Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:36:52 GMT | By Antony Bennison
Week in pictures - April 22, 2012

Chongqing

Beekeeper She Ping is covered with bees during a challenge to break the world record in Chongqing Municipality She Ping, 32, broke the world record on Wednesday by covering his body with 33.1 kilograms of bees (about 331,000 bees), overtaking the last world record of 26.8 kilograms of bees which was attempted by a Jiangxi province beekeeper Ruan Liangming in 2008. (© Reuters)
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  • Beekeeper She Ping is covered with bees during a challenge to break the world record in Chongqing Municipality She Ping, 32, broke the world record on Wednesday by covering his body with 33.1 kilograms of bees (about 331,000 bees), overtaking the last world record of 26.8 kilograms of bees which was attempted by a Jiangxi province beekeeper Ruan Liangming in 2008. (© Reuters)
  • A visitor looks at a work by South Korean artist Kang Hyung-Koo at China International Gallery Exposition 2012 in Beijing. (© Reuters)
  • A surface-to-surface Agni V missile is launched from the Wheeler Island off the eastern Indian state of Odisha. India test-fired the long range missile capable of reaching deep into China and Europe on Thursday, thrusting the emerging Asian power into an elite club of nations with intercontinental nuclear weapons capabilities. (© Reuters)
  • A Kashmiri vegetable vendor holds a basket of bread at a floating market in the interiors of the Dal Lake in Srinagar. India's wholesale price index (WPI) rose a faster-than-expected 6.89 percent in March from a year earlier, mainly driven by higher food prices, government data showed. (© Reuters)
  • A member of the Cryophil winter swimmers club lies on floating ice from the spring melting on the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (© Reuters)
  • Worshippers hold candles as they take part in the Christian Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old city. (© Reuters)
  • Hungarian swimmer Laszlo Cseh swims underwater during a training session in Budapest. (© Reuters)
  • Students stand in front of a black board as they sing a song during class at a primary school in a village in Yuexi county, Anhui province. The Chinese characters which is the name of the song read "Cat and Tiger song". (© Reuters)
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Beekeeper She Ping is covered with bees during a challenge to break the world record in Chongqing Municipality She Ping, 32, broke the world record on Wednesday by covering his body with 33.1 kilograms of bees (about 331,000 bees), overtaking the last world record of 26.8 kilograms of bees which was attempted by a Jiangxi province beekeeper Ruan Liangming in 2008.

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