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February 13, 2011
 
 
 
February 13: Thai and foreign couple kiss during the competition World's Longest Continous Kiss to mark Valentine s Day in Pattaya resort. Fourteen of couples join the competition "Kiss Marathon to Break Guinness World Record," the winner who break the world record will receive prizes totaling more than 200,000 Bahts (6,666 USD) and diamond ring.
 

February 13: Thai and foreign couple kiss during the competition World's Longest Continous Kiss to mark Valentine s Day in Pattaya resort. Fourteen of couples join the competition "Kiss Marathon to Break Guinness World Record," the winner who break the world record will receive prizes totaling more than 200,000 Bahts (6,666 USD) and diamond ring.

Photograph by: PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL, AFP/Getty Images

 
February 13: Thai and foreign couple kiss during the competition World's Longest Continous Kiss to mark Valentine s Day in Pattaya resort. Fourteen of couples join the competition "Kiss Marathon to Break Guinness World Record," the winner who break the world record will receive prizes totaling more than 200,000 Bahts (6,666 USD) and diamond ring.
February 13: Suryakiran Indian airforce acrobatic team trail national colours as they fly over the crowd on the fourth day of Aero India 2011 at the Yelhanka Air Force station in Bangalore. Aero India 2011 has drawn 675 firms and around 40 official delegations from 45 countries to the southern city of Bangalore, India's aeronautical capital. The five-day airshow comes less than a month after Indian budget carrier Indigo agreed a $15.6-billion order for 180 A320 passenger aircraft with Europe's Airbus Industries.
February 13: Afghan children play after the first snowfall of the year in Kabul. The harsh Afghan winters, lasting from November to March, are an added burden on the already difficult lives of the country's approximately 320, 000 Internally Displaced people (IDP's).
February 13: German Chancellor Angela Merkel adjusts her 3D glasses before the premiere of the movie "Pina" by German director Wim Wenders presented out of competition in Berlin on the fourth day of the international Berlinale film festival. The 61st edition of the festival, running from February 10 to 20, will showcase 22 films in its main programme including 16 in the running for the festival's coveted Golden and Silver Bear prizes.
February 13: Austria's Martin Koch competes during the FIS World Cup Ski Flying competition in Vikersund, eastern Norway.
February 13: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Berlinale Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick pose as they arrive on the red carpet for the premiere of the movie "Pina" by German director Wim Wenders in Berlin on the fourth day of the international Berlinale film festival. The 61st edition of the festival, running from February 10 to 20, will showcase 22 films in its main programme including 16 in the running for the festival's coveted Golden and Silver Bear prizes.
February 13: A protester holds a doll of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a cage during a demonstration called "if not now, when?" organized by Italian women in protest at "degrading" media coverage of the recent sex scandals surrounding Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi -- and attitudes to women in general in Milan. Thousands of women are to demonstrate all across Italy in the wake of weeks of lurid reporting on the women at the centre of investigations into the embattled leader -- and Berlusconi's own controversial comments in his defence.
February 12: Dancers participate in a carnival parade in Encarnacion, 375 km south of Asuncion.
Egyptians walk past revolutionary graffiti on February 13, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.
Egyptian army soldiers block pedestrians after opening Tahrir Square for traffic on February 13, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Two days after the resignation of president Hosni Mubarak, the army is asserting its control.
The Vancouver Canucks board an airplane to head out on one of their many road trips. To get sleep - and good sleep, at that - the Canucks have turned to science.
February 11: Shadows of travellers and their belongings are seen on the plaza at Beijing's main railway station on February 11, 2011. Some 2 .85 billion people are expected to have travelled during this year's Lunar New Year travel period from late January to late February during the country's biggest holiday, which sometimes is the only occasion in the year for families to reunite.
February 11: Egyptian anti-government demonstrators flash the victory sign and wave their shoes as they react to a speech by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who failed to announce his immediate resignation, as tens of thousands gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on February 10, 2011. Embattled Mubarak delegated power to his deputy and former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and proposed constitutional reforms but said the transition to end his 30-year-reign would last until September.
