Amazing Events in Pictures 2

Romain Mattei photographed what looks like a monkey massaging a stray cat on a pavement in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. However, the cheeky monkey was doing the moggy a favour by searching for fleas.



A lesser black-backed gull takes off with a duckling in its beak at the duck pond in Dublin's Herbert Park, Ireland



A group of little owls at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Modena, Italy



Light artist Darren Pearson from California has created the 12 signs of the zodiac using a torch and a camera set on long exposure.



During last month's solar storm a group of students called "Earth to Sky" from Bishop, California, launched a helium balloon which lifted Camilla the rubber chicken into space to study solar radiation...



Camilla reached the stratosphere with a payload of radiation sensors, cameras, GPS trackers, a thermometer, insects and sunflower seeds. The flight took two and a half hours and reached an altitude of approximately 40 km (25 miles) before the balloon burst parachuting Camilla's spacecraft safely back to earth.



A snowboarder glides on to the water as he tries to cross a 20 metre long pool of water at the foot of a ski slope at the Bobrovy Log ski resort near Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk



Spanish bullfighter David Fandila 'El Fandi' jumps into the 'callejon' (the space between inner and outer barriers) during a bullfight at the Maestranza bullring in Seville, southern Spain



A voter stands in a polling booth with his dog during the first round of the French elections in Henin-Beaumont, northern France


A Cornish rex cat touches noses with a referee during an international feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania



Gyuto Monks of Tibet pose with a wax figure of Nelson Mandela during a visit to Madame Tussaud's in Sydney



Visitors walk through the tulip and daffodil fields during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival near La Conner, Washington



Indian farmers carry cucumbers to sell at a market, in Phaphamau village on the outskirts of Allahabad, India



A participant takes part in a soap bubble festival in the Palace Square in St.Petersburg



Caydee Denney and John Coughlin of the United States perform during the gala exhibition at the ISU World Team Trophy figure skating in Tokyo



A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 takes off from Logan International Airport in Boston on its inaugural, non-stop flight from Boston to Tokyo



An aircraft flies past the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok



The leaves of a may apple growing in Moreland Hills, Ohio, on Earth Day



A worker checks the power lines in Haikou, south China's Hainan province