Outstanding News In Pictures: 12 August 2011

All breaking on 11 August 2011 in the world are excellently captured in the following impressive images. The daily news features Chinese seafood restaurant serving giant while shark, latest 3D image of asteroid Vesta's equator, color image of Endeavour crater on Mars, protest by hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews and etc.
More than 50 staffs of a Chinese seafood restaurant have been called to move a huge whale shark into the restaurant. The giant whale shark was too big for the kitchen. The owner of this Wanzi Port Restaurant in Zhenjiang (Jiangsu Province), Shao Yingjiang, has bought the huge animal which was washed up on the beach at the price of 100,000 Yuan (£10,000). The shark weighs 1.77-ton and measures 5.8m long and 3m wide. A local butcher was invited to dismember the shark. More than 300kg of shark meat were sold out.

 More than 50 staffs of a Chinese seafood restaurant have been called to move a huge whale shark into the restaurant

 Paragliders, who are flying over Tehachapi, California, form a funny face with the moon

 The picture by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows off a panoramic view of Endeavour crater – the impact crater located in Meridiani Planum on Mars – at the closet distance

 The fake version of most expected Apple's popular iPhone is selling China's top e-commerce platform Taobao for 200 yuan (about £19)

Famous chef Antto Melasniemi is spotted in Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant in Helsinki where all cooking is done by using purely solar energy

 A man looks at the protest by hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood. They protest against the Jerusalem municipality

 The 3D image of asteroid Vesta's equator, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows off hills, steep craters and troughs

Space Shuttle Discovery is seen before setting off to Endeavour outside Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at the Kennedy Space Centre

 Endeavour crater, which is about 14 miles, is seen in the color photo by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity

Two-year-old Matthew Kealy looks fantastic while playing with the Australian Museum's robotic Muttaburrasaurus named Winny Saur. Muttaburrasaurus was a large dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period in eastern Australia

US President Barack Obama walks onto the Air Force One before he departs Joint Base Andrews for Michigan

Outstanding News in Pictures: August 7, 2011

The outstanding news pieces on Sunday, August 7, 2011 include the 16th Gay Pride parade in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the 66th anniversary of the atomic attack in Hiroshima, Japan.

Hundreds of thousands of people crowded at Amsterdam’s streets to celebrate the city’s 16th Gay Pride parade on Saturday, August 6, 2011. The event attracted huge amount of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals. Techno and electro music played out at full strength, matching the attendees’ cheers and applause. Saturday’s celebration was part of six days of concerts, art exhibitions and a gay film festival. The Netherlands became the world’s first country to legalize gay marriage on April 1, 2011. It is estimated that one million Dutch people are gay.

People attend the 16th Gay Pride parade in Amsterdam, Netherlands on August 6, 2011

Thousands of people march in Tel Aviv’s streets, Israel, during a protest against the rising living cost on August 6, 2011

Visitors take part in a world record attempt at Europabad’s watersliding in Karlsruhe, Germany on August 6, 2011

A double decker bus is torched as riot police try to disperse a large group of people gathering outside the police station on the High Road in Tottenham, north London, England on August 6, 2011

Members of the Italian theatre company Tascabile di Bergamo prepare to dance during the Italian street theatre festival at Pateo do Collegio square in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil on August 6, 2011

At least sixteen tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan catch fire on August 6, 2011, as a bomb hit them in northwest Pakistan

Revelers dance in front of the main stage during the 17th Woodstock Festival in Kostrzyn-upon-Odra River, Poland on August 6, 2011

Thousands of people dance and sing during the opening musical act of an event, entitled “The Response”, at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas on August 6, 2011. The event aims to pray for God to help save America in crisis

Sculptor David Mach sets fire to a devil's head made of matches, part of his Precious Light exhibition at the festival fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland

Paper lanterns float in the Motoyasu river in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan on the 66th anniversary of the atomic attack on August 6, 2011