High intensity earthquake hits Pakistan

A Pakistani reacts while praying along with others outside their homes as a severe earthquake hits the area in Jafarabad, 300 kilometers north of Quetta, Pakistan, early Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked area of southwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, shaking many parts of the country and causing tremors as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates.

 Two Pakistanis, left, read verses of the Quran while gathering with others outside their homes as a severe earthquake hits the area in Quetta, Pakistan, early Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked area of southwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, shaking many parts of the country and causing tremors as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates. 

 People of Jafarabad, 300 kilometers north of Quetta, Pakistan praying outside their homes as a severe earthquake hits the area on Wednesday morning Jan. 19, 2010. A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked area of southwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, shaking many parts of the country and causing tremors as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates.

 A Pakistani woman comforts a man who was shocked as a severe earthquake hit the area, in a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, early Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked area of southwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, shaking many parts of the country and causing tremors as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates.

  

Pakistanis gather around a fire to warm themselves outside their homes as a severe earthquake hit the area in Quetta, Pakistan, early Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked area of southwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, shaking many parts of the country and causing tremors as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sad New of the Week 24th - 30th Jan

Egyptians gesture as they stand atop an Egyptian army armored vehicle as they celebrate in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Hundreds of anti-government protesters returned Saturday to the streets of central Cairo, chanting slogans against Hosni Mubarak and attacking police just hours after the Egyptian president fired his Cabinet and promised reforms but refused to step down. 

Miner Fabio Veloza weeps in front of the La Preciosa mine in Sardinata, northeastern Colombia, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. Two relatives of Veloza are among 20 miners feared dead after an explosion believed to have been caused by a methane gas buildup rocked the underground coal mine early Wednesday. Methane gas was also believed to be the cause of an explosion at the mine in 2007 that killed 32 miners.

Indian gay rights supporters are seen through a flag during the Freedom Mumbai March in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. A landmark court ruling decriminalized homosexuality on July 2, 2009, marking the gradual acceptance of gays in the deeply conservative country.

A tug boat sprays water at Laut Teduh 2 ferry that caught fire off Java island in Serang, Banten province, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. The crowded ferry caught fire early Friday sending panicked passengers jumping into the sea, officials said.

People are silhouetted as the illuminated Presidential Palace is seen in the background, at the end of the Beating the Retreat ceremony in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. The ceremony held on Jan. 29 every year marks the end of Republic Day celebrations. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan) 

Angry protesters burn a van belonging to Al-Jazeera in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. Thousands of Sunnis waved flags, burned tires and torched a van belonging to Al-Jazeera on Tuesday during a "day of rage" to protest gains by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which now has enough support in parliament to control Lebanon's next government. 

Suspected Taliban fighters stand at a police station in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. Eleven Taliban fighters were arrested by Afghan police in a recent operation.

A worker walks by newly-dug graves that will receive the recently identified remains of Greek Cypriots who had been listed as missing since the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, at Tymvos Makedonitissas military cemetery in the island's divided capital Nicosia, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. The U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon emerged from a meeting Wednesday between Greek Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, expressing optimism over reunification talks that could determine the outcome of Turkey's troubled bid to join the European Union. Cyprus was split into a Turkish Cypriot north and a Greek Cypriot south in 1974.

Egyptian riot police clash with anti-government activists in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. Egyptian anti-government activists clashed with police for a second day Wednesday in defiance of an official ban on any protests but beefed up police forces on the streets quickly moved in and used tear gas and beatings to disperse demonstrations.

A candle flame is reflected in the memorial wall holding the engraved names of tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust victims in the Holocaust Memorial Center, housed in a former synagogue, in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. United Nations General Assembly dedicated January 27 to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. In 1945, the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, was liberated by Soviet Red Army on this day.

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India's 61st Republic Day Parade

 

An Indian Army soldier gives a command on Republic Day

 

 

 

 

 

Indian army personnel perform motorcycle stunts on Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India. 

 Folk dancers from Orissa state pose as a Buddhist monk looks on from their respective tableaus.

 

 Bayonets gleam as Indian policemen march during Republic Day parade.

 

 An Indian officer commands her troupe of the Calcutta Armed Police Force.

 

 

 

Indian Air Force choppers fly over a naval band during Republic Day parade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A tableau of New Delhi's Lotus temple monument is carried the Republic Day in New Delhi, India,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indian army soldiers from the Rajput Regiment march during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India,

 

 Indian army Brahmos missile launcher passes on a flotilla towards the India Gate on Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India.

 Cultural performers from Punjab state.

 

 

 

A girl, part of a cyclist group rallying for environmental awareness, carries the Indian flag in the backdrop of Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Indian band members are reflected on a musical instrument.

 

 Indian air force personnel

 

 A Tejas, India's first indigenous combat jet, is displayed during Republic Day parade.

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World Biggest Traffic Jams

You are driving down the road, when suddenly there’s a big traffic jam ahead.  The hell brakes loose on the road and you are stuck for hours, bored, tired, cold, standing in the road by your vehicle instead of being at home. You wish you could somehow navigate your way out of it, buy you are there, and it’s too late to go back. Thought of this can drive most of drivers nuts.
To those who can stand it you have been warn, don’t look at these pictures if you can’t stand a good old rush hour traffic jam! Here you can’t find the biggest traffic jams and some other types of trouble on the road.

 

 

 

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