World News in Pictures

[Mr Lick]

In Dalston, London, clowns assemble to celebrate the life of Joseph Grimaldi. An annual church service dating back to ration-book days

[Mr Lick]

More displays of solidarity from the Cairo crew.

[Mr Lick]

Old Spitalfields Market is located just outside the City of London. Photographer Jeremy Freedman explores that world and his collection is due to be exhibited in several locations in the capital during February.

[sunsetter]

nice thread lick, i had to post so i can get the updates, keep em coming

[Mr Lick]

Dawn on the 15th day of protests in Cairo

[Mr Lick]

Southern Sudanese celebrating the formal announcment of the referendum on independence from the north.




Brooklyn firefighters work to cut through the roof of a building




Tokyo - College students raise their fists during a job hunting ceremony



A UN Peacekeeper stands guard next to the body of a man killed in the Cite Solell slum area of Haiti

[nostromo]

good selection of photos

[daveboy]

[maca]

by the look of theise photos the world has not much time left.

[bobo746]

After The Floods Brisbane Looking At Redback Spider Infestation

[geoff]

The "ragheads" are revolting. !!!!!!!!!

[Mr Lick]

Brazillian indigenous groups take ther fight against a hydroelectric dam all the way to Brasillia, in the latest stage of a long running campaign.





In northern Pakistan an oil tanker supplying Nato forces in Afghanistan caught fire while in a traffic jam, and the fire spread to nearby trucks.





Edinburghs National Gallery opens an exhibition of self-portraits by Scottish artists spanning 3 centuries






Dozens of immigrants in Athens continue their hunger strike as they demand that the government give them permission to work






A Cambodian soldier and his unit position themselves near the Thai borderfollowing several days of heightened tensions and sporadic firefights





A US marine prepares for a patrol in the Musa Qala district of Afghanistan




Residents of Venice have been alarmed by a new law which, according to media reports, has transferred ownership of the Grand Canal to the national government





Novice Buddhist monks walk down a road asking for alms in Rangoon, Burma





On the 50th anniversary of the E-Type Jaguar, the cars original test driver, Norman Lewis takes a spin with former world champion John Surtees





Cyclists take part in the 2nd stage of the tour of Qatar

[Mr Lick]

Oscar Nominees Luncheon 2011


Some 151 actors and film professionals gather in Los Angeles before finding out the fate of the Oscars on the big night, Sunday 27th February











Geoffrey Rush with his King's Speech co-star Colin Firth









Jeff Bridges with his 14 year old True Grit co-star Hailee Steinfeld



Annette Bening with husband Warren Beatty



Amy Adams star of the boxing film 'The Fighter' strikes a pose.

[Mr Lick]

I've been neglectful on the rugby/sporting front apparently, here are some pics from the 6 nations matches last weekend.

















Game over, England grateful for a win 26-19 at the Millenium Stadium


















The French getting the better of Scotland 34-21 in Paris.

















Ronan O'Gara kicks the winning drop goal for a very close 13-11 win in Italy

[natalie8]

Jonathan Squibb celebrating his Wingbowl Wars win.

How many did he eat?

nice thread lick, i had to post so i can get the updates, keep em coming

I agree! I'll try to post some pics too. That means I need to read the news from the internet more often.

[Mr Lick]

More pics from Eygpt






Google Inc. executive Wael Ghonim addressing a mass crowd in Cairo

[Mr Lick]

Some interesting/recent pics of animals around the world


5 month old giant panda cub, Fu Hu (lucky tiger) keeping a close eye on things in Vienna, Austria




A recently born ginger coloured baboon in the arms of her mother, much to the annoyance of the father so it would appear. It has been 30 years since the last ginger was born at the Tel Aviv safari park so quite a rare event.




A humpback whale surfaces off the coast of San Salvador




In the 125th anniversary of Groundhog Day held at Gobblers Knob, Pennsylvania, Phil fails to produce a shadow for his handler, signalling an early spring.

