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  • A Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340 crosses the perimeter fence at Heathrow Airport on its way to an international destination. Seen from below, the passing Jumbo takes-off and climbs under full take-off power over the surrounding airfield security fence. Its razor-wire is an effective deterrent against protesters or terrorists and symbolises the lengths that airport authorities (in this case BAA) need go to to ensure their property is safe. The aircraft is seen almost entangled in the secure wire as if passing through the mesh. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1053-11-08-2009_1.jpg
  • A Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340 crosses the perimeter fence at Heathrow Airport on its way to an international destination. Seen from below, the passing Jumbo takes-off and climbs under full take-off power over the surrounding airfield security fence. Its razor-wire is an effective deterrent against protesters or terrorists and symbolises the lengths that airport authorities (in this case BAA) need go to to ensure their property is safe. The aircraft is seen almost entangled in the secure wire as if passing through the mesh. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1053-11-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • A flock of nervous pigeons take-off en-masse in front of  Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-35-29-03-2018.jpg
  • Families watch the mass lift-off by balloons at Bristols annual fiesta at Ashton Court, UK. Taking off into early morning summer skies above England's southwest City, the airships rise from the heat of hot air burners. Crowds from across the city arive with BBQs and picnics and children to sit and wait for the green smoke that signals a Go. Once airbourne, the balloons start to climb only a short distance, to land a few hundred metres away on this particular morning's stll air conditions. The 37th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is billed as Europe’s largest (and free) ballooning event. Bristol's local ballooning entrepreneur hero is Don Cameron whose balloons are known worldwide.
    balloon_fiesta07-08-08-2015_1 1.jpg
  • Families watch the mass lift-off by balloons at Bristols annual fiesta at Ashton Court, UK. Taking off into early morning summer skies above England's southwest City, the airships rise from the heat of hot air burners. Crowds from across the city arive with BBQs and picnics and children to sit and wait for the green smoke that signals a Go. Once airbourne, the balloons start to climb only a short distance, to land a few hundred metres away on this particular morning's stll air conditions. The 37th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is billed as Europe’s largest (and free) ballooning event. Bristol's local ballooning entrepreneur hero is Don Cameron whose balloons are known worldwide.
    balloon_fiesta05-08-08-2015_1.jpg
  • Families watch the mass lift-off by balloons at Bristols annual fiesta at Ashton Court, UK. Taking off into early morning summer skies above England's southwest City, the airships rise from the heat of hot air burners. Crowds from across the city arive with BBQs and picnics and children to sit and wait for the green smoke that signals a Go. Once airbourne, the balloons start to climb only a short distance, to land a few hundred metres away on this particular morning's stll air conditions. The 37th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is billed as Europe’s largest (and free) ballooning event. Bristol's local ballooning entrepreneur hero is Don Cameron whose balloons are known worldwide.
    balloon_fiesta09-08-08-2015_1 1.jpg
  • Families watch the mass lift-off by balloons at Bristols annual fiesta at Ashton Court, UK. Taking off into early morning summer skies above England's southwest City, the airships rise from the heat of hot air burners. Crowds from across the city arive with BBQs and picnics and children to sit and wait for the green smoke that signals a Go. Once airbourne, the balloons start to climb only a short distance, to land a few hundred metres away on this particular morning's stll air conditions. The 37th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is billed as Europe’s largest (and free) ballooning event. Bristol's local ballooning entrepreneur hero is Don Cameron whose balloons are known worldwide.
    balloon_fiesta09-08-08-2015_1.jpg
  • Families watch the mass lift-off by balloons at Bristols annual fiesta at Ashton Court, UK. Taking off into early morning summer skies above England's southwest City, the airships rise from the heat of hot air burners. Crowds from across the city arive with BBQs and picnics and children to sit and wait for the green smoke that signals a Go. Once airbourne, the balloons start to climb only a short distance, to land a few hundred metres away on this particular morning's stll air conditions. The 37th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is billed as Europe’s largest (and free) ballooning event. Bristol's local ballooning entrepreneur hero is Don Cameron whose balloons are known worldwide.
