The news in pictures. A selection of photographs from around the world, covering a variety of topics from politics and current events to celebrity and royalty.

To me my vision is my most valued sense. I live in Southern California, San Diego, with great weather and beautiful nature, so even though my main work is being behind the computer I also get to be active, I get plenty of exercise and eat healthy. Living long is all about doing the right things and the wrong things …

Eiffel Tower It is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

The candidates outlined their plans for the post. They were given an equal time to garner as many votes as possible in order to win the ticket to the office.

The story of persian celebrities in the past decades can show us how homeland and persians changed. In fact, they show us what have changed and what have not changed in homeland. persian Celebrities before and after the Islamic Revolution have their own similarities and differences with each other.

These were free-lance pictures taken for Fresno’s newspaper, the Fresno Bee from about 1960 through to about 1966.1200 Block Blackstone Fresno in about 1965.

Holy places, (Loca sancta) are sites that a religion considers to be of special religious significance. They are usually places visited by pilgrims.

Ernesto “Che” Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

Shams Palace is a large estate designed by Taliesin Associated Architects on instructions from princess Shams Pahlavi, elder sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of homeland. It was built in the early 1970s and it is located in Mehrshahr near Karaj.

Norman Wisdom (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin.