Pictures of the Day

[Mohamed]

A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky at the Mont-Tendre, north of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2009





This urban sprawl is called Low-Rise, and was made using 100,000 staples by British artist Peter Root





Sean D. Tucker flies over Downtown Chicago, Illinois, in the Oracle Seneca chase-plane, during a preview flight of the 2009 Chicago Air and Water Show





An Amnesty International message 'Say Sorry' hangs in the sky above 81-year-old Gil Won Ok in Canberra. Gil Won Ok was a comfort woman during World War Two after being taken by the Japanese Imperial army and is asking for an official apology from the Ja





A clown performs a scene from Slava's Snowstorm in Melbourne





Honduras's national soccer fans celebrate before a World Cup qualifier soccer match against Costa Rica in San Pedro Sula, Honduras





A 15-day-old baby African Hippopotamus, and her mother, is seen at the Delhi Zoo, Sander Nacar, South Delhi





A man with his face covered in sheep's blood raises a sword during a ceremony to symbolically crown Reverend Jesse Jackson as Prince Essoin, at Krindjabo, a village in southern Ivory Coast





A boy tries on a helmet as Roman soldiers visit young patients in the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands





A policeman fires tear gas during a protest by supporters of ousted Honduras President Zelaya in Tegucigalpa





Contestants prepare their hot air balloons during an international hot air balloon festival in Baotou, north China's Inner Mongolia region...






...about a hundred hot air balloons, from eight countries and regions, are taking part in festival






Members of Spanish theatre company, La Fura dels Baus, perform on the Grand Stage during the Sziget Festival on Shipyard Island in northern Budapest, Hungary





Soldiers takes cover as supporter of ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya throw rocks during protests outside the Congress building in downtown Tegucigalpa





A visitor takes a picture of the fossilised head of a dinosaur at a museum in Kunming, in southwest China's Yunnan province





Three Magellanic Penguin chicks are guided by a zoo worker as they make their way to their new home on Pengiun Island at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California

[Mohamed]

A person dressed as a curry wurst mascot, poses outside the entrance to the newly opened Curry Wurst Museum in Berlin





A ProFauna activist at a demonstration demanding the Jakarta government stop the tiger and elephant trade and punish the perpetrators





Two-and-a-half month old lion cubs are carried by veterinarians at Lecoqc zoo in the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay





A dog plays sarrogate mother to baby kittens in Yongfeng country in Beijing, China





A dog painted green by unknown persons in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia





Jammu and Kashmir Police perform a stunt on a motorcycle as they rehearse for an Independence Day parade at Bakshi stadium in Srinagar





A player balances a ball on his head, as he and his teammates wear masks as a preventive measure against swine flu, during a soccer tournament held to mark Indias Independence Day, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India





A fisherman is silhouetted in front of the sunset, on the Black Sea in front Sochin, Russia





A lone fisherman waits for a bite while fishing from his boat, in the deep fog on La Due Reservoir in Auburn, Ohio





A humpback whale's tail comes out of the water during a ride on the Les Ecumeurs boat, on the St. Lawrence river at Les Escoumins, Quebec





Members of the Lima Lima flight team fly over Chicago





A total of 1,950 fireworks lit up the night sky over this port city of Hakodate, on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido, to commemorate the opening of the port 150 years ago





A 34-floor apartment building is demolished in Zhongshan, southern China's Guangdong province. The 104-metre high building is the tallest construction to be demolished in Asia





Seven-month-old baby Kibibi sits in the lap of her mother Mandara, a Western Lowland Gorilla in their habitat at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, in Washington DC

[Mohamed]

The head of a silkmoth, including brain and antennae, sits mounted on a wheeled machine, electrodes linking the brain and vehicle, during an experiment at a laboratory in Tokyo





A child examines a BMW made of bricks, cement and steel in an art district of Beijing





A WWII Bofors 40-70L anti-aircraft gun at Redoubt Fort in Harwich, Essex, is now the home to a dove





