TOKYO: Japan's bakery chair Kobeya Kitchen bakers display the 13-metre-tall, two-metre-wide bread art ‘Sagrada Familia’, Barcelona's famous church, made of breads using 200kg of flour for the celebration of the first anniversary of Tokyo's large shopping mall, Oazo.
MELBOURNE: Brian Spotts places one of the 439 eggs he balanced on their end to smash the Guinness World Record. Last week, Spotts broke the record for new egg balancing at an event to promote eggs by the National Heart Foundation and took over 12 hours to complete, beating the previous record by 18 eggs.
NEW ORLEANS: Oil and water still submurge houses two weeks after Hurricane Katrina battered the city. US President George Bush, on a tour of the devastated New Orleans, rejected charges the government was slow to respond because most of the victims were black or because the military was over-extended in Iraq.
PORT MORESBY: Paia Kanges women from the Western Highlands peer from the shadows as rival tribal groups rehearse in the tropical sun for Independence Day celebrations.
LONGLI: A Chinese villager shows off his horses prior to a race at an annual horse-racing festival which attracts riders from all over the region.
MELBOURNE: Rocketman Dan Schlund powers around the attractions at the Royal Melbourne Show in his rocketbelt which pumps out 800 horsepower. Invented by Bell Aerospace for the US military in the early 1960s and made famous by the James Bond movie 'Thunderbolt', the rocketbelt propels Schlund airborne for up to 30 seconds.
NEW DELHI: An artist performs during a fashion display showcasing Indian designer Mandira Wirk.