Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:00:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Villagers prepare to smear blood on banknotes during a festival at the Nem Thuong village in Bac Ninh, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Hanoi, January 28, 2012. Organized by the villagers, the festival is held on the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar to worship the village's deity Doan Thuong, an anti-royal military general who lived in 13th century. Every year, thousands of people from the village and nearby villages will gather to smear the blood of the pig on their banknotes in the belief that it would bring luck in the new year. The festival is known as the most brutal in the country and is condemned by many, including some who called on the government to stop the festival. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS)
Members of the North Korean Peace Foundation prepare to release ...
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:10:02 +0100 (AP) - Members of the North Korean Peace Foundation prepare to release balloons carrying 1,000 warm socks and messages of hope and love toward North Korea near the Unification Observatory Post near the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Workers prepare helva, a traditional Turkish sweet prepared ...
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:50:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Workers prepare helva, a traditional Turkish sweet prepared with sesame oil, at Konya Seker Sugar Factory in Cumra, a small town about 50km (31 miles) south of the central Anatolian city of Konya January 27, 2012. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD)
Porn actors prepare to shoot a scene for a Vivid Entertainment ...
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:40:07 +0100 (Reuters) - Porn actors prepare to shoot a scene for a Vivid Entertainment adult film production in the Los Angeles area in this undated photograph, released to Reuters January 26, 2012. Porn actors in Los Angeles will have to use condoms on the set as a condition of obtaining a film permit under a first-in-the-nation requirement quietly signed into law by the Los Angeles mayor and a nearby community was considering a similar rule. Officials in Simi Valley said on January 24, 2012 they were mulling their own condom ordinance out of a concern adult film producers could move shop to their more suburban community, fleeing the condom requirement that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed into law on Monday. Villaraigosa signed the measure, which was approved by the City Council in a highly-watched move earlier this month, on Monday, his spokesman Peter Sanders said. It goes into effect in about 40 days. REUTERS/Courtesy Vivid Entertaiment LLC/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT HEALTH) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
Colombian anti-drug police prepare to burn a cocaine laboratory ...
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:20:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Colombian anti-drug police prepare to burn a cocaine laboratory in Puerto Concordia, near Meta province January 25, 2012. At least 90 members of the drug police are participating in Operation "Republica 73", aimed at destroying labs that belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in Meta province. REUTERS/John Vizcaino (COLOMBIA - Tags: MILITARY DRUGS SOCIETY CRIME LAW)
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