World in Pictures
Photo source: ImagineChina

	The largest recycling bin 世界上最大的垃圾箱 People dressed as recycling bins stand next to a giant recycling bin in Berlin's Schlossplatz, September 22. The twelve-meter high bin, claimed to be the largest in the world, was placed there on the occasion of the European Recycling Week, taking place from September 18 to 24.
	Strongest Man competition 白俄罗斯和拉托维亚进行大力士比赛 Guntar Kusinsh from Latvia pulls a 7.8-tonne truck "MAZ" during a lorry-pull event of the Strongest Man competition between Belarus and Latvia, in Minsk, September 22.
	Sao Paulo Biennial Exhibition 巴西圣保罗艺术双年展 A woman watches a work of the Polish artist Piotr Uklanski during the Twenty-fifth Sao Paulo Arts Biennial Exhibition, at Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 22. This is the second exhibition of this size in the world.
	The smallest bible 世界上最小的圣经 A bible, claimed to be world's smallest one comes from Indonesia and is seen in Bible Expo 2004 in Lima, Peru September 25. The bible has a width of four centimeters and a length of six centimeters.
	Baby born from re-implanted tissues kept for 7 years  冷冻7年的胚胎顺利重植发育并降生 Ouarda Touirat (C) holds her new born daughter Tamara, September 24, during a news conference at the UCL Saint-Luc hospital in Brussels. Tamara is the first baby to be born from re-implanted ovarian tissues. The tissues have been kept since 1997 by cryogenics while her mother was undergoing a chemotherapy to treat the cancer she had been suffering from.
	Scorpion Queen  "蝎子王后"刷新世界纪录 A file picture dated August 31 shows scorpions crawling on the body of Nur Malena Hassan inside a 4-metre-by-3-metre glass container at a shopping complex in Malaysia. Malaysian "Scorpion Queen" Nur Malena Hassan set a new world record after living 36 days in an enclosed cage with 6,000 live scorpions beginning on August 21 until September 25.
	Wildlife art prize  英艺术家赢得野生艺术大奖 Jean Hill looks at her crocodile sculpture entitled "Urban Warrior" at the Mall Galleries, London, September 21. The crocodile, which is made from bicycle chains and cogs, has won her the GMAC Commercial Mortgage European Art Award, the most valuable wildlife art prize in Britain.

World in Words
Collected and translated by Beverly

"It sounds like the sequel to a very bad horror movie, but it's no joke. Ivan is back."
The storm once called Hurricane Ivan, which was thought to have spent itself in torrents of earth-rending rain over Appalachia last weekend after bringing destruction to the Alabama-Florida border, was split in two after colliding with high pressure over the East Coast.
"这听起来像是一部糟糕的恐怖片的结局,但它绝不是玩笑,伊凡回来了."
--继重创阿拉巴马和佛罗里达两州交界地区后,飓风"伊凡"又于上周携狂风暴雨袭击了阿巴拉契亚.就在人们认为它大势已去之时,"伊凡"却遇上来自东海岸的高气压,进而分裂为两股风暴,重袭美海岸线.

"The decision to admit Greece was based on the best information available at the time. That decision won't change."
A day after Greece admitted that it had massaged its finances around the time that it met the criteria to use the euro, the European Commission said it was sending a team to Athens to review deficit figures. But a commission spokesman said Greece's membership in the euro area was not in question.
"将希腊纳入欧元区的决定在当时是经过充分取证的,这一决定将不会改变."
--希腊承认当初在加入欧元区时曾对财政做了润色,一日之后,欧洲委员会称将派调查团至雅典对其赤字进行重审,但是委员会的一位发言人表示希腊在欧元地区的会员地位不会受到动摇.

"I went to Hollywood because they invited me, not because I wanted to go there. Making movies in the United States gives me a sense of achievement, but there is no sense of superiority. "
Jackie Chan in answering a journalist's question, ("are you done with Hollywood? ") in a promotion for his latest movie, New Police Story.
"我去好莱坞,是因为他们请我去拍戏,并不是我要去的.在美国拍戏给了我成就感,但并没有给我优越感."
--在其新片《新警察故事》的宣传活动上,当被问及"在好莱坞是不是已经没有市场"时,成龙做了如上回答.

"After a lot of consideration and consultation, balancing the creative risk with the potential offense to some parts of the audience, we have decided not to transmit the program."
British Broadcasting Corporation has scrapped a planned cartoon series called "Popetown," set in a fictional Vatican with corrupt bishops and an infantile Pope John Paul II on a pogo stick. The decision followed a wave of protests by Roman Catholics after excerpts appeared on the Internet.
"经过充分的考虑和磋商,顾虑到影片可能给某些观众带来伤害,我们已经决定放弃这一节目."
--BBC取消了一名为"教皇城"的卡通连续剧的播映计划.该剧以虚构的罗马教廷为背景,描述的是一群腐败的主教和一位踩着弹簧高跷的幼稚可笑的教皇约翰·保罗二世.该剧片花在网上公开之后,立即遭到罗马天主教徒的强烈抗议.