Pictures of the Day

[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