A student of Sociedad Balear Hairdressing Academy works on the hair of a woman sitting on a park bench in Havana June 29, 2010. Students of the hairdressing academy give free hairdos to volunteers walking past during their practical lessons.
A boy dances in the rain during a heavy tropical shower in a street of Havana July 19, 2010.
Ahmed Almaktoum of the UAE unloads his shotgun during the qualifying round of the men's trap competition of the shooting event at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 10, 2008.
A street entertainer waits for tourists in Havana August 25, 2009.
Dead fish lie decomposing May 2 in the marsh on the boundaries of the "Donana" nature reserve a week after 5 million cubic metres of acid toxic fluid spilled from a nearby mine burning vegetation and killing vegetation in the area. The authorities are still debating on how and when they will clean and contain the pollution from spreading in the area.
US President Bill Clinton (R) walks behind the coffin with the body of late King Hassan II of Morocco during his burial ceremony in Rabat July 25. The monarch died of a heart attack aged 70 and thousands of people took to the streets of the capital of Morocco, Rabat, to grieve the death of their king after 38 years on the throne.
A labourer cools down under water from a supply pump in a truck on the outskirts of Havana, September 5, 2013.
A man comes out of his shoe repair shop in Havana April 12, 2010.
A man looks at a creation by Cuban artist Fabelo Hung while walking his dog along Havana's seafront boulevard 'El Malecon' during the 11th Biennial contemporary art exhibition May 14, 2012. The creation, a panoramic picture of the 'Malecon' with inserted images of icebergs floating near, is titled 'Fresh Air'. The Havana Biennial is a major event for contemporary art, attracting artists and curators from all over the world and runs from May 11 to June 11, 2012.
A fuel oil stained bird flaps its wings on the devastated coast of the
Cies Islands natural reserve in the Spanish northwestern region of
Galicia, December 12, 2002. Smit International, the Dutch shipping and
salvage firm that helped raise Russia's Kursk submarine, said on
Wednesday it wants to propose a plan to salvage oil from the wreck of
the tanker Prestige. Slicks of toxic fuel oil from the Prestige - which
split off the northwestern Spanish coast on November 13, then snapped
in two and sank six days later - have devastated the region and what is
left in the ship's hold remains an environmental hazard.
THIRD COMMANDO BRIGADE BRITISH ROYAL MARINES ARRIVE WITH DISPLACED
IRAQI CITIZENS IN THE PORT OF UMM-QASR IN SOUTHERN IRAQ.
A Palestinian woman looks from her house hit by heavy machine gunfire
from Israeli troops in Al Azza refugee camp opposite the Paradise Hotel
in Bethlehem on October 28, 2001. Former U.S. senator George Mitchell
said the numbers of people killed in the latest escalation of
Israeli-Palestinian violence were "shockingly high" and urged the
international community to take urgent steps to persuade the two sides
to return to peace talks.
Brazil's Ronaldo walks past French players as they celebrate their World Cup victory after the final whistle of the final July 12. France won the match 3-0 to become world champions.
Voters stand in a queue outside a polling station to cast their ballot in Thimpu in this March 24, 2008 file photo. Respect for authority is inculcated from an early age in the secluded Himalayan kingdom, where the king is revered as a Buddha and democracy seemed almost an experiment too far. Yet democracy came to Bhutan in March 2008 on the insistence of its much-loved fourth king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who decided people should choose their leaders, whether they wanted to or not.
A woman and her dog look out of a window in Havana January 15, 2013.
Lena Schoneborn of Germany crosses the finish line to win the women's running 3000m event of the modern pentathlon competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, August 22, 2008.
Youths compete for the highest splash as they jump into the water at Havana's port July 2, 2009.
A Libyan boy stands inside the Moulay Mohammed Mosque in the Libyan capital Tripoli on February 2, 2001 during Friday prayers. Libyan leader Gaddafi said on Thursday he had evidence that a Libyan secret agent jailed for life for the Lockerbie airliner bombing was innocent."I have proven evidence that he is innocent and I'll reveal the evidence on Monday," he told reporters at his official residence.
