Pictures of the day: 22 March 2013
Bengal tiger "Mulan Jamila" plays with keeper Soleh at Al Khaffah Islamic school in Malang, Indonesia's East Java province. The tiger is kept as a pet at the school under a government permit, according to the school. Soleh has fed the tiger 5 kg (11 lbs) of meat per day since the animal was three months old.
Picture: REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas |
Wildlife photographer Daniel Heuclin's close-up photograph of the eye of a chameleon
Picture: Daniel Heuclin/Photoshot/Solent |
Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews's photo of a fearsome Komodo dragon seeming to balance on two feet
Picture: BRIAN MATTHEWS /CATERS NEWS |
Farmer Bob King picks up two newborn lambs that were born this morning at his farm in the Wiltshire village of Edington near Westbury
Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images |
US President Barack Obama lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II in Jerusalem, Israel
Picture: EPA/Uriel Sinai |
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given US President Barack Obama this 2,000-year-old stone from Jerusalem, which is embedded with a gold-coated silicon chip. The chip, placed in the middle of the sacred stone, is engraved with the American and Israeli declarations of independence, side by side on the tiny area of just 0.04 square millimeters.
Picture: Technion/ Splash News |
A couple walk through the snow-covered streets in Buxton, Derbyshire as winter
refuses to release its icy grip. If you have a photograph of the wintry
weather where you are please email it to: mypic AT telegraph.co.uk
Picture: ANDREW YATES/AFP/Getty Images |
Amateur solar-photographer Dave Tyler took this photograph of solar flares in his back garden near High Wycombe, Bucks. He used a refracting telescope equipped with a hydrogen alpha filter to capture these incredible shots from 93 million miles away.
Picture: David Tyler / Barcroft Media |
Matchstick Men by German artist Wolfgang Stiller
Picture: Exclusivepix |
A gallery employee positions a pair of shoes named 'Cow girl' by German designer Iris Schieferstein during the setting up of the experimental shoe design exhibition 'Stepping into the limelight' in Leipzig
Picture: AP Photo/Jens Meyer |
A scientist wearing an Aouda Mars space suit stands next to the MAGMA Whiterover during sunset in the desert of Morocco. A small field crew from the Austrian Space Forum conducted experiments in preparation for future missions to Mars.
Picture: REUTERS/OeWF/Katja Zanella-Kux |
A still taken from the four-minute video entitled "A Short, Three-Day War". North Korea posted a new propaganda video on March 22, showing paratroopers descending on Seoul in a three-day invasion scenario which would see 150,000 US citizens living in South Korea taken hostage
Picture: Uriminzokkiri.com/AFP/Getty Images |
Indian Hindus throw coloured water at the Radha Rani temple during the Lathmar Holi festival in Barsana
Picture: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images |
A Hindu devotee looks through a cloud of coloured powder inside a temple during the festival of Lathmar Holi in the village of Barsana in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
Picture: REUTERS/Vivek Prakash |
Robert Davies is the brave guinea pig who tested one of two new zip wires in Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda, North Wales. The larger zip wire will be 700ft above the ground and one mile long.
Picture: Geoff Pugh |
Busker Will Soto walks a tightrope at the sunset celebration in Key West, Florida
Picture: Reuters |
Rugby fans watch a match during the first day of the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament in Hong Kong. The annual three-day international sporting event attracts fans from around the world, creating a carnival atmosphere.
Picture: REUTERS/Bobby Yip |
A man stands in front of a painting by American artist John Kacere entitled "Serina '72" (1972) during the exhibition "Hyperrealism 1967-2012" at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid
Picture: PEDRO ARMESTRE/AFP/Getty Images |
A white tiger cub growls for the camera at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina. The cub's mother, Cleo, a captive Bengal white tiger, gave birth to two females and two males on January 14
Picture: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko |
Adela Cabrera, 19, poses for a picture on a horse at Agua Dulce beach in Lima, Peru
Picture: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd |
Agua Dulce beach, in Lima, Peru. While Lima's elite spends its summer weekends in gate beach enclaves south of the Peruvian capital, the working class jams by the thousands on a single municipal beach of grayish-brown sands and gentle waves. The only barrier to entry to Agua Dulce beach is two dollars, the price of bus fare to get there and home.
Picture: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd |
Greenpeace activists hang a banner saying 'Obama Stop Arctic drilling' on the cables of Jerusalem's Chords Bridge in Jerusalem, Israel
Picture: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images |
Cars drive through a tunnel of blooming cherry blossoms in Tokyo
Picture: AP Photo/Koji Sasahara |
The new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby arrives for his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral, in Canterbury
Picture: REUTERS/Dominic Lipinski |
A dance troupe performs in front Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall after The Most Rev Justin Welby was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury at Canterbury Cathedral
Picture: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images |
A model presents a creation at the 2nd Salon du Chocolat (Zurich Chocolate Show) in Zurich
Picture: REUTERS/Michael Buholzer |
Unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in central Burma has reduced neighbourhoods to ashes and stoked fears that last year's sectarian bloodshed is spreading into the country's heartland
Picture: REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
source: telegraph.co.uk |