Browse Items (1062 total)

Clothes for sale hang along a sidewalk in central Gaza City. After the election of Hamas, which has called for the destruction of the Isaeli state, much of the international community cut of financial exchange with the impoverished Palestinian…

Masked Hamas militants prepare to hold a press conference in Beit Lahiya, northen Gaza Strip to discuss the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in July 2006. The people of Gaza started 2006 by electing the militant group Hamas into power in…

Chinese commuters look out from the windows of a passing bus at the lights of the Gate of Heavenly Peace which is the entrance to Beijing's Forbidden City Feb. 15, 2006.

Onlookers gather near the body of an Afghan man, tied up in a plastic sheet and lying in the street, at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 12, 2006. The man was killed when the suicide car bomb exploded into the convoy…

A large flock of sheep blocks a once landslide-covered road in the mountains of the Kashmir region of Pakistan near the village Sharian Sept. 23, 2006.

Young Afghan boys play on a park swing set up inside a cemetery in Kabul.

A sumo wrestler tosses his opponent from the circle during a grand championship match in Tokyo, Japan in May 2006.

A tiger walks past the remains of his lunch attached to a chain inside his cage at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan.

Afghans gather on a Kabul hillside for a kite flying competition at dusk March 10, 2006. Kite flying, once banned by the Taliban, is a popular spring pastime.

Nuba Mountains, Sudan, 2002. Nuba children saying goodbye.