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A view of a residential building in Shanghai June 10, 2009. Chinese urban property prices fell by 0.6 percent in May from a year earlier compared with a fall of 1.1 percent in the 12 months to April, the National Development and Reform Commission said on Wednesday. ReutersRoman Catholic pilgrims press together while following the image of the local saint Our Lady of Nazareth as it is paraded during the annual Cirio de Nazare procession, the country's biggest religious festival, in the city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon River October 11, 2009. More than one million Catholics, many of them from communities along the Amazon River's tributaries, converged on Our Lady of Nazareth basilica to participate in the event.ReutersIndonesian Muslim women climb up a truck on a make-shift ladder on the way for prayers in Bojonegoro, East Java's provinceReutersResidents crowd in a swimming pool to escape the summer heat during a hot weather spell in Daying county of Suining, Sichuan province July 4, 2010. China is experiencing temperatures over 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Farhenheit) in at least 13 provinces and regions, according to the National Meteorological Center on Sunday.ReutersA Palestinian family falls from a donkey cart after they crossed a breach on the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt January 27, 2008. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold crisis talks on Sunday on how to limit Hamas control over Gaza's breached border with Egypt. ReutersAn overcrowded train leaves Dhaka's Airport rail station ahead of the Muslim festival Eid-al-Adha December 20, 2007. Bangladeshi Muslims will celebrate the festival on Friday. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid-al-Adha to mark the end of the haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command. ReutersBoys sit in the trunk of a car while travelling on a street in Karachi May 15, 2011. The boys sat in the back as there was insufficient space inside the car. ReutersCommuters make their way into a crowded compartment of a local train in MumbaiReutersSunbathers and roofed wicker beach chairs are seen along the beach on the bay of Travemuende, a popular holiday resort at the Baltic sea near the northern German city of Luebeck,ReutersINDIAN CHILDREN SIT AT THE HORSE CART WHILE COMING BACK FROM SCHOOL AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF NEW DELHI. More than thirty-five Indian children sit at the horse cart while coming back from school at the outskirts of New Delhi on February 26, 2001. The number of primary schools increased by 180 per cent from 210 thousand in 1951 to 590 thousand in 1996. Nevertheless, according to the report on "Human Development in South Asia, 1998", India has the largest illiterate population in the world - 424 million, which exceeds the total combined population of the North American continent and Japan.Reuters
