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An animal vendor rides a motorcycle with rabbits strapped on the backseat along a street in downtown Shanghai on Feb. 16, 2012.
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Pope Benedict XVI travels to Assisi, Italy, by train on Oct. 27. The Pontiff made a pilgrimage to the home of Saint Francis in the Italian town to attend the meeting 'Pilgrims of truth, pilgrims of peace,' a day of reflection, dialogue and prayer for peace and justice in the world.
Matt Dunham / AP
A cyclist reacts after coming off his bike in an incident with a taxi on a street in London, England, on October 21.
The cyclist, the taxi driver, the businessman and the photographer
This kind of image always intrigues me: a minor drama, its characters thrown together for a few moments, and by chance a photographer there to capture the scene. And as someone who rides a bike in London every day, I have something of a personal interest in this one too.
Chaiwat Subprasom / Reuters
A traffic policeman gestures to a car as he directs traffic along a flooded street in Nonthaburi province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, on October 12.
Traffic keeps flowing in flooded outskirts of Bangkok
The AP reports from BANGKOK:
Thailand is counting the multibillion dollar cost of nationwide flooding that has killed nearly 270 people and may yet cause more havoc as waters threaten to engulf the country's capital.
A preliminary estimate by the central bank shows economic losses from flooding that began in late July range from baht 60 billion to baht 80 billion ($1.9 billion to $2.6 billion).
That figure doesn't include damages to assets or reconstruction costs and is expected to rise as the flood waters surge toward Bangkok, a city of about 10 million people. Some of its outlying areas are already under water. Continue reading.
Previously on PhotoBlog:
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October 11: Thai workers salvage goods from flooded factory
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Motley crew of amphibious cars glides across Swiss lake
Fabrice Coffrini / AFP - Getty Images
Amphibious cars motor across Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland, on August 18.
Fabrice Coffrini / AFP - Getty Images
An amphibious car motors across Lake Neuchatel on August 18.
Fabrice Coffrini / AFP - Getty Images
Amphibious car owners gather for a "family picture" on Lake Neuchatel on August 18.
AFP reports:
The owners of more than 50 amphibious vehicles brought their World War II-era military transporters, jeeps and vintage-style cars to Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland on Thursday for their annual European gathering. Fitted with colorful umbrellas and decorated with flags, what looked like a motley crew of vehicles carrying families including babies and dogs drove off the port and glided smoothly into the water.
Check out more images of summer on PhotoBlog and in our summertime fun slideshow, and read about the bus that floats along Amsterdam's canals on our Overhead Bin blog.
Beawiharta / Reuters
Anwar, a street vendor, transports beds for sale using his motorcycle at Glagahharjo village, near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on July 4. Anwar says he can travel about 40 km through a few villages a day while selling the beds and can earn 200 thousand rupiah ($23.50) a week. Anwar began selling the beds after refugees from the Mount Merapi volcano area moved into the village.
China opens world's longest cross-sea bridge
Yan Runbo / Imaginechina via AP
Aerial view of the Jiaozhou Bay bridge on June 29. Linking China's eastern port city of Qingdao to an offshore island, Huangdao, it is the world's longest cross-sea bridge at over 26 miles.
Han Jiajun / Imaginechina via AP
Part of the Jiaozhou Bay bridge.
Wu Hong / EPA, file
Construction work on the Jiaozhou Bay bridge on June 1. The bridge opened on June 30 after more than four years of building work.
Huang Jiexian / Imaginechina via AP, file
The Jiaozhou Bay bridge during construction on January 6. The bridge is expected to carry over 30,000 cars a day and will cut the commute between the city of Qingdao and the sprawling suburb of Huangdao by between 20 and 30 minutes.
The AP reports:
China has opened the world's longest cross-sea bridge.
The Jiaozhou Bay
bridge is 26 miles (42 kilometers) long and links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to an offshore island, Huangdao.State-run CCTV says the 110-foot (35-meter)-wide bridge is the longest of its kind and cost more than 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion). Continue reading.
See more China-related images on PhotoBlog.
China Daily via Reuters
A driver is seen sitting in the engine driver's cabin of a CRH 380A bullet train travelling on the newly built high-speed railway between Shanghai and Beijing during a test ride on June 16. The new high-speed railway connecting Beijing and Shanghai will officially begin its service at the end of June, local media reported.
The loneliness of the long distance train driver
Read more about China's new high-speed railway.
Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA
Children ride on a passenger jeep while it maneuvers in a flooded street as occasional rain showers fall in Manila, Philippines on May 24. As tropical storm Chedeng (international name: Songda) changed its track, Philippines Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda Edwin appealed to residents in low-lying and landslide prone areas, particularly in Panay and Negros region, to evacuate immediately.
Jianan Yu / Reuters
A man covers himself with a plastic bag as he rides his electric bicycle amid heavy rains along a street in Hefei, Anhui province, China on May 10.
Eighteen-wheeler plunges off bridge into Alabama creek
Matt Mckean / The TimesDaily via AP
Alabama state and local emergency personel and cleanup crews work to raise a semi-tractor and trailer that plunged off the Bluewater Creek bridge into the creek along US 72 early Thursday morning April 21, near Elgin, Alabama. The driver was treated and rleased from a local hospital.
Matt Mckean / The TimesDaily via AP
Emergency personnel and cleanup crews work to raise the semi-tractor and trailer.
An eighteen-wheeler falls from a rural Alabama bridge early Thursday morning after the driver attempts to avoid hitting a deer. Msnbc.com's Al Stirrett reports.
Where did I park the bike?
Patrick Pleul / AFP - Getty Images
An employee looks out of a window of a bicycle shop and rental station, which has been decorated with some hundred old bikes attached to the front of the building, on April 6. The installation in Altlandsberg, eastern Germany was set up to attract tourists touring the Brandenburg area by bike.