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21日星期二

Pictures Around the World 2012 Feb21

Athens, Greece: a man reads his newspaper as a beggar walks by
Tegucigalpa, Honduras: a relative of an inmate killed in the Comayagua prison fire cries as she attempts to identify his body in a morgue
Bagram, Afghanistan: a man aims a slingshot towards US soldiers at the gate of Bagram air base during a protest against an alleged desecration of the Qur'an by Nato forces
Jerusalem: Israeli soldiers stretch after completing an overnight march as part of their training before they are awarded the paratrooper's red beret
Maragojipe, Brazil: revellers participate in a masked ball during carnival celebrations
New Delhi, India: a man holds his son as his other children stand in front of their derelict home
Binche, Belgium: revellers perform a traditional dance while dressed as 'Gilles of Binche' during a carnival parade
Lille, France: former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives by car for questioning at the police station. Strauss-Kahn was to be questioned by police over his alleged implication in illicit prostitution orgies set in high-end hotels in a case dubbed the Carlton Affair
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: people cheer from the stands as Salgueiro samba school parades during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome
Laza, Spain: a man walks through shadows on the street
London: models during the McQ Alexander McQueen 2012 autumn/winter collection show at London fashion week
Idlib, Syria: pigeons fly over a man near the Turkish border
Beijing, China: Tibetan monks dressed as demons perform during the ghost banishing ceremony on the eve of Tibetan new year at the Yonghegong Lama temple
Santa Cruz de la Palma, Spain: people throw talcum powder at one another as they take part in the carnival on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma
Thiruvananthapuram, India: schoolgirls watch a performance of Indian classical dance during the Mahashivratri festival in Kerala