Britain Christmas Toys
Five year old Lottie poses for photographers on the Clydesdale Prancing Pony in front of the toy store Hamleys in London, Thursday, June 27, 2013. The hand finished soft toy is superbly detailed and crafted to create a realistic pony that is part of their toy preview for Christmas
Britain Christmas Toys
Five year old Lottie poses for photographers with the new Zelfs toy at the toy store Hamleys in London, Thursday, June 27, 2013. The Zelfs come in 12 different shapes and with a special power. They are a part of Hamleys toy preview for Christmas
GERMANY LEISURE
A picture made available on 20 August 2013 shows an aerial view of a labyrinth of conifers in the amusement park Teichland in Neuendorf near Cottbus, Germany, 19 August 2013. Apart from the labyrinth, visitors can also use a 900m summer toboggan run.
PHILIPPINES FLOODS
A passenger jeep going through a flooded main road of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines, 20 August 2013. Seven people were killed and more than 130,000 displaced in floods that crippled the Philippine capital for the second day , disaster relief officials said. More than half of Manila was flooded, with the murky waters reaching as high as 2 metres in some areas, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Schools, government offices, the stock exchange and some businesses were closed as floods made many roads impassable, including streets in the financial district of Makati City. More than half a million people were affected by the bad weather in Manila and northern provinces that have been affected by torrential monsoon rains since the weekend.
PHILIPPINES FLOODS
Filipino children frolic at a flooded community in Las Pinas city, south of Manila, Philippines, 20 August 2013. Seven people were killed and more than 130,000 displaced in floods that crippled the Philippine capital for the second day on 20 August, disaster relief officials said. More than half of Manila was flooded with the murky waters reaching as high as 2 metres in some areas according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Counci
USA LEISURE
A photo made available 21 July 2013 shows Stephen Terry (2-L) celebrating his 2013 'Papa' Hemingway Look-Alike Contest victory with previous winners at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Florida, USA, 20 July 2013. Terry, 56, beat 125 other contestants to win the competition. It was the Palm Harbor, Florida, USA software developer's seventh try at the competition staged during Key West's annual Hemingway Days festival that ends 21 July.
USA LEISURE
A photo made available 21 July 2013 shows Stephen Terry (L) as he gives judges another look with four other finalists during the last round of the 'Papa' Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Florida, USA, 20 July 2013. Terry, 56, beat 125 other contestants to win the competition. It was the Palm Harbor, Florida, USA software developer's seventh try at the competition staged during Key West's annual Hemingway Days festival that ends 21 July. Ernest 'Papa' Hemingway, a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author known for such books at 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' and 'A Farwell to Arms,' lived in Key West in the 1930s
Britain Lone Ranger Premiere
Lone Ranger fans await the arrival of Johnny Depp and other cast members of the film ahead of the UK premiere at a central London cinema in Leicester Square, Sunday, July 21, 2013.
BELGIUM ROYALTY
Queen Mathilde of Belgium (R) is greeted by the crowd as he arrives in Parc Royal to attend celebrations on the occasion of Belgium's National Day in Brussels, Belgium, 21 July 2013. King Albert II of Belgium in an official act on 21 July signed his abdication to leave the Belgian throne to his son who became King Philippe of Belgium.
MUSIC-FESTIVAL
US guitarist and singer Carlos Santana performs on July 21, 2013 during the Vieilles Charrues music Festival in Carhaix-Plouguer, western of France
GERMANY TECHNOLOGY
German Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Development Peter Ramsauer takes a look at a Mercedes electric car prior to the eMobility Summit on electromobility at the 'Tagesspiegel' headquarters in Berlin, Germany, 27 June 2013.
SWITZERLAND ENVIRONMENT GLACIER
A picture provided 27 June 2013 shows persons entering the grotto of the Rhone glacier in the central Alps of Switzerland, 26 June 2013. The glacier is protected by blankets at this time of the year to keep ice melting to a minimum.
