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Pictures of the day june 11, 2009
Sumo wrestlers, a mummified monk, and a samurai umbrella.
A mummified Buddhist monk is seen behind glass at Wat Kunaram on the resort island of Koh Samui, Thailand. The monk was named Phra Khru Samathakittikhun. After death his body remained undecomposed, so his relatives and disciples decided to place his body in an upright position within a glass casket as requested by the monk in his written instruction. (We're not sure he specifically requested the Ray-Bans, though)
A reveller stole a rubbish lorry and drove it into a lake as he tried to get home after a late night out. The clubber nicked the truck in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and it ended up sinking fast in Cheddar Reservoir. Picture: ARCHANT
Ulrok, an 18-month-old rottweiler, and Beldarin a six-week-old grey wolf, are pictured at the Kisma Preserve in Mt Desert, Maine. Beldaran was adopted by Ulrok when she was just four days old after she was rejected by her parents. Picture: BARCROFT MEDIA
A golden eagle flies upside down as it defends itself from crows near Chelan, Washington State. Picture: AP
A tawny frogmouth that hatched recently at the Woodland Park Zoo is shown in Seattle, Washington. Picture: AP
Sumo wrestlers put on a display in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Picture: EYEVINE
A woman poses with a sword-shaped Samurai Umbrella as weather forecasters announce the official start of the rainy season in Japan. Picture: EPA
Children look at jellyfish at an aquarium at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Backdropped by Jerusalem's old city Damascus Gate, Israelis and Palestinians watch an audiovisual light show projected over the ancient walls during the Jerusalem Festival of Lights. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Spectators watch dancers from the Argentine troupe Fuerza Bruta (Brute Force) perform during opening night in Miami, Florida. Picture: REUTERS
Palestinian children fly a kite as they play on the beach during sunset in Gaza City. Picture: EPA
A young Bangladeshi boy steers a boat made of waste materials on the Buriganga river in Dhaka. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Production assistants place fake poppies in a field to simulate the wheat fields of 1918 France for a reenactment of the World War I battle of Belleau Wood, near Bealeton, Virginia.... Picture: AP
...A pyrotechnic charge explodes during the filming of the reenactment of the battle of Belleau Wood, for a short film to be shown at the at the new World War I gallery of the National Museum of the Marine Corps opening next spring. Picture: AP
Lightning strikes the ground during a thunderstorm in Budapest, Hungary. Picture: REUTERS
A girl runs into water pouring down from a stadium's upper balcony during a rain delay before the start of American League MLB baseball action between the Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays in Arlington, Texas. Picture: REUTERS
England fans hold a sign saying 'We had to Walk to Wembley' during the World Cup qualifying match between England and Andorra. England won six nil. Picture: GETTY
Workers hang a giant football shirt on a building in Cape Town, one year before the 2010 World Cup, which will be held in South Africa. Picture: EPA
A fan of Colombia's football team cheers during a World Cup qualifying game against Peru in Medellin, Colombia. Picture: AP
A masked girl sits with a classmate at a kindergarten in Hong Kong. Authorities ordered all primary schools in the city to be closed for two weeks after the first cluster of local swine flu cases. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Tim McKew inspects the painting La Memoire de la Femme-Enfant (Memory of the Child-Woman) at a preview of the National Gallery of Victoria's Salvador Dali exhibition, Liquid Desire, in Melbourne. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Park Eok-seon, an expert on counterfeit foreign currency, holds a counterfeit US $100 bill, above, and a real US $100 bill, bottom, at his office in Seoul, South Korea. Picture: AP
High wire walker Chico Marinhos cooks an omelette whilst walking an 80ft high tight rope above the Zippos Circus big top in Glasgow. Picture: PA
Parachutists during the Armed Forces Day at the Redford Barracks, Edinburgh. Picture: PA
South Korean military officers watch a demonstration of a pilotless helicopter S-100 at a military unit in Daejeon. Picture: AP
A man holds a box of Pakistan-made Super Osama Bin Laden Kulfa Balls milk and coconut flavour sweets bought at a bazaar in Kandahar. Picture: REUTERS
Artist Mark McGowan makes a political statement by burning an effigy of Gordon Brown wearing a tie with a picture of Peter Mandelson on it, in London. Picture: AFP/GETTY
A robotic hand produced by Japanese robotics company Squse picks up a piece of sushi during a demonstration at the International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition in Tokyo. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Hundreds of Terracotta Warriors, which were unearthed between 1978 and 1984, stand inside the No.1 pit at a museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi provinc. Archaeologists will begin the third excavation on Saturday, hoping to find more clay figures. Picture: REUTERS
These mug shots released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show inmate Phillip Spector without the wigs he wore during his trial for murder. Picture: AFP/GETTY
Nepalese teenager Khagendra Thapa Magar, 17, who weighs around 4.5 kg and is 51 cm tall, plays with a drum. His relatives arrived in the capital to secure his place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's shortest person. Picture: AFP/GETTY
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