    balloon_fiesta07-08-08-2015_1.jpg
  • A father watches with his child, the mass lift-off by balloons at Bristols annual fiesta at Ashton Court, UK. Taking off into early morning summer skies above England's southwest City, the airships rise from the heat of hot air burners. Crowds from across the city arive with picnics and children to sit and wait for the green smoke that signals a Go. Once airbourne, the balloons start to climb only a short distance, to land a few hundred metres away on this particular morning's stll air conditions. The 37th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is billed as Europe’s largest (and free) ballooning event. Bristol's local ballooning entrepreneur hero is Don Cameron whose balloons are known worldwide.
    balloon_fiesta02-08-08-2015_1.jpg
  • Families watch the mass lift-off by balloons at Bristols annual fiesta at Ashton Court, UK. Taking off into early morning summer skies above England's southwest City, the airships rise from the heat of hot air burners. Crowds from across the city arive with BBQs and picnics and children to sit and wait for the green smoke that signals a Go. Once airbourne, the balloons start to climb only a short distance, to land a few hundred metres away on this particular morning's stll air conditions. The 37th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is billed as Europe’s largest (and free) ballooning event. Bristol's local ballooning entrepreneur hero is Don Cameron whose balloons are known worldwide.
    balloon_fiesta05-08-08-2015_1 1.jpg
  • An adult seagull launches itself into the air from a railing overlooking Mawddach Estuary, on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_seagull-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • MD902 Explorer helicopter from the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust on the ground in Ruskin Park after emergency flight to Kings College Hospital in south London. Lifting off again for another emergency case, the aircraft hovers for a moment before rotating 180 degrees before heading out again. The arm of a medical flight doctor can be seen in an open window. The Air Ambulance (KSSAAT) fly state of the art Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) aircraft operating 365 days a year, out of their base at Marden in Kent and Redhill in Surrey. They're capable of delivering our crews anywhere in our region in under 20 minutes flying time, attending over 20,000 missions
    air_ambulance20-16-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Malaysian Airlines Airbus A380 performs in blue skies during Britain's Farnborough Air Show. The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and, due to its size, many airports have had to expand their facilities to properly accommodate it. Malaysian Airline System Berhad (MYX: 3786), doing business as Malaysia Airlines (abbreviated MAS), is the government-owned flag carrier of Malaysia.
    a380_farnborough02-11-07-2012_1.jpg
  • An ederly and bent lady feeds pigeons at Elephant & Castle, London borough of Southwark. Disturbed by something, the birds take to flight and escape whatever dangers are on this area of pavement, recently redeveloped. The stooping woman finds more crumbs to drop next to an urban tree, seen as a menace to hygiene by others. A single pigeon takes-off and looks as if it is perched on the woman's head though it is in fact several metres distant.
    elephant_and_castle24-22-04-2015_1.jpg
  • An Royal Air Force Puma helicopter takes off after only a few moments on the ground in Ruskin Park, a public space in the south London borough of lambeth. The RAF often land their helicopters here as part of air crew training and familiarisation - rumoured to be part of emergency evacuation/extraction landing locations around the capital. Otherwise, the Puma is used in the battlefield within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
    ruskin_puma01-27-05-2015_1.jpg
  • An army Chinook military helicopter takes off over Edwardian period homes line Finsen Road on Ruskin Park, on 25th October 2017, in south London, England. RAF and Army helicopters occasionally land in this public space in order to familiarise air crew to potential evacuation zones in times of national crisis.
    ruskin_choook-04-25-10-2017.jpg
  • An army Chinook military helicopter takes off over Edwardian period homes line Finsen Road on Ruskin Park, on 25th October 2017, in south London, England. RAF and Army helicopters occasionally land in this public space in order to familiarise air crew to potential evacuation zones in times of national crisis.
