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Seniors in conversation at Jongmyo Park, in downtown Seoul, Republic of Korea.
At the end of October 2011, the world population will pass the 7 billion mark. This year’s annual report by UNFPA, the UN population fund, highlights the remarkable trends behind the numbers: roughly one in two people now lives in an urban area, the global average life span is 68 years, and close to a billion people are 60 and over. The report sees the possibilities in 7 billion – for fostering sustainable cities, productive labour forces, and generations young and old that contribute to the well-being of economies and societies.

For some time to come the poorer countries of the world will have to rely on agriculture to raise their living standards and supply the capital they need to create industries. Agricultural production must therefore be increased. This requires tractors, fertilizers, new and better seeds, vast irrigation schemes, land reforms.
While looking after a herd of cattle, a shepherd in Abba Antonios breaking the monotony of his job by playing a tune or two on his flute.

Jimmy Carter (left), former US President and member of the group of Elders, answers questions of reporters during an interview with local and international journalists, as well as UN Television, on the mission of an international delegation known as the Elders travelling through Darfur for talks with tribal leaders in El Fasher, Sudan.

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Headline Aged, Ill European Refugees from China

Caption Description One of the most tragic situations confronting the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees concerns European refugees in China. They are refugees who, mainly for political reasons, in the period following the outbreak of the First World War, went to China where most of them became established in professions or business. Through the combined efforts of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, voluntary agencies and the host governments, a group of fifty-one refugees of European origin stranded in China were recently moved to homes and sanatoria in Belgium, Denmark and Sweden, on a Scandinavian Airlines flight which took them from Shanghai half-way around the world to their destinations.
Here, one of the 51, photographed upon her arrival at her new home in Europe, continues knitting a garment which she began making in Shanghai.
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