Today in Photos

Today's photo show has a nice variety of images including a beautiful photo of the space station from NASA, two fascinating photos of a ferry named "The Cat", a photo of a big cat chasing a fox, twin new born kangaroos and a mass marriage in Pakistan.

Section:Gallery

Fri., June 5, 2009

A girl sits on the pavement as she waits for big waves to hit the sea wall Friday, June 5, 2009, along Roxas Blvd. in Manila, Philippines. A low pressure area located near the country brought rains and strong winds that submerge some low lying areas in the city.

Pat Roque Associated Press
Garbage collectors race on their tricycles, taking part in a street festival in Zagreb, Croatia, Friday, June 5, 2009, .

Darko Bandic Associated Press
Workers install a stage in preparation of Russia Day, in Red Square, with a Kremlin tower in the background, in Moscow, Friday, June 5, 2009. Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, established the June 12 holiday after the Soviet breakup to mark the 1990 declaration of sovereignty by Russia's Soviet-era parliament.

Mikhail Metzel Associated Press
Pakistani government arranges a mass marriage ceremony for poor people which is attended by 150 brides and grooms in Karachi, Pakistan on Friday, June 5, 2009.

Fareed Khan Associated Press
A Palestinian man sits inside his shop near mannequins with head scarves in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, June 5, 2009. Israel will not heed US President Barack Obama's powerful appeal to halt all settlement activity on lands the Palestinians claim for a future state, officials said Friday. The government plans to allow construction inside existing West Bank settlements to accommodate for growing families, said the officials, explaining a position that looks sure to cause a serious policy clash with the United States.

Tara Todras-Whitehill Associated Press
The high-speed Cat ferry dwarfs a lobster boat as it leaves Portland Harbor, bound for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, on its first run of the season, Friday, June 5, 2009, in Portland, Maine.

Robert Bukaty Associated Press
The high-speed Cat ferry leaves Portland Harbor, bound for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, on its first run of the season, Friday, June 5, 2009, in Portland, Maine. In the past the ferry's owners focused on enticing Americans to travel to Nova Scotia but this year the relatively strong Canadian dollar is causing Bay Ferries to shift some of its efforts to luring Nova Scotians to travel to Maine.

Robert Bukaty Associated Press
In this image provided by NASA Thursday June 4, 2009 a portion of the International Space Station is backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space photographed by an Expedition 20 crew member aboard the station Sunday May 31, 2009. Two international space station crew members began a spacewalk Friday, despite initial concerns about high carbon dioxide levels in their redesigned Russian space suits. Commander Gennady Padalka, a veteran Russian cosmonaut, and Flight Engineer Mike Barratt, a U.S. astronaut on his first space mission, were scheduled to install an additional docking port for Russian space vehicles during the planned 5 1/2-hour effort.
A greater flamingo chick, Phoenicopterus roseus, is propelled by its mother in their enclosure in the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary, 5 June 2009. With fifteen chicks hatched in the past few weeks the number of the greater flamingos has grown to 98 in the zoo.

Attila Kovacs Associated Press
A June 5, 2009 handout photo released by the Lincoln Children's Zoo shows twin Matschie's tree kangaroo joeys peeking out of their mother Millas' pouch. Zoo authorities say the two male Matschie's (MATCH-ees) tree kangaroos weigh about a half pound each and are about 8 inches tall. The fraternal twins were first discovered in December.

Lincoln Zoo Associated Press
A lion hounds a little fox at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany, Friday, June 5, 2009. The fox got into the lions' enclosure by mistake, and obviously had no fun in playing with the big cats. He managed to escape unhurt.

Martin Meissner Associated Press