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