Pictures of the Day

[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