.

  • An extravagant dress is prepared for a Steve McQueen show in Paris.

  • View of the Maddalena Islands through the window of a natural rock formation at Capo d'Orso, an ancient navigational beacon that looks like a bear from the sea.

  • Amanda Karpeh with her newborn daughter in the women's wing of JFK Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia...After more than a decade of civil wars that left Liberia sacked and its population traumatized, Africa's oldest republic now has a window of opportunity to remake itself from scratch. ..Led by a charismatic new president, the first woman ever elected to rule an African country and an internationally popular figure who governs with a soft heart and a hard hand, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf may test the limits of what a leader can do to resurrect a wrecked country.

  • Models share a moment while waiting for a Prada fashion show to start in Milan.

  • Vacationing Italian youth spend time on a rocky jetty in Porto Azzurro on the island of Elba in Tuscany.

  • Mariam Kamara, 16, left, Sidiki Kamara, 9, center, and Kadiatou Kromah, 6, right, cross a river on a makeshift log raft, the last obstacle before their destination in Jarmulor, Liberia, where their grandmother Mariam Kromah will care for them until the dry season when she can contact their parents. The river once had a bridge but it was washed out by heavy rains.

  • An aerial view somewhere between Monrovia, Liberia and Lofa County, Liberia.

  • Models exit the catwalk after the grand finale at a Prada fashion show in Milan, Italy.

  • Locals pass time in the Hippodrome in Sultanahmet, Istanbul.

  • Scenes from the ferry between the European and Asian sides of the Bosphorus.

  • Carlo Bagnulo has spent 30 years behind the bar at Caffe Farnese in the Centro Storico part of Rome.

  • Nuraghe Ruiu, one of hundreds of the ancient structures dotting the inland farmland of Sardinia, on the road between Tempio Pausania and Sassari on the island of Sardinia.

  • A structure lies abandoned on a hilltop near Castelsardo, Sardinia.

  • Rolled hay awaits pickup in a field bordering one of the innumerable small vinyards that produce private stashes of wine in the Karst region of Slovenia.

  • Beachgoers vacation in Lido di Camaiore, a beach town adjacent to Viareggio, Tuscany.

  • An American family vacations on a rented boat near Porto Azzurro on the Tuscan island of Elba in Italy.

  • Fashion week goers consort at a Guess party after a day of fashion shows in Milan.