FILE PHOTO 17OCT98 - Cuban President takes a glass during a ceremony in the Oporto Bourse where he and other Ibero-American leaders were made members of the Port Wine Brotherhood October 17 ahead of the start of the VIII Ibero-American summit. Heads of state and government from Latin America, Spain and Portugal held their annual meeting in the picturesque city of Oporto October 17-18.
Brazilian midfielder Rivaldo lies near the corner flag in the closing
moments of the World Cup Finals match between Brazil and Turkey June 3,
2002. Former World Player of the Year Rivaldo will learn on Wednesday
whether he will be punished for his theatrics in Brazil's opening World
Cup match against Turkey on Monday. The World Cup disciplinary
committee had been scheduled to study Rivaldo's actions, which outraged
the Turkish team, on Tuesday to see if the Brazilian was guilty of
simulating a foul. FIFA had announced before the tournament that they
would clamp down on any player guilty of simulation.
A rainbow is seen at dawn as clouds form a tropical storm over Havana, November 20, 2009.
Tourists sit in front of their Daiquiris beside a life-size bronze statue of U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway at his regular spot at The Floridita bar in Havana, July 1, 2010. The Daiquiri was the Noble-prize winning writer's usual drink when he lived in Cuba between 1940 and shortly before his death in 1961.
Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, stands at the emigration control at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport February 17, 2013. Sanchez says she plans to make good use of "my victory" when she leaves on an 80-day-tour of more than a dozen countries on Sunday. Sanchez, considered Cuba's pioneer in social networking, told Reuters on Thursday that she would visit the headquarters of Google, Twitter and Facebook, and travel to Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, the United States, Spain, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and other nations. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
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A boxer rests as a Dachshund pup approaches it in Sagua La Grande, province of Santa Clara in central Cuba, July 18, 2009.
A Marines of the U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Fox Company
"Raiders" mans a machine gun and takes cover from Iraqi fire as British
artillery rounds explode during the early stage of the push into
southern Iraq take control over the main port of Umm Qasr in Southern
Iraq on March 21, 2003. U.S. Marines briefly raised the Stars and
Stripes flag over the new port area of Umm Qasr on Friday after facing
tougher than expected resistance in and around the southern Iraq port.
IRAQI CHILD WEARS A HELMET FROM A MEMBER OF 15TH MARINE EXPEDITIONARY
UNIT (MEU) FOX COMPANY 'RAIDERS' IN NASSIRIYA.
Smoke rises over the Danube river in the northern Serbian town of Novi Sad May 4, while an oil refinery burns after being repeatedly targeted by NATO air raids. Yugoslavia accused NATO of an ecology catastrophe over Serbia as the town lives under a black smoke umbrella in past week.
A hotel guest looks out from a broken window of the besieged Trident-Oberoi Hotel in in Mumbai November 28, 2008. Guests trapped by Islamist militants in a luxury hotel were being evacuated room by room on Friday as the end of a siege appeared imminent, while commandos stormed a nearby Jewish centre where Israeli hostages were held.
A fighting bull attack a wooden barrier as it charges through central
Pamplona during the fifth bull run of the San Fermin festival on July
11, 2002. A pack of six fighting bulls runs through the centre of the
town to the bullring every morning during the week long festival made
popular by US writer Ernest Hemingway.
An Indian soldier walks in front a government building on fire after an attack in Srinagar April 6, 2005. Militants attacked and set on fire on Wednesday the heavily guarded complex housing passengers due to take a historic bus across divided Kashmir, witnesses said.
A dog rests under a Soviet Sau-100 tank, used by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1961, displayed in Havana August 24, 2009.
A building receives tank fire from U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)
tanks beside the port of Umm-Qasr in southern Iraq on March 23, 2003 as
pockets of Republican Guard resistance remain in a residential area
beside the port. Some U.S. soldiers are missing in the fighting in Iraq
and possibly being held as prisoners, Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld said Sunday.
A U.S. Marine from the Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) sleeps under a
painting of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the VIP lounge of the port of
Umm-Qasr in Southern Iraq on March 24, 2003. A defiant President Saddam
Hussein said on Monday invaders sent to topple him were trapped in Iraq
after five days of war, but the U.S. commander of the invasion said his
forces were closing in fast on Baghdad.
