Day in pictures - March 20, 2010 from CHIEFSWORLD

MAKING FRIENDS: A member of the 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division tries to communicate with a young Afghan girl while patrolling in the village of BehsoodBEST FOOT FORWARD: Army cadets during their passing-out parade at the Officers Training Academy in Chennai INDIAFIERY FINALE: Large paper mache figures are burned during the Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain. Every year the city of Valencia celebrates "Las Fallas" fiesta, which climaxes in the burning of large paper mache figures displayed around the streets of the cityHOLY GLIMPSE: A boy looks on as he sits on the shoulders of his father after bathing in Sangam, the confluence of Ganga and Yamuna, in AllahabadAGAINST THE STORM: In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, a woman walks in the dust brought by standstorm on a street in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu ProvinceTAKING STOCK: A Palestinian inspects the rubble of a building after an Israeli air strike on Friday in Rafah, southern Gaza StripTHREE'S CROWD: Sacramento Kings guard Tyreke Evans, center, drives to the basket between Milwaukee Bucks' Andrew Bogut, left, of Australia and Luc Mbah a Moute, right, during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, CaliforniaRajasthan Royals' co-owner Shilpa Shetty seemed happy with her team's performance so farAn adult male Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) perches on a No Fishing sign while holding a fish in its beakA non-lethal hand grenade loaded with the world's most powerful chilles, Bhut Jolokia, has been trialled by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Tezpur in northeastern Assam state, India. "The chilli grenade would force a terrorist to come out of his hideouts as the smell is so pungent that it would literally choke them," R.B. Srivastava, a senior scientist and director of the DRDO said. The hotness of the bhut jolokia, measured in Scoville heat units is 1,001,304. It's nearly twice as hot as Mexico's red savina (577,000), the variety it replaced as the hottest This is Alby the 13-year-old skateboarding barn owl who lives at Folkestone Owl Rescue Centre, Kent. Alby has developed a technique, which involves him swooping onto the board, using the momentum from his flight to push him alongA goat from Mianzhu, Sichuan province, China, has become a celebrity due to its love of dancing. The goat's owner, Zhao Huaiyun, says the eight-month-old goat loves to stand on its hind legs and dance in a circle A hen in China produced this soft-shelled figure-of-eight shaped egg. Mrs Dong of Shijiazhuang, northern China's Hebei province, said since the hen layed the weird shaped egg, neighbours have been streaming into her home to have a look-- Edited by mystical on Sunday 21st of March 2010 02:57:18 AM http://bit.ly/csAPxs