Thursday, June 10, 2010

News pictures from around the world

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Maldivian National Security Service personnel attempt to clear the carcass of a blue whale which washed ashore at the Full Moon Resort. The whale added to the huge problem of cleaning up the pristine Maldivian beaches after the tsunami destruction

Smallest  baby

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In this photo released by the Loyola University Health System, Rumaisa Rahman, is seen next to a hand a few weeks after she was born at the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill. Rumaisa, whose parents came from Hyderabad, India, weighed 8.6 ounces (243.80 grams) when she was delivered Sept. 19. She is believed to be the smallest baby in the world ever to survive.

Gigantic  whale

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A 4.2 metre great white shark leaps from the sea at the appropriately named Dangerous Reef off the northeast coast of Australia, 15 December 2004. A pair of great white sharks killed a teenage boy at crowded West Beach in Adelaide, 16 December, as his horrified friends looked on, in Australia's second fatal shark attack in five days

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Mount Erebus : This handout picture from the US Coast Guard shows lenticular clouds hovering over Mount Erebus volcano in McMurdo Sound where massive icebergs from the Ross Ice Shelf are clogging the sea

Helping  a  Whale

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**FILE PHOTO** Researchers, shown in this June 26, 2001 aerial photo from the Center for Coastal Studies, attempt to inject a North Atlantic right whale with a sedative in an unsuccessful effort to remove a commercial fishing line from the whale's jaw. Scientists have received reports of two rare Atlantic right whales, their heads and fins entangled in lines, off the North Carolina coast.

 

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