War-orphaned children sit in cardboard boxes at the Kizito orphanage in Bunia in northeastern Congo February 24, 2009.

Ethnic violence has simmered for years in northeastern Congo, part of broader civil and regional conflict currently uprooting hundreds of thousands of Congolese fleeing massacres and reprisal killings by various armed groups roaming the country's vast and lawless wilds.

REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)

Children play with a camera in a makeshift house at a demolition site in Las Pinas, south of Metro Manila February 26, 2009.

REUTERS/John Javellana (PHILIPPINES)

A woman cries as she cannot find her 4-year-old daughter and husband on the top of the ruins of a destroyed school in earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, May 17, 2008.

Thousands of Chinese fled to the hills on Saturday amid fears a lake formed near the epicentre of this week's earthquake would burst its banks. The water level at the lake formed after aftershocks blocked a river was rising rapidly in Beichuan and "may burst its bank at any time", the official Xinhua news agency said.

REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA)

Roger Mbuliundo stands beside the body of his father Dieudonne Kulimbo, 60, who was shot and killed in the bush near Dungu in northeastern Congo, February 17, 2009.

Thousands of Congolese have fled their villages since December as Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels roaming the bush carry out massacres that have killed some 900 civilians during the past two months.

REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)

A flare fired by Israeli forces is seen over the northern Gaza Strip January 16, 2009.

Israel said its Gaza offensive could be "in the final act" on Friday and sent envoys to discuss truce terms after Hamas made a ceasefire offer to end three weeks of fighting that has killed more than 1,100 people.

REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (GAZA)

Students smear each other with colour powder during the celebrations of Holi, the Indian festival of colours, in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata March 9, 2009.

The tradition of Holi heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.

REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw (INDIA SOCIETY RELIGION)

Women visit a war memorial site, 25 km (16 miles) away from the Iraqi border and 1,145 km (716 miles) southwest of Tehran, in Khoozestan province March 17, 2009.

Iranians visit the main battlegrounds during the last week of the Iranian calendar to remember martyrs who died in the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88).

REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN ANNIVERSARY SOCIETY)

A policeman stands in front of collapsed buildings after an earthquake in Aquila April 7, 2009.

The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck central Italy has risen to 207, Prime Minister Silvio Berlsuconi said on Tuesday. More than 24 hours after the quake shook the central Italian region of Abruzzo, emergency workers dug out two students early on Tuesday from collapsed buildings in L'Aquila, the medieval mountain city of 68,000 people worst hit by the disaster.

REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito (ITALY DISASTER IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE)

Palestinians girls look out from the balcony of their damaged house in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip March 23, 2009.

An Israeli human rights group said on Monday the military violated medical ethics codes during its Gaza offensive, the latest accusation against the conduct in combat of Israel's military.

REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE)

Children play in front of the Coricancha Inca Temple in the city of Cuzco February 2, 2009.

REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU)

Ethnic women with children walk near barbed wire at an internally displaced camp set up for Tamils who escaped the war zone, in Vavuniya, about 254 km (158 miles) north of Colombo, April 4, 2009.

REUTERS/ Stringer (SRI LANKA CONFLICT POLITICS)