World Pictures/Videos of the Day

To my fellow SD brothers: (you all know who you are):

If Popeye has indeed truly left us we need to carry on in his name. Not only bring a quality of posting, but uplifting subject material. Additionally we need to be vigilant of forum infractions and report them to the appropriate moderator.

Who will stand with me in this endeavor to help maintain the quality of this forum?



The bottling of Malbec will stop until Popeye returns

A sheep has been rescued by a skier after tumbling down a mountain. Pete Oswald, 29, skied and carried the injured animal to safety down Hector Mountain on New Zealand's South Island.
Picture: INCOGNITO MEIDA/ CATERS NEWS



A Swiss man alerted authorities in Pratteln in northern Switzerland to a donkey stuck down a drain. Urs Meyer spotted the animal with its head sticking out of the hole in the ground while walking his dog. Firemen who tried to rescue the animal found it was well and truly wedged tight and in the end it took more than an hour to pull the exhausted donkey free.
Picture: AP Photo/Keystone, Police Basel Landschaft



A fallstreak hole forms in the sky over Wonthaggi, Australia. A fallstreak hole is a circular gap that appears in high clouds when a section of the cloud freezes. The ice crystals are heavy, so they fall out of the cloud, leaving a hole. It is a relatively rare phenomenon.
Picture: AP Photo/Leesa Willmott



A murmuration of starlings migrate from northern Europe to spend the winter in Rome
Picture: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images



A car crushed by a tree after it was blown over in a freak storm that hit the Villa del Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires
Picture: SANTIAGO PANDOLFI/AFP/Getty Images



Daredevil Nik Wallenda wowed the world on Sunday November 2 when he crossed between two Chicago skyscrapers blindfolded and without a harness.
Picture: Charles Rex Arbogast/



In honor of Popeye bottling has stopped for the week and labels are at half mast

Los Angeles Zoo's female hippopotamus named Mara stands beside her newborn calf (nameless at the moment) in their compound. Mara went into labour on October 31 and gave birth to the healthy calf two and a half hours later.
Picture: MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images



New extreme sport called gravity biking is helping disabled action lovers get their adrenaline fix. The sport - which started in the US, but has now landed in the UK - sees participants hurtle downhill in specially designed four-wheel mountain bikes. They are powered solely by gravity, meaning paraplegic and disabled riders can compete against able bodied competitors.
Picture: Caters



The Prince of Wales joins traditional dancers during a visit to the Central Plaza in Campeche, Mexico, on the eighth day of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall's tour to Colombia and Mexico
Picture: Anthony Devlin/PA



Farmers in Paris have dumped tonnes of potatoes in Republique Square in the centre of the city to protest against environmental restrictions and weak market conditions marked by a Russian food embargo
Picture: REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer



Onboard Volvo Ocean Race yacht Team Alvimedica on day 24. With just 650 miles to Cape Town, the sailing slows considerably as a high-pressure system moves in from the west.
Picture: Amory Ross/Team Alvimedica/Volvo Ocean Race via Getty Images



The Australian Ballet presents the Sydney premiere of Stanton Welch's La Bayadere at the Sydney Opera House. The Bollywood infused re-imaging of the 19th century classic, set in a romanticised vision of India, tells the tale of temple dancer Nikiya who falls in love with the warrior Solor and traces their fight for love.
Picture: SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images



A model presents a creation by Reinaldo Lourenco during the 2015 Winter collection of the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Picture: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images



In honor of Popeye bottling has stopped for the week and labels are at half mast

Miragedriver said:

New extreme sport called gravity biking is helping disabled action lovers get their adrenaline fix. The sport - which started in the US, but has now landed in the UK - sees participants hurtle downhill in specially designed four-wheel mountain bikes. They are powered solely by gravity, meaning paraplegic and disabled riders can compete against able bodied competitors.
Picture: Caters

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Heck, what's there to lose?

Protesters hold up their Guy Fawkes masks on the Liberty Bridge during a demonstration by supporters of the Anonymous movement as part of the global Million Mask March protests in Budapest
Picture: REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo



Two bulls lock horns during a bullfight in the eastern emirate of Fujairah. There are no matadors or picadors, but bulls locking horns with each other draw big crowds to bullfights in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). An hour's drive from the dancing water fountains of Dubai's glitzy downtown, hundreds of fans gather in Fujairah to watch bulls fighting, or perhaps more accurately head butting, with honour rather than money at stake.
Picture: REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah



This brave damselfly had a lucky escape after he landed on a snake's head. The red-tipped shadefly damselfly boldly touched down for a break on the painted bronzeback snake. A few seconds later, it proved it was too quick for the sleepy reptile and flew off again safely.
Picture: Adhi Prayoga/Solent News



A five-week-old orphaned southern sea otter pup rests on a rubber mat after arriving at the Shedd Aquarium's Abbott Oceanarium in Chicago, Illinois. The stranded pup was found on September 30 on Coastways Beach in California and was rescued the next day to be brought back to health at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Picture: Shedd Aquarium/Brenna Hernandez/Reuters



A female giant wood spider is seen mating with a tiny male at Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in Jorhat district in Assam, India.A female giant wood spider scientifically known as Nephila pilipes is a species of golden orb-web spider. It is commonly found in primary and secondary forests and gardens. Females are large and grow to a body size of 30 to 50 mm (overall size up to 20 cm), with males growing to 5 to 6 mm. It is one of the biggest spiders in the world.
Picture: Luit Chaliha / Barcroft India



Models display creations by Barli Asmara during the Jakarta Fashion Week 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia
Picture: AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim



Rowers gather at the start of a boat race near the Royal Palace during the annual Water Festival on the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Picture: REUTERS/Samrang Pring



Wind turbines penetrate the dense fog covering the local area around the outskirts of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Picture: AP Photo/Sergei Grits



Spanish matador Jose Tomas is gored by a bull during a bullfight at the bullring in Granada
Picture: GOGO LOBATO/AFP/Getty Images



In honor of Popeye bottling has stopped for the week and labels are at half mast

OLE!

In Texas we call it..."if you mess with the bull, you get the horns". Obviously this was not a good day for this matador.

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OLE!

In Texas we call it..."if you mess with the bull, you get the horns". Obviously this was not a good day for this matador.

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Your right! The faces on the matador and the spectators says it all….OUCH!

Miragedriver said:

Spanish matador Jose Tomas is gored by a bull during a bullfight at the bullring in Granada
Picture: GOGO LOBATO/AFP/Getty Images

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Mirage,

I understand bull fighting is banned in Argentina. It only takes political will.

No date, no caption, just a photo to enjoy with.