News Pictures Of The Day ( 20-7-09 )

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A three-meter -long boa constrictor grabs a hen in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China.

wrestles it into the water.

Crushing the Chicken and swallowing it.

Australian captain Ricky Ponting reacts after been bowled by England’s Paul Collingwood on the fourth day of the second Ashes Test match at Lord’s

A young man and a young woman compete in the Ear Pull contest in the 2009 World Eskimo-Indian Olympics held in Fairbanks, Alaska

A girl waters a panda-shaped topiary in Tokyo for an upcoming exhibition on mosaiculture – the horticultural art of creating two or three-dimensional sculptures using living plants

A pair of newborn panda twins are seen at the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China

A picture taken by the TRAFFIC wildlife trade monitoring network shows a frozen young tiger being weighed after it was seized by police in Vietnam, where only about 50 of the animals remain

A mynah bird in China has reportedly taken up smoking after constantly pestering his owner to give him a cigarette. Zhang Li, from Xuzhou, said: “As soon as he sees me in the morning the first thing he says is that he wants a cigarette. And he doesn’t stop pestering me until I give him one”

Ivan Potanin performs during the freestyle competition at the Russian Aquabike Championship in Moscow

Emily Csikosof Canada fights for a ball with Jemma Dessauvagie of Australia during their preliminary match at the World Water Polo Championships in Rome

Teams compete in the Swamp Football World Championships in Hyrynsalmi, Finland

A visitor smears black mud over her face and body, at a lake near the Black sea town of Pomorie, east of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia

Models showcase swimwear by Japanese apparel giant San-ai during the 2009 P!Kan Festa in Tokyo

A boy jumps into the Yangtze River to cool down in Wuhan, Hubei province

Thousands of residents crowd at a beach to escape from the summer heat in Dalian, Liaoning province, China

Residents ride a paddle boat in a river covered in duckweed at a park in Xiangfan, Hubei province

A crumbling house sits on the edge of a drop following a landslide in Nachterstedt, Germany. Three residents were missing after their lakeside home and another building collapsed when the shoreline gave the way next to an old open-cast coalmine

[ Via telegraph ]

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