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
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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
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
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 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
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
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