Water world wallpaper

Bikini hot...

Spanish beauty

Port Authority of NY and NJ comissioned

Phu0ng h3o vs a girl

I meant to do that

A stunned Common Kingfisher rests after it lost consciousness after hitting a window of a house in the countryside near Warsaw. A few seconds later the bird flew away.

Welcome to the jungle

A monkey navigates his way through a web of wires hanging above a street in Jammu, India.

Yes, but can you fly?

A swan swims as an elephant from the Circus Knie bathes in Lake Geneva on October 4, 2010 in Lausanne.

But I was invited

A Rothschild giraffe sticks its head through the door of the Giraffe Manor to be fed in Langata, some 5 kilometers outside of capital Nairobi, Kenya. The Giraffe Manor is a small hotel and a former residence of American conservationists Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville who found the Giraffe Center in 1979 in a bid to protect Rothschild giraffe, one of the most endangered giraffe subspecies.

Morning has broken

A spider is lit by the morning sun as it clings to its web in Salina, Kan.

Tornado in Southeastern Wyoming

The most-studied tornado in history enters a late, roping stage over Southeastern Wyoming on June 5, 2009. Scientists' research concludes on June 15, 2010.

Boss Phuong H3o

Gentle vision in Norway

The aurora borealis is seen in the skies above the town of Narvik in northeastern Norway early Dec. 12, 2008.

Otherworldly feel

John Carlson of Lutsen, Minn., said he was "surprised by the intense activity of the aurora" on Aug. 29, 2008. He took this beautiful but eerie photograph.

Graceful ballet of light

The northern lights dance over the Knik River near Palmer, Alaska, on Nov. 29, 2006.

Majestic mountains and sky

The colors of sunrise and the northern lights add to this view of a Perseid meteor streak on Aug. 12, 2000, as seen from the Colorado Rockies.

Halloween treat

A geomagnetic storm produced a colorful show of aurora borealis in the skies over Hyvinka in southern Finland on the morning of Oct. 31, 2003.

Spectral scene

It's almost as if these two separate events of nature were fuming at each other. The northern lights are seen above the ash plume of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano on the evening of April 22, 2010.

From above Earth

Solar storms like the outbursts of early August have sparked incredible light shows in the night sky. This NASA image, released June 21, 2010, shows the aurora australis as seen from the International Space Station on May 29, 2010. The space station was located over the Southern Indian Ocean at an altitude of 220 miles, with astronauts most likely looking toward Antarctica (not visible) and the South Pole. Several stars appear as bright pinpoints against the blackness of space toward the top right of the image.

World Cup 2010 - Where the fans to show love

Unique photos in world cup 2010

Confrontation

Spain's Fernando Torres, left, vies for the ball with Chile's Gary Medel.

Bursting with pride

A Spain fan enjoys the atmosphere ahead of the semifinal matchup against Germany at Durban Stadium on July 7, 2010 in Durban, South Africa.

No. 7 Nebraska 48, Kansas State 13

Cornhuskers quarterback Taylor Martinez gets past Kansas State cornerback Ty Zimmerman to score one of his four touchdowns on the ground against the host WIldcats on Thursday. Martinez rushed for 242 yards in the final meeting in the teams' 99-year rivarly as Nebraska is moving from the Big 12 to Big Ten next season.

No. 19 South Carolina 35, No. 1 Alabama 21

Gamecocks wide receiver Alshon Jeffery, right, makes a 26-yard touchdown catch during South Carolina's upset of the visiting Crimson Tide on Saturday

Frosty treat

Snow covers clusters of berries of a guelder rose tree after heavy snowfall in the Siberian town of Divnogorsk, Russia.

Solitude

A bull walks on a frost-covered field near Schwentinental, northern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.

Lone squirrel

A squirrel sits on a snowy tree branch in a Moscow park on Nov. 17, 2009. Moscow is undergoing its first snows of the winter as temperatures fluctuate above and below the freezing point.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street is making a comeback – in theaters near you. The sequel to the Oliver Stone-directed 1987 classic opens nationwide Sept. 24, with Michael Douglas reprising his character as money-grubbing Gordon Gekko. 

Is it a coincidence that geckos are slimy lizards that blend into the crowd? 

“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” continues the theme of greed, scandal and retribution – all qualities of many great motion pictures and TV movies about big business. Here's a list of some recent films that deserve a second look. 

Spoiler alert: Descriptions include key plot points

Buon Me-Daklak province

Veiled chameleon

A veiled chameleon extends its tongue to catch a cricket. Canadian wildlife photographer Scott Linstead, formerly an aerospace engineer and high school teacher, uses a device called Phototrap "to not only photograph the elusive, but also the unimaginably quick."

Phototrap "interfaces with either your camera or your flash," he says, and it basically helps "trigger the shutter of your camera when the photographic subject passes through a defined position in space."

In this photo, "the success of the image depends on the willingness of the captive chameleon to eat outside of its regular enclosure," he says. "The veiled chameleon is the ideal chameleon species for this project as it is often less prone to stress during handling than other chameleon species."

Test hydrogen bomb

Shin Da Hee

Beautiful Blue Bird

Earth Mars Comparison

Beautiful Night

Sunrise

This beautiful sunrise photo also came from Cindy!

Orange spider

 I. Agnarsson / Courtesy of Conservation International

This new spider species from the genus Anelosimus was found in the Nakanai Mountains of New Britain, one of four new species of this genus not previously documented from New Guinea.

Surprising find

 Stephen Richards / Courtesy of Conservation International

This tiny frog, measuring just an inch long, was the most exciting herpetological discovery of the Nakanai Rapid Assessment Program survey in Papua New Guinea. It belongs to a group of frogs previously only known from the Solomon Islands, and its discovery in the wet montane forests of New Britain was a complete surprise. Unlike most of his relatives this little frog did not call at night, preferring to advertise for females late in the afternoon.

Playing possum

This cute little feather-tailed possum was attracted to a light-trap put up by entomologists to catch nighttime insects at around a mile of elevation in the Muller Mountains. It may have been attempting to catch and eat moths. This animal is only known from this site and a nearby mountain, where it was discovered in 1985. The species still does not have a name.

Proud, loud and green

Stephen Richards / Courtesy of Conservation International

Living 100 feet above the ground in the forest canopy, this large bright green frog was more often heard than seen in Papua New Guinea's Muller Range. At night, males proclaimed their presence with loud, guttural croaking sounds high above the camp - causing much frustration among the visiting scientists. The expedition's local tree-climber proudly delivered a handsome male to the researchers.

Hard-to-get ant

Andrea Lucky / Courtesy of Conservation International

Scientists found only two specimens of this super spiny ant species, which represents an entirely new genus of ants.The workers were found in the canopy of a fallen tree at mid-elevation. Conservation International entomologist Andrea Lucky suspects that these types of ants live up high in trees. As a result, they're hard to reach and therefore little-studied.

Undead-Castle in Heroes 6

Thar she blows!

ATK

A solid rocket motor that could be used on future NASA launch vehicles is tested Aug. 31 at ATK Aerospace Systems' test site in Promontory, Utah. The rocket motor burned for just over two minutes during the successful static test, producing about 3.6 million pounds of thrust.