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epa03698388 (17/17) Nazia (R) and her husband, leper patient Noor-u-Din (L) feed their children in their room at the leprosy hospital in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 30 April 2013. The leprosy hospital was founded by the British around 1891. At present there are just over a hundred patients living with their families in the hospital run by the Kashmir state government. The patients live in the same mud made structures which were built by the British over a century ago, most of them under unhygienic conditions and without proper sanitation. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN epa03719800 (01/17) Jesus Hernandez, 30, shows how he leaves his underground foxhole that he dug out of the river sediment in the Tijuana River canal, which has become home to hundreds of people deported from the US, in Tijuana, Mexico, 03 May 2013. Hernandez had been living undocumented in the US since he was six-years old, but was deported 18 months ago and has since been living in the river canal. Heightened US border security and record numbers of deportations from the US have created a growing population of people who live homeless in Mexican cities that border with the United States. Many had lived for years undocumented in the US and have little or no family and other support in Mexico, and are subject to fall into depression, substance abuse and crime. Tijuana, Mexico, borders on the US city of San Diego, California. EPA/DAVID MAUNG

Leprosy Hospital in Srinagar

Photographer: Farooq Khan

Homeless Deportees in Tijuana

Photographer: David Maung
epa03657502 (15/19) Guests wearing costumes and ball gowns dance to the music of the Philippe Lebel orchestra during the Imperial Ball in the Opera Ballroom of The Grand Hotel in Paris, France, 06 April 2013. The annual ball is organized by French charity 'Les Oeuvres des Saints Anges' (lit: Work of the Holy Angels) and its President, Baroness de Saint-Didier. EPA/YOAN VALAT epa03656597 (12/12) Revellers spray their bags of colored powder during the first Holi One Color festival in Cape Town, South Africa, 02 March 2013. Recently in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, a commercial adaptation called the Holi One Colour Festival, was witnessed by thousands of party goers dancing to professional DJ's and every hour the festival would count down to a massive explosion of colored paint as the revellers threw bags of powdered paint into the air and onto friends and other festival goers. EPA/KIM LUDBROOK

The Imperial Ball

Photographer: Yoan Valat

Holi One Party

Photographer: Kim Ludbrook
epa03647554 (24/29)The Mawenzi peak is silouhetted against the sunrise seen from the Kibo summit of the Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, Tanzania, 14 February 2013. Climbing Kilimajaro is tough, however the treks include a reasonable number of days for acclimatisation, giving a large number of visitors a better chance to succeed in reaching the summit. Although it is not a technically difficult climb the altitude can take it toll on climbers. EPA/GERNOT HENSEL epa03728843 (18/18) Children of the Uighur ethnic group play while cleaning outside their home in the old town of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, 24 May 2013. Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority group in China, make up about 40 per cent of the 21.8 million people in Xinjiang, a vast, ethnically divided region that borders Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Other ethnic minorities living in the region include the Han Chinese, Kyrgyz, Mongolian and Tajiks people. In the restive region of Kashgar, at the western end of Xinjiang where the North and South Silk road meets, Uighurs comprise of more than 90 per cent of the 3.9 million population. Most practice a moderate form of Islam and religion is a major part of most ordinary Uighurs' lives. Tensions have been high between the Uighurs and the dominant Han Chinese as Uighurs complain of cultural and religious repression and claim that Han Chinese migrants enjoy the main benefits of development in the oil-rich but economically backward region. EPA/HOW HWEE YOUNG

Kilimajaro Lemosho Trek

Photographer: Gernot Hensel

Kashgar's Ethnic Uighurs

Photographer: How Hwee Young