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

[Mohamed]

Oversized fake meatballs, plates of spaghetti and slices of pizza are seen in a swimming pool at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Cancun, Mexico





Here's the long legs of the law. A New York City Police Officer waves his baton on a pair of stilts at the 9th Police Precinct's National Night Out Against Crime street BBQ





A man in a Santa Claus suit throws himself off Sydney's Four Season's Hotel





...The stunt was put on to launch the Sydney Santa Fun Run on November 29





A young visitor looks at "Happy-Happy", an installation by Choi Jeong-Hwa from South Korea at the LACMA in Los Angeles





US President Barack Obama brings cupcakes for reporter Helen Thomas, who shares the same birthday, in the Briefing Room at the White House. Obama was celebrating his 48th birthday and Thomas her 89th





The Three Gorges Dam discharges water to lower the level in the reservoir in Yichang, Hubei province





Volunteer Jill Wilkinson polishes the iron staircase leading up to the main pumping room at the The Crossness Pumping Station in London. The historic site is undergoing a lengthy restoration process which started in 1985





Helicopter pilots watch as a controlled fire burns on Mount McLean in an attempt to reduce the amount of fuel for a wildfire burning on the mountain in Lillooet, Canada





A person holds a working clay teapot the size of a peanut kernel in Taichun, Taiwan





Johannas Paul, one of the designers of the new Beehaus, with the modern beehive for the urban beekeeper, in St. James Park, London





A low-altitude rocket glider lifts off from the New Mexico Spaceport in Upham





Richard Walker, 25, describes carrying an injured woman from the LA Fitness gym following a shooting, in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. A gunman walked in to an aerobics class, killing at least four people and wounding nearly a dozen others





Tobias Ignatiossen pulls a seal into his boat after shooting it in a fjord south of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland

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A rectangular object found jutting out of Mars's surface, which has caused imaginative minds to speculate over the nature of the "monolith" and its origins





This infrared picture provided by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud, known as DR22, bursting with new stars in the Cygnus region of the sky. Spitzer's infrared eyes can both see through and see dust, giving it a unique view into star-forming nests. The blue areas are dusty clouds, and the orange is mainly hot gas. The image is on of the first to be taken during Spitzer's warm mission - a new phase that began after the telescope, which operated for more than five-and-a-half years, ran out of liquid coolant. The picture was snapped with the two infrared channels that still work at Spitzer's still-quite-chilly temperature of 30 Kelvin (about minus 406 Fahrenheit)





A bolt of lightning illuminates the sky just outside Southampton, Hampshire





A polar bear and seabirds feed on a whale in this picture taken at Magdalena fjord, Spitsbergen on board a recent Voyages of Discovery cruise





Paleontologist Dominic Richards poses with the cast of Walking with Dinosaurs at the O2 Arena





Abseiling Technician Andy Thiemann cleans the exterior of the eight storey high Cocoon at the centre of the new Darwin Centre in the Natural History Museum in London





Hurricane Felicia is seen out in the Pacific Ocean





A surfer practises at dusk during the Relentless Boardmasters surfing feastival in Newquay





A helicopter flies over a controlled burn behind an evacuated home in an attempt to reduce the amount of fuel for a wildfire burning on Mount McLean in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada





Love-Kun, a three-day old chihuahua puppy with heart-shaped markings is seen at Pucchin Dog's in Odate, Japan. The new puppy is the brother of two-year old Heart-Kun who was also born with a perfect heart-shaped marking on his back





A mother duck tips the raft that her chicks are sitting on and they begin to slide into the water in Irish Pond, Dublin





A bull unseats a picador from his horse in Vittoria, Spain





An aerial view shows the length of the train of a wedding dress in Jilin. A Chinese bride is hoping to enter the record books after getting married in a wedding dress with a train more than 2 km (1.2 miles) long trailing behind her





South Korean special warfare command soldiers parachute down from a helicopter during a sea infiltration drill in Taean, south of Seoul





A crashed German bus lies next to the motorway near the Austrian village of Korneuburg. One person was killed and around 18 were injured in the accident when the bus collided with a lorry and a car





A man collects usable items from materials floating on a flooded street in Chongqing Municipality





Nepalese children take part in a procession for Gai Jatra (Cow Festival) in Kathmandu





Supporters of defeated presidential candidate Megawati Sukarnoputri burry themselves to drive home the message that the land belongs to Indonesia and not to foreign companies, during a protest in Jakarta





Structures found in the HIV RNA genome as identified by University of North Carolina researchers. A new technique has given researchers a "big picture" look at the genome of the AIDS virus, the first time its entire gene map has been decoded

[Mohamed]

Koda, an American miniature horse that was born with dwarfism, walks with Yarrambat Veterinary Hospital's cat...





