unsafe bridge

A combo of photos taken September 20, 2009 shows an unsafe bridge as it is demolished in Hefei, east China's Anhui province. The Chinese government warned that many bridges had been hastily erected by greedy builders, leading to structural problems, amid China's massive recent development rush, according to state press.

Korean Reunion

North Koreans cry while waving to their South Korean relatives as they head back to South Korea after reuniting at the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea

South Korean visitors wave to their North Korean relatives as they set out to return to South Korea after reuniting at the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea

Le Hamilton wons Singapore GP, Button extends lead

 Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and McLaren Mercedes celebrates in parc ferme after winning the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit on September 27, 2009 in Singapore.









McLaren's Lewis Hamilton won the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, and Brawn GP driver Jenson Button extended his Formula One championship lead by one point.

McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, centre, of Briton celebrates on the podium with Toyota's Timo Glock, left, and Renault's Fernando Alonso, right, of Spain on the podium after his win at the Singapore Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit in Singapore

Manmohan Singh with Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd R) and first lady Michelle Obama stands for a picture with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) and his wife Gursharan Kaur for an opening reception and working dinner for heads of delegation at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 24, 2009.

One Big Step for India, A Giant Leap for Mankind

Nasa Probe On Chandrayaan Finds Water On Moon’s Surface

It is a giant leap for India’s space programme and the biggest scientific discovery of the 21st Century. India’s maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, has found water, a discovery that scientists say will upend thinking about space and boost research. And, of course, it has helped shake off the failure tag from the Rs 386-crore Chandrayaan-I project that was aborted last month.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Madhavan Nair gives a press conference at the ISRO office in Bangalore on September 25, 2009. Nair confirmed the discovery of water molecules by the moon mineralogy mapper (M3) through its Lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters holds a spoon to illustrate the amount of water discovered on the surface of the moon at a briefing to discuss new science data from the moon collected during national and international space missions September 24, 2009 at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than predicted, but still relatively small. Hydroxyl, a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom, also was found in the lunar soil. The findings were published in Thursday's edition of the journal Science. NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, or M3, instrument reported the observations. M3 was carried into space on Oct. 22, 2008, aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, or VIMS, on NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the High-Resolution Infrared Imaging Spectrometer on NASA's EPOXI spacecraft contributed to confirmation of the finding. The spacecraft imaging spectrometers made it possible to map lunar water more effectively than ever before.

Rani Mukherjee

Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee gestures during her visit to a pandal (site of a religious ceremony) of Hindu Goddess Durga during the Durga Puja festival, a popular religious event for Hindu Bengalis, in Mumbai . In Hindu mythology, Durga symbolises power and the triumph of good over evil.

Asifa Bhutto Zardari

Asifa Bhutto Zardari, daughter of the late Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan attends a special Address on Pakistan: Strategic Challenges & Opportunities', at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London














 

Asifa Bhutto Zardari, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari