Day in Photos, April 18 2011

Although on Monday, the day was very bright and kind. One competitor even managed to set a new world record. Details see below.

The first rays of sun in the Mount Teide, Gran Canaria, Spain. No Photoshop! "Pure" picture.





Couple looking at a waterfall Tequendama Falls - a 132-meter waterfall of the river Bogota in the town of San Antonio del Tequendama Falls, Columbia.



Jim Hoy and his son Josh watched as the second day of burning the prairie near the town of Clements, Kansas, USA.



Cherry blossom in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.



What you see is not the fog and smoke. It is a flight of cedar pollen in the wind. It cedar pollen is the cause of the disease hay fever (allergic form) one-third of the Japanese population every spring. Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.



Deer eating an apple in the park deer town Landsberg am Lech, Germany.



Pig named Felix helps elderly people in a nursing home revitalize and regain a zest for life. At least so says psychotherapist Daan Vermeulen. Gelsenkirchen, Germany.



Felix regularly visits his older friends.



Indonesian jockey takes part in the traditional race of bulls in the city Lumadzhang, East Java Province.



In Pakistan, orange donkeys - a usual thing. A man feeds his ass, smeared with henna, and opens his shop on one of the streets of Karachi.



Very careful owner caught. Then he also cleaned the hoof donkey :)



A resident of Krasnoyarsk, a member of the local club, climbing, jumping on ice floes during the ice drift on the Yenisei.



Afghans walk past burned-out building in Charikar. Ten people suffered serious burns and one person died. According to representatives of NATO, it was a planned action and a direct relation to it are the people involved in the recent protests in Charikar and Kabul.



The victims of the concentration camp "Buchenwald" from Ukraine and Belarus laid flowers at the 68th anniversary of its liberation, Germany.



Elderly Romanian photographer threatens finger before eating a free lunch at the center of social assistance in Bucharest, Romania.



Iranian soldiers in camouflage uniforms marching during the parade in honor of the National Army Day in Tehran suburb.



In the Nigerian city of Kano, there were clashes between demonstrators and soldiers of the regular army. Though the elections were held and - very few people are satisfied with it.



The leader of the democratic opposition Uganda Russe Besigye (with plaster), the police orders to go in the van. Besigye was arrested for organizing protests against rising prices for food and fuel in Kampala, Uganda.



Continued demonstrations in Yemen. The rally in the southern city of Taiz.



Israeli believer black sitting near the columns of the Temple of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem.



Jewish boy hides his face from the fire ritual in Jerusalem.



Royal Guard in traditional inspections in Regent's Park, London, UK.



The original member of the London Marathon (right) site advertises the problems of cancer in men.



But during the 115th Boston Marathon Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai today set a new world record. And it has improved by nearly a minute.



Lovers of statistics suggest adding one more second to the time on the scoreboard;)



Installing sets for the premiere of the opera "Andrea Chenier" by the Italian composer Umberto Giordano on the lake in the Austrian town of Bregenz.



Music fans go home after the festival «Coachella» in the town of Indio, California, USA.



Photos of the Milky Way through a haze of a sandstorm in the Sahara, Africa.



Sunset all around the same Mount Teide in Spain. Again, without photoshop :)



Photo: AP, Getty Images, Reuters