Photo's Cris Toala Olivares

SAIL Amsterdam 2010. The 8th edition of the nautical event will take place till Monday Aug. 23 on and around the IJ river. The organisation expects over a million visitors. Photo Cris Toala Olivares

After anti-government protesters, known as Red Shirts, occupied Bangkok's high-end shopping and hotel district for almost two months, Thai army soldiers began an operation to clear them out of the fortified encampments they had built. Photo Cris Toala Olivares

JERUSALEM : Palestinian construction workers are seen at a large apartment building complex being built in the southern Jerusalem settlement of Gilo Photo Cris Toala Olivares

2009 There are about 720 mountain gorillas in the world. They make their home in two regions of eastern central Africa: the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda and the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. According to the most recent censuses, there are 380 gorillas in the Virunga region and 340 in Bwindi In Rwanda Photo: Cris Toala Olivares

2009 15 years after the Rwandan genocide, which saw the massacre of some 800,000 people, prosecutors say hundreds of suspected perpetrators are still at large. In Rwanda Photo: Cris Toala Olivares

Rafah border the Palestinian organization Hamas keeps injured Palestinians who want to go to Egypt for medical treatment Photo: Cris Toala Olivares

Destroyed building during Israel offensive in Gaza Strip Photo: Cris Toala Olivares