1

Gifu, Japan: Fishermen control their trained cormorants from traditional wooden boats on the opening day of the fishing season. Cormorant fishing has been the traditional way of catching sweetfish in Japan for 1,300 years

2

Serbian parliamentary elections

3

Switzerland

Battle of the Queens

4

Shanghai, China: A senior citizen plays the accordion in a park

5

Haiti: A child walks past a hardware store at the Cite Soleil slum

6

Cocoa, Florida

100-acre brush fire

7

China: Visitors check out the ancient sex artifacts on display at an exhibition

8

Philippines: A worker arranges crates of beer

9

Irrawaddy, Burma: A man finds the body of a child

10

Macedonia:

electoral rally

11

Melbourne, Australia: Residents at the Corpus Christi Catholic home embrace the physical and mental sides of swordplay in an effort to stay healthy

12

Jakarta

protest in front of the presidential palace

13

Burma: A young survivor

14

traditional Bavarian costume

15

Shwayfat, Lebanon: Pigeons fly over the town

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Shwayfat, Lebanon

Druze activist

executed