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World
Apr 12, 2010

News in pictures on Monday



The pack rides on the cobblestoned road during the 108th edition of the Paris-Roubaix cycling race between Compiegne and Roubaix, in Roubaix, northern France. Swiss Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) won the race ahead of Norway Thor Hushovd (Team Cervelo Test Team) and Spanish Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky). -- PHOTO: AFP




Coal miner boots and lunch pail sit on the stage of the New Life Assembly church during a Sunday service dedicated to the memory of the coal miners that died in Whitesville, West Virginia. On April 5, a methane gas explosion killed 29 coal miners at the Massey Energy Company's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine. -- PHOTO: AFP




Tourists sit covered in black mud on the beach on Jordan's side of the Dead Sea. A growing number of medical patients and visitors are flocking to Jordan's Dead Sea for its black mud, which is thought to possess healing properties that can treat skin diseases. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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Volunteers organise bags of donations after a landslide which affected about 60 houses at the Morro do Bumba slum in Niteroi, near Rio de Janeiro. Authorities reported that up to 212 people had died after the rains -- the worst in decades -- triggered mudslides and flooding that devastated poor hillside communities and left thousands homeless in and around Brazil's second-biggest city. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Fifteen year-old girls wear the lace rings that will go under their dresses during a rehearsal for a mass coming-out ball known as a 'Quinceanera' in Mexico City, the city will host a mass Quinceanera for more than 300 girls as part of a program to help poor families. -- PHOTO: AP




An elephant sprays water on tourists during the Songkran festival on Khao San road in Bangkok. The Songkran festival marks the start of the new year in the traditional Thai calendar. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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Salt lies on the ground at Badwater Salt Flats in Death Valley National Park, California. The park is the largest national park in the US outside Alaska and has recorded the hottest temperatures in the US. It has the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



A man photographs a boy at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park, California. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Under the setting sun, a pile of flowers, lower right, covers the grave of miner William Roosevelt Lynch of Oak Hill, W.Va., at the Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens in Prosperity, W.Va. Lynch was one of 29 miners who died in the explosion at Massey Energy Co's Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W. Va. -- PHOTO: AP

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Hundreds of thousands of Polish people bring candles and flowers in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw as they pay tribute to victims of the air-crash in which President Lech Kaczynski was killed. Russian investigators said they were working closely with their Polish counterparts to determine the cause of the plane crash that killed Poland's president. -- PHOTO: AFP




Astronaut Rick Mastracchio participates in the mission's second spacewalk as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station in this handout image from NASA. During the seven-hour, 26-minute spacewalk, Mr Mastracchio and astronaut Clayton Anderson unhooked and removed the depleted ammonia tank and installed a new ammonia tank on the station. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




A pair of young foxes battle for dominance in a field off Turner Street in Auburn, Maine. -- PHOTO: AP

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This picture taken in Istanbul shows Ortakoy Mosque on Bosphorus. -- PHOTO: AFP




Spanish matador Ignacio Gonzalez performs with a bull during a bullfight at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid. -- PHOTO: AP