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White tiger Olga plays with her four cubs Ika, Shiro, Aroon and Nao next to their father Ashka at the Zoo Pessac-Bordeaux in Pessac, France
Picture: MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP/Getty Images



The Duchess of Cambridge makes her first public appearance since becoming pregnant at the Royal Garden Hotel in London to greet Mary, the wife of the president of Singapore Tony Tan Keng Yam, on his State Visit to London
Picture: Anthony Devlin/PA



Students from St Andrews University are covered in foam as they take part in the traditional 'Raisin Weekend' at St Andrews in Scotland
Picture: REUTERS/Russell Cheyne



A hospital is shown being repeatedly struck by lightning in this ferocious electric storm. Lightning bolts illuminated the stormy skies above the Italian city of Trieste. The main hospital of the city, called Cattinara, was struck at least six times during the storm. Marko Korosec, from the village of Zirje, Slovenia, bravely followed the storm around the city - coming within just one kilometre of its electric bolts.
Picture: Marko Korosec/Solent News



The northern lights (Aurora borelias) over the city Tromso in northern Norway
Picture: EPA/JAN MORTEN BJOERNBAKK



Crossrail have announced that Crossrail's train tunnels in Docklands and southeast London are now structurally complete, following the breakthrough by tunnel machine Ellie at Victoria Dock Portal in east London.
Picture: EPA/JOHN ZAMMIT



Ram Singh Chauhan displays his 18ft long moustache in Ahmedabad. Ram is to be congratulated by the Gujarat Lok Kala Foundation for having the World's Longest Moustache, a feat which has been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Picture: SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images



Balinese people fly paper lanterns as they celebrate the inauguration of new Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Denpasar, on the resort island of Bali. Widodo, Indonesia's first leader without deep roots in the era of dictator Suharto, was sworn in as president on October 20 and immediately reached out to his political foes to seek support for his ambitious reform agenda.
Picture: SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP/Getty Images



A model prepares backstage before the ANREALAGE SS/15 show in Paris
Picture: Ian Gavan/Getty Images



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Aurora borelias outside the city Tromso in Northern Norway
Picture: Jan Morten Bjoernbakk/EPA



Still from a video filmed from the back of an eagle as it soars over Paris after taking off from the Eiffel tower. In a world's first, a white-tailed eagle soared from the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and flew over the Seine down into the Trocadero Gardens with a camera mounted on its back.
Picture: Sony/SWNS



Moroccan horsemen perform during the 7th edition of the 'Salon du Cheval' in the port city of El Jadida, Morocco
Picture: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images



As storm force winds batter the Derbyshire Peak District, near Hayfield, the river Kinder stopped in its tracks as it is blown back up onto Kinder Scout Plateau at the point where it would normally cascade 80ft down Kinder Downfall.
Picture: Rod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press



Bayern Munich's supporters cheer during their Champions League football match against AS Roma at the Olympic stadium in Rome
Picture: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters



A ship of the Ice International Patrol. Almost 40 experts of eleven countries get together during this week in Punta Arenas, Chile, to assess the behaviour of icebergs in the Antartic waters, as part of the XV Meeting of Sea Ice Letters Work.
Picture: Chilean Navy/EPA



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Beautiful pictures!

t2contra said:

Beautiful pictures!

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Thank you Contra!

Wildlife photographer captured candid footage of lions in the wild in Kenya as part of a project called LionCam, where he attached a camera to a camouflaged buggy, which he used film the lions without getting hurt.The camera was sent into the area where the lions were and controlled remotely, producing this intriguing footage where the lions act just like big cats and enjoy playing with the LionCam.
Picture: STEVE MANDEL / CATERS NEWS



A photographic notebook from Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition has been found after a century trapped in the ice of the frozen continent, New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust said. It belonged to scientist George Murray Levick and was discovered outside Scott's 1911 Terra Nova base during last year's summer ice melt. The pages of the notebook were taken to New Zealand and individually restored, then given new binding and returned to Antarctica, where the trust is working to preserve five sites used by explorers Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Edmund Hillary.
Picture: AFP/Antarctic Heritage Trust



Onboard Team Alvimedica on day 10 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 as the fleet take on the notoriously challenging Doldrums, an area of volatile and unpredictable weather during Leg 1 between Alicante, Spain and Cape Town, South Africa.
Picture: Amory Ross/Team Alvimedica/Volvo Ocean Race via Getty Images



