Tourists at the memorial to murdered Marxist revolutionary and former President of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Once considered 'safe', Burkina Faso (meaning 'land of the upright man') is suffering...

A wooden carving of a mounted Anglo-Saxon or Norman soldier near the town of Battle which is near the battlefield site of the Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066).

A wooden carving of a mounted Anglo-Saxon or Norman soldier near the town of Battle which is near the battlefield site of the Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066).

A wooden carving of an Anglo-Saxon or Norman soldier near the town of Battle which is near the battlefield site of the Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066).

A wooden carving of an Anglo-Saxon or Norman soldier near the town of Battle which is near the battlefield site of the Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066).

A wooden carving of an Anglo-Saxon or Norman soldier near the town of Battle which is near the battlefield site of the Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066).

Damage from Russian shelling on a sculpture at a Ukrainian WWII memorial.

A statue of Sir Robert Peel, former Conservative Prime Minister, in his home town of Bury where he was born in 1841. Local elections are due in the political constituency of Bury North on 27 April...

A bust of national poet, Taras Shevchenko, near a destroyed apartment buildings.

A monument in Lviv is protected by sandbags and a cage made out of scaffolding to avoid damage in case of a Russian airstrike.

The Bund Bull statue.

A woman poses for pictures while standing next to the Bund Bull statue.

The stained glass windows of the 14th century Latin Cathedral have been boarded up to protect them from damage. Work has been done to protect statues, Churches and other monuments across the city. The...

A bust of national poet, Taras Shevchenko, near a destroyed apartment buildings.

A sculpture of a fisherman's wife waiting on the shore, near the Fisheries Museum in Fecamp.

Workers load a cart with statues and busts of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at the Jingdezhen Porcelain Factory.

Workers load a cart with statues and busts of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at the Jingdezhen Porcelain Factory.

Workers load a cart with statues and busts of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at the Jingdezhen Porcelain Factory.

Workers load a cart with statues and busts of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at the Jingdezhen Porcelain Factory.

The scupture 'L'heure du Bain' (Bathing Time), by Dominique Denry on the beach at Fecamp near Etretat.

Workers load a cart with statues and busts of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at the Jingdezhen Porcelain Factory.

Members of the People's Movement of Ukraine (RUKH), a pro-Ukrainian, Soviet opposition political party, rally in Donetsk during the coal miner's strike. Despite Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika and Gla...

A golden statue of Zhou Enlai, the Father of the national liquor, stands in the town of Maotai in Renhuai. First favoured and promoted by former Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, Moutai Baijiu's fiery flavo...

Construction materials outside the UN's Palais des Nations where renovations continue.

A woman, standing beside the statue of Field Marshal Montgomery, holds a sign that reads: 'Support Ukraine, Save Europe!' during a solidarity protest in Whitehall against the Russian invasion of Ukrai...

A war damaged statue of the poet Taras Shevchenko in the town's central square. According to the acting mayor, as many as 200 people are missing, presumed dead, still lying under the rubble left after...

Volunteers worked to sandbag and protect a large monument in central Kyiv.

The defaced statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky lies in the undergrowth behind Kiev History Museum. From 1917 until his death in 1926 'Iron Felix' established and led the first state security organisations, o...

A monument overlooking Donetsk which commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union in The Great Patriotic War (World War Two). The landscape of this industrial city is studded with coal mines.

A statue of Norman Borlaug, the American agronomist credited with launching the 'Green Revolution', stands beside a small wheat plantation at the entrance of the International Maize and Wheat Improvem...

A statue of Norman Borlaug, the American agronomist credited with launching the 'Green Revolution', stands beside a small wheat plantation at the entrance of the International Maize and Wheat Improvem...

A woman sells books and trinkets in front of a statue of Ivan Fedorov.

People walk past the Taras Shevchenko Monument in downtown Lviv on a Thursday evening.

A statue of the Ukrainian poet and a national symbol Taras Shevchenko on Central Square with a bullet hole in its head.

The Kyiv Founder's Monument, which depicts three brothers called Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, who along with their sister Lybid were the founders of the medieval city of Kyiv, is bereft of visitors as the...

The Kyiv Founder's Monument, which depicts three brothers called Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, who along with their sister Lybid were the founders of the medieval city of Kyiv, is bereft of visitors as the...

The Kyiv Founder's Monument, which depicts three brothers called Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, who along with their sister Lybid were the founders of the medieval city of Kyiv, is bereft of visitors as the...

The Kyiv Founder's Monument, which depicts three brothers called Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv, who along with their sister Lybid were the founders of the medieval city of Kyiv, is bereft of visitors as the...

The Golden statue of Archangel Michael in Independence Square

Monument to Sholom Aleichem near the synagogue on Shota Rustaveli.

Religious statues wrapped to protect them from bombing at the Saints Peter and Paul Greek Catholic garrison church.

A statue in central Lviv is wrapped in plastic in an attempt to protect it before an expected Russian attack on the city.

