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Apr 24, 2010
News in pictures on Saturday



German actress Barbara Schoeneberger performs during the German Film Prize (Lola) ceremony in Berlin on Saturday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Jeff Koons, a major contemporary artist-provocateur presents his Cracked Edd monumental sculpture at the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev, Ukraine on Friday. The sculpture made with high chromium stainless steel and transparent color coating is presented for the first time ever. -- PHOTO: AP




Dr Jane Lubchenco (left), administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), observes as biologist Caitlin Lustic measures a young farm-raised coral in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Key Largo, Florida on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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Children play with tricycles under blue skies during the special event 'Circuit in the Sky' on the Mori Tower roof top Skydeck, 270 meters above sea level, in Tokyo on Saturday. The event will be held until May 9. -- PHOTO: AFP




Fire fighters use a high pressure hose to clean volcanic ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano off a church in Asoifsskali, Iceland on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Tourists set off for a ride in a pink 1957 Ford convertible car at a five star hotel in Havana April 23, 2010. The Cuban tourism industry recovered in March from a slump in the first two months of the year, with 6.4 percent more vacationers arriving than in March 2009, the National Statistics Office reported on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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A woman sits on an oversized chair next to a huge table giving the illusion of her being very small, on Friday at the garden show (Landesgartenschau) in Bad Essen, northern Germany. -- PHOTO: AFP




Newborn cheetah cubs walk inside an enclosure during their public presentation in Gothenburg's Boras Zoo on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




An outside view of film director Roman Polanski's chalet named 'Milky Way' in Gstaad, Switzerland where Polanski has been under house arrest for months. A California appeals court on Thursday rejected Polanski's bid to have his case reviewed by a special counsel or to be sentenced in absentia. With his latest appeal rejected, Roman Polanski's fate once again lies in the hands of Swiss authorities. -- PHOTO: AP

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Buzkashi players battle for control of a goat carcass during a match in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday. Buzkashi, or goat dragging, which is played by two teams of horsemen competing to throw a beheaded 30-kilogram (66 pound) calf, goat or sheep, as the ball, into a scoring circle. The Afghan national sport, outlawed during the Taliban regime, Buzkashi originated centuries ago in Central Asia and is held throughout the northern parts of the country. -- PHOTO: AP




Girls cross a dry pond on the outskirts of Jammu on Friday. India's summer monsoon is likely to be nearly normal this year, the government said on Friday, allaying fears over an event crucial to the economic fate of the world's second most populous nation. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




The portraits of Romanians, businessmen George Becali (left), George Copos (2nd from left), OTV television owner Dan Diaconescu (2nd from right) and Dinu Patriciu (right) are seen on television screens part of an installation at the premiere of Romanian filmaker Alexandru Solomon's latest documentary movie, 'Kapitalism'. Documentarist Alexandru Salomon depicts a bleak portrait of post communist Romania. -- PHOTO: AFP

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The living room of architect Mario Moscoso's 'living house' is seen partially constructed in Tiquipaya on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Moscoso, a Bolivian architect with decades of experience in traditional building, has dedicated the last 20 years of his career to what he calls 'organic architecture.' -- PHOTO: AP




Mist hovers over Reykjav�k, on Friday. Nine days after the Eyjafjoell volcano erupted, a change in wind direction meant that Reykjavik's Keflavik Airport was forced to halt its operations today for the first time as ash drifted across the capital. -- PHOTO: AFP