In our gallery we present strange pictures from around the world. From the falling buildings to meteor streaks past stars to toppling bull and a lot more. Check it out!
Residents pass a bag out of a window of their house, which was damaged by flash floods in Bogatynia. Flash floods triggered by days of heavy rain have killed at least six people, forced mass evacuations and cut off power to thousands in central Europe. Reuters
A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain, southern England. The Perseid meteor shower is sparked every August when the Earth passes through a stream of space debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle. Reuters
A bull falls on its back during a bullfight in the northern Spanish town of Gijon. Reuters
Members of Russia's team perform in the women's synchronized swimming team technical routine preliminaries at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest. Reuters
Christian Wurst of Germany dives from 25m (82 ft) on top of Roche Dam during the World Cup Cliff Diving Race in Bardonecchia, about 100km (65 miles) northwest from Turin, northern Italy.
Samuel Pizzetti of Italy is seen from underwater as he swims in the men's 1500m free heats at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest.
A drunk man passes a test set by a narcologist at a specialised joint police-medical sobering-up station in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Policemen took part in a search raid for drunk people to detain and deliver them to special drying-out cells where they can sober up.
Employees dressed in ghost costumes of the ghost house "Welcome to Scream Out" wait for customers in Taipei. The ghost house "Welcome to Scream Out" is from Japan and will be held in Taiwan from August 4 to September 9, 2010 to go with the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival. The Hungry Ghost Festival started on August 10 and ends on September 7 with traditional Chinese operas, puppet shows and concerts by believers to appease the roaming spirits.
A man gives food to a seagull at the beach in the Italian town of Stintino, northwest of Sardinia.
Researchers have found a primitive Earth mantle reservoir on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Geologist Matthew Jackson and his colleagues from a multi-institution collaboration report the finding--the first discovery of what may be a primitive Earth mantle. The Earth's mantle is a rocky, solid shell that is between the Earth's crust and the outer core, and makes up about 84 percent of the Earth's volume. Scientists had previously concluded that the Earth was slightly older than 4.5 billion years old, but had not found a piece of the Earth's primitive mantle.
A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years away in the northern constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy, known as NGC 4911, contains rich lanes of dust and gas near its center. These are silhouetted against glowing newborn star clusters and iridescent pink clouds of hydrogen, the existence of which indicates ongoing star formation. Hubble has also captured the outer spiral arms of NGC 4911, along with thousands of other galaxies of varying sizes. The high resolution of Hubble's cameras, paired with considerably long exposures, made it possible to observe these faint details. This natural-color Hubble image, which combines data obtained in 2006, 2007, and 2009 from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys, required 28 hours of exposure time.
Contestants for 'Sananda Tilottama 2010' pose inside a pool for photographs during the swim wear round, in Kolkata.
Contestants for 'Sananda Tilottama 2010' pose inside a pool for photographs during the swim wear round, in Kolkata.
Contestants for 'Sananda Tilottama 2010' pose inside a pool for photographs during the swim wear round, in Kolkata.
