Pictures of the Day 16 August 2012
(01 of15)
High access workers abseil down The Shard building in London. PA
(02 of15)
Artist illustration pOF a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA's X-Ray telescope to spot this distant galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year. This new galaxy is about 5.7 billion light years away. It is in the center of a recently discovered cluster of galaxies that give the brightest x-ray glow astronomers have seen. The study appears Wednesday in the journal Nature. (NASA/AP)
(03 of15)
A boat is surrounded by Japan Cost Guard's patrol boats after some activists descended from the boat on Uotsuri Island. Regional tensions flared on the emotional anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender as activists from China and South Korea used Wednesday's occasion to press rival territorial claims, prompting 14 arrests by Japanese authorities. The 14 people had traveled by boat from Hong Kong to the disputed islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Masataka Morita)
(04 of15)
Telescope-eyed goldfish swim in a tank as part of an art exhibition 'Art Aquarium' during a press preview in Tokyo. The exhibition, designed by aquarist Hidetomo Kimura, will begin from August 17 through September 24. (Photo credit: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
(05 of15)
Giant Nose Sculpture on the Millenium Bridge promoting the London Dungeon's 'Stinky Summer' exhibition, London. Photo": Rex Features
(06 of15)
Spanish matador Alejandro Talavante during the Malagueta bullring in Malaga, Spain. (Photo by Daniel Perez Garcia-Santos/Getty Images)
(07 of15)
Police stand guard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy where Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, is seeking asylum on August 15, 2012 in London, England. Mr Assange has been living inside Ecuador's London embassy since June 19, 2012 after requesting political asylum whilst facing extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault. According to officials within Ecuador's government, Assange is to be granted asylum. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
(08 of15)
A Chinese protester tries to throw a traffic cone towards the Japanese Embassy during a protest against the arrests of 14 activists, in Beijing. The 14 people who included Hong Kong residents and mainland Chinese, had traveled by boat from Hong Kong to a set of uninhabited islands controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan, and were arrested on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
(09 of15)
Workers dismantle a euro sculpture at a terminal of the airport in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Photo: Fredrik von Erichsen/PA
(10 of15)
A Shadhu, or Nepalese holy man, takes his morning tea at Pashupatinath temple in Katmandu, Nepal. Pashupatinath Temple is one of the most oldest and sacred Hindu temple in the world. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
(11 of15)
Volunteers cut a large scale checkerboard design, using just hairdressing scissors, in the grass lawn at the National Trust's Ham House and Garden as part of a live art performance with artist Caroline Wright in London, England. The event is part of Garden of Reason, a summer-long art exhibition in the gardens where contemporary artists celebrate and are inspired by the history of the 17th century Ham House. The grass checkerboard design will be the same size and pattern as the black and white Marble Hall in the grand entrance to the house and recreates the past when lawns were cut by hand. Ham House was home to Duchess of Lauderdale, known as a political schemer, and was at the centre of Restoration court life and Civil War politics during the 17th century. It is famous for its luxurious interiors and collections of 17th and 18th century furniture, textiles and paintings. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
(12 of15)
The Boris Johnson as a bumbling policeman puppet, which will star in a modernised Punch and Judy show from comedy channel GOLD, which will tour the UK this August. PA
(13 of15)
England's Jermain Defoe battles for the ball with Italy's Davide Astori (right) and Daniele De Rossi (left). PA
(14 of15)
An anti-Japan protester shows a clenched fist in front of a Chinese national flag during a rally outside the Japanese Consulate General in Hong Kong, as they demand Japanese government to release Chinese activists arrested in Japan after landing on Uotsuri Island, one of the islands of Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. China's official Xinhua News Agency said the arrests of the 14 people, who included Hong Kong residents and mainland Chinese, had caused tensions over its territorial dispute with Japan to surge "to a new high." (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
(15 of15)
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivers his speech before parliament members one day ahead of the country's independence day in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)