Koda, an American Miniature in Yarrambat , Australia, was always going to be small but shortly after birth Koda was diagnosed as being a dwarf. Koda weighs only 35kg and is smaller than a labrador





Diver Erwin Poliakoff caught these pictures of the annual Pacific sardine migration while on a dive in the Philippines last month...





...One moment he was swimming in an empty ocean and the next he was 'swept up in a tornado of speeding fish'





This image provided by NASA of the rock informally named by scientists "Block Island" was taken with the front hazard-identification camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity...





...Composition measurements by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirmed that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite. With a width of about two-thirds of a metre (two feet), it is the largest meteorite yet found on Mars





A farmer in Utting in Germany has turned a field of hemp into a giant maze that looks just like comic book characters Asterix and Obelix





The Chernobyl nuclear reactor site in Ukraine, photographed by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. Reactor number four appears on the west end of a long building northeast of an L-shaped water channel





Thousands of ladybird carcasses line the streets of Cromer after a swarm in the Norfolk coastal town





Thousands of ladybird carcasses line the streets of Cromer after a swarm in the Norfolk coastal town





Dancers perform a traditional fire dance in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Boys and girls walk in trance barefoot through glowing coals and coconut ****ls kicking around a ball of fire





A balloonist checks ropes inside his balloon as he prepares to take-off at the dawn mass ascent at the 31st Bristol International Balloon Fiesta





A recovering boa constrictor feeds on a mouse at the Animal Hospital at the Niteroi Zoo, some 25 kms north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Born on the 10th day of Chinese lunar month July in 1988, He Ping-ping now is 19 years old but only measures 73 centimeters or 2.4 feet in height. Currently, he is applying for the Guinness World Record as the world's shortest man. He ranked the third in a family from Huade county, Ulanqab in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (also the home to the world's tallest man, 2,36-meter Bao Xishun). According to his father He Yun, he was no larger than the size of an adult's palm at birth. Both of his two sisters are normal and now have married.

Last year, Guinness World Records dismissed an application of Nepal's 14-years-old Khagendra Thapa Magar (his height is mere 50 centimeters) to be the world's shortest man but promised to review the case once he grows to 18 years old.

[Mohamed]

A bolt of lightning strikes a yacht's mast. Amateur photographer Francis Evans from Truro, Cornwall, decided to take a photograph from his window on the off-chance that he could capture the lightning. He did - hitting his neighbour's 18ft yacht





Millennium Island photographed by an Expedition 20 crew member on the International Space Station. The island is located at the southern end of the Line Islands in the South Pacific Ocean and is part of the Republic of Kiribati





Dolphins and surfers have a friendly encounter at Palm Beach, Sydney, Australia





A baby male killer whale named Earth is pictured with his mother, Lovey, at Kamogawa Sea World in Japan





Climbers in action during the men's 15 metre speed final at the IFSC Climbing World Championship 2009 in Xining, China's Qinghai province





Motocross freestylers perform a synchronised jump during a Freestyle Motocross World Tour event in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don





Keepers at Seaview Wildlife Encounter on the Isle of Wight are looking after six-month-old albino wallaby, Joey. His mother, Sheila (pictured here with Joey), died on July 4, aged 20. At night Joey now sleeps in a backpack lined with a fleece





A Thai trainer puts his head into the mouth of a crocodile at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Centre





A US Marine of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade runs to safety moments after an IED blast in Garmsir district of Helmand Province in Afghanistan. Two US Marines were killed in the explosion




Chinese paramilitary in riot gear march in formation on People's Square in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region





Fireworks illuminate the sky around the Eiffel Tower in Paris as France celebrates Bastille Day





Fireworks explode behind the castle in Carcassonne, France, to celebrate the closing of Bastille Day celebrations





Terry Brotheridge of Brotheridge Chandeliers works on one of the five original 18th century chandeliers in the Ball Room inside the Georgian Assembly Rooms in Bath, England. The five chandeliers have hung in the Ball Room since 1771 when the Assembly Rooms opened and were a favourite meeting place for Jane Austen who often danced there and placed key scenes in two of her novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, there





