Tuesday, August 18, 2009

THE WEEK THAT WAS IN PICTURES





A Santa poses prior to abseiling down the front of Sydney's Four Season's Hotel to launch the Sydney Santa Fun Run. The children's charity Variety are hosting the event on November 29 for which they hope to encourage 5000 Sydney-siders to wear a Santa suit and raise funds for disadvantaged children.



Space Shuttle Discovery, sitting on the crawler transporter, rolls out to launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Discovery is scheduled to launch no earlier than August 25 on a mission to the International Space Station.




Freed US journalist Euna Lee (left) embraces her husband Michael Saldate (second right) and daughter Hana while fellow journalist Laura Ling (second left) embraces her husband Iain Clayton (right) after being released from North Korea, at the airport in Burbank, California




Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin swims the butterfly during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia.



Ronnie Renner breaks the world record height for a 1/4 pipe on a motorcycle at the Red Bull High Rise where he jumped 63'5' above the ground at Grant Park in Chicago.


7 August


2009

This image provided by NASA of the rock informally named by scientists Block Island was taken with the front hazard-identification camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity



This image provided by


NASA of the rock


informally named by


scientists "Block Island"


was taken with the front


hazard-identification


camera on NASA's Mars


Exploration Rover


Opportunity...



...Composition measurements by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirmed that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite. With a width of about two-thirds of a metre (two feet), it is the largest meteorite yet found on Mars




Composition


measurements by


NASA's Mars


Exploration Rover


Opportunity


confirmed that this


rock on the


Martian


surface is an iron-


nickel meteorite.


With a width of


about two-thirds


of


a metre (two


feet),


it is the largest


meteorite yet


found


on Mars




7 August


2009



A polar bear and seabirds feed on a whale in this picture taken at Magdalena fjord, Spitsbergen on board a recent Voyages of Discovery cruise



A polar bear and


seabirds


feed on a whale in this


picture taken at


Magdalena fjord,


Spitsbergen on board a


recent Voyages of


Discovery cruise




A woman swims with a 40-foot whale shark off the South African coast



A woman swims with a


40-foot whale shark off


the South African coast




This cygnet joins up with her five other siblings for a free ride on their mum's back at Bicton Park Botanical Gardens in Devon




This cygnet joins up with


her five other siblings


for


a free ride on their


mum's back at Bicton


Park Botanical Gardens


in


Devon





A stoat that  was stuck the front grille of a BMW Z4 for a 30-mile journey.  A motorist spotted it in the road in Colsterworth, Lincs. He feared he had run it over but found it the next day peeping out of the front grille of the car




A stoat that was stuck


the front grille of a BMW


Z4 for a 30-mile


journey.


A motorist spotted it in t


he road in Colsterworth,


Lincs. He feared he had


run it over but found it


the next day peeping


out


of the front grille of the


car




7 August



2009


Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama jokes with his nasal spray after being asked his opinion on the swine flu during a press conference on the sidelines of a lecture at the Malley ice stadium near Lausanne




Exiled Tibetan


spiritual leader the


Dalai Lama jokes


with his nasal


spray after being


asked his opinion


on swine flu


during


a press conference


on the sidelines of


a lecture at the


Malley ice stadium


near Lausanne





Here's the long legs of the law. A New York City Police Officer waves his baton on a pair of stilts at the 9th Police Precinct's National Night Out Against Crime street BBQ



Here's the long


legs of the law. A


New York City


Police Officer


waves his baton


on


a pair of stilts at


the 9th Police


Precinct's National


Night Out Against


Crime street BBQ



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