Thursday, March 13, 2008

Picture Speaks


A man rides a horse-drawn cart carrying an old Dacia car for sale as scrap iron in Telega, 100km (62 miles) north of Bucharest, Romania, March 6, 2008.



An aerial view shows cross-country skiers racing over the frozen lake Sils during the Engadin Ski Marathon near Sils, Switzerland, March 9, 2008. More than 10,500 skiers participated in the race between Maloja and S-Chanf near the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz.



Cross-country skiers race over the frozen lake Sils during the Engadin Ski Marathon near Sils, Switzerland, March 9, 2008.

A winter swimmer dives into a river in Heihe, northeast China's Heilongjiang province January 24, 2007.


An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs.


Roman Catholic priest Dom Antonio holds one of the hundreds of mock foetuses that the National Bishops Council had manufactured for their campaign against abortion, during an interview with Reuters at the Nossa Senhora da Paz church in Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema neighborhood, Brazil, March 11, 2008. The mock foetuses will be distributed around churches in Rio and they will be carried to the altar during mass as anti-abortion videos are show on a screen.

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