Sea of students wearing umbrella hats in the national colours during Taiwan's National Day celebrations.

Sea of students wearing coloured umbrella hats as part of Taiwan's National Day celebrations.

Students wearing umbrella hats in the national colours as part of Taiwan's National Day celebrations.

Students wearing coloured umbrella hats take part in Taiwan's National Day celebrations, with the Presidential Palace in the background.

A snowy Sunday, the day of prayer for the Amish community. Families come to church by horse and carriage. After putting out the horses, they complete the last part of the journey on foot, the women an...

A snowy Sunday, the day of prayer for the Amish community. Families come to church by horse and carriage. After putting out the horses, they complete the last part of the journey on foot, the women an...

Amish horse-drawn carriages on a three hour drive through the snow from Washington DC. The carriages have no rear-lights. “Our lives depend on God, not on a worldly symbol," says one of the drivers.

Empty space is all that is left where a real estate agent used to have an office in Oslo. The economic crisis forced over 40 such offices to close overnight in Norway as one chain went bankrupt. The h...

Children trying to shield their eyes from dust whipped up by the wind. Shenyang is one of the main heavy industry bases and most polluted cities in China. Today the factories are not profitable any mo...

Winter rain on the vast empty square in front of Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum.

Cyclo in typical winter rain passing the Municipal Theatre, the former French colonial-era Opera House.

Commuters on their way to work, surprised by sudden monsoon rain fall as they disembark from long-tailed river ferry boat on the Chao Phraya River.

Chechen fighters in snow-white outfits in the mountain village of Shali, south-west of Grozny.

A Chechen girl collects water from a freezing mountain stream.

An Albanian boy, with an umbrella to protect himself from the heat, walks through the ruins of Mitrovice.

The three Drin hydro-electric reservoirs serve as the only access to many other villages, some of which are a further three hours walk from the lakes.