Pictures of the Day

[Mohamed]

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have captured a new image of the Trifid Nebula, showing just why it is a firm favourite of astronomers. This massive star factory is 5500 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius





An alligator that was found by firemen in Sao Paulo in a city drinking water reservoir. Firemen believe the alligator had lost his way and fallen into the reservoir during July's heavy rainfalls





A young man is tossed by a bull during the first 'encierro' or bull run of the San Sebastian de los Reyes fiestas, in Madrid





Two albino skunks who were born without their usual distinctive black and white striped coats, from a litter of four at Knoxwood Wildlife Rescue Centre in Wigton, Cumbria




Migaloo the albino whale is sighted between Hardy Reef and Shute Harbour in the Whitsundays, off Queensland's north coast. Migaloo is on his annual migration north to breed in warmer waters





A wooden hut on legs in the village of Ulyanovka, Russua, which was built by carpenter Vasily Kozin, who was inspired by a wooden house on chicken legs in which a witch character called Baba Yaga lived





Early morning fog enshrouds Cape Town's Green Point 2010 FIFA World Cup Stadium





Tourists visit Tiananmen Square in Beijing as preparations for the country's National Day get underway





A coffee pot filled with water acts as a lens to depict Lumpini Park in Bangkok





Artist Liu Bolin, also known as the Vanishing Artist, is painted by an assistant to look exactly the same as the wall of an old temple in a Hutong in central Beijing





Members of Kashmir's Lakes and Waterways Authority collect weeds on the surface of Dal Lake in Srinagar





A dragonfly sits on a weed in front of the space shuttle Discovery sitting on launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida





Charles Burnett III, financial backer and driver of The British Steam Car Challenge team, celebrates at Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, after breaking the land speed record for a steam powered car





A tourist takes pictures as a street musician, name not given, performs from inside a litter bin, in Cambridge, England





A man walks past scattered red-painted shoes at the Our World at War exhibition of the Red Cross in Hong Kong

[Mohamed]

This man collected 30,000 cigarette packets in six years to decorate his house in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China





This gold-plated Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, believed to be owned by a wealthy Sheikh, was recently snapped in Cannes, France, by a British car fan





A bear that was trapped in a skateboard park in the Colorado resort town of Snowmass climbs out on a ladder that was lowered into the park by officials





Climate campaigners share a TV dinner with fish in the tropical tank at the London Aquarium





A cobra is milked of venom at the snake farm at the Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute in Bangkok, Thailand





A man feeds a piece of cucumber to a green iguana on display at an exotic animal exhibition during a warm weather in the town of Sevlievo, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia





Pelicans Bootsmann and Petry, owned by nine-year-old Adrian Adam, from Hoerstel, Germany, have mastered several tricks with a ball and can even throw it back and forth to each other





An emergency team show how to evacuate a burning bus in Beijing





Chinese soldiers exercise during a training session at a beach on the Xisha islands, Hainan province





Chinese military singers take part in a chorus performance of patriotic songs involving 10,000 participants held at a gym in Beijing





Steam rises from the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico





A plane drops fire retardant as a helicopter drops water on a hot spot in the Angeles National Forest, California





An Afghan man prays at the time to break the fast, during the Muslims holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul





Lights shaped as the moon decorate the Mohammed al-Amin mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Beirut





A rainbow arches over the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster before the Carling Cup second round match between Doncaster Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur





A still from a video that has become a hit on YouTube shows a noodle chef, bearing a resemblance to opoosition leader Yukio Hatoyama, widely expected to be Japan's next prime minister, presents a bowl of noodles, trying to please every customer until his bowl is an overflowing concoction of fish, fruit and ice cream





A member of the honour guard stands guard at the monument to the Grieving Mother on Independence Day in Chisinau, Moldova





Like a rhinostone cowboy, game warden James Ndlolvu rides on the back of a two-ton 12-year-old rhinoceros bull called Dennis at the Moholoholo reserve in the Limpopo province of South Africa





Former members of the Salvadorean army who were injured during the country's civil war that took place from 1980 to 1992 take part in a demonstration demanding that the government raise the pensions

[Mohamed]

Extras eat their lunch during a break in filing for the TV series Lost World in New Zealand





A grey heron catches and eats two huge Koi fish from Herbert Park pond at Ballsbridge, Dublin...





