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A masked protester participates in a May Day rally in Panama City. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Philippine ambassador to the UN Libran Cabactulan receives a wreath of origami cranes and signatures on anti-nuclear weapons petitions as he prepares to head the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the UN, in New York. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
m&d-covered dancers perform during the opening ceremony of a Quran recital festival in Depok in the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday. -- PHOTO: AP
Men carry a portable shrine in front of Kabukiza theatre, home of Japan's traditional kabuki drama that closed its doors last Friday to be demolished and rebuilt into a high rise tower, during the annual festival of Teppozu-inari shrine in Tokyo. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dover Anthony sings on as he overlooks the parking lot of submerged cars at the Knights Motel in East Nashville. Seven people were killed in Tennessee and four in northern Mississippi by a line of storms that brought heavy flooding and tornados to the region over the weekend. -- PHOTO: AP
Demonstrators rallying against the proliferation of nuclear weapons gather along on Seventh Avenue near Times Square as they prepare to march towards United Nations Headquarters in New York. -- PHOTO: AP
Visitors walk past reflections of the illuminated China Pavilion, left, and Sun Valley during the night of the Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO: AP
Fishing boats are decorated for the 61st Annual Fleet Blessing at St. Margaret Catholic Church in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. The fleet is grounded as the oil spill from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster approaches the Gulf Coast. -- PHOTO: AFP
Members of a traditional dance troupe perform during an annual royal memorial service at the royal Jongmyo Shrine in central Seoul. The service, called "Jongmyo Jerye" taking place on a Sunday in the first week of May every year, was proclaimed as a UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2001. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Buddhist Bhutanese man walks past prayer flags at Taktsang Monastery, also known as the Tiger's Nest, outside Paro, Bhutan. The Tiger's Nest, built in 1692, is one of the most prominent Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the South Asian nation. -- PHOTO: AP
A man leads a camel while offering rides along Karachi's Clifton beach. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An employee arranges 'Echinocereen' in Kakteen-Haage, Europe's oldest cacti nursery, in Erfurt, central Germany. Europe's oldest cactus nursery, celebrates its 325th anniversary this week. -- PHOTO: AP
A flock of ruffs (Philomachus pugnax) fly over Pripiat river during the evening near the village of Turov, some 270 km south of Minsk. Several hundred thousand sandpipers, including ruffs, migrate through Belarus every spring, according to Belarussian ornithologists. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Floodwater from the Cumberland River creeps into downtown Nashville, Tenn. Heavy weekend rain caused the Cumberland River, which winds through Nashville, to overflow its banks flooding part of downtown and other areas around the city. -- PHOTO: AP
Visitors play with a computerised graphic image of a water basin at Slovakia's pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO: AP
An Orthodox Christian pilgrim immerses herself in a tub of water taken from the Jordan River after it was blessed during a baptism ceremony at Qasr-el Yahud near Jericho. A team of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmental scientists says large stretches of the biblical river could dry up by 2011. -- PHOTO: AP
Olympic gold medalist speed skater Wang Meng (left) of China guides Taiwanese skaters during a training session at the Taipei Arena Ice Rink. The training session on Tuesday was organised by the Olympic committees from both sides of the strait to provide aspiring skaters from Taiwan a chance to learn from Olympic winning and Chinese national ice skaters. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
People carry a statue depicting The Holy Child of Atocha during celebrations in Amatitlan, some 20 km, about 12 miles, south of Guatemala City. The Holy Child of Atocha is a Roman Catholic depiction of the Child Jesus. -- PHOTO: AP
Birds fight for fish in Breton Island, Louisiana, as oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy giant BP Plc was under siege on Monday over the catastrophic oil spill from its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, as its shares fell and the US government pressed it to try to limit a major environmental disaster. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A baboon walk with a baby baboon on her back on the rooftop of a house in the Table Mountain National park on the outskirt of Cape Town, South Africa. More than five million rand (675,000 dollars, 500,000 euros) will have been spent on managing Cape Town metro's protected chacma baboon troops in the year leading up to the city's World Cup semi-final on July 6. -- PHOTO: AFP
