Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Events in pics Part 6



 

A Papuanese tribal man places his ballot in a traditional bag in a remote polling station of the Indonesia election

A tribal man casts his vote in a ballot box made of woven tree bark call 'Noken' in Jayawijaya, Papua province, Indonesia.


A donkey pulls the plough of an Arab farmer holding the reins

A 75-year-old farmer tends his fields in the village of Lubban, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus.


A bronze statue of King Louis XIV at the Coubertin Foundation in Saint Remy Les Chevreuse, near Paris.

A huge bronze statue of King Louis XIV is cleaned at the Coubertin Foundation in Saint Remy Les Chevreuse, France, prior to being moved back to the palace at Versailles.


Holy Week in Izalco

Faithful take part in a Via Crucis, Way of the Cross, procession during Holy Week in Izalco, El Salvador. (AP Photo)


Easter Holy Week

Penitents make a 'dancing of dead' during an Easter Holy Week procession in Spain. (AP Photo)


 

Andrea Phillips holds a photo of her husband, Capt. Richard Phillips, whose being held hostage by Somali pirates. A former crew member on the American ship attacked by pirates off Africa said the ship's captain is exactly the kind of person who would offer himself in exchange for the crew's safety. 




A ribbon seal (Histriophoca fasciata) on a slab of Arctic ice.

 


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