41.   Made of perishable materials, the fragrant flowers and carefully trimmed palm leaves wilt within hours under the tropical sun.

42.   Many held umbrellas to shield them from the blistering tropical sun.

43.   On race day, tanker trucks wet the buffalo down between heats under the tropical sun.

44.   Several tens of thousands streamed into the plaza for a morning of hymns, prayer and praise under an unrelenting tropical sun.

45.   The captives were burnt by the tropical sun then savaged by mosquitos as they stumbled blindly, many in slippers, through ink black jungle.

46.   The captives were burnt by the tropical sun, then savaged by mosquitos as they stumbled blindly through ink black jungle.

47.   The tropical sun burns, and sweat streams.

48.   The tropical sun already had illuminated the dozens of palm-fringed islands, coral reefs, sandbars, fishing boats and ferries in the Mindanao Sea.

49.   They had little food and no shelter from the tropical sun and rain.

50.   Under a broiling tropical sun, penitents flagellate themselves with bamboo whips and are nailed to crosses to re-enact the suffering and death of Jesus.