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Every day, our editors sort through the thousands of photographs provided by the news
agencies to find one image that will give you a glimpse of something beautiful,
disturbing, funny or thought-provoking in the news or the world. SPIEGEL ONLINE photo
editors have put together their 2008 favorites.
[http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-38435.html]
January 8, 2008 Don't lose count: Zoo conservation researcher Chloe Inskip counts South
American leaf-cutter ants at the Chester Zoo in northern England. The zoo's license
requires it to take stock of its 8,000 individual animals once a year.
January 22, 2008 David meets Goliath: An inflatable boat owned by Greenpeace maneuvers
between a ship belonging to the Japanese whaling fleet (right) and a supply ship in
an attempt to disrupt a refuelling.
January 30, 2008 Sweet job among bitter hardship: An Afghan laborer makes sweets at
a traditional sweet factory in the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan
March 11, 2008 The hidden side of green: A Chinese migrant worker sorts through an
endless sea of plastic bottles at a recycling center in Beijing.
March 12, 2008 Nothing left to lose: A landless peasant in Brazil resists state
police forcibly moving her and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement
from a piece of private property in the Brazilian Amazon. Their bows and arrows
were no match for tear gas and trained dogs.
March 24, 2008 Exorcism in Zimbabwe: A church official uses milk to baptize a
new member thought to be "possessed by evil spirits."
May 2, 2008 An Iraqi boy looks on skeptically as he is dwarfed by a US soldier
in Baghdad.
June 4, 2008 Sometimes those free ringside VIP seats offer more than you were
hoping for. Here, former Madrid mayor Jose Maria Alvarez del Manzano (second
from left) and some friends get a close up look at what being on the wrong
side of the bull can really mean.
July 9, 2008 Some fish really suck: Here, Balloon lumpfish (Eumicrotremus
pacificus) cling to a balloon at the Epson Shinagawa Aqua Stadium in Tokyo.
Ventral sucker disks allow the deep-sea fish to cling to rocks.
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REUTERSAugust 18, 2008 A woman mourns her husband in Beichuan, in China's
Sichuan Province. The man was one of an estimated 69,000 Chinese killed in
the earthquake that struck the region. The quake had a magnitude of between
7.9 and 8.0 and traumatized the country just months before it would would
host the 2008 Olympic Games.
August 20, 2008 A villager navigates his way over earth cracked by months
of drought on the Indonesian island Java. His hope is to find water to
carry back to his livestock.
August 22, 2008 Jordanian policewomen practice unarmed combat at a training
facility east of Amman. Jordan opened the first women's police academy in
the Arab world in 1972.
September 9, 2008 An Indian policeman huddles behind his shield as he is
pelted by Muslim protesters in the contested region of Kashmir.
October 14, 2008 Younger victims of the drought in Indonesia: Children
bathe in waste water in Jakarta.
October 29, 2008 A container ship lies off the coast of Lebanon as a
lighting illuminates the sky.
December 1, 2008 Putting in La Paz: Two women from the Aymara ethnic
group practice their putting while on a work break at the La Paz Golf
Club, the world's highest course.