Tuesday 29 October 2013

Photos Of The Day.


Participants descend a hill on a homemade roller cart during the 25th Roller Cart Festival in Medellin, Colombia. (Albeiro Lopera / Reuters)
A model rides a subway train in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the city’s fashion week, which runs Monday through Friday. (Andre Penner / AP)
Serena Williams celebrates after winning the WTA Championships in Istanbul. (Ozan Kose / AFP/Getty Images)
A photographer takes pictures of Fang Jing and her husband, surnamed Zhao, as they hang from a cliff during a rock climbing exercise in Liuzhou, in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The couple love outdoor sports and decided to have their wedding photos taken during rock climbing, local media reported. (China Stringer Network via Reuters)
Amy Price, in a Medusa costume, runs across the finish line of the Crosslake Monster Dash, an annual 5-kilometer Halloween run in Crosslake, Minn. (Kelly Humphrey / Brainerd Dispatch via AP)
A Bali Heritage Reflexology and Spa staff member demonstrates a form of massage that incorporates pythons in Jakarta, Indonesia. The spa offers a unique massage treatment that involves having several pythons placed on the customer’s body. The movement of the snakes and the adrenaline triggered by fear is said by the spa to have a positive impact on the metabolism. (Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)
Women wear masks while waiting for the bus during a smoggy day in Beijing. China’s Environment Ministry said last week that it will send inspection teams to the provinces and cities most seriously affected by smog to ensure rules on fighting air pollution are being enforced. (Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters)
A 1928 Bentley stops in front of the Shwedagon pagoda during the start of the Burma Road Classic rally in Rangoon, Burma. About 20 classic cars from Burma and around the world will travel around the country during the 17-day-long vintage-car rally, according to the organizers. (Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters)
People look at a large sinkhole on a street after a water pipe broke underneath it in Xi’an, in China’s Shaanxi province. According to local media, the pipe was damaged as a result of aging, and no casualties were reported in the incident. (China Stringer Network via Reuters)
Terry Zittle often relaxes at the beach, where he is a magnet for many a feathered friend in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He has even named many of the pigeons, to whom he brings sunflower seeds for breakfast. At the time this photo was taken, Zittle was watching the 2013 U.S.A. Beach Running Championships at the Cocoa Beach pier. (Tim Shortt / Florida Today via AP)
A pedestrian holds onto a post as a woman falls down amid strong winds in central Brussels. According to local media, the winds could reach speeds of over 62 miles per hour Monday. (Francois Lenoir / Reuters)
Waves crash against a lighthouse in Newhaven, England, near where a 14-year-old boy was swept away to sea, as storms battered Britain. The nation’s strongest storm in a decade struck southern regions of the country Monday, forcing hundreds of flight cancellations, cutting power lines and disrupting the travel plans of millions of commuters. Police said rescuers were forced to call off a search for the boy late Sunday because of the pounding waves, whipped up by the rising wind. (Luke MacGregor / Reuters)
People watch as large waves crash against the walls of the Brighton seafront, in southern England, as Britain braced for its worst storm in a decade, with heavy rain and winds of more than 80 miles an hour set to batter the south of the country. (Leon Neal / AFP/Getty Images)
People dressed as zombies perform in the middle of the street during the Zombie Walk on the streets of Guatemala City. (Jorge Dan Lopez / Reuters)
“Westboro zombies” arrive with signage for the annual Zombie Walk in Silver Spring. (Bill O'Leary / Washington Post)
Bagpipers play during a remembrance ceremony along the beachfront damaged by Hurricane Sandy in the Rockaways section of Queens. Local residents gathered to hold hands on the beach and observe a moment of silence two days before the one-year anniversary of the storm. (Shannon Stapleton / Reuters)
British Army Cpl. Andy Reid is bracketed by members of the Marine Corps Marathon team representing Azalea Charities, a Northern Virginia nonprofit organization that supports programs for wounded soldiers and youth, during the 38th Marine Corps Marathon in Washington. Reid lost both legs and his right arm in 2009 to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. Since the attack, he has sky-dived, cycled and cruised around the world with his fiancee. He also has written a book about his experiences, “Standing Tall.” (Toni L. Sandys / The Washington Post)
Participants in Chicago take part in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest pillow fight. According to the Guinness World Records, they need more than 3,706 participants to set a new record. The results of the event have not been announced. (Jim Young / Reuters)
A standard poodle and its owner take part in the International Dog Show in Hanover, Germany. Around 2,600 dogs from 220 breeds were presented at the show. (Peter Steffen / European Pressphoto Agency)
Sultan Kosen, who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living man at 8-foot-3, and his new wife, Merve Dibo, arrive for their wedding ceremony in Mardin, southeastern Turkey. Kosen is also the current Guinness World Record holder of largest hands and largest feet. (Nazmi Akyol / Anadolu Agency via European Pressphoto Agency)
Swiss pastry chef David Pasquiet, center, prepares a chocolate creation during the World Chocolate Masters contest at the Paris Chocolate Fair. The fair will start Wednesday and run through Sunday. (Francois Guillot / AFP/Getty Images)
Farmers’ wives, dressed in traditional Bavarian costumes, ride in a wooden carriage in Warngau, Germany, on the way to the church of Reitham, during the Leonhard Procession. The procession is an annual event that started in the 17th century to pray to St. Leonhard, the patron saint of animals. (Michael Dalde / Reuters)
A woman and her children, who were displaced by fighting between the Congolese army and the M23 rebels, walk to safer areas in Kibumba, north of Goma, Congo. (Kenny Katombe / Reuters)
Rudi Gouws, one of 20 right-wing extremists convicted of high treason for a plot to kill former president Nelson Mandela and stage a violent takeover of the government, attends his sentencing at North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South African. The Boeremag group had planned a coup in 2002 to overthrow the post-apartheid government. The trial lasted almost a decade and concluded last year with convictions for the 20 members of the organization — the first guilty verdicts for treason since the end of apartheid in 1994. All 20 accused were convicted of treason, but only five were convicted of murder and the plot to kill Mandela. The state is seeking life sentences for the group’s leaders and bomb specialists, and 10 to 15 years in prison for the other defendants. (Alexander Joe / AFP/Getty Images)
This image, captured by astronaut Karen L. Nyberg on board the international space station, shows Mount Etna erupting. Europe’s tallest and most active volcano erupted Saturday, spewing glowing lava into the air and sending a vast plume of smoke over the southern Italian island of Sicily.

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