An East German observation tower rises above the security fence beside the River Werra at the border, known as the Iron Curtain, between West and...
An East German observation tower with camera surveillance equipment on top stands on the border, known as the Iron Curtain, between West and East...
Road sign warns that the bridge ahead is 'Out Of Order' at a former crossing of the River Elbe at the border, known as the Iron Curtain, between West...
Conservative Party politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher seated with Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe on board a Royal...
Young boy displays a puffer fish, his share of a catch, after helping to pull in fishing nets from the waters of the Indian Ocean off the beach of...
Members of a local family help to pull in fishing nets from the waters of the Indian Ocean off the beach of the coastal town of Vilankulo in...
Muammar Gaddafi , leader of the State of Libya, attends an indoor rally in Tripoli, Libya on 15th January 1986.
An employee tends to pots of the culinary herb Oregano growing in a large glasshouse at a Hazlewood VHB plant nursery near Canterbury in Kent,...
Camel is prepared for a bout as a crowd of spectators watch during the annual Yoruk camel wrestling festival in a stadium beside the ancient city of...
Two camels wrestle as a crowd of spectators watch during the annual Yoruk camel wrestling festival in a stadium beside the ancient city of Ephesus...
Marine from the United States Marine Corps, a member of the Multinational Force in Lebanon , in his sandbag protected bunker at Beirut Airport in...
Military personnel and rescuers search for survivors of a terrorist truck bomb attack on the barracks building housing servicemen from the 1st and...
Military personnel and rescuers search for survivors of a terrorist truck bomb attack on the barracks building housing servicemen from the 2nd Marine...
Military personnel and rescuers locate wounded marine Morris Dorsay, a survivor of a terrorist truck bomb attack on the barracks building housing...
Swedish Social Democratic Party politician Olof Palme , Prime Minister of Sweden, posed during a break in campaigning ahead of the 1985 Swedish...
Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft from the Carrier air wing is launched by steam catapult from the flight deck of the United States Navy...
Night time view of the fluid catalytic cracking unit in operation at Pembroke oil refinery, owned by the Texaco oil company, on the south bank of...
Smoke rises from the remains of the destroyed Piper Alpha module A oil platform after two explosions went off on the rig over the Piper Oilfield in...
View from a helicopter of gas being flared off the Tartan Alpha oil rig installation, owned by the Texaco oil company, above the Tartan oil field in...
Woman carries a tray of cabbages on her head past market stalls at a street market in the city of Lagos in southern Nigeria in 2001.
Punter uses a pair of binoculars to view the racing during the 1000 Guineas Stakes flat horse race meeting at Newmarket Racecourse in Suffolk,...
King Hussein of Jordan escorts Queen Elizabeth II as she inspects servicemen from the Jordanian Armed Forces at Aqaba Airport at the end of a state...
Surgeon Chris Rudge and his team carry out a kidney transplant operation on a patient in an operating theatre at St Peter's NHS Hospital in Chertsey,...
English art historian John Pope-Hennessy posed in Florence, Italy in 1993. Pope-Hennessy was Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1967 to...
View of apartments in high rise towers and blocks of flats within a housing estate in a suburb of the city of Katowice in Silesia Province of...
Portrait of a steel worker working at a steel mill in the city of Katowice in Silesia Province of southern Poland in 1989.
Passengers board a tram running along a street in the centre of the city of Katowice in Silesia Province of southern Poland in 1989.
Maasai woman dressed in decorative beads and necklaces in the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya, East Africa in September 1988.
Queen Elizabeth II meets with local residents on a walkabout in St Vincent and the Grenadines, celebrating the country's sixth anniversary of...
Led by pipers, members of the Society of William Wallace take part in a memorial march along a road in the centre of the town of Lanark in South...
Liberal Party politician Jim Wallace, Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, joins members of the Society of William Wallace as they take part in...
Meat from a butchered hippopotamus is cut up prior to being distributed to villagers at Sadinda in Zimbabwe, Africa in 1996.
Meat from a butchered ten year old bull elephant is cut up in the bush prior to being distributed to villagers near Lukosi in Matabeleland,...
British businessman John King Lord King, Chairman of British Airways, posed with a model of a Concorde supersonic aircraft in his office in London...
Black office chair placed amongst the wreckage of a British Airways Boeing 747 aircraft, registration G-AWND, on an apron at Kuwait International...
Catering staff prepare meals for Club Class airline passengers in a kitchen prep area at British Airways Catering Division's Heathrow Airport...
Car worker welds the undeside of a car body on the production line of Nissan Motors Zona Franca assembly plant in Barcelona, capital city of...
Racegoer wears a jockey and racehorse tie-pin in his tie as he watches horse racing at York Racecourse in York, North Yorkshire, England in 1997.
President Samora Machel of Mozambique attends an outdoor meeting with Christopher Soames , Governor of Southern Rhodesia, in Maputo, capital of...
Iraqi army general and politician Saddam Hussein , 5th President of Iraq, is interviewed by a journalist from Time magazine in Baghdad, capital of...
Portrait of a female punk, wearing goth style clothing, dark eye make-up and a shaved head, posed seated on a bed in a bedroom in London in 1983. A...
Factory chimneys emit pollutants into the atmosphere over the town of Espenhain in the state of Saxony in East Germany in February 1990. A lot of air...
Crowds of mourners, including members of the Black People's Convention , surround the coffin during the funeral of South African anti-apartheid...
Crowds of mourners attend the funeral of South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in King William's Town and Ginsberg Township in the Eastern...
Members of the Black People's Convention , including president of the movement Winnie Kgware in blue dress, attend the inquest of South African...
Oil workers work on the rotary table and kelly drive of an oil drilling rig over an oil well near Muscat in Oman on the southeastern coast of the...
An auto worker welds the bodyshell of a car at a car factory in Mombasa, south eastern Kenya in East Africa in 1988.
Underwriters, members and names at work on trading floors linked by escalators in the new Lloyd's Building, home of Lloyd's of London insurance...
French born British financier and businessman James Goldsmith posed with his wife Lady Annabel Goldsmith and their children, from left, Jemima, Zac...
Bathers are served drinks by a waiter in the hot water pools of the Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa near the town of Grindavik in southwestern Iceland...
Westland Lynx military helicopter takes off from the flight deck of Royal Navy Leander-class frigate HMS Jupiter on Armilla patrol in the Persian...
British diver Andy Taylor, wearing a wetsuit and goggles, dives for lost golf balls in ponds and water features on a golf course in southern England...
Bunderswehr recruits from Paratrooper Battalion 273 take part in a training exercise in a forest near the West German Army's school for airborne...
The rusting remains of a narrow gauge steam locomotive and trucks on rails in a siding of the Ottoman Empire era Hejaz Railway at the abandoned...
Interior view of the buffet car of a British Rail Class 373 Eurostar e300 electric multiple unit high speed train inside North Pole depot in London...
The wreck of the Liberian registered oil tanker MV Braer after running aground near Quendale Bay on the Shetland Islands in Scotland in January 1993....
Woman pushes a pram containing two toddlers across the Promenade and Golden Mile in the seaside resort town of Blackpool in Lancashire, England in...
Visitors sunbathe in deckchairs with an ice cream van on the beach in the seaside resort town of Blackpool in Lancashire, England in September 1991.
Visitors sunbathing in deckchairs on the beach in the seaside resort town of Blackpool in Lancashire, England in September 1991. Visible in the...
