Tourists watch the sun being blocked by the moon during a solar eclipse in the Australian outback town of Lyndhurst, located around 700 km (427 miles) north of Adelaide in this December 4, 2002 file photo. Australia's military has lost its X-Files, detailing sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, across the country, a newspaper report said on June 7, 2011. After a two-month search in response to a newspaper Freedom of Informatio
A staff from the city's command centre of education exams watches real time monitors showing students taking the National College Entrance Exams in Chongqing municipality, June 7, 2011. About 9.33 million students will take the national college entrance exams from June 7 to 8, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS
A general view of the Kumtor mine in Kyrgyzstan May 31, 2011. The Kumtor mine, located about 4,000 metres (13,100 feet) above sea level in the Tien Shan mountains, contributed about 10 percent of Kyrgyzstan's gross domestic product (GDP) last year and accounted for about 40 percent of the country's exports. Picture taken May 31, 2011. REUTERS
A communications tower that will bring national television and radio back to the north since the end of the war was opened today in Kokavil by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The new tower will broadcast both state-run and private channels, and also be used for mobile phones, Internet provision and military operations, the president’s office said. Pics by Pradeep Dilrukshana
Several leading Government and Opposition members paid their last respects to the mother of Opposition Leader, Ranil Wickramasinghe who passed away this morning. The funeral service of the late Mrs. Nalini Wickramasinghe will be held at 6.30 p.m. at the Borella cemetery. Pic by Kithsiri de Mel
Beansprouts and salad sprouts are seen in this picture illustration taken in Berlin June 6, 2011. The managing director of a German organic farm that might be at the centre of a deadly E.coli outbreak said on Monday he was baffled that his beansprouts are suspected of causing such devastation. German officials said on Sunday the beansprouts of Klaus Verbeck, the head of the “Gaertnerhof Bienenbuettel”, could be the source of
Lightning bolts strike around the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain near southern Osorno city June 5, 2011. The volcano in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle chain, dormant for decades, erupted in south-central Chile on Saturday, belching ash over 6 miles (10 km) into the sky, as winds fanned it toward neighboring Argentina, and prompted the government to evacuate several thousand residents, authorities said. REUTERS
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Britain's primatologist Jane Goodall observes a group of chimpanzees at Taronga Zoo in Sydney June 5, 2011. Taronga Zoo announced a $150,000 five year funding partnership for Tchimpounga, the largest African chimpanzee sanctuary in Congo, according to the zoo. REUTERS
An archaeologist cleans the tusk of a prehistoric animal at Miraflores neighborhood in Tegucigalpa June 3, 2011. According to Virgilio Paredes, director of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (IHAH), the finding could correspond to the tusk of a mammoth or mastodon from 12,000 or 15,000 B.C. REUTERS
A Thai custom officer shows a false gavial during a news conference at Thailand's customs department in Bangkok June 2, 2011. Thai customs have found 451 turtles worth 1 million baht ($33,000) stashed in suitcases offloaded from a passenger flight from Bangladesh, the latest seizure of live creatures at Bangkok's bustling Suvarnabhumi airport. Turtles of varying sizes worth around 2,000 baht apiece in Thai markets, and seven false gavi
A boy plays with a cat while her father works on their shack at the slum of Las Mayas in Caracas. The hillside slum of "Las Mayas" provides both great vistas of Caracas and an ideal view of a housing crisis shaping into a major battleground for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's re-election bid. Along one side of the once-forested slopes, shacks of corrugated iron, wood and mud cling precariously to land that erodes a little bit
Hundreds of student monks marched to Temple Trees today to protest the government’s alleged suppression of the Fundamental Democratic rights of the people. The protest march which began near the Viharamahadevi Park was allowed to proceed right up to the gates of Temple Trees where the student monks remained for more than two hours chanting slogans and awaiting an appointment from the President to discuss their issues. Pic by Pradeep Dilruks
Sculptor Mark Coreth works on the carving of an ice polar bear at Circular Quay in central Sydney June 3, 2011. The ice polar bear will gradually melt as people are encouraged to touch and feel the melting ice, which symbolise the plight of polar bears in the Arctic where melting ice caps are threatening their survival. REUTERS
The JVP and Free Trade Zone (FTZ) employees conducted protests today in Town Hall and Katunayake respectively, to protest the death of the 21 year-old who was killed in clashes between police officers and FTZ employees earlier this week. Pic by Pradeep Dilruckshana and Samantha Perera
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