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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.

A woman lifts up her child as the sun sets on Kuta beach in the Indonesian resort island of Bali October 11, 2003. More than 500 survivors and families of the dead from Australia are expected to attend commemorative services on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the bomb blasts that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners. Australia lost 88 citizens in the attacks.

An eight-month-old Iraqi baby suffering from leukaemia holds his mother's hand in the Saddam Hospital in Baghdad January 13, 2003. Iraq says U.N. sanctions imposed after Baghdad occupied Kuwait in 1990, have killed 1,7 million people, mostly children.

An Afghan boy stands next to his widowed mother as she waits in a queue of war widows to receive her monthly rations from the CARE International organization in Kabul, June 26, 2003. According to CARE there are at least 10,000 war widows in Kabul.

Polar bear cub nuzzles its mother Simona in Moscow's zoo, April 24, 2003. Two polar bear cubs were born in December, and started playing in the open in spring when it became warmer

A newly born zebra

A chick rests under the wing of a hen near a bird flu-affected duck farm in Dingdong, Guangxi autonomous region, January 30, 2004. China has halted the export of poultry and related products from bird flu-affected areas including Guangxi autonomous region after placing 23 people who had contact with bird flu-affected ducks in Guangxi under close medical observation.

A monkey holds her baby at a zoo in Guangzhou January 14, 2004. The Year of the Monkey -- one of 12 animals that make up the Lunar New Year cycle -- begins on January 22.

An HIV-infected woman, Gita Das kisses her five-year-old son Sanjiv at her home in the eastern city of Calcutta on July 10, 2002. Das, 27, used to work as a prostitute before she tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, last year. Das said that Sanjiv is not infected with the disease. Earlier this week, United Nations officials and activists at an international AIDS conference in Barcelona denounced leaders in Asia for remaining silent about AIDS despite fears that Asia could take over Africa as the continent hardest hit by the disease. India has the second-highest number of people with the HIV/AIDS virus in the world.

An Indian girl helps her mother collect dried chilies in the village of Namkhana 100 kms (62 miles) south of Calcutta June 2, 2002. The woman earns about 100 rupees ( $2 ) per day selling her chili at Rs 20 per kilogram.

An unidentified mother and her baby play at home in London April 26, 2001. Every baby in the UK could be given up to 800 pounds in a Child Trust Fund under proposals unveiled by Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair told a Downing Street press conference that the baby bonds would help create a

Madina, a malnourished, illiterate Afghan woman who is unsure of her own age, holds her son in their humble refugee home in a suburb of Kabul December 8, 2001. Madina's daughter, Maqbula, aged four, was abducted and killed two years ago and her eyes removed, according to her family and neighbours. Her death, and that of other children in Kabul when it was under Taliban control, sparked rumours in the city that a gang was on the prowl kidnapping children for their organs. The rumours have not been confirmed.



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