Sunday, August 12, 2012

Amazing Events In Pictures

 
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Romain Mattei photographed what looks like a monkey massaging a stray cat on a pavement in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. However, the cheeky monkey was doing the moggy a favour by searching for fleas.


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A lesser black-backed gull takes off with a duckling in its beak at the duck pond in Dublin's Herbert Park, Ireland


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A group of little owls at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Modena, Italy


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Light artist Darren Pearson from California has created the 12 signs of the zodiac using a torch and a camera set on long exposure.


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During last month's solar storm a group of students called "Earth to Sky" from Bishop, California, launched a helium balloon which lifted Camilla the rubber chicken into space to study solar radiation...


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Camilla reached the stratosphere with a payload of radiation sensors, cameras, GPS trackers, a thermometer, insects and sunflower seeds. The flight took two and a half hours and reached an altitude of approximately 40 km (25 miles) before the balloon burst parachuting Camilla's spacecraft safely back to earth.


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A snowboarder glides on to the water as he tries to cross a 20 metre long pool of water at the foot of a ski slope at the Bobrovy Log ski resort near Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk


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Spanish bullfighter David Fandila 'El Fandi' jumps into the 'callejon' (the space between inner and outer barriers) during a bullfight at the Maestranza bullring in Seville, southern Spain


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A voter stands in a polling booth with his dog during the first round of the French elections in Henin-Beaumont, northern France


A Cornish Rex cat touches noses with a referee during an international feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, April 22, 2012.
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A Cornish rex cat touches noses with a referee during an international feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania


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Gyuto Monks of Tibet pose with a wax figure of Nelson Mandela during a visit to Madame Tussaud's in Sydney


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Visitors walk through the tulip and daffodil fields during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival near La Conner, Washington


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Indian farmers carry cucumbers to sell at a market, in Phaphamau village on the outskirts of Allahabad, India


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A participant takes part in a soap bubble festival in the Palace Square in St.Petersburg


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Caydee Denney and John Coughlin of the United States perform during the gala exhibition at the ISU World Team Trophy figure skating in Tokyo


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A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 takes off from Logan International Airport in Boston on its inaugural, non-stop flight from Boston to Tokyo


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An aircraft flies past the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok


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The leaves of a may apple growing in Moreland Hills, Ohio, on Earth Day


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A worker checks the power lines in Haikou, south China's Hainan province



 

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