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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Miss Universe 2010, Jimena Navarrete, poses at the Teleton foundation, in Tlanepantla, Mexico

Miss Universe 2010, Mexican Jimena Navarrete, poses at the Teleton foundation, in
Tlanepantla, Mexico

Jimena Navarrete, poses at the Teleton foundation, in
Tlanepantla, Mexico

Miss Universe 2010, Mexican Jimena Navarrete

Friday, August 27, 2010

Jared Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars performs during the 2010 MTV World Stages concert

Jared Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars performs during the 2010 MTV
World Stages concert at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico.

Billy Corgan with a Mexican flag on him, performs during the MTV World Stage concert

U.S. Billy Corgan, member of the music group Smashing Pumpkins,
with a Mexican flag on him, performs during the MTV World Stage
concert in Mexico City

Jared Leto of 30 seconds to Mars performs during the 2010 MTV World Stagesconcert

Jared Leto of 30 seconds to Mars performs during the 2010
MTV World Stagesconcert at the Auditorio Nacional

Musician Jared Leto of 30 Seconds to Mars

US singer and actor Jared Leto from the rock band 30 seconds to Mars

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Billy Corgan from rock band Smashing Pumpkins performs

Billy Corgan from rock band Smashing Pumpkins performs during the recording of the 'World Stage of MTV' television show

Angel Mosqueda, León Larregui, Sergio Acosta, Jesus Báez and Rodrigo Guardiola of Zoe pose during the 2010 MTV World Stages

Musicians Angel Mosqueda, León Larregui, Sergio Acosta, Jesus Báez and Rodrigo Guardiola of Zoe pose during the 2010 MTV World Stages press conference

Jared Leto poses with members of '30 seconds to Mars' Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicevic

Jared Leto poses with members of '30 seconds to Mars' Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicevic before a news conference in Mexico City

Jared Leto speaks next to members of his band '30 seconds to Mars'

Jared Leto

Thursday, August 19, 2010

A gold-plated handgun, engraved and inlaid with diamonds on the butt

A gold-plated handgun, engraved and inlaid with diamonds on the butt, is displayed at the Museum of Drugs in Mexico City

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Iker Casillas holds up the Bicentenary Trophy after their international friendly football match against Mexico

Iker Casillas holds up the Bicentenary Trophy after their
international friendly football match against Mexico
at the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City

Spain's goalkeeper Iker Casillas holds the FIFA World Cup trophy won by the team in the South Africa 2010 World Cup tournament, before playing an international friendly football match against Mexico, at the Aztec Stadium, in Mexico City, on August 11, 2010.

Iker Casillas holds the FIFA World Cup trophy before playing an international friendly football match against
Mexico

Mexico's striker Javier Hernandez (L) scores his first goal past Spain's captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas during a friendly international soccer match at Azteca stadium in Mexico City August 11, 2010.

Javier Hernandez scores his first goal past Iker Casillas

Iker Casillas

Friday, July 23, 2010

Activists covered in food coloring made

Activists covered in food coloring made to look like oil protest BP's Gulf oil spill in Mexico City

Friday, July 9, 2010

Stunning and creative graffiti artworks from all over the world

A graffiti artist creates a picture of South African icon Nelson Mandela as he competes in a graffiti competition in Durban, South Africa on July 9, 2010.

A graffiti artist creates a picture of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela's graffiti

A young boy skateboards past a ramp decorated with graffiti in a skate park in Durban, South Africa on July 9, 2010.

A young boy skateboards past a ramp decorated with graffiti
A man sleeps under a bridge next to a graffiti near Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A man sleeps under a bridge next to a graffiti near Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A man sleeps under a bridge next to a graffiti near Moganshan road in Shanghai
A woman puts clothes to dry in front of a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A woman puts clothes to dry in front of a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A woman puts clothes to dry in front of a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai
A man walks past a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A man walks past a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A man walks past a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai
A man crosses at street in front of a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A man crosses at street in front of a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A man crosses at street in front of a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai
A man walks past a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai
A man walks past a wall painted with graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A graffiti artist's spray cans are pictured as he competes in a graffiti competition in Durban, South Africa on July 9, 2010.

A graffiti artist's spray cans
A graffiti artist creates a picture of South African icon Nelson Mandela as he competes in a graffiti competition in Durban, South Africa on July 9, 2010.

graffiti competition in Durban, South Africa
A young man looks at a graffiti at Santa Ursula neighbordhood, in Mexico City, on July 09, 2010.

A young man looks at a graffiti at Santa Ursula neighbordhood, in Mexico City
Two pedestrians pass by a garage door with a graffiti at Santa Ursula neighbordhood, in Mexico City, on July 09, 2010.

Two pedestrians pass by a garage door with a graffiti at Santa Ursula neighbordhood, in Mexico City, on July 09, 2010.

Two pedestrians pass by a garage door with a graffiti at Santa Ursula neighbordhood, in Mexico City
A college student walks past a wall painted with graffiti at the Fine Arts department of the Philippine's University in Quezon City, suburban Manila on July 9, 2010.

A college student walks past a wall painted with graffiti at the Fine Arts department of the Philippine's University in Quezon City, suburban Manila

A woman paints a graffiti in Shanghai on July 5, 2010.

A woman paints a graffiti in Shanghai
A wall of a derelict house in Montevideo's Old town, decorated with graffiti, March 30, 2010.

A wall of a derelict house in Montevideo's Old town, decorated with graffiti
A wall covering a construction site, decorated with graffiti, in Montevideo, March 30, 2010.

