Gửi: Thu May 07, 2009 8:29 pm Tiêu đề: Pictures of the day 07 May 2009
Pictures of the day 07 May 2009
The tiger and the toddler, the squirrel and the coconut, and HMS Illustrious.
These breathtaking pictures appear to show a little girl seconds away from becoming a hungry tiger's lunch. Little Avery Thompson seems oblivious to the 370lb Royal White Bengal Tiger as he stretches out a massive paw in an attempt to touch her.... Picture:
...But, despite appearances, the toddler is perfectly safe - she and Almos the tiger are separated by a thick pane of glass. Keen amateur wildlife photographer Dyrk Daniels photographed the encounter at Cougar Mountain Zoo, in Washington. Picture: DYRK DANIELS / SOLENT NEWS
There aren't many acorns around at this time of year, so this squirrel in Victoria Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, tried his luck with a coconut. Picture: AP
A Little Blue penguin pokes its head out of a box at Melbourne Zoo, where it was brought to be treated for injuries after getting tangled up in fishing lines. Picture: EPA
A veterinarian jumps on Lieber, a five-year-old hippopotamus, in an unsuccessful effort to restart his heart, which had stopped after a castration surgery, at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv. Picture: REUTERS
A journalist looks at a plastinated gorilla during the press preview of the new Body Worlds exhibition in Berlin. Picture: REUTERS
A dog eats the remains of another dog on Pulau Tengah, a small uninhabited island off Malaysia's western Selangor state. Villagers caught more than 300 stray dogs and dumped them on a mangrove island, driving the canines to cannibalism. Picture: AP
Gustavo Lara, Director of Culture of the town of Roque Perez, holds part of a femur bone of a glyptodont, a kind of large armadillo, at an excavation site on the outskirts of the town, south of Buenos Aires. Picture: REUTERS
A Kosovo Albanian woman looks out a window in the village of Babaj Bokes after sheep were slaughtered during the celebration of the traditional feast of Saint George's Day. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Bulgarian soldiers salute during a military parade in Sofia to celebrate the Day of Bravery in the Bulgarian Army as well as the day of Saint George. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Prelates and cardinals attend Pope Benedict XVI's weekly general audience in St. Peters' square at the Vatican. Picture: AFP/GETTY
HMS Illustrious sails up the Thames in front of the O2 Arena.... Picture: GETTY
Russian army jet fighters release flares as they fly over the Ivan the Great Bell Tower of the Kremlin in Moscow, during a final rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place on May 9. Picture: AP
A home in the hills above Santa Barbara goes up in flames as a wind-whipped brush fire roared through the area. Picture: AP
The Queen meets patients at the new hydro pool at Altnagelvin Hospital, at the start of three-day tour of Northern Ireland. Picture: PA
Four-year-old meningitis victim Harvey Phillips from Louth in Lincolnshire takes part in a ballet class despite losing both legs and an arm to the disease when he was nine months old. Picture: MASONS
An Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldier stands guard outside a polling station in Srinagar. Picture: AFP/GETTY
A line of riot police block protesters in front of the presidential palace in Kathmandu, Nepal. Picture: EPA
Young Kashmiri women wait for their turn to cast their votes in Mahawara village in the central Kashmiri district of Budgam. Indian Kashmir voted under tight security amid a crippling strike by separatists and fresh boycott calls from hardline rebels in the fourth of five phases in India's parliamentary elections
Supporters of the former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian displays a poster reading " Political Witch-hunt" outside the Taipei District Court. Mr Chen was sent back to his detention centre after complaining of feeling unwell during his court hearing to decide if he should be bailed on corruption charges
Members of the Band of HM Royal Marines disappear below the deck of the strike carrier HMS Illustrious, moored in the Thames at Greenwich, as part of the celebrations marking the centenary of naval aviation
Indonesian Buddhists monks walk along a busy street to collect donations ahead of a Vesak Day procession in Magelang, central Java. Buddhists in Indonesia will celebrate Vesak Day on Saturday to honour the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha more than 2,000 years ago
A scavenger collects plastic for recycling at a dump in Jakarta, Indonesia. One scavenger said that they earn an average of $2.80 (£1.80) working for eight hours a day. The government announced a 73.3 trillion rupiah fiscal stimulus package this year to help to contain the impact of the global economic downturn and spur economic growth
A man casts his vote at a polling centre during the fourth phase of the Indian general election in Kadat Village near Abu Road in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan
A woman is helped to a polling station to cast her ballot in Nandigram, about 150 km (93 miles) southwest of Kolkata. Millions of Indians voted in the penultimate stage of a general election as violence marred the ballot in the possible swing state of West Bengal, where the ruling Congress-led alliance hopes to win crucial seats
An internally displaced girl, fleeing from military operations against Taliban militants in Buner and Lower Dir, stands along with her tent at a makeshift camp in Islamabad. Pakistani attack helicopters and fighter jets blasted suspected Taliban hideouts, stepping up a campaign to crush militants, as aid workers warned against a worsening humanitarian crisis
Nepalese police charge against women activists of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) during a protest against the Nepalese President, Ram Baran Yadav, in Kathmandu. Thousands of Maoist demonstrators have been taking part in a wave of protests on the streets of the capital after the collapse of the former rebels' Government after a bitter stand-off with the army chief
A Kashmiri child cycles past Indian policemen on a deserted road during a strike called by separatist leaders to protest against the fourth phase of the Indian general election in Srinagar
A South Korean market trader delivers a stack of pig heads at a meat market in Seoul. Prices of pork meat have nosedived in South Korea on fears of swine flu, driving doctors to campaign for the safety of its consumption
The Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant, bottom, goes up to score past the Houston Rockets' Yao Ming of China during the second half of the second game of their NBA Western Conference semi-final in Los Angeles
Actor Jack Nicholson yells at the referee during the second half of the NBA Western Conference semi-final playoff between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers
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