Newly-hatched Olive Ridley turtles make their way to the ocean at Rushikulya beach in Ganjam district, 140 km south of Bhubaneswar. Thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles nest their eggs in parts of the Bay of Bengal Sea on the beach at Rushikulya, one of the mass nesting sites in the Indian coastal state of Orissa. -- PHOTO: AFP
Giant waves break onto beaches in Nice, south-eastern France. High winds hit the French Riviera in the afternoon, due to last into the night. -- PHOTO: AFP
People demonstrate in the center of the city of Thessaloniki against government's austerity measures. Demonstrators stormed the Athens Acropolis on April 4 and thousands of civil servants launched a walkout ahead of a general strike against unprecedented austerity spending cuts. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev behind the controversial separation barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Palestinian economy minister Hasan Abu Libdeh warned thousands of Palestinians to stop working in Israeli settlements or face stiff fines and jail time. --PHOTO: AFP
Workers gather oil-soaked algae on the beach in Gulfport, Mississippi. Energy giant BP Plc, under heavy pressure in Washington, struggled to plug a gushing undersea leak that threatened to wreak havoc on Gulf Coast fishing and tourism and reshape the US political debate on offshore drilling. --PHOTO: REUTERS
A dead shark is seen laying in the surf as concern continues that the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may harm animals in its path in Ship Island, Mississippi. It is unknown if the shark died due to the oil spill. --PHOTO: AFP
A bear rests on tree branches after it was sedated at Santa Clara Cemetery in Oxnard. The California black bear that scampered up an Oxnard cemetery tree has been plucked from branches where it was wedged for hours after being peppered with tranquiliser darts. --PHOTO: AP
A Turkmenistan horseman, right, and Turkmen troops march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at Moscow Red Square. The troops from 13 countries have arrived in Moscow to prepare for the Victory Day parade in on May 9 to mark the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Russian Defense Ministry said. --PHOTO: AP
An anna's humming bird feeds her chicks in their nest in Benicia. The chicks are roughly 2 weeks old. --PHOTO: AP
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej waves to a crowd of well-wishers as he marks the 60th anniversary of his coronation in Bangkok. The 82-year-old monarch was admitted to hospital in September of last year. He has appeared in public several times since then but has made no public comment on the recent political turmoil in Thailand. -- PHOTO: AFP
Visitors stroll through a field of moss phlox at a park in Chichibu, west of Tokyo. -- PHOTO: AP
Jordanian body-builder Farah Malhass is set on winning notoriety as a body-builder, but she faces more than physical challenges in her native Jordan, where social prejudice sits uneasily with this strange brand of feminism. The 26-year-old brunette is completely committed to her physical training and her ambition is to become the first Arab woman to participate in international body-building competitions. -- PHOTO: AFP
A house where Faisal Shahzad lived in the second floor apartment in Bridgeport is shown. Shahzad, a US citizen who had recently returned from a five-month trip to his native Pakistan, was arrested at a New York airport on charges that he drove a bomb-laden SUV meant to cause a fireball in Times Square, federal authorities said. -- PHOTO: AP
Performers entertain visitors during a parade at the Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai. Organisers expect 70 million visitors - most of them Chinese - to attend the biggest-ever World's Fair over the next six months, with an average of 380,000 people expected to visit the site daily. -- PHOTO: AFP
Houses are surrounded by water from Cumberland river after heavy rains from the weekend in Nashville. Severe storms and flash floods left more than a dozen people dead in Tennessee and Kentucky over the weekend as rising river waters closed portions of interstate highways leading in and out of Nashville. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Labourers walk through a dry bed of the Tawi River during a dust storm in Jammu, India. -- PHOTO: AP
Students wear their helmets during a ceremony launch of helmet vaccine coalition under the topic 'One helmet'. Cambodia has one of the highest road traffic fatality rates in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. More then 4 Cambodian people die everyday from road accidents. -- PHOTO: AFP
