Huge crowds of tourists pack on to the Badaling Great Wall of China on Wednesday as extended national holidays brought many attractions to a virtual standstill. The China Tourism Academy estimated there would be 362 million travelers on the move this holiday. Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing as he is driven through the crowd for his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on Wednesday. he largest wall of Virginia Creeper in Britain is turning a blaze of red as the mild weather sees this year's autumn leaves produce some spectacular colours at St John's College, Cambridge. The vine, which climbs 10 metres high to the top of the four-storey building and is 60 metres wide, has become one of the most famous autumn sights in the University city. An 11-year-old boy from Russia's north has stumbled upon a well-preserved wooly mammoth, in what scientists described as the best such discovery since 1901. mergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Hanford, California, on Monday. Two cars and the locomotive of the train car derailed after colliding with a big rig truck in California's Central Valley. At least 20 passengers suffered minor to moderate injuries, authorities said. Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin's eight-year-old son Robert has proved he is a chip off the old block after he fed dangerous freshwater crocodiles for the first time. Brave Robert Irwin smiled after feeding garfish to the dangerous reptiles in public view at Australia Zoo in Queensland. Indian policemen use a water cannon to disperse Congress party workers who marched to Madhya Pradesh state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's residence to protest against alleged corruption and the deteriorating law and lack of order in the state, in Bhopal, India, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. |
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