...The grey heron enjoys his second Koi fish of the day





A firefighting helicopter drops water after at least six homes were destroyed by a fast moving brush fire that broke out in Rancho Palos Verdes, California





Residents watch a brush fire burn in Rancho Palos Verdes





A Palestinian boy plays with fireworks in the street, in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip





Pakistani Muslims break their fast on the fifth day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Lahore





Lightning arcs within a cloud South of Tyler, Texas as a string of thunderstorms developed across East Texas





Indian policemen watch during a function to review the counter terrorism set up in Mumbai





Locals chat as they park their oxen in front of the "El Viaducto del Malleco" railway (Viaduct of Malleco) near Temuco city, Chile





A demonstrator holds a sign that reads "Harper, stop slaughtering the seals" during Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's photocall at Laval University in Quebec City

[Mohamed]

The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, catches and digests animal prey





A giant carnivorous plant with a trapped rodent inside, which has been discovered by a team of scientists in the central Philippines, and named after Sir David Attenborough







A dead mouse is trapped inside a Nepenthes truncata, left, and right, the mouse is removed





A grasshopper caught in a Venus Flytrap














The Venus Flytrap's trapping structure is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces






Backlit view of Venus Flytrap plant, showing a fly trapped inside





A honeybee trapped in a Spider Orchid





A ladybird caught on a drosera, commonly known as a sundew, one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants with at least 188 species





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Fly caught in sticky droplets of sundew

[Mohamed]

A cat models an earthquake survival kit for pets, produced by Oyagokoro, from Japan. The kit includes a pet-sized padded jacket and rain hat, special boots to protect paws and aromatherapy oil to soothe the frightened animal





Children, wearing fire-proof hoods, crouch under their desks as part of a nationwide earthquake drill at a Tokyo school





An airliner flies over a "building on fire" during a disaster drill in Kawasaki, suburban Tokyo





Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway of a cable car leading on Germany's highest mountain, the 2,962 metre (9,718 feet) Zugspitze





French climber Alain Robert, known as "Spiderman", climbs Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers in downtown Kuala Lumpur





French climber Alain Robert, known as "Spiderman", stands on the tip of the Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers after scaling it





The RAF Parachute Regement deliver the match ball to the umpires during the Twenty20 International between England and Australia at Old Trafford





This is one of a series of 800mm survey digital still photographs taken from the International Space Station of the Space Shuttle Discovery as it performed a full 360-degree backflip





Lightning strikes across the desert skies of Needles, California and Laughlin, Nevada





Hurricane Jimena is pictured south of the Baja California Peninsula in the eastern Pacific Ocean, in this satellite photograph





A view of the Station fire burning out of control in Southern California, taken by NASA's Terra Satellite





Performers reproduce the scene of a hanging during a ceremony to celebrate the 40th anniversary since Muammar Gaddafi seized power in Libya, at former US base Matega in Tripoli




Thai elephant handlers painted their beasts black and white in a protest about lack of funding for their mammals. They insist Thai elephants need of state help, while government officials shower money on a Chinese panda family at Chiang Mai zoo





A sea otter sits on a chunk of ice that fell from a glacier in the Prince William Sound near Whittier, Alaska





A praying mantis alights on the bonnet of a pickup truck near Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania





Nineteen-year-old polar bear Inuka catches live bait at the Singapore Zoo





Chippy the Chimp celebrates his 21st birthday at Blair Drummond Safari park in Scotland...





...Chimpy clutches one of his birthday presents: a rugby ball





Children play in floating balls at the Parkhurst fair in Johannesburg, South Africa





Papier mache models of Tom and Jerry are entered into a scarecrow competition in Bisterne, near Ringwood in the New Forest, Hants

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[Mohamed]

Meet the teenager who cries blood. Doctors are baffled by the medical condition of Calvino Inman, 15, from Tennessee. He cries uncontrollably up to three times a day. But instead of tears, blood comes streaming out of his eyes





A crying face is revealed in a melting glacier located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway





UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon gesticulates as he talks to journalists in front of a collapsed glacier at the atmospheric measuring station in Ny-Aalesund, on the Norwegian island of Svalbard





Firefighters rescue a goat after the animal got its head stuck in ****l railings at Holme Farm in Barrow, Cumbria





