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Camel riders approach Cairo, Egypt, from across the desert.

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The intensity of urbanization can clash with age-old customs and traditions. The traffic dodges a cow, while street vendors vie with modern shops in this busy Mumbai, India, intersection.

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An elderly man outside his home: a traditional hutong in Beijing, China. The white character on the wall indicates that the building is scheduled for demolition to make way for “urban development”.

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A young woman smiles from her tent-like hut built right under the shade of the most luxurious hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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A woman walks in the shallows over the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China. With the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, the water level will rise dramatically.

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Women have a chance to socialize and discuss their own concerns on a women’s-only car on the commuter railroad line in Mumbai, India.

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An activist for the rights of people living with HIV works his beat in the slums of Lagos, Nigeria.

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Holding their brooms aloft and singing as they walk together, an army of community volunteers meets every week to sweep and clear the rubbish off the streets in a sprawling shack settlement of half a million people on the sandy flats off Cape Town, South Africa.

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Older people line up for soup in Hangzhou, China.

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Though he is unable to send them all to school, a man reads the newspaper to his children on the pavement outside his hut in Kolkata, India.

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Social worker helps a young polio victim in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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A woman looks down on the city from her house on a hillside slum in Caracas, Venezuela.

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Men push bikes laden with coal in a mixed and rapidly-growing peri-urban area in Jharkand State, India.

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Night view of urban highways and overpasses in Shanghai, China.

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Busy pedestrian crossing in Tokyo, Japan.

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Afghan refugee children provide cheap labour on the scrap tire heaps in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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Mother carries her child through filthy streets in Port Au Prince, Haiti. One of the poorest places in the Western Hemisphere, it lacks garbage collection services.

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Victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, United States, try to save some of their precious belongings.

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This street in Beirut, Lebanon, overlooking the Mediterranean offers commerce, recreation and, on this day, moments of late afternoon serenity.

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A Buddhist monk uses an ATM cash machine in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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Employees of a huge industrial complex on their way to work in
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