ConocoPhilips's Kuparuk oilfield on Alaska's North Slope.

A BP oil platform in central Azerbaijan.

Offshore wind turbines near Copenhagen, Denmark.

An excavator at an open-pit coal mine in Megalopolis, Greece.

A volunteer stands inside a "millimeter wave" scanner during a demonstration at the Transportation Security Administration's Systems Integration Facility at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.

A passenger removes his shoes before passing through a security checkpoint at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

A family navigates airport security at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Red Army troops drill in Nanjing, in 1973.

The 2008 Beijing Motor Show.

The Chinese city of Chongqing, in 2008.

Migrant workers, mostly from rural Sichuan province, in the dormitories of a Chongqing construction site.

Boys play atop a hill overlooking Bethlehem in the West Bank.

Israel's West Bank barrier.

Settlers in the Gaza Strip's Gadid settlement try to resist evacuation by Israeli forces by staying on rooftops.

A Rolls-Royce gets hands-on care in a blighted British town.

A man walks through a Texas trailer park.

Children play in Mumbai, India's New Dharavi shantytown, with the new Bandra-Kurla Complex in the background.

The Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club.

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