GERMANY CINEMA
A visitor looks at various Bambi awards on display during the 'Bernd Eichinger - ...Alles Kino' (lit. It's all Cinema) exhibition at the Museum for Film and Television in Berlin, Germany, 27 June 2013. The exhibition will run from 28 June to 06 October 2013. A number of Eichinger's awards, photographs and films will be on display.
Britain Christmas Toys
A Hamleys employee steers the Lego Mindstorms EV3 with an iPad application at the toy store Hamleys in London, Thursday, June 27, 2013. The Lego based prototype robot with advanced technology can walk, talk, think and nearly anything the user can imagine and is part of Hamleys toy preview for Christmas 2013
THAILAND TRANSPORT TRAIN MARKET
This picture taken on June 25, 2013 shows a train passing through a food market in Maeklong, some 60 kilometers south-west of Bangkok. Several times a day, shopkeepers swiftly pack up their food stalls and pull back their canopies to let the trains pass. Once the trains have rumbled through, the crates of vegetables, fish and eggs, are heaved back into their position along the tracks and shoppers return to the tracks they use as a path through the market. Every day hundreds of tourists armed with cameras flock to the picturesque Maeklong market to witness the well-oiled routine.
INDIA CURRENCY
An Indian employee shows US and Indian currencies at his office in Mumbai, India, 27 June 2013. The Indian rupee fell to a record low of 60.73 against the dollar on 26 June, pushed by demand for the greenback from domestic importers, withdrawal of funds by foreign investors and a slump in several Asian currencies. The rupee has depreciated by about 10 per cent between April and June, with a previous record low of 59.98 against the dollar on June 20. Analysts said the Indian currency was likely to weaken further and may hit 61 against the dollar soon. According to reports, the rupee recovered from its all-time lows by rising 32 paise to 60.40 against the dollar in early trade.
INDIA TEEJ FESTIVAL
Indian women perform Gidha, the fold dance from the state of Punab as a girl swings as they take part in Teej festival celebrations at Majitha village, some 20 kms from Amritsar, India, 21 July 2013. Teej festival is celebrated during the Saawan month which falls in July-August. Girls wearing colourful traditional Punjabi clothes and jewellery perform Gidha the folk dance of Punjab during the celebrations and dedicate the folk songs to their husbands or to-be-husbands. Special folk songs are sung to symbolize the true love and sacrifical nature of Punjabi girls for their love. The Teej celebrations begin from the third day of Saawan month which is the fifth Hindu month beginning from Chaitra.
France Paris Beach
Tourists and Parisians take advantage of the Paris Plage event, an artificial beach set up on the right bank of the Seine river in Paris, Sunday, July. 21, 2013. Temperatures in Paris have reached 35 degrees Celsius
SPAIN NUDISM WORLD RECORD
Some of several hundreds nudists react in the Mediterranean sea as they break the world record of collective bathroom of naked people with 729 participants in Vera, near Almeria, on July 21, 2013.
Stephanie Danielson
Stephanie Danielson and Alex Esso attend the Con of Darkness, on Friday, July 19th, 2013 in San Diego, California.
Snowy Day Exhibit
In this Wednesday, July 10, 2013 photo, chief curator Josh Perelman speaks during an interview with The Associated Press as perorations are made for The Snowy Day and The Art Of Ezra Jack Keats exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History, in Philadelphia. The exhibit opened July 19.
2013 Con of Darkness
Roman Bruno, Catherine Annette, Ashley Noel, CEO Entertainment One Television John Morayniss and Jen Roa attend the Con of Darkness, on Friday, July 19th, 2013 in San Diego, California.
2013 Con of Darkness
Jen Roa, Stephanie Danielson and Kristen DeLuca attend the Con of Darkness, on Friday, July 19th, 2013 in San Diego, California.