    ruskin_choook-02-25-10-2017.jpg
  • An Royal Air Force Puma helicopter takes off after only a few moments on the ground in Ruskin Park, a public space in the south London borough of lambeth. The RAF often land their helicopters here as part of air crew training and familiarisation - rumoured to be part of emergency evacuation/extraction landing locations around the capital. Otherwise, the Puma is used in the battlefield within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
    ruskin_puma02-27-05-2015_1.jpg
  • An army Chinook military helicopter takes off over Edwardian period homes line Finsen Road on Ruskin Park, on 25th October 2017, in south London, England. RAF and Army helicopters occasionally land in this public space in order to familiarise air crew to potential evacuation zones in times of national crisis.
    ruskin_choook-03-25-10-2017.jpg
  • A four-engined airliner takes-off into distant darkening skies during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough in southern England. Lifting off from an unseen runway, the aircraft leaves the ground to climb away towards its unknown destination - its modern navigation aides pointing it to foreign lands and skies.
    sky_takeoff01-29-07-2002_1_1.jpg
  • An Aerospatiale SA365N Dauphin II offshore helicopter (reg number G-BKXD) operated by Bond Helicopters takes-off from a gas platform in the Irish Sea bound for its base at Blackpool, England. On duty ferrying offshore gas workers from Morcambe Bay, England, the helicopter flies off into a pink sky as darkness approaches. Left behind are the lights that illuminate the deck of the gas rig, the letter H beneath the facilities' netting. Bond Offshore Helicopters are a British Helicopter operator, specialising in providing offshore helicopter transportation services between Aberdeen, Scotland, Blackpool, Norwich and Humberside to North Sea and Irish Sea oil and gas platforms.
    gas_helicopter01-07-01-2000_1.jpg
  • Balloons float overhead during the mass lift-off by balloons at Bristols annual fiesta at Long Ashton, UK. Taking off into early morning summer skies above England's southwest City, the airships rise from the heat of hot air burners. Crowds from across the city arive with BBQs and picnics and children to sit and wait for the green smoke that signals a Go. Once airbourne, the balloons start to climb only a short distance, to land a few hundred metres away on this particular morning's stll air conditions. The 37th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is billed as Europe’s largest (and free) ballooning event. Bristol's local ballooning entrepreneur hero is Don Cameron whose balloons are known worldwide.
    balloon_fiesta15-08-08-2015_1.jpg
  • Balloons float overhead during the mass lift-off by balloons at Bristols annual fiesta at Long Ashton, UK. Taking off into early morning summer skies above England's southwest City, the airships rise from the heat of hot air burners. Crowds from across the city arive with BBQs and picnics and children to sit and wait for the green smoke that signals a Go. Once airbourne, the balloons start to climb only a short distance, to land a few hundred metres away on this particular morning's stll air conditions. The 37th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is billed as Europe’s largest (and free) ballooning event. Bristol's local ballooning entrepreneur hero is Don Cameron whose balloons are known worldwide.
    balloon_fiesta15-08-08-2015_1 1.jpg
  • Seen from Ruskin Park in Lambeth south London, the Agusta-Westland AW-169 helicopter G-KSSC of the Kent Air Ambulance lifts off from the helipad of Kings College Hospital in Camberwell, on 11th February 2019, in London, England.
    air_ambulance-02-11-02-2019.jpg
  • Locals are caught up in downdraught as ZA939, a Westland SA-330E Puma HC1 helicopter belonging to the RAF's 230 squadron, lifts off after a five minute touch down in Ruskin Park, south London. The RAF frequently make reconnaissance flights to this Lambeth open space for crew training purposes.
    park_puma2-21-10-2011.jpg
  • Locals are caught up in downdraught as ZA939, a Westland SA-330E Puma HC1 helicopter belonging to the RAF's 230 squadron, lifts off after a five minute touch down in Ruskin Park, south London. The RAF frequently make reconnaissance flights to this Lambeth open space for crew training purposes.
    park_puma1-21-10-2011.jpg
  • A single pigeons takes flight from a ledge outside the Bank branch of Nawest Bank PLC in the City of London, on 1st March 2021, in London, England.
