In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
Elton, an eight-week-old Spectacled Owl looks out as he is weighed at the London Zoo. Zookeepers are grabbing their scales and reaching for their tape measures as they prepare to monitor every animal at the zoo’s annual weigh-in. Alastair Grant/AP
American tourist Ella uses an iPad while riding a Wi-Fi-outfitted donkey led by her brother Aaron in Kfar Kedem, a biblical reenactment park in Galilee, northern Israel. Organizers are hoping to connect the younger generation to ancient Galilean life while allowing them to like, share, tweet, and snap it instantly to their friends. Ariel Schalit/AP
Pope Benedict XVI meets a sister during his weekly audience at his summer residence, Castelgandolfo, south of Rome. Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
Supporters cheer as President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign stop in North Las Vegas, Nev. Isaac Brekken/AP
A South Korean soldier participates in an anti-terror exercise as part of Ulchi Freedom Guardian at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea and the United States have begun annual military drills that North Korea calls a precursor to war. Hye Soo Nah/AP
A Civil Guard inspects the zone burned by fire in the small town of Aras, northern Spain. Alvaro Barrientos/AP
Three white Indian tiger cubs were vaccinated, weighted and chipped during a veterinary examination in the Liberec Zoo in the Czech Republic. Two of them are male, one is female. They were born on July 1. Radek Petrasek/CTK/AP
Government officials wearing gas masks evacuate a government complex during a civil defense drill against a North Korean attack as part of Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercises in Seoul, South Korea. Ahn Jung-hwan/Yonhap/AP
An man walks with his horse as monsoon clouds hover in Jammu, India. Channi Anand/AP
People start the annual Lake Zurich crossing swimming event in Zurich, Switzerland. Michael Buholzer/Reuters
Vicki Fyson, a trainee keeper at the London Zoo, attempts to weigh a Humboldt penguin. Alastair Grant/AP
A worker carries coal to load onto a truck at a coal depot in Gauhati, India. Anupam Nath/AP
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt (r.) shakes hands with an unidentified Swiss painter after receiving a painted portrait following a news conference ahead of the Athletissima Diamond League event in Lausanne, Switzerland. Bolt will compete in the men's 200m race on August 23. Denis Balibouse/Reuters
A woman rows a small boat on a flood-affected street in the Kyune Kone township delta area in Myanmar. More than 700 villages and 200,000 acres of rice fields were flooded. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
A woman holds a candle during a vigil to show solidarity with the people of Assam at a rally in front of the India Gate in New Delhi. Clashes between indigenous people in Assam and Muslim settlers from neighbouring Bangladesh have killed nearly 80 people and displaced some 300,000 since July. Adnan Abidi/Reuters
A worker hangs a Paralympic advertising poster outside Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. The London 2012 Paralympic Games will run from August 29 to September 9. Toby Melville/Reuters
A butterfly flies over a flower in the village of Trstenica, Serbia. Darko Vojinovic/AP
A Lebanese Sunni Muslim fighter carries a woman away from clashes in the Sunni Muslim neighbourhood of Bab al-Tebbaneh in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. Omar Ibrahim/Reuters
Ottawa city councillor Alex Cullen attends a vigil for former New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Layton died a year ago today. Blair Gable/Reuters
Army military police rush to stand guard as rural workers participating in a protest march arrive at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil. More than 5,000 representatives of rural social movements marched to the presidential palace demanding the government resolve the country’s agrarian issues including the demarcation of indigenous lands and financing for small family farms. Eraldo Peres/AP
Participants sit in their 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible during the prologue to the Raid Suisse-Paris 2012 vintage car rally in Zurich, Switzerland. The rally runs from August 23 to 26 in Basel. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
Beach visitors of different sorts watch the sunset on Dauphin Island, Ala. Dave Martin/AP
Supporters applaud as Hong Kong fishing vessel Kai Fung No. 2, which went to the disputed Senkaku or Diaoyu islands, docks at a public pier at Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor. Anti-Japanese protests rocked Chinese cities on Sunday after nationalists from Japan landed on an East China Sea island at the heart of a territorial dispute between the two nations. Bobby Yip/Reuters
Syrian girls hold their relative, Mohammed Mustafa, who was born five days ago in a school where his family took refuge in Kafar Hamra on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. The girls and their families fled their home in Anadan due to fighting between the rebels and the Syrian army. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife, Laureen, take in the scenery on Tuesday as they stand on the ground where a new national park will be located in Moose Pond, North West Territories, Canada. Adrian Wyld/Reuters
American tourists hang out at a tree house that is used to observe Tungurahua volcano activity from .75 miles away from the volcano's crater in Banos city, Ecuador. The authorities are encouraging residents living near the volcano to evacuate due to the increased activity of the volcano. Gary Granja/Reuters
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
South Korea, long in the shadow of other Asian 'tiger economies,' is suddenly hip and enormously prosperous – so much so that it may have outgrown its thankless dream of reuniting with the North.
For months the young emperor to the north has been threatening to turn this thriving metropolis into a "sea of fire." But it's not easy to ruffle the jaunty vibe of 75-year-old Kim Chong-shik as he strolls among young couples and shoppers along the boutiques of the Gangnam District.
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