The moon illuminates the snow-covered Concordia, the confluence of the Baltoro and Godwin-Austen glaciers, near the world's second highest mountain the K2 (8,000 meters) in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan
Picture: REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay



A cheeky squirrel stretches up behind the viewfinder of a camera - seemingly preparing to take its own amateur photo. Balancing on her toes and placing her arms on the device, she tries to peer over the top of her new found treasure. The camera belonged to Hendri Venter - who had ironically been trying to photograph squirrels in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, in South Africa.
Picture: Hendri Venter/Solent News & Photo Agency



A photograph taken by Florida-based photographer Adam Opris of an expectant mother underwater.
Picture: Adam Opris/Wenn



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Wow Miragedriver! OUTSTANDING selection of photos..OUTSTANDING!!!

bd popeye said:

Wow Miragedriver! OUTSTANDING selection of photos..OUTSTANDING!!!

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Thank you very much Popeye. I took your Chinese Daily Photos as my example…

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Thai monks prepare to release paper lanterns at the Lanna Dhutanka Temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Lanna Kathina ceremony takes place around the Loy Krathong and Yi Peng holidays each year and marks the end of Buddhist lent when monks are offered new robes.
Picture: Taylor Weidman/Getty Images



An activist from the Ukrainian Internet Party dressed as Darth Vader shows his passport at a polling station in Kiev during Ukraine's parliamentary elections
Picture: SERGEI GAPON/AFP/Getty Images



Peruvians gathered in Madrid, Spain, to take part in the religious procession to celebrate the Lord of Miracles (Senor de los Milagros) the patron saint of most Catholic Peruvians
Picture: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki



Uruguay's President Jose Mujica arrives at a polling station in his Volkswagen Beetle to cast his vote in the general elections, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Mujica led Uruguay through economic prosperity and gained worldwide acclaim for social reforms such as the legalization of marijuana and gay marriage. His left-leaning Broad Front coalition leads in the election to replace him, but victory in the first round is far from certain.
Picture: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko



Brazil's President and Workers Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff, shows her electronic voting receipt that confirms she voted in the presidential runoff election as she drinks mate tea in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Picture: AP Photo/Felipe Dana



A man dressed as a woman, carries a pig's head on a tray balanced on his head during the celebration of Torovenado, in honour of Masaya's patron saint, San Jeronimo, in Masaya, Nicaragua
Picture: AP Photo/Esteban Felix



A break in the clouds reveals a partial solar eclipse behind the University of Notre Dame's Basilica of the Sacred Heart in South Bend, Indiana...
Picture: AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Robert Franklin



Dancers attend a dress rehearsal for the new grand show The Wyld at Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin
Picture: REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke




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When it comes to fat cats, this monster moggie from northern Russia certainly looks like the one that got all the cream. The purr-fectly named Maximus from Petrozavodsk is half Maine Coon and half Siberian cat is just five years old but tips the scales at more than 10 kilos. Owners Leon and Eugenia Korovin bought the freak feline as a wedding present to each other in 2009.
Picture: Europics



Cambodians give offerings to Buddhist monks during a ceremony outside the Royal palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Picture: EPA/MAK REMISSA



Vets clean the teeth of Tango, an eleven-year-old male jaguar, as it undergoes a full medical examination at Buenos Aires Zoo. Argentina's rare jaguar was added to Buenos Aires Zoo's DNA bank on Monday as conservationists step up efforts to save the big cat species that is on the brink of extinction.
Picture: REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian



Salmon attempt to leap up the fish ladder on the River Etterick in Selkirk, Scotland. The salmon are returning upstream from the sea where they have spent between two and four winters feeding with many covering huge distances to return to the fresh waters to spawn.
Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images



Musicians ride through San Isidro cemetery in Mexico City. As part of Mexico's tradition of honouring and celebrating the dead, families will often hire graveside musicians to play during funerals and anniversaries.
Picture: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell



A camel herder walks his camels at Pushkar Fair in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan. Thousands of animals, mainly camels, are brought to the fair to be sold and traded.
Picture: REUTERS/Himanshu Sharma



A model shows a creation during MGPIN 2015 Mao Geping makeup trend launch during China Fashion Week in Beijing
Picture: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon



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