Pictures of the day: 19 March 2013
The brightly decorated peacock spider - much like his feathered namesake - uses colour to show off to the female of the species. Its markings appear to form a face including eyes, nose, a mouth and even ginger hair which is unique to this species, called Maratus speciosus. The tiny spiders are only about four to five millimetres in length.
Picture: JURGEN OTTO / CATERS NEWS |
Sea Life Senior Curator Chris Brown prepares to move Japanese Spider crab named Big Daddy as it settles in to its new home at Blackpool's Sea Life Centre. The nine-foot claw-span of the giant Japanese Spider Crab, which is to be housed on the Golden Mile, makes him Europe's biggest crab.
Picture: Dave Thompson/PA |
Apples that retail for 1,998 Yuan (£212) are seen in a supermarket in Shanghai, China. The red apples feature a yellow snake mark and the number 2013.
Picture: HAP/Quirky China News/Rex Features |
Robert Brooks of Bonhams examines the 1954 2.5 litre Mercedes-Benz W196 Formula 1 Grand-Prix single-seater driven by Juan Manuel Fangio. The car, which Fangio drove to victory in the German and Swiss Grand Prix, will be auctioned at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA |
Artist Peter Mason poses with his latest stamp art creation in Hednesford, England. He has reproduced the famous Chinese Girl portrait out of 3,000 used stamps. The real version, by Vladimir Tretchikoff is set to be sold shortly by Bonhams of London for an estimated half-a-million pounds.
Picture: Peter Mason / Barcroft Media |
Cabaret artist Tricity Vogue - whose act 'Blue Lady' is inspired by the work of artist Vladimir Tretchikoff - stands next to his painting 'Chinese Girl' which will go on sale at Bonhams' South African art sale on March 20th for an estimated £300,000 to £500,000.
Picture: Nick Ansell/PA |
Research Engineer Dr Vincent Wan, from Toshiba Research in Cambridge, sits alongside a digital talking head named Zoe by researchers. The virtual talking head which can express human emotion could see the creation of life-like computerised personal assistants, similar to those seen in sci-fi films.
Picture: Chris Radburn/PA |
Lightning steaks across the sky behind the Young Meadows Presbyterian Church in Montgomery, Alabama
Picture: Dave Martin/AP |
The Aurora borealis, or northern lights, flicker across the sky in Tallinn, Estonia
Picture: Raigo Pajula/AFP |
An aerial view of the Shams 1 solar power plant at Madinat Zayed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The world's largest concentrated solar power plant was officialy inaugurated on 18 March 2013.
Picture: EPA/EMIRATES NEWS AGENCY |
The air pollution levels in the sky over Tiananmen Square during the National People's Congress in Beijing are seen in this combination picture taken on March 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15
Picture: REUTERS/Wei Yao |
Telegraph reader Ian Wylie managed to capture HMS Westminster passing under Tower Bridge just after 6am today after a six-day visit to London. If you have a photograph you'd like us to consider for a picture gallery, please email it to mypic [ at ] telegraph.co.uk, supplying a little info on where and when the picture was taken.
Picture: Ian Wylie |
A car loaded with manequins moves along tracks at a crash testing centre in Caligny, northwestern France
Picture: JEAN FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP |
Students of Estella's school for bakery and pastry making in Givat Shmuel, central Israel, work on an image of US President Barack Obama made out of chocolate
Picture: Ariel Schalit/AP |
Attendees photograph US President Barack Obama with their mobile phones during a Women's History Month reception at the White House in Washington
Picture: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst |
A man prepares Khadi the pink stallion ahead of its appearance in a cavalry event in honour of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall's visit to Nizwa, Oman. The horse gets its unusual hue because of a rare albino condition.
Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty Images |
Two brown bears appear to be gossiping as they play in the snow at the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany
Picture: SVEN HOPPE/AFP/Getty Images |
A reindeer is seen near king penguins on a beach of the South Georgia islands. Hunters have culled 3,500 reindeer on the islands near Antarctica in a step to get rid of the animals introduced a century ago from Norway as a source of food. Reindeer numbers have surged and their trampling is a threat to plants and to seabirds nesting on the ground.
Picture: REUTERS/Alastair Wilson |
Doctors carry out an ultrasound examination on a walrus with a suspected eye tumour at a hospital in Dalian, China's Liaoning province. Thankfully, there was no sign of a tumour and vets now suspect the problem is actually linked to a problem with Oudi's teeth.
Picture: HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features |
Pope Francis blesses a child in St Peter's Square
Picture: EPA/CLAUDIO PERI |
The Fisherman's Ring is placed on the finger of Pope Francis by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals
Picture: REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini |
A close look at the fisherman's ring, that was chosen by Pope Francis as the ring he receives during his inaugural Mass
Picture: Andrew Medichini/AP |
Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, holds a gift given to him by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the Vatican City
Picture: REUTERS/Argentine Presidency |
Golfer Tiger Woods and skier Lindsey Vonn pose for a portrait. Two months after rumours began circulating about them, Woods and Vonn posted separate items on their Facebook pages to announce their relationship.
Picture: Courtesy Tiger Woods/Lindsey Vonn/AP |
Flushers Tim Henderson and Stan Cheeseman pose for a photograph with land surveyor Neil Lloyd in the Thames Water Fleet sewer, a Victorian sewer system designed by Joseph Bazalgette, beneath the streets of London
Picture: REUTERS/Luke MacGregor |
US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte parties at Shore Thing Sundays at Shore Club Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida
Picture: Barcroft Media |
North Korean soldiers attend military training in an undisclosed location in this picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency
Picture: REUTERS/KCNA |
A Hamas militant takes part in the funeral of Palestine's 'mother of martyrs' Mariam Farhat in Gaza City
Picture: APAimages / Rex Features |
Rescuers and bystanders look at the wreckage of a passenger bus after it fell from a bridge in Ratnagiri district in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. At least 37 people were killed and 15 others injured after the bus fell into the Jagbudi River.
Picture: REUTERS |
A policeman runs through burning vehicles at the scene of an explosion near the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Mogadishu
Picture: REUTERS/Feisal Omar
source: telegraph.co.uk |