TOKYO: Craftworkers with loops compare blown-up sections of counterfeit hundred-dollar bills with a sample legitimate bill expanded 400 times larger than the real size at their office. A kind of counterfeit bill, named 'Super Z', which is said to have been made in North Korea, can only be detected in this way, says the president of a Japanese small business company located in Taito-ward of old Tokyo area.
SOCHI: Local men fish during a sunset at the Black Sea coast in the Russian southern resort city of Sochi. Last week, European Union and Russian leaders met here for high-level talks.
NEW ORLEANS: One of 19 penguins rescued along with two sea otters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is released into its old habitat in the Audobon Aquarium of the Americas by volunteers as others swim about after returning to New Orleans following an eight-month refuge in California.
BEIJING: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao attend a signing ceremony in the Great Hall of the People. Human rights, the Iranian nuclear crisis and trade deals were on the agenda as Merkel met China's leaders on her first visit to.
CANNES: Italian actresses Jasmine Trinca and Margherita Buy pose during a photocall for Italian director Nanni Moretti’s film ‘Il Caimano’ at the 59th edition of the International Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. This year 20 films are competing for the Palme d’Or prize to be awarded at the end of the festival.
TOKYO: Craftworkers with loops compare blown-up sections of counterfeit hundred-dollar bills with a sample legitimate bill expanded 400 times larger than the real size at their office. A kind of counterfeit bill, named 'Super Z', which is said to have been made in North Korea, can only be detected in this way, says the president of a Japanese small business company located in Taito-ward of old Tokyo area.
SOCHI: Local men fish during a sunset at the Black Sea coast in the Russian southern resort city of Sochi. Last week, European Union and Russian leaders met here for high-level talks.
NEW ORLEANS: One of 19 penguins rescued along with two sea otters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is released into its old habitat in the Audobon Aquarium of the Americas by volunteers as others swim about after returning to New Orleans following an eight-month refuge in California.
BEIJING: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao attend a signing ceremony in the Great Hall of the People. Human rights, the Iranian nuclear crisis and trade deals were on the agenda as Merkel met China's leaders on her first visit to.
CANNES: Italian actresses Jasmine Trinca and Margherita Buy pose during a photocall for Italian director Nanni Moretti’s film ‘Il Caimano’ at the 59th edition of the International Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. This year 20 films are competing for the Palme d’Or prize to be awarded at the end of the festival.
