Bears roam in Romanian town
Bears roam in Romanian town
A brown bear and her cub play on the road on the outskirts of Sinaia, 140 km (87 miles) north of Bucharest, June 15, 2009. [Agencies]
A gendarme distracts the attention of a brown bear and her cub from a tourist vehicle on the road in the outskirts of Sinaia, 140 km north of Bucharest, June 15, 2009. [Agencies]
A brown bear cub plays on the road in the outskirts of Sinaia, 140 km north of Bucharest, June 15, 2009. [Agencies]
A brown bear is measured after being shot with a tranquiliser on the outskirts of Sinaia, 140 km (87 miles) north of Bucharest, June 15, 2009. [Agencies]
Members of the Forestry Institute measure the teeth of a brown bear after it was captured in the outskirts of Sinaia, 140 km north of Bucharest, June 15, 2009. [Agencies]
Local authorities and members of the Forestry Institute started an operation to capture and relocate about 25 bears after many started to roam in the town in search of food. With half of Europe's brown bears - roughly 6,000 - living in the Carpathians mountains, environmentalists and authorities are struggling to keep the wild animals and residents in mountain towns safe from each other.
Women enjoy mud wrestling in Wuhan
Women enjoy mud wrestling in Wuhan
Two females are entangled in dogfight during a distinctive Women's Mud Wrestling Match, as some 40 female contestants from both China and overseas take part in this very amusing sport with the skin-friendly slurry and mud from the deep sea, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 3, 2009. (Xinhua/Dong Yushan)
Two females are entangled in dogfight during a distinctive Women's Mud Wrestling Match, as some 40 female contestants from both China and overseas take part in this very amusing sport with the skin-friendly slurry and mud from the deep sea, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 3, 2009. (Xinhua/Dong Yushan)
Two females are entangled in dogfight during a distinctive Women's Mud Wrestling Match, as some 40 female contestants from both China and overseas take part in this very amusing sport with the skin-friendly slurry and mud from the deep sea, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 3, 2009.
Mexican boy, world's first patient infected by A/H1N1 flu, recovered
Mexican boy, world's first patient infected by A/H1N1 flu, recovered
Four-year-old Edgar Hernandez (L) who has recovered from the A/H1N1 flu influenza recently, and his mother rest in a free dining room at his hometown in Veracruz state in Mexico May 2, 2009. Hernandez is the first patient who was infected by the A/H1N1 flu influenza in Mexico. (Xinhua Photo)
Four-year-old Edgar Hernandez (L), who has recovered from the A/H1N1 flu influenza recently, walks outside a free dining room with his mother at his hometown in Veracruz state in Mexico May 2, 2009. Hernandez is the first patient who was infected by the A/H1N1 flu influenza in Mexico. (Xinhua Photo)
Four-year-old Edgar Hernandez who has recovered from the A/H1N1 flu influenza recently, and his mother rest in a free dining room at his hometown in Veracruz state in Mexico May 2, 2009. Hernandez is the first patient who was infected by the A/H1N1 flu influenza in Mexico.
Ancient life copied to attract tourists
Ancient life copied to attract tourists
Chinese people in traditional costumes walk along a bridge to showcase the life of China's Northern Song Dynasty (960-1126 A.D.) at a tourism promotional initiative during the Qingming festival, or the Tomb-sweeping Day, in Kaifeng city, central China's Henan Province, April 4, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Junsheng)
Chinese people in trational costumes walk along a bridge to showcase the life of China's Northern Song Dynasty (960-1126 A.D.) at a tourism promotional initiative during the Qingming festival, or the Tomb-sweeping Day, in Kaifeng city, central China's Henan Province, April 4, 2009.(Xinhua/Li Junsheng)
Chinese people in traditional costumes walk along a bridge to showcase the life of China's Northern Song Dynasty (960-1126 A.D.) at a tourism promotional initiative during the Qingming festival, or the Tomb-sweeping Day, in Kaifeng city, central China's Henan Province, April 4, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Junsheng)
Chinese people in traditional costumes walk along a bridge to showcase the life of China's Northern Song Dynasty (960-1126 A.D.) at a tourism promotional initiative during the Qingming festival, or the Tomb-sweeping Day, in Kaifeng city, central China's Henan Province, April 4, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Junsheng)
Chinese tourists visit a ceremony to showcase the life of China's Northern Song Dynasty (960-1126 A.D.) at a tourism promotional initiative during the Qingming festival, or the Tomb-sweeping Day, in Kaifeng city, central China's Henan Province, April 4, 2009.(Xinhua/Li Junsheng)
Chinese people dressed in traditional costumes to showcase the life of China's Northern Song Dynasty (960-1126 A.D.) at a tourism promotional initiative during the Qingming festival, or the Tomb-sweeping Day, in Kaifeng city, central China's Henan Province, April 4, 2009.
Local organizers and working staff copied the thriving life of the ancient city of Kaifeng, then capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, aiming to attract more tourists
British students learn Kunqu Opera in E China
British students learn Kunqu Opera in E China
A British middle school student learns how to play the "Jingubang", a stage property, from an actor of Kunqu Opera in Suzhou city of east China's Jiangsu Province, April 8, 2009.(Xinhua/Xu Zhiqiang)
Some British middle school students learn to perform Kunqu Opera from a Chinese Kunqu actress (L 1st) in Suzhou city of east China's Jiangsu Province, April 8, 2009.(Xinhua/Xu Zhiqiang)
Some British middle school students learn to perform Kunqu Opera from a Chinese Kunqu actor in Suzhou city of east China's Jiangsu Province, April 8, 2009.(Xinhua/Xu Zhiqiang)
Some British middle school students view an ancient Kunqu Opera Stage in China Kunqu Opera Museum in Suzhou city of east China's Jiangsu Province, April 8, 2009.(Xinhua/Xu Zhiqiang)
Over thirty British middle school students visited China Kunqu Opera Museum in Suzhou on Wednesday and learned impromptu some skills of Kunqu performance, when they were on cultural exchange visits to Suzhou Foreign Languages School.