A 33-foot long minke whale that washed up on Cold Knap beach in Barry Island near Cardiff, south Wales, is measured





This is Paul Luke from Stanford-le-Hope in Essex who has collected over 10,000 milk bottles from different eras. He also owns three milk floats





A Grand Cayman Blue Iguana hatches from an egg at the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research in San Diego, California





A fire burns near homes during the Station Fire in La Crescenta, California





The melted ****l from a vehicle that burned during the Station Fire is pictured in the Tujunga area of Los Angeles, California





Caged tigers await transport in a trailer as workers and volunteers evacuate animals from the Wildlife Waystation in Little Tujunga Canyon as the Station Fire draws nearer





Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gestures with a green cane as he takes his seat behind bulletproof glass for a military parade in Green Square, Tripoli





Fireworks launched from ships explode over palm trees at the end of a lavish outdoor theatrical performance at Green Park in Tripoli, Libya





A man protests outside of North Point High School as people wait in line to get into a health care town hall meeting hosted by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in Waldorf, Maryland





A free style motorcyclist flies through the air at the opening ceremonies for the World Skills Competition in Calgary,Canada





Paramilitary policemen take part in an oath-taking rally to ensure the safety of the upcoming 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in Beijing





Military and forensic experts inspect the body of a man who was killed outside a nightclub in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. The man was handcuffed to a fence and shot several times





The sun sets over Arthur Ashe Stadium as Maria Sharapova takes on Tsvetana Pironkova during day two of the 2009 US Open

[Mohamed]

This image, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows gullies near the edge of Hale crater on southern Mars. On Earth, such gullies usually form through the action of liquid water. [We're just waiting for someone to say it looks like Jesus on Mars]l





Farmer Simon Goldsworthy, 23, from Hayle in Cornwall, produced the largest pumpkin at the annual Bath and West Gardening Show - at 304kg





Amateur horticulturalist Ian Neale, 66, shattered the world record with a pair of super-sized swedes, each weighing 37kg. The previous record was 34kg





A sparrowhawk swoops into a back garden in Leicester and kills a starling by body slamming it against the ground





Brownie the cat had a lucky escape after he was shot through the skull with an arrow. The four-year-old cat is expected to make a full recovery after being treated by a vet in Bloomington, Indiana





Dark storm clouds over Mierzyn, Poland




A squirrel passes a road block nearby Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, where Michael Jackson was buried





A vehicle burns after a bomb attack in Thailand's Yala province





US troops from the 1st platoon, A Company 25 Infantry Division (Airborne) are illuminated by a red night light with a cloudy night sky above, as they prepare for their night patrol in Khowst province, Afghanistan





Ryugyong Hotel is seen in Pyongyang. The towering North Korean hotel, which Esquire magazine once dubbed "the worst building in the history of mankind", now has a facade of shiny glass windows on one side





A man has a haircut featuring the number 60 to celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China at a barbershop in Kunming





Argentina's Juan Sebastian Veron heads the ball during a training session at the squad's camp in Buenos Aires





Andy Murray trains during a practice session at the US Open tennis tournament in New York





A still from a video taken by a school bus security tape shows a 14-year-old girl pulling a handgun from her bag in rural Yazoo County, Mississippi




A tree is back-dropped by the setting sun, above the Mogosoaia Lake outside Bucharest, Romania

[Mohamed]

Three-month-old Sophia Marmarinos lies on the leaf of a giant water lily (Victoria Amazonica) under the watchful eye of Hans Kuyten, employee of the botanical garden at Diergaarde Blijdorp in Rotterdam...





...Two-month-old Senna Yetkinbudak crawls to the edge of a giant water lily pad. The leaves can grow up to 3 metres (10 feet) in diameter and can easily support a weight of 15 kilograms or 33 pounds





A bullock is rescued by firefighters after it stumbled into a well A farmer used a digger to open up the sides of the three-foot wide shaft where the animal had become wedged...





...Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service said the bullock fell 12 feet down the disused well, at Forton Hall Farm, near Montford Bridge, Shropshire, and was sedated by a vet before being lifted to safety with special straps by firefighters





A workman carries out work on a wind turbine near Hartlepool




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Burned electric cables and poles in Tujunga, near Los Angeles, California





Francisco Javier Cartagena points a gun at his head in a bank in Medellin, Colombia. He took six people hostage, but authorities said he wasn't robbing the bank, just trying to get the attention of a woman; he asked for a bunch of roses to give her





The sun rises over the Dnepr river bank in Rechitsa, Belarus





The spiral galaxy of Andromeda over a period of about three billion years as the dwarf galaxy Triangulum move away from it, then back towards it, where Triangulum will be ultimately devoured by Andromeda





Astronaut Nicole Stott, STS-128 mission specialist, waves as she pauses during the mission's first spacewalk, with the International Space Station's solar panels as a backdrop





A father-of-two has come up with a way to encourage children to eat healthy meals. Mark Northeast set up a website called Funky Lunches, which features ideas for parents struggling to get healthy food into their kids' daily routine...





...The site includes instructions on how to create sandwiches shaped as Disney characters and other kids' favourites. The idea has taken off and Northeast has created a whole book of recipes based on his idea





Rafael Nadal puts on a shirt during his first round US Open match





Amateur inventor Tao Xiangli tests his homemade submarine in a lake near Beijing. He made the craft, which has a periscope, depth control tanks, electric motors, manometer and two propellers, from old oil barrels and items bought at a scrap dealer





US soldiers smoke at FOB Solerno in Paktika province, Afghanistan





A "Dalai Latte" - named after exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama - is prepared at the hotel where he was staying in Kaohsiung, Taiwan





A PETA protester dressed as Pinocchio stands in front of the Australian Wool Innovations headquarters in Sydney





Chinese folk artist Zhang Luo shows off his gourds painted with portraits of former Chinese leaders ahead of the Communist China's 60th anniversary, in Beijing

[Mohamed]

Artem Silchenko of Russia dives from the 26 metre platform during round seven of the Red Bull Cliff Diving series in Sisikon, Switzerland





A canoeist paddles among some 205,000 blue rubber ducks floating in Molesey Lock on the River Thames during The Great British Duck Race...





...Each duck is sponored by an individual and the profit from the event will this year be donated to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children





A pregnant donkey that was looking for a quiet spot to give birth wandered across a covered swimming pool in Sway, New Forest, Hants - and got stuck. A fire crew and a specialist animal rescue team were called to the scene to rescue it





Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife staff chases a male cougar found in Discovery Park, Seattle





A diver poses with a fish in the White sea in north-west Russia, one of the few places where amateur divers can discover marine life in the extreme northern hemisphere





Some 200 professional fishermen take part in the Fishing world championship on the river Lage Vaart in Almere, The Netherlands





Passengers hang on the port side of the SuperFerry 9 before it sank off Zamboanga del Norte in the Philippines. More than 800 people were plucked from the vessel, but at least 88 remained unaccounted for





Commercial fishermen and other mariners form the word "SOS" during an event held to spread the message of saving the oceans from acidification caused by fossil fuel emissions, in Homer, Alaska





Riot police contain supporters of Mozambique's national team after their team's World Cup 2010 qualifying match against Kenya in Maputo





A contestant hangs onto a dead goose's neck while the goose is raised and lowered into the water at the habour of the northern Spanish Basque village of Lekeitio. In former times the geese used to be alive





A soldier from a newly formed anti crime squad, armed with a rocket launcher, conducts a search for illegal weapons in Mogadishu, Somalia

[Mohamed]

A young cheetah and a gazelle examine each other at the Marwell Zoo in Hampshire. In the wild the Dama gazelle would flee at the first whiff of the lightning fast predator but with the reassurance of a chain link fence the two have become friends, say keepers





Lucky the box turtle in Petaluma, California, has been fitted with furniture coasters attached to his under****l after his legs were bitten off by a racoon





South Korean soldiers row toward a sunken car swept away by sudden rising water in the Imjin River. South Korea demanded an apology from North Korea for its sudden release of water into a river flowing across their border that swept away six people





A villager walks next to a boat trapped in a mass of water hyacinth clogging the Tha Chin river, Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand





Jamaica's Asafa Powell reacts after winning the men's 100m final at the IAAF Grand Prix athletics meet in Rieti, Italy





France's President Nicolas Sarkozy takes a phone call while standing next to Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Brazilian Independence Day parade in Brasilia





