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People light candles placed in the form radioactive symblol in Ukraine's capital Kiev. On Monday, Ukraine marked the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which spread radiation over much of northern Europe. -- PHOTO: AP
A night view of the Armazones hill in the Atacama desert, about 130 km (80 miles) south of the northern Antofagasta city, where the world's largest telescope will be built by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A young hockey player wears the mask of former Montreal Canadiens goalie Ken Dryden as he holds a torch before the Canadiens play the Washington Capitals in Game 6 of their NHL Eastern Conference quarter-final hockey series in Montreal. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man enters an abandoned building, which was invaded by families, in Sao Paulo. A squatters group says about 2,000 protesters occupied vacant buildings to demand more housing for the poor in Brazil. -- PHOTO: AP
An unidentified performer walks inside New York artist Jason Hackenwerth's living balloon sculpture on the opening day of the 2010 Arts Festival of Oklahoma City. Hackenwerth's larger-than-life art made entirely from balloons, is inspired from the plant and animal kingdoms. -- PHOTO: AP
Detail of candles with the image of Monsignor Juan Jose Gerardi during commemorate the 12th anniversary of his assassination in Guatemala City. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the garage of his home on April 26, 1998, two days after publishing the Human Rights report 'Guatemala: Nunca Mas'. -- PHOTO: AFP
A woman shows her malnourished baby at an intensive nutritional rehabilitation center (CRENI) in Tanout, southern Niger. The UN's food agency doubled its aid to Niger as thousands join a desperate exodus from parched farmland in western Africa's Sahel region, where 10 million people are facing hunger. -- PHOTO: AFP
A visitor takes a picture during an exhibition of children's works as part of the 2010 Shakespeare Festival at the Tajalyyat private gallery in Damascus. Proceeds from the exhibition will go to a Syrian foundation for children suffering from cancer, according to the organisers. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Protestors hold signs as they hold a demonstration outside of the Wells Fargo Bank shareholders meeting in San Francisco, California. Hundreds of people held a demonstration outside of the Wells Fargo Bank shareholders meeting to protest Wells Fargo's alleged involvement in the financial collapse and excessive CEO and executive bonuses. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dee Benson helps guide a mother duck and her hatchlings across the street in Racine, Wisconsin, Tuesday as they travel to the Root River. Ms Benson had witnessed the hatchlings falling into a storm drain and was able to get, with the help of the police department and department of public works, the hatchlings rescued from the drain. -- PHOTO: AP
This picture shows sand sculptures at Roermond. The Dutch sandsculpture festival in Roermond will take place from April 30 until September 26. -- PHOTO: AFP
Indian protesters block a passenger train from moving during a demonstration and strike against rising prices in Patna, India. Flights, rail services and road traffic in parts of India were badly affected Tuesday and some schools and businesses shut down by a strike called by the country's opposition communist parties and their allies to protest rising food and fuel prices. -- PHOTO: AP
Men clear rubble from a shop which was destroyed by a suicide bomb attack on the outskirts of Peshawar. A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police checkpost in Pakistan's volatile north-west on Wednesday, killing five policemen, police said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A garbage collector jokes with Egyptian children in the impoverished Al-Zabbalin area in Al-Mukatam neighbourhood in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Before the Egyptian authorities ordered a total pig cull in the face of the outbreak of swine flu a year ago, the animals would sift through garbage in search of anything recyclable. -- PHOTO: AFP
The UAE pavilion is pictured at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. After the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China is planning to stage the largest World's Fair yet as the latest demonstration of its growing global clout. -- PHOTO: AFP
A road roller destroys hundreds of thousands of music, movie and computer discs in a street in Lima, during a symbolic event by Peruvian authorities to commemorate their fight against piracy. Peru claims to lose over 60 million dollars a year in taxes due to piracy. -- PHOTO: AFP
Farmer Julio Torres displays a watermelon growing inside a square mold in a greenhouse in Anton, Panama. The Panama Fruit Producer company harvests square watermelons for exportation to New York, Holland and Germany. -- PHOTO: AP
Vietnam 35th Anniversary, in this April 29, 1975 file photo, a South Vietnamese mother and her three children are shown on the deck of an amphibious command ship being plucked out of Saigon by U.S. Marine helicopters in Vietnam. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north. -- PHOTO: AP
Antonio Velez holds a sign while standing among other union workers gathering outside Willis Tower before the start of a march through the financial district in Chicago, Illinois. The workers were calling for job creation and financial reform. The protestors started their march outside the Willis Tower, which houses the offices of Goldman Sachs. -- PHOTO: AFP
This handout photo provided by Consumers Union, shows the costumed character Banker Man "devouring" actors dressed as tourists on Capitol Hill in Washington to advocate for a Senate financial reform bill. Consumer advocates handed out fliers calling on financial firms to "stop feasting on consumers with outrageous fees and hidden costs. -- PHOTO: AP
Hindu devotees crowd the banks of the River Ganges for a holy dip in the river on the last day of the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, India. Devout Hindus believe bathing in the Ganges will cleanse them of their sins and free them from the cycle of life and rebirth. -- PHOTO: AP
Recently rescued elephant seals explore their temporary home at SeaWorld San Diego. The young seals were rescued from San Diego area beaches and will be returned to the wild once they have been rehabilitated. -- PHOTO: AP
Windsurfers take advantage of strong winds brought in by a late Pacific storm on San Francisco Bay in Alameda, Calif. -- PHOTO: AP
A child stands next to a barrel with water after a fire swept through a slum district, destroying about 35 houses in Morelia. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Tourists take pictures of the Iguazu Falls on an adventure boat. The waterfall system consists of 275 falls along 2.7 kilometers (1.67 miles) of the Iguazu River, and has an annual peak flow of some 6,500 cubic meters a second. The Iguazu falls is a finalist to be one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature. -- PHOTO: AFP
Curious meerkats are pictured beside a plastic post box as part of a photocall at London Zoo to simulate the animals casting postal votes ahead of the May 6 general election in Britain. -- PHOTO: AFP
Bolivian indigenous woman from El Alto city participate in a protest rally to demand for the President Evo Morales government to put more teachers in schools, in La Paz. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
This photo shows The Yellowboat by artist Dale Chihuly in the Hekman Pond inside the Groves at Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Mich. The Chihuly exhibit consists of 15 sites throughout the gardens, including chandeliers, glass towers, and floating spheres. -- PHOTO: AP
Some 150 young professional and amateur dancers perform on Independence Square in Kiev during a flash-mob marking Intrnational Dance Day. International Dance Day (World Dance Day) has been celebrated through promotion by the International Dance Council (CID), an umbrella organization within UNESCO for all kinds of dance. -- PHOTO: AFP
Protesters stand next to a two-way bicycle during a demonstration calling for the country's unity in Brussels. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
The Soviet-era Russian T-34 tanks, are seen at the Red Square with GUM Department Store at the background during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Moscow's Red Square on May 9 to celebrate 65 years of the victory in WWII, in Moscow, Russia. -- PHOTO: AP
A sculptor puts the finishing touches to the clay head of Hulk, the largest figure ever created by the wax museum. The work will provide the template for the final wax figure of the legendary Super Hero which stands 4.5m tall with eyes the size of cricket balls. The figure will join five other Marvel Super Heroes in a new multisensory experience at Madame Tussauds in London - Marvel Super Heroes 4D. -- PHOTO: AP
Chinese hostesses raise the flags of all the participating countries at the Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai. Shanghai is to kick off the World Expo by setting the skies along its riverfront ablaze with fireworks, welcoming the huge showcase of culture and technology with a bang. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pedestrians gather to take photographs in front of Tokyo's Kabukiza, the iconic home of Japan's traditional kabuki drama. The Kabukiza theater closed its doors on April 30 after nearly 60 years. -- PHOTO: AFP
A sand sculpture of (L to R) former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin sitting together during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 is seen in front of the main entrance into All-Russian Exhibition Centre in Moscow. Russia gets ready to celebrate the victory over Nazi troops on May 9. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Amy Maze puts the final touches of make up for her son, Payton, 6, who was a clown in the annual Kindergarten Circus Day at the Elk Grove Elementary School in Elk Grove, California. -- PHOTO: AP
Journalists hold pictures of photographer David Cilia and journalist Erika Ramirez during a protest in Mexico City. Cilia and Ramirez disappeared when armed assailants attacked their convoy of aid groups visiting an indigenous community in southern Mexico. Finnish international observer Jyri Antero Jaakkola and Mexican aid worker Alberta Carino were killed in the ambush. In the pictures it reads: 'We demand their return'. -- PHOTO: AFP
A visitor walks near a giant sculpture named 'BikiniBar', created by a group of Dutch artists lead by Joep van Lieshout, in front of Vienna's Museums Quartier. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Otomi Indians Alberta Alcantara Juan, left, and Teresa Gonzalez Cornelio, center, laugh while posing for photographers after a news conference in Mexico City. Mexico's Supreme Court has overturned the kidnapping convictions and ordered the release of Alcantara Juan and Gonzalez Cornelio, two market vendors who spent almost four years in prison on 21-year sentences for the alleged kidnapping of six federal agents. -- PHOTO: AP
Juan Pena, of Las Vegas, Nev., holds up a sign in protest as he attends a news conference where it was announced that the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, who were supported at the event by other groups, had filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction preventing authorities from enforcing the new Arizona immigration law, at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. -- PHOTO: AP
A resident segregates preserved star fishes in San Vicente village, Olango island, Cebu province. Residents are banned from collecting crabs and seashells in the reserve, on the southern tip of the island. On the outskirts of the reserve the locals collect starfish, sea urchins, and other less known creatures of the sea by the thousands, which they preserve using embalming fluid, paint in gaudy colours and sell to foreign markets. -- PHOTO: AFP
A member of Cirque de Soleil performs at the Canada pavillion on the first day of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flood through the gates at the World Expo in Shanghai on the first day of a six-month event aimed at boosting the image of China's biggest city. -- PHOTO: AFP
South Korean activists prepare to float packs of leaflets using balloons into North Korea at Paju. The packs which contain DVDs, USD bills and radios were sent to North Koreas. -- PHOTO: AFP
Revellers take part in the Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh. The event, which celebrates an ancient Celtic festival, is a participatory arts and drama event and symbolises the beginning of summer. -- PHOTO: AFP
Indonesian labourers rally toward the presidential palace in Jakarta. Thousands of Indonesians took to the streets amid a heavy police presence as they demanded better social security for workers. -- PHOTO: AFP
Leftist counter-demonstrators protest against a neo-nazi demo and the bar "Zum Henker" (The executioner), known as meenting point of far-right people in Berlin's Schoeneweide district, on Walpurgis Night on the eve of Mayday. Police brace for potentially violent clashes at May Day demonstrations throughout Germany. Banner reads "THe Fuehrer to the executioner, close Nazi bars!". -- PHOTO: AFP
A Muslim man distributes food to the poor after offering Friday prayers, outside a mosque in Hyderabad, India. Food inflation that has been stuck in the double digits for a year and while policymakers debate how to feed people without driving the country deeper in debt, Indians grapple with the sad arithmetic of how to do more with less. -- PHOTO: AP
Children play in Cite Soleil, the biggest slum in Port-Au-Prince. Orphans from the Jan 12 earthquake that left 250,000-300,000 dead and more than 1.3 million homeless, resort to hold-ups, thefts, and the sale of drugs in order to make enough money to eat. Some of them join gangs that offer protection and shelter. -- PHOTO: AFP
Robert Fear, of Chandler, Arizona, makes a last minute check of his hot air balloon before lift off Friday morning, helping kick off the Old Timers Balloon Rally in Roswell, N.M. -- PHOTO: AP
Entertainers, dressed in carnival costumes, dance to the music of Jamaican reggae artist Shaggy, unseen, prior to the match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka in the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match in Georgetown, Guyana. -- PHOTO: AP
Fireworks explode above the China Pavilion as thousands of visitors watch during the opening ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo. Shanghai unveils to the world on Friday its multi-billion dollar World Expo, an event many outside the country may struggle to recognise but which China hopes will be an opportunity to assert its growing global clout. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Turkish demonstrators, stand on the Ataturk monument, waving flags at the Taksim square during a May Day rally in central Istanbul, on Saturday. The government has agreed to demands of labour unions to fully open the square for celebrations for the first time since 1977 when 36 demonstrators died after a shooting triggered a stampede. -- PHOTO: AFP
Oil booms are seen near the coast of South Pass, south of Venice, Louisiana, where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread in the Gulf of Mexico. Weather forecasts said deteriorating weather and rough seas would hamper cleanup crews this weekend as they tried to lay more of the floating booms. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An excavator works at a Rio Tinto coal mine in the Hunter valley north of Sydney in this undated handout photograph. Australia will impose a new 40 percent tax on mining projects from July 2012 and boost pension savings for workers under a sweeping pre-election overhaul of its tax system, unveiled on Sunday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men celebrate in front of a giant burning bonfire in Jerusalem during the celebration of Lag Baomer. Lag Baomer bonfire is to commemorate the death of Bar Yochai, who was a great scholar and one of the most important sages in Jewish history some 1800 years ago. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Chinese lion dance troupe performs for marchers at the annual May Day rally in downtown Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
Sisowath Weacharavuth, the grandson of Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk, second from left, uses the royal oxen to plow land during the annual royal plowing ceremony near Bayon temple in Siem Reap province, about 320 kilometres (199 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. -- PHOTO: AP
Tourists wait in queues that take more than two hours to enter the USA Pavilion at the World Expo site in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO: AP
Nude models walk in circle as they prepare to pose for a photography by US artist Spencer Tunick in Peel Park Salford, Greater Manchester, north-west England, on Saturday. The shoot was commissioned by the Lowry Art Gallery to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. -- PHOTO: AFP
Protesters against Arizona's new immigration law hold a rally at Union Square in New York as more than a million people from coast to coast hold May Day rallies. -- PHOTO: AFP
