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Environmental officials work to give a dose of Pepto-Bismol to a Northern Gannet bird, which is covered in oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, at a facility in Fort Jackson, La. - AP
Environmental officials work to help a Northern Gannet bird, which is covered in oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, at a facility in Fort Jackson, La. - AP
Workers load a boat with oil booms in Bay St. Louisiana, Miss., as they continue preparations to head off damage from an impending oil spill along the Gulf coast. - AP
View of the opening ceremony of the World Expo in Shanghai. From the US to North Korea, a total of 189 countries will have exhibitions at the six-month event that is expected to attract up to 100 million visitors. - AFP
Chulalongkorn Hospital in the Thai capital evacuates most of its patients after anti-government 'Red Shirt' protesters stormed inside in a mistaken belief that soldiers were hiding there. - AFP
A Chinese policeman shows teachers and school workers how to defend themselves during an attack, at a school in Beijing. - AFP
Britain's opposition Conservative party leader David Cameron (R) is filmed by a pupil as he talks to school children during an election campaign visit to the Western Springs Community primary school in Rugeley, central England. - AFP
Former British PM Tony Blair (L) has his blood pressure taken by a nurse during a Labour Party election campaign visit to the Alexandra Avenue Health and Social Care Centre in north London. - AFP
Marseille's Souleymane Diawara (L) vies with Auxerre's Ireneusz Jelen during their French football match at the Abbe-Deschamps stadium in Auxerre, France. - AFP
Spanish Feliciano Lopez eyes the ball as he plays against Latvia's Ernests Gulbis during their ATP Tennis Open match in Rome, Italy. - AFP
New Zealand cricketers Nathan McCullum(L) and Tim Southee celebrate after winning against Sri Lanka during their ICC World Twenty20 2010 match at the Providence Stadium in Guyana. - AFP
Australian Richie Porte competes to win the third stage, a 23.4-kilometre time trial during the UCI protour Tour de Romandie cycling race. - AFP
Chinese hostesses standing by the flags of all the participating countries at the World Expo held in Shanghai. Shanghai will kick off the six-month event by setting the skies along its riverfront a blaze with fireworks. - AFP
A Thai anti-government protester lies on used truck tyres next to a main barricade of the Red Shirts' fortified camp in the financial central district of Silom in Bangkok, Thailand. - AFP
British opposition Conservative party leader David Cameron (L) shakes hands with opposition Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg (C), and Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Labour Party Gordon Brown (R), at the end of a 'live' televised debate, at the University of Birmingham, in Birmingham, central England. - AFP
A South Korean woman weeps as she holds the portrait of her son killed after the warship 'Cheonan' sank last month, during a funeral ceremony at a state cemetery in Daejeon. - AFP
French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2nd L) and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (2nd R) shake hands with Chinese girls dressed as the mascot of the French pavilion during a visit at the World Expo site in Shanghai. - AFP
Liberal party presidential candidate Benigno Aquino (R) speaking to supporters during a campaign rally in Bongabon, Oriental Mindoro province, south of Manila, Philippines. - AFP
More than 6,500 personnel participated in Taiwan's biggest military exercise in more than a year aimed to test defence capabilities against China. - AFP
Riot policemen push back demonstrators as they try to approach the finance ministry in Athens, Greece. - AFP
Liverpool's Jamie Carragher (C) vies with Atletico Madrid's Antonio Lopez (L) during their UEFA Europa League semi-final second leg football match at Anfield in Liverpool, north-west England. - AFP
Fulham's Brede Hangeland (R) holds off a challenge from Hamburg's Ruud van Nistelrooy (2nd R) during their UEFA Europa League semi-final second leg football match at Craven Cottage in London. - AFP
Tiger Woods hits a shot from the sand on the 15th hole during the first round of the Quail Hollow Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. - AFP
British rider Mark Cavendish (C) of the Columbia-HTC team sprints to win the second stage of the UCI protour Tour de Romandie cycling race in Fribourg, Switzerland. - AFP
A Thai 'Red Shirt' anti-government protester wearing a mask of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra dances during a rally inside their fortified camp in the Silom central financial district in downtown Bangkok. - AFP
Thai anti-government protesters wearing wigs dance before their leaders' announcement they will negotiate with the government during a rally held inside their fortified camp in the Silom central financial district in downtown Bangkok. - AFP
Philippine presidential candidate Senator Manuel Villar, a self-made millionaire, reaches out to touch hands with his supporters on a bus during a campaign motorcade in Bataan, north of Manila. - AFP
Philippine soldiers guard a warehouse in Quezon City, east of Manila, where Precint Count Optical Scanner (PCOS) vote-counting machines are stored waiting to be trucked to precints around Metro Manila. - AFP
New York City Police stand guard outside of New York Federal Court awaiting the arraignment of Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad. - AFP
A turtle swims through a massive oil slick about 15 miles south of Louisiana. Officials say more than 600 animal species are threatened by the expanding oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. - AFP
A dead shark lies in the surf as concern continues that a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may harm other maritime species in Ship Island, Mississippi. - AFP
Information screens in central London display the odds on the result of the upcoming UK general elections. - AFP
Lionel Messi (centre) shrugs off the challenge of a Tenerife defender to slot home his first goal and push Barcelona closer to the title. - AP
Serena Williams returns a backhand to Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky during their third round match of the WTA Rome Open. The American wins the tie 7-6 (7/2), 6-1. - AFP
Sweat flies as Tiger Woods hits his tee shot on the 13th hole during a practice round for The Players Championship golf tournament. - AP
Ireland cricketer Trent Johnston(L) celebrates as teammate Niall O'Brien(C) runs out England cricketer Craig Kieswetter during their match in the ICC World Twenty20. - AFP
Philippine Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno Aquino (R) distributes yellow wristbands to his supports. Survey results indicate that the son of former President Corazon Aquino and former Senator Benigno Aquino. Jr still has a strong lead over his rivals, despite a potential threat from a contentious land reform issue. - AFP
Supporters of Philippine Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno Aquino flash the "Laban" (fight) sign during a campaign in Tabaco town, Albay province, south of Manila, five days ahead of the general elections. - AFP
Convoy of Thai military patrol as they check security during a Thai pro-government-supporter demonstration at Victory Monument in Bangkok. - AFP
A dead turtle lies in the surf as concern continues that the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may harm animals in its path in Bay St Louis, Mississippi. - AFP
Workers lay down an oil boom as efforts continue to try and keep a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from washing ashore in Pascagoula, Mississippi. - AFP
A police officer and his dog watch pedestrians in the subway station on the corner of 42nd Street and 7th Avenue in Times Square in New York City. - AFP
Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown casts a shadow as he speaks to Labour Party supporters at the University Campus Suffolk in Ipswich, England. - AP
A crowd of visitors wait in a queue outside the entrance of the World Expo in Shanghai. Despite the numbers, official data showed that attendance for the opening for the six-month event fell below expectations. - AP
A street artist joins a protest during a strike by municipal workers in the centre of Athens, Greece. - AFP
Arsenal's Sol Campbell (R) vies with Blackburn Rovers' Martin Olsson during their English Premier league football match at Ewood Park in Blackburn, north-west England. - AFP
Hull City's Mark Cullen scores their second goal during their English Premier League football match against Wigan Athletic at The DW Stadium in Wigan, north-west England. - AFP
Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene (L) plays a shot against Zimbabwe during their ICC World Twenty20 2010 match at the Providence Stadium in Guyana. - AFP
Devika Rotwan, who was shot in her leg during the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, walks by the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. The lone surviving gunman from the attacks was convicted on Monday. - AP
The lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab (file picture), was convicted by an Indian court of murder and waging war against India. - AFP
A bomb squad officer works on an SUV in New York's Times Square after an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb was found inside if it. - AP
This still photo from a surveillance camera, released by the New York City Police Department shows the Nissan Pathfinder used in the attempted attack on Times Square passing through Times Square. - AP
Demonstrators protest against the new economic measures during a rally in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, after government outlined harsh spending cuts and tax increases necessary to free up billions of euros. - AP
Institute of Marine Mammal Sciences researchers Justin Main, left, and Kelly Folkedahl collect a dead sea turtle on the beach in Pass Christian located near the Gulf of Mexico. The researchers are collecting dead turtles and to determine the cause of death. - AFP
Frank Lampard (2nd from right) celebrates his goal as Chelsea close in on their their first Premier League title in four years. - AFP
Manchester United set up a dramatic last-day shoot-out with Chelsea for the English Premier League title after Nani (1st from left) struck to seal a 1-0 win. - AFP
Rafael Nadal wins a record equalling 17th Masters title with a 7-5, 6-2 defeat of 13th-seeded Spanish compatriot David Ferrer at the Rome Masters. - AP
Two women hanging a banner as they wait to catch a glimpse of British Conservative Party leader David Cameron. The Conservative Party won at least 287 of the 650 seats. - AFP
A copy of the election day edition of the Evening Standard newspaper with the headlines on incumbent Prime Minister Gordon Brown - AFP
Thai policemen pause at the site of an overnight grenade attack along the Silom financial district in downtown Bangkok, killing two policemen. - AP
