Pictures Of The Day - 2007.05.16
Pakistani protestors set fire to an effigy of President Pervez Musharraf during a demonstration in Multan against the killing of 26 people in Kurachi. More pictures follow...
A worker stands on a car of a transport train at the construction site of the Beijing underground system. 52 new stations are under construction and are expected to be finished sveral months before the start of the 2008 Olymic Games.
Visitors row a boat at Beihai Park, the former imperial garden and icon of China's capital, Beijing, China.
Rosy Pelicans fight for fish during feedig time at the Zoological Park in New Delhi, India.
An Indian rose-ringed parakeet eats a banana in its enclosure at the Zoological Park.
A Crested Serpent Eagle rests in its enclosure at the Zoological Park.
Diana Hadi, a staff member at Malaysia's Tiara Beach Resort, poses in a swimming pool with some 20,000 apples in it in an attempt to set the national record for 'The Most Number of Apples Used In Spa Therapy' in Port Dickson, 120km south of Kuala Lumpur.
Nimra, a one year old cat, sits with kittens and seven chicks in Amman, Jordan. Nimra has been taking care of the chicks after their mother's death a month ago.
Ballet dancers Sophie Benoit (left) and Stanislav Jermakov (right) perform on stage during rehearsal of the play Apollo at the Opernhaus in Zurich. The Zurich Ballet of Heinz Spoerli showed 'Apollo' on the opening night.
One way to avoid the rush hour: A base-jumper springs from the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany, during the skyscraper festival in Frankfurt Main. Organisers expected one million visitors for the two-day festival.
Driver Frieda van Graaf from the Netherlands in action in the urban concept car 'Victorie Boogie Woogie' on the last day of the Shell Eco Marathon at the Nogaro circuit in southern France. In this race more than 200 student teams from all over the world but mostly from the Europe compete in having the most fuel economic car.
Abdul Anan, 45, holds a cloth bag to put his quails in after he fed them in his tent in a refugee camp in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Anan started bird fighting when he was 13-years-old and now trains quails for his customers.
A survey for GlaxoSmithKline Travel Health found that nearly one in four Britons wrongly believe that malaria is contracted by drinking infected water.
Competitors take part in the 'Viaduc' race (23,550km) on the Millau viaduct in southern France - the world's tallest bridge.
Tanni Grey-Thompson performs during the last ever race in the T53 200 metres during the Visa Paralympic world cup at the Manchester Regional Arena, Manchester, north-west England.
The statue of The Holy Virgin Mary is carried prior to a mass in Fatima, 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of Lisbon, Portugal. Up to a half a million Christian pilgrims flooded the town of Fatima on the weekend to attend the 90th anniversary of the Virgin Mary's supposed apparition to three shepherd children.
Pakistani protestors set fire to an effigy of President Pervez Musharraf during a demonstration in Multan against the killing of 26 people in Kurachi. More pictures follow...
A worker stands on a car of a transport train at the construction site of the Beijing underground system. 52 new stations are under construction and are expected to be finished sveral months before the start of the 2008 Olymic Games.
Visitors row a boat at Beihai Park, the former imperial garden and icon of China's capital, Beijing, China.
Rosy Pelicans fight for fish during feedig time at the Zoological Park in New Delhi, India.
An Indian rose-ringed parakeet eats a banana in its enclosure at the Zoological Park.
A Crested Serpent Eagle rests in its enclosure at the Zoological Park.
Diana Hadi, a staff member at Malaysia's Tiara Beach Resort, poses in a swimming pool with some 20,000 apples in it in an attempt to set the national record for 'The Most Number of Apples Used In Spa Therapy' in Port Dickson, 120km south of Kuala Lumpur.
Nimra, a one year old cat, sits with kittens and seven chicks in Amman, Jordan. Nimra has been taking care of the chicks after their mother's death a month ago.
Ballet dancers Sophie Benoit (left) and Stanislav Jermakov (right) perform on stage during rehearsal of the play Apollo at the Opernhaus in Zurich. The Zurich Ballet of Heinz Spoerli showed 'Apollo' on the opening night.
One way to avoid the rush hour: A base-jumper springs from the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany, during the skyscraper festival in Frankfurt Main. Organisers expected one million visitors for the two-day festival.
Driver Frieda van Graaf from the Netherlands in action in the urban concept car 'Victorie Boogie Woogie' on the last day of the Shell Eco Marathon at the Nogaro circuit in southern France. In this race more than 200 student teams from all over the world but mostly from the Europe compete in having the most fuel economic car.
Abdul Anan, 45, holds a cloth bag to put his quails in after he fed them in his tent in a refugee camp in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Anan started bird fighting when he was 13-years-old and now trains quails for his customers.
A survey for GlaxoSmithKline Travel Health found that nearly one in four Britons wrongly believe that malaria is contracted by drinking infected water.
Competitors take part in the 'Viaduc' race (23,550km) on the Millau viaduct in southern France - the world's tallest bridge.
Tanni Grey-Thompson performs during the last ever race in the T53 200 metres during the Visa Paralympic world cup at the Manchester Regional Arena, Manchester, north-west England.
The statue of The Holy Virgin Mary is carried prior to a mass in Fatima, 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of Lisbon, Portugal. Up to a half a million Christian pilgrims flooded the town of Fatima on the weekend to attend the 90th anniversary of the Virgin Mary's supposed apparition to three shepherd children.
