Photo of the Day: Wooded Walk in Nepal
A Nepalese devotee walks to a temple to offer prayers on the occasion of the Janai Purnima festival, or Sacred Thread festival, in Kavre district, 28 miles east of Katmandu, Nepal, Aug. 13. On Janai Purnima, Hindus take holy baths and perform their annual change of the Janai, a sacred cotton string worn around their chest or tied on the wrist, in the belief that it will protect and purify them. (Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi / AP) Click image to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Don’t Bear with Me
Siku, one of the twin polar bear cubs of the Ouwehand zoo, plays with frozen food at Ouwehand Zoo in Rhenen on August 12, 2011. (Koen van Weel/AFP/Getty Images)
Photo of the Day: Electronic Scrapyard
Workers dismantled old electrical goods at a recycling center in Tieling, Liaoning Province, China, Thursday. (European Pressphoto Agency) Click image to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Blending In
Chinese artist Liu Bolin waited Wednesday for his colleagues to put a finishing touch on him to blend into rows of soft drinks in his artwork entitled ‘Plasticizer,’ in his studio in Beijing. (Associated Press) Click image to zoom.
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Photo of the Day: Hunting Dog… No, It’s a Hunting Fox!
As the fox hunting debate continues to rage across the globe, we’d like to think that some comic relief comes in the shape of this image, taken in Canada. Naturalist and photographer Mircea Costina captured the chortlesome scene in a forest north of Montreal. Click image to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Cats of War
A Somali government soldiers mans a position inside Bakara market on August 8, 2011. Residents of Somalia’s war-torn capital fled fighting Monday after remnants of extremist Shebab rebel forces, who pulled out of Mogadishu at the weekend, battled with government troops overnight. The Al-Qaeda-affiliated rebels – who had controlled around half of Mogadishu – abandoned their positions in a surprise withdrawal on Saturday. Fighting late on Sunday took place in several locations in the south and north of the city, as African Union-backed government troops set up bases in former Shebab strongholds. (MUSTAFA ABDI/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Men Fish Near Black Sea Resort of Sochi
A woman sunbathes as men fish on a lake outside the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Aug. 7. (Mikhail Mordasov / AFP – Getty Images)
Photo of the Day: Dog Frisbee
A dog catches a frisbee during the Russian “Dog Frisbee” championships in Moscow. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Motorcycle Paradise
Thousands of new motorcycles are parked at the Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta at August, 5, waiting for ships to transport them to Indonesia’s provinces. (Supri/Reuters)
Photo of the Day: Entire Crew of Sinking Ship Rescued from Peril at Sea
In this photo provided by the Indian Ministry of Defense shows a Seaking helicopter from the Indian Navy hovering over of the sinking ship MV Rak Carrier off the coast of Mumbai on August 4, 2011. The Panama-flagged MV Rak Carrier, a 220-meter (722-feet) long vessel transporting 60,000 tonnes of coal from Indonesia to India, sank off the coast of Mumbai after its 30-strong crew were rescued when it began taking on water in stormy seas. The MV Rak Carrier went down about 22 nautical miles from India’s financial and entertainment capital, just hours after it made an emergency distress call. (MINISTRY OF DEFENCE/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
