Professor Splash Dives into Tomato Souce!
Darren Taylor, also known as Professor Splash, dives from eight meters high into a 30 centimeters shallow pool of tomato sauce during a promotion at Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia. Taylor, with more than 25 years of professional high diving experience, holds records in both the Guinness World Records and Ripley’s 2009 Edition. (Rob Griffith/Associated Press)
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Showing His Colours
Colorado Rockies fan, Josh Pugh, displays his team inspired mowhawk before the MLB game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field. (Getty)
Surfers to Break the Guinness World Record
Surfers attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most surfers on a wave at one time, in Muizenberg on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. (Schalk van Zuydam/Associated Press)
In Searching of Idols
A boy searches for reusable items amid idols of the Hindu god Ganesh left a day after the immersion of idols in Ahmadabad, India. Every year millions of devout Hindus immerse Ganesh idols into oceans and rivers during the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival that celebrates the birth of the Hindu god. (Ajit Solanki/Associated Press)
Demonstrators Surround the Spanish Congress to Protest Against Spending Cuts and the Government of Mariano Rajoy
Police clash with the protestors during the march to the parliament against austerity measures announced by the Spanish government in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. The demonstration, organized behind the slogan “Occupy Congress”, was expected to draw thousands of people. Madrid authorities said some 1,300 police would be deployed. The protestors call for Parliament to be dissolved and fresh elections held, claiming the government’s austerity measures show the ruling Popular Party misled voters to get elected last November. (Photos by Andres Kudacki/Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Dominique Faget/Jasper Juinen/Denis Doyle/Pierre-Philippe Marcou/Reuters/AFP Photo)
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Nudism in Favour of the Legalization of the Abortion in Montevideo
Women with body paintings and signs reading “Legal abortion”, take part in a demo in favour of the legalization of abortion in front of the Congress building in Montevideo on September 25, 2012. The Congress is voting a law project which would decriminilize the interruption of pregnancy under certain conditions, including obliging women to set out before a tribunal the reasons for the abortion. NSFW. (Photos by Miguel Rojo/AFP Photo)
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Harry Potter Author J. K. Rowling Releases First Book for Adults
A woman at Foyles bookshop looks at a copy of J. K. Rowling’s latest novel “The Casual Vacancy” which has gone on sale today starting at 8:00 am on September 27, 2012 in London, England. “The Casual Vacancy” is J. K. Rowling’s first book aimed at an adult readership and is centered on a parish council election in a small West Country town. (Photo by Oli Scarff)
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Girls of Octoberfest 2012
With the traditional tapping-ritual, the Oktoberfest has been opened on saturday, September 22, 2012. As usual, Christian Ude, mayor of the city of Munich, had the honour of declaring the Oktoberfest open. With two strikes he tapped the first barell of Oktoberfest beer at the Schottenhamel beer tent and let let the world know “O’zapft is!” – meaning that the barell has been successfully tapped – and wished everybody a peacefull Oktoberfest.
Despite the rather wet weather on saturday, the first weekend was te xpeted sucess: Approximately 850.000 guests from Munich, Bavaria, the rest of Germany and from all over the world came to visit the 179th Oktoberfest on the opening weekend. About one million liters of beer and about nine oxen have already been sold.
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Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights 22
Victoria’s Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio poses with members of The Iniquitus, patrons of death, during a sneak peek at Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights 22. (Kevin Kolczynski/Universal)
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Oktoberfest 2012: World’s Biggest Beer Festival Begins
Oktoberfest, the world’s most famous beer festival, kicked off its 179th edition at the Theresienwiese fairground in Germany on 22 September. Christian Ude, the Lord Mayor of Munich, tapped the first keg of Oktoberfest beer to declare the 16-day event open. The traditional opening ceremony also included a 12-gun salute. The opening day of Oktoberfest 2012 coincided with the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, which brought heavy rain to Munich. Millions of beer drinkers from around the world will crowd into the Bavarian capital over the next two weeks for a festival that is also a showcase for Bavarian culture.
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A reveller uses a plastic bag to cover herself from heavy rain on the opening day of the Munich Oktoberfest, at the Theresienwiese in Munich, 22 September, 2012. (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach)
