Pope Benedict XVI at Cybeles Square during World Youth Day 2011, Madrid, Spain, Europe

Pope Benedict XVI at Cybeles Square during World Youth Day 2011, Madrid, Spain, Europe

Pope Benedict XVI at Cybeles Square during World Youth Day 2011, Madrid, Spain, Europe

View of the Neuer Zollhof (The New Zollhof), named after a former customs facility, a building ensemble in the Medienhafen and prominent landmark of Dusseldorf-Hafen, part of the redeveloped port of Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Local people tend cattle in the Sahara Desert in Upper Volta, now named Burkina Faso

Tailor named Charls Darcan, Vieux Fort, St. Lucia, Windward Islands, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Anuradha Koirala holds up her CNN Hero of the Year 2010 award as she is warmly greeted upon her return. Tribhuwan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal. A woman whose group has rescued more than 12,000 women and girls from sex slavery has been named the 2010 CNN Hero of the Year. Anuradha Koirala was chosen by the public in an online poll that ran for eight weeks on CNN.com. ?Human trafficking is a crime, a heinous crime, a shame to humanity,? Koirala said after being introduced as one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010. ?I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters

A young sadhu reads holy scripture near fire. Worship is part of daily life. Some sadhus chant mantras. gayatri mantra is of several mantras that sacred incantations or mystical formulas of ancient literature. gayatri mantra given by brahma mentioned in rigveda is named after consort of brahma: o that glory- of savitri most high. Oh divine us mediate upon. it inspire understanding. goal of recitation is to attain realization. Practice lead mind into a transcendental union with deity.Pashupatinath, kathmandu, nepa

Anuradha Koirala, proclaimed winner of CNN Hero of the Year 2010, warmly greeted upon her return. Tribhuwan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal. A woman whose group has rescued more than 12,000 women and girls from sex slavery has been named the 2010 CNN Hero of the Year. Anuradha Koirala was chosen by the public in an online poll that ran for eight weeks on CNN.com. ?Human trafficking is a crime, a heinous crime, a shame to humanity,? Koirala said after being introduced as one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010. ?I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters

Gold rush,ninjas precious metal in a river in sarangol valley, northwest of capital city ulan bator, mongolia. Ninjas named green pans they wear on their backs that make them resemble cartoon ninja turtle

Houses on a landscape, Plymouth, Vermont, USA

Visitors to the new 412-meter high observation deck Skydeck, Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, USA

Three-masts Schooner named Loth Loriën next to the lighthouse of the Westmole, Hanse Sail 2008 in Warnemuende, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe

Barkentine named Thalassa next to the lighthouse of the Westmole, Hanse Sail 2008 in Warnemuende, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe

Elisabethenbrunnen, named after Princess Elisabeth, woman of Landgrave Friedrich VI of Hesse-Homburg and daughter of the British King George III, in the spa garden Bad Homburg vor der Hoehe, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Chapel on Colon Cemetery, Cementerio Cristobal Colon, named after Christopher Columbus, Havana, Cuba, Caribbean

Elisabethenbrunnen, named after Princess Elisabeth, woman of Landgrave Friedrich VI of Hesse-Homburg and daughter of the British King George III, in the spa garden Bad Homburg vor der Hoehe, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Cemetery chapel on Colon Cemetery, Cementerio Cristobal Colon, named after Christopher Columbus, Havana, Cuba, Caribbean

Elisabethenbrunnen, named after Princess Elisabeth, woman of Landgrave Friedrich VI of Hesse-Homburg and daughter of the British King George III, in the spa garden Bad Homburg vor der Hoehe, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Close-up of posters of Mao Tse-Tung, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Mountaineers navigating through the Hillary Step on Mount Everest. The Hillary Step is a nearly vertical part (height around 40 ft) of upper Mount Everest. It lies almost at the top of the mountain, halfway from the "south summit" to the summit top, and is the last real challenge before the summit. It is reached by climbing the South East route. It was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who was the first person, along with Tenzing Norgay, who passed it to reach the summit, Nepal