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Swiss guards arrive for a swearing-in ceremony in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. 31 Swiss guards were sworn-in on the anniversary of the sacking of Rome where 147 Swiss guards protecting Pope Clement VII died at castel San Angelo on May 6, 1527. -- PHOTO: AFP
Two-year old Reese Pfaff, of Des Moines, Iowa, sits in a large pair of wooden shoes on display during the annual Pella Tulip Time festival in Pella, Iowa. -- PHOTO: AP
Servicemen in historical uniforms march along Khreshchatyk street during a military parade rehearsal in Kiev. Ukraine will celebrate the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Activists hold banners next to a mock election counting machine during a protest in front of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) building in Manila. The protesters warned the government of President Gloria Arroyo that social unrest would erupt if the automated election machines fail. -- PHOTO: AFP
A visitor admires a display in the South African pavillion 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
Unidentified immigrant rights activists and community leaders engage in non-violent civil disobedience, by chaining themselves together with lockdown PVC devices, in protest of Arizona's recently enacted SB1070 immigration enforcement law, outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Federal Processing and Detention Center. -- PHOTO: AP
Body painted models Bella Nabiyah, left and Beck Fordyce, right, of Australia, pose for photographs in Times Square as onlookers pass as part of an Andy Golub art exhibit. -- PHOTO: AP
Men sit and roast lambs lambs on spits, a traditional activity on St George's day in the village of Patalenitsa some 110km from Sofia, Bulgaria. Possibly the most celebrated name day in the country, St George's Day is a public holiday that takes place on May 6 each year. -- PHOTO: AFP
A woman light a candle in front of the burnt Marfin bank in memory of the three killed employees. More than 10,000 people demonstrated peacefully in Greek capital as lawmakers voted on a drastic austerity package, a day after protests against cutbacks degenerated into deadly riots, police said. -- PHOTO: AFP
Russian men doing restoration work on the eternal flame at the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex for Soviet Soldiers who died in WWII, in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev slammed the Soviet Union as a totalitarian regime that suppressed rights, in the most damning assessment of the USSR by a Russian leader in recent years. -- PHOTO: AFP
Crew chief Moises Morales carries a bundle of ranunculus flower buds to a waiting shipping van at the Carlsbad Flower Fields in Carlsbad, Calif. The flowers are sold to buyers across the country. -- PHOTO: AP
A 9-month-old koala clings to its mother at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland. The zoo's other adult koala also has a baby in her pouch. -- PHOTO: AP
An elderly female Russian WWII veteran lays flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in central Moscow. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev slammed the Soviet Union as a totalitarian regime that suppressed human rights, in the most damning assessment of the USSR by a Russian leader in recent years. -- PHOTO: AFP
Ruins reconstructed by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein are seen above the unreconstructed ruins of the north palace in the ancient city of Babylon in southern Iraq. A US-funded programme to restore the ruins of Iraq's ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over keeping the site authentic or making money off it. -- PHOTO: AP
A zookeeper holds two-day-old white lion cubs in Belgrade Zoo, Serbia. The two white lion cubs, an extremely rare subspecies of the African lion were recently born in Belgrade Zoo. White lions are unique to the Timbavati area of South Africa and are not albinos but a genetic rarity. -- PHOTO: AP
Pakistani scavenger children who collect recyclable items from garbage to earn a living, rest at a roadside in Lahore, Pakistan. -- PHOTO: AP
A man depicting the God of Longevity, one of the Chinese Three Lucky Gods, at the Shanghai World Expo. -- PHOTO: AP
Sydneysiders gather on Bondi Beach to form giant red and white human life rings to show politicians that many Australians believe in saving lives by helping refugees fleeing war and persecution. Those taking part in the events in Australia are urging the government to reverse the discriminatory freeze on processing of Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum applications, and the reopening of the remote Curtin detention centre. -- PHOTO: AFP
