高樓低廈,人潮起伏,
名爭利逐,千萬家悲歡離合。

閑雲偶過,新月初現,
燈耀海城,天地間留我孤獨。

舊史再提,故書重讀,
冷眼閑眺,關山未變寂寞!

念人老江湖,心碎家國,
百年瞬息,得失滄海一粟!

徐訏《新年偶感》

2012年2月10日星期五

Pictures Around the World 2012 Feb10

Yakutsk, Russia: A child with frosty eyelashes in -35C Siberia
Boston, Massachusetts: Seagulls silhouetted against the sun on a mild afternoon
Madrid, Spain: A supporter of Baltasar Garzón writes a message on a banner after the judge was found guilty in a wiretapping case
Libreville, Gabon: A boy plays football on a beach
Cairo, Egypt: Protesters in Tahrir Square call on the army to cede power to civilian rule
Moscow, Russia: Journalists wait for the arrival of the billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov at a press conference
Ostrava, Czech Republic: A woman walks across a snow-covered square
Beijing, China: Boys play badminton at a village where homes are being demolished and householders relocated
Salvador, Brazil: Tourists take photos at the Farol da Barra
Srinagar, India: Kashmiri Muslims raise their hands in prayer at the Hazratbal shrine
Mettmenstetten, Switzerland: Smoke from a wood-fired stove billows out of a chimney on Pascal Prokop's 1990 Volvo 240 estate. Prokob installed the stove himself
Vlasic, Bosnia-Herzegovina: An aerial view of a snow-covered pine forest
Sao Paulo, Brazil: A woman greets a friend at an illegally occupied building
Istanbul, Turkey: Seagulls stand on a frozen part of the Bosphorus