French President Nicolas Sarkozy shakes hands with chief Raoni Metuktirehe in the French embassy in Brasilia at the end of the Brazilian Independence Day parade





Food judge Gary Huddleston takes a bite of Deep Fried Butter during judging for the best new food at the Big Tex Choice Awards at the 2009 State Fair of Texas in Dallas





The new Narita Express E259 series train stands at the platform of Shinagawa Station during a press viewing in Tokyo, Japan





A sea lion catches a piece of fish thrown by his keeper in the zoo in Stuttgart, Germany





A child carries water in a refugee camp following last week's 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Pangalengan, Indonesia





A bull with flaming horns charges during Toro Embolao in Sant Carles Rapita, Spain

[Mohamed]

This image, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, shows stars bursting to life in the chaotic Carina Nebula





This image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars





Covering 100 metres in 6.13 seconds, Sarah the cheetah set a new speed record for all land mammals in Cincinnati, Ohio





Halo, a seven-year-old bulldog from Minnesota has become a massive internet hit after showing off her skills around the pool table. She has mastered the break, bank shots and even trick shots





Allison the green sea turtle can now swim in a straight line - thanks to her very own shark fin. The turtle lost three of her four flippers in a shark attack in 2005. As a result of her injuries she could only swim in circles and struggled to resurface after diving. An attempt to fix a prosthetic flipper to her left nub failed. But bosses at Sea Turtle Inc in South Padre Island, Texas, refused to give up and came up with a novel solution. Using $25 worth of kit they made the turtle its very own neoprene wetsuit with a polycarbon 'shark' fin attached to it. Now Allison can swim in straight lines and can even dive






Walruses swim to shore on a beach in Alaska. Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast because of receding sea ice in the Arctic





A bright pink grasshopper was found by schoolboy Daniel Tate during an organised nature-spotting day out at Seaton Marshes, near Sidmouth in Devon





A brushtail possum joey stretches its mother's pouch open during an inspection by vets in Sydney





A man takes a look at a huge crocodile sculpture made out of hundreds of pumpkins on a farm in Feldkirch-Hartheim, southern Germany





Police prepare to enter a hijacked Boeing 737 plane at the airport in Mexico City. Hijackers seized an AeroMexico plane with more than 100 people on board, but the incident ended quickly without bloodshed, and nine suspects were detained





Police present to the media Jose Mar Flores Pereira from Bolivia, accused of hijacking the AeroMexico plane. He said he was on a divine mission





A Dubai metro train runs in front of the world's highest skyscraper, Burj Dubai, during a final test run some hours before the opening ceremony





People take the first underground ride after the official opening of the Gulf Emirate's first metro network in Dubai





Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers rehearse on a military base on the outskirts of Beijing for a parade on 1 October to mark 60 years of communism in China





Members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force rehearse for the National Day parade in Beijing





Minnesota Twins batter Justin Morneau fouls a ball off his cheek during the first inning of their MLB American League baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto





A Croatian fan after the Group Six FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifier between England and Croatia at Wembley stadium, which England won 5-1





A young Brazilian supporter waits for the start of their FIFA World Cup South Africa-2010 qualifier football match against Chile at Pituacu stadium, in Salvador, northern Brazil





A boat sails to catch whales off Taiji, western Japan. The town chronicled in the award-winning film The Cove for its dolphin hunt that turns coastal waters red with blood will free much of the season's first catch after an uproar





A surveillance camera stands on a pole surrounded by office buildings in the financial district of Singapore

[Mohamed]

This image, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, shows stars bursting to life in the chaotic Carina Nebula





This image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars





Covering 100 metres in 6.13 seconds, Sarah the cheetah set a new speed record for all land mammals in Cincinnati, Ohio





Halo, a seven-year-old bulldog from Minnesota has become a massive internet hit after showing off her skills around the pool table. She has mastered the break, bank shots and even trick shots





Allison the green sea turtle can now swim in a straight line - thanks to her very own shark fin. The turtle lost three of her four flippers in a shark attack in 2005. As a result of her injuries she could only swim in circles and struggled to resurface after diving. An attempt to fix a prosthetic flipper to her left nub failed. But bosses at Sea Turtle Inc in South Padre Island, Texas, refused to give up and came up with a novel solution. Using $25 worth of kit they made the turtle its very own neoprene wetsuit with a polycarbon 'shark' fin attached to it. Now Allison can swim in straight lines and can even dive






