World's longest sea bridge opens in E. China

This photo, taken on Wednesday, April 30, 2008, shows the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, the world's longest sea bridge. China inaugurated the Hangzhou Bay Bridge on Thursday as part of its effort to boost economic integration and development in the Yangtze River Delta. ...

Employees wear only aprons for less packaging use

An employee of British cosmetics manufacturer "Lush", wearing only an apron, poses for the media in a shop in Berlin, Aug. 13, 2008, to campaign for the use of less packaging of beauty products and toiletries.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Employees of British cosmetics manufacturer "Lush", wearing only aprons, talk to tourists in front of a shop in Berlin, Aug. 13, 2008, to campaign for the use of less packaging of beauty products and toiletries.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

An employee of British cosmetics manufacturer "Lush", wearing only an apron, poses for the media in a shop in Berlin, Aug. 13, 2008, to campaign for the use of less packaging of beauty products and toiletries. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

King penguin receives Norwegian knighthood

Nils Olav, an Edinburgh Zoo penguin and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard, an elite unit tasked with protecting the Norwegian royal family, inspects soldiers of his regiment as they visit him in Edinburgh, Scotland, Friday Aug. 15, 2008, where he was presented with a medal. The original Nils Olav first became an honorary member of the regiment in 1972, when a young lieutenant called Nils Egelien visited the penguins at the zoo, but died in the 1980s, and was replaced by the current Nils Olav. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Tourists photograph King penguin Nils Olav as he walks past soldiers from the Norwegian King's Guard after he received a Knighthood at Edinburgh Zoo August 15, 2008. Edinburgh Zoo penguin Olav has been an honorary member and mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard since the 1980s and was made Honorary Colonel-in-Chief in 2005.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Man once world's most obese celebrates birthday

Manuel Uribe jokes as he holds a fruit cake with his girlfriend Claudia Solis outside his house in the suburb of San Nicolas de los Garza in the northern city of Monterrey June 11, 2008. Uribe, once the world's most obese man, celebrated his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a very short trip outside his house. "I'm happy that it is my birthday," he told reporters interviewing the man who weighed 717 pounds (324 kg) in May after losing 518 pounds (235 kg) since March 2006 on a diet of grapefruits, egg-white omelets, fish, chicken and vegetables. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Manuel Uribe drinks a beer with friends and relatives outside his house in the suburb of San Nicolas de los Garza in the northern city of Monterrey June 11, 2008. Uribe, once the world's most obese man, celebrated his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a very short trip outside his house.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

"Most Beautiful Goat" competition

Saudis look at A Damascene goat, or Maaz Al Shami, named Qahr, which won the first prize for the "Most Beautiful Goat" title at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh June 13, 2008. (Xinhua Photo)

Muhammad Hawas of Saudi Arabia poses with his Damascene goat, or Maaz Al Shami, named Qahr, which won the first prize for the "Most Beautiful Goat" title at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh June 13, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

A Saudi takes a picture of a Damascene goat, or Maaz Al Shami, which won the first prize for the "Most Beautiful Goat" title during the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh June 13, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Oahr, a Damascene goat, or Maaz Al Shami, which won the first prize for the "Most Beautiful Goat" title is seen at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh June 13, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Saudis look at Damascene goats, or Maaz Al Shami, during the Mazayen al-Maaz competition to crown the "most beautiful goat" in Riyadh June 13, 2008. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

A Saudi takes a picture of a Damascene goat, or Maaz Al Shami, which won the first prize for the "Most Beautiful Goat" title during the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh June 13, 2008. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

Berlin policemen protest by swimming in full uniform

Employees of the Berlin police swim in full uniform at a open water swimming pool in Berlin June 20, 2008, during a police union Gewerkschaft der Politizi (GdP) protest, themed "the water is up to our neck", to demand better salaries. (Source: CRIonline)

Employees of the Berlin police swim in full uniform at a open water swimming pool in Berlin June 20, 2008, during a police union Gewerkschaft der Politizi (GdP) protest, themed "the water is up to our neck", to demand better salaries.(Source: CRIonline)

Employees of the Berlin police swim in full uniform at a open water swimming pool in Berlin June 20, 2008, during a police union Gewerkschaft der Politizi (GdP) protest, themed "the water is up to our neck", to demand better salaries.(Source: CRIonline)

Employees of the Berlin police swim in full uniform at a open water swimming pool in Berlin June 20, 2008, during a police union Gewerkschaft der Politizi (GdP) protest, themed "the water is up to our neck", to demand better salaries.(Source: CRIonline)

Tornado funnel cloud captured

A huge tornado funnel cloud touches down in Orchard, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. The Globe Gazette and Mitchell County Press News reported that Lori Mehmen of Orchard, took the photo from outside her front door. Mehmen said the funnel cloud came near the ground and then went back up into the clouds. Besides tree and crop damage, no human injuries were reported.(Photo: eastday.com.cn)