Year End World Photos 2008

In this April 8, 2008 file photo, mother Sushma holds her daughter Lali at their residence in Saini Sunpura, 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of New Delhi, India. The baby with two faces, two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes was born on March 11 in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said



In this March 28, 2008 file photo, Zimbabwean people flee across border at Beitbridge Border Post in Musina, South Africa.



In this March 20, 2008 file photo, an Anjouan woman, her face covered with an earth based mixture to protect her from the sun, walks through the Medina near the main port of Anjouan, Comoros.



In this Nov. 2, 2008 file photo, thousands of displaced people walk along a road heading north of Goma, in a bid to return to their homes near Kibumba, some 40 kilometers north of Goma in eastern Congo



In this July 17, 2008 file photo, Pakistani girls pause from reciting verses of the Quran or holy book next to Islamabad's radical Lal Masjid or Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan


In this April 5, 2008 file photo, Police officers rescue a man from a river overflowed by heavy rains in Cajamarca, Peru



In this Feb. 19, 2008 file photo, an election worker takes a break next to sealed bags containing ballots at the civil court in Lahore, Pakistan



In this Jan. 3, 2008 file photo, Palestinian relatives of five members of the Fayyad family killed by an Israeli tank shell react during their funeral at Khan Younis.


In this Sept. 12, 2008 file photo, a Palestinian woman is seen on her way to pray for the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City



in this May 6, 2008 file photo, relatives of Ahmed Urwa who was killed by a sniper in Baghdad's neighborhood of Shula, grieve during his funeral in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq


In this April 12, 2008 file photo taken with a video camera, U.S. military personnel work giving medical aid to a child who was wounded in a bombing in Mosul, Iraq



In this Feb. 11, 2008 file photo, relatives prepare to light the funeral pyre of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Allahabad, India. Thousands of followers chanted Vedic hymns as the body of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru celebrated for bringing meditation to the West, was cremated at a site overlooking the confluence of the sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers in this north Indian city.



In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, motherless orphans and lost children rest at the Don Bosco Ngangi center in Goma, eastern Congo



In this May 10, 2008 file photo, an ambulance arrives at the site of a shooting, as people try to help the injured in Beirut, Lebanon.



In this Feb. 21, 2008 file photo, the U.S. embassy in Belgrade burns after masked attackers broke into the building and set an office on fire at the end of a massive protest against Western-backed Kosovo independence, in the Serbian capital.


In this July 7, 2008 file photo, an Afghan policeman walks among the dead and wounded bodies at the site of a suicide attack near the Indian Embassy in central Kabul, Afghanistan



In this Sept. 4, 2008 file photo, a man carries an elderly woman on his back as he walks through a muddy street left behind by Tropical Storm Hanna in Gonaives, Haiti.



In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, displaced people gather around the coffin containing the body of Rebecca Yalala, who died the day before of complications from diabetes and malaria, as they prepare to bury her in a grove of banana trees near a camp for displaced people in Bulengo near Goma in eastern Congo.



In this Nov. 2, 2008 file photo, Pakistani Sunni Muslims devotees return back to their homes on a packed train after attending annual religious congregation in Multan, Pakistan



In this July 24, 2008 file photo, South Korean elementary school students shout the word 'mother' as they lay in the water during an exercise at a marine boot camp for students on Daebu Island, in Ansan,South Korea. Some 70 students took part in the three-day camp as a way to mentally and physically strengthen themselves.


In this June 25, 2008 file photo, a female police officer aims with her pistol in a shooting range, during a graduation ceremony in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Some 115 police woman graduated from Karbala's police academy



In this June 3, 2008 file photo, Former Mayor of Madrid Alvarez del Manzano, first row, second left, shows his emotions as a bull jumps over the barrier during a San Isidro bullfight in Madrid

Spectacular images of 2008

The TinStix of Dynamite team performs during the Al-Ain International Aerobatics Show at the airport in Abu Dhabi


A small aeroplane hangs from high voltage power lines it crashed into near the southern German town of Durach. Rescue services managed to retrieve the two people travelling in the plane by using a large crane


A cargo plane which slid off the runway at the Brussels Zaventem airport. The plane broke in two, but there were no casualties



Fireworks at the opening of Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai



Australian motorcyclist Cam Sinclair performs a double back flip into the harbour in Sydney



Fireworks light up the night sky during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, held at the National Stadium



The Wulihe Stadium is seen brought down during a controlled blasting in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province



A solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto the top of a tower where it produces steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity



Firefighters battle flames next to the remains of a military jet that crashed into homes in San Diego, California



Alexei Latotskikh performs a stunt during an exhibition in Rostov-on-Don, Russia



Members of the Tao tribe hoist a new fishing boat into the air during a traditional launching ceremony on Orchid Island, Taiwan



A man and his camel walk past as the sun is blocked by the moon during a solar eclipse in Gaotai, Gansu province

Joel Parkinson wipes out on a powerful 20-foot wave during the O'Neill World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach, Hawaii

CJ Hobgood of the US becomes airborne during the third round of the Billabong Pro surfing tournament on the legendary reef break in Teahupoo, Tahiti



A sulphur miner works on Kawah Ijen volcanic crater in East Java. The miners trek over five miles with loads weighing up to 220 pounds on their backs to earn £4.50 a day



Flames come off of a stunt runway model during the Taurus World Stunt Awards at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood



Icicles hang off wires and a ladder after a fire in a conservation area of Toronto

A firefighter walks through a mountain of bubbles after gallons of firefighting foam were accidentally released inside a hangar at the Long Beach Airport in California

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at Namdaemun, South Korea's 'No. 1 national treasure', in Seoul

China's Liang Huo competes in the diving men's 10m platform final event at the National Aquatics Centre during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Game

Time exposure of the Swiss mountain resort of Grindelwald next to the north face of the Eiger mountain

A man collects dead fish in Guanqiao Lake in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province



Former professional Swiss military pilot Yves Rossy, also known as Fusionman, flies in the sky like a rocketeer in the southern Swiss Alps near Bex



Red Star Belgrade's fans light torches during the Serbian First Division match against Mladost Lucani in Belgrade



A figure from Antony Gormley's 'Another Place' welcomes one of the Tall Ships to Merseyside as it sails past the Burbo Bank windfarm on its approach to the Port of Liverpool

Parma hams are seen at the Pio Tosini storehouse in Parma, Italy

Penitents light their candles before a Holy Week procession in Zamora, northern Spain

Some Funny Pic of 2008