06 ธันวาคม, 2552

Pictures of the Week.จาก TIMEs

Fanning the Flames
A mask representing former British Prime Minister Tony Blair burns in effigy outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, on the fifth day of the Iraq war inquiry

On the Ground
A United States Marine from the 4th Light Armored Recon walks toward a LAV fighting vehicle in Khan Nashin, in the volatile Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Stripes
Cadets in the balcony stand for the national anthem before a speech by President Barack Obama in Eisenhower Hall at the United States Military Academy at West Point

Dry
Riverboats sit on the bottom of a lake that forms part of the Amazon River system, on the outskirts of Manaus, Brazil. After a near-record rainy season in the first half of the year, the level of the Amazon Basin's rivers has dropped to one of the lowest levels in the past century.

A Tragic Past
Mourners take part in a reburial ceremony for famine victims in Ukraine's western town of Lviv. During the third wave of the famine in 1946-47 in the USSR, historians believe up to a million died as Soviet authorities imposed heavy harvest quotas and requisitioned grain. About 600 famine victims were reburied in Lviv

For the Feast
The blood of a cow slaughtered for the celebrations of the first day of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha flows over a stone path in the Rhodope Mountain village of Ribnovo, Bulgaria. The annual festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, marks the end of the Hajj.

Burden
An Afghan man carries a sack of coal at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees distribution site for winter supplies in Kabul

Her Majesty
Britain's Queen Elizabeth attends a cultural presentation at the Queen's hall as part of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago