Blue - the color of the sea and sky, the color of calm and serenity. Let's look at the beautiful shades of blue in a variety of aspects of our lives. The child sets the candle on the event, "One million candles" in solidarity with the weak and the poor in the Parliament Square in Bern, December 15, 2007. Then the event was organized by the "Caritas" and took place in 100 cities and towns in Switzerland. (REUTERS / Ruben Sprich)



 Divers in the Mediterranean Sea on the southern coast of the Balearic island of Mallorca in Spain. (REUTERS / Dani Cardona)


 17-year-old Cynthia in the guise of Stephen Nightcrawler joined the thousands of fans of comic books on four-day festival "Comic Con" in San Diego. Thousands of fans of comics from around the world gathered to buy your favorite collectible comic books, video and other products. (REUTERS / Mike Blake)


Spanish matador Cesar Jimenez is preparing to attack a wounded bull in the bullfight in Seville. (REUTERS / Marcelo del Pozo)

 Australian gymnast Monique Blount trains in Sydney for the upcoming Australian Championships in gymnastics in 2004. (REUTERS / David Gray)

 A couple looks at the blue and white Christmas lights in Tokyo. (REUTERS / Yuriko Nakao)

 A flock of crows in the sky over the northern Italian ski resort of Selva Val Gardena, Dee. (REUTERS / Alessandro Bianchi)

 The girl and her mother watching jellyfish aquarium in Shanghai. (REUTERS / Aly Song)

 Jellyfish in the Mediterranean Sea off the southern coast of the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain. (REUTERS / Dani Cardona)

 Future immigrants on arrival at the port of Los Cristianos on the Canary island of Tenerife in Spain. (REUTERS / Santiago Ferrero)

 Dancer on a free concert of «Pet Shop Boys» in the square in Skopje, Macedonia. (REUTERS / Ognen Teofilovski)
 Two runners from Lake Michigan on a 14-degree frost before dawn in Chicago. (REUTERS / John Gress)

 Balloon in the skies over San Diego on Valentine's Day in California in 2007. (REUTERS / Mike Blake)

 Senegalese vote for curtains at a polling station during presidential elections held in Dakar in 2007. (REUTERS / Finbarr O'Reilly)

 Members of the brotherhood "Prendimento" Holy Week in Almeria, Spain. (REUTERS / Francisco Bonilla)


Members of the brotherhood "Prendimento" Holy Week in Almeria, Spain. (REUTERS / Francisco Bonilla)


Mountain candles at the entrance to the grotto at Lourdes. (REUTERS / Kevin Coombs)

Rabbi in the courtyard of the synagogue in the ancient city of Debent in the Caucasus. Debent - the former port on the ancient Silk Road, and archaeologists say that some buildings in the city about 5000 years, making it the oldest settlement on the territory of Russia. In Soviet times the city on the Caspian Sea has been a popular tourist attraction, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union and after two wars in Chechnya, he lost his appeal to tourists. (REUTERS / Thomas Peter)
 American kayak watching the launch of shuttle "Discovery" at Cape Canaveral in 2007. (REUTERS / Carlos Barria)

Rehearsal for the opening ceremony of 2nd National City Games in Wuhan, capital of China's Hubei Province, in 2007. (REUTERS / Stringer)
 Spanish aerobatic team "Patrulla Aguila" (Eagle Patrol) on the race in Santiponse Italico. (REUTERS / Marcelo del Pozo)


Crescent on the bridge Seri Vavasan in Sri Lanka at sunset over Putrajaya. (REUTERS / Bazuki Muhammad)

 Music lovers have a rest in a spherical sculpture during the week of the festival "The Island of Youth" in Budapest. This is one of the largest open-Air festival attracts about 400 thousand people from around the world. (REUTERS / Laszlo Balogh)

Mongolian Gymnast (top) trains, while Taiwanese gymnast stretching on the floor before the final competition in gymnastics at the command-fourth Asian Games October 31, 2005 in Macau. (REUTERS / Claro Cortes IV Pictures of the month October 2005)
 Afghan widows in the queue for food in Kabul. (REUTERS / Ahmad Masood)

 People with EU flag in front of the Palace of Culture during a parade in Warsaw. (REUTERS / Katarina Stoltz)

 Reflection of Our Saviour on Spilled Blood in melting ice in the channel Griboyedov downtown St. Petersburg. The cathedral was built on the site of the assassination of Alexander II, who died from an explosion in an abandoned bomb in a student March 1881. (REUTERS / Alexander Demianchuk)

 "I love you" is lined with gum on the door during the festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, ​​which attracts thousands of visitors from around the world thanks to its famous running of the bulls. (REUTERS / Vincent West)

 Sunset over the river Yenisei in Krasnoyarsk. (REUTERS / Ilya Naymushin)

Artists with colored panels at the opening ceremony 8th Chinese Traditional Games of ethnic peoples in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, in 2007. (REUTERS / Joe Tan)