Huge mooncake in Haikou

A Chinese girl looks at a huge mooncake in a restaurant in Haikou, South China's Hainan Province August 28 2006. The moon cake, 40 centimeters high and 220 centimeters in diameter, is made of 800 kilograms of materials.

49er event at 2006 Qingdao Int'l Regatta

Britain's Nick Rogers/Joe Glanfield "GBR817" compete during men's 470 event at the 2006 Qingdao International Regatta, east China's Shandong Province, Aug. 28, 2006.

Giant panda cited as global most sightworthy animal

Baby panda Su Lin celebrates its one-year-old birthday with its mother panda Bai Yun in the San Diego Zoo on August 2, 2006. Currently, there are only about 1,600 wild giant pandas worldwide, mainly in China's Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. According to a recent survey conducted by a global environment protection organization, China's giant panda and the Amazon rainforest in South America are elected as "the most sightworthy animal" and "the most sightworthy natural sight" respectively.Among the global most sightworthy sights, the Amazon rainforest ranks first, and others include Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the Himalayas (or the Everest) on Sino-Nepalese border, the Massai Mara Game Drive Reserve in Kenya, the Grand Canyon in the United States, the Victoria Falls in east Africa, Mangrove forest in the Sundarbans National Park, Bengalash, the Tanami Desert in Oceania, Con Dao in Vietnam and the Niagara Falls in US-Canada border.

China's "dead sea"

Two girls read newspapers while float on the water in a salt lake named man-made "dead sea" in Daishan County of east China's Zhejiang Province Aug. 28, 2006. Salt content in water reaches 25 percent and the water density is more than that of the human body, enabling swimmers to float. The salt lake which opened to the public on Monday attraced numbers of tourists.

Unique colourful rocks near the Mount Tai

Photo taken on Aug. 27, 2006 shows an unique physiognomy of colourful rocks at the riverbed near the Mount Tai in Tai'an, east China's Shandong Province. The physiognomy of colourful rocks covering an area of 10,000 square meters was unveiled after geologicians took one month to clean up the silt. The black amphibolite of these colourful rocks was formed about 2.8 billion years ago. This physiognomy has a high value both for sightseeing and for geological research.

12 killed in Ningxia's bus accident

A damaged bus is seen on Hui'anpu section of the No. 211 national highway in Yanchi County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Aug. 28, 2006. Two buses collided head-on at 12:17 on Monday, causing one bus to plunge off a bridge. Twelve people aboard the buses were killed, and 31 others were injured in the accident.

Nasa scrubs Tuesday launch plan

Kathy Winters, weather officer of NASA, attends a press conference with some materials on Tropical Storm Ernesto in her hands at the Kennedy Space Center of Cape Canaveral in Florida, the United States, on Aug. 28, 2006. NASA announced early on Monday that mission managers had decided to scrub Tuesday's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Atlantis due to the approaching Tropical Storm Ernesto.

China's top legislator arrives in Porto for stopover

Wu Bangguo (R), chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, is warmly welcomed by staff members of Chinese Embassy in Portugal as he arrives in Porto of Portugal on Aug. 28, 2006.

Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans

The photo, taken on August 22, shows flowers on a cross beside a house damaged by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Approximately 350,000 houses were destroyed or damaged and 1.3 million people left homeless in the Hurricane Katrina which hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. A further 3 million people lost electricity and 80 percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded. At least 1,815 people died in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.

Star's semi-nude photo taken with hidden camera stirs uproar

Twins pop star Gillian Chung Yan-tung (R) attends the condemnation activity of Hong Kong show business in Hong Kong, south China, on Aug. 28, 2006. Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild (HKPAG) and Hong Kong TVB held a condemnation activity to protest the semi-nude photos appeared in Easy Finder magazine on Monday. Easy Finder magazine carried a photo of Twins pop star Gillian Chung taken with a hidden camera, evoking strong repercussion among Hong Kong residents.

President Hu meets Beninese president

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) attends a ceremony to welcome Thomas Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on Aug. 28, 2006.

Emmy winners 2006

Julia Louis-Dreyfus winner of the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series award poses in the press room at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, August 27, 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Annan begins visit to Lebanon

The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (L) arrives at Rafik Hariri International airport in Beirut Aug. 28, 2006.The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived on Monday at Rafik Hariri International airport in Beirut to begin his visit in Lebanon aimed largely at bolstering a two-week-old UN-brokered ceasefire in the country. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

4 blasts jolt Turkey

An injured woman is carried to a hospital after explosions occurred in Turkey's southern resort area of Marmaris, Aug. 28, 2006.Three people were killed and 20 others injured in an explosion in the southern Turkish resort city of Antalya on Monday, which is the fifth bomb attack within 24 hours in the country, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.