Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska smiles after receiving the International Novel Prize Romulo Gallegos for her novel «El Tren Pasa Primero» which means «the train goes first» in Caracas, Venezuela. Reuters Archive.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) talks to Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska during his weekly broadcast «Alo Presidente» in Caracas, Venezuela. Reuters Archive.

Children play on statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, characters from writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s book «Don Quixote de la Mancha», next to Jinji Lake in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China. Reuters Archive.

Figures representing Spanish literature personalities, «Don Quixote and Sancho Panza,» were shown during a parade in Quito, Ecuador. Reuters Archive

Tourists visit the famous ancient windmills in the village of Campo de Criptana at the Castilla-La Mancha region in central Spain. Reuters Archive

An Iraqi man holds his hands up as U.S soldiers and Iraqi special police search his house for weapons in Baquba, in Diyala province, Iraq. Reuters Archive

Graffiti left behind by Taliban fighters remains on the walls of a compound now used as a command center for the U.S Marine Corps’s First Battalion, Eighth Marines at Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Afghanistan. Reuters Archive

A penitent takes part in the procession of «San Gonzalo» brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain. Reuters Archive.

Chang Yu-wen, 30, who is dressed up as Zhongkui, the traditional Chinese masculine deity who captures evil spirits in temple festivals, poses for a photograph in Taitung county, eastern Taiwan. Reuters Archive.

A man dressed as Hindu goddess Kali, the goddess of power, performs with a burning camphor tablet on his tongue during a religious procession ahead of the «Kumbh Mela», or Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. Reuters Archive

A boy with a painted face holds a mirror with other boys reflected in it during preparations before a parade as part of the Barranquilla Carnival, Colombia. Reuters Archive

A reveller takes part in the annual carnival in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Reuters Archive.

A housing debtor runs after setting himself on fire to protest against Chile’s housing system in front of the government palace in Santiago, Chile. Reuters Archive

A watermelon vendor unloads a watermelon from a truck at a market in Shanghai, China. Reuters Archive

An ostrich which had escaped from a farm walks past a car in Tomioka town, inside the exclusion zone of a 20km radius around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Reuters Archive.