Day in pictures
Afghan people who wounded in a blast lay in a hospital in Khost Province of eastern Afhganistan, on June 22, 2009. Twin suicide bombings shocked Khost province on Monday, leaving seven people dead and some forty others injured.
Day in pictures: Jun. 23
A visitor takes photo of a pottery created by the artistic master Bao Zhiqiang in the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, China, June 20, 2009. An exhibition of Yixing ceramics was held in the National Art Museum of China in Beijing on Saturday, where over 200 pieces of ceramic artworks designed by Chinese ceramic masters were displayed. Yixing is famous for its ceramics.
Day in pictures: Jun. 22
Photo taken on June 18, 2009, shows an animal trainer in the Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo, Japan, wears sunglasses for the sea lion Luke to prepare for observing the solar eclipse next month. [Xinhua/AFP]
Day in pictures: Jun. 19
Actress Shu Qi (R) and director Feng Xiaogang attend the opening ceremony of the first Cross-Straits Film Show in Taipei of southeast China's Taiwan, June 17, 2009. Movie 'If You Are the One' by Feng Xiaogang was the first to be projected in the film show of movies from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. [Xinhua]
Day in pictures: Jun. 18
Sculptures named 'Octopus Man and 'Venus' at an exhibition for graduates of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, capital of southeast China's Zhejiang Province, June 16, 2009. More than 100 sculptures and art installations designed by 66 students were exhibited here. [Xinhua]
Day in pictures: Jun. 17
Sightseers view the spectacular torrential Hukou (Kettle Mouth) Waterfall on the Yellow River in Yichuan, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, June 14, 2009. [Xinhua]
Day in pictures: Jun. 16
12th Shanghai International Film Festival opens in Shanghai, east China, June 13, 2009. Over 300 actors from home and abroad arrived for the Shanghai International Film Festival on Saturday.[Xinhua]
Day in pictures: Jun. 15
School boys wears masks as their parents drive them back home from a private school in Bangkok June 11, 2009. A Bangkok school will be partially closed from Thursday for three days after an 11-year-old boy came down with H1N1 flu in the second known case of local infection. Thirteen of his classmates have also developed fevers, local newspapers reported. [Xinhua/Reuters]
Day in pictures: Jun. 12
Commuters crowd for buses outside the Green Park tube station in London, June 10, 2009. Members of Britain's National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) started a 48-hour strike at 7:00 p.m. local time (1800 GMT) on Tuesday after failed talks concerning disputes over pay, jobs and disciplinary issues, causing rush-hour chaos.[CFP]
Day in pictures: Jun. 11
The hyena shows plucks one unlucky bird straight from the air as it desperately tries to take flight.[gb.cri.cn]
Day in pictures: Jun. 10
A local artist shows his sand carving in Copacabana, a well-known coast in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 7, 2009. Artists from Brazil gathered in the coast of Copacabana to present sand carvings to visitors.[Xinhua]
Day in pictures: Jun. 9
A model presents a creation by Dominican designer Iris Guaba during the Republica Dominicana Fashion Week 2009 in Santo Domingo June 5, 2009. [Xinhua/Reuters]
Day in pictures: Jun. 8
Farmers work in terraced fields in Longsheng County of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 4, 2009. While entering the ploughing season, more and more tourists come to visit the terrace with an over 700 years' history. The number of tourists exceeded 50,000 from January to May in 2009.
Day in pictures: Jun. 5
New Zealand artist Francis Upritchard (C) poses with members of traditional Maori group 'Waka Huia' in San Marco square, as part of the opening of the New Zealand pavilion at the Venice Biennale June 3, 2009. The Biennale, one of the world's major art festivals traditionally held every two years dating back to 1895, is open to the public June 7 - November 22, 2009.
Day in pictures: Jun. 4
The Blue Impulse aerobatics team of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force performs over Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, June 2, 2009. The aerobatics show was put on to celebrate the 150th port-opening anniversary of Yokohama.
Day in pictures: Jun. 3
Panamanian women wearing traditional clothes attend the closing ceremony of a national handicrafts fair in Panama City, May 31, 2009. The five-day handicrafts fair lowered the curtain on Sunday. [Xinhua]
Day in pictures: Jun. 2
Day in pictures: Jun. 1
Music producer Phil Spector (L) sits in court with his attorney Dennis Riordan at the Los Angeles Superior Court, during his sentencing for the February 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson May 29, 2009. Spector was given a sentence of 19 years to life in prison on Friday for the murder of the Hollywood actress in 2003.
Day in pictures: May 31
Day in pictures: May 30
The artificial photo shows night effect of the space pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai, east China.
Day in pictures: May 27
Wu Poh-hsiung (2nd R, Back), Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman, poses with performers of Beijing opera while visiting the Huguang Guildhall in Beijing, capital of China, on May 25, 2009. A KMT delegation headed by Wu arrived in Beijing on Monday for an visit on the mainland.
Day in pictures: May 26
Doctors treat a bomb blast victim at a hospital in Kathmandu May 23, 2009. Two persons were killed and around dozen others injured when a bomb went off at the Church of Assumption in Lalitpur, south of Nepali capital Kathmandu on Saturday morning, the police said.
Day in pictures: May 25
Hungry: Nightclubbers enjoy fast food amid mounds of rubbish after a night on the town. As a seasoned traveller, Maciej Dakowicz was keen to get a few snaps of local life during his stay in Britain. His resulting picture album, however, could do with an X certificate. Taken over a series of Friday and Saturday nights on the streets of Cardiff, the Polish student's images provide a shocking insight into alcohol-fuelled debauchery in the Welsh capital. [Chinanews]
Day in pictures: May 22
Shakhtar Donetsk captain Darijo Srna and team mates celebrate with the trophy after defeating Werder Bremen in the UEFA Cup final soccer match at Sukru Saracoglu stadium in Istanbul May 20, 2009. [Xinhua/Reuters]
Day in pictures: May 21
Dr. Jorn Hurum of the Museum of Natural History and the University of Oslo speaks next to a slide of a 47 million year old primate fossil known as 'Ida' at the Museum of Natural History May 19, 2009, during a news conference where the find was unveiled. [China Daily/Agencies]
Day in pictures: May 20
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