Construction workers protest outside Soccer City on the edge of Soweto, Johannesburg





A light display of the Milky Way is reflected on a window as skyscrapers and the Tokyo Bay area are seen in the background from a viewing deck of the Tokyo Tower





A horse-drawn cart passes a sunflower field outside Bucharest, Romania





Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev takes aim through a rifle during his visit to the Rayevsky firing range in Novorossiisk in the Southern Federal District





A helper paddles with a canoe as participants start in the swimming competition of the Frankfurt Ironman at the Langener Waldsee in Germany





Fishermen sit atop stilts embedded into an inlet in Koggala, south of Galle, Sri Lanka





Candles displaying the number of victims of the April 6 earthquake are displayed during a torch-lit walk through L'Aquila, Italy, on the three-month anniversary of the quake

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[Mohamed]

Pipy, a 156ft hot air balloon piper is inflated near Tower Bridge to promote Piping Live! and The World Pipe Band Championships which take place in Glasgow from 10 - 16 August, and attract 16,000 pipers from 16 countries





A US Chinook helicopter carries a M777 A2 howitzer as it lands at a base on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan





A Mickey Mouse gas mask at the United States Army Chemical Corps Museum, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. It was produced early in 1942 to protect children in case of a chemical attack on the US





Military photographers Jon Husman and Elliott Fabrizio capture lightning over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis while on a scheduled six-month deployment to the western Pacific Ocean





A diver secures ropes around the carcass of a whale lodged at the bow of a Princess Cruise Lines ship in Vancouver, Canda...





...The whale was discovered after the ship docked in Vancouver after travelling from Alaska





The Extra-Terrestrial Vehicle or ETV, built by Mike Vetter of Florida around a Chevy Aveo frame. The car is available for purchase, and was on eBay at an asking price of $86,000





Militia practise a motorcycle stunt during a training for a military drill in Taiyuan, Shanxi province. The drill will be held on August 1, to mark the 82nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation





A Belarussian man shoots a bow and arrow near a campfire in Turov





It looks like a soap bubble, but this is a planetary nebula caused when stars die and blast out a glowing ****l of gas and plasma. Known as the "Soap Bubble Nebula", this rare planetary nebula PN G75.5 1.7 was discovered by an amateur astronomer





A woman wades through flood waters to collect drinking water at Kakadhowa village in lower Assam, India





Lightning strikes through storm clouds over Agua volcano, 32 km (20 miles) from Guatemala City...





...Tourists descend the Pacaya volcano, 32 km (20 miles) from Guatemala City





The sun rises over the Villa Medici as Italy and Rome await the arrival of the world G8 leaders for their summit





A handbag lies next to an overturned car near where armed Chinese soldiers held back a crowd of Han Chinese carrying sticks and ****l rods in Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region





An inflatable iceberg, installed by Greenpeace activists, floats down the Seine in front the Eiffel tower in Paris in protest against climate change on the eve of the G8 Summit in Italy





Greenpeace environmental activists use a laser to project the words "Leaders, act save climate" on the bridge over the river near the Kremlin in Moscow





A labourer takes rest besides limes at a wholesale market in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad





A fruit vendor waits for customers at his shop in Kabul, Afghanistan





A tower crane lies across the top of residential apartments after falling over and ripping through the block in Chandlers Wharf, Liverpool





Schoolboy Josh Ellis, 13, speaks with NASA members of shuttle STS-119, recently returned from the International Space Station, Joe Acaba and Steve Swanson, at Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England

[Mohamed]

An eagle attacks a swan over the Lakelse River, in Terrace, British Columbia. Remarkably, after a five second stuggle, the swan escaped the eagle's clutches and managed to fly down to the water





A man evades a fighting bull during the traditional Corralejas festival in Sabaneta near Medellin, Colombia





A baby elephant trapped in the manhole of a drainage ditch in Rayong province, eastern Thailand. Rescuers spent 3 hours freeing the animal, who was unharmed, by using a bulldozer to widen the hole





Garra rufa obtusas, also known as doctor fish, swim around the face of a man as he relaxes in a hot spa pool in Kangal, Turkey. The treatment is believed to heal Psoriasis





A 5-metre-long, one ton, great white shark is found washed ashore on a mud flat on the coast of Incheon, west of Seoul