A plume of ash rises from a volcano erupting under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, near Hvolsvollur, Iceland. A new wave of dense volcanic ash from Iceland snarled air traffic on Wednesday in Ireland and Scotland, stranding tens of thousands of people and threatening to spill into the air space of England. -- PHOTO: AP
An elderly man hangs his bird cage along others at a park in Beijing. -- PHOTO: AP
A dead sea turtle lies on the beach in Pass Christian. Researchers from the Institute of Marine Mammal Sciences from Gulfport have collected 37 turtles to determine the cause of death. Federal officials are investigating if fishermen may be responsible for recent turtle deaths along the Gulf coast. -- PHOTO: AP
A Bangladeshi boy jumps into a river, as others look on during a hot summer day in Dhaka, Bangladesh. -- PHOTO: AP
A sales promoter distributes flyers at the entrance of a shopping centre in central Sydney, Australia. Australian retail sales rose a surprisingly subdued 0.3 per cent in March, a second straight month of weakness that could give policy makers extra reason to hold off on further rate hikes in the next few months. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A tiger stands atop a wooden platform in the Lion and Rhino Reserve near Johannesburg. South Africa has nearly 600 national parks and reserves. -- PHOTO: AP
People gather to watch a friendly soccer game between Haiti and Argentina, played in Argentina, projected on a video screen, on a street in Port au Prince. -- PHOTO: AP
Charter boat captain William Bradford holds a glob of chemically dispersed oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico about 14 miles from the Venice marina off the coast of Louisiana. If estimates are correct, more than 2.5 million gallons of crude have entered the sea since the BP-leased platform sank on April 22, still ablaze more than two days after the initial blast that killed 11 workers. It has not yet made significant landfall. -- PHOTO: AFP
Women are seen on board a coach reserved for them at a train station Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. State-run train firm Malayan Railway is introducing for the first time separate coaches for ladies travelling alone to prevent them from being sexually harassed. Women groups hailed the move but critics said it could be a step backward for gender equality. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A visitor looks at the material of the United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO: AP
Visitors enjoy a giant musical fountain at the Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai. Organisers expect 70 million visitors -most of them Chinese, to attend the biggest-ever World's Fair over the next six months. -- PHOTO: AFP
A visitor stands next to United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo on Thursday in Shanghai, China. -- PHOTO:AP
Spanish people in traditional costume ride on a horse-drawn carriage along the avenue of the 'Real de la Feria', or Royal Fair Place, during the 'Feria del Caballo', or 'Fair of the Horse' in the southern city of Jerez, Spain. Declared to be of international tourist interest, the 'Feria del Caballo' is one of the oldest fairs in Spain and the most popular of local celebrations. -- PHOTO: AP
Afghan women clad in burqas receive food aid in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan Ministry of Defense distributed food aid such as wheat, cooking oil, sugar and beans to 220 poor families. -- PHOTO: REUTER
Palestinian youths release with foreign peace activists, including Israeli leftists, more than 3,000 balloons in the sky across Israel's separation barrier above the settlement of Givat Zeev during a Nakba rally in the West Bank town of al-Ram, on the outskirts of Jerusalem. -- PHOTO: AFP
In this photo courtesy of Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Sylar, an 8-week-old male red fox is seen among his toys at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. -- PHOTO: AP
Barbecue chef Ted Reader pours sauce on a 590 pound (267.6 kg) hamburger at Yonge Dundas Square in Toronto, Canada. The burger's creators hope it will be deemed by Guinness World Records to be the world's largest. -- PHOTO: AP
Ecuadorean Indians march to the National Assembly building in Quito, to protest against a controversial law that opponents claim could lead to the privatization of water. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A giant predatory Cretaceous period (145 million - 65 million years ago) fish, discoverd in Kansas, is on display before sale at auction in Los Angeles. The fish, known as Xiphactinus audax, is approximately 4 meters long and has an estimated sale price of USD150,000-200,000. (S$209,334 - S$279,112) -- PHOTO: AFP
