Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Crazy World: Caught on camera


Crazy World: Caught on camera

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A minke whale on the deck of a whaling ship for research in the Antarctic Ocean. (AFP)

A man takes a picture of a 1:6 scale model of the Star Wars' Millennium Falcon spaceship displayed in a shopping mall in Hong Kong. (AFP)

Spanish Juan Ponce performs a pass to a bull during a bullfight at Peru's historic Plaza de Acho bullring in Lima. (Reuters)

Bull chases people into water. (YouTube)

Contestants launch hot-air balloon during Tazaungdine Festival in Taunggyi, southern Shan State, Myanmar. (AP)

Two people push a vehicle out of high water at Cal Young Park. (AP)



A float travels past spectators during the Auckland Santa Parade on November 29, 2015 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Getty Images)

Performers entertain the crowd during the Auckland Santa Parade on November 29, 2015 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Getty Images)



People help lift a horse who slipped pulling a cart, overloaded with sacks of onions, on outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters)

President Barack Obama pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey during the 68th annual presentation of the turkey in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (rEUTERS)

A man stops to look at a frozen handrail as he walks his dogs along the coastline, in Dalian, Liaoning province. (Reuters)



Filipino environmental activists wear skull masks as they take part in a global protest action ahead of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, known as the COP21 summit, in Quezon city, Metro Manila Philippines November 28, 2015. (Reuters)

"Gloria La Reina Del Ring" (L) fights with "Calaca Vengadora" during a "cholitas" (Aymara women in skirts) all-in wrestling fight in El Alto. (AFP)

Members of Pakistan Desert Rangers, perform during a march in Moj Garh, 100 kilometres east of Bahawalpur in Punjab province. (AFP)

Chase Kennedy, 22, from San Luis Obispo, California, says her legs are the longest in the world - and insists they beat all other claims to the title. (YouTube)

The budding fashion star is just 0.9inches away from the world record. (YouTube)

A black kite (Milvus migrans) flying near Keelung harbor. (AFP)

Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, right, and Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams, left get tangled up on the floor during an NBA basketball game. (AP)

submerged baskets of a pearl farm in the Tahaa lagoon, French Polynesia.The pearl, pillar of the French Polynesian economy, becomes vulnerable because of global warming and farmers must adapt. (AFP)

Birds sit on the remains of an old pier during a high tide with Alcatraz Island. (AP)

Rocky, an orphaned Chihuahua, is held at the center in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Rocky was born with a hole in his skull, a heart murmur and serious intestinal complications. (AP)

Look-a-like supporter Terry Silliman of Goose Creek, South Carolina, waves a flag at rally for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Reuters)

A worker checks a truck loaded with iron ore at the Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) Christmas Creek iron ore mine located south of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. (Reuters)

Men play carom on a hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. (Reuters)

Philippine journalists burn an effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III riding a backhoe during a rally to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the massacre of 58 people, including 32 journalists, in Maguindano province in southern Philippines. (AFP)

Needle felting is an easy craft to learn. “It can pretty quickly resemble something,” says Sharp, of Suquamish, Wash. (AP)

The first public toilet equipped with Wi-Fi, a bank ATM machine and chargers for mobile phones and electric vehicles in Beijing. More toilets are due to opened on the outskirts of Beijing as well as other cities including Guiyang, Haikou, Kunming and Zhangjiakou. (AFP)

Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Crispy Toyota, celebrates with a burnout after winning the series championship and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. (AFP/Getty)



A woman holding an umbrella walks past the sculpture by Chinese artist Yue Minjun beside a road during a snow in Beijing, China, November 22, 2015. (Reuters)




A boy plays with snow in a park in central Beijing, China, November 22, 2015. (Reuters)




A man wades through a flooded street as he leaves a stranded car, in Qionghai, Hainan province, China, November 22, 2015. (Reuters)




Visitors take pictures of leaves falling from an old gingko tree in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, November 21, 2015. Picture taken November 21, 2015. (Reuters)



A person holds an umbrella while walking past parked vehicles as it snows in Beijing, China, November 22, 2015. (Reuters)


This photo taken on October 4, 2015 shows freelance miners digging for raw jade stones in piles of waste rubble dumped by mechanical diggers, next to a jade mine in Hpakant, Myanmar's Kachin State. At least 30 people were killed in a huge landslide as they picked through mountains of waste rubble in a remote mining area of northern Myanmar searching for precious jade, state media reported on November 22, 2015. (AFP)