Walruses swim to shore on a beach in Alaska. Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast because of receding sea ice in the Arctic





A bright pink grasshopper was found by schoolboy Daniel Tate during an organised nature-spotting day out at Seaton Marshes, near Sidmouth in Devon





A brushtail possum joey stretches its mother's pouch open during an inspection by vets in Sydney





A man takes a look at a huge crocodile sculpture made out of hundreds of pumpkins on a farm in Feldkirch-Hartheim, southern Germany





Police prepare to enter a hijacked Boeing 737 plane at the airport in Mexico City. Hijackers seized an AeroMexico plane with more than 100 people on board, but the incident ended quickly without bloodshed, and nine suspects were detained





Police present to the media Jose Mar Flores Pereira from Bolivia, accused of hijacking the AeroMexico plane. He said he was on a divine mission





A Dubai metro train runs in front of the world's highest skyscraper, Burj Dubai, during a final test run some hours before the opening ceremony





People take the first underground ride after the official opening of the Gulf Emirate's first metro network in Dubai





Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers rehearse on a military base on the outskirts of Beijing for a parade on 1 October to mark 60 years of communism in China





Members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force rehearse for the National Day parade in Beijing





Minnesota Twins batter Justin Morneau fouls a ball off his cheek during the first inning of their MLB American League baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto





A Croatian fan after the Group Six FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifier between England and Croatia at Wembley stadium, which England won 5-1





A young Brazilian supporter waits for the start of their FIFA World Cup South Africa-2010 qualifier football match against Chile at Pituacu stadium, in Salvador, northern Brazil





A boat sails to catch whales off Taiji, western Japan. The town chronicled in the award-winning film The Cove for its dolphin hunt that turns coastal waters red with blood will free much of the season's first catch after an uproar





A surveillance camera stands on a pole surrounded by office buildings in the financial district of Singapore

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thank you so much
they are very amasing pictures.very very expressive

[Mohamed]

A five-fingered carrot hand that was grown by Peter Jackson at his home in Shropshire





A 78-year-old man is rescued after climbing an electrical tower in Wuhan, China. The unidentified man offered no explanation for his bizarre feat





The Canadian public could be receiving their mail in these space-aged mail trucks - if designer Hugo Plazas' design is approved. Plazas' car is inspired by Mercury's winged shoes





A man wears a "uniform for the corrupt" designed by fashion designer Oleksiy Zalevsky during a symbolic fashion show in front of Ukraine's Health Protection Ministry in Kiev





Obama look-a-like Ilham Anas poses for photos during a Greenpeace demonstration in front of the US embassy in Bangkok. Greenpeace is calling on President Obama to take a leadership role on climate change





A protester against US President Barack Obama's healthcare displays a placard outside the Comcast Centre where Obama will hold a rally on healthcare in Colleage Park, Maryland





Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders is seen during the annual debate on the National Budget in the Dutch House of Representatives in The Hague




A Red Titi monkey and a Tamarin monkey eat from a rainbow-coloured feeder to get them in the mood for Gay Sunday at ZSL London Zoo this weekend





A man stands on a bus waiting to board a ferry to Sumatra from the port of Merak as Indonesian Muslims travel back to their home towns for Eid ul-Fitr





A man swims across a flooded area in Suolong town in Luoding county in south China's Guangdong province





A police car is showered by milk as dairy farmers spill 14,000 litres in Eisleben, Germany





The arch of a double rainbow catches the vivid colors of sunrise looking west from southeast Spokane, Washington





FC Sheriff Tiraspol's Benjamin Balima jumps for a header during the Europa League Group H match against Steaua Bucharest, at the Ghencea stadium in Bucharest, Romania





Intuitive Surgical Incorporated's da Vinci Surgical System. Surgeons are increasingly turning to high-tech robotic equipment to operate on patients





Chinese hairdresser Huang Xin displays replicas of the Chinese national flag, Tiananmen Gate, the National Museum of China, Chairman Mao Tse Tung Memorial Hall, Great Hall of the People and the Monument of the People's Heroes, all made of human hair





Walruses hauled out on the shore of Icy Cape, about 140 southwest of Barrow, Alaska