February 10: In this image released by the San Diego Zoo, the zoo's newest hippo climbs on his mother's back onFebruary, 10, 2011. The pair have been inseparable since the birth on January 26, 2011. That made it tough for San Diego Zoo keepers and veterinarians to determine the calf's sex, but they have finally confirmed the two-week-old is a boy. Zoo keepers gave the baby hippo the name Adhama which means honor or glory in Swahili.
FEBRUARY 10 - Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins with a Canada Post stamp of his likeness at Royal West Academy in the Montreal West area of Montreal.
February 10: The swirling landscape of stars known as the North American nebula is shown in this image released by NASA February 10, 2011. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this new infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears. Clusters of young stars (about one million years old) can be found throughout the image. Slightly older but still very young stars (about 3 to 5 million years) are also liberally scattered across the complex, with concentrations near the "head" region of the Pelican nebula, which is located to the right of the North American nebula (upper right portion of this picture). The Spitzer image contains data from both its infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer.
February 10: People gather around a cross shaped by candles placed on jars of honey in the presentation of the Blessed Virgin church in Blagoevgrad on February 10, 2011, during a celebration in honour of St. Haralampi, protector of the beekeepers.
February 10: This photo shows thousands of passengers carrying their belongings walking out of a railway station as they return to work after the Lunar New Year holidays in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. The Lunar New Year holiday is the most important annual celebration in China, when the nation largely shuts down as families gather together for reunions and feasts. More than 2.5 billion passenger trips by air, rail, bus or sea will be taken around the holiday, the government says, as China's army of migrant workers, business people and students return home for the festivities.
February 10: Switzerland's Didier Cuche skis during the men's downhill training at the Alpine skiing World Championship in Garmisch Partenkirchen, southern Germany on February 10, 2011.
February 10: US golfer Tiger Woods plays a shot during the first round of the Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament in the Gulf emirate on February 10, 2011.
Feb. 10: Spectators stand in front a partially inflated hot air balloon depicting Star Wars character 'Dath Vader' before its flight during the 16th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, in the Philippines' Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga on February 10, 2011. Hot air balloon pilots from various countries are taking part in the annual event that was started in 1994 at the former US military air base and continues to attract hundreds of spectators every year.
Feb. 10: South Korean high school graduates wearing traditional clothes sit in the hall at a girls' school in Seoul on February 10, 2011 during a graduation ceremony which concides with a coming-of-age ceremony. School authorities combined the two events to help students enhance social responsibility as adults after their graducation.
Feb. 10: Thai territorial division volunteers stand during a ceremony marking 'Volunteers' Day' in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat on February 10, 2011. Shadowy insurgents have waged a violent campaign in the southern region bordering Malaysia since early 2004, leaving more than 4,400 people dead, including Muslims and Buddhists. Last month, Thailand extended emergency rule in most of the Muslim-majority southern region for another three months, despite rights groups' concerns about the powers given to the military.
Feb. 10: Pakistani security personnel walk toward the fire flaring up from the main gas pipeline after a bomb explosion by suspected militants at Dera Murad Jamali in Nasirabad district early February 10, 2011. Militants blew up a key gas pipeline in the insurgency-hit southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan on February 10 suspending supplies to tens of thousand of consumers, officials said.
Feb. 10: Armed policemen guard Indonesian radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (R) inside the holding cell in Jakarta court on February 10, 2011. Bashir, 72, is facing the death penalty for terrorism charges accused of seven counts of terrorism related to a paramilitary training camp that was discovered last February in Aceh province. It is the third time the cleric has faced terror-related charges since 2002 but police have failed to make any of the allegations stick. He served almost 26 months for conspiracy over the 2002 bombings of tourist nightspots in Bali that killed more than 200 people, before being cleared and released in 2006.
Feb. 10: This photo taken on February 9, 2011 shows thousands of passengers carrying their belongings walking out a railway station as they return to work after the Lunar New Year holidays, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. The Lunar New Year holiday is the most important annual celebration in China, when the nation largely shuts down as families gather together for reunions and feasts. More than 2.5 billion passenger trips by air, rail, bus or sea will be taken around the holiday, the government says, as China's army of migrant workers, business people and students return home for the festivities.
