Pictures of the Day

[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