INDONESIA-ENVIRONMENT-WILDLIFE-
An activist wearing orangutan mask displays a sticker during a World Orangutan Day campaign rally in Banda Aceh, northern Sumatra island, on August 20, 2013. From 1992-2000, the population of the Sumatran orangutan declined by more than 50 percent and only an estimated 7,000 animals are left in the wild, while the Bornean orangutan population fell nearly 43 percent in the past decade and estimates place their population at about 45,000 animals, according to World Orangutan Day organization.
JAPAN MILITARY TRAINING
Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces helicopters fly over armourd vehicles during an annual live fire exercise at the Higashi-Fuji firing range in Gotemba, at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka prefecture on August 20, 2013. The annual drill involves some 2,400 personnel, 80 tanks and armoured vehicles and 30 aircraft and helicopters
FRANCE TOURISM CULTURE MUSIC
People walk near the Fort Du Guesclin (top) on August 18, 2013 in Saint Coulomb, northwestern france. The tiny island of Du Guesclin, where late French singer Leo Ferre lived, is currently owned by Serge Porcher, 41, whose project is to build a residency for singers at first, and for any other artists as a follow-on.
CHINA POLITICS CORRUPTION BO
This photo taken on August 9, 2013 shows the sweeping views of Chongqing's high-rise city centre and a cable car across the Yangste River. In a plot worthy of a spy novel, the downfall of high-flying Chinese politician Bo Xilai began when a British businessman was found dead in a hilltop hotel room in this metropolis of over 25 million people and now Bo, once one of China's highest-flying politicians, will find himself in a criminal dock on August 22 on trial for bribery and abuse of power in the country's highest-profile prosecution in decades
NZEALAND-VOLCANO
This image taken from a webcam on the White Island crator rim and released by the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (IGNS) via the GeoNet monitoring service on August 20, 2013 shows steam rising from the White Island Volcano off the North Island's Bay of Plenty. The volcanic activity is not believed to be related to a 6.5-magnitude earthquake which rocked Wellington on August 16 on the other side of the North Island.
Amazing Japanese Volcano Footage: Spectacular eruption spews ash
US-ENTERTAINMENT-AFTERNOON DELIGHT-PREMIERE
(L-R): Actors Juno Temple, Josh Radnor and Kathryn Hahn arrive for the premiere of "Afternoon Delight" at the Arclight Theatre in Hollywood, California on August 19, 2013.
INDONESIA-UNREST-PRISON
In this photo taken on August 19, 2013, security forces evacuate prisoners from a jail that was burned by escaping prisoners in Labuah Ruku, Sumatra island on August 18. Indonesian security forces hunted for a group of inmates who escaped from an overcrowded jail on Sumatra island, in the latest breakout to hit the country's decrepit prison system
SOUTH KOREA FLOWERS
Cosmos flowers, a messenger of autumn, blossom in Gangneung, 237km east of Seoul, South Korea, on 20 August 2013.
SOUTH KOREA MUSIC
Three-member South Korean boy group Honey G performs in a showcase to mark its debut album in Seoul,South Korea on 20 August 2013.
CHINA-WEATHER-FLOODS
This picture taken on August 19, 2013 shows flood victims making their way down a flooded street in Shantou, in southern China's Guangdong province. Devastating floods at opposite ends of China have left 105 people dead and another 115 missing in recent days, state media said on August 19.
JAPAN MILITARY EXERCISE
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Type 10 tank fire before hundreds of spectators during the annual live fire exercise at the flank of Mount Fuji in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, Japan, 20 August 2013
JAPAN MILITARY EXERCISE
A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Type 90 tank fires during the annual live fire exercise at the flank of Mount Fuji in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, Japan, 20 August 2013. Some 2,400 military personnel participated to the event before more than 12,000 spectators. Since he took office in December 2012, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to strengthen the country's army and his government passed the first increase in 11 years for the defense budget
CHINA-WEATHER-FLOODS
This picture taken on August 19, 2013 shows residents making their way through floodwaters on a makeshift raft in the Chaonan district of Shantou, in southern China's Guangdong province. Devastating floods at opposite ends of China have left 105 people dead and another 115 missing in recent days, state media said on August 19.
