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Large waves batter the North Somerset coast at Watchet on December 22, 2024, as Storm Enol hits the UK. The storm has prompted a yellow warning from the Met office forecasting 70mph winds. (Photo by Mark Passmore/Alamy Live News)

Large waves batter the North Somerset coast at Watchet on December 22, 2024, as Storm Enol hits the UK. The storm has prompted a yellow warning from the Met office forecasting 70mph winds. (Photo by Mark Passmore/Alamy Live News)
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04 Apr 2025 03:20:00


NASA space shuttle Atlantis is prepared on the Vehicle Assembly Building floor at the Kennedy Space Center May 18, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The space shuttle program ends with Atlantis mission STS-135 scheduled for early July. Space shuttle Atlantis will carry the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module to deliver supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station. Atlantis also will fly a system to investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing spacecraft and return a failed ammonia pump module. (Photo by Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images)
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19 May 2011 07:20:00


Traditional miners carry sulphur on the Ijen volcano complex on May 25, 2009 outside Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia. Miners carry the solidified yellow sulphur blocks from the crater floor to the rim for as many hours a day as they can tolerate, paid by the kilogram of sulphur they extract. The average wage is USD $.05 per kilogram of sulphur and a worker, depending on his strength and stamina, carry on average 3 baskets of 70-80kg per day, earning him around USD $11. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)
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08 Jul 2011 10:53:00
Carsten Holler Experience Exhibit Draws Large Crowds To New Museum

A visitor to the New Museum walks through the “Carsten Holler: Experience”, exhibition at the museum on December 14, 2011 in New York City. The show, which has been called an art world amusement park, includes a 102-foot slide that corkscrews down from the fourth floor to the second; an installation of flashing lights that is supposed to make you hallucinate and a sensory-deprivation tank that is meant to resemble the Dead Sea. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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17 Dec 2011 12:10:00
Trevor Olson, from Minnesota, dressed as the character “Joker”, poses for a photograph at New York's Comic Con convention, October 9, 2014, in New York City. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

Trevor Olson, from Minnesota, dressed as the character “Joker”, poses for a photograph at New York's Comic Con convention, October 9, 2014, in New York City. The event draws thousands of costumed fans, panels of pop culture luminaries and features a sprawling floor of vendors in a space equivalent to more than three football fields in Javits Center. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
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10 Oct 2014 12:20:00
The death of Berkin Elvan -- a Turkish teenager who died after being hit by a tear-gas canister on his way to buy a loaf of bread during last summer's Gezi protests-- has once again fed anti-government sentiment in the country.

The death of Berkin Elvan - a Turkish teenager who died after being hit by a tear-gas canister on his way to buy a loaf of bread during last summer's Gezi protests-- has once again fed anti-government sentiment in the country.
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29 May 2014 15:56:00
Buses are stranded in a flooded street in Fuzhou, Fujian province, July 24, 2014. Typhoon Matmo hit Taiwan on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds, shutting financial markets and schools. It passed the island and headed into China, downgraded from typhoon to tropical storm. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Buses are stranded in a flooded street in Fuzhou, Fujian province, July 24, 2014. Typhoon Matmo hit Taiwan on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds, shutting financial markets and schools. It passed the island and headed into China, downgraded from typhoon to tropical storm. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
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25 Jul 2014 11:45:00
A hairdressing mannequin is seen outside a hair salon amid as Typhoon Matmo hits Nantong, Jiangsu province July 25, 2014. Matmo, which made landfall in Fujian Province on Wednesday, has brought strong winds and heavy downpours to more areas in China after it moved northward on Thursday, Xinhua News Agency reported. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A hairdressing mannequin is seen outside a hair salon amid as Typhoon Matmo hits Nantong, Jiangsu province July 25, 2014. Matmo, which made landfall in Fujian Province on Wednesday, has brought strong winds and heavy downpours to more areas in China after it moved northward on Thursday, Xinhua News Agency reported. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
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26 Jul 2014 11:48:00