Decadent chocolate dessert at the three-star Michelin restaurant Pierre Gagnaire, Paris (© Owen Franken).

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Waiters leaving the kitchen of Daniel Boulud's great French restaurant in New York, Daniel (© Owen Franken).

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Picking saffron from the flowers in La Mancha, Spain (© Owen Franken).

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Sommelier Patrick serving champagne at the Restaurant le Grand Vefour, Paris (© Owen Franken).

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Villagers in rural Egypt (© Owen Franken).

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Boarding a USO flight in Tikrit, Baghdad (© Owen Franken).

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This week, a collection of photos celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.

A man chisels away at a graffiti-covered section of the Berlin Wall that says "Walls Are Not Everlasting!" after the fall of communism in Germany (© Owen Franken for CORBIS).

Revelers wave sparklers and sit atop the Berlin Wall during New Year's Eve festivities, Jan. 1, 1990 (© Owen Franken for CORBIS).

Reunited Germans celebrate New Year's Eve atop the Berlin Wall two months after the border between the divided city was opened. The formal reunification of the two Germanies took place ten months later, on October 3, 1990 (© Owen Franken for CORBIS).

Revelers at the Brandenburg Gate sit on top of a remnant of the Berlin Wall holding candles as they celebrate the first New Year in a unified Berlin since World War II. A month earlier, the Wall was torn down by East and West Berliners, reacting to the fall of the East German Communist government (© Owen Franken for CORBIS).

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A nurse cleaning and taking care of a sick child in isolation at Hospital St. Louis, Paris (© Owen Franken).

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Massage at the Sofitel Thelassotherapy center in Quiberon, Brittany, France (© Owen Franken/photographed for the New York Times, July 7, 2008).

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Manui Franken enjoying a meal in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco (© Owen Franken).

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