Jim Buell Photography

A woman in Tokyo, Japan, rushes through Shinjuku Station, the busiest train station in the world. Blank panels of fluorescent lights normally used to display advertisements glow behind the traveler. A visitor examines the interior of the empty Bird's Nest stadium used during the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China. More than a year after the Olympic games, the stadium's owners are still having difficulty scheduling events in the 80,000 seat arena. A man inspects the remaining stone base of a castle that once stood in what is now the Imperial Gardens in Tokyo, Japan. The castle was completed in 1638, but burned down only 19 years later. The stone base is all that remains. Amnesty International protesters perform a dance in front of the Chinese embassy in Brussels, Belgium, on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China. The protesters' bags reference the bags held by a man who faced Chinese government tanks on the square. A protester attaches an Iranian flag to a statue of John Cockerill, a prominent British-Belgian 19th century industrialist, during a protest in Brussels, Belgium, after the controversial 2009 Iranian elections. People gathered to express their solidarity with opposition supporters in Iran who risked confrontation with police if they took to the streets in their country. Women sell flowers in an outdoor market in Zunil, Guatemala, a small town near Quetzaltenango. At the market an announcer advertised items over a loudspeaker as farmers hurried around the square carrying huge bushels of vegetables. Cheerleaders hold giant tennis balls during the opening ceremony of the 2009 China Open tennis tournament in Beijing. Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and other top players competed in the tournament. The Missouri Drumline performs before a University of Missouri homecoming game against Texas. Mexican wrestler Mil Mascaras relaxes before acting in a scene in the film Venganza Azteca. In the scene, Mil is tied up and is forced to undergo a brain scan. A young dairy farmer rides through downtown Brussels, Belgium, during a protest in the capital of the European Union. Hundreds farmers drove their tractors into Brussels to call on the EU to cut milk quotas to lower supplies. A 50 percent drop in milk prices over the past year was forcing them to sell below cost. Naomi Lahiri poses in her home in Columbia, Missouri. Lahiri is a Safe Space trainer on her college campus where she advocates for making public places more conformable for people of various sexual orientations and gender identities. A jeweler in a diamond store in Antwerp, Belgium, welds the band of a ring together before filing it smooth. As the center of the world's diamond trade, Antwerp deals with about 80 percent of all diamonds after mining. The top of the Bay Bridge disappears in the afternoon fog of San Francisco. Singer and guitarist Hardy Morris of the band Dead Confederate roars into a microphone during a concert at the Firebird in St. Louis, Missouri. The band's energy was underscored by heavy use of a fog machine and stage-level lights.