    natwest_pigeons35-01-03-2021.jpg
  • A Royal Air Force winchman stands in a half-open door of a Westland Sea King helicopter as it takes-off after a medical mission to deliver a patient to Kings College Hospital in Camberwell. As locals look on at the aircraft as it lifts off from Ruskin Park, Lambeth in south London, the yellow RAF search and rescue aircraft (SAR) leaves to return to base. Both RAF, Royal Navy and London air ambulances regularly use this public space for emergency transporting of casualties to the NHS Trust A&E department.
    sea_king_park02-21-05-2013_1.jpg
  • A bird in flight against the distant background of a landing hot air balloon in a West Bank village of the modern city of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Having taken off from the pole on the left, the bird is a Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis).
    egypt404-07-03-2016_1.jpg
  • A large and aggressive seagull, squawks and looks angry as it takes-off in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-05-29-03-2018.jpg
  • A lone propeller-driven aeoplane banks right into evening skies during the world's largest aviation airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, at Oshkosh Air Venture, the world’s largest air show in Wisconsin USA. Close to a million populate the mass fly-in over the week, a pilgrimage worshipping all aspects of flight. The event annually generates $85 million in revenue over a 25 mile radius from Oshkosh. The event is presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), a national/international organization based in Oshkosh. The airshow is seven days long and typically begins on the last Monday in July. The airport's control tower is the busiest control tower in the world during the gathering
    oshkosh_airshow08-07-01-2000.jpg
  • Green light from the Head-Up Display (HUD) in the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin-built C-130J Hercules airlifter. Externally similar to the classic Hercules in general appearance, the J model sports considerably updated technology. These differences include new Rolls-Royce AE 2100 D3 turboprops with Dowty R391 composite scimitar propellers, digital avionics and HUDs for each pilot). During more than 50 years of service the Hercules family has the longest continuous production run of any military aircraft in history. Strategic, automated low-level airdrops keep 60 road transport vehicles and up to 120 supple troops off hostile roads using only three flight crew.
    farnborough_airshow23-21-07-2010_1.jpg
  • Green light from the Head-Up Display (HUD) in the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin-built C-130J Hercules airlifter. Externally similar to the classic Hercules in general appearance, the J model sports considerably updated technology. These differences include new Rolls-Royce AE 2100 D3 turboprops with Dowty R391 composite scimitar propellers, digital avionics and HUDs for each pilot). During more than 50 years of service the Hercules family has the longest continuous production run of any military aircraft in history. Strategic, automated low-level airdrops keep 60 road transport vehicles and up to 120 supple troops off hostile roads using only three flight crew.
    farnborough_airshow25-21-07-2010_1.jpg
  • MD902 Explorer helicopter from the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust takes-off beneath  commercial airliner overhead after emergency flight to Kings College Hospital in south London. Sharing airspace with both general and commercial aviation, the HEMS helicopters that service the capital need to be under control of local air traffic rules and regulations, making for a safe environment for different aircraft to operate in - separated by set altitude distances.  They may appear to be close but scale and perspective makes it look closer than they actually are. (KSSAAT) fly state of the art Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) aircraft operating 365 days a year, out of their base at Marden in Kent and Redhill in Surrey. They're capable of delivering our crews anywhere in our region in 20 minutes flying time, attending over 20,000 missions
    air_ambulance13-16-05-2014_1.jpg
  • A Childrens Air Ambulance takes-off from Ruskin Park in Lambeth, south London, on 21st June 2019, in London, England. The AgustaWestland AW169 helicopter G-TCAA is operated by used by UK Air Ambulances Specialist Aviation Services whose UK headquarters are at Gloucestershire Airport in England. It was built in 2016.
