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The Year 2008 in Photographs
Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano,

as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly

above erupting volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them. Picture taken May 2, 2008.

(REUTERS/Carlos Gutierrez)

Kartoula, 14, a refugee from Sudan's western Darfur region, enters a distribution centre to receive monthly food

rations at Djabal camp near Gos Beida in eastern Chad, June 5, 2008. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) #

The Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center on May 31, 2008 in Cape Canaveral,

Florida, en route to the International Space Station on a construction mission. (Eliot J. Schechter /Getty Images) #

An aerial view of floods caused by Tropical Storm Hanna is seen in Gonaives, Haiti on September 3, 2008. Haiti's civil protection office

said 37 of the 90 Hanna-related deaths had occurred in the port city of Gonaives. (REUTERS/Marco Dormino/Minustah) #

A U.S. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand

Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

The hand of a dead body lies on the ground amongst the rubble of the earthquake ravaged town May 15, 2008 in Beichuan,

Sichuan province, China. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

Italian soccer club AC Milan's newly signed player Ronaldinho of Brazil attends his presentation at San Siro

Stadium in Milan, Italy on July 17, 2008. (REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo) # (for those who claim this image has

been digitally altered, is a larger detail of the photo - the halo is from backlighting, not photoshop)

The right hand of a young visitor is silhouetted against a jellyfish exhibition hall at the Ocean Park aquarium-amusement

complex in Hong Kong on January 20, 2008. (REUTERS/Victor Fraile)

Buildings and debris are seen floating in the Cedar River against a railroad bridge Saturday, June 14, 2008, in Cedar

Rapids, Iowa. Days after it rose out of its banks on its way to record flooding in Cedar Rapids, the Cedar River has

forced at least 24,000 people from their homes, emergency officials said. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Kenyan athletes train at Eldoret's Chepkoilel stadium on May 30, 2008 in preparation for the upcoming Beijing

Olympic Games 2008. Recently the Kenyan athletics federation announced the setting up of two training

camps in Eldoret and Nairobi to cater for a selected team of 120 athletes ahead of the Beijing Olympic trials on

July 4-5. (TONY KARUMBA/AFP/ Getty Images)

Time exposure of the Swiss mountain resort of Grindelwald next to the north face of the Eiger mountain, seen

on January 10, 2008. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)

Department of Water and Power workers are emptying out bales of plastic balls in the Ivanhoe reservoir in

Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2008. Department of Water and Power released about 400,000 black plastic

4-inch balls as the first installment of approximately 3 million to form a floating cover over 7 acres of the reservoir

to protect the water from sunlight. When sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe's water,

the carcinogen bromate can form. (Irfan Khan/AP)

A man dressed as a tiger carries a small whip made from rope in Zitlala, Guerrero state, Mexico, Monday,

May 5, 2008. Every year, inhabitants of this town participate in a violent ceremony to ask for a good harvest and

plenty of rain, at the end of the ceremony men battle each other with their whips while wearing tiger

masks and costumess. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A baseball is illuminated by the sun as Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Ted Lilly throws during the first inning of a game against

the Milwaukee Brewers Saturday, Sept. 27 2008, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Darren Hauck)

Children of slain Philadelphia police sergeant Stephen Liczbinski, Amber and Steve embrace after their father's

funeral mass on the steps of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 9, 2008

Sergeant Liczbinski was gunned down as he investigated a bank robbery on May 3. (REUTERS/Tim Shaffer)

A policeman carries a child away during a gun battle in Tijuana, in Mexico's state of Baja California, January 17, 2008.

