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A protester being taken away from a statue, Sorbian bridesmaids, a cat pictured as a lava river approaches from behind and villagers performing Ansai waist drums for tourists are among Friday's pictures of the day |
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This cat was left with a saucer of milk as a river approaches from behind. The lava cut off Highway 132 in the Puna District of Hawaii resulting in only one backroad being the escape route out. The house the cat was already at was previously evacuated and no one was able to retrieve the feline to safety. |
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Image released by the European Space Agency (ESA) and taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), both installed on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the peculiar galaxy NGC 3256. The galaxy is about 100 million light-years from Earth and is the result of a past galactic merger, which created its distorted appearance. |
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A recently born rare white bison is seen in a zoo in Belgrade, Serbia |
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In this picture taken with low shutter speed, Muslim pilgrims walk around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah, marking Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. |
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Students of St Dominic Bukna Secondary school take their English test outside due to their overcrowded class room in Kisumu |
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The Druschki, the Sorbian bridesmaids, sing in their costumes during the Corpus Christi procession. In the Free State of Saxony, only in 26 communities of the Catholic Sorb is Corpus Christi a holiday |
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A protester lies down on the street during an anti-corruption demonstration by hundreds of protesters who marched to the Parliament and Supreme Court in downtown Nairobi, Kenya |
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The Druschki, the Sorbian bridesmaids, sing in their costumes during the Corpus Christi procession. In the Free State of Saxony, only in 26 communities of the Catholic Sorb is Corpus Christi a holiday |
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A protester lies down on the street during an anti-corruption demonstration by hundreds of protesters who marched to the Parliament and Supreme Court in downtown Nairobi, Kenya |
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Workers of grid operator China Southern Power Grid inspect power cables connecting transmission towers in Dongguan, Guangdong province |
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People take a look at the phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge on 42nd Street in New York City. Manhattanhenge, or the Manhattan Solstice, occurs twice a year when the sun is aligned with the east-west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan |
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Men unload mussels from a fishing boat, walking past a mounds of plastic waste left on the shoreline of a fishing village near Jakarta in Indonesia |
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Aerail photo shows the scenery of Yunhe lake scenic area in Yunhe County of Lishui City, east China's Zhejiang Province. Yunhe County intend to reduce emission by promoting electric power in scenic areas. |
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Anyang, CHINA-Kids attend a 'military drill' at a kindergarten in Anyang, central China's Henan Province, marking the upcoming International Children's Day. |
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Competitors take part in the 63rd edition of the traditional punt race on the Neckar river in the southern German city of Tuebingen |
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Mordovia Arena as seen across the Insar River in the city of Saransk, Mordovia, Russia, at dusk. |
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Villagers perform Ansai waist drums for tourists at Fengjiaying Village in Ansai District of Yan'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. |
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Protesters shout anti-government slogans during a protest in front of the Romanian Government headquarters in Bucharest May 30, 2018. Around 2,000 people gathered in a protest after Romania's Constitutional Court ruled that President Klaus Iohannis must approve the government's dismissal of the country's top anti-corruption prosecutor Laura Kovesi. The government accuses Kovesi of violating the constitution but her supporters say she has been targeted for investigating corruption among Romania's political elite. |
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An airborne migrant worker kicks a rattan ball during a game of Chinlone in a field flooded by rain water in Bangkok, Thailand. The popular Burmese sport Chinlone, a combination of sport and dance, is played between two teams consisting of six players each, passing a rattan ball back and forth with feet, knees and heads |
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People are pictured on the beach at Bygdoy peninsula in Oslo, Norway on a sunny day. |
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