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Inside North Korea 2011 A rare look inside North Korea as seen by photographer David Guttenfelder.

Inside North Korea 2011 A rare look inside North Korea as seen by photographer David Guttenfelder.

Pigeons fly during a dust storm in Kuwait City, in this file picture taken April 30, 2008. The world’s population will reach seven billion on October 31, 2011, according to projections by the United Nations. The environment provides trillions of dollars in benefits to the global economy, the United Nations says, yet many of these benefits are under threat from pollution, deforestation, climate change and over-extraction as seven billion people consume more of the Earth’s finite resources. Mankind’s immense pressure on the planet is causing the fastest extinction of species in millions of years and is rapidly heating up the planet, threatening more extreme weather. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee/Files

People walk past an apartment complex in Jakarta October 21, 2011. The world’s population will reach seven billion on 31 October 2011, according to projections by the United Nations, which says this global milestone presents both an opportunity and a challenge for the planet. While more people are living longer and healthier lives, says the U.N., gaps between rich and poor are widening and more people than ever are vulnerable to food insecurity and water shortages. REUTERS/Supri

Neon signs are illuminated in Mong Kok district in Hong Kong, October 4, 2011. Mong Kok has the highest population density in the world, with 130,000 in one square kilometre. The world’s population will reach seven billion on 31 October 2011, according to projections by the United Nations, which says this global milestone presents both an opportunity and a challenge for the planet. While more people are living longer and healthier lives, says the U.N., gaps between rich and poor are widening and more people than ever are vulnerable to food insecurity and water shortages. Picture taken with a long exposure and lens zoom effect. Picture taken October 4, 2011. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

REUTERS/Bobby Yip

A tear runs down a boy’s face as he lies on a bench after being treated for his injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar September 13, 2011. Gunmen opened fire on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least three children and the driver, a police official said. Fifteen children were wounded, he said. The children on the bus were around nine years old. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

Afghan children stand together near the town of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province October 24, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly

A young amputee boy walks through the Eidgah mosque in the city of Kabul December 8, 2001 where the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) started its biggest ever food distribution in the Afghan capital on Saturday, handing out sacks of wheat to more than three-quarters of the war-ravaged city’s population.

A Tuareg man wearing a taguelmoust, a combination of veil and turban that covers the face, walks past men and their camels at the Cure Salee festival in Ingal September 17, 2011. Tuareg, Peul and Wodaabe nomads congregate each year at the salt flats around the northern oasis town of Ingal for the Cure Salee (salt cure), where their camels, cattle, sheep and goats drink the mineral-rich water after months on the move. Niger’s nomads have held the three-day long event for centuries to mark the end of the rains, exchanging news and information amid music and dance as they prepare their animals over several weeks for the dry season. REUTERS/Luc Gnago