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Wheel chair race for Kabul’s disabled. Several of the contestants cheated by letting themselves being pushed. Mir Aghan, no. 7, lost both his legs, when he stepped on a land mine at the age of 13. In the fight against the Soviet Union he was a…

The entire Kabul mirrors the fact that the city has witnessed alternating wars and conflicts during the past 25 years. Since December 2001 more than 2,2 million Afghans have returned from lifes as refugees outside Afghanistan. They believe in the…

A company has mounted a billboard of 14,886 square feet on its office building to congratulate the Copenhageners on a new public swimming facility at the Danish capital's harbor. In the foreground people are jumping from a platform.

The old Gefion Fountain in Copenhagen is disassembled for restoration, and its statues are to be descaled. To remove the statues from their bases it is necessary to get inside them and locate the bolts that have held them since 1908.

Protesters in front of the Danish parliament show their anger at the government's plan to close Christiania, a so-called 'free community' in Copenhagen that was founded in 1970 by hippies who wanted to lead an alternative life.

Drunk festival goers have organized a sliding competition at 5 a.m. Saturday morning in the common shower room at the Roskilde Festival (a music festival lasting 4 days and attracting more than 100,000 visitors).

Sweden's foreign minister Anna Lindh died on the morning of September 11, 2003, after doctors had struggled through the night to save her life. The day before she had been stabbed in a department store in central Stockholm. People all over Sweden…

Golf shop window.

Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct.2003.

Children in a state sponsored orphanage in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, practice for a parade that they are going to perform at the city hall.