Lunar New Year 2012: Year of the Dragon
Two weeks of celebrations are under way as communities around the world mark the arrival of Chinese/Lunar New Year. The 15-day event, which runs until February 6, marks the onset of the Year of the Dragon.
The Australian Open 2012
The 100th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam Tennis event of the year. “The Aussie Open” or “The Grand Slam of Asia/Pacific” as the Australian Open is also known, is held at Melbourne Park in Richmond on True Blue Plexicushion Prestige medium-paced hard courts.
Costa Concordia cruise disaster
The cruise ship 'Costa Concordia' ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio after hitting underwater rocks on January 13. The owner of the luxury liner that ran aground off the coast of Italy, killing at least six people, said its captain had made "errors of judgment" as the search continued for the missing. The ship was on a cruise in the Mediterranean, leaving from Savona with planned stops in Civitavecchia, Palermo, Cagliari, Palma, Barcelona and Marseille," the company said.
Body Worlds & The Story of the Heart
Body Worlds is a traveling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures. The exhibition's developer and promoter is German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who invented the plastination technique in the late 1970s at the University of Heidelberg.
The Dakar 2012
The 2012 Dakar kicked off in Argentina's coastal dunes. The rally, open to amateur and professional drivers, covers over 3,000 miles off road in Argentina, Chile and this year, for the first time, Peru.
24 hours of protests around the globe
Protest rallies around the world in a time frame of 24 hours
Bye bye 2011.
Over one and a half million Sydneysiders were expected to line harbour vantage points to watch the spectacular pyrotechnic display ushering in 2012.
Kuipers and crew blasted into space
Russia's Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft with three astronauts on board blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, according to Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos.
The new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) consists of Oleg Kononenko from Russia, Andre Kuipers from the European Space Agency (ESA) and Donald Pettit from NASA.
Wild weather grounds ship on French coast
High winds have beached a cargo ship on France's jagged Atlantic coast and some of the 220 tons of fuel on board are leaking and threatening a local beach.
The 19-member crew of the "TK Bremen" was evacuated by helicopter early Friday as the vessel ran aground off Erdeven beach in southern Brittany, on the northwest coat of France.
Rampage in the Belgian city of Liege
A gunman shot dead three people at a busy central square during a Christmas market in the Belgian city of Liege and then killed himself.
Occubye Amsterdam.
After failing to reduce the occupy-camp with 75 percent before 10 AM Thursday-morning, The Dutch mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan ordered for the police to come and clean up the 'camp'. Amsterdam, 8 november 2011.
Madness on Black Friday 2011
Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. On this day, most major retailers open extremely early, often at 4 a.m., or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off the shopping season.
Three killed in 52-vehicle pile-up on A31
Wrecked vehicles piled into each other on Autobahn A31 after a multiple collision caused by thick fog near Heek, northern Germany, 19 November 2011. Three people lost their lives and 35 others were injured, some seriously. A total of 52 vehicles were involved in the accident.
Aerial photos of the Netherlands
A collection of aerial photos taken throughout the years.
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2011
Models walks the runway during the 2011 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City.
World's Weirdest Sports
A range of unusual or just plain different sports from around the world.
Spaceport America
Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport in southern New Mexico, where the Spaceport America Terminal Hangar Facility will serve as the operating hub for Virgin Galactic and is expected to house two WhiteKnightTwos and five SpaceShipTwos, in addition to all of Virgin's astronaut preparation facilities and mission control. Spaceport America has a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) long runway.
Fashion week in Beijing
The 10-day fashion extravaganza will highlight some 44 fashion shows and six contests hosting over 200 designers.
Libya celebrates Gaddafi's killing
Tens of thousands of people poured on to the streets in towns and cities across Libya yesterday to celebrate the death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who was captured and killed by revolutionary fighters in the last major bastion of resistance two months after his regime fell.
Fatal Indycar crash
Dan Wheldon, the 2011 Indianapolis 500 winner and one of the most popular drivers in open-wheel racing, died Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in a horrific multi-car crash on Lap 11 of the IndyCar Series season finale.
Officials decided to call the race, but the drivers, many sobbing openly, did a five-lap tribute to Wheldon.
Modest Celebration In Grozny
The Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has held a star-studded party in his capital Grozny - but denied it was anything to do with his 35th birthday.
Oscar-winning actor Hilary Swank and action star Jean-Claude van Damme have been criticised for attending the lavish party. Kadyrov is linked to a grim record of abuse. When stars get paid to turn up to party with him, it trivializes the suffering of countless victims of human rights abuses.
World Rally Championship 2011
The World Rally Championship (WRC) is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13 three-day events driven on surfaces ranging from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice.
Operation Falcon Autumn
The Dutch army is in the middle of Operation Falcon Autumn. Nothing serious, only the biggest military training operation in fifteen years. So far, the army liberated the TT Circuit in Assen from no one in particular. The operation will last all through the weekend, with simulations all over the Netherlands.
Pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the Space shuttle Discovery during STS-31 on April 25, 1990. Since then, there have been 5 servicing missions that continued to upgrade the telescope's scientific instruments and operational systems. Hubble reached a major milestone, its 20th anniversary in orbit, on April 24, 2010.
Hubble imagery has both delighted and amazed people around the world and has rewritten astronomy textbooks with its discoveries.
Putin, Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin, the 58-year-old former president and current prime minister of Russia, has cultivated a distinct public image over the past several years. The politician has piloted firefighting planes, darted whales, driven race cars, and even taken a submersible 1,400 meters (4,600 ft) below the surface of Lake Baikal.
Miss Universe 2011
The contestants will spend the next 2 weeks appearing at events and preparing to compete in the 2011 Miss Universe Competition on 12 September 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
PARTY! Eid ul-Fitr to celebrate the end of Ramadan.
It's the beginning of a three-day festival, which begins after the sighting of a new crescent moon. It marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which devout Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.
US east coast girds for Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene began lashing the North Carolina shore on Saturday, foreshadowing with brutal authority what is to come as this vast storm, its most forceful winds stretching outward for 90 miles, churned north toward New York.