Feburary 9: (L-R) Models Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge, Erin Heatherton attend the launch of Victoria's Secret Love Me lingerie collection at Victoria's Secret, Herald Square on February 9, 2011 in New York City.
February 9: Lindsay Lohan (C) arrives for her arraignment after being charged with one count of felony grand theft for allegedly stealing a $2,500 necklace from a Venice Beach jewelry store, at the Airport Superior Court on February 9, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. The actress, who is on probation after completing a court-ordered spell in rehab for drug addiction, admits she took the necklace from a Venice Beach store but claims it was only on loan. The 24-year-old actress checked out of the Betty Ford clinic near Palm Springs last month, following a spell there after she was briefly jailed in September for failing a court-ordered drug test. A queen of Hollywood nights and a favorite target of the paparazzi, the former Disney child star was once considered one of the most promising actresses of her generation.
February 9: An electronic board showing stock information is reflected on a man's glasses at a brokerage house in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, February 9, 2011. China's main stock index opened down 0.7 percent on Wednesday after the central bank announced a rise in benchmark interest rates on Tuesday, the eve of the market's reopening after the week-long Lunar New Year holiday.
February 9; Qasim, a labourer, smiles as a camel nuzzles him near sacks of grain in a wholesale market in Karachi February 9, 2011.
February 9: Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff (C) skates along the Rideau Canal with children in Ottawa February 9, 2011.
February 9: A woman dries paper cones, that are used by the textile industries to wrap cotton and silk fibres, at a factory on the outskirts of Jammu February 9, 2011. India is likely to produce a record 32.9 million bales of cotton in 2010/11, topping last year's 29.5 million bales, a senior government official said.
February 9: A model displays a make-up and hairdressing during the Kiev Hairdressers Cup in the Ukrainian capital on February 9, 2011. The cup was scheduled as part of the Intercharm Ukraine 2011, the IXth international exhibition of perfumery and cosmetics.
February 9: Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal looks at pictures of Holocaust victims in the Hall of Names during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on February 09, 2011. The museum commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II.
February 9: Egyptian anti-government protesters gather in Cairo's Tahrir square on February 9, 2011, as Egyptians mark the 16th day of protests against the 30-year-regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
February 9: Firemen keep watch over a light plane that crashed on a street in the suburbs of Sydney on February 9, 2011 knocking out power to some 7,000 homes and businesses. The two people and a dog who were travelling in the plane, suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital in a stable condition.
February 9 - Keeper Janet Hawes bottle-feeds a royal antelope that weighs just 17 ounces on February 8, 2011 at the San Diego Zoo. Born on exhibit January 20, the calf was moved to the Zoo's veterinary hospital when he did not nurse and had a low body temperature. Because the royal antelope is so small, the bottle's nipple had to be specially designed for this species. The calf, which receives five bottle feedings a day, has gained seven ounces and is thriving. When the royal antelope calf is returned to his exhibit within the next week, animal care staff will continue bottle feedings in between his time socializing with the herd. The royal antelope exhibit is near the Bactrian camels on Front Street at the Zoo.
February 9: South Korean Colonel Moon Sang-Gyun (L) shakes hands with North Korean Colonel Ri Son-Kwon (R) before inter-Korean military talks at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on February 9, 2011. North and South Korea on February 9, held a second day of military talks designed to reduce heightened tensions, but remained far apart on who was to blame for two deadly border incidents last year.
FEBRUARY 8 — Cambodian monks walk within the 11th century Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear, Cambodia. Six Cambodian monks, living in a pagoda that was attacked by Thai troops over the weekend, are now taking shelter inside the ancient temple near the military for protection.
February 8: Former SAC Capital Advisers employee Donald Longueuil covers his face as he is led by his lawyer from the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City. Two people, including Longueuil, who once worked for billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisers were charged with insider trading, drawing the $12 billion hedge fund firm further into a high-profile investigation.
 
 
 
 
 

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