World Pictures/Videos of the Day

Even after 25 Years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, you can still see the divisions of East and West Germany. Credits: Chris Hadfield.

A young male elephant seal relaxes on Macquarie Island in Tasmania, Australia, surrounded by a colourful colony of breeding king penguins. The seals and penguins share the picturesque island but usually reside on opposite ends - until this curious pup set out to prove he was the real king of the beach.
Picture: Gunther Riehle/Solent News



A brave climber trys to keep his cool while scaling a 300 foot frozen waterfall. Clinging to the slippery surface climbers Larry Shiu and Jonathan Fox know that one wrong move could be the difference between life or death on the Rainbow Serpent in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta.
Picture: JOHN PRICE / CATERS NEWS



Evening light on Durdle Door, Jurassic Coast, Dorset which won the Youth Classic View category in this year's Take A View Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards
Picture: Jake Pike/Take A View



People watch fireworks during the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
Picture: ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images



Crowds gather to see the illuminations near Boesebruecke bridge in Bornholmer Strasse, where 25 years ago thousands of East Germans first crossed unimpeded though a gate of the Berlin Wall into West Berlin
Picture: Carsten Koall/Getty Images



A young white tiger plays with his mother in their enclosure at the Attica Zoological Park in Spata, east of Athens. White tigers have not been seen in the wild since 1958 and now exist only in zoos.
Picture: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images



A model T.Rex dinosaur stands in the crowd during the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards at the the SSE Hydro in Glasgow
Picture: Danny Lawson/PA



Now you know why it’s called “football”. Seville's Carlos Bacca receives a boot in the face as he is challenged by Levante's David Navarro during their Spanish First Division football match at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville
Picture: REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo



A competitor takes part in the Red Bull Slackline event in Buenos Aires
Picture: Gustavo Cherro/Red Bull/SIPA/REX



Sunset seen from Sillustani, a pre-Inca burial ground on the shores of Lake Umayo near Puno, Peru
Picture: REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil



Anastasia Vasilenko of Russia takes part in the Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships in Lomianki near Warsaw
Picture: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel




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Competitors taking part in the feet only competition at the UK Rubik's Cube Championships. The competitors from around the country compete for the fastest time to solve a Rubik's cube using only their feet - the fastest winning time was just 1 minute and 3 seconds.
Picture: Mikael Buck



Sailors compete in the 10th edition of the Route du Rhum sailing race in Saint-Malo, western France. The Route du Rhum is a solo race held every four years between Saint-Malo to Pointe-a-Pitre, in the French West Indies.
Picture: DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images



A newly married couple, members of the amateur rope-jumping group 'Exit Point', jumps from a 44-metre high (144-ft) water pipe bridge in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Rope-jumping, an extreme sport, involves jumping from a high point using an advanced leverage system combining mountaineering and rope safety equipment.
Picture: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters



To mark the 50th Anniversary of the legendary TV series Thunderbirds and celebrate a brand new series entitled Thunderbirds Are Go, balloon artist Brian Getz from Indianapolis, USA, has created a replica of the iconic Thunderbirds 3 rocket using 2,400 balloons in just nine hours
Picture: Laurentiu Garofeanu / Barcroft USA



A King Vulture - native to the jungles of Central and South America - looks quizzical as he peers out from his enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo
Picture: MARK RALSTON/AFP



Indian Hindu devotees light oil lamps on the bank of the river Ganga at Sangam, for Kartika Purnima in Allahabad
Picture: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images



Model Cara Delevingne attended a festive launch to mark the collaboration between top Paris department store Printemps and British fashion brand Burberry in Paris
Picture: AP Photo/Francois Mori



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A little owl hops off its tree stump perch at the Stow Maries Aerodrome in Essex
Picture: Russell Savory / Barcroft Media



A bunny hops over an obstacle during the long jump discipline at the National Rabbit Hopping Championships in Chorebor, Czech Republic
Picture: Isifa Image Service sro/REX



A baby elephant, which was found in a river during the rainy season, plays with white elephants during their bath in their enclosure near the Uppatasanti Pagoda in Naypyitaw, Burma
Picture: REUTERS/Damir Sagolj



A view of a rainbow behind Tower Bridge in London
Picture: Paul Gilham/Getty Images



Poppies fall during a two-minute silence at a Armistice Day service at the Lloyd's of London building. The annual Armistice Day service honours those who have lost their lives during times of war.
Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images



Michelangelo's David, made from a cast of the original in 1857 and presented to Queen Victoria by King Leopald of Italy, has had a clean while the gallery it is displayed in has undergone a major renovation. The Gallery opens later this month.
Picture: David Rose/The Telegraph



A lava flow from the Kilauea Volcano creeps along Cemetery Road and Apa'a Street near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii
Picture: AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey




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Either that seal is lost or having an identity crisis?