A shootout on Thursday, after police agents moved in on a drug cartel group, left four people injured and forced

the emergency evacuation of a school in Tijuana, according to the local media. (REUTERS/Jorge Duenes)

A man stands in front of the Marriott hotel after a bomb blast in Islamabad September 20, 2008. A truck bomb was

detonated outside the Marriott in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday, killing at least 54, injuring at least 266

and starting a fire which swept through the hotel. (REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood)

Locals and tourists walk around the Dutch ship Artemis which ran aground on the beach of les Sables d'Olonne,

southern French Britanny, western France, March 10, 2008. The boat had been driven onto the coast by the

wind blowing more than 130 km per hour. (REUTERS/Stephane Mahe)

A fire rages out of control at the backlot filled with movie sets at Universal Studios in Universal City, California,

12 miles (19 km) from downtown Los Angeles June 1, 2008. A portion of the set used in Steven Spielberg's film

"War of the Worlds" including a jet airplane is shown foreground. (Fred Prouser /Reuters)

Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the world's first man to fly with a jet-powered fixed-wing apparatus strapped to his back,

flies during his first official demonstration, on May 14, 2008 above Bex, Switzerland. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/ Getty Images)

Cyclone Nargis victims huddle in torrential rain as they await assistance in Dedaye Township, southwest of Yangon,

Myanmar on May 19, 2008. Political resistance to outside aid and a slow response by the government worsened an

already devastating situation - an estimated 146,000 people lost their lives. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Tear gas cannisters fired by Israeli soldiers fall from the sky on Palestinian and Israeli peace activists during a

protest agaisnt the construction of Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah,

on June 6, 2008. (Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images)

Maasai warriors cover a battle field as they clash with bows and arrows with members of the Kalenjin tribe in the

Kapune hill overlooking the Olmelil valley located in the Transmara District in Western Kenya on March 01, 2008.

The Massai, the Kalenjin and the Kisii tribes have recently clashed over ongoing land disputes that erupted after

botched local elections during the general elections held in Kenya in December of 2007. Over twenty warriors

from the tribes have been killed in bow and arrow battles near the borders of these tribes in the last couple

of months. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images) #

Firefighters battle a blaze at the Namdaemun gate, one of South Korea's most historic sites, in central Seoul, on

February 11, 2008. An arsonist started the fire, destroying the gate - the oldest wooden structure in Seoul, first

constructed in 1398 and rebuilt in 1447. (Kim Jae-hwan/AFP/ Getty Images)

The head of a male student, still alive, trapped under the debris is pictured at the scene of the church school

that collapsed on the outskirts of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, November 7, 2008. At least 30 people were killed

when the three-story La Promesse school building collapsed while class was in session and some of the walls and

debris crushed neighboring homes in the Nerettes community near Port-au-Prince. (REUTERS/Joseph Guyler Delva)

Wounded Palestinians lay near Reuters news agency reporter Fadel Shaana's car after it was hit by an Israeli missile on

April 16, 2008 in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian cameraman working for the Reuters news

service and two other civilians, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

A rescue helicopter prepares to hoist aboard surviving Japanese climber Hideaki Nara near the summit of Aoraki Mount

Cook in New Zealand on December 5, 2008. A Japanese climber stranded for six days just below the summit had died

just hours before rescuers reached him and a compatriot, local media reported. The two Japanese climbers were forced to

huddle in a tent 50 meters below the 3,754-meter (12,349 feet) peak, as poor weather and high winds foiled attempts

to rescue the men by helicopter. (REUTERS/The Christchurch Press/John Kirk-Anderson)

A Kenyan boy screams as he sees kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum

of Nairobi 17 January 2008. Hundreds of police who had earlier clashed with supporters of Kenya's opposition leader

Raila Odinga at the entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and did a house to house search for protestors.

(WALTER ASTRADA/AFP/ Getty Images)

An Afghan refugee child hides from a dust storm behind a tent at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan on October

7, 2008. Over a quarter million Afghans have returned home this year from Pakistan and Iran, many of them reportedly

due to economic and security uncertainties faced in exile, the United Nations said.

(MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/Getty Images)

The Guizer Jarl is silhouetted as members of his Viking Squad walk around a long boat with burning torches

during the annual Up Helly Aa Festival, in Lerwick, Shetland Islands on January 29th, 2008. Up Helly Aa celebrates

the influence of the Scandinavian vikings in the Shetland Islands. (Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images)

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