RSS

Best Pictures of Year 2008 – Part 5

Wed, Jan 7, 2009

Amazing Junk

Best Pictures of Year 2008

61. Photographers take pictures of an injured man during clashes believed to be linked to recent anti-foreigner violence in Reiger Park informal settlement in South Africa on May 20, 2008. South African police fired rubber bullets at hundreds of shantytown residents on Tuesday in a crackdown on violence against foreigners which ended up killing over 60 people and injuring hundreds more. (REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

62. Afghan youths dive at a swimming pool on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul on June 24, 2008. Temperatures in the Afghan capital are approaching the 30 degrees Celsius mark as the summer sets in in Central Asia. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) #
63. Ethnic Tibetan worshippers enter a monastery to celebrate Monlam, or Great Prayer Festival, during a sandstorm in Aba, Sichuan province, February 17, 2008. Thousands of Tibetan pilgrims gathered to celebrate Monlam, one of the most important festivals in Tibetan Buddhism. (REUTERS/Reinhard Krause) #

64. A suicide bomber’s foot is seen at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 22, 2008. The bomber killed three civilians and wounded one more in the attack, a police official said. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

65. Rockets fly over bell tower of Ayios Marcos church during Greek Orthodox Easter celebrations on the eastern Aegean island of Chios in Greece late on April 26, 2008. Two rival parishes of Vrontados village fire thousands of rockets every Easter Saturday aiming at the opposing church’s bell tower in a centuries-old tradition. (REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

66. Thousands of sportsmen and women are seen on their way from Maloja to S-Chanf near St Moritz in south eastern Switzerland on March 9, 2008 as they participate in the annual Engadin skiing marathon. (AP Photo/Keystone/ Alessandro Della Bella) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

67. The downtown core of Vancouver and the Lions Gate Bridge rise above a morning fog in this view from Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver, British Columbia November 17, 2008. (REUTERS/Andy Clark) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

68. Pakistani people watch as an acrobat rides his motorcycle around a circular track during the memorial of Muslim saint Syed Lal Shah next to his shrine in Muree, about 60 kilometers north of Islamabad, Pakistan on June 15, 2008. Hundred of pilgrims gather during six days every year to pay respect at the tomb of Syed Lal Shah. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

69. A giant mechanical spider, part of a piece of free theater by French company La Machine entitled “Les Mecaniques Servants”, walks along the waterfront in Liverpool, England on September 5, 2008. The 37-ton spider which stands at 50 feet (15 meters) tall was in Liverpool as part of the city’s European capital of culture celebrations. (REUTERS/Phil Noble) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

70. Red Star Belgrade’s fans light torches during the Serbian First Division soccer match against Mladost Lucani in Belgrade, Serbia on March 29, 2008. (REUTERS/Ivan Milutinovic) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

71. Muslim women attend prayers on the eve of the first day of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia on August 31, 2008. (REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

72. In this June 27, 2008 file photo, a man runs next to balloons placed at Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro. Demonstrators released around 4,000 red balloons during an event representing the 4,000 people who were expected to become victims of violence over the next six months. (AP Photo/ Ricardo Moraes) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

73. A diver practices in the new National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China on Aug. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

74. A visitor looks at a mock skeleton of the cartoon character Tom from “Tom and Jerry” by South Korea’s artist Hyungkoo Lee during a special exhibition “Animatus” at Natural History Museum Basel, Switzerland on August 26, 2008. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

75. Police work to help their fallen colleagues, victims of a suicide bombing, as others watch outside a court in the centre of Lahore January 10, 2008. A suicide bomber walked up to a group of policemen stationed outside the High Court in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday and set off his explosives, killing 21 people, most of them police, officials said. (REUTERS/Mohsin Raza) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

76. Maoist leader Prachanda sits with garland after being declared the winner of the election in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 12, 2008. Nepal’s Maoist former rebels took a shock early lead on Saturday in an election aimed at cementing a peace deal that ended a decade-long civil war. (REUTERS/Desmond Boylan) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

77. Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper (bottom L) and other MP’s listen as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine speaks in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa June 11, 2008. Canada, seeking to close one of the darkest chapters in its history, formally apologized earlier that week for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children into grim residential schools, where many say they were abused. (REUTERS/Chris Wattie) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

78. U.S. soldiers search for weapons on an Afghan man, who works for a private security firm escorting truck convoys, after they found illegal weapons in his vehicle, in a village near Kandahar, Afghanistan in this April 27, 2008 photo. Forty countries are now contributing to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which has around 47,000 troops. the United States also contributing some 14,000 troops serving in a separate force. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

79. In this Jan. 11, 2008 photo, eagles await transfer to a warm U.S. Fish and Wildlife warehouse after being rescued from the cold in Kodiak, Alaska. They were among 50 eagles which dove into the back of an uncovered dump truck full of fish guts and became too wet to fly away. (AP Photo/Jay Barrett) #

Best Pictures of Year 2008

80. French President Nicolas Sarkozy gently touches the hand of his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy during a welcoming ceremony in Ben Gurion airport in Israel on June 22, 2008. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis) #

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/reddit_48.png http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/stumbleupon_48.png http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/delicious_48.png http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blogmarks_48.png http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/furl_48.png http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/google_48.png http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/myspace_48.png http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/facebook_48.png http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/yahoobuzz_48.png http://qualityjunkyard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/mixx_48.png

Leave a Reply