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This photo provided by Cascadia Research, biologists and volunteers examine a dead gray whale on April 23, 2012 at Camano Island, Wash. The initial exam found no trauma or obvious cause of death. The whale had swallowed some debris, including a golf ball, but it wasn’t enough to kill the 37-foot male.
The garbage was minimal and not the cause of death, which remains under investigation with tissue tests, said spokesman Brian Gorman.
It's common for whales to pick up debris near urban areas because they are filter feeders. There were no signs of trauma or entanglement on the whale, he said
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A gallery of places with silly names
To celebrate the twinning of the Perthshire village of Dull with the Oregon town Boring, here are some other places with unfortunate – even plain obscene – names
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The village of Dull, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, is to twin with the town of Boring in Oregon
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Endless thefts of this sign, amorous couples hard at it on the verges and the world laughing at them combined to make the residents of this Austrian village want to change its name - so far without success.
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Tightwad in Missouri was apparently named after a particularly parsimonious greengrocer
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A sign for Whynot, near Seagrove, North Carolina. And, indeed, why not?
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It's easy to see why residents of Shitterton near Bere Regis in Dorset wanted to change their village's name to Sitterton.
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The seaside village of Muff, in County Donegal, Ireland, boasts a very popular scuba diving club. Something to do with the name, perhaps?
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We're sure Crapstone in Devon is lovely, but the name is a little offputting
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They speak plainly in God's Own County, so Crackpot probably says everything you need to know about this North Yorshire village.
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Another day, another fixed expression from Rupert Murdoch on his way to the Leveson inquiry with his wife, Wendi Deng, and son Lachlan
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South Korean police officers appear to be underarmed as they use small fire extinguishers to try to put out a fire set by anti-North Korean campaigners. The target? A paper cut-out of the head of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un
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This will bring a smile to your face. A very thirsty and hot chimpanzee called Tong drinks water from a pipe that an official turned on to help cool him down as temperatures rise to nearly 40C in Bangkok, Thailand
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An Afghan woman beggar sleeps next to two children on a road in Jalalabad. This is a heartbreaking picture of poverty, even more so because she appears unnoticed as daily life continues around her
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The former Liberian president Charles Taylor is flanked by a security guard as he waits for the start of a hearing in the courtroom of the special court for Sierra Leone near The Hague. The court ruled that he was guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes
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This incredibly shocking image is taken from a video uploaded on YouTube allegedly showing men dressed in Syrian army uniforms pointing guns at a man who is blindfolded and buried up to his neck at an undisclosed location in Syria. The video shows men using shovels to completely bury a man who appears to be alive as they accuse him of being a citizen journalist who sells his videos to an Arab television satellite network
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A woman shouts slogans as Pakistani riot police stand unmoved outside the supreme court in Islamabad where the prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani was convicted of contempt
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One of the best threads in TD history.
Great pictures mate and thanks for your time and effort.
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Lisbon, Portugal: A man with red carnations tucked in his jacket, a symbol of the 1974 Portuguese revolution, marches to celebrate the 38th anniversary of revolution
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Lalitpur, Nepal: A devotee directs people pulling the chariot of Rato Machhindranath during the chariot festival. Rato Machhindranath is known as the god of rain, and both Hindus and Buddhists worship Machhindranath to pray for rain during the rice harvest season
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Duisburg, Germany: A visitor at a former steelworks which has been converted into a recreational park. The park, called the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, allows visitors to walk all over the former steelworks grounds, and is one several projects in the region that have converted former industrial facilities into cultural attractions
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Los Angeles, California, US: Officers arrest a man suspected of stealing his girlfriend's car. 29 April will mark the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots
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Slavutich, Ukraine: Ukrainians light candles at the memorial for 'liquidators' who died during cleaning up works after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986
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New York, US: A boy looks through a viewer at the Top of The Rock in front of the The Empire State Building. One World Trade Center, being built at the site of the fallen twin towers, could surpass the Empire State Building as the tallest building in New York as soon as next week
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Barclays Photographer of the 20 Seasons Awards shortlist
To mark the 20th season of the Premier League, Barclays launched a special Barclays Photography Awards to find the best photographer and individual 'shot' since the inception of the league in the 1992-93 season. The winners will be announced in May. Until then check out some of the entries in the Shot of the 20 seasons category
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Southampton's Chris Marsden bleeding from the head and eyes rolling, after he collided with Manchester City's Sun Jihai at St Mary's Stadium on 1 November 2003
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Chelsea's Didier Drogba chips the ball over Hull City goalkeeper Boaz Myhill to score the winner in Chelsea's 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge on 15 August 2009
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Tottenham's David Ginola connects with the ball as he makes a spectacular overhead kick during the north London derby on 28 December 1997
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Manchester United's David Beckham scores from his own half against Wimbledon on 17 August 1996
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Sunderland's Darren Bent watches as his shot bounces off a beach ball and past Pepe Reina of Liverpool during the match between Sunderland and Liverpool at the Stadium of Light on 17 October 2009
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Police arrest a member of ACT UP at Wall Street and Broadway, near the New York Stock Exchange, April 25, 2012. Members of the AIDS activist group, ACT UP, and members of Occupy Wall Street blocked traffic and held up signs that read, "Tax Wall St., End Aids" outside the New York Stock Exchange, resulting in arrests on Wednesday.