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Either that seal is lost or having an identity crisis?

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Shhh... he's obviously spying on the penguins for his seal brethren.

A seal nuzzle her newborn pup in a touching display of affection just days after its birth. The seal pupping season is well underway in Scotland as thousands of the mammals come ashore to bear their young. Anna Henly captured the fifty-strong colony of seals in an undisclosed beach on the eastern coast of Scotland.
Picture: Anna Henly / Barcroft



An osprey lifts off with a rainbow trout clutched in its talons at the Rothiemurchus fishery in Aviemore, Scotland. The striking photograph was captured by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron from Watford.
Picture: Samuel Aron/HotSpot Media



Brooke Raboutou, the 13-year-old rock climbing prodigy who takes the sport to new heights. Introduced to the sport at the age of four, Brooke, from Boulder, Colorado, started climbing not long after she learnt to walk. With the guidance of proud parents, Robyn, 51, and Didier, 52, who are former world champion climbers themselves, the teenager has been smashing records ever since.
Picture: Caters



A balloon pilot was forced to take evasive action as he was blown off course while flying over Chesterton Windmill in Warwickshire. Photographer Chris Day captured the moment the multi-coloured balloon missed the grade one listed windmill which has stood since 1632.
Picture: Christopher Day / Newsteam



Opened in 1889, the Moulin Rouge celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. The 10th Guinness Worlds Records Day is set for November 13.
Picture: MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images



Ruqayyah Boyer of Guyana poses in national dress during the 54th Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo
Picture: REUTERS/Thomas Peter




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A huge illuminated fungus in the Mushroom Garden installation at the Festival of Light in Longleat, Wiltshitre, where 20 giant displays of Chinese lanterns are open to the public from Friday 14th November.
Picture: Ben Birchall/PA



Afghan women sit in the stands as they watch girls compete in a Taekwon-Do match in Herat. Women were banned from participating in sports by the then-ruling Taliban regime, that was forced from power in 2001, as part of a raft of measures that kept women uneducated and out of the public domain.
Picture: Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images



From left) French National Centre for Space Studies president Jean-Yves Le Gall, French President Francois Hollande and former French astronaut Claudie Haignere wear 3D glasses during a visit at the Cite des Sciences at La Villette in Paris as they follow the successful landing of the Philae lander on comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Picture: REUTERS/Jacques Brinon



Indian students perform a Rajasthani dance during the 4th International Folk Festival at Khalsa College in Amritsar
Picture: NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images



People enjoy a boat ride at the Lake View pic-nic point as the sun sets in Islamabad, Pakistan
Picture: EPA/OMER SALEEM



Garment workers leave a factory for home after a days work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Picture: REUTERS/Samrang Pring



Miss Puerto Rico Valerie Hernandez (C), Miss Colombia Zuleika Suarez (2nd L), Miss Thailand Punika Kulsoontornrut (2nd R), Miss United Kingdom Victoria Tooby (L) and Miss Finland Milla Romppanen (R) react after being awarded respective titles during the Miss International Beauty Pageant 2014 in Tokyo, Japan, Nov 11, 2014. 74 contestants took part in the annual beauty contest.
Photo/Xinhua



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Wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum filmed the hair-raising moment a crocodile stole his GoPro camera while swimming in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. The confused crocodile swam away with Amos's camera after bumping into it underwater. The croc's sensors are along its jaws so as soon as anything touches it, it automatically snaps.
Picture: Amos Nachoum / Barcroft



Two inquisitive cheetahs inspect a Volkswagen Polo as it enters their enclosure at the Rhino and Lion Park in Kromdraai in Johannesburg, South Africa. After a thorough inspection, the two curious cheetahs were contended that they had licked, scrutinised and scratched several parts of the vehicle.
Picture: Barcroft



A starving jaguar desperately took on a caiman. Photographer Chris Brunskill captured the moment the elderly female jaguar attacked the reptile on its home turf in the Piquiri River in Brazil.
Picture: Chris Brunskill Ltd/REX



A playful fly causes mischief by climbing all over a peaceful lizard while it relaxes on a branch. The confident little robber fly had no problems walking straight up to the green crested lizard and taking a big step onto his head. Unfortunately for the green lizard his peace and quiet on the branch was disturbed while his uninvited guest roamed around on top of it. The picture was taken by photographer Hendy Mp, near his home in Sambas, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Picture: Hendy Mp/Solent News



A group of around 400 demonstrators participated in a protest by burying their heads in the sand on Sydney's Bondi Beach. The protesters participated in the event, held ahead of Saturday's G20 summit in Brisbane, which was being promoted as a message to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government that, 'You have your head in the sand on climate change'.
Picture: REUTERS/David Gray




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