A Thai schoolgirl wears a face mask during a visit to the Science Museum in Bangkok





US President Barack Obama heads a football while walking back to the Oval Office after hosting the MLS Columbus Crew team in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington





David Beckham, with ice strapped to his left ankle, leaves the Los Angeles Galaxy training pitch with his children





A heifer leaps over a pile of runners following the running of the bulls at the Plaza de Toros at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona





A police diver holds an 8 kilogram pike-perch next to the injured legs of a tourist, on a boat on the Lago Maggiore near Tenero, Switzerland. The fish is reported to have attacked several holiday-makers





French tightrope walker Ramon Kelvink Jr crosses a high wire stretched from the Price Building to the Chateau Frontenac hotel, in Quebec City...





...Mr Kelvink started from the 13th floor of the Price Building and crossed to the tower on the 14th floor of the Chateau Frontenac, a distance of 230 metres at a height of 50 metres





Passersby look at a passenger bus after it fell off an offramp in Kuala Lumpur. Eight passenger were injured when the bus lost control at the turning and fell off the ramp





A Chinese paramilitary policeman carries a gun with a bayonet as he stands guard outside the Grand Bazaar in the Uighur district of the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang region





A rope bridge is seen damaged by a rain-triggered flood in Xuanhan county, Chongqing Municipality, China





A child blows a horn during a protest near the construction site of Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a nation-wide strike enters its sixth day





A labourer walks on the bank of the Huang Pu River which is under re-construction as part of a city facelift for the upcoming 2010 World Expo, in Shanghai





A girl looks at a 3D artwork depicting Victoria Harbour by British artist Su Blackwell during an exhibition of Pop Up Paper Art in Hong Kong...





...Su Blackwell gives new lives to second-hand books by transforming them into a three-dimensional scenes...





...Another artwork by Su Blackwell entitled The Woodworkers





Characters from the Nickelodeon cable network animated series SpongeBob SquarePants celebrate the series' tenth anniversary

[Mohamed]

A series of photos taken by Richard Heeks of Exeter capture the exact moment a soap bubble is burst...





...The second picture shows a soap bubble with one half still perfectly formed while the other shatters in a distinctive pattern of streaks...





...and the final shot captures the progress of the 'burst' as it engulfs the bubble





Australian motocross star Robbie Maddison leaping over the open span of London's Tower Bridge





Lightning strikes near the space shuttle Endeavour resting atop launch pad 39A during thunderstorms at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral





Lightning strikes over the Beijing skyline during a thunderstorm, near the city's tallest skyscraper, the China World Trade Center Tower 3





The sun shines down 42nd Street in New York City during Manhattanhenge, which occurs when the setting sun aligns itself with the east-west grid of streets in Manhattan





A young elk rescued from a flooding river by a farmer in Inje, Gangwon Province, South Korea. It was adopted by a female dog that breastfeeds and guards him





A woman walks with a bichon frise and a poodle both coloured with various dyes on a street in Wuhan, Hubei province, China





Residents watch a huge blaze breaking in via dell'Almone, south of Rome, at a warehouse containing around 1,000 cars





An illegal immigrant escapes from a makeshift camp in flames in the portal zone of Patras, one of the biggest ports in Greece, often used as the entry point into Europe





Chinese police demonstrate an armed bank robbery during a drill in Beijing





A man struggles to paddle his sinking boat in a lake in Szandavaralja, Hungary





Thais wearing superhero costumes pose during a campaign promoting the use of face masks to prevent infection by the H1N1 flu virus, at a hospital in Nonthaburi province





Alex Tagliani of Canada interacts with a mascot before the IRL IndyCar Series Honda Indy Toronto race





Australian Federal Minister for Defence Greg Combet walks across a zebra crossing followed by a 'Packbot' robot in Melbourne. He earlier announced a competition calling for entries to build a fully autonomous ground robot for military use





A Chinese soldier carries two watermelons as he walks past two fellow soldiers in riot gear guarding a mosque in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region





