World News in Pictures

[Mr Lick]

The Citroen Tubik concept car

[Mr Lick]

Daimler chief executive Dieter Zetsche poses in the F125 fuel cell show car

[Mr Lick]

Toyota FT-86 II concept car

[Mr Lick]

Rupert Stadler, chairman of Audi, poses with the company's latest urban concept car

[Mr Lick]

The BMW stand on media day

[Mr Lick]

Karl-Friedrich Stracke, Opel chief executive, in the RAK electric concept car



Ford's Evos concept car

[Mr Lick]

A Spanish Ministry of Defense handout photo shows a longboat that attacked the 'Tribal Kat' catamaran and was intercepted by Spanish troops operating with the EU's anti-piracy force on Sept. 10, two days after a French tourist was kidnapped by seven pirates off the coast of Yemen. The French hostage, that was travelling with a companion on their yacht when captured, was freed and all suspected pirates detained after the commander of the Spanish Navy's 'Galicia' warship ordered his men to open fire and disable the boat.

[Mr Lick]

Lightning flashes over the Las Vegas Strip during a thunderstorm early on September 13 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Stormy weather is expected to continue through Thursday

[Mr Lick]

Possible North Korean defectors are escorted by Japan Coast Guard crew members after boarding a coast guard vessel Echigo, off Kanazawa port, Ishikawa prefecture, in northwestern Japan, September 13. An unidentified boat was found in the sea off coast of the Noto Peninsula, Tuesday morning carrying nine people, who said they came from North Korea, the Japan Coast Guard said

[Mr Lick]

Gunmen opened fire on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least three children, a teacher and the driver, a police official said.

Fifteen children were wounded, he said. The children on the bus were around nine years old.

"First a rocket was fired, but it didn't hit. Then gunmen opened fire," said Sahibzada Sajjad, deputy superintendent of police in Peshawar, where Taliban militants, who are close to al-Qaida, often carry out attacks

[Mr Lick]

Sylvain Serre took this picture of the northern lights on Sept. 3 from the village of Ivujivik in Quebec.



NASA astronaut snapped this picture of an auroral display from the International Space Station and sent it down to Earth via his Twitpic account on Monday.

[Mr Lick]

Garry Hine, left, and Gary Wychocki help move a giant chocolate bar to a scale Tuesday, Sept. 13, in Chicago. The chocolate bar weighs 12,000 pounds and measures 3-feet high and 21-feet long. It includes 1,200 pounds of almonds, 5,500 pounds of sugar, 2,000 pounds of milk powder, 1,700 pounds of cocoa butter and 1,400 pounds of chocolate liquor. The bar will tour schools across the United States as part of a portion-control education campaign called "Think Big. Eat Smart



Hmmmmmmmm

[Mr Lick]

Steve Tanis, left, and his partner Rich Garraputa, both from Greensboro, N.C., walk toward the Noth Carolina Legislative Building after a rally against a state constitutional amendment that would say marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union in North Carolina, on Halifax Mall in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 13. The N.C. Senate voted Tuesday to put the marriage issue to a vote in 2012. The men have been together for 13 years.



L.F. Eason of Cary, N.C., looks up at his flag during a rally against a state constitutional amendment that would say marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union in North Carolina.

[Mr Lick]

In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 image taken from video, a group of people tilt a burning BMW up to free Brandon Wright, on his back on the ground, who was pinned underneath after he collided with the car while riding his motorcycle on U.S. 89 in Logan, Utah. Authorities said Wright was riding his motorcycle near the Utah State University campus in Logan when the 21-year-old collided with the BMW that was pulling out of a parking lot. Tire and skid marks on the highway indicate that Wright laid the bike down and slid along the road before colliding with the car, Assistant Police Chief Jeff Curtis said.

[Mr Lick]

Israeli army paratroopers take part in a training jump in full battle gear over the Palmachim military base near Tel Aviv, Israel, on 13 Sept. 2011. Although the Paratroopers Brigade has had only one operational combat parachute drop ever, during the 1956 Sinai War, volunteers accepted into the elite unit undergo operational training jumps with all the equipment needed for battle.

