Images Dated 19th April 2004

CLOUDS GATHER OVER PETERMANN ROAD IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

Storm clouds gather over the Petermann Road, which is the only sealed road that leads to Uluru (Ayers Rock), about 230 kilometers (140 miles) south of the central Australian town of Alice Springs April 19, 2004. 40 years ago Uluru, which belongs to the Anangu Aboriginal people, was visited by around 1,000 tourists annually. Since then it has become one of Australia's major tourist destinations, attracting 400,000 visitors every year. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne TBW/SM - RP4DRIGYLAAA

PSLV-C2 space rocket

Space rocket on the launch pad. This is the Indian Space Research Organisation's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C2. It was 44 metres tall, and had a lift-off weight of 295 tonnes. This rocket used both solid and liquid fuel for propulsion. It launched three satellites into Earth orbit on 26 May 1999. The main payload was IRS-P4 (OCEANSAT), an Indian satellite that monitors phytoplankton blooms in the world's oceans. The other two satellites were the Korean KITSAT-3 and German DLR-TUBSAT. PSLV-C2 launched from Sriharikota, an island on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, north of Chennai

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Depressed woman holds her head in her hands

MODEL RELEASED. Depression. Side view of a woman holding her head in her hands while suffering from depression. She is looking downwards in a sad or stressful mood indicating hopelessness or general loss of interest in life. Depression may range from mild feelings of melancholy and tearfulness to, in the most severe cases, delusions and even hallucination in schizophrenia. Most people, however, experience more mild symptoms of depression at some time in their life. It is usually in response to events such as a death in the family, loneliness, stress, unemployment, or following a pregnancy

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