Supporters of Chilean presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet of the Socialist Party. Photo by Ivan Alvarado

Dancers from Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo perform during the show ‘Pink Floyd Ballet’ in the northern Spanish town of Santander. Photo by Victor Fraile

People watch roosters fight during a celebration for the New Year of the Dai minority in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province. Photo by Wong Campion

A young girl walks with two bags of cold drinking water in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo by Jonathan Ernst

An Iranian boy stands behind the paintings he sells inside Tehran’s bazaar. Photo by Damir Sagolj

A participant with a fancy hat enjoys the Christopher Street Day festival in Berlin in Berlin. Photo by Christian Charisius

Belarussians attend confession in the garden of a catholic church during the Icon of Gods Mother festival in Belarussian village Budslav. Photo by Vasily Fedosenko

A Muslim woman mourns on a fountain during a vigil for London’s bomb attack victims in Trafalgar Square in central London. Photo by Dylan Martinez

A HIV/AIDS patient stands in her hut in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri. Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri

A visitor points at a name engraved on a wall of the Shoah Memorial in Paris. Photo by Charles Platiau

An angry Jewish settler boy looks out from inside a synagogue as Israeli policemen and solider storm inside in the Neve Dekalim settlement in the Gush Katif. Photo by Damir Sagolj

Pope John Paul II looks at a one of the two doves released by children from the window of his private apartments at the Vatican. Photo by Max Rossi

Giant waves crash over onlookers washing them off the sea wall of Cape Town’s Kalk Bay harbour. Photl by Philip Massie

A reveler dances during Carnival in Port of Spain’s Queen’s Park Savannah in Trinidad and Tobago. Photo by Jorge Silva

A group of about 100 African penguins are released into the sea near Cape Town. Photo by Mike Hutchings