[Mr Lick]

Army Sgt. First Class Leroy Arthur Petry, left, recipient of the Medal of Honor, shakes hands in a receiving line after being honored by the New Mexico Congressional Delegation during a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

An anti-Gadhafi fighter climbs in a pigeon farm in Gadhafi house compound in Assdada Fort, some 170 km (105 miles) south\west of Sirte Sept. 13, 2011.









An anti-Gadhafi fighter jumps in a water tank in Gadhafi house compound in Assdada Fort, some 170 km (105 miles) southwest of Sirte Sept. 13, 2011.



An anti-Gadhafi fighter in Gadhafi house in Assdada Fort, some 170 km (105 miles) southwest of Sirte Sept. 13, 2011.

[Mr Lick]

Wakana Kumagai, 6, waits for her mother Yoshiko after visiting the grave of her father, who was killed by the March 11 tsunami, at a temporary mass grave site in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi prefecture, April 21, 2011, after attending an entrance ceremony of Omagari elementary school. Her father Kazuyuki called his wife Yoshiko just after the March 11 earthquake to tell her to take the children to Omagari elementary school which was serving as a shelter. He was found near the shelter four days after the tsunami, Yoshiko said.



Five months later, Wakana bowed her head in prayer with her mother Yoshiko and brother Koki at the exact spot where the car of their late father Kazuyuki was found. The family crouched in prayer at 2:46 p.m. as Japan marked exactly six months since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.









Wakana Kumagai (C), joins hands with her mother Yoshiko near her brother Koki as they visit the spot where their house, washed away by the March 11 tsunami, used to stand in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi prefecture






Behind her, the ashes of her father and his portrait look down on the family left behind.

[Mr Lick]

Pakistani villagers carry a motorbike as they flee their flooded homes in Badin,124 miles from Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Sept 13. The floods caused by heavy rains killed more than 200 people, made 200,000 people homeless and left 4.2 million acres of agriculture land inundated with floodwater, authorities said.

[Mr Lick]

A wounded passenger is removed from a train after it crashed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Police said 162 people were injured, many seriously, and they were taken to at least seven hospitals around Buenos Aires, some by helicopter. Officials warned the death toll could rise.







The rush-hour crash involved two passenger trains and a bus whose driver drove around barriers in an attempt to beat them across the tracks, Argentine authorities said - Unbelievable!!

[Mr Lick]

A life in pop: the art of Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton, the father of pop art described by Jonathan Jones as 'the most influential British artist of the 20th century', has died aged 89. Here's a selection of significant works, from a Marilyn Monroe tribute to a satire on the Iraq war




Richard Hamilton, photographed at the Serpentine Gallery in London last year



Swingeing London 67 (1968-69) – a painting of the arrest of Mick Jagger

[Mr Lick]

Hamilton circa 1970



Hamilton's Four Self Portraits – 05.3.81 (1990). This work will soon go on display at Tate Britain in tribute to the artist

[Mr Lick]

The artist with drawings based on Picasso's Las Meninas. Hamilton presented his Homage to Picasso exhibition at Madrid's Museo Del Prado in March 2010

[Mr Lick]

Borussia Dortmund v Arsenal



Mr Happy, Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger will have to watch this Group F match from the stands as his European touchline ban continues. Wonder if he'll cheekily try to filter instructions to the bench again tonight? He'd be a fool if he does after the trouble that landed him in last time



Borussia Dortmund's goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller tries to punch clear as Arsenal's Laurent Koscielny jumps for the ball



The Arsenal captain has the chance to give Arsenal the lead three minutes before half-time when Theo Walcott's neat throughball puts him one-on-one with the keeper ...



Van Persie steers his shot beyond the flailing keeper



... and into the net! 1-0 to the Gunners

[Mr Lick]

In a group also including Marseille and Olympiakos, a win tonight could be precious for Arsenal



With two minutes remaining, Dortmund's Ivan Perisic fires a wonderful left-foot volley from the edge of the box into Arsenal's net to level the scores



He's clearly delighted



But Per Mertesacker and the Arsenal defenders are despondent. They've now gone 17 Champions League away games without a clean sheet ... 1-1 it ends