1.   A village elder who is regularly consulted on matters of local importance, he is a known associate of the former Taliban governor of Khost.

2.   Canadian and American soldiers met this month with Muhammad Zahir, at right, a village elder in Khoushab, who was hoping for agricultural assistance.

3.   Forty years ago, the federal government knowingly administered potentially harmful doses of iodine to Florence Ahmaogak, an Alaskan Native village elder.

4.   Hussain, a village elder, appointed himself as guide, leading the way up a steep incline toward mud houses built on patches of flatness.

5.   Ma Wanquan, a village elder, foreground, spoke with others angry over the arrest of their religious leader.

6.   This special ability prompts a village elder to take him on a journey, where his skills and wits are challenged in a difficult test.

7.   This Libya has been seeking redemption lately by playing the village elder who will unify Africa.

8.   Youngsters joined a village elder in posing for a visitor.

9.   A village elder was taken away from the group to the village mosque.

10.   Gurbachan Singh, a village elder who escaped the massacre because he was looking after his animals at the time, was stunned by the attack.