A wall covering a construction site, decorated with graffiti, in Montevideo

A woman steps out a building in an arts district in Beiijng where graffiti is spray-painted walls

Graffiti artists, including Chen Chuang (R), spray paint on a white-washed wall in central in Beijing on June 30, 2009. China has seen the emergence of a small but growing group of graffiti artists but unlike their counterparts in the West, who have sometimes used the art form to convey political messages, Chinese artists offer a message that has little to do with revolt or protest, with many having taken up graffiti as a trendy fad, discovered through the Internet, films, magazines and from friends who had travelled abroad.

Chen Chuang spray paint on a white-washed wall in central in Beijing

A young woman walks beside graffiti spray-painted on a wall in central Beijing on June 30, 2009. China has seen the emergence of a small but growing group of graffiti artists but unlike their counterparts in the West, who have sometimes used the art form to convey political messages, Chinese artists offer a message that has little to do with revolt or protest, with many having taken up graffiti as a trendy fad, discovered through the Internet, films, magazines and from friends who had travelled abroad.

A young woman walks beside graffiti spray-painted on a wall in central Beijing
A woman walks alongside electoral graffiti calling for votes for the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party in Male on October 26, 2008. The Indian Ocean atoll nation is set for a run off election on October 28, 2008 after incumbent President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom failed to win outright the October 8, 2008 vote and is facing his main challenger Mohamed 'Anni' Nasheed.

A woman walks alongside electoral graffiti calling for votes for the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party in Male

A woman walks alongside electoral graffiti reading 'a new Maldives' and calling for votes for the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party in Male
A man paints a graffiti in Denpasar, on Bali island, 11 October 2007, a day before the fifth anniversary of the 12 October 2005 bomb blasts. On 12 October 2002, bomb blasts ripped through night club in Legian Kuta, killing at least 202 people.

A man paints a graffiti in Denpasar, on Bali island, 11 October 2007, a day before the fifth anniversary of the 12 October 2005 bomb blasts. On 12 October 2002, bomb blasts ripped through night club in Legian Kuta, killing at least 202 people.

A man paints a graffiti in Denpasar, on Bali island
A woman and young girl walk past graffiti on a wall in a street in Beijing on June 30, 2009. Grafitti first penetrated the consciousness of young Chinese in the 1990's, with the arrival of hip-hop music and the fashion trends of backwards baseball caps and skateboards, and though having been accepted as an art culture, most graffiti-artists stay away from anything political.

A woman and young girl walk past graffiti on a wall in a street in Beijing on June 30, 2009. Grafitti first penetrated the consciousness of young Chinese in the 1990's, with the arrival of hip-hop music and the fashion trends of backwards baseball caps and skateboards, and though having been accepted as an art culture, most graffiti-artists stay away from anything political.

A woman and young girl walk past graffiti on a wall in a street in Beijing
A street sweeper walks past the graffiti along a street in Beijing on July 9, 2009. Leaders of the world's five biggest developing economies, including China, cranked up pressure on their counterparts from the richest nations on July 9 for more concessions on poverty relief and climate warming during G8 talks in Italy.

A street sweeper walks past the graffiti along a street in Beijing on July 9, 2009. Leaders of the world's five biggest developing economies, including China, cranked up pressure on their counterparts from the richest nations on July 9 for more concessions on poverty relief and climate warming during G8 talks in Italy.

A street sweeper walks past the graffiti along a street in Beijing
A boy looks back while walking past graffiti on a wall in a street in Beijing on June 30, 2009. Grafitti first penetrated the consciousness of young Chinese in the 1990's, with the arrival of hip-hop music and the fashion trends of backwards baseball caps and skateboards, and though having been accepted as an art culture, most graffiti-artists stay away from anything political.

A boy looks back while walking past graffiti on a wall in a street in Beijing on June 30, 2009. Grafitti first penetrated the consciousness of young Chinese in the 1990's, with the arrival of hip-hop music and the fashion trends of backwards baseball caps and skateboards, and though having been accepted as an art culture, most graffiti-artists stay away from anything political.

A boy looks back while walking past graffiti on a wall in a street in Beijing
A man walks past a graffiti at Pantitlan neighbordhood, near Mexico's International Airport, in Mexico City, on July 8, 2010.

A man walks past a graffiti at Pantitlan neighbordhood, near Mexico's International Airport, in Mexico City, on July 8, 2010.

A man walks past a graffiti at Pantitlan neighbordhood, near Mexico's International Airport
A cyclist passes by a graffiti at Pantitlan neighbordhood, near Mexico's International Airport, in Mexico City, on July 8, 2010.

A cyclist passes by a graffiti at Pantitlan neighbordhood, near Mexico's International Airport, in Mexico City, on July 8, 2010.

Two women walk past a graffiti at Pantitlan neighbordhood, near Mexico's International Airport, in Mexico City, on July 8, 2010.

A man passes by a graffiti at Pantitlan neighbordhood, near Mexico's International Airport, in Mexico City, on July 8, 2010.

A man walks along a wall painted with a graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years, it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A man walks along a wall painted with a graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai
A woman and a child walk along a wall painted with a graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A woman and a child walk along a wall painted with a graffiti on Moganshan road in Shanghai on July 8, 2010. While the area on the banks of the city's Suzhou Creek was once just factories and warehouses, with galleries of all sizes mushrooming for the past 10 years it is today known as a buzzing Chinese art scene.

A wall decorated with graffiti, in Montevideo, March 30, 2010.

A wall decorated with graffiti, in Montevideo

A graffiti on a wall around the Azteca stadium at Santa Ursula neighborhood, in Mexico City, on July 09, 2010.

A graffiti on a wall around the Azteca stadium at Santa Ursula neighborhood, in Mexico City, on July 09, 2010.

A graffiti on a wall around the Azteca stadium
A graffiti at Santa Ursula neighborhood, in Mexico City, on July 09, 2010.

A graffiti at Santa Ursula neighborhood