    air_ambulance-03-21-06-2019.jpg
  • A seagull lifts off from the roof of a beach hut on the seafront promenade at Whitstable, on 18th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable_beach07-18-07-2020.jpg
  • MD902 Explorer helicopter from the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust takes-off beneath  commercial airliner overhead after emergency flight to Kings College Hospital in south London. Sharing airspace with both general and commercial aviation, the HEMS helicopters that service the capital need to be under control of local air traffic rules and regulations, making for a safe environment for different aircraft to operate in - separated by set altitude distances.  They may appear to be close but scale and perspective makes it look closer than they actually are. (KSSAAT) fly state of the art Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) aircraft operating 365 days a year, out of their base at Marden in Kent and Redhill in Surrey. They're capable of delivering our crews anywhere in our region in 20 minutes flying time, attending over 20,000 missions
    air_ambulance21-16-05-2014_1.jpg
  • MD902 Explorer helicopter from the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust takes-off beneath  commercial airliner overhead after emergency flight to Kings College Hospital in south London. Sharing airspace with both general and commercial aviation, the HEMS helicopters that service the capital need to be under control of local air traffic rules and regulations, making for a safe environment for different aircraft to operate in - separated by set altitude distances.  They may appear to be close but scale and perspective makes it look closer than they actually are. (KSSAAT) fly state of the art Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) aircraft operating 365 days a year, out of their base at Marden in Kent and Redhill in Surrey. They're capable of delivering our crews anywhere in our region in 20 minutes flying time, attending over 20,000 missions
    air_ambulance11-16-05-2014_1.jpg
  • The outline of a generic airliner passes overhead as it takes-off at London Heathrow airport. With the strong shape of its aerodynamic surfaces, its wings and lowered flaps to gain maximum lift at this sea level atmosphere. The jet's undercarriage wheels are still lowered and the circular jet engines are clearly defined by strong sunlight. The airline operator is anonymous as is the manufacturer of the aircraft as it contunues its journey under blue skies to a faraway destination.
    airliner-01-05-1997_1.jpg
  • A young child plays among pigeons on the cobbled ground in Rynek Glowny market square, on 24th September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Bird theme construction theme hoarding in central London. During the renovation of this large building on the western end of Leicester Square, developers have designed the hoarding to reflect pigeon population long residing in this quarter of inner London. Although the feeding of birds is nowadays discouraged, tourists still drop crumbs and so pigeons still thrive, though not in the previous numbers of years ago.
    bird_hoarding08-18-03-2015_1.jpg
  • Airbus A380 demonstrating flying skills at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by Airbus. It is the world's largest passenger airliner, and many airports have upgraded facilities to accommodate its size. Airbus is an aircraft manufacturing division of Airbus Group (formerly European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company). Based in Blagnac, France, a suburb of Toulouse, with production and manufacturing facilities mainly in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, the company produced 626 airliners in 2013. At the 2014 show, Airbus announced new business worth more than $75m for 496 aircraft, a new record for the company.
    farnborough_air_show53-17-07-2014.jpg
  • A bus advert for the musical Billy Elliott drives past a construction hoarding featuring giant birds in flight spreading wings. As the bus swings right, turning away from this street corner near Leicester Square, we see the character Billy leaping in the air as, in the story of a working class boy during the 1980s minor's strike, becomes a student of ballet, he dances his way to a different future. The large birds behind echo his flight and outstretched arms.
    billy_elliott01-04-06-2015.jpg
  • The glow and trails of night manoeuvres seen from an upper deck of the US Navy's Harry S Truman aircraft carrier whilst on exercise somewhere in the Persian Gulf. <br />
The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of  5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.
    US_navy_carrier04-10-01-2003_1_1.jpg
  • Pigeon pest controller, Sue Van Vynck releases Harriet, her Harris Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) to scare away the local pigeon population. The ancient sport of Falconry has become today’s humane pest control of choice, particularly as costs falls. Once a pigeon population has been scared away, it requires only a token hawk presence to keep it away. Van Vynck Bird Control is a specialist company providing over 25 years, a range of environmental services dealing with nuisance bird management. They are pioneers of specialist techniques such as the use of predatory species (such as falconry) to displace and interrupt behavioural patterns as well as offering a complete range of physical deterrents. Here at Broadgate the nuisance was pigeons and Harriet leaves Sue's gloved hand to patrol the architecture of this 32 acres (129,499 m2) office and retail space.
