Photo of the day

A small iceberg stranded on an Ellesmere Island shore by an ebb tide in Nunavut resembles a Polar Bear. Canada.

A woman stands on the corner of Bayan Obo People's Commune. People's Republic of China.

Two African lionesses bask in the late afternoon light in Savuti. Botswana.

On this day in 1965 fifty thousand US troops were sent to Vietnam. Pictured, United States Marines stand-by on an air base in Da Nang. Vietnam.

A group of Buddhist Monks walk single file down a dirt road. Thailand.

Autumn foliage in Acadia National Park, Maine

A ghostly silhouette of a monk walks through the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi. Italy

A Japanese farm woman carrying ornamentals walks through rice fields in Honshu.

A man eating on the front porch of an old store in Lorman, Mississippi. USA.

Maiko, an apprentice Geisha, in Kyoto. Japan.

A turboned Tuareg man in Hirafok. Algeria.

Disappearing rangeland is threatening this cowboy's way of life in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona. USA.

Worshippers in a Mosque in Djakarta. Indonesia.

Slow waters of American Wetlands stir fallen leaves creating spots of blurred yellow around a stationary tree. USA.

The city and runway lights are captured by a camera attached to the plane's tail fin, California.

A lioness chases a group of gazelle in Botswana.

Mother and daughter snuggle together in bed while laundry hangs to dry.

Gravemarkers in the cemetery near St Paul de Vence.

Starving Bengalis reach for bread at a Red Cross feeding kitchen.

Buddhist prayer flags in fresh snow east of Degin.

Young curious school kids peer through a classroom window in Guizhou Province.

Crab spider with cricket prey in Maryland.

Sisters behind a screen door in Park Rapis, Minnesota.

Two great blue heron fledglings sit near eggs in a nest, Idaho.

Sleeping children who sweep dust looking for gold in Kolkata.

Underwater view of Moken divers.

Stretch fabric protects newly-washed sheep from dirt prior to a livestock contest in Minnesota.

A young girl looks dreamily out of a window in Veracruz State.

Wood ants feeding on a lesser emperor dragonfly.

A child near trash pile.

Painted stairway, diminishing perspective, Melk Abbey.