Salt of the Earth
The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is one of the hottest and harshest environments on earth, with an average annual temperature of 34.4 degrees…
Posted by Reuters on 9:52 pm May 21, 2013
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Fighting Fit
The first batch of trainees enlisted with Libya’s “Thunderbolt” Special Forces unit graduated in Benghazi last week. Personnel rappeled down walls and showed…
Posted by Reuters on 9:56 pm May 20, 2013
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Barbie World
The life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse, Berlin’s latest tourist attraction, has attracted criticism from feminist groups who claim that it demeans modern women and provides…
Posted by AFP, EPA, Reuters on 5:00 pm May 19, 2013
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Short and Sweet
The ‘Dwarf Empire’ theme park in Yunnan, China, employs dwarves to create a show and bring to life fairy tale-like houses. The enterprise…
Posted by European Pressphoto Agency on 8:56 pm May 17, 2013
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Historic Flight
The US Navy made aviation history on Tuesday by catapulting an unmanned jet off an aircraft carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush, for…
Posted by Agence France-Presse on 8:01 pm May 16, 2013
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Gracious in Defeat
British entrepreneur Richard Branson shaved his legs and dressed up as a stewardess during an Air Asia flight from Australia to Malaysia on…
Posted by EPA, Reuters & AFP on 9:21 pm May 15, 2013
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Fowl Play
(Reuters Photo/Tyrone Siu) A deflated Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, with the island skyline…
Posted by Reuters on 3:34 pm May 15, 2013
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Drag Queens
Male models strutted their stuff at a drag walk casting contest in Berlin on Friday. The Friedrichstadt-Palast theater voted for 16 participants to…
Posted by Reuters on 9:18 pm May 14, 2013
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Russian Underworld
The underpasses of Moscow are full of diversity, both in terms of the people who pass through them and the services on offer.…
Posted by European Pressphoto Agency on 11:00 pm May 13, 2013
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