One of many life sized posters of an unconscious girl which have been placed around the floors of Loughborough University toilets, to warn the students of the dangers of binge drinking. Good luck with that! Thursday, October 1, 2009
Champion Rat catcher of Bangladesh: Here's one he caught earlier!
Kari Mohmmad Fazlul Haque shows a rat he caught, at an annual prize giving ceremony on the first day of a month long rat killing campaign in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has killed more than 83,000 rats
Protests in Peru against former President
A man wearing a rat costume holds an image of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori during a protest in Lima.The local riot Police do not seem too concerned!
China: Protesters remind the World about the struggle and plight of Tibet
Nepalese police and protestors symbollic struggle over a Tibetan flag. The Tibetans cling desperately to the flag whilst the authorities try to wrestle it away using force! 
A Tibetan exile shouts slogans from a police bus after being detained during a protest in front of Chinese embassy in New Delhi, India.
The protesters, with T-shirts and banners that said "Free Tibet," demonstrated near the Chinese Embassy's visa section and other places in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu 
Galaxies speeding through clusters of their neighbours
Galaxies speeding through clusters of their neighbors were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope being stripped of their gas.
NGC 4522, the galaxy pictured above, is traveling at 6.2 million miles per hour, astronomers estimate. It’s about 60 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster. The bright blue areas to the right and left are star-forming regions. Unlike our own Milky Way galaxy with its delicate spiral arms, fast-moving galaxies like NGC 4522 get deformed by the strong winds generated by their movement. The process is known as “ram pressure stripping” and it’s analogous to what would happen were you to hold a dandelion parachute ball out a car window. The lighter parts get stripped away. Galaxy NGC 4402, pictured below, shows off the convex gas and dust disc that is characteristic of galaxies undergoing ram pressure stripping. The hot gas between galaxies in a cluster (known as the intra-cluster medium) actually sweeps the gas away, creating the odd shape in the process. The images were taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys instrument before it suffered a power failure in 2007. The images were recovered when astronauts restored the unit in May of this year on the last Hubble Servicing Mission. Both are deep enough to show distant background galaxies.
China: 60th anniversary means a military parade in Tiananmen Square
A float with a giant model of a satellite celebrates China's space exploration
Pro-democracy demonstrators are slowed down by police as they attempt to make their way to the flag raising ceremony for Chinese National Day in Hong Kong
The acceptable face of China. A model holds a national flag of China outside a shopping mall during a sales promotion during China's national day holiday in Hong Kong
China's authorities mobilised more than 950,000 volunteers to help seal off large sections of the capital 24 hours in advance of the parade
AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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