Pictures of the Day

[Mohamed]

A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky at the Mont-Tendre, north of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2009





This urban sprawl is called Low-Rise, and was made using 100,000 staples by British artist Peter Root





Sean D. Tucker flies over Downtown Chicago, Illinois, in the Oracle Seneca chase-plane, during a preview flight of the 2009 Chicago Air and Water Show





An Amnesty International message 'Say Sorry' hangs in the sky above 81-year-old Gil Won Ok in Canberra. Gil Won Ok was a comfort woman during World War Two after being taken by the Japanese Imperial army and is asking for an official apology from the Ja





A clown performs a scene from Slava's Snowstorm in Melbourne





Honduras's national soccer fans celebrate before a World Cup qualifier soccer match against Costa Rica in San Pedro Sula, Honduras





A 15-day-old baby African Hippopotamus, and her mother, is seen at the Delhi Zoo, Sander Nacar, South Delhi





A man with his face covered in sheep's blood raises a sword during a ceremony to symbolically crown Reverend Jesse Jackson as Prince Essoin, at Krindjabo, a village in southern Ivory Coast





A boy tries on a helmet as Roman soldiers visit young patients in the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands





A policeman fires tear gas during a protest by supporters of ousted Honduras President Zelaya in Tegucigalpa





Contestants prepare their hot air balloons during an international hot air balloon festival in Baotou, north China's Inner Mongolia region...






...about a hundred hot air balloons, from eight countries and regions, are taking part in festival






Members of Spanish theatre company, La Fura dels Baus, perform on the Grand Stage during the Sziget Festival on Shipyard Island in northern Budapest, Hungary





Soldiers takes cover as supporter of ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya throw rocks during protests outside the Congress building in downtown Tegucigalpa





A visitor takes a picture of the fossilised head of a dinosaur at a museum in Kunming, in southwest China's Yunnan province





Three Magellanic Penguin chicks are guided by a zoo worker as they make their way to their new home on Pengiun Island at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California