Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:00:04 GMT | By Antony Bennison
Top photos for Aug. 5

West Bengal

A farmer with his bulls takes part in the 21st Bull Race at a paddy field in Canning village, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Fifty-three farmers with 128 bulls from across the state, participated in the two-day long race. Winners will be rewarded with daily items such as bicycles, brass pitchers, radio sets, etc. Farmers also participate with the belief that taking part in the race before ploughing their fields will bring good rain and prosperity to their families, and also to encourage young people to take up farming, organisers said. (© Reuters)
Next
Previous
Previous
  • A farmer with his bulls takes part in the 21st Bull Race at a paddy field in Canning village, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Fifty-three farmers with 128 bulls from across the state, participated in the two-day long race. Winners will be rewarded with daily items such as bicycles, brass pitchers, radio sets, etc. Farmers also participate with the belief that taking part in the race before ploughing their fields will bring good rain and prosperity to their families, and also to encourage young people to take up farming, organisers said. (© Reuters)
  • Leona, 7, poses inside a labyrinth installation made up of 250,000 books titled "aMAZEme" by Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo at the Royal Festival Hall in central London. (© Reuters)
  • Fireworks explode over the lit Olympic Cauldron during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (© Reuters)
  • Animal keeper Anton Geissenbacher holds a baby South American snapping turtle (Chelydra acutirostris) at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. Four of these snapping turtles, which originally lived in Costa Rica and Colombia, were hatched in July at the zoo marking the first time this species were bred in captivity. (© Reuters)
  • A squibbing display is performed by 220 Bridgwater carnivalites during the "Battle for the Winds" event in Weymouth, England. (© Reuters)
  • A woman carries an idol of Hindu goddess Dashama on the banks of the river Sabarmati, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Hindu devotees keep the idols in their house for 10 days for the Dashama festival, before immersing them in the Sabarmati river on the tenth night. (© Reuters)
  • Britain's Fiona McCann (top) and Australia's Ash Southern fight for the ball during their women's preliminary round Group B water polo match at the London 2012 Olympic Games. (© Reuters)
  • A villager looks closely at a whale shark which died after being stranded on the Pandansimo beach in Bantul, near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (© Reuters)
Next
Previous1 of 10Next
Share this Gallery

A farmer with his bulls takes part in the 21st Bull Race at a paddy field in Canning village, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Fifty-three farmers with 128 bulls from across the state, participated in the two-day long race. Winners will be rewarded with daily items such as bicycles, brass pitchers, radio sets, etc. Farmers also participate with the belief that taking part in the race before ploughing their fields will bring good rain and prosperity to their families, and also to encourage young people to take up farming, organisers said.

recently recommended stories