Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Around the world in Pictures

This Week in pictures..
A percussion bomb explodes over protesters during clashes in Athens,Greek police clashed with youths hurling petrol bombs in Athens on Monday during protests to mark the anniversary of the 2008 police killing of a teenager that triggered the country's worst riots in decades. 



Police detain a protester during clashes with youths in front of the parliament in Athens

A Haitian opens the door of his destroyed house in a neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, The state is on edge a week after holding presidential and legislative polls. 


Kumbe Sehemu Nyingine Vibaka wanachapwa pia...mi nilifkiri Bongo tu, tho i am against it...
 Man stoned by local residents in Port-au-Prince Villagers say he was a thief

Always causes a Ruckus wherever she lands
French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy looks on as she leaves an hospital in New Delhi,French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni on their four-day visit to India are accompanied by defence, foreign and finance ministers and nearly 60 business leaders. 
Dole!
 Nicolas Sarkozy goes thumbs up sitting nex to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a joint news conference in New Delhi, btw if  ur wondering why he's so hyped...France and India on Monday signed a framework contract during Sarkozy's visit to India for the sale of French atomic reactors. But anyway..he's just Sarkozy.always seems hyped to me
Guetamala City,Guatemalans will celebrate the annual 'Burning of the Devil', setting fire to effigies and trash as a symbolic cleansing of evil spirits. 



 Men help clear the rubble from the site of a suicide bombing in Pakistan's northwest Mohmand region

spot the fake panda..who's real, who's fake
 A researcher dressed in a panda costume puts a panda cub into a box before its physical examination at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve.. Sichuan province December 3, 2010. The 4-month old cub, the first in the centre to be trained for reintroduction into the wild, is monitored by hidden cameras. Researchers performing physical examinations on the cub wear panda costumes to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence...Random thought, quite smart, panda costumes, I wonder if Lion costumes would confuse the lions..but naah..
Sasa Mkuu, mambo yameharibika.....
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) talks to European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet (R) during an euro zone finance ministers meeting at the European Union Council in Brussels December 6, 2010. The euro zone finance ministers meeting on Monday faced IMF pressure to increase the size of a 750 billion euro ($1,006 billion) safety net for debt-stricken members to halt contagion in the single currency bloc. 

Watu wengine Wabishi!
Tourists are seen at a beach at which swimming and diving is prohibited at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh Even after a shark killed a German tourist who had been swimming near the shore at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, days after a string of attacks injured several divers.

                             My heart Goes to this Child
evacuated with her family because their house was destroyed by flood, sleeps on the floor while waiting to register for a shelter outside the facilities of Sambil Candelaria mall which was expropriated by the government and currently serves as a refuge in Caracas, Venezuela

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