Ok, i know what you're thinking - 'Nice Beaver'




One month old lion cubs at a zoo in Russia




A dog participating in a costume show in Minsk, Belarus




A young saltwater crocodile being bullied in Yangon, Myanmar.




One for the girls - A giraffe in Prague attempting to take my crown (Mr Lick). No chance small boy!!




An Andean condor flies over the Colca canyon, south of Lima

[Mr Lick]

A day in pictures


A diver at an ecological park in Cancun, Mexico, cleans a dolphin tank, completely ignored by it's inhabitant




Buddhist monks in Delhi, India, take part in a vigil in support of their spiritual leader the 17th Karmapa, who has been suspected of tax and currency violations






Residents scramble for scrap metal dumped by a bus company on the outskirts of Philippine city of Bacolod. The metal will be resold.




Vava, undergoes some luxury grooming at a new pet hotel in Seoul, South Korea




Belfields chip shop in Burnley, northern England, has baked an 'aphrodisiac' pie for Valentines Day. It contains chicken, perry cider, asparagus in a lemon-infused cream sauce topped with smoked oysters and a sprinkling of saffron.




A shopkeeper awaits customers in Katmandu, Nepal. Bet he wont have my size!




Workers on a high rise building in Jakarta, Indonesia




A worker dries a golden bear award statuette after a gilding process at the Schroeder Galvanik electro-plating factory in Berlin, in preparation for the 61st Berlinale International Film Festival

[Mr Lick]

Residents of Green Bay, Wisconsin, welcome home their hero's. The NFL Superbowl Champions, the Packers.

[Mr Lick]

Pakistan chief photographer Adrees Latif, has won the prestigious ICF Infinity award in photojournalism for his outstanding coverage of last years Pakistan floods. Here is a collection of his work.

An army helicopter dropping supplies

[Mr Lick]

Tech Watch


Latest image of the far side of the Sun based on high resolution data taken by NASA's two STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft on February 2, 2011 at 23:56 GMT when there was still a small gap between the STEREO Ahead and Behind data. This gap will start to close on February 6, 2011, when the spacecraft achieves 180 degree separation, and will completely close over the next several days.





The Google Body app is shown on Google's latest version of the Android operating system, Honeycomb, on a Motorola Xoom tablet device following a news conference at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California February 2, 2011.



In this image released by NASA February 1, 2011, during its one-year mission, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft, or WISE, mapped the entire sky in infrared light. Among the astronomical bodies that have been discovered by the NEOWISE portion of the WISE mission are 20 comets. This collage shows those 20 new comets, most of the comets are named WISE. Comets are named by the International Astronomical Union?s Minor Planet Center, and the names indicate the circumstances of discovery. The colors in the pictures are representational. Infrared light of 4.6, 12 and 22 microns is colored blue, green and red, respectively. The light emitted from comets in infrared is due to their temperatures, so the cooler objects appear to have more red, while warmer objects will appear more bluish.




A spokesperson of Swiss air rescue (REGA) shows the new "iRega" iPhone rescue application at Zurich Airport in Kloten, February 8, 2011. The smartphone application sends the applicants' position to the rescuers and was used for the first time successfully during the past weekend.





In this image released by NASA February 1, 2011, the blue star near the center of this image is Zeta Ophiuchi. When seen in visible light it appears as a relatively dim red star surrounded by other dim stars and no dust.




Google's Art Project website is seen on a laptop computer during its launch at the Tate Britain gallery in London February 1, 2011. Google aims to bring the world's great art galleries into the home with a new website that offers virtual tours, the ability to build a private collection of masterpieces and ultra-high resolution images.




A woman picks up Toshiba's REGZA smartphone at an electronic shop in Tokyo January 31, 2011. Japan's Toshiba Corp's quarterly profit more than doubled, driven by a boom in sales of NAND flash memory chips and liquid-crystal displays used in tablets and smartphones but it stuck with its full-year outlook.



