The week in photos 16/09/11

 

The week in photos 16/09/11

The world's longest nails, Europe's largest shopping centre and

the biggest crocodile in captivity feature in our weekly photo retrospect

1:Lightning flashes east of the Las Vegas Strip during a thunderstorm early on 13 September.
Stormy weather was expected to continue through Thursday.

2: Impressive. Chris "The Duchess" Walton demonstrates how she texts with her Guinness world record
holding fingernails inside the New York Public Library in New York 14 September.
Her nails measure 10 feet 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet 7 inches on her right hand
that she has been growing for 18 years

3: Rescue workers try to rescue four Welsh miners that have been trapped 300ft underground
after a coal mine tunnel collapsed and flooded near the village of Cilybebyll in the Swansea Valley,
on 15 September near Swansea, Wales. Three men were hoisted to the surface earlier,
while another four workers remain below the rubble with the emergency services currently working to reach them..

4: Workers at the World's Finest Chocolate company weigh what they hope will be a world record chocolate bar
on 13 September in Chicago, Illinois. The candy bar, weighing 12,190 pounds, standing nearly 3 feet high
and measuring 21 feet long beat the previous record chocolate bar by more than a ton.

5: The Queen Mary 2 (QM2) sails past Antony Gormley's 'Another Place' on the approach to the Port of Liverpool
on September 15, 2011 in Liverpool, England. The QM2 is visiting Liverpool as part of the city's river festival.
The flag ship of Cunard, the QM2 is 1,132 feet in length and is longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower,
Westminster's Tower (Big Ben) and St Paul's Cathedral.
The ship has 14 decks and can host 2,620 guests and 1,253 crew

6: Villagers pose with the 6.4 metre saltwater crocodile caught in southern Philippines earlier this month.
 An Australian crocodile called Cassius Clay was on Thursday declared the biggest in captivity by
Guinness World Records, although his reign may be brief after the rival giant emerged in the Philippines

7:A Pakistani retrieves belongings from a flooded room of his home following heavy rainfall in Karachi, Pakistan,
on Tuesday 13 September. The floods caused by heavy rains killed more than 200 people, made about
200,000 people homeless and left 4.2 million acres of agriculture land inundated with water, authorities said.

8: Victoria Beckham hits the shops in a killer pair of heels.
The footballer's wife took her eight-week-old daughter Harper along with her
to the New York fashion week where she will be showcasing her latest collection

9: A man pushes a child in a pram through the newly opened Westfield Stratford City shopping centre
on 13 September in London, England. The new Westfield mall is the largest urban shopping centre in Europe
covering 1.9million sq ft, it contains over 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a bowling alley, a 17-screen cinema,
three hotels and the UK's largest casino.

10: This photo provided by the journal Science shows numerous individual filaments in Late Cretaceous Canadian amber.
These filaments are morphologically similar to the protofeathers that have been found as compression fossils
associated with some dinosaur skeletons. Pigment distributions within these filaments range from translucent
(unpigmented) to near-black (heavily pigmented). In science fiction, amber preserved DNA that allowed
rebirth of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
In real life, amber preserved feathers that provide a new image of what dinosaurs looked like

11: The BT Tower in London became home to the world's largest lightsabre as
Fox Home Entertainment launched the Blu-ray versions of Star Wars:
The Complete Saga.

12: Gales and high tides sweep the coast at Blackpool, in the north west of England,
as the remnants of Hurricane Katia hit British shores, Monday Sept. 12, 2011.
The second stage of the Tour of Britain was cancelled for safety reasons due to
high winds across Monday's competition route. Britain's weather agency says the
tail end of former Hurricane Katia could bring the worst storms to hit the country in 15 years.
Britain's Met Office said post Tropical Storm Katia was hitting parts of Northern Ireland, North Wales,
Northern England and parts of Scotland on Monday.
It said the storms could be the worst to hit Britain since 1996 when the aftermath of Hurricane Lili
brought winds of 90 mph (145 kph) to the country.

13: People visit the South Pool at the public opening for the National September 11 Memorial at the

 World Trade Center memorial plaza in New York, 12 September 2011.

14: Cheryl Cole was taken on a mock patrol with Lt Dennison and his Multiple in Afghanistan.

They took her to a specially-erected Afghan compound, built to replicate the type of buildings facing troops

on patrol where she joined them climbing ladders and walking along rooftops dressed in full combat kit.

15: Ukrainian Pavlo Timoshchenko falls during the men's riding event at the final of the Modern Pentathlon

World Championships in Moscow on 11 September.

16:A smoke plume rises from where the World Trade Center was in lower Manhattan at 11:30 AM September 12, 2001,

 the day after the 9/11 attacks, in this satellite photo taken by USGS Landsat 7 satellite and released by NASA on 11 September 2011.

17: One World Trade Center, left, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, at ground zero is lit up in red, white and blue

as two light beams known as The Tribute in Light representing the Twin Towers beam into the sky

in Lower Manhattan in honour of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

18: A Team Korea crew member falls from the trampoline as they capsize in a fleet race on the second day

of racing in the America's Cup in Plymouth, southern England September 11, 2011.

 

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