Pictures of the day: 20 March 2013
A bolt of lightning flashes in an erupting volcano in Japan in this photo taken by German photographer Martin Rietze at Sakurajima volcano, Japan. Sakurajima had been silent for 100 years when there was a huge eruption in 1914 which swallowed up nearby islands and created an isthmus to the mainland, ending its life as an island. Sakurajima's rumbled into life again in 1955 and has been erupting almost constantly ever since.
Picture: Martin Rietze/National |
A 4x4 that its driver had only owned for ten days overturned in a sinkhole that suddenly appeared on a road in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Luckily the driver wasn't injured and was able to crawl free of the wreckage.
Picture: HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features |
A broken piece of drainpipe is seen protruding from a parked car in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province. The metal pipe was blown from its moorings on a nearby building by a strong gust of wind and fell onto the car below.
Picture: HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features |
Workers install film panels of a 60 by 20 feet photograph of manatees by nature photographer John Moran at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville
Picture: Gainesville Sun /Landov / Barcroft Media |
Xiao Liwu, the youngest member of the panda family at the San Diego Zoo, got to play in the snow for the first time. The seven-month-old cub explored his snowy exhibit and had fun climbing all over mom Bai Yun. More than 15 tons of fresh snow was blown into the panda's exhibit as part of an enrichment surprise for the pandas.
Picture: REUTERS/San Diego Zoo/Ken Bohn |
Kali, an orphaned polar bear cub, plays with a ball at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. The cub's mother was shot in Point Lay, Alaska, on March 12 and the cub is temporarily staying at the zoo in Anchorage until it has a permanent home.
Picture: Alaska Zoo, John Gomes/AP |
An artist's impression of a species of prehistoric flying reptile dating from 115 million years ago which was discovered by Daisy Morris, five, who is to now have the species named after her, as Vectidraco daisymorrisae. The youngster, who is now nine, stumbled across the fossil at Atherfield beach on the Isle of Wight in 2009 and took it to local dinosaur expert Martin Simpson. Along with his colleagues from the University of Southampton, Mr Simpson confirmed that the fossil came from a new species. Vertidraco means "dragon from the Isle of Wight" while the rest of the title is named after the young fossil-hunter.
Picture: Visit Isle of Wight/PA |
The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, arrive at Child Bereavement UK at Clare Charity Centre in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire
Picture: Will Oliver / Barcroft Media |
Students take pictures of former England captain David Beckham as he kicks a ball at a school in Beijing. Beckham arrived in the Chinese capital city to begin his role as China's football envoy.
Picture: REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic |
World Pizza Champion Graziano Bertuzzo shows off his skills in front of Royal Victoria Dock ahead of the finals of the World Pizza Championships, at IFE13 at ExCeL in London on Wednesday 20th March. It is the first time these championships have been held in the UK. |
Hong Kong artist Johnson Tsang's surreal artworks include this table tennis table pocked with stainless steel 'splashes' made by baby-faced ping pong balls.
Picture: Johnson Tsang/Rex Features |
A trader holds a 73.85 carat heart-shaped diamond, on the trading floor of Israel's diamond exchange in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv
Picture: REUTERS/Nir Elias |
A worker cleans the pavement outside number 11 Downing Street, before Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne leaves to present his budget to the House of Commons
Picture: REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth |
Campaigners dressed as Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne protest in Parliament Square in London on behalf of "Enough Food for Everyone IF", a campaign to end global hunger
Picture: REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth |
Palestinians demonstrate against the visit of US President Barack Obama, in the West Bank city of Ramallah
Picture: ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images |
Cherie Blair, wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, tries her hand at cleaning pulses during her visit to the Rural Distribution Network India (RUDI) centre in Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India
Picture: Ajit Solanki/AP |
A figure depicting Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel burns during the finale of the Fallas festival, which welcomes spring and commemorates Saint Joseph's Day, in Valencia. Fallas are giant elaborate sculptures and effigies made of wood, cardboard and papier mache that are burned at the end of the week-long spectacle of processions, fireworks, music and dancing.
Picture: REUTERS/Heino Kalis |
A Falla, a satiricial sculpture, caricaturing elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha is dismantled after a man tried to immolate himself in front of the structure in Valencia
Picture: JOSE JORDAN/AFP/Getty Images |
Firefighters work at the scene of a blaze in a plastics factory in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Picture: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media |
Griff poses with a Louis Vuitton creation designed by Yayoi Kusama at the opening of the Designs of the Year 2013 exhibition at the Design Museum in London
Picture: EDDIE MULHOLLAND |
iCub, a humanoid robot baby, tries to grab a ball at the Innorobo 2013 European summit in Lyon, southeastern France
Picture: PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty Images |
A resident picks up dead shrimps washed up on the beach in Coronel, Chile. The shrimps were killed when water used to cool two thermoelectric plants next to the beach was discharged into the sea, according to the town's residents.
Picture: REUTERS/Jose Luis Saavedra |
A boy plays at the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Beijing following overnight snowfall
Picture: Feng Li/Getty Images |
A man walks through snow in the Tiergarten in Berlin
Picture: Markus Schreiber/AP |
Cypriot protesters lie on the ground outside the parliament in the capital, Nicosia, during a demonstration against an EU bailout deal
Picture: Yiannis Kourtoglou/AFP/Getty Images |
A FSA fighter holds an RPG with a Cobra rocket, used to penetrate and destroy armoured tanks, along the front line of Ramussah in Aleppo
Picture: Sebastiano Tomada/Sipa USA / Rex Features |
Ukrainian opposition and majority politicians fight on whether to speak Ukrainian or Russian in the parliament in Kiev
Picture: AFP/Getty Images |
TJ Lane takes off his shirt to show a white T-shirt with the word "Killer" spelled out, at his sentencing in Cleveland, Ohio. Lane was sentenced to life without parole for killing three students in a shooting rampage at a high school in a small town east of Cleveland.
Picture: REUTERS/Duncan Scott/The News-Herald
source: telegraph.co.uk |