A Bangladeshi woman distributes advertisement handbills among rickshawpassengers and pedestrians in Dhaka. She is one ofmany who take up such employments at a monthly salary of a meagre 1,500taka ($26) per month in job scarce Bangladesh. Photo by Rafiqur Rahman

An ethnic Albanian villager looks through a bullet hole in a bus window in the village of Lapusnik 20 km south-west of Kosovo’s capital Pristna. The bus was destroyed during fierce fighting between Serbian forces and ethnic Albanian separatists over the weekend. Photo by Yannis Behrakis

A worker caught in a building fire waits for rescue in an office under construction in Mexico City. Four workers died, and six were injured after sparks from their soldering started a major fire on a large advertising banner hanging on the building. The building’s construction is one of several new office towers being built in the Santa Fe district of the capital. Photo by Sringer

German driver Michael Schumacher takes a curve with his new Ferrari 649 at the Maranello circuit. Schumacher wanted to test the new Ferrari without the definitive red colour

A Malaysian housewife waters her vegetable patch in front of her house in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. The Malaysian government has announced a «plant vegetables at home programme» as part of an effort to reduce vegetable imports and help the economy ailing from a sharp depreciation of its currency against the U.S. dollar.

File photo showing the space shuttle Columbia as it lifts off from launching pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, while an egret sits in a dead tree. The crew of seven astronuauts spent 16 days in space on a research mission. Photo by Pierre Ducharme

Workers on the Hibernia oil field supply ship, Mearsk Norseman, battle high seas while trying to attach tow cables to a 150,000 ton iceberg approximately 100 km northeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland April 29. Springtime brings icebergs into Newfoundland waters from Greenland and marine companies use iceberg «towing» to reduce the risk of icebergs colliding with the Hibernia oil production platform on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland in the region where the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. The ship will lasso the iceberg and try to exert enough force to divert it from its course

A young Southern Right Whale calf breaches the surface off the coastal resort of Hermanus. Every year large numbers of whales make their way from the icy Antarctic to the warmer South African waters to calve. Growing numbers of visitors flock to the sheltered bays on the Southern Cape coast to watch the antics of the huge marine mammals

A visitor walks through artist Richard Wilson’s sump oil filled room entitled «20:50» on display at the new Saatchi Gallery in London. Millionaire Charles Saatchi’s new BritArt gallery, which hopes to to attract up to 750,000 visitors a year, is housed on the banks of the River Thames in the ornate and cavernous halls of County Hall, the seat of London’s government from 1912 to 1987. The reclusive Saatchi, 59, who made his fortune in advertising with his brother Maurice, has over the past two decades amassed a collection of more than 2,000 pieces and almost single-handedly made the reputations of British artists Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin. PP03040041 Photo by Peter Macdiarmid

Javier Sotomayor of Cuba takes his run up in the qualifying round of the men’s high jump at the 6th IAAF World Athletics Championships. Sotomayor later won the gold medal during the August 6 finals with a jump of 2.37 metres. Photo by Ralf Stockhoff

A supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, waits up a tree for him to arrive at his closing election campaign rally in London. Photo by Hannah McKay

A Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority bus turns a corner November 10 advertising the ABC Television Special «The Beatles Anthology,» which will air. Eight MTA buses will advertise the special, and the soon to be released three double CD set of archival Beatles music

Belarussian reindeer breeder Nikolai Merkul watches one of his herd eating grain at a state farm near the village of Sergeyevichi, 60km north-east of Minsk. The reindeer are bred not for pulling festive sleighs but for the supposed healing properties of their antlers, which are ground into powders as medicine

A visitor to the Museum of Contemporary Art sits on the ground listening to an audio guide whilst looking at some of the 1967 Marilyn Monroe screenprints on paper from the exhibition ‘The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion’ in Sydney. The exhibition features works made during each period of the famous American artist Andy Warhol’s career, from sketches and snapshots to major paintings, as well as film and video

A woman smokes a cigarette indoors in Berlin. The European Commission is considering using worker safety legislation to ban smoking in cafes, bars and restaurants throughout the 15-member European Union, officials said September 18, 2003. The Commission has launched a series of measures to crack down on smoking, including a ban on tobacco advertising and the need to have graphic images of diseased lungs and other organs on cigarette packets to warn of the dangers of smoking