Around the world -- Photos

A young sapphire miner holds on tight to a rope as he is lowered into a deep hole in the ground in a field in Anzanakaro near Ilakaka, Madagascar on September 14, 2008. Local miners and many of their family members work deep narrow holes where they scrape gravel and sand in search of sapphires.

Chadian men and boys use a donkey to pull up water, (the quality of which is only suitable for animals to drink) from a well which took twenty men a week to dig by hand, in a wadi near Tchyllah, a desert village in the Sahel belt of Chad, April 19, 2012.

Halime Moussa, 3, receives treatment via a nasal feeding tube. His hands are bandaged to prevent him from removing the tube. He is being treated at the therapeutic nutrition ward of the town's hospital. His mother, Kaltouma Abakar, travelled 70km to reach the center, in Mao, capital of the Kanem region of Chad.

A man asks an Afghan refugee not to bathe at a water point, while others collect water, in a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, May 15, 2012. People in Pakistan are facing water shortages due to low water levels in the country's dams

Second grader Ashley Jackson, from Germanshire Elementary, gets ready to perform at Sherwood Elementary in Memphis, Tenn. during an Art For Life's Sake music and literacy program, May 14, 2012

Pakistani Jaafar Sakhawat, 8, who works in a brick factory, takes a break on a pile of damaged bricks, on the outskirts of Islamabad

A boy dressed in a Soviet army uniform forage cap places flowers at the monument of the Unknown Soldier at a memorial to World War II veterans in a memorial park in Kiev, Ukraine on May 9. Ukrainians continue to celebrate the World War II anniversary and Victory Day on May 9 as a national holiday marking the defeat of Nazi German forces in the second World War

Russia's newly inaugurated President Vladimir Putin (center) poses for a photo with World War II veterans at the Red Square in Moscow on May 9 the during Victory Day parade. Thousands of Russian soldiers marched today alongside nuclear capable missiles to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany

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