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World
Apr 9, 2010

News in pictures on Friday



A South Korean worker decorates lanterns to celebrate Buddha's upcoming birthday on May 21 at the Chogye Temple in Seoul, South Korea. About one-third of South Korea's 48 million people are Buddhists. -- PHOTO: AP




The members of Turkey's Roma community sign and dance during the traditional 'World Roma Day' celebrations beside Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey. -- PHOTO: AP




This International Fund For Animal Welfare handout photo shows a hunter as he clubs a harp seal during the opening day of the 2010 Canadian commercial seal hunt off the coast of Newfoundland. The Canadian Government sanctioned the slaughter of 330,000 seals this year despite record low ice conditions. After disastrous ice conditions in March caused many harp seal pups to perish prematurely, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is now allowing open fire on the few seals that survived. -- PHOTO: AFP

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Members of the Free Burma Alliance cover their faces with photos of political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma (Myanmar) during the Burmese Child Refugees Fundraiser Benefit hosted by Free Burma Alliance & Network 355 at the New York Friars Club in New York City. -- PHOTO: AFP




A girl carries her sister as she breaks rocks into smaller pieces to be sold for construction purposes in Juba, south of the Sudan capital. One of the world's poorest regions, where four out of five people are illiterate and one in five children fail to make it to their fifth birthday, the south's economy has been turned on its head since the end of a 22-year civil war in 2005. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Tourists stand in the Blue Lagoon outside Reykjavik. The Blue Lagoon's blue and green waters come from natural hot water springs flowing through rocks of lava. -- PHOTO: AFP

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A Korean-style summerhouse in the schoolyard at the Koran high school in Tokyo. The centre-left government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in April passed a law to subsidise tuition for all high school students -- but has so far excluded the about 2,000 students at the pro-North Korea schools. -- PHOTO: AFP




Nah Fun, a nine-month-old clouded leopard, grooms his mate Chai Li in the Asia Day Room at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington DC. The two leopards recently arrived from Thailand's Open Zoo and will go on exhibit next week. -- PHOTO: AP




Timothy Howe, 3, of Albany, Oregon, plays in a tulips field at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm at the Tulip Fest in Woodburn, Oregon. -- PHOTO: AP

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Protestors demonstrate against the operation methods of Shell in Nigeria, at the Shell headquarters in The Hague. They protest for alleged damage caused by the oil company's activities in the Niger Delta. Shell has said the spills in question were caused by sabotage. Oil companies in Nigeria, the world's eighth-biggest crude oil exporter, have seen production affected by attacks on their pipelines and rigs for several years. -- PHOTO: AFP




A girl performs at a bonfire dance at a park downtown of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. -- PHOTO: AP




A brief spring snowfall gives way to bright sunshine as cattle graze along Outer Springer Loop road near Palmer, Alaska. -- PHOTO: AP



Members of Le Cirque du Soleil perform in a preview of "Totem," the latest production of the Montreal-based circus, in Montreal. -- PHOTO: AP