Wednesday / July 25, 2007

Foto 3 de 56 | 26/07/2007 | Crédito : AFP / Edición: C. Edwards

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Foto 4 de 56 | 26/07/2007 | Crédito : Reuters / Edición: C. Edwards

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Photo shows roosters at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y. Animal rights groups like Farm Sanctuary have prospered in the past decade. Its founder, Gene Baur, once sold vegetarian hot dogs to finance it. Now it has a $5.7 million budget and in Watkins Glen, it shelters hundreds of animals once detined for slaughter.

The eitht-legged/wheeled Halluc II robot, equipped with 13 censors to measure distance beneath and beside the body, two sensors to detect obstacles in 360 degree around the body, three axis sensors to keep the proper body balance, can move flexibly in three different styles as vehicle, insect and animal with a total of 56 motors. It was developed by Takayuki Furuta at the Chiba Institute of Technology.

A man walks past burning boxes containing fake tobacco of famous brands seized by the police since 2006 in Weifang, in China´s eastern Shandong Province. The Chinese characters read: "Bad cigarettes".

Indian "Sadhus" (holy men) take part in a religious meeting organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parisad (World Hindu Council) in New Delhi. Indian "Sadhus" from all over the country gathered in the city to take part in their thirteenth religious parliament.

Marco Pantani of Italy takes part in a sit-in as riders stage a protest, saying they are fed up with the lack of respect showed to them and with the press coverage concentrating on the use of performance enhancing drugs instead of the sport, at the start of the 12th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Tarascon-en Ariege and Cap d´Agde, today in southern France.

A man walks past burning boxes containing fake tobacco of famous brands seized by the police since 2006 in Weifang, in China´s eastern Shandong Province. The Chinese characters read: "Bad cigarettes". Ver más.

Indian "Sadhus" (holy men) take part in a religious meeting organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parisad (World Hindu Council) in New Delhi. Indian "Sadhus" from all over the country gathered in the city to take part in their thirteenth religious parliament. Ver más.