Two boys, their bodies painted in silver, sit on top of a water buffalo during a parade before the start of Chonburi's annual buffalo races festival, nearly 75 kilometers (47 miles) southeast of Bangkok, October 24, 2007. The event, which also celebrates the rice harvest, originates back to the buffalo trade in Chonburi, once the trade center of Thailand's East.
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Estefany Delgadillo, 8, of Huntington Park, California, displays her autographed copy of the seventh and final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", during author J.K. Rowling's open book tour stop at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, October 15, 2007.
Convicted Bali bomber Imam Samudera alias Abdul Aziz talks to his daughter during his last family visit in Batu prison, Nusa Kambangan Island, October 29, 2007. Three Indonesian militants on death row for their involvement in planning the Bali bombings five years ago said they were ready to die and would not seek a presidential pardon.
Buddhist monks gather in Downing Street after presenting Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown with a petition on Myanmar on behalf of campaign group Avaaz, London October 15, 2007.
A young boy turns on a television, paid for with remittances from relatives in the United States, in a poor neighborhood of Managua, Nicaragua, November 3, 2006.
Doratea, 5, does her homework as her mother Candelaria, who is six months pregnant, makes corn tortillas for lunch in their adobe home on the outskirts of Chiquimula April 19, 2007. According to the U.N. World Food Program, 49 percent of children five and under suffer from chronic malnutrition in Guatemala.
A woman waits to cast her ballot in in the small town of Navenchauc, Mexico August 20, 2006.
A Guatemalan fisherman casts his net into the sea churned up by tropical storm Adrian in Puerto San Jose, Guatemala May 20, 2005.
Villagers race past spectators during a traditional competition on horseback November 1, 2004 in Todos Santos, Guatemala.
Massive waves crash over Havana's seafront boulevard El Malecon and against the buildings in the wake of Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005.