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The "Lady Boys of Bangkok" at the Bedlam paintball venue near South Queensferry, Scotland, to promote their show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Michael Jackson at the O2 centre in London where he announced plans to hold a series of ten shows at the venue. He died three months later in June

Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, had eggs thrown at him outside Parliament by anti-Nazi demonstrators after his election as a member of the European Parliament in June

ASIMO, an advanced humanoid robot developed by Honda, during a visit to the offices of News international at Wapping, London, in February. It is programmed to perform simple tasks such as shaking hands

A burnt UN bulletproof vest inside the Bakhtar guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan. The guesthouse was attacked in the early hours of October 28 by the Taleban. Three men killed five UN staff, two Afghan security personnel and an Afghan civilian

A US soldier of the 110th Mountain division prays at a Sunday morning service at an airbase in Wardak province, Afghanistan

Passengers wait to be rescued from a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the Hudson River, New York, on January 15 after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines. All 155 people on board survived

Tennis fans watching the match between Andy Murray of Britain and Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka on a big screen at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships

The singer Amy Winehouse outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court , London, where she was on trial for allegedly assaulting a dancer at a charity ball. She was found not guilty