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Members of the Greek extreme right Golden Dawn party hold red flares outside the town hall of Perama town, near Athens, during an election campaign rally April 23, 2012. In 2009, the group took just 0.23 percent of the vote, this time; polls show it taking between 4.1 and 5.7 percent. Much of that has come at the expense of the far-right LAOS party, whose ratings plummeted after it joined technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos' pro-bailout coalition last year. The rise of Golden Dawn - which denies critics' labels as neo-Nazi - is all the more intriguing in a country proud of its World War II resistance against Nazi Germany and where anti-German sentiment still runs high over austerity measures demanded by Berlin and other lenders
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A student protester rests during a demonstration against the government demanding changes in the public state education system, in Santiago April 25, 2012. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system.
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General view of a house where police found the bodies of three dead babies in the village of Langgoens near Giessen, 45km southwest of Frankfurt, April 25, 2012.
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A demonstrator affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement holds up a sign during a protest against student debt while standing on top of a statue of Peter Cooper, outside the Coop Union Building, in New York April 25, 2012. Two people were arrested during the protest
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A dairy cow works her head out of a feed trough in Chino, California April 25, 2012. On reporting the discovery of a California dairy cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Tuesday, U.S. authorities quickly told consumers and importers around the world there was no danger the meat would enter the food chain.
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An injuried student is arrested by riot policemen during a demonstration against the government demanding changes in the public state education system, in Santiago April 25, 2012.
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A car destroyed by the bomb sits outside the premises of ThisDay Newspapers bombed in Abuja, Nigeria, on Thursday
ABUJA, Nigeria - Two bomb blasts targeted the offices of Nigerian newspaper This Day on Thursday, in the capital Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna, killing at least three people, officials and witnesses said.
This Day is based in southern Nigeria and is broadly supportive of President Goodluck Jonathan's government, the main target for Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings.
"Someone, a suicide bomber, ran into the building with the bomb about an hour ago," Nigerian Red Cross spokesman Nwakpa Nwakpa told Reuters at the scene of the Abuja blast.
"We have collected three bodies but before we got here people had already been moved," he added.
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Police officers scan debris of the engine of the Jeep used to bomb newspaper offices in Abuja, Thursday
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Labour Party youth leader Eskil Pedersen speaks as thousands of people turn up in poor weather to participate in the singing of a popular children's song at Youngstorget Square in Oslo on April 26, 2012.
Reuters reports — Up to 40,000 Norwegians staged an emotionally-charged sing-along in Oslo on Thursday near the court house where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the murder of 77 people in a protest organizers said showed he had not broken their tolerant society.
"It's we who win," said guitar-strumming folk singer Lillebjoern Nilsen as he led the mass sing-along and watched the crowd sway gently in the rain. Many held roses above their heads, and some wept.
Norwegians to protest mass-killer, singing song he hates
The crowd chose to sing a song - "Children of the Rainbow" - that extols the type of multicultural society Breivik has said he despised and one that he specifically dismissed during the trial as Marxist propaganda
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In this photo taken on April 15, 2012, what appears to be a new missile is carried during a mass military parade at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. The photo shows the warhead's surface is undulated, suggesting it's a thin metal sheet unable to withstand flight pressure, analysts say.
