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28日星期二

Pictures Around the World 2012 Feb28

Karachi, Pakistan: A man rides a horse on a beach
Milan, Italy: Model Naomi Campbell presents a creation from Roberto Cavalli's 2012 autumn/winter collection during Milan fashion week
Xiahe village, China: Li Jingchun, top left, a 58-year-old farmer, works with family members on his self-made aircraft on top of his house. The 5m long, 1.5m wide plane, mostly made of recycled iron plates, has taken two years to build
Gadani, Pakistan: Labourers pull an iron rope before separating a portion of a ship into scrap metal at a ship breaking yard
Idlib, Syria: people take shelter after an attack in the town centre
London, England: Police remove members of the Occupy protest movement from the steps of St Paul's Cathedral
Myitsone, Burma: A Catholic nun and convent students collect stones to build a wall around their convent
New York, US: A student poses her stuffed mouse during an anthropomorphic mouse taxidermy class
Tokyo, Japan: A trees branches poke out between buildings at Ginza's shopping district
Galaxidi, Greece: Revellers celebrate Clean Monday or Ash Monday, by participating in a colourful flour war
Sacramento, US: A mounted highway patrol officer moves a member of the Occupy movement away from a pro-white group during a demonstration
Lanjigarh, India: Dongaria Kondh tribal girls watch sacrifice rituals during the annual festival of Niyam Raja at the sacred Niyamgiri Hill
Ngor, Senegal: A man washes his goat in the Atlantic Ocean