A band of oil from the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana floats in the water near Freemason Island. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A mural painted by US artist El Mac is seen at a parking lot as part of the 'Seres Queridos' project in downtown Monterrey. Seres Queridos (SQ) is an international-quality artistic/cultural project that recognises and appreciates the cultural value of Monterrey�s downtown, not just for its history, important monuments and emblematic buildings, but also of the people who inhabit it, according to organisers. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Indian artisan Danoju Murali Chary embosses designs onto a brass sheet destined to decorate a Hindu temple in Hyderabad. Sculptural art on metal in India dates back to 300 BC. -- PHOTO: AFP
Children wait to eat at the Enfant Jesus orphanage in Malpasse, Haiti. The catastrophic earthquake that rendered at least 1.3 million of its 9 million people homeless was the final push over the edge for families that could barely afford to feed their children before. -- PHOTO: AP
South Korean Falun Gong practitioners meditate as they commemorate the 11th anniversary of International Falun Gong Day. Falun Gong was banned in China in 1999 after thousands of members gathered in central Beijing to protest around China's Communist Party headquarters. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Oil is seen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico as BP tries to stop oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico 89 km south of Port Fourchon. BP engineers positioned a four-storey metal chamber above a gushing, ruptured oil well on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday in an unprecedented effort to contain a possibly catastrophic spill. --PHOTO: REUTERS
In Australia's largest cities of Sydney and Melbourne, the growth in property prices has been enough to ensure many prospective home owners are priced out of the market before they make their first tentative bid. -- PHOTO: AFP
The pack rides during the fourth stage of the Four Days of Dunkirk cycling stage in Cassel, northern France. Picture taken with a fish-eye lens. --PHOTO: AFP
Spain's parachute brigade soldiers stand at attention at the base of Paracuellos del Jarama, outside of Madrid. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Young Hungarian stuntman, nicknamed 'Szenty', skies down one of the escalators of a subway system in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday. -- PHOTO: AP
Li Shixin (left) and Yu Longji (right) of China compete in the men's synchronised 3-metre springboard final at the US Diving Grand Prix in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. --PHOTO: AP
Sacha Waters, 5, of Houston plays with the teeth of a dinosaur art car before The Houston Art Car Parade in Houston. --PHOTO: AP
A man walks past visitors as they queue under the rain to enter the Spanish pavilion at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Organisers of the six-month event are worried they will fail to draw the 70 million visitors they have predicted. -- PHOTO: AFP
Lebanese chefs celebrate around the largest plate of hummus after setting a new Guinness world record in Beirut. The massive hummus serving weighed at 10,452kg, the size of Lebanon in square kilometres. This is the third time that the record is broken for the largest hummus serving after Lebanon set the first record in 2009. In January 2010, neighbouring political and culinary rival Israel mashed up over four tonnes of hummus and broke the record. --PHOTO: AFP
Tourists walk down a trail towards the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula, some 50 km south of Cape Town, South Africa. When following the African coastline from the equator, the Cape of Good Hope marks the psychologically important point where one begins to travel more eastward than southward. --PHOTO: AFP
Partizan Belgrade soccer fans use signal flares and flags to cheer their team on during their Serbian League soccer match against Red Star Belgrade in Belgrade, Serbia. --PHOTO: AP
A sand surfer surfs down a gold mine dump in Benoni, east of Johannesburg. Visitors to South Africa for the Fifa World Cup Soccer Tournament can take part in various forms of extreme sports from bungee jumping, quad biking, paragliding and sand surfing when not attending soccer matches. -- PHOTO: AP
Dancers have images projected on their bodies as they dance during a performance named 'Corpi d'ecran' by Bolivian artist Willy San Miguel in La Paz on Saturday. -- PHOTO: AP
A transfer case containing the remains of Spc. Wade A. Slack sits on a loader during a prayer. According to the Department of Defense, the 21 year old soldier died on Friday in Jaghatu, Afghanistan of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with indirect fire. -- PHOTO: AP
Supporters of presidential candidate Sen. Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III are silhouetted as they flash the 'L' sign, for Laban, meaning Fight!, at the end of the 90-day campaign period. -- PHOTO: AP
People walk along the waterfront trail along the lakeshore in Toronto. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Mahouts sit atop elephants while taking part in a fireworks ceremony to celebrate Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 60th coronation anniversary in Bangkok's Royal Plaza. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Rescue workers were scrambling to save scores of people trapped in Russia's largest underground coal mine in the city of Mezhdurechensk, west Siberian region of Kemerovo. Two explosions killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more. Among those still trapped were rescue workers who had entered the Siberian mine after the first blast. -- PHOTO: AP