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"There is no doubt that these missiles were mock-ups," Markus Schiller and Robert Schmucker, of Germany's Schmucker Technologie, wrote in a paper posted recently on the website Armscontrolwonk.com that listed those discrepancies. "It remains unknown if they were designed this way to confuse foreign analysts, or if the designers simply did some sloppy work
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North Korean civilians/actors?, some weeping, wave flowers as they look up at Kim Jong Un, unseen, at the end of the military parade on April 15, 2012
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A flash of lightning illuminates the night sky during a thunderstorm in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies of Colombia has predicted heavy rain, some thunderstorms and winds of high intensity for this year's rainy season in Colombia.
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An explosive device went off while a terrorist group were setting it up in a house which was used to make explosives in Masha'a al-Tair neighborhood in Hama city, claiming sixteen lives according to initial estimates, including women and children.
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"Act Up" Wall Street protesters chained themselves in a line across Broadway, blocking traffic until police cut the chains and the protesters were arrested
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: A man attempts to retrieve a dog after it escaped from its cage during transportation on an airline at LaGuardia Airport on April 25, 2012 in New York City. The dog was caught after approximately ten minutes but not before halting plane traffic at the busy metro airport while the chase was underway
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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 26: Ken McMeikan (C), the Chief Executive of Greggs, joins bakers demonstrating on Whitehall in front of Downing Street against the Government's proposed decision to impose VAT on hot takeaway snacks on April 26, 2012 in London, England. The Treasury's decision to apply 20% VAT to hot baked goods has been dubbed the 'Pasty Tax' and representatives from the baking industry have collected 500,000 signatures in a petition against the tax increase
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FORT MEADE, MD - APRIL 26: Karen Steele of Westminster, MD, shows her support for accused WikiLeads whistle-blower U.S. Amry PFC Bradley Manning while standing vigil outside the front gates of Fort Meade April 26, 2012 in Fort Meade, Maryland. The judge in the case, U.S. Army Col. Denise Lind, is expected to rule today on a defense motion to dismiss all 22 charges against Manning, 24, who is accused of providing the Web site WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents, diplomatic cables and video clips
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BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 26: A huge fire, which destroyed a 24.000 sqm. warehouse, rages in an industrial area located next to Tegel Airport, on April 26, 2012 in Berlin-Siemensstadt, Germany. So far the cause of the fire, which started in the early morning of April 26, 2012, is unknown. More than 180 fire fighters succeeded in eventually getting the flames under control
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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - APRIL 26: The family of Bridgecorp director Rod Petricevic, including wife Mary leave court after sentencing at Auckland High Court, on April 26, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand. Petricevic was jailed for six-and-a-half years for misleading investors, after Bridgecorp collapsed, owing investors over NZ$400m
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Leveson Inquiry: Murdoch admits missing hacking 'cover-up' :rofl:
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Rupert Murdoch says there was a "cover-up" at the News of the World (NoW) but insists it was kept hidden from him.
The News Corp boss told the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics that he and senior executives were "shielded" from the extent of phone-hacking at the tabloid, which he was forced to close.
Asked if he should have known about it, he said: "I also have to say that I failed, and I am very sorry about it." :rofl:
He was giving evidence at the Royal Courts of Justice for a second day.
In other developments, the 81-year-old said:
- Newspapers were a force for good in society, threatened by the "disruptive technology" of the internet and too much regulation
- He was "surprised" by the size of the £425,000 plus costs settlement to Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor over hacking
- He had spent hundreds of millions of dollars investigating activities in his papers after the hacking scandal
- He does not tell journalists to promote his company's TV channels, shows, or films in his papers
- He was "shocked" to hear from counsel to the inquiry, Robert Jay, that News International had not co-operated with a police investigation into hacking :rofl:
On claims that "one rogue reporter" was responsible for phone-hacking, Mr Murdoch said senior executives were all misinformed about its extent.
"I do blame one or two people for that... someone took charge of a cover up we were victim to and I regret that." :rofl:
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The Syrian city of Homs
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Bayern Munich FC celebrate after winning a penalty shoot-out against Real Madrid to reach the Champions League final