Tibetan exiles hold the "Tibetan Olympics 2008" torch during a symbolic relay in the northern hill town of Dharamsala May 22, 2008. A handful of exiled Tibetans in India began competing on Thursday in what they said were the "Tibetan Olympics", an event high on symbolism meant to mock China, the host of the real Summer Games in August.
A street entertainer waits for tourists in Havana October 10, 2009.
A Ukrainian girl, Olga, 2, victim of the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster in Chernobyl, walks with a Cuban physiotherapist at the Pediatric Hospital in Tarara, outside Havana, March 23, 2010. For the past 20 years, Cuba has been providing free health treatment to around 24,000 child victims of the Chernobyl explosion in Ukraine.
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Festival revelers engage in the annual "Tomatina" tomato fight August 23, 2000 in Bunyol in eastern Spain. Some 12 tonnes of tomatoes are used in this fight which attracts thousands of visitors to the village of Bunyol.
A vintage car drives by a mural showing Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro (R), national hero Jose Marti and revolution leader Che Guevara (L) in Havana August 13, 2009. Castro marked his 83rd birthday on Thursday with a gloomy warning about the global economic crisis, which is hitting his country hard, and a vow to "carry on."
Indian army soldiers take position during a gun battle at the Taj Mahal hotel (seen in the background) in Mumbai November 29, 2008. Operations by Indian commandos to dislodge Islamist militants at Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel ended on Saturday, Indian television channels quoted officials as saying. The hotel came under heavy gunfire and flames leaped out of the building shortly before the announcement.
A Fatah supporter attends a rally marKing the 36th anniversary of its foundation in Gaza December 31, 2000. The separate killings of the son of anti-Arab rabbi Meir Kahane and a senior official of the Palestinian Fatah faction on Sunday raised fears of revenge attacks that could seal the fate of a last-gasp U.S. peace bid.
Libyan President Muamar Gaddafi (2R) speaks to reporters beside the acquitted man of the Lockerbie airliner bombing trial, Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima (2R) in Tripoli, February 1, 2001. Gaddafi said on Thursday he had evidence that a Libyan secret agent jailed for life for the Lockerbie airliner bombing was innocent. A special Scottish court set up in the Netherlands sentenced Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, 49, to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering 270 people in the Lockerbie airliner bombing over Scotland in 1988.
British troops with the 6 Supply Regiment Royal Logistic Corps remain
in their positions wearing respirators during a nerve gas attack
simulation in Camp Fox in the desert in Kuwait on February 28, 2003.
The 6 Regiment is a multifunctional group that provides all logistical
support to the British force deployed in Kuwait.
Iraqi civilians caught in crossfire are attended by a medic from the
U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit Fox Company "Raiders" as they push into
southern Iraq to take control of the main port of Umm Qasr on March 21,
2003. US and British ground forces launched assaults into Iraq in a bid
to topple Saddam Hussein.
A PALESTINIAN REFUGEE WOMAN CARRIES A WATER CONTAINER ON HER HEAD IN
KHAN YOUNIS REFUGEE CAMP IN THE GAZA STRIP.
A Palestinian refugee woman carries a water container on her head in
the Khan Younis refugee camp near the Kefar Yam Jewish settlement on
the Meditterranean sea in the south of the Gaza strip November 12,
2001. Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant in a raid on a West
Bank village on Monday, a day after Israel said it was delaying
withdrawal from two Palestinian towns reoccupied last month. At least
702 Palestinians and 188 Israelis have been killed in more than a year
of violence.
Lightning is seen during a storm over Havana June 17, 2013. The storm was caused by Tropical Depression 2 which formed on Monday in the western Caribbean Sea, off Belize, according to NASA weather reports.
School children play with their teacher during recess at Martires de Tarara primary school in Havana November 24, 2009. Universal free education is one of the pillars of the socialist society built in Cuba since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.
Tribute to Desmond Boylan
A selection of images taken by former Reuters photographer Desmond Boylan, who passed away this week.