News in Pictures

The Latest Happenings from Around the world for the whole of last week, put together.

A man stands near the crowned head of a statue of Jesus being built in Swiebodzin, west of Poznan, western Poland.

People playing tennis at a tennis court surrounded by high-rise buildings in downtown Shanghai.And I thought I was strange coz I can wake up in the middle of the night walk around the house with an urge to play some bad minton.Tennis in the middle of the night..

A man rides his motorcycle during ash rain in the city of Magelang as Mount Merapi volcano erupts, My heart goes out to the victims

The Saddest picture I came across, look at that little girl sleeping on a hammock in her floating house in Caapiranga, in Amazonas state, northern Brazil

Damage on the left wing over the number two engine is seen from a window of the Qantas Airways,A380 passenger plane flight QF32 though If I was on a plane and I was seeing damage on any wing,Trust me, I wouldnt be taking pictures

Whats better than a good Ol Lunch break! Workers at the World Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition (EVS) in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. Random Thought...Na Kila Mtu atakula kwa Jasho lake

A resident waits inside his tent as Tropical Storm Tomas arrives at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with the way they're living right now, the storm otta give them a break. I wonder how long it will take to build those project houses people keep talking about, seeing these tents like that is just sad... 

Thai Muslim men wade through floodwaters as they leave a mosque in the southern Pattani province 
Kuswali Lazima, one must pray , flood or not lol.

Angelina Jolie walks on the set during the filming of her yet untitled directorial debut in Budapest, i guess she got that permit Afterall

Students from the southern Abyei oil region demonstrate outside the South Sudan coordinator office against the delays of the Abyei referendum in Khartoum

A flare flies over a shadow of a chase helicopter during a Medevac mission in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province

Relatives attend a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the seizure of the Justice Palace by the M-19 guerilla group, in central Bogota

Soldiers carry a man with burn injuries sustained from Mount Merapi's latest eruption upon arriving at Sarjito hospital in Yogyakarta

The Italian Frecce Tricolori aerobatic squad performs during the celebration of the Italian Army's anniversary in Rome November 4

Soldiers carry bodies from Argomulyo village in Sleman district of the Indonesia Central Java province

An elderly woman walks in front of tents at Jumoyo village's temporary shelter in the Indonesian city of Magelang as Mount Merapi volcano erupts

A man tours with a donkey wearing a U.N. sign, to express opposition to the international Special Tribunal for Lebanon, in Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold...but a U.N. Donkey?

 The "Formula Rossa" rollercoaster, the fastest in the world is seen at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, a Ferrari themed amusement park...(You know the Formula 1 freak couldnt leave this one spotted out...) but truthfully speaking, this is one rollercoster ride that I'd be terrified to ride

An anti nuclear protest figure stands in a field in Metzingen near the northern German village of Dannenberg, honestly speaking when I first saw this I thought it was scare crow, it took like a whole hour to put the pieces together, sad, I have blonde moments sometimes, coz I was thinking 'What an odd looking scarecrow that is'

Russian ultra nationalists walk under a giant historic flag of the Russian empire during a demonstration on the outskirts of Moscow. i loved the reflection on the water as the picture itself...Russia marked the Day of People's Unity on November 4. It celebrated the defeat of Polish invaders in 1612 and replaced a communist celebration of the 1917 revolution

A member of the Ethiopian community in Israel prays during a ceremony marking the Ethiopian Jewish holiday of Sigd in Jerusalem ,The holiday symbolizes the community's connection to Jerusalem. 

 Horsemen scuffle in front of a goal as one side attempts to score during Kyrgyzstan's Kok-boru competition in the capital Bishkek

 Military and aviation officials stand next to the wreckage of a passenger plane which crashed near Karachi's Jinnah international airport. ..I swear the amount of plane crashes this time around is scaring me, how long is it to travel by ship..Oh wait..Titanic flashbacks, though its unlikely to happen twice, I have such bad luck I dont trust myself. 

Anne Hathaway poses at the world premiere of her and co-star Jake Gyllenhaal's film 'Love & Other Drugs' at the opening night gala at AFI Fest 2010 in Hollywood