'cow parade' representing 25 nations of EU on show in Shanghai

A monk walks under a sea of red lanterns at a temple in Kuala Lumpur January 31, 2000. Hundreds of lanterns gave a festive atmosphere to welcome the Chinese New Year. Chinese all over the world marked the end of the "year of the rabbit" and ushered in the "year of the dragon" on February 5, 2000.

Revellers kiss during the annual 'Tomatina' (tomato fight) in the Mediterranean village of Bunyol, near Valencia, Spain. The biggest tomato fight of the world takes place when the town erupts in a fiery blaze of
tomato hurling on the last Wednesday of every August.

Rickshaws throng a street in Dhaka November 16, 2003. More than 300,000 rickshaws ply the streets of the Bangladeshi capital daily. Traffic congestion becomes particularly severe in the lead-up to the Eid al-Fitr festival, to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, as the movement of people
increases.

A Hazara girl covers her face as she holds a child in a cave in Bamiyan December 15, 2001. The destruction of the 2,000-year-old Buddhas, among the great wonders of the ancient world, was the first many people outside Afghanistan had heard of the Taliban or Bamiyan. But a story of human horror also unfolded in the town and the surrounding area as forces of the Sunni Muslim Taliban, fired by a perverse interpretation of Islam, forced tens of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims to flee into the mountains.

Indonesian Muslim women pray on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan in Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta October 26, 2003. Muslims around the world refrain from eating, drinking and engaging in sexual activity from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. Muslims in Indonesia will
begin their fasting on Monday.