Pictures of the day: 8 October 2012
印尼 火山灰
Mount Lokon spews a giant column of volcanic ash during an eruption, as seen from Tomohon town on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia
Picture: AFP/GettyImages

Pictures of the day: 8 October 2012
德国 啤酒节
Women wearing Bavarian dress run for cover as it rains heavily on the last day of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany
Picture: Matthias Schrader/AP

October 4, 2012, 2:42 PM.
Photos of the Day: Oct. 4
老妪与海：哥斯达黎加抽烟老妇 77 岁，每天划船出海捕鱼，是她的唯一生存手段。
THE OLD LADY AND THE SEA: Cecilia Villegas, 77 years old, smoked as she paddled to a dock after fishing off the shores of Cano Ciego Island, near Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Wednesday. She fishes every morning and says it is her only means of survival. (Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters)

Pictures of the day: 4 October 2012
Tourists gather on the Great Wall outside Beijing. Major tourist destinations around China are witnessing huge crowds during the eight-day mid-autumn festival and National Day holidays that run through until Sunday
Picture: REUTERS

Pictures of the day: 4 October 2012
A spectacular electrical storm lights up the night sky near Split, Croatia
Picture: ZVONIMIR BARISIN/CROPIX/SIPA / Rex Features

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 October 2012 13.11 BST
Tanah Datar, Indonesia: A jockey competes in a traditional cow race
Photograph: Zulkifli/EPA

Oct 4, 2012
【※※※之春】巴林：防爆警察施放催泪弹
Manama, Bahrain: Riot police fire teargas
Photograph: Hasan Jamali/AP

雅典青少年绘图※※削减教育预算
Teenagers draw on the pavement during a protest against education budget cuts outside the Parliament building in Athens.  
Aris Messinis, AFP/Getty Images

Pictures of the day: 1 October 2012
Roberta Vinci of Italy serves against Lourdes Dominguez Lino of Spain during the China Open in Beijing
Picture: Feng Li/Getty Images

Pictures of the day: 1 October 2012
海滩旭日 情侣牵手
A couple walk hand in hand along Tynemouth beach, North Tyneside, as the sun rises after a week of bad weather
Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA

Pictures of the day: 1 October 2012

A basketball player appears to slam dunk the moon through a hoop. Adrian Limani, 21, used his brother to pose in images showing him jumping over the moon and holding it in his hands in Raince, Serbia.
Picture: ADRIAN LIMANI / CATERS NEWS

guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 September 2012 14.27 BST
恒河：印度教信徒祈祷太阳神
Mirzapur, India: A hindu devotee offers prayers to the sun god after taking holy dips in the river Ganges during the Anant Chaturdashi festival
Photograph: Anshul Mishra/AP

guardian.co.uk, Sunday 30 September 2012 14.20 BST
西班牙：摄影师 VS 烟雾罐
Seville, Spain: a photographer jumps over a smoke canister during a protest by firefighters, security and military personnel against cuts in their salaries imposed by Spanish government
Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters

Pictures of the day: 28 September 2012
Three tiny ants carry a dragonfly after it fell out of a spider's web. The tiny trio hold the much larger insect upright while balancing on a very narrow twig. Photographer Adhi Prayoga spotted the action on a tree close to his home on the island of Lombok, Indonesia.
Picture: Adhi Prayoga/Solent News & Photo

September 25, 2012, 5:19 PM.Photos of the Day: Sept. 25
叙利亚危机：叛军士兵哭尸战友
CRYING FOR A COMRADE: A Free Syrian Army fighter cried near the body of his comrade in front of Dar El Shifa Hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday. (Manu Brabo/Associated Press)

September 25, 2012, 5:19 PM.Photos of the Day: Sept. 25
※※※水仗：日本海上保安厅 VS 台湾海岸巡防舰&台湾渔船
WATER FIGHT: A Japan Coast Guard vessel sprayed water at ※※※※※※ese fishing boats as a ※※※※※※ese Coast Guard ship, left, also sprayed water in the East China Sea near disputed islands known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China Tuesday. (Yomiuri Shimbun/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

爬到这个高度取景，摄影师也不简单。

南苏丹 尼罗河畔
Terekeka, South Sudan: Boys from the Mandari tribe wait by the Nile river for boats with the day's catch to arrive
Photograph: Camille Lepage/AFP/Getty Images

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 20 September 2012 15.08 BST
意大利 米兰：时装周
Milan, Italy: Anja Rubik heads a line of models down the runway at the Gucci spring/summer 2013 fashion show
Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

Pictures of the day: 20 September 2012
南非塘鹅
A Cape gannet swims in a recovery pool at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds in Cape Town. African Penguins and Cape gannets are amongst the seabirds being rehabilitated following an oil spill due to the wreck of a Turkish coal bulk carrier which ran aground in September 2009. Salvage operations in 2009 failed to remove all the oil, resulting in leakage during rough sea conditions.
Picture: EPA/NIC BOTHMA

好片，学习！

September 14, 2012, 4:51 PM.
Photos of the Day: Sept. 14
DESERT DUNES: The sun shone on sand dunes in Bao Trang, in Vietnam’s southern Binh Thuan province on Friday. Bao Trang is famous for natural fresh water and sand dunes, which attract many tourists. (Xinhua/Zuma Press)

Animal pictures of the week: 14 September 2012
An alpine marmot looks through a photographer's unattended camera on the Grossglockner, Austria's highest mountain. Stefan Meyers had been taking photos of marmots and walked away from his camera. He watched as one of them approached his camera, stood on its hind legs and appeared to look through the lens. Stefan quickly grabbed his friend's equipment to capture the moment.
Picture: STEFAN MEYERS / ARDEA / CATERS NEWS

Pictures of the day: 13 September 2012
纽约时装周 模特
Audience members watch a model during the J Mendel Spring/Summer 2013 show at New York Fashion Week
Picture: REUTERS/Andrew Burton

Pictures of the day: 11 September 2012
A dramatic sky over Bedfordshire heralds a change in the weather, taken on Monday evening, looking towards Milton Keynes from Dunstable Downs
Picture: Tony Margiocchi / Barcroft Media

肯尼亚 落日
An elephant is silhouetted against the setting sun in the Maasai Mara, Kenya
Picture: Paul Goldstein / Exodus / Rex Features

Pictures of the day: 10 September 2012
澳大利亚：鸦-鹰搏击长空
A wedge-tail eagle and a crow fight in the sky above Gunnedah, Australia
Picture: Rob Griffith/AP

Pictures of the day: 6 September 2012
Mitt Romney impersonator Mike Cote smashes a fake glass bottle over the head of Barack Obama impersonator Reggie Brown during an Obama vs Romney showdown in Washington Square Park in New York
Picture: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/GettyImages

Pictures of the day: 6 September 2012
母鸭救雏
This duckling had a lucky escape after being grabbed by a seagull on Narrabeen Lakes in Sydney, Australia. When one of the chicks strayed from the pack a gull saw its chance and swooped. However, the mother duck gave chase and forced the intruder to drop the duckling.
Picture: John Grainger/Newspix / Rex Features

Pictures of the day: 6 September 2012
深圳 六岁四胞胎上学
Six-year-old quadruplets have had numbers shaved into their hair before they start school for their first time. Their parents decided to mark them with 1, 2, 3, 4 on their heads to make it easier for teachers and classmates to tell them apart in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province
Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features