The fourth part of our selection of the best world news photos of 2013.
~REFLECTIONS~ I live by a principle, a thought, that evereything that you reflect to the world will be reflected back to you. That's why you can expect that the world will reflect back only what you have reflected into the world. I hope that my reflection is enjoyable.
In the nearly 50 collected meat samples, the team found 88 percent of the samples were above Germany’s regulatory limits for radioactive cesium in food.
The Andean ancestor of chinchillas- much larger and and scruffier!
Wolf’s Monkey Wildlife Photography Burrard-Lucas Brothers
Armadillo at the Viera Wetlands in Viera, FL. Photo taken on January 20, 2010. (Poor thing... he's so ugly that he's kind of cute!) :o)
Warning — you're about to fall in love with the most joyful creature you’ve ever met: the quokka!
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Little Barkie was less than three months old when he was found near the N/a'an ku sê sanctuary in Namibia, where staff now take the termite-loving creature for daily walks.
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And it blew my mind.
The animal kingdom is a vast and varied group of creatures, many of which we’ll never get a chance to see up close. Thankfully, we’ve got plenty of photos of the most bizarre animals in the world to show you what you’re missing.
The tiny dormouse could not suppress his delight that spring has finally come when he got to the top of this blossom and let out a hearty chuckle in Italy.
All creatures great and small in our ever popular animal gallery.
A failed exercise in restraint
Oh, dads...
1. The River House This magical little place is a Derwish monastery or Tekke on the Buna river, 10 kilometers from the southern Bosnian town of Mostar. It was built by derwishes of the Bektashi order around 1470, under the Ottoman empire influence. Over the centuries ownerships changed from one o