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Actual pictures compared with pictures from history. The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade (Russian: блокада Ленинграда, transliteration: blokada Leningrada) was a prolonged military operation by the German Army Group North and the Finnish Defence Forces to capture Leningrad in the Eastern Front theatre. It started on 8 September 1941, when the last land connection to the city was severed...

Rescuers are searching for passengers in three cars buried by a massive landslide when a hillside collapsed in northern Taiwan. Firefighter said the landslide buried a portion of a three-lane highway in rubble about the size of two soccer stadiums. Hundreds of workers are digging around the clock with bulldozers but have yet to locate the cars. He said the landslide followed days of rain. News reports say four people are believed to have been buried in the cars...

Captured by Vitaliy Raskalov from the highest radio tower (about 270 meters) located in Moskovskaya oblast of Russia...

Miami is a major city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida. It is the principal city and the center of the South Florida metropolitan area, which had a 2008 population of 5,414,712; ranking 7th largest in the U.S.. Miami is a well-known global city due to its importance in finance, commerce, culture, media, fashion, education, film, print media, entertainment, the arts and international trade...

Guangdong (simplified Chinese: 广东省; traditional Chinese: 廣東省; pinyin: Guǎngdōng Shěng) is a province on the southern coast of People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province. It surpassed Henan and Sichuan to become the most populous province in China in January 2005, registering 79 million permanent residents and 31 million migrants who lived in the province for at least six months of the year...