Sunday / December 16, 2007

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Foto 8 de 50 | 17/12/2007 | Crédito : AP / Edición: C. Edwards

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A worker carries wooden logs to be used for pyres at a cremation ground on the banks of the river Ganges in the northern Indian city of Varanasi. Hindus believe that dying in Varanasi and having their remains scattered in the Ganges allows their soul to escape a cycle of death and rebirth, attaing "moksha" or salvation.

Two airships are pictured today in Seoul promoting the December 19 presidential election, a move by the South Korean management committee to increase the turnout of voters. The words on the airships read "Please! Vote!"

A Saudi worker sews gold plated threads on a drape for the Kaaba at a Kiswa factory in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The drape which engulfs the Kaaba is formally called Kiswa and is changed every year at the culmination of the annual hajj, or pilgrimage, when the hajjis have left Mecca to go to Arafat, the starting point of therir hajj journey.

Two airships are pictured today in Seoul promoting the December 19 presidential election, a move by the South Korean management committee to increase the turnout of voters. The words on the airships read "Please! Vote!" Ver más.