Protegee, carrying her sibling on her back, cries as she looks for her parents in the village Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo. When photographed on Nov. 6 Protegee was in a crowd of thousands in the town of Kiwanja, having walked for three days by herself after being separated from her mother as they fled on foot from her town about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away. Protegee finally found her mother in Kiwanja at a makeshift refuge.

A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling Thursday as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda’s rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country’s east.

March 11, 2008

An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008.

The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs.

29 April, 2008

A man carries the body of a child recovered from the rubble of a destroyed house after a US air strike in Baghdad’s Sadr City, Iraq, 29 April 2008.

US army said at least 45 people had been killed in clashes between a joint US-Iraqi military forces and Mehdi army fighters in Sadr City.

November 7, 2008

The head of a male student, still alive, trapped under the debris is pictured at the scene of the church school that collapsed on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, November 7, 2008.

At least 30 people were killed when the three-story La Promesse school building collapsed while class was in session and some of the walls and debris crushed neighboring homes in the Nerettes community near Port-au-Prince.

August 9, 2008

A wounded Georgian woman lies in front of an apartment building damaged by a Russian airstrike in the northern Georgian town of Gori.

Russian airborne troops reached Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia, where fierce fighting was reported and both sides claimed to have “liberated” the city. Russian state media reported some 100 military transport flights were planned to bring more units to the fray.

August 18, 2008

Georgians escape from a house set on fire by South Ossetian militia on August 18 in the Georgian village Kvemo-Achebeti, some 5 km from Tskhinvali.

Russia on Monday announced the start of a withdrawal from Georgia, as President Dmitry Medvedev lauded his army’s assault on the neighbouring country. Georgia however accused Russia of stalling and said its continued military operations there were in contravention of a ceasefire agreement.

August 12, 2008

A robot moves towards the remains of a pair of bodies at the site of a suicide bomb attack in central Baquba in Diyala province August 12, 2008.

Two people were killed and seven wounded when the bomber detonated an explosive vest near the convoy carrying Diyala Governor Raad Rasheed in the provincial capital Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad.