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Inder Singh (R), 14, and his bride Ram Bai, 13, stand in a temple during their marriage ceremony in Rajgarh district, about 155 km (96 miles) northeast of central Indian city of Bhopal in this May 11, 2005 file photo. India’s top court has ordered human rights bodies in three states to inquire into reports of hundreds of child marriages despite a ban on the centuries-old tradition. Photo by Raj Patidar/Reuters
The giant spider ‘Maman’ by artist Louise Bourgeois is on display outside the national gallery in Ottawa, Canada Friday, May 13, 2005. (AP Photo/CP, Jonathan Hayward)
This NASA image taken from the International Space Station in 2002, shows the La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina Island on the Galapagos. Cumbre volcano spewed rivers of lava and sent columns of steam seven kilometers into the air, officials said.(AFP/NASA/File)
Georgia National Guard Spc. Dale Dean wipes tears from his eyes Friday, May 13, 2005, as he holds his 14-month-old son Jozh Dean during a festival for the guard’s 48th Brigade Combat Team at Fort Stewart, Ga. All 4,300 members of the brigade are due to deploy to Iraq in the next few days in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)
File picture of Morou Ouattara (R), Forces nouvelles commander for Zone East-Bouna, Bamba and Sinali, speaks with Colonel Major Mangou Philippe, commander of Ivorian armed forces, following a military conference on the disarmament process 07 May 2005 at the Hotel President of Yamoussoukro. Government and rebel forces in Ivory Coast signed here an agreement on disarming their fighters in a new step towards resolving the protracted crisis in the west African state, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.(AFP/File/Kampbel)
A shopkeeper shows a badge of the main Ethiopian opposition party CUD (Coalition for Unity and Democracy) 14 May 2005 in the old Mercato (market) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopians prepared to go to the polls in hotly contested weekend elections as the opposition and a human rights watchdog renewed allegations of ongoing government harassment.(AFP/Marco Longari)
A traffic warden lays flowers at the site of Thursday’s car-bomb explosion in the New Baghdad neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, May 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
France’s Sebastien Loeb and his co-driver Daniel Elena make a splash in their Citroen Xsara WRC 2005 in the Troodos mountains of Foini, Cyprus in a special stage on the second day of Cyprus Rally on Saturday, May 14, 2005. Some 54 teams will take part in the three-day rally covering 1,063,92 kilometers (661 miles) across southern and central Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Giant wind turbines are silhouetted against the sky at sunset near the Spanish town of Honrubia de la Cuesta May 2, 2005. Spain is the world’s second-largest producer of wind power after Germany. The growing renewable energy industry has created thousands of new jobs and the government projects wind power capacity will nearly triple by 2011 to help meet demand and reach Kyoto Protocol targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A U.N. meeting in Germany next week will start a marathon bid to extend the U.N.’s Kyoto protocol on fighting global warming and persuade the United States and developing nations to take part from 2012. (Victor Fraile/Reuters)
Two Indian boys look towards the sky at dawn near Madras. The travel firm Thomas Cook will offer ‘sun and surgery’ package deals to India for patients tired of waiting for operations in Britain’s National Health System (NHS), a newspaper reported.(AFP/File /Dibyangshu Sarkar)
India potter : An Indian potter gives the final touches to a batch of earthenware pots at her workshop on the outskirts of Amritsar. (AFP)