What’s going on around the world in photos.
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Taxis are seen here in Mexico in 2004. A Guatemalan taxi driver picked up a young woman passenger, but ended up with a surprise extra fare after he helped the woman deliver a baby girl in his cab, according to emergency officials in Guatemala City(AFP/File/Juan Barreto)
A Bulgarian owner of a Trabant poses in front of his car while taking part in a concours d’elegance along with 49 other Trabants in Beloslav, Bulgaria(AFP)
German Science and Education Minister Edelgard Bulmahn points as she stands in front of the former summer residence of late German-born scientist Albert Einstein in the village of Caputh west of Berlin May 22, 2005. Einstein lived in Caputh from 1929 to 1932. Germany is celebrating ‘Einstein Year’ remembering some of the key breakthroughs which led to his theory of relativity Einstein made 100 years ago. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
May 23: Newly married couples wait in line during a ceremony in Dushanbe as 100 couples of underprivileged families of the four corners of Tajikistan were married over the weekend in the Tajik capital Dushanbe(AFP)
May 24: By the barrel : A Lebanese school boy sits on the barrel of a tank left behind by Israel’s disbanded proxy militia, the South Lebanon Army(SLA), in preparation for celebrations of the fifth anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from south Lebanon. (AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
Aymara dance : Aymara women dance during celebrations marking the ‘Jesus, Lord of the Great Power’ festival in La Paz.
In the virtual garden : Two kids play in the virtual garden trying to catch a rabbit in the House of the Future exhibit at the museum of communication in Lisbon. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)
Far-right : A far-right French Front national sticker calling to a ‘No’ vote on the 29 May 2005 French referendum on the European Constitution, adorns an advertising poster in Paris. (AFP/Joel Saget)
Hamas march : A Palestinian boy looks at a Hamas militant’s weapon as he marches in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
May 23: Young monk : An Indian Buddhist boy monk prays with others as they attend a special prayer ceremony at the Maha Bodhi Society in Bangalore. (AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)
May 23: During the strike : An indigenous woman stands before a closed store in downtown La Paz as the country observes a national strike. (AFP/Ali Burafi)
May 19: This photo provided by rancher Shane Jennings shows a 5-legged, 6-hooved calf that was born last week on a ranch east of Tucumcari, N.M. The calf, a Limousin heifer owned by Orlando Romero of Sapello, N.M., was delivered naturally and is in otherwise good physical condition. (AP Photo/Shane Jennings)
An Iraqi boy holds a Japanese flag at the opening of a new primary school in the southern city of Samawa May 24, 2005. A Japanese military contingent is supplying humanitarian assistance to Iraq, working on projects that include building new schools and repairing damaged infrastructure. REUTERS/Mohammad Ameen
A boy stands next to his older brother laying in a hospital bed at the Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad, following last night’s car bomb in Mahmudiyah. Eleven people were killed, many of them children, when a car bomb struck a Shiite prayer room in Mahmudiyah, a lawless ethnically-mixed town in an area just south of Baghdad dubbed the Triangle of Death.(AFP/Karim Sahib)
You don’t have to be at a think-tank to come to that conclusion.
May 24: A man cleans as a US soldier walks past following a car bomb in central Baghdad. A London-based think-tank noted that the situation in Iraq was also creating a recruitment effect for terrorist groups, an aspect which remained ‘the proverbial elephant in the living room’ of US foreign policy(AFP)
