Wednesday, Jun. 03, 2009

There's a sucker born: When Del Monte Superfruit Smoothies asked a thousand women who they would most like to lick, they picked the newest Bond, Daniel Craig. So Del Monte got working on a limited-edition "license to chill" ice lolly based on a beach scene from "Casino Royale." It's no doubt the first popsicle with abs.

You are getting sleepier ... Moments after being hit by a tranquilizing dart, a visiting cougar goes nighty-night in a tree in Powell, Wyo.

Bo's first sound bite: The first dog eats a microphone! That will teach those pesky media types in the Rose Garden.

Funnel vision: Kenji Kawakami, a Tokyo inventor known for creating chindogu, or weird tools, shows off a pair of eyeglasses designed to guide eye drops so that they never miss their mark.

It BURNS! And it's not even holy water. Why does a 2-month-old leopard cub need a hose bath anyway? That's what a tongue is for. (Manda Park zoo, Jammu, India.)

As Mr. Miyagi would say, wax in, wax out: David Adickes polishes his sculpture of President Obama at his studio in Houston. The 18-foot-tall statue will be installed at President's Park in South Dakota with Adickes' sculptures of the previous 43 presidents.

Two decades after the iron fist: A Beijing policeman guards the gate to Tiananmen Square on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

Burning down the house: A Bosnian Roma boy jumps from the family wagon to escape the intense heat emanating from his burning home in Sarajevo. Roma families torched their small wooden huts before moving into new housing projects built by the city especially for its Roma population.

The grief of the McGhees: Sherrie McGhee clutches the flag from the casket of her son, Ryan, as she sits with husband Steven and Ryan's brother, Zachary, during burial services at Arlington National Cemetery. Cpl. Ryan McGhee died May 13 from wounds sustained in Iraq.

Crime or accident? A Kashmiri woman shouts pro-freedom slogans as she is hauled away from a protest in Srinagar, India. Thousands of police have been deployed in Kashmir to counter demonstrations condemning the alleged rape and murder two young Muslim women by security forces. Authorities maintain the deaths were caused by drowning and that foul play was not involved.

Shielding the Alps: To prevent Germany's highest glacier from melting, workers on the Zugspitze cover the ice with reflective mats.

Coati fusion: Floor-snarfing coatimundi twins collide at Germany's Hanover Zoo, Germany. No injuries were reported.

Sky painting over Rome: The acrobatic jets of Italy's Frecce Tricolori (Tri-color Arrows) spew smoke in the colors of the Italian flag over for Republic Day.