Pictures of the day: 9 April 2013
A Turkish riot policeman beats a protester in a field during a demonstration at Dicle University
Picture: AFP/GETTY |
A zombie flash-mob protests in front of the EU Parliament in Brussels against possible EU-India free trade agreements that could endanger access to medicines
Picture: REUTERS |
Workers are putting the finishing touches on what builders say is the world's tallest statue of the late Pope John Paul II before its unveiling in the pontiff's native Poland on Saturday
Picture: AP |
A Yemeni man passes a wall sprayed with anti-smoking graffiti
Picture: EPA |
Participants in the '5km. More Colorful Run' in Porto, Portugal
Picture: EPA |
Renny Bijoux from the Seychelles, an Arctic ambassador, preparing for the start of the North Pole expedition at Barneo base in the high Arctic
Picture: EPA |
Motaba the gorilla tries to eat a banana from 6-year-old Ella O'brien and 4-year-old Bridget O'Brien Gorillas at Werribee Open Range Zoo near Melbourne, Australia
Picture: Newspix / Rex Features |
Cape fur seals swim off the coast of Duiker Island, a tiny granite boulder 100 metres offshore in Hout Bay, Cape Town in South Africa
Picture: Steve Benjamin/Solent News |
A Lamborghini Miura caught fire near Acton in West London with the owner having to watch helplessly as his £1 million car went up in smoke
Picture: Save The Rich / YouTube |
Fredette the white-lipped green tree frog with a tank full of tadpoles at Roaming Reptiles in Geelong, Australia
Picture: Alex Coppel/Newspix / Rex Features |
A bicycle measuring 44ft has been built in Indonesia - out of rusting iron pipe. Seating just one person, the elongated bike was hand crafted out of 84 feet of piping in Blawe village, Kediri, East Java, Indonesia
Picture: Arief Priyono / Barcroft Media |
A model backstage at the Romance Was Born show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Sydney, Australia
Picture: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images |
Awirut Nathip sprays water on his crocodile, named Thong which means golf in Thai, in front of his house in Pitsanuklok province, north of Bangkok, Thailand
Picture: AP photo/Sakchai Lalit |
Mexican paleontologist unearth the remains of a mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) in Milpa, Federal District (DF), Mexico
Picture: EPA/M. MARAT |
Afghanistan security forces investigate the site of a roadside bomb blast in Saidabad district of Wardak province
Picture: Rahmatullah Alizad/AFP/Getty Images |
A crowd gathered in Brixton outside the Ritzy Cinema to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher with one man climbing onto the roof to change the lettering of the film listings on the front
Picture: William Bloomfield / Rex Feature |
Swimmers take part in a training session prior to the start of the French swimming championships in Rennes, western France
Picture: DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images |
Ethnic Rohingya refugees from Burma wave as they are transported by boat to a temporary shelter in Krueng Raya in Aceh Besar
Picture: REUTERS/Junaidi Hanafiah |
A manta ray swims past the viewing window at Resort World Sentosa's aquarium in Singapore
Picture: ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images |
A man examines a pigeon with a magnifying glass at a pigeon market in Chongqing, China
Picture: REUTERS/China Daily
source: telegraph.co.uk |