September 2, 201114 yr 31-year-old photographer who caught the moment the Eiffel Tower appeared to be struck by lightning. The photo, taken from his apartment window last year, surfaced this week and won the Office du Tourisme de Paris competition. It will be part of an upcoming show in France. A reveller is covered with tomato pulp after the annual "Tomatina" (tomato fight) in the Mediterranean village of Bunol, near Valencia August 31, 2011. The origin of the tomato fight is disputed - everyone in Bunol seems to have a favourite story - but most agree it started around 1940, in the early years of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Kansas City Royals' Brayan Pena holds a baseball with a mantodea ,more commonly known as a praying mantises, on it during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers in Detroit, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011.
September 2, 201114 yr Author Muslims leave after offering prayers at the Jama Masjid mosque during Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. Eid al-Fitr is a holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, which is observed by millions of Muslims around the world. Artist Stephen Wilkes photographed the Flatiron continuously for up to 15 hours. Then he digitally blended the images into one photograph. The result captures the changing of time in a single frame.
September 2, 201114 yr Author A man dives at sunset in a lake at the end of an unusually hot day in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Temperatures climbed to 35 degrees Centigrade in many regions across Romania as a heat wave affects the Balkans region. A passenger jet flies towards Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai August 23, 2011. Seagulls sit on Vltava river bank in front of Prague Castle at dusk in Prague August 31, 2011.
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