Clouds over the Alabama Hills and the Sierra Nevada mountains near the town of Lone Pine in central California





Lightning strikes over Locarno, Switzerland





Rain drops on a car window reflect a man walking past a stock index board in Tokyo





Revelers dance with fireworks during a celebration in honour of Santo Domingo de Guzman, the patron saint of Managua, in Nicaragua





A blast from the Presidential Gun Salute is seen during Singapore's 44th independence celebrations





Burned or underdone toast could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new glass toaster that lets you see your bread as it browns





A baby Japanese monkey is nursed by its mother at the Yokohama zoological gardens Zoorasia, south of Tokyo, Japan





A polar bear cools off at the Yokohama zoological gardens Zoorasia, south of Tokyo, Japan





A girl is carried from a mudslide caused by Typhoon Morakot in Chiashien, Kaohsiung county, in southern Taiwan





Waves caused by a storm are pictured in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan





An anti-globalisation demonstrator shouts slogans during a march against the North American Leaders summit in Guadalajara





A man rows a makeshift raft through the flooded street og Cangnan in east China's Zhejiang province





Flying enthusiasts compete during the Red Bull Flugtag 2009 on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia

[Mohamed]

A Chinese man comforts a child near a giant model of Rubik's Cube displayed at an art district in Beijing, China





A 4-wheel-drive vehicle sits in a dumpster outside Koons Ford in Baltimore, Maryland





Two-week-old Ruffles, the red ruffed lemur investigates a pear at Lemur Land in Blair Drummond Safari Park





Zookeeper Guy Pe'er stands near an eight-day-old male giraffe before feeding it at the Ramat Gan Safari, near Tel Aviv





A two-month-old duck is skewered shut after a seven-inch dart was thrown through her head. It was spotted near a lake by a passer-by in Bure Park, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk





Ducks move towards a pond in a farming village in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia





Visitors watch the sunrise from Mount Moses in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt





A labourer works at a construction site in Beijing, China





Indian Punjab Police personnel participate in a parade rehearsal at Guru Nanak stadium, in Amritsar, ahead of India's 62nd Independence Day celebrations





A Myanmar pro-democracy activist shouts slogans using a megaphone during a protest in support of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok





A Pakistani policeman carries a rocket-propelled grenade launcher as he stands guard at the site of a bomb explosion in the outskirts of Peshawar





An Afghan soldier carries RPG rockets as he walks towards a building on which militants took up position in Pul-i-Alam the capital of Logar province, about 40 miles south of Kabul, Afghanistan





A 76-day-old female panda cub officialy named Lin Ping is cared for by a Thai veterinarian at Chiang Mai Zoo, Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand





Muslims listen to a speech at Al Hidayah, a youth camp at Warwick University in Coventry





Lioness Helena carries one of her four cubs at the Parque Lecoq zoo, in Montevideo, Uruguay





People get a ride on a bulldozer on a flooded road in Cangnan county in east China's Zhejiang province





A Hawaiian monk seal rests on the beach as surfers catch waves at Sandy Beach near Honolulu





A catfish is stranded on the road after Typhoon Etau in Sayo, Hyogo, Japan

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A great white shark is displayed near Depoe Bay, Ore. The 12-foot shark was apparently snared by a fisherman's crab pot





A man lies on the ground as he poses for a photo in front of the police during a protest in support of Zelaya in Tegucigalpa, Honduras





Terracotta Warriors under restoration are displayed at the Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum in Shaanxi Province, China





This piece of scrimshaw was created by a marine on board Charles Darwin's expedition on The Beagle. It shows two pictures of the ship, once when she was at sea and the other when she was beached for repairs in Argentina in 1834. It could fetch £50,000 whe





Chines labourers work on the newly-built Damaoshan power transmission tower in Zhoushan






Cranes stand atop the partially-completed International Commerce Centre in thick cloud over Hong Kong





A smile in the sky, or upside down rainbow, over Copthorne, near Crawley, Sussex





Astronomers observe the night sky for the Perseid meteor shower at an observatory east of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia





Dozens of burned-out bunks are seen in a dormitory, damaged by fire, during a tour of the California Institution for Men in Chino





Lucky the duckling has had a sandal fitted to help him walk





A Thai man holds a puppet before the start of a traditional puppet show, known as a Wayangkulit show, in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat