World News in Pictures

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 08:26 AM

UK - Ministers eventually ditch plans to sell thousands of acres of state owned forest and woodland in Gloucestershire following protests

David Cameron trying to explain his 'Big Society' theory to citizens of Britain

Ronaldo, the Brazillian footballer, announcing his retirement from the sport.

At least 3 people died and many were injured during the disperal of thousands of protesters from Pearl Square, Bahrain

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 10:02 AM

Some award winning photographs taken in 2010

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. Pakistani soldier Hamed holds a rocket launcher while securing a road in Damadola, located in Bajaur Agency along the Afghan-Pakistan border March 2, 2010.

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. A policeman walks through the damaged hallway of a police building which was attacked by a suicide bomber in Swabi, located in northwest Pakistan, November 1, 2010.

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. Anti-government 'red shirt' protestors create a burning barricade on Rama IV road to stop army soldiers from advancing in Bangkok May 15, 2010.

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. An anti-government 'red shirt' supporter rallies with Thai national flag from a 'tuk tuk' after the red shirts secured parts of Rama IV from army troops with a burning barricade of tires in Bangkok May 15, 2010.

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. An anti-government "red shirt" supporter surrenders to army soldiers clearing their encampment in Bangkok May 19, 2010.

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. Anti-government 'red shirt' supporters launch fireworks towards army soldiers at a check-point in Ding Daeng, near Bangkok's Victory Monument, May 18, 2010.

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. An anti-government 'red shirt' supporter runs past burning tyres and a garbage truck which were set ablaze to block army soldiers at a check-point in Ding Daeng, near Bangkok's Victory Monument, May 18, 2010.

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. An anti-government "red shirt" supporter stands next to a barricade of tires which were set ablaze between army soldiers and protesters near Bangkok's Victory Monument May 16, 2010.

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. Anti-government 'red shirt' supporters carry a man who was shot in the head during clashes with army soldiers on Rama IV road in Bangkok May 16, 2010.

First place, Photographer of the Year, POYi awards. A school boy, carrying a backpack, walks past burning fuel tankers along the GT road in Nowshera, located in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province October 7, 2010.

Third place, Current Affairs, Sony World Photo Awards. A donkey transports ballot boxes to villages unreachable by vehicles in Panjshir province, north of Kabul September 17, 2010.

Supporters of Afghan parliamentary election candidate Farkhunda Zahra Naderi attend a rally in Kabul September 3, 2010.

Third place, Current Affairs, Sony World Photo Awards. An Afghan news reporter stands next to TV screens at Tolo television, owned by Saad Mohseni, the country's biggest media mogul, in Kabul July 6, 2010.

Third prize, Daily Life singles, World Press Photo awards. An overcrowded train approaches as other passengers wait to board at a railway station in Dhaka, November 16, 2010. Millions of residents in Dhaka are travelling home from the capital city to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday on Wednesday. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha to mark the end of the haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command.

Sports Photographer of The Year, UK Picture Editor Awards. Argentina's coach Diego Maradona celebrates his team's goal against Nigeria during the 2010 World Cup Group B soccer match at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg June 12, 2010.

Winner, Silver Camera Dutch photo awards, Foreign News category. An anti-government 'red shirt' supporter helps dismantle a barricade set in front of Bangkok's Chulalongkorn hospital on May 1, 2010.

Second place, Daily life category, Local Testimony awards. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple walks on the beach in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod January 25, 2010.

Winner, Sports picture of the year, Credit-lyonnais-union des journalistes de sport awards. The pack of riders including HTC Columbia's team rider Mark Cavendish (3rd R) crash during their sprint next to the finish line in the fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse from Schwarzenburg to Wettingen June 15, 2010.

Highly Commended, Walkley Awards, Photographic Essay. A boy bites his bowl as he waits for an evening food handout at a roadside centre for flood victims near Nowshera in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province August 23, 2010.

Highly Commended, Walkley Awards, Photographic Essay. A child sits amid the ruins of his family's house in the flood ravaged town of Adiel Khan on the outskirts of Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province August 19, 2010.

First place, Feature category, Press Photographer's Year (PPY) awards. A dog walker strolls through an earthquake-damaged district of Padang, Indonesia's West Sumatra province.

Selected, News folio, Press Photographer's Year (PPY) awards. A couple pause among crosses and poppies in the Field of Remembrance in the grounds of Westminster Abbey in London.

Bronze, War/Disaster and other Emergencies category, China International Photo Contest. Smoke rises from tyres set ablaze as a Palestinian throws a stone at Israeli soldiers during clashes at the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 10:17 AM

More on the Arsenal match

In the 83rd minute, the substitute Andrey Arshavin is found by Samir Nasri during a stealthy Arsenal counter-attack

The Russian speeds away from Bendtner as he begins his celebrations

The final whistle

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 11:51 AM

Milan v Spurs anybody

Great save from Gomes

Yepes can't quite believe it

Dawson having a quiet word with Flamini after his infamous tackle

A Scot and an Italian having a disagreement about which restauarant they will be visiting after the match

'Arry steps in and decides that a BigMac sounds like a winner!

Pick on someone your own size Gattuso, bloody bully!

The boys a nutter!

Another display of 'you want some?'

Finally in the 75th minute the ref dishes some back to the crazy man

With 10 minutes to go, Tottenham break and Aaron Lennon picks up the ball in his own half before galloping off towards the Milan goal. Just outside the area he skips over the scything legs of Mario Yepes and then slides the ball left ...

where Crouch is on his own in acres of space to sweep the ball past Marco Amelia. That's 1-0 to Tottenham

Stick that in your spaghetti, Gattuso!!

In injury time Milan think they've salvaged a draw when Ibrahimovic scores a nicely executed overhead kick. San Siro erupts, but the celebrations are brought to an abrupt halt when the goal is disallowed because the Swedish striker shoved Dawson in the back in order to give himself room to perform his acrobatic shot. Spurs fans will no doubt be thanking the eagle-eyed linesman for preserving their advantage

The final whistle

You can't keep a good man down, Gattuso displaying that he just not a 90 minute player

The shirts off and i don't think it's a swap

There's no end to this man's talents, he's upset Bassong now

He's eyeballing Wood-gate,what a scandal!

The raging bull's in tears almost as he realises he's going to miss the next leg. He will be sadly missed

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**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 12:39 PM

On the day that the crcket World Cup starts, lets take a look at the world of cricket

A worker stitches two leather halves together with a spherical core inside to form a cricket ball at a factory in Meerut, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Delhi, January 28, 2011, as cricket equipment makers race to meet a demand surge ahead of the Cricket World Cup.

Try not to laugh too much kids. Looks like a caught and bowled to me.

People stand in queue to buy tickets for the cricket World Cup in Dhaka January 2, 2011. People queued overnight outside of banks in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka in a desperate bid to buy highly-prized cricket World Cup tickets, which went on sale on Sunday. The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, which will host six matches including the opener between India and Bangladesh, has a seating capacity of 25,167 but only 15,167 tickets are available for local spectators.

Men are caught in a dust storm while playing cricket at a playground in Kabul

Marylebone Cricket Club members queue outside the ground before the second Ashes test cricket match between England and Australia at Lord's Cricket Ground in London in 2009

A Tibetan Buddhist monk plays cricket outside a Buddhist monastery in the northern Indian city of Shimla

Spectators and soldiers, from behind a cut-out of Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, watch the third day's play in the first test cricket match between Sri Lanka and India from the top of a fort overlooking the grounds, in Galle July 20, 2010.

Sadhu or holy man holds a poster of Indian cricketers and shouts slogans for their good luck at Sangam, the confluence of three rivers, the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Saraswati, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad

A man wearing a large pair of sunglasses watches the third cricket test match between England and Pakistan as he sits on a windowsill of a block of flats at the Oval in London August 18, 2010.

Young members of the Sale Cricket Club attend a training session at the walls in Sale March 10, 2010.

A man places cricket bats between tracks on the railway to dry, after they were cut and painted in a saw mill, in Koralawella, south of Colombo, December 14, 2009. Koralawella is a small town on the west coast of Sri Lanka, and the main source of income for many residents is through saw mill work and related activities.

A boy hits a shot as he plays cricket in a field, near a slum in Karachi January 23, 2011.

An England fan (C) talks on the telephone in the company of friends after the Super 8 match between England and New Zealand at Beausejour Cricket Ground during the ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament in Gros Islet. May 10, 2010.

Ramnaresh Sarwan (R) of the West Indies takes a break during cricket training at Sabina Park, Kingston February 3, 2009.

Children play cricket in Rustam, on the border of Buner and Mardan districts, about 200 km (124 miles) by road northwest of Islamabad July 1, 2009.

Fans cheer during the second Twenty20 international cricket match between England and Pakistan at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff, Wales September 7, 2010.

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 12:47 PM

Ugandan girl, Phiona Mutesi leads chess revolution from the slums

Despite her poor background the 15-year-old girl is already country's number two player and has competed at World Chess Olympiad

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 06:17 PM

Demonstrators wearing Guy Fawkes masks in front of the Spanish Culture Ministry in Madrid, protest against Spain's Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde and a new legislation which would give the government the power to close down web pages containing links to copyrighted content such as films and music.

A man spools film onto projection reels by hand while sitting on the ground in the village of Ond, India.

Children play at an electricity pylon in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Rescuers work on the wreckage of a Beechcraft plane after a crash near the Weisshorn in the Val d'Anniviers region, Switzerland. The aircraft disappeared from radar screen at 12:45 local time, five people are reported dead according to local media.

ARCA drivers Steve Arpin (25), Milka Duno (63) and Steve Blackburn (68) crash coming out of Turn 4 during the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 06:27 PM

This is another image from Nasa that shows the sun emitting its first X-class flare in over four years. X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events that can trigger radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms.

This picture from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows two solar flares seen in extreme ultraviolet light over a three day period.

This is a still taken from a Nasa video that shows the flares in extreme ultraviolet light. The coronagraph images show the faint edge of a "halo" coronal mass ejection as it raced away from the Sun and began heading towards Earth.

Here is a blowup of the flaring region taken by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength of 193 Angstroms. Much of the vertical line in the image is caused by the bright flash overwhelming the SDO imager.

The most recent flare is the largest since December 2006 and the biggest flare so far in Solar Cycle 24. Active Region 1158 is in the southern hemisphere, which has been lagging the north in activity but now leads in big flares.

The images of this flare were captured the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which took off from Cape Canaveral in February 2010. The satellite is designed to predict disruptive solar storms and scientists say the images provided by the satellite are already helping them learn new things.

This image shows a solar flare that erupted in September 2010. The eruption also hurled a bright coronal mass ejection into space, but was not directed toward any planets.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory's space telescope captured this image, which shows the moon passing in front of the sun. Flares and solar activity can be seen on the sun's surface.

This was one of the first images taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite and shows an eruptive prominence blasting away from the sun. The high-resolution images are ten times more detailed than those of high-definition television.

This image was taken from a video made on 12-13 April 2010. The prominence appears to stretch almost halfway across the sun: the equivalent of a distance of about 500,000 miles.

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 06:39 PM

A miniature world

Watch out the streets are paved with tiny works of art in London that you could easily crush with your foot and not even realise it. An urban artist known only as Slinkachu creates tiny worlds using miniature plastic people placed in real world locations.

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 07:16 PM

Wags of the cricket world

Sri Lanka's spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan (L) and his wife Madhimalar Ramamurthy leave a media conference in Colombo

cricket player Sachin Tendulkar (R) shares a moment with his wife Anjali during a lunch hosted for cricket players at a golf course

Wives of Indian cricketers along with a veiled woman (above) watch a ceremony at the India-Pakistan border at Wagah April 4,2004. Wives are (L to R) Vijeeta Dravid, wife of Rahul Dravid; Sailaja, wife of V.V.S Laxman, Fatima Agarkar, wife of Ajit Agarkar; and Shweta Kartik, wife of Murali Kartik.

Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (R) and his wife Sakshi pose for a picture before offering prayers at a temple in Tamar, about 60 km (37 miles) southeast Ranchi

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard (L) reaches out for England's cricket captain Andrew Strauss (R), as Strauss' wife Ruth stands between them, at an afternoon tea for Australian and English Ashes team members hosted by Gillard at her Sydney residence, Kirribilli House January 1, 2011.

India's tennis player Sania Mirza (R) and Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik smile during their wedding ceremony at a hotel in Hyderabad April 12, 2010.

Australia's Waugh (L) kisses his wife Lynette as he leaves the ground for the last time on the final day of the fourth test at the Sydney Cricket Ground January 6, 2004.

Former cricket player Andrew Flintoff poses with his wife Rachael Woods on the red carpet as they arrive for the Laureus World Sports Awards in Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi March 10, 2010.

Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka walks with his wife, Christina Sirisena, out of the Colombo airport terminal as he arrives back with his team, after the attack against them yesterday morning in Pakistan

Australia's Nathan Bracken, who was nominated for the One Day International Player of the Year award, poses with wife Haley Rich-Bracken on the red carpet before the International Cricket Council (ICC) Awards 2008 held in Dubai

India's Anil Kumble with his wife and daughter attend the presentation ceremony after the third test cricket match against Australia in New Delhi November 2, 2008.

Former England cricketer Sir Ian Botham poses with his wife Kathy and grandsons Regan (L) and James (2nd R) after he received his knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace, London October 10, 2007.

Australia's Ricky Ponting and his wife Rianna pose with the World Cup trophy during the Australian World Cup cricket team breakfast at the Sydney Cricket Ground Members Dining Room in Sydney May 3, 2007.

Former Australian cricket team captain Steve Waugh carries his daughter Lillian, as he stands with his children Rosie (L), Austin (2nd R) and wife Lynette (R) during the official launch of his autobiography in Sydney October 23, 2005

South African cricket player Jacques Rudolph and his then girlfriend Cindy Nell pose for photographers beside statue of Mother Teresa in Calcutta.

England's Paul Collingwood plays with his daughter after England defeated Australia in the fifth Ashes cricket test match at the Oval in London August 23, 2009.

Australia's Adam Gilchrist (L) poses with his wife Mel (R) and children (L-R) Annie, 3, Harrison, 6, and 11-month old Archie after Australia and India drew their fourth and final test cricket match at the Adelaide Oval January 28, 2008.

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 07:30 PM

A Palestinian stone-thrower jumps as he runs from a water cannon containing a foul smelling substance fired by Israeli security forces, during clashes at a weekly protest against the controversial Israeli barrier, in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, February 18, 2011. Friday marked the sixth year of weekly protests in Bilin.

A woman stands at the doorstep of her shelter built on public land in the outskirts of Tunisia's capital Tunis February 18, 2011. They are a few of the Mediterranean country's many poor who have become squatters since an uprising toppled the president - making use of post-revolution confusion to build on public land and move into vacant or half-completed buildings.

A boy poses on a motorbike during a religious procession to mark Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, or birthday celebrations of Prophet Mohammad, in the old quarters of Delhi February 16, 2011.

A homeless woman sits in front of the dried roots of a banyan tree as she watches a procession to mark Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, or birthday celebrations of Prophet Mohammad, in Mumbai

An injured taxi driver, who later died of his injuries, lies behind his vehicle at a crime scene in Acapulco, Mexico, February 18, 2011. Heavily armed groups shot at least a dozen people, six taxi drivers among them, burned about 18 vehicles, a house and a business and carried out shooutout in different parts of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco early Friday, according to local media.

Roza Yevloyeva, mother of 20-year-old suicide bomber Magomed Yevloyev, sits on her son's bed during an interview at her house in the town of Ali-Yurt, southeast of Ingushetia's biggest city Nazran, February 16, 2011. Speaking softly through tears in her family's tiny home in the North Caucasus, Yevloyeva apologised for her son's suicide bomb attack on Russia's busiest airport three weeks ago. Yevloyev detonated explosives strapped to his body at Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Jan. 24, killing 36 people

Actor Michael Douglas watches as models present creations from the Michael Kors Fall/Winter 2011 collection during New York Fashion Week February 16, 2011

One year-old gorilla Uzuri eats a salad at the zoo of Duisburg February 18, 2011. Kiburi was born last week in the zoo of Duisburg.

Visitors of the London Fashion Week pose for a photograph before the On Off fashion Show in London February 18, 2011.

**TizMe** · 19-02-2011, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

Australia's Waugh (L) kisses his wife Lynette as he leaves the ground for the last time on the final day of the fourth test at the Sydney Cricket Ground January 6, 2004.

News: noun ( usually used with a singular verb )
1. a report of a recent event;

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 11:07 PM

Cricket World Cup - Day 1

India v Bangladesh

Sehwag and Tendulkar walk out together, with the small matter of 674 one-day caps between them

Bit of a misunderstanding and Tendulkar is run out for 28

Gambhir bowled for 39

Sehwag reaches his 100 of only 94 deliveries

One of the umpires?

Sehwag reaches 175, just 13 short of equaling the world record when he drags a ball onto his stumps

Kohli then goes on to reach his 100 off only 83 balls before India's innings comes to an end at 370-4 - massive target.

India then call for the first referal in WC cricket but were denied an LBW decision when the replay indicates that the ball was missing leg stump

Chasing such a formidable target there was no point in hanging about and Kayes races to 34 off 29 balls before playing on.

Whoops - missed

A smart stumping sends Siddique on his way for 37

Tamim bravely reaches 70 before drilling a catch to Singh and Bangladesh's task looks pretty hopeless. Final score 283-9 off their 50 overs

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by TizMe

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

Australia's Waugh (L) kisses his wife Lynette as he leaves the ground for the last time on the final day of the fourth test at the Sydney Cricket Ground January 6, 2004.

News: noun ( usually used with a singular verb )
1. a report of a recent event;

It's an item about wives/girlfriends and that's only one of a very few available i suspect. Maybe he's hiding her away eh! She is a bit of a looker after all

News can also mean an interesting event (from the past, or maybe even something that is likely to occur in the future). Plenty of them in the Newspapers, old photographs etc: Think journalists are still writing/printing stuff about the Kennedy and Lennon assasinations. Hardly recent news.

Oddly, all the items i am pasting are originating from recent reports by major news corporations, so i am merely being guided by their definition of what one would describe as news.

Feel free to add a few more photo's TM, gagging for some on Libya at the moment if you come across any.

**Mr Lick** · 19-02-2011, 11:58 PM

Chelsea 1 Everton 1, after extra-time (Everton win 4-3 on penalties)

What a beauty? Phil Neville scores his penalty in a shoot-out to knock holders Chelsea out of the FA Cup. Baines had earlier levelled a Lampard goal, both scored in extra-time.

**Mr Lick** · 20-02-2011, 12:28 AM

Ongoing protests in Yemen

**Mr Lick** · 20-02-2011, 12:42 AM

Angola's challenge to eradicate polio

A young survivor of polio in Luanda, Angola. The disease has recently returned to Angola. The reappearance of polio in the country is a blow to efforts to rid Africa of the virus

Angola was polio-free for three years from 2002 until a strain of the virus prevalent in India appeared in 2005. The virus was believed to have been carried into the country by construction workers. It has since spread to Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Congo-Brazzaville

In 2010, 33 people in Angola are known to have contracted the virus, which can cause paralysis and death. Outside her home in the Cacuaco municipality on the outskirts of Luanda, Luisa Zonga holds her one-year-old daughter, Georgina, who was recently diagnosed with polio

The majority of polio cases have been identified in Luanda, where many people live in unsanitary conditions with little access to safe water and sanitation. Such conditions are ideal breeding grounds for the polio virus. Since the end of Angola's 30-year civil war in 2002, there has been mass migration from rural to urban areas like Luanda, which has put a huge strain on health services

Polio is highly contagious. The polio virus, which is transmitted through faecal-oral contact, is normally carried in sewage water and passed via contaminated food and water sources. Between 5-10% of people paralysed by polio will die

Young girls wash their drinking-water buckets in a pool of stagnant, polluted water on the outskirts of Luanda

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that Angola's inability to halt the outbreak is due to poorly run vaccination programmes. Campaigns to date have missed more than one-fifth of children in critical transmission areas such as Luanda. According to Unicef, the failure of these programmes is down to a shortage of trained staff and a lack of technical capacity and planning

In January, Anthony Lake, Unicef's executive director, visited Luanda to assess the challenges faced by Angolans. "Every child has the right to be vaccinated against this evil disease," he said. "Angola had, in effect, defeated polio five years ago and now it has broken out here in Angola and is spreading into neighbouring countries, so what is being done here in this community is very important. Every human tragedy here in Angola is a threat to the world"

**Mr Lick** · 20-02-2011, 12:51 AM

Cycling: Track Cycling World Cup from Manchester

Sir Chris Hoy focuses before his qualification ride in the men's sprint quarter-finals

Jason Kenny straps up his shoes before his qualification ride in the men's sprint quarter-finals

Geraint Thomas on his way to qualifying for the men's individual pursuit final

but Australia's Rohan Dennis qualified fastest

The Great Britain women's team pursuit, Wendy Houvenhagel, Joanna Rowsell and Sarah Storey, on their way to gold in the final against New Zealand

Jason Kenny, right, beats Sir Chris Hoy in the second leg of their men's sprint semi-final

Jason Kenny, bottom, on his way to beating Kevin Sireau of France in the first leg of their men's sprint final.

Shanaze Reade, left, and Victoria Pendleton start in their qualifying for the women's team sprint

**Mr Lick** · 20-02-2011, 01:17 AM

Le Freak, c'est chic: Crazy French Hotels

La Ferme Aventure, La Chapelle-aux-Bois, Lorraine

Belrepayre Airstream & Retro Trailer Park Mirepoix, Midi-Pyrenees

L’Appart des Anges Canal du Midi, Villeneuve-lès-Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon

Ecotagnes, Les Villards-sur-Thônes, Rhone-Alps

Cour des Loges, Lyon, Rhone-Alps

Campement Tamana, Bidon, Rhone-Alps

Chez Bertrand, Saint Ouen, Paris

Le Chalet Tournesol, Chauffayer, Provence-Alpes-Azur

Les Cadoles de la Colline du Colombier, Iguérande, Burgundy

Parc Canopée, Ambleny, Picardy

Seeko’o Hôtel, Bordeaux, Aquitaine

Plum’Arbres, Trémargat, Brittany

Villa Santa Fe, Saint-Rémy de Provence

**Mr Lick** · 20-02-2011, 01:31 AM

UK - Protesters target 35 branches of Barclays Bank following revelations that the company paid just 1% Corporation tax in 2009 at a time they were declaring record profits of £11.6 billion, Steady on guys, i'm a shareholder!

**Mr Lick** · 20-02-2011, 08:03 AM

Wisconsin in limbo

A State Assembly Democrat pumps his fist as supporters voice their opinion against the proposed bill by Republican Governor Scott Walker in Madison, Wisconsin, Feburary 18, 2011.

State assembly Republicans (R) clap as they applaud the State assembly Democrats (L) for showing up to work to discuss the proposed bill by Republican Governor Scott Walker, in Madison, Wisconsin, February 18, 2011.

State Assembly Democrats leave after speaking in the Assembly to voice their opinion against the proposed bill by Republican Governor Scott Walker in Madison, Wisconsin, February 18, 2011.

**Mr Lick** · 20-02-2011, 08:26 AM

Streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Residents look at a crime scene where three persons were gunned down in a drive-by shooting in downtown Ciudad Juarez

A hearse carrying the body of teenager Sergio Hernandez drives past a neighbourhood near the cemetery on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez,

Students pose with their music instruments along their teacher for a photograph at their school in Ciudad Juarez,

Policemen dressed in civilian clothes run at a crime scene as they look for hitmen who had earlier killed a colleague in Ciudad Juarez December 30, 2010.

School children stand near a crime scene where three people were gunned down in a drive-by shooting in downtown Ciudad Juarez

The body of a woman, with her head bound in grey tape, lies in an alley in Ciudad Juarez

A rusty pick-up with bullet holes, the word "Homicide" and the number 39, which stands for death in police lingo, sits with other vehicles in a police junkyard in Ciudad Juarez

A forensic worker places evidence markers at a crime scene in Ciudad Juarez February 14, 2011.

Pedestrians and cars pass a crime scene where a man had been killed earlier in Ciudad Juarez

Morgue workers unload coffins containing unidentified bodies at the San Rafael cemetery on the outskirts of the border city of Ciudad Juarez October 22, 2010.

A woman mourns over the body of 21-year old Jose Gil Hernandez Ramirez, a member of the Texas National Guard and a resident of El Paso, as another dead man lies in between two cars in a neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez

A man and a child walk past a crime scene where five young women had been killed earlier inside a house in Ciudad Juarez

A police woman steps over a police line at a crime scene where two colleagues had been killed earlier in Ciudad Juarez December 31, 2010.

Relatives of police officer Yesica Martinez Puentes react near the crime scene in Ciudad Juarez November 7, 2010.

A man lies dead among evidence markers at a crime scene in the border city of Ciudad Juarez

Paramedics attend to a man who was shot in the border town of Ciudad Juarez

Two women hug as forensic workers inspect a crime scene in the border city of Ciudad Juarez

A man takes refuge inside a store after he was shot by unknown assailants in the border city of Ciudad Juarez

Police investigators work at a crime scene where seven bodies were found gunned down in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, November 25, 2008. The bodies were found alongside three banners threatening rival gangs.

The slain body of a plain clothes police commander lies next to an ambulance in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, February 9, 2009.

Forensic experts inspect a crime scene where three people were gunned down

Car passengers wait for their car to be searched for drugs and weapons by federal police at a checkpoint

Forensic officers cover the body of a man gunned down during a shooting between rival drug gangs

Forensic workers inspect the body of a man gunned down

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