Pictures of the Day 23 August 2012
(01 of11)
This 360-degree panorama provided by NASA shows evidence of a successful first test drive for NASA's Curiosity rover. The rover made its first move, Wednesday, going forward about 15 feet (4.5 meters), rotating 120 degrees and then reversing about 8 feet (2.5 meters). Curiosity is about 20 feet (6 meters) from its landing site, now named Bradbury Landing. (AP Photo/NASA)
(02 of11)
The peloton climbs toward the summit of Cottonwood Pass during stage three of the USA Pro Challenge from Gunnison to Aspen in Chaffee County, Colorado. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
(03 of11)
Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the 14th hole during the First Round of The Barclays on the Black Course at Bethpage State Park August 23, 2012 in Farmingdale, New York. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
(04 of11)
Models showcase designs by We Are Handsome on the catwalk as part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival Sydney 2012 at Sydney Town Hall in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Stefan Gosatti/Getty Images)
(05 of11)
The Washington Monument extends towards the sky in Washington. The Washington Monument remains closed one year after the region was shaken by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, causing serious structural damage to the monument. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
(06 of11)
BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans, drives his Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car through central London, following it's restoration to make it road legal, the car, which it is believed he paid almost £500,000, starred in the film of the same title. The car was expected to fetch between £600,000 and £1.2million, but eventually sold for £495,415 at an auction in Los Angeles last May. There were several Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cars made for the film, but only one that actually worked. The vehicle was designed by Ken Adam and built by the Ford Racing Team and is powered by a Ford three-litre V6 engine, with a dashboard plate from a British World War I fighter plane. Photo credit: Nick Ansell/PA
(07 of11)
Nur Nadir, the wife of Asil Nadir, leaves after addressing the media outside the Old Bailey following her husband's sentencing for stealing 29 million GBP from his Polly Peck business 20 years ago in London, England. Mr Nadir has been jailed for 10 years on ten counts of theft from his company, Polly Peck International, a multi-billion pound company until it collapsed in 1990 following an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
(08 of11)
The champagne lawn at York racecourse in York, England. (Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)
(09 of11)
A touchscreen shows a facsimile of the Codex Calixtinus at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain. The unique medieval document, one of Spain's greatest cultural treasures, was stolen on July 5, 2011 from the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where it was kept in a secure archive, and recovered by Spanish police last month. Photo credit: MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/GettyImages)
(10 of11)
During the build up to the London 2012 Paralympic Games, British Airways is welcoming international Paralympians into London Heathrow Airport with a series of giant images of ParalympicsGB athlete Shelly Woods projected on to the airline's engineering hangars with the message 'Welcome To Our Manor' and are visible to competitors and passengers before touch down.The images have been displayed for thousands of passengers to see during the busiest two days for international Paralympian arrivals for the Paralympic Games (Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 August). Extra powerful lumen projectors were used to create the images, the largest of which measures 58m x 18m - the equivalent to 24 London Routemaster double decker buses. Photo credit: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire
(11 of11)
Tango couple Sebastian Matias Bianchi, from Argentina, and Yuka Sato from Japan, compete in a stage category during the Tango Dance World Cup 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two-week long event offers hundreds of free dance lessons, concerts and recitals, as professional dancers compete in the championship and teach many the eight basic steps of the dance in the city where it was born. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)