Pictures of the Day

[Mohamed]

A games company has launched a new game of Russian roulette - where a toy gun bursts a balloon against the players' heads





'Bubbleologist' Samsam Bubbleman attempts to set the record for the world's largest bubble using a top-secret mixture he has developed. Resembling something out of 90's hit movie The Abyss, Samsam's creation floats above Finsbury Park, London





The Contortionist bicycle that can fold up inside its own wheels, invented by graduate Dominic Hargreaves, 24, from London





Local inventor and retired engineer Wang Guanshun, 72, rides a paddle boat made from a bicycle and four ****l tanks on a pond in Hefei, Anhui province





Engineer and record breaker Richard Jenkins poses beside the world's fastest wind-powered land vehicle, the Greenbird, at the Science museum in London





This cygnet joins up with her five other siblings for a free ride on their mum's back at Bicton Park Botanical Gardens in Devon





Giant panda dolls in old-styled Chinese military uniforms are displayed at the Panda Town shop in Beijing, which has 150 types of giant panda dolls in different costumes





Museum curators place scuptures of life size casts of horses by Belgium artist Berlinde De Bruyckere, in a gallery at the National Museum of Singapore





A green fluorescent bioengineered tooth grown in the mouth of a mouse





A gharial prepares to eat a fish at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India





Asiatic elephants Hella and Zitta enjoy a spray of cold water as mid-day temperatures soar to 35 degree Celsius (96.8 F), at the zoo in Budapest, Hungary





A baby wallaby sits in a zoo attendant's lap at Edogawa Natural Zoo in Tokyo, Japan. The staff of the zoo have raised the young wallaby after her mother neglected her





Chefs put the finishing touches to a giant sized Jalebi, an Indian sweet, with a diameter of 5.4 feet (1.6 metres) and weighing 27 kilograms (59.5 pounds) ahead of the 'Raksha Bandhan' festival, in Ahmadabad, India





Space Shuttle Discovery starts its rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building, Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida, during a thunderstorm