Wall Street Stock Market vs German Stock Market.

16-year-old Qian Hongyan, from the Yunzhinan Swimming Club for the handicapped, practises during a daily training session at a swimming centre in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan province. About 30 disabled athletes from the club aged 10 to 22 are training for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. [Telegraph]

Nile seen from the International Space Station.

1922 beauty contest winners.

Miracles of physics - a soda drop on a coin.

A hungry seven-month-old baby named Mahiga Gedi Farah who weighs only 7 pounds (3.4 kg) is in the hands of the mother in the hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya on July 26. 

Mihag is just one of 800,000 children who officials warn could die across the region in the worst drought for decades.

Pripyat River, Chernobyl  region, Ukraine.

Los Angeles seen from Griffith Observatory.

Pro wrestling in Palestine.

Flooded ruins of villa Epecuen in Argentina.

Eroded icebergs in Eric’s fjord.

Photograph by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

Ukrainian cargo aircraft Antonov transporting a subway train.

Early Sunday morning brave diners toasted the closing of the Los Angeles 405 freeway, Carmageddon, by literally raising their glasses at a table on the deserted freeway.

No, this is not a plane crash. It is a movie set on the Universal Studios lot in Los Angeles, California.

Reaction to the end of this year's NASA Space shuttle program.

West Java Province, Indonesia: residents lay on railway tracks as they believe the electrical energy from the tracks will cure them of various illnesses.

This is an imprint of an owl is left on a window pane after the bird crashed into the window. The silhouette was left by the bird's 'powder down' - a substance protecting growing feathers.

Meet Brutus, a 5.5m saltwater crocodile, which is missing its right front leg but who's always making a great show for tourists to reach its meal.

This is the photo of muicians at the 27th underwater concert in Big Pine Key, Florida.

Hip it if you like it!

That's what your leg could look like after riding 15 editions of the Tour de France.

A calf jumps into the arena after the first running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona [Telegraph]

Hip it if you like it!

The silt-clearing operation on the Yellow River at Xiaolangdi Reservoir, Henan Province, China.

This is a guard of the Greek parliament who stands still, even after the police used tear gas right next to him. The picture dates back to 2007, but still it's quite impressive.

Night sky can be so different.

A Hindu devotee applies kohl on his eyes with a knife held between his legs as he performs a stunt during a rehearsal for the 134th annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession, in Ahmedabad, India [Telegraph]

Bull races in the village of None on the outskirts of Islamabad.

Dragon battle seen in Orion Nebula (enhanced pic).

Japanese science whizzes have invented a pot that charges your cell phone when you boil water. TES NewEnergy developed the technology for emergencies like earthquakes.

These are new cigarette packages that should appear on cigarette packages and in advertisements in September 2012.