SELECTED PHOTOS
A PICTURE MAY BE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the revered guardian of the two holiest shrines in Islam during an historic meeting in the Vatican with Catholic Pope Benedict XVI.
Guide Sulong Gaowa stands in front of the Biodiversity Ecological Centre Museum, built in China with aid from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
A Palestinian boy holds a candle during a power outage in Gaza last August
The Pakistani People's Party leader, Benazir Bhutto, and her husband Asif Ali Zardari, on their December 18, 1987 wedding day. Mrs. Bhutto was assassinated in Pakistan on December 27, 2007 and buried next to her father grave.
Russian Czar Nicholas II and his wife Scarina Alexandra, their four young children, four years before they were executed by the Bolshevik firing squad in July 1918.
Acting President, Raul Castro, waves a Cuban flag in Camaguey at the 2007 anniversary of his brother's famous attack on army barracks on July 26. 1953
India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, delivers his "tryst with destiny" speech on August 15, 1947 at Parliament House in New Delhi
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, with First Nations members in Toronto
Burma's last governor, Sir Hubert Rance, and first president, Sao Shwe Thaik, in January 1948.
World leaders meet in Canada at The Chateau Montebello in 1981. From left: EEC President Gaston Thorn, Japanese PM Zenko Suzuki, West German Chancellor Helmut Shmidt, US President Ronald Reagan, Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau, French President Francois Mitterand, British PM Margaret Thatcher, and Italian PM Giovanni Spadolini.
The 26-year-old, Mongolian-born sumo grand champion and yokozuna, Asashoryu, being shown at Tokyo's Narita Airport as he faced a storm of criticism for infractions of the strict Suma code of conduct
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaking with Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert during their November meeting in Jerusalem
A spectator denounces performance-enhancing drugs last July,
as Tour de France riders pass: Bike into a better future
Bill Brandt's in a 1941 photo of a Punch and Judy puppets show
featuring Stalin, Mussolini, Churchill and Hitler.
John Stubbings gets a hug after winning the Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest in Key West, Florida, during the festival the July 21 birthday of the famous American writer
The Dalai Lama and Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper,
exchange khatas, Tibetan scarfs, on Parliament Hill last October.
A Bedouin Jordanian guard holds a falcon used as a good-luck charm for his national soccer team.
Five Canadian Maxwell sisters, originally from New Brunswick,
have graduated from Harvard University
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Mia Farrow, has visited Darfur twice to help with the peace initiatives
Caricaturist Valentin Kalininskiy depicts Russian President Vladimir Putin
with his successor Dmitry Medvedev in his arms! (New York Times)
Former Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, at the age of 12 in Venice 1933.
Spain's King Juan Carlos loses his patience with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during the Ibero-American Summit held in Chile last November, calling on him to "shut up!".
A Tuareg approaches Timbuktu's 13th-century mosque,
a reminder of the city's history as a haven for Islamic scholars
Eleven Canadian women, aged 56-75, posed in the buff for
a calendar to raise money for an MRI machine
An Inuit hunter and his dog-sled team travel the frozen polar sea of Baffin Bay in northwest Greenland. Sled dogs are able to sense thin and unstable ice.
The world's oldest tree, named Hercules (wollemi pine tree), dates back nearly 200-million years. It was thought to be extinct until a single plant was found in 1994 at Wollemi National Park, Australia.
Former French President, Jacques Chirac, admires an Aztec statue in new Paris museum which houses 300,000 objects from Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas
A symposium on female circumcision entitled "Beginning of the End" was held in Tanta City, Egypt in August 2007, as part of a joint effort by the government and private organizations to stop the widespread practice
Lieutenant Governor Steven Point inspecting the honour
guard outside the British Columbia Legislature
Mary-Jo Land holds two of the puppets included with the story series, A Journey of Peace, about the family's struggle to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder and help ethnic tolerance and dispute resolution in Afghanistan
Paris Hilton with her new look of straw hat and black wig, during her Hawaiian vacation
Israeli and Palestinian teenagers from the Middle East during
an experimental 10-days peace camp at Ashbury College in Ottawa
Japan's dancing Robot HRP-2, with a member of a traditional folk dance group
The British and American geneticists, Dr. Francis Crick and
Dr. James Watson, discoverers of DNA's structure: the blueprint of life.
Gibson, the Great Dane, stands nearly 2.2-metres on its hind legs and holds the Guinness record for tallest dog, plays with a Chihuahua named Zoie
Veiled Pakistani women walking in the Sadder Market in Peshawar
South Korean students demonstrating in support of their colleagues
who were being held as hostages in Afghanistan
Yemen's first president, Abdullah Al-Sallal (in fatigue), with tribal leaders in October 1962.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates with Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper during his visit to Parliament Hill in Ottawa
The 24-hour Arabic news network, Al-Jazeera, interviewing former US President Jimmy Carter
Lucky and Flo are two national heroes pictured last August with the medals presented to them by Malaysia's government after sniffing out $6 million in illegal DVDs. They were trained to identify optical discs by the scent of their chemicals.
Toronto antiquities dealer, Kent Martin, bought the New York Times's 26-foot mahogany old editorial table for $4800
Karen and J.P. Jepp of Calgary holding their newborn identical
quadruplets born on August 12 in Montana (USA)
Canada's Governor-General Michaelle Jean hands out candy to
children in front of Rideau Hall on Halloween in Ottawa, October 31.
Budhia Singh, the marathon boy, ran 46-kms in 7 hours in Bangalore in May 2006
Chinese spectators watching a rocket carrying a lunar orbiter blast
off near the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in south western Sichuan province last October
An image of Mars taken from a NASA camera showing the white substance as "strong proof" of water found on the red planet
Canada protects forests to save mountain Caribou since their numbers have fallen 25% since 1992.
Fisher-Price recalled 83 types of toys in August - including Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego - since their paint contains excessive amounts of lead
Pakistani lawyers surrounding Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry last July after
the country's Supreme Court quashed charges against him
David Hanke of Chicago's Field Museum, gives a touch-up to the world's largest Tyrannosaurus Rex skull
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with his nuclear family in 1991.
