Indian Muslim devotees offer Eid prayers on the occasion of the Eid al-Fitr festival at the 153-year-old Khir-u-Din mosque in Amritsar on October 2, 2008.
The world's most powerful atom-smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), began operations on Wednesday in a mission to pierce the greatest secrets of the physical Universe.
“Al Qaeda is the mother of the holy war in Somalia,” says Muktar Robow, front, a commander of the Shabab militia in Somalia, pictured at an Islamist training camp outside Mogadishu in 2006. “Most of our leaders were trained in Al Qaeda camps.”
Fireworks light up the National Stadium in Beijing during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The 29th Olympic Games, costing an estimated 40 billion dollars and shrouded by political controversies, burst into life with a spectacular opening ceremony
Raaso Hospital under construction. The hospital is scheduled to be opened early next year.Once completed, it will be the second largest hospital in the Somali region of Ethiopia with two hundred beds,laboratory, and its own ambulances.
By the end of May 2008, millions faced hunger in the Somali region of Ethiopia as crops failed and food prices soared.Two successive seasons of poor rains left the region in drought, and the effect on vegetation is shown in this Satelite image on may 20.