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India /ˈɪndiə/, officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from various positions along many streets in the world. It was launched on May 25, 2007, originally only in several cities in the United States, and has since gradually expanded to include more cities and rural areas worldwide. Google Street View displays images taken from a fleet of specially adapted cars...

This graveyard is located in Agbogbloshie, a slum in Accra, the capital of Ghana. Every day thousands of adults and children tear away at computers from abroad to get at the precious metals inside such as copper, brass, aluminium and zinc. Accra is the capital and largest city in Ghana with the population of the city proper estimated at 1,963,264 as of 2009. Accra also doubles as the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District with which it is coterminous...

These stomach-churning images show the heart-stopping view from the traditional wicker four-man basket complete with a transparent floor. The Palletways Dragon balloon, made using 12 miles of thread that can cover three double decker buses, took to the skies for the first time over Bath. The traditional wicker basket, which carries up to two passengers and two pilots who stand on just two-inch thick glass, was launched at the start of the 2010 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta...

Toru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, Iwatani Toru, born January 25, 1955) is a former Japanese video game designer and creator of one of the most popular arcade games of all time, Pac-Man. Iwatani was born in the Meguro ward of Tokyo, Japan. He joined the computer software company Namco in 1977, where he started his career in the video game business...

Repurposed garbage dumpsters provide a cool green way to escape the heat. Urban kids now have a green alternative to cooling off under the gush of a street fire hydrant. A firm called Macro Sea is refashioning garbage dumpsters into swimming pools. The idea, launched last summer in Brooklyn, has popped up in several locations in New York City this summer and is expected to grow in cities around the country...

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses are used to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals and reefs, and safe entries to harbors, and can also assist in aerial navigation...

A suffocating smog from bushfires hung over the Russian capital, raising the concentration of dangerous pollutants to a new high as exasperated residents donned masks and dozens of flights were delayed or diverted at the city's airports. The thick haze engulfed Moscow for a second straight weekend as southeastern winds blew smoke from the areas worst affected by peat bog and forest fires. Weather experts said the winds are unlikely to change over the next few days...

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, commonly known as Afghanistan, is a landlocked country in south-central Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast. The territories now comprising Afghanistan have been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration...

The Dubai Fountain is a record-setting choreographed fountain system set on the 30-acre manmade Burj Khalifa Lake, at the center of the Downtown Dubai development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was designed by WET Design, the California-based company responsible for the fountains at the Bellagio Hotel Lake in Las Vegas...