World Pictures/Videos of the Day

Miragedriver said:

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A hippo yawns in the Chobe National Park in Mozambique
Picture: Renee Doyle/Solent News


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LOL my favorite animal! great picture, just let me tell you Chobe N. P. is in Botswana ... and hippos don't travel much so it's unlikely this individual went about 1000 km to be photographed

Jeff Head said:

Here's our tenth grandchild, Melina Christine Head. 8 lbs and 20 inches long. She was born on September 30th at 11:19 A.M. Joyous, Grateful, Happy, Humbled. Can't wait to see her in person at Christmas!

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What a cutie! You're a lucky man Jeff to have such a big and great family. God's blessings upon you my friend.

Youngsters play football on a floating football pitch in Koh Panyee, in Thailand's southern Phang Nga province
Picture: CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP/Getty Images



The Elf on the Shelf balloon floats down Sixth Avenue during the 88th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York
Picture: REUTERS/Andrew Kelly



Stuntmen perform on the eve of the sacrificial ceremony for the Gadhimai Mela festival in Bariyapur in Nepal
Picture: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar



Lava and clouds of smoke and gases are emitted from a volcano on the island of Fogo, near Cha das Caldeiras, Cape Verde
Picture: EPA/JOAO RELVAS



Volcanic smoke billows from Mount Aso, Kumamoto prefecture, on the southern Japanese main island of Kyushu. The volcano is blasting out chunks of magma in the first such eruption in 22 years, causing flight cancellations and prompting warnings to stay away from its crater.
Picture: AP Photo/Kyodo News



Two people take pictures of a Christmas tree at the Marlene-Dietrich-Platz in Berlin
Picture: REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke



47 Victoria's Secret models pose outside Victoria Secret's New Bond Street store in London, during a photocall to mark the countdown to the 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
Picture: Yui Mok/PA



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These guys got some mad skills right there.

A Konyak Naga tribesman in his traditional dress attends the Hornbill Festival at the Kisama heritage village in the outskirts of Kohima, Nagaland state, India
Picture: EPA



Gugulothu Lachiram performs yoga on a speeding motorbike in Telangana, India. Using just the bike for support, the 40-year-old takes the ancient Indian discipline to new levels as he runs through a series of complex poses - while only a slip away from disaster.
Picture: Barcroft India



Millions of red crabs on Christmas Island begin their migration to breed more of the fire-coloured creatures. A sea of red crawls across the Australian island from the forests to the Indian Ocean where the crustaceans will mate.
Picture: Gary Tindale/Mercury



A woman and her daughter pray after offering alms to Buddhist monks near a railway track in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Picture: Samrang Pring/Reuters



Evangeline Lilly attends the World Premiere of 'The Hobbit: The Battle OF The Five Armies' at Odeon Leicester Square
Picture: WireImage



Victoria's Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio has her hair and make-up done backstage prior the 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in London
Picture: 2014 Getty Images




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A grey squirrel collects leaves for his nest in a park in Caravaggio, Italy
Picture: Stefano Ronchi/Solent News



This little seal strikes his best pose for the camera, photographed at Donna Nook, located on the coast of Lincolnshire
Picture: Guido Muratore/HotSpot Media



Adrenaline junkie takes a selfie while paragliding with a tourist along the coast of Fethiye and Oludeniz in Turkey
Picture: HUSEYIN BURAL TAZER/MERCURY PRESS



A mannequin lies in the isolation unit of a modified Lufthansa plane equipped with medical facilities for Ebola cases during a media presentation at Tegel airport in Berlin, Germany
Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images



US model Lindsay Ellingson takes to the catwalk during the 2014 Victoria's Secret fashion show at the Exhibition Centre in Earls Court in central London
Picture: EPA/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA



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People drink tea at a roadside tea shop on a winter morning in the old quarters of Delhi.
Adnan Abidi/Reuters



Ants build a bridge with their bodies to reach food on a higher branch in Mataram, Indonesia



Frost settles over the village of Peştera, Romania



Southern Africa has some of the world’s richest waters. But debate swirls over how to sustain these seas and the fishing communities that depend on them. Here, a fur seal surfs Atlantic swells off Cape Town



In the wilds of Patagonia, cowboys called gauchos pit themselves against the meanest livestock on the planet. Here, gauchos pause in their search for cattle



A dense swarm of locusts obscures a view of fields in Madagascar. Most destructive in sustenance farming regions of Africa, locust swarms devastate crops and can cause major agricultural damage, as well as famine and starvation.


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Bright eyed and bushy tailed, a 12 week old buffy-headed capuchin monkey takes a ride on its mum's back at Chester Zoo. The monkeys are one of the world's rarest species of primates. Dr Nick Davis, assistant curator of mammals at Chester Zoo, said, "In the past they were abundant in the Atlantic rainforests of eastern Brazil, but sadly they're now on the verge of disappearing from the wild because of severe destruction to their habitat and intense hunting."
Picture: Hotspot



Britain's fattest cat Ulric with his owner Jan pose for a photo in their garden in Dorchester. Ulric has now got a doggy trainer to whip him into shape. Drill Sergeant Dennis the puppy has got Ulric running, boxing and wrestling in a bid to fight the flab after dieting failed. The nine-year-old Norwegian forest cat was declared morbidly obese by his vet last year when he tipped the scales at a whopping 2st 2lbs, the average weight of a three-year-old child and twice his normal weight.
Picture: LauraDale/BNPS



Kate Moss and Billy Kennedy are photographed during filming for the BBC Christmas drama and adaptation of David Walliams's book, The Boy In The Dress
Picture: BBC



An amazing cloud formation and weather system over Sydney, Australia
Picture: Graham Jepson



Fog spreads accross a field in the early morning on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Lahore
Picture: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images



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Such a beautiful site, must be pretty cold as well as those Gauchos were still wearing their coats.