Pictures of the Day

[Mohamed]

Peace be upon you
Today I want to present a new topic of mine. The aim of this topic is to help the members learn English through the short description of each picture.
I hope you will enjoy the topic.
God bless you

[Mohamed]

Serbia's Nikola Radjen (left) fights for the ball with Peter Biros of Hungary during the men's quarter-final water polo match at the 13th FINA World Championship in Rome...





A motorcyclist rides on a plank placed over a schoolgirl during a "bravery show" organised by a government elementary school in Villupuram in India's Tamil Nadu state...





...The school's headmaster said that the event, which drew protests from children's rights activists, was organised with the consent of the school's parents-teachers' association





A poster of Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, produced by 24-year-old Japanese contemporary artist 'MA' in a parody of Shepard Fairey's portrait of US President Barack Obama





Virgin Mother Ship Eve, White Knight Two, flies over Oshkosh, Wisconsin with Sir Richard Branson onboard. Eve is designed to reach an altitude of 50,000 feet and release Space Ship Two that will transport passengers to space





A heavy thunderstorm over the city of Zurich, Switzerland





A four-day-old sea lion cub lies in its enclosure in the zoo in Vienna





A pet monkey rides on a recovery truck in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta





A crocodile attacks a wildebeest as it crosses the Mara river during a migration in the Masaai Mara game reserve, Kenya





Painted chicks sold as pets are displayed outside a market in Manila





Icebergs float in a fjord near the south Greenland town of Narsaq





A forest fire burns in Cambroncino near Caceres, Spain





A pile of opium poppy seeds explodes after US Marines dropped explosives on it from a fighter jet in Garmsir District of Helmand Province, Afghanistan





Part of the side of the 14-storey Civil Guard barracks building is seen after a car bomb, blamed on Basque separatist group ETA, exploded in the northern city of Burgos





Rescuers examine a train derailment site in Liucheng county, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China





A girl poses in front of a large model of the sun at an exhibition in the Gasometer museum in Oberhausen, Germany

[Darkness angel]

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NICE WORK

[hairless17]

Always special ; Mohamed
Nothing but wonderful

[أبو خالد سيف الدين]

This picture is so amazing

[sam_sam]

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[Mohamed]

You're welcome brothers and sisters. It will be great that you comment or discuss any picture you like. Try also to memorize the spelling of new words, the names of places and animals..etc
Thanks again

[Mohamed]

A massive, anvil-shaped cloud is seen in this picture taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station as it travelled above western Africa near Senegal





This image of the Carajás Iron Ore Mine in the Amazon was taken by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's EO-1 satellite, and reveals the extent of deforestation





Farmhands sculpt hay into the shape of a satellite dish. This is just one of the designs submitted to the WheatArt competition organised by Weetabix. First prize is £5,000





Jen Hui Liao's Self-Portrait Machine is a device that takes a picture of the model and draws it with the help of the model. The model's wrists are tied to the machine and his or her hands are guided to draw the lines





A 10ft sand tiger shark is fed birthday treats at the Deep Sea World, Edinburgh as it reaches 25, believed to be the oldest shark of its type in the UK





Polar bears play in the water in their enclosure on a sunny day at Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna





A baby macaw rubrogeny is seen at the Jurques zoo, near Caen, western France





A new bird species called the Bare-faced Bulbul, discovered in the Savannakhet province in Laos. The odd-looking bald songbird is the first new species of bulbul discovered in Asia in over 100 years





A boy wears a hat featuring Pikachu, at a Pokemon shop in Tokyo





A sculpture called Mauerspringer (Walljumper) by Florian and Michael Brauer and Edward Anders, is seen in Berlin. It is based on a photo of border guard Hans Conrad Schumann jumping over barbed wire on August 15, 1961 to escape from East Berlin





A replica of the Prince Willem vessel has been destroyed by a fire in the historical museum harbour at Willemsoord in Den Helder, The Netherlands

[sabiha18]

very good Idea indeed but your english is very sophisticated
if you wait the aim to be acheved
you really need to write with a simple english
thank you sooooooo much for your efforts
the world need people like you

[Mohamed]

Thanks a lot sabiha18 for your nice comment

[Mohamed]

iKey's AK-39 wearable keyboard is designed for military use in environments with harsh electromagnetic interference like warzones. It features a basic 39-key layout, an integrated pointing device and green backlighting that is, naturally, also available with night-vision compatibility





An aerial view of of glacial patterns, with melting ice on the Breidamerkurjokull glacier in Iceland





A wild elephant crosses a railway track along Deepor Beel, a wild life sanctuary on the outskirts of Gauhati, India





Backdropped by the blackness of space and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Endeavour as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation





A two-headed calf named Jennifer is seen in a stable in Rivera, Colombia





The 2,500 year-old mummified body an Egyptian female known as 'Tahemaa' is scanned at the Saad Centre of Radiography at City Univeristy in central London





Chinese armed policemen take part in an anti-terrorism drill in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province





Palestinian children fly kites during a festival on the beach of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip





Argentina's Dario Colla is run over by Cuba's Ruben Companiani during the 2009 Elite Track Pan American Championship cycling event in Mexico City





French farmers pour peaches onto the A9 highway during a protest near Perpignan





Hungarian firemen extinguish a fire after two Romanian trucks collided and burst into flames on the M7 near Zalakomar





A huge teddy bear is unveiled in Incheon, South Korea. The world's biggest teddy bear, depicting a scene from the book Gulliver's Travels, measures ten metres in length





