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This overview of Seattle and the newly constructed Space Needle was taken in April 1962. The Space Needle was built for the 1962 World’s Fair and is the most popular tourist attraction in Seattle.
Aron, 5, and his mother look out at the LOXX miniature train landscape at the Alexa shopping centre in Berlin. The huge model train set recreates, in 1:87 scale, Berlin landmarks as well as humorous scenes of everyday life.
Thomas and Anneka Geary paid professional photographers Ian McCloskey and Nikki Carter of Westgate Photography £750 to cover what should have been the best day of their lives. But they were stunned when the pictures arrived and they were out … Continue reading →
Liverpool will come to a standstill this weekend as it is taken over by giant puppets for a street theatre production inspired by the Titanic. Sea Odyssey Giant Spectacular has been produced by marionette experts Royal De Luxe (RDL) and … Continue reading →
French President and candidate for re-election Nicolas Sarkozy is greeted by a local resident as he visits the medieval town of Guerande, western France
About 1,000 inventions debuted at the 40th International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva. Officials said 789 exhibitors from 46 countries and 60,000 visitors are expected at the fair, which opened on Wednesday and runs until April 22.
Down but not out: Australia’s Batt falls during their match against Canada during the London International Invitational Wheelchair Rugby Tournament
Adele was nominated by the singer Pink, who says: “Her success renews hope in me that the world I live in has good taste — that we still occasionally come back to what’s simple, and simply amazing. I can’t wait … Continue reading →
Journalists were given a sneak peek of the magnificent views from the world’s tallest tower, a month before it opens to the public. The 634-metre (2,080-foot) Tokyo Sky Tree is the world’s second-tallest structure behind the 828-metre (2,717-foot) Burj Khalifa … Continue reading →
The space shuttle Discovery, attached to a modified NASA 747 aircraft, takes off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, headed for its final home at The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Centre in … Continue reading →
Danny Torres of Spain rides his bike on the helipad of the Burj al Arab prior to the first stop the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, April 11.
Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre, went on trial in Norway’s capital defiantly rejecting the authority of the court.
Friends and family of Brad Smith help salvage what they can from his destroyed home in Arlington, Texas, on Wednesday, April 4.
North Korean workers are seen working in an apple farm near Pyongyang on April 10, 2012. North Korea is counting down to the 100th anniversary of its founder’s birth Kim Il-Sung on April 15 with top-level meetings and a controversial … Continue reading →
Msnbc.com’s Marian Smith reports: As the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games fast approach, photographer Gideon Mendel seeks to capture the diversity of life within one mile of the main Olympic site. Himself an East London resident, Mendel says he is … Continue reading →
View the British model’s metamorphosis from Devon beauty to global supermodel-turned-actress with a £5 million debut on the Sunday Times Rich List.
Six people ride on one motorbike as they move to higher ground following an earthquake off Banda Aceh
A child suffering from measles, who was carried from the bush by his father, is seen at the Goal clinic at Adong in South Sudan. Thousands of people in Africa’s newest nation have been forced into internally displaced people camps … Continue reading →
