Thursday, 17 November 2011

World Events - Last Week


World Events - Last Week





An aircraft sits on a flooded tarmack at the Don Muang domestic airport in Bangkok on 
November 10, 2011. Don Muang airport has been closed for weeks due to the worst flooding in
 Thailand's history. 



U.S. Navy SEALs of the Navy parachute team 'Leap Frogs' take part in a demonstration of combat
 skills as they jump from a U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft at 5,000 feet before landing at the National
 Navy UDT-SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida November 11, 2011. 


Russian young people launch sky paper lanterns in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011.
 Some hundreds of lanterns were launched into the sky from the coast of the Finnish gulf as part of a
 flashmob action. 


A devotee takes a ritual bath at the water tank of the illuminated Bangla Sahib Sikh temple on the birth 
anniversary of Guru Nanak in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Sikhism was founded in the 15th
 century by Guru Nanak. He preached the equality of races and genders, and the rejection of image-worship
 and the caste system. 


A Russian Soyuz TMA-22 space ship which will carry a new crew to the International Space Station 
(ISS) is transported to the launch pad of the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday,
 Nov. 11, 2011. The start of the new Soyuz mission with U.S. astronaut Dan Burbank, Russian cosmonauts
 Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 14. 


Arabs tourist take a boat tour in the lower cave of the Jeita Grotto during a tour in the cave a day before 
voting stops for the cave that is located north of Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Jeita Grotto,
 a compound of caves located 20 km north of Beirut in the Valley of Nahr al-Kalb (Dog River), is a finalist
 candidate representing Lebanon in the New 7 Wonders of the World campaign. 


A tanker explodes after being hit by another truck on westbound Interstate 10 near Chandler Boulevard 
on the Chandler-Ahwatukee, Ariz. border on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. Authorities in Phoenix say a
 milk truck driver was killed when he rear-ended another tanker truck hauling fuel, sparking a huge fire that 
snarled rush hour traffic for hours. 

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