Internally displaced siblings from Swat play on top their family tent at the UNHCR Yar Hussain camp in Swabi district, Pakistan





An angry mob of displaced people carry an injured man who, according to bystanders, was beaten by police on asking for food rations at the Yar Hussain UNHCR camp in Swabi district, Pakistan






A newly-hatched nightingale is seen in a nest in Jezerc, Kosovo

[Mohamed]

A base jumper leaps from a alpine cliff in the Lauterbrunnen valley in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland





A Chinese performer soars through the air as he slams a basketball into the basket during a show at half-time during the final of the Asian Basketball Championships between China and Iran in Tianjin





lvaro Bautista of Spain and Mapfre Aspar Team crashes out while attempting a wheelie after finishing the 250cc race in third place in the MotoGP World Championship Grand Prix of Czech Republic in Brno, Czech Republic





Great Britain's Katy Livingston falls over a fence after her horse refuses to jump, during the Modern Pentathlon World Championships, in London





Spanish bullfighter Manuel Diaz, or 'El Cordobes', is gored by a bull during the Begona Fair bullfight held at El Bibio bullring in Gijon, northern Spain





Tengger tribesmen perform cane fighting during a celebration of Indonesia's 64th anniversary of independence at the caldera of Mount Bromo, in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia





Hindu devotee gets his mouth pierced as he takes part in an annual religious procession called Shitla Mata in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh





Runners stream through Times Square during the New York City Half Marathon in New York





British athletics fans cheer on their teams during day two of the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany





Sculptor Jason Peters was commissioned by the Times Square Alliance to create a temporary piece of art with old plastic beach chairs that will be replaced with 400 new ****l chairs. The sculpture lines the Broadway pedestrian plaza between 42nd and 47th S





A group of Indonesian Marine Police gesture in the waters off Manado, in North Sulawesi





Engineers of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute wheel the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, South Korea's first space rocket, to its launch pad from the assembly complex at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea





Smoke goes up from a burning fireworks depot in the suburb of Donetsk, Ukraine





A man works at a steel plant in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China





A Cambodian farmer works in the early morning on her rice paddy, in the outskirts of Phnom Penh





A woman pushes a baby pram while walking along a dirt road at dusk in Iqaluit, Nunavut on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic





A landslide in a tea plantation, following Typhoon Morakot, in Alishan Township in Chiayi county, southern Taiwan





People play in a fountain in Boston as temperatures reach 90 degrees





The son of a female Afghan prisoner stands in a corridor of a prison in Herat, western Afghanistan





A Pakistani border guard examines Afghanistan-bound NATO tankers after an attack in Yaro, Pakistan





A Pakistani man looks at the remains of a smouldering passenger bus, torched by an angry mob after the killing of Islamic religious leader Allamma Ali Sher Haideri, in Karachi





A street performer on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

[Mohamed]

A base jumper leaps from a alpine cliff in the Lauterbrunnen valley in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland





A Chinese performer soars through the air as he slams a basketball into the basket during a show at half-time during the final of the Asian Basketball Championships between China and Iran in Tianjin





lvaro Bautista of Spain and Mapfre Aspar Team crashes out while attempting a wheelie after finishing the 250cc race in third place in the MotoGP World Championship Grand Prix of Czech Republic in Brno, Czech Republic





Great Britain's Katy Livingston falls over a fence after her horse refuses to jump, during the Modern Pentathlon World Championships, in London





Spanish bullfighter Manuel Diaz, or 'El Cordobes', is gored by a bull during the Begona Fair bullfight held at El Bibio bullring in Gijon, northern Spain





Tengger tribesmen perform cane fighting during a celebration of Indonesia's 64th anniversary of independence at the caldera of Mount Bromo, in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia





Hindu devotee gets his mouth pierced as he takes part in an annual religious procession called Shitla Mata in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh





Runners stream through Times Square during the New York City Half Marathon in New York





British athletics fans cheer on their teams during day two of the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany





