Russell Higgs walks through a London store naked, Saturday, Sept. 6, to demonstrate the right to be naked in public and to support Steve Gough who is in prison for walking the length of Britain naked.
Bev Kirk with her latest creation, the world's largest Ivory Soap sculpture of a flying pig, weighing close to 7,000 lbs. It pays homage to the soap and pork business of Cincinnati, Sept. 14.
A child in "kai dang ku," or open crotch pants, runs to his mother in Beijing, July 30. Rising incomes and more sophisticated lifestyles in Asia's fastest-growing economy have fueled the popularity of disposable diapers in big cities. In Beijing, bare baby bottoms are an increasingly rare sight - even on the sultry summer afternoons, when kai dang ku were almost a uniform for toddlers a few years ago.
Haruka Hirano, 7, right, and her brother, Shogo, 9, look out from the window of a Hello Kitty cab in Sagamihara City, west of Tokyo, Sept. 17. The 10 Hello Kitty cabs, equipped with the popular kitten character umbrellas, ponchos, and kleenex for customers, have been attracting fans since their April launch by Kanachu taxi company.
Ashlee Dawn, of Phoenix, calls attention to low gas prices at the Varsity Gasser in Flagstaff, Ariz., Sept. 12. Although Dawn's attire was legal, offended callers flooded the Flagstaff Police Department with complaints about her appearance. Meanwhile, the 25-cent difference in prices left two other stations in the same intersection virtually devoid of customers.
Residents receive plates of "Gallo Pinto," a typical meal of rice and beans, in an attempt to establish a Guinness World Record, in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 15. Some 545 kilos of rice and beans were cooked up, and will hopefully feed 9,000 people.
Hindu devotees immerse an idol of the elephant-headed god Ganesh in the Arabian Sea in Bombay, India, Sept. 9. The idols are immersed into the sea on the final day of the ten-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
A broken window of a shop adjacent to the scene of a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem bearing the picture of England's national soccer team captain David Beckham, early Sept. 10. A suicide bomber blew up outside the cafe in Jerusalem Tuesday night, killing at least six people and wounding about 40 others, witnesses and rescue workers said.
Norbert "Pete" Terhurn, a.k.a. Poobah, eats fire to draw crowds to the World of Wonders tent at the York Fair, in York, Pa., on Sept. 5. Terhurn played a munchkin in "The Wizard of Oz" movie and has been in side shows since the 1940s.
Oklahoma State Trooper Kera Philippi helps round-up over 800 pigs after a semi-truck carrying the animals overturned on Interstate 40, Thursday, Sept. 18, in Midwest City, Okla.
People watch the ceremonial first wave at the new Tsunami Wave Basin, Saturday, Sept.13, at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. The lab will be used by scientists worldwide to study wave actions.
The dog with the largest ears in the world, as recognized by the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records. Mr. Jeffries, a Bassett Hound, has 11.5 inch ears and lives with his owner, Phil Jeffries, in West Sussex, England. Mr Jeffries' full name is Knightsfollie Ladiesman and he is the grandson of Biggles, the face of Hush Puppies shoes. His ears are insured for $47,800.
Winston Wyckoff III, sits beside what he hopes is a record-breaking, 1,200 pound pumpkin he grew at his farm near Wooster, Ohio, Sept. 23. Wyckoff began growing pumpkins in 1996 and it quickly became a passion. He plans to enter the great pumpkin in the Barnesville Pumpkin Festival competition this weekend.
A comic book titled "The Adventures of Mayor Man" published by Jersey City, N.J., Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham, seen Sept. 23. Released amid Cunningham's bid for state Senate and paid for by his 2005 mayoral committee, the comic transforms his real-life experience as a U.S. Marine, police captain and U.S. marshal into the stuff of a fiscally responsible super hero.
Selena Palacio, 4, Michelle Prater, 9, Ashley Prater, 3, and Manuel Palacio, 13, from left, sled down a hill despite the lack of snow, Sept. 23, in Kansas City, Mo.
Little Joe, a male gorilla at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Sept. 15. The 300-pound gorilla escaped Sept. 28 for the second time in two months, snatching a 2-year-old girl and injuring a teenager, zoo officials said. The gorilla roamed through the zoo and along nearby streets for nearly two hours before it was sedated with tranquilizer darts.
A life-size wax figure of NBA star Yao Ming at the Madame Tussaud's, Hong Kong, shortly after its unveiling Sept. 30. Yao's figure, clad in Houston Rockets' uniform, is the third tallest Madame Tussaud's figure world wide, after the Incredible Hulk in London and New York. Yao, with his arms above his head, reaches 8.5ft and took six months to complete at the cost of $64,573.
Cindy Adams with her pot-bellied pig, Miss Daisy, at her home in Homestead, Fla., Sept. 24. Adams, who has been caring for the animal for the last nine years at her home, recently she got Homestead's city council to grant preliminary approval to an ordinance to classify pot-bellied pigs as pets.
Primo D 'Agata holds a jar containing a sample of amphibian eggs at his Berlin, Conn., home Oct. 1. They fell on his back deck on Sept. 19 as the remnants of Hurricane Isabel passed Connecticut. Naturalists think the eggs belong to a variety of frog found in North Carolina that were swept up by the hurricane and carried by the storm to New England.
A sign from which the word "God" has been cut, Sept. 25, at Sparks, Nevada City Hall. "God" recently was cut from the signs on the advice of City Attorney Chet Adams, who feared they could be interpreted as a city endorsement of religion and invite lawsuits. Outraged, Mayor Tony Armstrong purchased new signs with his own money and posted them Sept. 30.