World Pictures/Videos of the Day

Some pics from the SW Idaho area today. Crystal clear...and cold.


Enjoy!

当地时间11月16日，瑞士南部提契诺州降雨不断，造成卢加诺湖数处决堤，该地区主要交通干道已经封闭，部分地方的居民被紧急疏散。一农场遭洪水围困成“孤岛”。

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Heavy rainfall in Southern Switzerland causes flooding. A farm is surrounded by flood and become an island.

SteelBird said:

Heavy rainfall in Southern Switzerland causes flooding. A farm is surrounded by flood and become an island.

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THAT, is simply an excellent and amazing picture.

With the cloud reflection on the water...it looks like the farm is literally floating in the cluds!

Sundown near Emmett, ID, November 17, 2014. Record November cold, temperature in single digits farenheit when taken, ended up -6 degress farenheit that night.

A polar bear cub gets tangled in an old fishing net on the frozen wastes of Kaktovik, Alaska. The bear began playing with the tackle after noticing it floating near the waters edge. The mammal spent over half an hour trying to escape from the rope while its mum took a nap nearby.
Picture: MICHAEL STERN/CATERS NEWS



Two Bengal tigers play in their enclosure at Shanghai Zoo, China
Picture: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images



Indian women hold latrines as they participate in the opening ceremony of the three-day International Toilet Festival in New Delhi on the eve of World Toilet Day. UNICEF estimates that almost 594 million, or nearly 50 percent of India's population, defecate in the open, with the situation acute in poor rural areas. Some 300 million women and girls are forced to squat outside, normally under the cover of darkness, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also harassment and assault by men.
Picture: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images



Fans of Croatia during the EURO 2016 Group H Qualifier match between Italy and Croatia at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan, Italy
Picture: Claudio Villa/Getty Images



I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

Miragedriver said:

Fans of Croatia during the EURO 2016 Group H Qualifier match between Italy and Croatia at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan, Italy

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Qualifying for EURO 2016 already?

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Qualifying for EURO 2016 already?

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The qualifying competition for UEFA Euro 2016 is a football competition played from September 2014 to November 2015 to determine the 23 teams to join France, who qualify automatically as hosts of UEFA Euro 2016.

There are many of us that are having Futbol withdrawal.



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Jeff Head said:

Qualifying for EURO 2016 already?

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FIFA is very busy. Consider they have to arrange many games between the international Cups and the clubs' Cups. Those international players play both for their nations and clubs. If the national games play, the clubs' have to be on hold and vice versa. So after World Cup finishes, they start qualifying Euro, and once Euro finishes, the World Cup's qualifying will also start. Their schedules are just too tight! When will China be qualified for World Cup again?

A close up shot of an orange spider wasp taken in the home of macro photographer Yudy Sauw, who lives in Tangerang, Indonesia
Picture: Yudy Sauw/Solent News



A motorist got a shock when he went to get his car after a bout of shelling in the Libyan city of Benghazi, and found this live mortar shell wedged in the bodywork
Picture: Europics



A man fishes from his boat on the Yenisei River in the Siberian Taiga district with the air temperature around minus 17 degrees Celsius (minus 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit), outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
Picture: REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin



Children pose for photographs as they climb on top of a sculpture in the form of a giant pair of spectacles on Cape Town's Sea Point Promenade
Picture: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings



An Ultra-orthodox Jewish man puts his head in his hands, inside a synagogue that was attacked by two Palestinians in the ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighbourhood in Jerusalem. Two Palestinians armed with a gun and meat cleavers burst into a Jerusalem synagogue and killed four Israelis before being shot dead in the bloodiest attack in the city in years.
Picture: JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images



Indian soldiers take part in a demonstration of fire breathing at the start of Operation Hand in Hand - a joint training exercise between Indian and Chinese troops - at Aundh Military Camp in Pune. The ten day exercise with the Asian neighbours in the western Indian state of Maharashtra is set to focus on sharing strategic knowhow in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations.
Picture: AFP/Getty Images



Policemen use their shields to protect themselves from dust clouds stirred up by a landing helicopter, after taking part in an operation to eradicate illegal gold mining camps in the area known as La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region
Picture: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd



Emirati men gather in a traditional cafe erected at the International Hunting and Equestrian exhibition in Abu Dhabi
Picture: KARIM SAHIB/AFP



I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

Dragon sculpture the ice sculptures as the Magical Ice Kingdom, part of Winted Wonderland, is launched at Hyde Park in London
Picture: Paul Grover/The Telegraph



A man dressed as Santa Claus rides a wave with a stand up paddle (SUP) in Varazze, northern Italy, as the bad weather created good surfing conditions in Mediterranean sea
Picture: Olivier Morino/AFP/Getty Images



All children can be a bit of a handful at times and these young cheetahs are no different as their boisterous antics left mum ducking for cover. Captured leap frogging high into the air, the surprised mother cheetah was forced to move out of the way after the pairs play fight became a little too rough. After watching her offspring from a distance, the mother-of-two decided to approach the pair to put and end to their rough and tumble. But instead of calming them down, the cheetah ended up strolling into the middle of the mischief, forcing her to leap out of the way.
Picture: Andrew Schoeman/Caters



A company has created a futuristic electric speedboat that allows passengers to fly across water. The Quadrofoil is like an aquatic sports car, with its C-shaped hydrofoils lifting the craft above the water, giving passengers a flying sensation. The electric vehicle features a top speed of 25mph and allows users to travel up to 62 miles on a single charge. Simon Pivec, director of research and development at Quadrofoil, said the focus was to create an interesting, eco-friendly electric boat.
Picture: QUADROFOIL / CATERS NEWS



A bizarre ball of flame has been caught on camera flashing across the sky in remote Siberia. The extraordinary yellow flash can be seen blanketing the heavens over a road near Yekaterinburg - around 1,000 miles east of Moscow. So far Russian emergency services have refused to comment on the cause of the blast which was captured by a motorist's dashcam video.
Picture: VYACHESLAV BULATOV-THE SIBERIAN TIMES / CATERS NEWS



A blue heron walks along the beach at sunset in Orange Beach, Alabama
Picture: AP Photo/Brynn Anderson



Ballet dancers perform on stage during the Mikhailovsky Ballet of St. Petersburg's 'Class Concert' dress rehearsal at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City
Picture: Andrew Toth/Getty Images



I will now get back to bottling my Malbec