A festival-goer gets lifted by a calf during a cow race at Saint-Andre Square in Bayonne, France





Fathima Lubna, 7, and her twin sister Fathima Lubaba carry their five-month-old twin sisters at their residence in Kodinji village, in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Kodinji, with around 2,000 families, has at least 204 pairs of twins





The aurora borealis, commonly referred to as the northern lights, dance across the sky over Bemidji, Minnesota





An artwork by Aurelie Barbey and Laura Ruccolo called Bouillonement, exhibited as part of the Rencontres Art Nature 2009 show at Massif du Sancy near Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, France

[Mohamed]

A 500-foot-long crop circle at Martinsell Hill, Wiltshire - the first ever circle to incorporate a pond





Darren Gook, Senior Marine Biologist at the Great Yarmouth Sea-Life Centre, holds Ruby the albino lobster. The odds of a lobster being albino are reportedly one in 30 million





A US Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis in the Gulf of Alaska





A worker cleans the cable-stayed bridge on the Bandra Worli Sea Link in Mumbai. The 5.6 km long bridge will open to the public later this month





Phil Pfister reacts as he fails to lift 2500 pounds (1109kg) in the Hip and Thigh backlift event at the Fortissimus World Strength Challenge in Montmagny, Quebec





A seagull flies under a rainbow during a rainstorm in Bucharest, Romania





Storm clouds gather and lightning strikes over the Houses of Parliament in London during a break in the hot weather





Vehicles are seen partially submerged in mud after a heavy storm hit Chongqing Municipality, China





A collapsed 13-floor residential building which was under construction is seen in Shanghai, China





Rescuers work at the site where two trains collided at Chenzhou railway station in China





Participants in a soapbox derby race compete in Berlin





Japanese laboratory Riken researcher Choi Kyuwan displays a prototype electric powered wheelchair controled by his brain-wave analysis data in Tokyo





A demonstrator attends a protest against regulatory official investigations that could force the station Globovision, an opposition-aligned television channel, off the air, in Caracas, Venezuela

[mon_amour99]

oh my god

[Mohamed]

A beached whale, found dead on a beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with a giant swollen tongue





This deadly snake bit off more than it could chew when the toad it had lined up for lunch turned the tables on it. Tourist Ran Longzhong spotted the venomous snake - believed to be a banded krait - pounce on the giant toad. But as the snake prepared to sink its fangs into an easy meal, the toad opened its massive mouth and began swallowing it alive at Qingcheng Mountain park in Sichuan, central China. "It took him about five minutes to gobble the whole thing down while the snake was struggling to get free. He was biting and snapping at the toad but he couldn't seem to get near him," said Ran





The Consumer Product Safety Commission sets off fireworks inside of a watermelon on the Mall in Washington, to demonstrate the dangers of fireworks and encourage safety on the fourth of July





Yitzhak Yazdantana poses with a cucumber that grew in his garden in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv. He hopes the 118 cm (about 46.5 inches) cucumber will be entered into the Guinness Book of World Records





An artist's impression of the Guinness deep sea bar that will take a competition winner to 70m below sea level to commemorate the company's 250th year in business





Bulgarians meet the first July sunrise at the Black Sea coast near the village of Asparuhovo





St Mark's Square in Venice is illuminated for the CreART by Swatch event





Gavin Hogg trims his hedge into a herd of elephants. The topiary hedge has become a tourist attraction outside his country mansion near Brecon, South Wales





An internally displaced girl, who fled a military offensive in the Swat valley region, transports water back to her family tent at the UNHCR Yar Hussain camp in Swabi district, Pakistan





A monument to Bolshevik leader and Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin is seen vandalised, with its nose and left hand damaged, in central Kiev, Ukraine





Riders and horses of the Lipizzan ballet of the Spanish Riding School train in the riding hall of the Imperial Palace in Vienna





Maxim Gazendam from Holland works on his Weston-super-Mare sculpture at the annual Sand Sculpture Festival on the beach at Weston





Lion-tailed Macaque monkeys, from South West India, are given ice-cream as a treat in hot weather at Bristol Zoo Gardens

[Mohamed]

Chinese hairdresser Huang Xin carries a replica of the Tiananmen Gate that he made from human hair, at his barbershop in Beijing. He used 11kg (24 lbs) of hair cut from his customers over a five month period





A building named Pavilion of Provisional Happiness is constructed using 33,000 crates of beer at the Atomium in Brussels





Wu Zhongyuan, 22, a local farmer, sits in his self-made helicopter, in Jiuxian county, China. The local government halted Wu's plan to fly the helicopter out of safety concerns. The aircraft, powered by a 150cc engine, took Wu two months to build





A team of skydivers set a world record for the biggest ever formation of people in freefall while facing headfirst towards the ground. 108 jumpers simultaneously plummeted together in formation travelling at speeds of 180 mph over Illinois





People take part in tandem paragliding off Signal Hill, in Cape Town, South Africa





A group of hikers walk across the Greenland ice cap near the town of Kulusuk





Rune Glifberg falls off of his board while practising for round one of the Men's Skateboard Vert during X Games 15 at the Home Depot Centre in Carson, California





The Terrace Mountain fire advances in Carrs Landing, British Columbia, Canada





A clown jokes behind a 46-metre-long torta (Mexican sandwich) during the annual Torta Festival in Mexico City





A family of hippos take a nap during hot weather in the Prague zoo





A prize-winning scarecrow of Prime Minister Gordon Brown wears its award after the judges selected it among the dozens of entries in the Muston Scarecrow Competition