Church windows and statues being boarded up and wrapped to protect them against potential damage from the war in the old city centre, an UNESCO heritage site.

Statues of Don Quixote, Sancho Panza and his donkey, on a roundabout on the outskirts of Campo de Criptana.

Statues of Don Quixote, Sancho Panza and his donkey, on a roundabout on the outskirts of Campo de Criptana.

Statues of angels watch over the altar in the Ermita de la Virgen de Criptana, a church on the outskirts of Campo de Criptana.

A fountain with a statue of Undine, a mythological water nymph.

Baroque architecture in Vienna.

Ukrainians from across northern England gathered around the statue of Queen Victoria in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester to stand in solidarity with Ukrainians in their homeland and to protest against...

Young people playing football in front of the site of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, cliffs where the huge Buddha statues stood until being destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

Ayz Ali (left) and Sabera (pink scarf) and their six children who are living inside this cave near the city of Bamiyan. The family arrived as refugees to the city 18 years ago and as they couldn't aff...

Offerings ready for a ceremony at a Buddhist pilgrimage site.

Small statues with marigold offering at a Buddhist pilgrimage site.

Small golden statue with marigold offering at a Buddhist pilgrimage site.

Small statues with marigold offerings at a Buddhist pilgrimage site.

The Founders of Kyiv fountain on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) with the Independence monument in the background.

Aerial view of the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv.

Statues for a wedding procession outside Motihari.

Statues for a wedding procession outside Motihari.

Statues of young women for a wedding procession outside Motihari.

Statues of Ganesha lined up for a wedding procession outside Motihari.

The Bohdan Khmelnytsky monument in honour of the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host, build in 1888, in Sophia Square in Kyiv.

The Batkyvshina Mat (Motherland) Monument in Kyiv.

The Bohdan Khmelnytsky monument in honour of the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host, build in 1888, in Sophia Square in Kyiv.

The Batkyvshina Mat (Motherland) Monument in Kyiv with a bridge over the Dnieper river in the foreground.

A statue of freed slaves on Place la Liberte on the historic Goree Island, infamous for its prison, the departure point for enslaved Africans being transported across the Atlanic Ocean to the plantati...

A statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, made for a school playground, in a sculptor's studio in Kagıthane.

A statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, made for a school playground, in a sculptor's studio in Kagıthane.

A sculptor cleans a freshly moulded statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, made for a school playground, in a his studio in Kagıthane.

A gold-coloured bust of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in a small scale workshop in the industrial Kagıthane district.

A statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk near the Topkapi Palace.

A statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk near the Topkapi Palace.

A sculptor cleans a freshly moulded statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, made for a school playground, in a his studio in Kagıthane.

A sculptor adds the head to a statue of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, made for a school playground, in a studio in Kagıthane.

Statues to be used in a wedding procession

Shepherds look after their flocks in front of the emtpy niche where the large Buddha statue used to stand before being detroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

A view of the Mangilik El Triumphal Arch (or Arch of Triumph) in Nur-Sultan. Mangilik El means 'Eternal Country' in Kazakh.

A statue of the former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev in the giant entrance hall of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The city's name was changed from Astana to the former pres...

Statues of horses at Kruglaya Ploshchad. The building in the back is the headquarters of KazMunayGaz, the state owned oil and gas company of Kazakhstan.

A statue of St Sebastian, a third century Christian saint who was martyred by being shot with arrows and then beaten to death, in a village in the Vale do Javari indigenous territory.

A bust of Vladmir Ilyich Lenin stands on a plinth in front of a government building (the 'House of the Soviets') in Tiraspol. Transnistria, officially part of Moldova, is an unrecognised breakaway st...

Two women wait at a public transport stop in the centre of Tiraspol. In the background, a statue of Alexander Suvorov, Russian count and general (1730 â€"1800).

The 'Stronger than Death' memorial commemorates the victims of 456 atomic bomb tests carried out by the Soviets at the nearby Polygon test site between 1949 and 1989. From 1949 until 1991 the Soviet g...

The larger, Western Buddha in Bamiyan. It stood at 55 metres high and is thought to have been carved around the 6th-7th century CE). The Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

The 'small Buddha' (eastern Buddha - 6th to 7th century CE) surrounded by caves inhabited by displaced people. The Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

People walking past the large, or 'Western' Buddha of Bamiyan (55 metres high, 6th-7th century CE) in Bamiyan in the snow. The Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

A statue of Igor Kurchatov in front of the town hall. Nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov (1903-1960), the 'father of the Soviet atomic bomb', led the secret atomic weapons programme in the testing area...

The larger, Western Buddha in Bamiyan. It stood at 55 metres high and is thought to have been carved around the 6th-7th century CE). The Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

The head of the smaller, 'eastern' Buddha. It stood at 38 metres high and is thought to have been carved around the 6th-7th century CE). The Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

The smaller 'eastern' Buddha in Bamiyan (6th - 7th century CE). The Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.