The Plastiki, a boat made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles sails on Sydney Harbor Monday, July 26, 2010, four months after it set out from San Francisco on a journey across the Pacific Ocean meant to raise awareness about the perils of plastic waste. AP Photo
India on Monday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed interceptor, capable of destroying incoming hostile ballistic missiles, off the Integrated Test Range on Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast, a report said. Aimed at developing a full-fledged multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, the trial was carried out from two launch sites of ITR off the Orissa coast, defence sources said. AFP
Members of the Turkish dance group Fire of Anatolia perform in Manama, Bahrain, as part of the summer culture festival. (AP)
Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, arrested by the CBI in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, filed a bail application in the court of special CBI judge who will hear it on August 2. "We have filed bail application (of Amit Shah) in the special court," his lawyer Nirupam Nanavati said. According to the police chargesheet, it was Shah who had entrusted the task of eliminating Sheikh, an alleged gangster, to Vanzara, Pandia and Chudasama.
After Super Jumbo making a grand appearance, Delhi's Terminal 3 will begin full-scale commercial operations starting Wednesday ie July 28. DIAL authorities had pushed back the operation date of T3 by 14 days to provide more time to all stakeholders to deal with any glitches, including setting up of airline offices, synchronising security procedures, baggage handling and the whole range of airport operations.
Herve Filleul, left, a Belgian Maitre Chocolatier, works on a dress made from chocolate modelled by Yvonne Chiwara, in Harare. Filleul who makes one hundred percent chocolate creations, has been teaching baking, confectionary, ice cream and chocolate making for eleven years and has created 150 chocolate dresses in the last few years.
German prosecutors have begun investigating the circumstances that led to the deaths of at least 19 people and injuries to hundreds at Saturday's Love Parade music festival, officials said. The deaths occurred as thousands of people pressed into an access tunnel for the event, which attracted 1.4 million visitors. Panic broke out as the tunnel was overfilled, and the
victims were crushed and trampled to death. The Love Parade is a massive techno music event that was founded in Berlin in 1989. In recent years it has grown to the extent where Berlin was no longer willing to host it, out of security and cost grounds
A Kashmiri Muslim woman scuffles with an Indian policeman during a protest in Srinagar on Monday. The death of a man in police custody in Kashmir has sparked fresh tensions in the disputed region where security forces have struggled to contain weeks of protests and unrest. After a normal day on Sunday, Kashmir valley again witnessed security restriction, curfew, barricades and protests on Monday in the wake of separatists' call for complete shutdown and demonstrations as part of their "Quit Kashmir Campaign"
Bodies of dead Maoist rebels lie in the Motera jungle near Lalgarh, some 130 km west of Kolkata, on Monday following a night-long encounter with security forces. Six Maoist activist including Sidhu Soren, the chief of Sidhu-Kanhu Gana Militia and secretary of the Maoist-based People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), were killed in the encounter, local media reported.
Armed forces personnel march at India Gate prior to a tribute ceremony to commemorate eleven years since the victory of the Kargil war in New Delhi on Monday. Eleven years ago on July 26, 1999 officers and jawans of the Indian armed forces successfully reclaimed Indian land on the icy slopes of Kargil from Pakistani infiltrators. More than 520 Indian soldiers sacrificed their lives during one of the toughest wars fought against Pakistan at Kargil, Drass and Batalik sectors of Jammu and Kashmir state.
This handout picture released by the Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona on Mondayshows Oscar before (L) and after (R) undergoing a face transplant. Oscar underwent a face transplant in March 2010 after been disfigured in an accident.
An Australian tourist takes picture of skulls displayed at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial near Phnom Penh on Monday. A former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was handed a 30-year prison sentence on July 26, by a UN-backed war crimes court for his role in atrocities committed under the regime in the late 1970s.
A slipper belonging to a Myanmar Pro-democracy activist is seen over a caricature of Myanmar leader senior general Than Shwe during a protest in New Delhi on Monday. Than Shwe is on an official visit to India until July 29, where he will meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on military co-operation and bilateral trade deals that are expected to be signed during the five-day visit.
This photograph taken on July 26, 2010 in Kaufbeuren, southern Germany, shows a magnifying glass held in front of a computer screen, displaying an Afghan War Diary on the Wikileaks website. Germany, the third-largest contributor of troops to Afghanistan, criticised on July 26 the leaking of thousands of secret military files on the war but said that they appeared to reveal nothing new.
