Picture News
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AFP/ANP - Thu Jul 28, 9:32 PM ET
Curacao tourists : Tourists enjoy themselves on the beach while looking at a magnificent sunset in Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles. (AFP/ANP/Robin Utrecht) -
Reuters - Tue Jul 26, 3:45 PM ET
A young girl rides a tricycle under a cascade of water from an open fire hydrant along 151st Street in upper Manhattan, July 26, 2005. REUTERS/Mike Segar -
Reuters - Thu Jul 28, 3:29 PM ET
U.S. President George W. Bush watches the launch of the space shuttle Discovery in the Oval Office's Private Dining Room in Washington July 26, 2005. (White House/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Jul 28,10:19 PM ET
The shuttle Discovery is seen from the International Space Station before to making the rendezvous pitch maneuver, July 28, 2005. The maneuver is to enable the crew of ISS to document the orbiter's thermal protection system with still digital cameras. The Italian Rafaella multi-purpose logistics module that will be grappled and attached to deliver supplies to the station can be seen in the shuttle's cargo bay. (Nasa Tv/Reuters) -
Reuters - Sat Jul 30, 2:02 PM ET
A California astronomer has discovered what he believes is the 10th planet in our solar system, a group of NASA-funded researchers said on July 29, 2005. The new planet, known as 2003UB313, has been identified as the most distant object ever detected orbiting the sun, California Institute of Technology astronomer Michael Brown said. This artist's concept shows planet 2003UB313 at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. Our sun can be seen in the distance. (Nasa/Reuters) -
Reuters - Sat Jul 30, 1:01 PM ET
Steve Robinson (R) of the U.S. works outside the Quest airlock, with the earth and the International Space Station's Canadarm2 as in the background, during his spacewalk July 30, 2005. Two astronauts stepped outside the shuttle Discovery on Saturday in the first U.S. Spacewalk since 2002 and set to work testing damage-repair techniques developed after the Columbia disaster. (Nasa Tv/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Jul 28, 3:25 PM ET
Comic strip characters Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead, seen in this graphic released by King Features Syndicate in July 2005, are about to celebrate their 75th anniversary as one of the world's most popular couples. Blondie cartoonist Dean Young says the strip currently appears in over 2,300 newspapers in 55 countries with a readership of 250 million in 35 languages. (Reuters - Handout) -
Giant Euro-wasp invasion warning
People are being warned to watch out for huge wasps from Europe that have started to inhabit parts of Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Their football-sized nests are being found in garden shrubs and bushes and can contain up to 20,000 insects.
The "super wasps" belong to a strain which grows to more than twice the size of the native British species.
Wasps spread across the country when a female leaves the nest and finds a safe place to hibernate through the winter. -
AFP - Sat Jul 30, 8:44 PM ET
Flying for show : A pilot of a Russian military air force demonstration team performs with his SU 27 jet fighter, during the WWII-time air show in the town of Monino, some 40 kms from Moscow. (AFP/Mladen Antonov) -
AFP/ANP - Thu Jul 28, 9:32 PM ET
Kingdom Games : A javelin thrower practices for the Kingdom Games in the SDK Brievengat stadium in Curacao, The Netherlands Antilles. (AFP/ANP/Robin Utrecht) -
AFP - Sun Jul 31, 7:06 PM ET
BMX tricks : A rider performs a figure during BMX dirt World championships in Paris. (AFP/Bertrand Guay) -
AFP - Sun Jul 31, 7:14 PM ET
At the falls : People cool off at the Mirusha waterfalls, Kosovo, as temperatures topped 30 degrees celsius. (AFP/Ermal Meta) -
AFP - Sun Jul 31, 7:09 PM ET
Walking home : A Mumbai resident makes his way home along the deserted Wadala highway as heavy rains lashed India's commercial capital for the sixth consecutive day. (AFP/Sebastian d'Souza) -
AFP - Sun Jul 31, 7:14 PM ET
Keeping cool : An Albanian boy jumps from a waterfall in Mirusha, Kosovo, as the weather temperatures reach over 30 Celcius. (AFP/Ermal Meta) -
AFP - Sun Jul 31, 7:19 PM ET
Painting the house : Three year-old Israeli Mor from the Gush Katif settlement of Bdolah paints the window frame of her home in orange, the color of the disengagement opponents, in the Gaza Strip. (AFP/Gali Tibbon) -
AFP - Sun Jul 31, 6:47 PM ET
Sunflower field : A man holds his baby in a sunflower field during the sunflower festival at Nogi town, Tochigi prefecture, some 70 kms north of Tokyo. (AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura) -
AFP - Sun Jul 31, 6:49 PM ET
Corn for sale : Indian road-side vendor, Ram Prasad Yadav, roasts corn at his mobile shop at the side of a busy city road in Bangalore. (AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar) -
AFP - Sun Jul 31, 6:44 PM ET
MIG patterns : A Russian military air force demonstration team paints patterns on the sky by their MIG 29 jet-fighters, during the WWII-time air show in the town of Monino, some 40 kms from Moscow. (AFP/Maxim Marmur) -
AFP - Sun Jul 31, 6:56 PM ET
Children from Gush Katif : Israeli children from the Gush Katif settlement bloc play with huge plastic bag at the beach of Shirat Hayam settlement in the Gaza Strip. (AFP/Gali Tibbon) -
AFP - Mon Aug 1,10:29 AM ET
Indian divers and social workers carry out a rescue operation on a flooded street leading to the Air India residents quarters, in Kalina in Mumbai on August 1, 2005. Monsoon rains lashed Mumbai again as rescuers pulled more bodies from the floodwaters and the city battled to recover from its worst-ever recorded deluge, with the death toll nearing 1,000.(AFP/Sebastian D'Souza) -
Reuters - Mon Aug 1,10:48 AM ET
Israeli zookeeper Eli Moses feeds a monkey in a zoo in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, part of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, August 1, 2005. A zoo in a Jewish settlement in Gaza has answered the call to evacuate ahead of Israel's planned pullout from the occupied territory. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters) -
Vienna Museum Offers Free Entry for Disrobing
AFP/File - Wed Jul 27,12:39 PM ET
A man looks at one out of three famous paintings by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, reproduced from black and white photos of the originals, in the Vienna University on May 11, 2005. Vienna's Leopold Museum has invited the public to come in the nude on Friday to view an exhibition of erotic works by Austrian masters like Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, a spokeswoman said.(AFP/File/Joe Klamar) -
AP - Fri Jul 29,11:12 AM ET
Two visitors in their bikini view a painting at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, on Friday, July 29, 2005. Dozens of arts patrons visited the museum wearing little or no clothing, lured by an offer of free admission if they came to the museum in the spirit of 'The Naked Truth', an exhibition of 1900s erotic artworks. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss) -
AP - Fri Jul 29,11:13 AM ET
Visitors in their bikinis leave their clothing in the cloakroom of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, on Friday, July 29, 2005. Dozens of arts patrons visited the museum wearing little or no clothing, lured by an offer of free admission if they came to the museum in the spirit of 'The Naked Truth', an exhibition of 1900s erotic artworks. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss) -
AFP/Graphic - Mon Aug 1,10:32 AM ET
A graphic showing the location in China of deaths due to pig disease, plus diagrams and facts explaining symptoms, transmission and methods of prevention. Authorities in China have begun exploring ways to stop farmers butchering and eating sick animals as they struggle to keep a mystery pig disease in check, with the death toll rising to 36.(AFP/Graphic)