The main Sassanid force was destroyed at Nineveh in 627, and in 629 Heraclius restored the True Cross to Jerusalem in a majestic ceremony.

In that spirit, we extend our warmest congratulation to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General, my friend and colleague Mohamed ElBaradei, on the Nobel Peace Prize they so magnificently received last Friday.

Mohibe Ahmad Namire Assi (15 years old)

Celebrating Resistance

The Sun Festival

Meanwhile, Moheeb Alsheikh asks where were the authorities when this happened

The Sun Festival, or Inti Raymi, comes from the Incas and is celebrated in communities of this descent.

The first ever ceremony consisted of six categories.

We celebrate our national identity in private and are excluded when other Jordanians celebrate theirs which should also be ours.

Taxi Driver Celebrating with Egyptian Flag, photo copyright Demotix

But it is much more than a celebration.

Jodl signed this document during a ceremony in France.

You can say that it is a celebration and waiting for biggest one at the end of its 30 days.

A week later, an inauguration ceremony officially began Shantsev s second term in office.

People help each other. It s a celebration of speech.

Ovecha Rague festival in San Miguel, Paraguay.

Inti Raymi marks the beginning of the new year.

One of these contributions is the Twitter account KSAssa or Saudi Arabia Electronic Army, with 20.7K followers, which is taking the lead to stop and destroy accounts related to ISIS and every enemy that threatens the country's unification under the Arabic hashtag حمله_جيش_سبام_الدواعش (Campaign against ISIS spam accounts)

So it may be premature for the Party to celebrate the success of its adaptive strategy.

But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing for I am a great King, says Yahweh of Armies, and my name is awesome among the nations.

But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

On 5 November 1897, during a military ceremony, Morais withstood an attempt on his life.

Lavezzi has attracted a few more fans after stripping off his shirt in a victory celebration.

She soon became pregnant, and there was a second wedding service in London on 25 January 1533.

The next video shows school children in Chile dancing in a celebration of this indigenous festivity

Football magnifies the cult of the individual and the glorification of the hero, but it is also a celebration of the cooperative team spirit.

As the EU reaches its 50th birthday, many Europeans are entering middle age with it.

We Tripantu is a Mapuche indian celebration to recognize the start of a new year at the Winter Solstice.

Santa in a traditional dhoti. At the Christmas festival on Park Street in Kolkata.

Victims were sometimes made to dance for joy in celebration of the freedom that they were told awaited them.

Let's tour around the world to check out the different celebrations Solstice at Stonehenge, Feast of Saint John's bonfires in Spain, Inti Raymi in Peru, we tripantu in Chile and Kupala Day in Russia or Midsummer's night in Poland.

On my way home from Bard College, where I teach, I am greeted by the George Washington Bridge majestically suspended over the Hudson River.

As the Shia Muslims in Bahrain were celebrating one of their religious ceremonies in Muharraq, a group of men showed up and attacked them.

encourage returnees. At the swearing in ceremony of President Nkurunziza, the President of Tanzania expressed the wish to see the Burundian refugees return to Burundi.

As the state of Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, Palestinians remember the Nakbeh, or catastrophe their story of dispossession, occupation, and statelessness.

The statue had been erected in 2004 to celebrate his first FIFA World Player of the Year award.

Lastly, from 13 to 20 November 2005, there will be a Venezuelan cultural festival with the African people.

And last, but not least, a record breaking celebration in Poland, where thousands of paper lanterns were lit and released to float in the night sky.

The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of our past, a call to action in the present and a barometer of our future.

Recalling the celebration by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, for the first time, of the Portuguese language day on 5 May 2006,

From Bahrain this week a mid Ramadan celebration, great happiness to be at university, a description of some dating practices, and a packet of rice that just doesn't make sense!

Hunnapuh shares photos of the carpets ( alfombras in Spanish) made for this year's Holy Week in El Salvador.

In 1998, Ocarina of Time won the Grand Prize in the Interactive Art division at the Japan Media Arts Festival.

The next day two public ceremonies were also held at the New Orleans Civic Auditorium, where 14,000 seats were sold for each.

The signing ceremony was attended by several African Heads of State and Government, my Special Representative for the Sudan, my Special Adviser on Africa and other dignitaries.