Particle debris in Jupiter's atmosphere is seen after an object hurtled into the atmosphere on July 19, 2009, in these infrared images obtained from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and released by NASA January 26, 2011. The image on the left was taken July 20, 2009 and the image on the right was taken August 16, 2009. The impact and its after-effects can be seen as the bright spot on the lower left of the July 20 image and as the bright smudge on the lower left of the August 16 image. By August 16, the debris had been sheared apart to a larger extent by Jupiter's winds. A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published recently in the journal Icarus.




A woman walks at Nintendo Co Ltd's showroom in Tokyo January 27, 2011. Nintendo Co Ltd reported a 46 percent fall in quarterly profit, as sales of its ageing DS handheld device tumbled ahead of the launch of a new, 3D-capable model next month.

[Mr Lick]

Police are targeted with a laser light pointer as a protester throws stones at them during clashes near Athens




A boy cries after breathing in tear gas thrown by a policeman in a provisional camp for earthquake victims in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti




Chief Raoni of the Calopo tribe in the Amazon basin showing his displeasure at the building of an hydroelectric dam in Brasillia




A Palestinian extinguishes fire from a medicine storage facility after an Israeli air strike in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, which was reported by local officials, February 9, 2011.







A man lights a candle at a memorial for Victor Leiva Borrayo in Guatemala City February 8, 2011. Borrayo, a founding member of Caja Ludica, a group of artists and activists working with underpriviliged children, was gunned down last week in Guatemala City, according to the police.




A Cambodian soldier sleeps next to rocket launchers at the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple on the border between Thailand and Cambodia February 8, 2011.



Cambodian soldiers carry dogs they found near the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple on the border between Thailand and Cambodia February 8, 2011.




Children play as waves crash on Havana's seafront boulevard "El Malecon" February 8, 2011.




A boy writes with chalk while celebrating Shreepanchami festival at a temple in Kathmandu February 8, 2011.



A boy retrieves recyclable materials from his family's gutted house after a Monday night fire burnt around 500 houses at a slum area in Quezon City, Metro Manila February 8, 2011.




Women sit on their beds at a regional center to provide social aid to homeless people in Russia's city of Rostov-on-Don February 8, 2011.




Former Liberian President Charles Taylor (bottom) argues with a photographer as he awaits the start of the prosecution's closing arguments during his trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam February 8, 2011.




Supporters attend the southwest zonal presidential campaign for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at Mapo square in Ibadan February 8, 2011.




Actress Felicity Jones poses for photographers at the world Premiere of 'Chalet Girl', in London, February 8, 2011.




Actress Nicole Kidman and her husband, musician Keith Urban, attend the premiere of 'Just Go With It' in New York February 8, 2011.




Former SAC Capital Advisers employee Donald Longueuil covers his face as he is led by his lawyer from the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York February 8, 2011.




Masked policemen guard as a helicopter transporting detained border officials to Bucharest takes off from the Stamora-Moravita border crossing with Serbia, February 8, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

Some of the latest pics from Cairo









Strikes and industrial unrest about pay are spreading. Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass addresses a protest of museum workers




The pyramids at Giza reopened to tourists on Wednesday for the first time since the early days of protests




The Russian deputy foreign minister and President Mubarak have a chat about the things




Described as martyrs, pictures of those killed in the conflict are displayed in Tahrir square.




A makeshift pharmacy has been setup, stocked with medicines brought by protesters








Restrictions are in place on how much people can withdraw from banks

[Mr Lick]

Shopkeepers in Madrid have invited graffiti artists to paint their steel shuttters to stop them being defaced.

[Mr Lick]

Some interesting photo's from the public at large


A pic of lifebuoy ropes







Close up of a barrel cactus




A mooring post offering a helping hand




The non-slip mat on the decking of an Isle of Wight ferry, with the shadow of the handrail