Daily Life
Ordinary, or sometimes extraordinary, scenes of everyday life....
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A Palestinian boy carries rescued cats inside a birdcage, on a stroller on a street in Gaza City in the Gaza strip, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Libyan boys dive from rocks into the Mediterranean Sea at a private club on the beach in Tripoli, Libya Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. Libya celebrates National Day on Saturday, marking the 38th anniversary of the Libyan revolution. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Villagers spray the groom, Mohammed Zamanpour, 25, and his bride Manijeh, 16, with foam confetti at a Bakhtiari nomad wedding in the mountain village of Abid near the town of Masjid-e-Soleiman in southwestern Iran, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. Migration has been a way of life for nomads such as the Bakhtiari in Iran for thousands of years but the phenomenon is slowly disappearing as government encroaches and the attractions of urban life draw some away from the nomadic lifestyle. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A mother reaches out to hold the hand of her young daughter, as they walk home after a church service in the village of Rwinkwavu, near to Akagera National Park, in Rwanda Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Young Palestinian girls giggle as they are photographed in front of a house at sunset near where a shell fired from an Israeli gunboat landed Thursday, according to local residents, in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, in the Gaza strip, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. Fishing is one of the main sources of income in the area but with Israeli gunboats firing off Gaza's shore for several days despite a cease-fire, to enforce the sea blockade, it remains risky and on Thursday a Palestinian man and a girl were wounded by one of the shells which hit a house in the camp, according to a Palestinian medical official. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A car heavily weighed down with food, passengers and belongings becomes grounded at the back while driving away from Damara where pro-government forces are digging in against the rebel advance, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a "red line that the rebels cannot cross" or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Bodyguards protecting the Emir of Daura Faruk Umar Faruk make traditional Friday prayers with hundreds of other worshippers outside the Emir's Palace Mosque in Daura, the home town of opposition candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, in Katsina state in northern Nigeria Friday, March 27, 2015. The imam of the mosque called on worshippers to pray for free and fair elections, which are due to be held on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A boy fisherman pulls in nets with others to try to make a living selling fish, though the catches are small and sparse, on the shores of the river Ubangi in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. President Francois Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff and while outside the capital government forces are at a tense standoff with rebels, in Bangui itself many residents continue to go about their daily business despite the tense political and military situation. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A young Rwandan boy leads his goat by a rope across a field near to Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
An Iranian woman admires the view from an archway on the Si-o-Seh Pol bridge over the Zayandeh river late at night in Isfahan, Iran, Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. Known as the "Bridge of 33 Arches", it was built in the Safavid era between 1599 and 1602 A.D. by Allahverdi Khan, a favorite general of Shah Abbas I, and is a popular place for Isfahan residents to take an evening stroll and drink some tea. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
A young street vendor selling eggs walks past a demonstration held by several hundred merchants calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. The U.N. Security Council urged rebels in the Central African Republic on Friday to halt their military offensive, withdraw from cities they have seized, and take part in negotiations to find a political solution to the impoverished country's longstanding problems. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Fishermen prepare their nets on wasteground next to the shore in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, in the Gaza strip, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. Fishing is one of the main sources of income in the area but with Israeli gunboats firing off Gaza's shore for several days despite a cease-fire, to enforce the sea blockade, it remains risky and on Thursday a Palestinian man and a girl were wounded by one of the shells which hit a house in the camp, according to a Palestinian medical official. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)