This man collected 30,000 cigarette packets in six years to decorate his house in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
This gold-plated Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, believed to be owned by a wealthy Sheikh, was recently snapped in Cannes, France, by a British car fan
A bear that was trapped in a skateboard park in the Colorado resort town of Snowmass climbs out on a ladder that was lowered into the park by officials
Climate campaigners share a TV dinner with fish in the tropical tank at the London Aquarium
A cobra is milked of venom at the snake farm at the Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute in Bangkok, Thailand
A man feeds a piece of cucumber to a green iguana on display at an exotic animal exhibition during a warm weather in the town of Sevlievo, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia
Pelicans Bootsmann and Petry, owned by nine-year-old Adrian Adam, from Hoerstel, Germany, have mastered several tricks with a ball and can even throw it back and forth to each other
An emergency team show how to evacuate a burning bus in Beijing
Chinese soldiers exercise during a training session at a beach on the Xisha islands, Hainan province
Chinese military singers take part in a chorus performance of patriotic songs involving 10,000 participants held at a gym in Beijing
Steam rises from the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico
A plane drops fire retardant as a helicopter drops water on a hot spot in the Angeles National Forest, California
An Afghan man prays at the time to break the fast, during the Muslims holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul
Lights shaped as the moon decorate the Mohammed al-Amin mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Beirut
A rainbow arches over the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster before the Carling Cup second round match between Doncaster Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur
A still from a video that has become a hit on YouTube shows a noodle chef, bearing a resemblance to opoosition leader Yukio Hatoyama, widely expected to be Japan's next prime minister, presents a bowl of noodles, trying to please every customer until his bowl is an overflowing concoction of fish, fruit and ice cream
A member of the honour guard stands guard at the monument to the Grieving Mother on Independence Day in Chisinau, Moldova
Like a rhinostone cowboy, game warden James Ndlolvu rides on the back of a two-ton 12-year-old rhinoceros bull called Dennis at the Moholoholo reserve in the Limpopo province of South Africa
Former members of the Salvadorean army who were injured during the country's civil war that took place from 1980 to 1992 take part in a demonstration demanding that the government raise the pensions