Sculptor Jason Peters was commissioned by the Times Square Alliance to create a temporary piece of art with old plastic beach chairs that will be replaced with 400 new ****l chairs. The sculpture lines the Broadway pedestrian plaza between 42nd and 47th S





A group of Indonesian Marine Police gesture in the waters off Manado, in North Sulawesi





Engineers of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute wheel the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, South Korea's first space rocket, to its launch pad from the assembly complex at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea





Smoke goes up from a burning fireworks depot in the suburb of Donetsk, Ukraine





A man works at a steel plant in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China





A Cambodian farmer works in the early morning on her rice paddy, in the outskirts of Phnom Penh





A woman pushes a baby pram while walking along a dirt road at dusk in Iqaluit, Nunavut on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic





A landslide in a tea plantation, following Typhoon Morakot, in Alishan Township in Chiayi county, southern Taiwan





People play in a fountain in Boston as temperatures reach 90 degrees





The son of a female Afghan prisoner stands in a corridor of a prison in Herat, western Afghanistan





A Pakistani border guard examines Afghanistan-bound NATO tankers after an attack in Yaro, Pakistan





A Pakistani man looks at the remains of a smouldering passenger bus, torched by an angry mob after the killing of Islamic religious leader Allamma Ali Sher Haideri, in Karachi





A street performer on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

[Mohamed]

Seized 25 kilograms of cocaine at the airport of Las Americas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The drugs were found in 407 zucchinis and were due to be sent to New York on a commercial flight





A wasp flies as an athletes competes in the women's pole vault final of the 2009 IAAF Athletics World Championships in Berlin





A Canadair water bomber flies above a fire that broke out close to the city of Thiva some 120 kilometers north of Athens





The final Delta II GPS rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base and launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida





A lighting test at Sun Valley, at the 2010 World Expo site, in Shanghai





A giant crop circle has Harry Potter fans hooting with excitement after a pattern resembling pet owl Hedwig appeared in a field in Wiltshire





A tiger cools off from summer heat in a pool at a zoo in Hefei, east China's Anhui province





A giraffe calf is pictured at Chester Zoo. The calf born, on 11 August, is five-and-a-half feet tall





A squat lobster and a scorpionfish are seen among corals more than 1,000 feet down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the southeastern United States





Neville Chamberlain's diary from 1939 is to go on public display. The day World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, began is marked with a simple entry scrawled in pencil: ''War declared''





A view from a neighbouring building to a destroyed police station in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia





A straw replica of London's 'Big Ben' is pictured in a field in Nantwich, Cheshire. The replica of Big Ben was built to celebrate 150 years of the London landmark. The 72ft sculpture, which is made with 500 bales of straw and weighs 20 tonnes, features a





Old unused computers and monitors sit in the main hall of the Shanghai Stock Exchange





Giant Torayan, a 7.2-metre tall aluminum robot looms over visitors at Osaka city hall, western Japan





An Afghan man trims his moustache on a street in Kabul





A boy holds his donkey carrying election supplies to a rural polling station in Afghanistan's mountainous Panjshir Province





Local farmers, many Amish, gather in a cow pasture near New Holland, Pennsylvania, to meet and discuss agricultural issues with local officials and US Congressmen

[a new soul]

just wonderful nothing to say I really appreciated your job. I read them all ,one by one, but in second page most of the pictures don't appear am I the only one to have a problem with the displaying ?

[Mohamed]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة a new soul

just wonderful nothing to say I really appreciated your job. I read them all ,one by one, but in second page most of the pictures don't appear am I the only one to have a problem with the displaying ?

Hi new soul
Thanks a lot for your comment
It is because you are using Internet Explorer
And this latter doesn't display all the pictures when there are too many of them in the same page
Try to ******* your page, or just use Opera browser or Firefox
Allah bless you

[Mohamed]

Indian ornamental fish lover Patit Paban Halder gives an injection to a sick fish at his fish hospital in Chandannagore





People try to help a 4,000-pound baby sperm whale that became beached at Jupiter Park in Jupiter, Florida





During a heat wave, an otter keeps cool with a frozen fish ice lolly, in Battersea Park Children's Zoo, London





Billy the eagle owl supposedly loves his regular shower to help keep him cool in warm weather





A man cools down in a fountain in Seville





English bowler Stuart Broad stretches for a catch and lands on his side during training for the fifth Ashes cricket test between England and Australia at The Oval, in London





Corombo, a puppet from the popular Egyptian version of the American crime fiction TV-series, Columbo, is displayed for sale holding a fanus, the traditional Ramadan lantern, at a Gaza City market





Boomer the Carpathian lynx gets to grips with a toy at Newquay Zoo, Cornwall, he is being trained using techniques more commonly used with domestic pets to help staff better look after him





South Korean police SWAT team members run through smoke during an anti-terrorism exercise at Samsung Electronic's building in Seoul, Norh Korea





A man uses his donkey to deliver election supplies to a rural polling station in Afghanistan's mountainous Panjshir Province





Anti-government protest in front of the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines





Spanish Pilot Alejandro Maclean flies past the Hungarian Parliament as part of preparations for the 2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship in downtown Budapest





A Russian military technician prepares a fighter plane before the opening ceremony of the MAKS 2009 international aerospace show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow





A military robot, used by the Indonesian army's explosive and ordnanace unit, and a soldier wearing a bomb suit prepare to recover bombs at the Jakarta city mayor's office during a military exercise

[Mohamed]

South Africa's Willem Coertzen flies through the air after his pole snapped during an attempt at the decathlon pole vault during the World Athletics Championships in Berlin





Bullet holes are seen on the front window of a Federal police vehicle near the US Mexico border in Tijuana, northern Mexico





A PETA activist, dressed as a dog, teaches people about animal birth control in New Delhi, India





A man walks passed a wall decorated with comic book characters on a street in Lisbon





A man draws a portrait of deceased former President Kim Dae-jung at a memorial altar in Seoul, South Korea





An emperor tamarin monkey is fed by a member of the zoo's staff, at the Denver Zoo, Colorado





Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reacts during a meeting with Brazil's Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Miguel Jorge at Miraflores Palace in Caracas





A Maori chief welcomes the athletes to the Opening Ceremony for the Winter Games at Earnslaw Park in Queenstown, New Zealand





Workers sort recyclable plastic bottles at a bottle recycling site in Shenyang, in northeast China's Liaoning province





A house is wrecked after a tornado went through Vaughn, a suburb of the Greater Toronto Area, Canada





A baby Indian rhinoceros, Bandhu, joins his mother, Jatri, in the Asian Plains exhibit, at the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park





An angler flatfish blends itself against the black sandy bottom as it preys for food at Lembeh Strait, off the coast of North Sulawesi, Indonesia






Conservators with the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum cover an Egyptian mummy, after it underwent a scan, at the Stanford Medical Centre in California





A Thai customs official stands nex to seized elephant tusks prior a press conference at Airport Customs in Bangkok

[smart]

WAW......Iam just speechless and I must say that the pictures & that introduction really helped me
I really appreciate what You are doing here
God bless You

[Mohamed]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة smart

WAW......Iam just speechless and I must say that the pictures & that introduction really helped me
I really appreciate what You are doing here
God bless You

Peace be upon you
Thanks a lot my sister
I'm very happy that my topic pleased you
Keep it up
Allah bless you

[Mohamed]

This photo taken through an aircraft window over Greece shows the smoke of wildfires rising through the clouds, about 70 kilometres (45 miles) west of Athens





A hot air balloon flies over the morning mist near Immenstadt in Allgaeu, southern Germany





A crested hairless dog is paraded at Pet Fashion Week 09 in New York





A newborn baby elephant at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedsfordshire gets its tail trodden on by its mother





An albino frog, discovered in the residential compound of Shaanxi Provincial Mechanical Research Institute in China





A rare blue lobster that was caught by Bill Marconi of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He originally mistook it for a beer can in his trap because of its vibrant colouring





A crescent moon is seen behind the King Hussein Bin Talal Mosque in Amman, Jordan, during the holy month of Ramadan





Firefighters attend to a small plane that crashed on US Highway 101 about one mile northeast of the Santa Barbara Airport. Three cars were unable to avoid the plane and crashed into it





New York Yankees' Johnny Damon is congratulated by teammate Nick Swisher after Damon scored in the third inning of their American League MLB baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts





Betsy Alexander's cat Nora presses the keys of a piano in Philadelphia





Maximilian Stack of Germany, Kohichi Itoh of Japan and Ibon Idigoras of Spain compete in the men's Snowboard Cross during day three of the Winter Games NZ in Wanaka, New Zealand





A helicopter with tourists onboard flies in front of Angel Falls at Canaima National Park, in Venezuela. Angel Falls measures 979 metres (3,212 feet) and is the world's highest waterfall





The aerobatics team Russkie Vityazi (Russian Knights) in Su-27 fighter jets perform at the MAKS 2009 international aerospace show outside Moscow





Shaolin students perform martial arts at Tagou Wushu School in Dengfeng, Henan province, China





Huge crowds flock to Bournemouth beach as temperatures soared to 27 degrees Celsius





A giant panda named Fu Long (happy dragon) eats a cake on his second birthday at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna





A video grab released by Cuban TV of Fidel Castro. Castro, who is recovering from major intestinal surgery, appeared in the first new video of him in 14 months, joking and chatting with Venezuelan students





Soldiers rest after searching for bodies in Linbian, Pingtung County, southern Taiwan, following Typhoon Morakot





Ukrainian soldiers march down Kiev's main street during a military parade marking the 18th anniversary of Ukraine's independence

[Mohamed]

A cat in China models the latest pet craze - pink acrylic nails for cats





A common-Siamese soft-****led turtle walks in a pool at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand





A Great White Shark breaches the surface as it hunts near Seal island, Cape Town. The shark was lured using a rubber decoy seal dragged behind a boat





A walrus takes a break at Qingdao Polar Ocean World in China





An unsuspecting tourist at Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia, has food snatched from under his nose by a brave seagull





A Pacific Brown Booby floats on the surface of the sea in search of dinner in the Pacific Ocean south of Baja California in Mexico...





...The photos were taken by Kate Westaway from Bristol who had been enjoying a spot of underwater photography near the Revillagigedo Islands when she came across a pair of Brown Boobies bobbing around





A frog struggles to the surface for a gulp of air in a mill pond swamped by duckweed at Fiddleford Mill, near Sturminster Newton, Dorset





Members of law enforcement hold rifles at they stand near the fairway of the second hole at the Farm Neck Golf Club moments before President Barack Obama arrived to play golf





Peasants belonging to the "400 Pueblos" group wear masks of President Barack Obama during a protest in Mexico City, demanding to be treated with the same respect as Obama was treated when he visited Mexico City





A dog rests under a Soviet Sau-100 tank, used by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1961, displayed in Havana





Ogawa Rubber employees wear masks of Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party





Caster Semenya, centre, waving, wearing tracksuit, is escorted by police as she arrives along with the South African athletics team at OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg





Antelope Canyon, near Page, Arizona. The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse' bighanilini, which means the place where water runs through rock





A man walks among sunflowers at an annual sunflower festival in Tokyo





Students wear colourful hats made out of slippers during a street dance competition at a Tsinelas (slippers) Festival parade at Gapan city, Philippines





Residents look at a giant slipper during a Tsinelas (slippers) Festival parade at Gapan city, Philippines. The slipper industry in the city is being threatened by imports from Vietnam, China, Malaysia and Taiwan, according to local reports





A fire at a tyre recycling plant in Littleport, near Ely. Firefighters are still tackling a blaze at a tyre recycling plant which started last Friday





A pick-up truck carrying tobacco bales arrives at the auction floors in the central Malawi district of Kasungu