A man removes an election poster of Juergen Ruettgers, State Premier of the western federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and top candidate of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU for regional elections. German voters, angry over a colossal bail-out for Greece, handed Merkel's coalition a blistering defeat in the state poll which also cost it its majority in the upper house. -- PHOTO: AFP
This picture shows a village inhabited by Nigerian fishermen in the Akanda National Park at Moka. In the conservation zone of the Akanda National Park, north of Libreville, there are around 10 settlements of Nigerian fishermen living in absolute poverty, who use the famous mangroves of the area to cook and smoke fish. -- PHOTO: AFP
David Boudia and Nick McCrory of the USA dive during the Men's Synchronized 10 Meter Platform Final at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center during Day 4 of the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix. -- PHOTO: AFP
The peloton rides by a tulip field in Haarlemmermeer during the third stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race from Amsterdam to Middelburg on Monday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Workers in a newly completed building can be seen through a large glass window in central Beijing. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Fireworks go off above downtown Moscow during Victory Day celebrations. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Lebanese flag is waved over a falafel dish in Ain Saadeh, north-east of Beirut. The dish, weighing 5,173 kg, was prepared with approximately 844,000 falafels and was verified later as the largest serving of falafel in the world. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Chicago Blackhawks fans pose for a picture prior to Game 5 of the NHL Western Conference semi-final hockey game between the Blackhawks and Vancouver Canucks in Chicago. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Benfica supporters gather at Marques de Pombal square in downtown Lisbon to celebrate their victory on the 2010 Portuguese League championship. -- PHOTO: AFP
World War II veterans ride in a trailer in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, marking Victory Day celebration. -- PHOTO: AP
Indian farmers use camels to transport their watermelons to a market on the River Ganges at Neemsarai village, some 20 km west of Allahabad. -- PHOTO: AFP
Members of a traditional dance group 'Los Historiantes' in El Salvador dance during the traditional Flower and Palm Festival in Panchimalco. The festival is celebrated every year to honor Panchimalco's two patron saints, the Virgen del Rosario and the Virgen de Concepci�n, and to mark the arrival of the rainy season. -- PHOTO: AP
Voters queue outside a polling precinct in Tarlac province, in northern Philippines. More than 50 million people are eligible to vote for nearly 18,000 local and national positions, and authorities expect a voter turnout of more than 80 per cent. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An aerial view shows a Moroccan flag measuring 60,000 square metres and weighing 20 tonnes in the town of Dakhla. The flag is an attempt to beat the record for the World's largest flag, a record which is currently held by Israel. -- PHOTO: AFP
A dead fish is marked by clean-up crews on the beach on Dauphin Island, Alabama, two days after tar balls washed up onshore. Oil workers, volunteers and the military have been battling to shut off a gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and stop the huge spreading slick from reaching major ports, tourist beaches, wildlife refuges and fishing grounds. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Pedestrians walk at Syntagma square in central Athens. Near-bankrupt Greece saw its borrowing costs fall sharply and promised to press ahead with major financial cutbacks and reforms after the European Union unveiled a $1 trillion plan to contain the spreading debt crisis and boost the euro. -- PHOTO: AP
A white-tailed deer tries to evade two Pittsburgh Water & Sewage Authority workers as they attempt to rescue the distressed deer from the waters of Highland Reservoir No. 1 in the Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh. It is unknown how the deer fell into the reservoir, but eventually it was captured and released into the nearby woods. -- PHOTO: AP
Makayla Moore, 5, squirms away from a cold bucket of water as she is buried up to her head in sand by Tyler Fletcher, near the 53rd Street Pier in Galveston, Texas. -- PHOTO: AP
Paraglider Dave Edwards seems to defy the laws of gravity as he flies in the skies above Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. -- PHOTO: AP
