Pictures of the Week: November 27 – December 3, 2004

tousists run on a beach through a swarm of pink locusts near corralejo on the spanish canary island of fuerteventura
CARLOS GUEVARA / REUTERS

Day of the Locust
Tourists run on a beach through a swarm of pink locusts near Corralejo, on the Spanish Canary Island of Fuerteventura. Authorities in the Canaries have issued an alert as swarms of locusts arrived over the weekend from western Africa, with environmental experts estimating that as many as 100 million of the insects have reached the island

Monday, Nov 29, 2004