    harris_hawk16-07_1993_1.jpg
  • The flight-deck crew of a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - perform a series of pre-flight checks before a scheduled departure, while on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Featuring electronic instruments it is known as a 'glass cockpit' and using a printed checklist manual, they methodically work through dozens of complex systems that require accurate input before the aircraft is ready for take off. Flight navigation computers, fuel and engine settings and radio frequencies all need programming by the two pilots, the captain on the left and the First Officer on the right. These modern airliners have only two pilots in a modern flight-deck as technology superceeded the need for a third member, the flight-engineers of a previous era of aviation.
    maldives452-15-11-2007.jpg
  • Plane taking off from Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong International Airport is the main airport in Hong Kong. It is located on the island of Chek Lap Kok, which largely comprises land reclaimed for the construction of the airport itself.
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  • As a helicopter from an Air Ambulance service takes off into overcast skies from the helipad on the roof of Kings College Hospital Trust, a westbound London Overground train leaves nearby Denmark Hill station which is used by many travelling outpatients and visitors to this vital NHS Trust, on 27th February 2020, in London, England.
    denmark_hill-01-26-02-2020.jpg
  • Flight exhibit with Hawker P1127 from 1960, which was the precursor to the Harrier Jump Jet at the Science Museum in London, England, United Kingdom. The Science Museum was founded in 1857 with objects shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Today the Museum is world renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries and inspirational exhibitions.
    20180417_science museum flight_008.jpg
  • Flight exhibit with Hawker P1127 from 1960, which was the precursor to the Harrier Jump Jet at the Science Museum in London, England, United Kingdom. The Science Museum was founded in 1857 with objects shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Today the Museum is world renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries and inspirational exhibitions.
    20180417_science museum flight_016.jpg
  • An English Electric Lightning supersonic jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era sits in an industrial wasteland on the side of the A1 motorway in England. Parked in a take-off attitude, the wreck is now covered with graffiti though once the forefront of Britain's nuclear deterrent. The Lightning was noted for its great speed, the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft and was the first aircraft in the world capable of supercruise. The Lightning was renowned for its capabilities as an interceptor; pilots commonly described it as "being saddled to a skyrocket"
    lightning01-10-01-2003.jpg
  • High up in the picture, two employees (one in traditional Arab clothes, the other in western dress) of Bahrain International Airport stand on the edge of a passenger 'air bridge' to oversee the departure of an airliner at Bahrain International Airport as it is pushed back by an unseen airport vehicle. It is night time and the ramp (or aircraft parking tarmac) is illuminated by yellow artificial light with the bridge itself, lit my overhead fluorescent tubes that give a blue-green tint above the mens' heads who watch the nose of a departing airliner. It is slowly taken backwards on its way to the runway take-off  position with its passengers on-board. We see only the fuselage, wings and part of its engine cowlings but not the undercarriage wheels, nor the ground itself. The men look as if they are floating in mid-air, being disembodied from the rest of the airfield's equipment.
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  • In fading afternoon sunlight, after the mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert are the remains of TWA Boeing 747s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliners which sit as if in a take-off queue at the storage facility at Mojave airport, California. Here, the fate of the world’s retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk, 1903.
    mojave_jets02-15-08-1998.jpg
  • Debris of Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-2B5F, registered HL7451 and bound for Milano-Malpensa Airport, which crashed due to instrument malfunction and pilot error on 22 December 1999 shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport. The aircraft crashed into Hatfield Forest near the village of Great Hallingbury close to but clear of some local houses. All four crew on board were killed.
    korean_cargo_crash01-23-12-1999.jpg
  • A plane taking off from London’s Heathrow Airport and flying over the Hatton Cross area of Hounslow Borough.
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  • A plane taking off from London’s Heathrow Airport, and flying over the Stanwell area of Hounslow Borough.
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  • A plane taking off from London’s Heathrow Airport and flying over the Hatton Cross area of Hounslow Borough.
