Italian scuba divers Debora Vissani (right) and Alessandro Brandetti are part of a team of six studying the effects of living underwater for a prolonged period of time. The "aquanauts" will spend two weeks on a platform anchored to the seabed off the Italian island of Ponza at a depth of about 15 meters. Reuters / Progetto Abissi
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Maximum Silence
Some 10,000 lights illuminate the installation "Maximum Silence" by Italian artist Giancarlo Neri in Rome's Circus Maximus.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Shockwave
The Shockwave Jet Truck, which reportedly goes from zero to 300 in 11 seconds, speeds down a runway beside a pyrotechnic wall of fire during the Naval Air Station Oceana Air Show in Virginia Beach, Va.
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Ramadan
Indonesian women attend a Ramadan night prayer, marking the start of the Muslim holy fasting month in Jakarta.
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Mini Ranch
The International Car Show in Frankfurt, Germany, does a Mini rip-off of the Cadillac Ranch art installation in Amarillo, Texas.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Tallest Sand Castle
Ed Jarrett collapses in exhaustion after completing his world-record 31.7-foot-high sand castle, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007, at the Point Sebago Resort in Casco, Maine. Jarrett spent the summer building a 'Castle to the Sun' to raise funds to benefit Camp Sunshine, a camp on Sebago Lake for children with life-threatening illnesses. Just under a million pounds of sand - forty dump truck loads - went into building the castle. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Ghost Dancers
'Ghost dancers' protest the APEC summit in Sydney, where riot police briefly scuffled with demonstrators. AP / Ed Wray
Suspended Ego
Suspended on skin hooks, Ego Komus of Holland suffers for his art at a World Body Art exhibition in Caracas. AP / Howard Yanes
China Biggest LED Screen
A Chinese woman walks underneath a giant screen displaying a ocean life at a new shopping district in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007. The 2,296-feet long and 88-feet wide screen, named as 'Sky Screen' and clad entirely with LED modules, is claimed to be the biggest screen in Asia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Panama Canal Expansion
A man holds balloons at a ceremony marking the beginning of the Panama Canal expansion project in Paraiso on the outskirts of Panama City, Monday, Sept. 3, 2007. Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal to mark the start of the waterway's biggest expansion project since it opened 93 years ago. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
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