Hand in hand making a pray

School children join hands as they observe three minutes silence in honour of the Asian tsunami victims at the Sagrado Coracao School in Lisbon January 5, 2005. Europeans observed three
minutes silence on Wednesday with mass tributes at airports, railway stations, supermarkets, factories and offices in memory of the tens of thousands who died in Asia's tsunami disaster. [Reuters]

A view of the sunset from a coast which was damaged by the tsunami in Kanniyakumari, 740 km (463 miles) south from the Indian city of Madras January 5, 2005. The December 26 tsunami, triggered by an undersea earthquake off Indonesia, has killed about 150,000 people across south and southeast Asia, more than 15,000 in India alone. [Reuters]

Thais and foreigners take part in a mass prayer for tsunami victims on the Thai resort island of Phuket January 5, 2005. Buddhists, Muslims and Christians joined together on Wednesday to light 10,000 candle lanterns in a memorial to the thousands who died in Thailand in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. More than 1,000 saffron-robed Buddhist monks chanted prayers for the dead after Christian and Muslim leaders paid their own respects in a sunset ceremony at a soccer stadium in the southern Thai resort town of Phuket. [Reuters]