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  • A plane taking off from London’s Heathrow Airport, and flying over the Stanwell area of Hounslow Borough.
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  • People in the departure lounge at Terminal five at Heathrow Airport watch a passenger jet take off.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
    20111015julian assange wikileaksB.jpg
  • Security employed by contractor OCS searches a passenger at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1467-18-08-2009_1.jpg
  • Security employed by contractor OCS searches a passenger at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • Security employed by contractor OCS monitors an X-ray machine at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. Children in one of CSID 's therapy sessions in Mirpur. Twice a week CSID offer therapy to disabled children and the parents happily take off time from work to attend. They lose income but they have all love and enjoy the sessions which help their children to function better. Normally this service costs £2/month  which is more than the parents can afford but CSID provides the service for free supported by Actionaid International. The Stars Foundation visiting CSID. Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. Children in one of CSID 's therapy sessions in Mirpur. Twice a week CSID offer therapy to disabled children and the parents happily take off time from work to attend. They lose income but they have all love and enjoy the sessions which help their children to function better. Normally this service costs £2/month  which is more than the parents can afford but CSID provides the service for free supported by Actionaid International. The Stars Foundation visiting CSID. Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. Children in one of CSID 's therapy sessions in Mirpur. Twice a week CSID offer therapy to disabled children and the parents happily take off time from work to attend. They lose income but they have all love and enjoy the sessions which help their children to function better. Normally this service costs £2/month  which is more than the parents can afford but CSID provides the service for free supported by Actionaid International. The Stars Foundation visiting CSID. Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. Children in one of CSID 's therapy sessions in Mirpur. Twice a week CSID offer therapy to disabled children and the parents happily take off time from work to attend. They lose income but they have all love and enjoy the sessions which help their children to function better. Normally this service costs £2/month  which is more than the parents can afford but CSID provides the service for free supported by Actionaid International. The Stars Foundation visiting CSID. Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. Children in one of CSID 's therapy sessions in Mirpur. Twice a week CSID offer therapy to disabled children and the parents happily take off time from work to attend. They lose income but they have all love and enjoy the sessions which help their children to function better. Normally this service costs £2/month  which is more than the parents can afford but CSID provides the service for free supported by Actionaid International. The Stars Foundation visiting CSID. Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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  • A detail of the fuel-stained runway deck of the US Navy's Harry S Truman aircraft carrier whilst on exercise somewhere in the Persian Gulf. From this surface, $38 million F/A-18s fighters take off the ship's deck and into the air from a standing position. The angled flight decks of the carriers use a CATOBAR arrangement to operate aircraft, with steam catapults and arrestor wires for launch and recovery. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of  5,137, 650 are women.
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  • Security employed by contractor OCS monitors an X-ray machine at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. Children in one of CSID 's therapy sessions in Mirpur. Twice a week CSID offer therapy to disabled children and the parents happily take off time from work to attend. They lose income but they have all love and enjoy the sessions which help their children to function better. Normally this service costs £2/month  which is more than the parents can afford but CSID provides the service for free supported by Actionaid International. The Stars Foundation visiting CSID. Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.
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  • School Climate Strike, London, England, UK. A girl holds a handpainted sign saying Its getting hot in here so take off all your coals.
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  • Julian Assange at the Occupy London demonstration 15th October 2011. Seen here after arriving in a taxi with his own security, he tries to get through police lines wearing a black cape, hood and mask. He was immediately asked to take off the mask where upon he was dragged through the lines by the police, mask removed and questioned for a few minutes. He was then given a caution and released. According to the people he was with, he was just there to support the demonstration, but as usual, caused some publicity. Julian Assange is the Australian publisher and Internet activist. Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website and conduit for worldwide news leaks. Protests spread from the US with this demonstrations in London and other cities worldwide. The 'Occupy' movement is spreading via social media. After four weeks of focus on the Wall Street protest, the campaign against the global banking industry started in the UK this weekend, with the biggest event aiming to "occupy" the London Stock Exchange. The protests have been organised on social media pages that between them have picked up more than 15,000 followers.
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