SELECTED PHOTOS
In this section, The Ambassadors Magazine presents some of the most startling photos of our age that address or highlight issues affecting cultures and civilizations. We encourage photographers to submit their work for publication in this "photo journalism" section.
The 45 days old conjoined twins Tatiana and Krista enjoy a peaceful nap at British Columbia's
Women's Hospital and Health Centre in Vancouver.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao walks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during
a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (AFP).
Madonna, with daughter Lourdes, son Rocco, and adopted 1-year-old boy, David Banda
Photo of young George W. Bush, with his father in 1946, with a shirt with the signature "Y" for Yale University.
Since 1941, five generations of Bushes have gone to Yale University.
When Japan's Princess Kiko gave birth to 2.5kg boy on September 6, the entire country appeared to twinkle with joy.
Canadian Governor-General Michaelle Jean takes part in a dance during an arrival ceremony at Kotoka Airport in Accra, Ghana, while Ghanaian President, John Agyekum Kufur looks on from behind in November 2006.
Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum in Spain is the masterpiece of the distinctive architect Frank Gehry, 76. He is also credited for the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the revamped Art Gallery in Toronto, and the Las Vegas Alzheimer's Centre.
Mahatma Gandhi leads the monumental Salt March in 1930,
protesting the British monopoly on salt production.
An Afghan man attending to a poppy field in a small village outside Balkh province, north of Kabul.
A striking multi-coloured bird has recently been discovered in the remote north-eastern state of Arunachl Pradesh, India: Bugun Liocichla, a babbler, is named after the Bugun tribe.
Prince Charles misses the ball during a visit to a cricket pitch in central England.
US President George W. Bush (left) and dead ringer, Steve Bridges (right), at the White House Correspondents' Annual Dinner. Mr. Bridges played the role of Mr. Bush's alter ego to hilarious results.
Wal-Mart Stories Inc. makes $1 billion bid to become the biggest food retailer and department store owner in China
Judge Ronald St. John Macdonald, who went from the legal/academic world in Canada to the global stage. He was the first and only non-European judge of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg from 1980-1996, member of the permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and founding president of the Canadian Council on International Law.
Piper James Richardson of Chilliwack plays his bagpipes to inspire his fellow soldiers
during the Battle of Somme in 1916 (painting by James Prinseb Beadle).
Hadia Gillani visits the grave of her brother in a cemetery a year after he was
killed in a massive earthquake in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.
"The Bow" is a 59-storey glass and steel office tower to be built in
the heart of Calgary will feature three interior garden atriums
Helen Mirren portrays the Queen's mannerisms perfectly in the new film,
The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears and written by Peter Morgan
Somali child refugees, among more than 200,000 living across the border in Kenya, carry water to camp.
Salim Abdul Nabi and his wife grieve over the death of their 7-years-old son Ali,
in one of many recent roadside explosions in Baghdad.
Former British PM, Lady Margaret Thatcher, leaving a Republican luncheon with Senate Majority Leader,
Bill Frist and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison last September.
Jewish rabbis singing in November as they carry Torah scrolls to the newly rebuilt main synagogue in Munich, Germany, during a procession marking the 68th anniversary of Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass)
The 35-year-old Canadian photographer, Finbarr O'Reilly of Reuters, won the prestigious World Press Photo award 2006, for this photo of a 1-year-old boy's frail fingers pressed against the lips of his mother at an emergency feeding clinic in western Niger. The jury chairman said, "this image has everything - beauty, horror and despair."
Kennedy and Nixon exchange a few words after a TV debate during the 1960 presidential election.
Leaders of the 26 NATO countries at the close of the Riga Summit 2006
The Iranian Hercules and two-time gold medal Olympic winner Hossein Reza Zadeh makes another successful lift.
Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper in The Fountainhead (1949): the one great love of her life was married to someone else.
A Santa Claus greets a Hindu near the Ganges River in India on December 25, 2006.
