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A wedding planner waits for customers at the China International Wedding Expo in Beijing. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
People watch the erupting Pacaya volcano in Villa Canales, 50 km south of Guatemala City. Guatemala's Pacaya volcano started erupting lava and rocks Thursday, May 27, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over major cities. -- PHOTO: AP
Beachgoer Chelsea Donaldson of Pensacola lifts her son Preston Simmons age 5 months on Pensacola Beach, Florida after a storm. BP began capturing some oil spewing from its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well on Friday as President Barack Obama warned the company against skimping on compensation to residents and businesses hurt by the 46-day-old spill. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Malaysian armed forces march in conjunction with King Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin's birthday celebration at Merdeka Square in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. -- PHOTO: AP
Candles and images of a day care fire victims sits on the floor during a protest in Mexico City. Relatives of 49 children killed in a day care fire a year ago in Hermosillo, Mexico, demanded the officials, who failed to ensure the center's safety, be brought to justice. -- PHOTO: AP
A clean-up worker picks up blobs of oil in absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. -- PHOTO: AP
An Indian woman labourer places brick on her head at a brick factory on the outskirts of Allahabad on the eve of World Environment Day. The World Environment Day, commemorated each year on June 5, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. -- PHOTO: AFP
A member of El Salvador's environmental organisations participates in a march through the main streets of San Salvador.
The march is to commemorate World Environment Day. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A dead dolphin marked with spray paint is seen as clean-up workers pick up blobs of oil in absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. -- PHOTO: AP
Renaud Lavillenie of France jumps to win the pole jump event at the Bislett Games in Oslo on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Buddhist monks gather for the commemoration of Vesak or Buddha's birthday at Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia -- PHOTO: AP
An Indian boy takes a dip in the River Yamuna with froth from industrial pollution floating on the surface, in New Delhi, India, on Saturday. -- PHOTO: AP
Kirby Chambliss of USA flys past Windsor during the Red Bull Air Race Training day on Friday in Windsor, Canada. -- PHOTO: AFP
Varieties of calliflower are seen for sale at a farmers market? on Thursday in downtown Washington, DC. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dogs and their owners gather on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on Saturday for a world first Music for Dogs concert,
the brainchild of New York performance artist Laurie Anderson. -- PHOTO: AFP
A South Korean dance troupe rehearses for the opening ceremony of the Busan Haeundae Sand Festival on Saturday. -- PHOTO: AP
A West African dwarf crocodile rests under a heat lamp in a pool at the zoo on Friday.
Three crocodiles and one turtle are being housed indefinitely at the zoo but will not be on exhibit.
They are among hundreds of other reptiles that were discovered in a building on Milwaukee's south side on May 13. -- PHOTO: AP
Canadian soldiers with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, walk on top of their armored personal carrier, which they call 'the boat',
as they get ready for a late night patrol in the Panjwayi district, south-west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AP
A view of the track during the IZOD IndyCar Series Firestone 550k at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. -- PHOTO: AFP
A woman chooses tomatoes at a market in Caracas, Venezuela. Across the developing world, families from Pakistan to Argentina to Congo are being battered by a double-digit surge in food costs that is fueling political tensions and forcing some to give up eating meat, fruit and even basics such as tomatoes. -- PHOTO: AP
Indonesian porters at Kawah Ijen, a famous tourist spot in Indonesia's East Java, mine and carry at least 70 kg-worth of sulphur blocks on their shoulders through the suffocating clouds of toxic gases each day receiving just 70,000 to 80,000 rupiah (7 - 8 US dollars) for their labour. -- PHOTO: AFP
Singer Shakira performs during the 'Rock in Rio' music festival in Arganda del Rey near Madrid. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
People hold balloons during the first anniversary of a fire at a day care centre in Hermsosillo, in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City.
Protesters, including relatives, demanded justice for the victims of the fire that killed 49 children. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Boxers Yuri Foreman and Miguel Cotto are seen on a screen during their WBA Super Welterweight fight at Yankee Stadium in New York. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An exhausted oil-covered brown pelican sits in a pool of oil along Queen Bess Island Pelican Rookery. Wildlife experts are working to rescue birds from the rookery which has been affected by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and transporting them to the Fort Jackson Rehabilitation Center. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Waves travel towards the seafront in Muscat. Cyclone Phet killed a total of 16 people in Oman and wounded dozens more. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Participants of the Athens Gay Pride parade wave a giant rainbow flag during their annual march in the city's center. Three thousand Greeks gays and lesbians marched through the centre of Athens on today to demonstrate gay pride and protest against discrimination. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Canadian soldiers with 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, jumps over a water ditch during a patrol with his unit to find IED's in the Panjwayi district, south-west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. -- AP
A man dressed up as the devil jumps over babies lying on a mattress in the street during the 'El Salto del Colacho' (the jump of the devil) to mark the Corpus Christi feast in Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos. -- AFP
Parents wait outside the school as their children take part in the National College Entrance Exams in Hefei, Anhui province. -- REUTERS
Workers install a giant model of the football ball that will be used for the 2010 FIFA World Cup opening match during an open media day on Sunday. -- AFP
A reveller poses for a photo during the annual Gay Pride parade at the Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo. -- AP
A soccer fan blows the vuvuzuela as she attends the unveiling of a giant banner of an image of former President Nelson Mandela on the Mandela bridge,
in Johannesburg, South Africa on Friday. -- AP
A damaged home partially stands after a tornado hit the area. -- AFP
A zoo keeper feeds a crocodile during World Environment Day celebrations at the Malabon Zoo, metro Manila. -- REUTERS
Children discover a giant model globe, part of an art installation entitled 'Cool Globes' against global warming and climate change,
in Marseille, southern France on Thursday. -- AFP
An artist performs hanging from a balloon during the annual gay pride parade held in the financial district of Paulista Avenue, in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil on Sunday. Three million people were expected to take part in the annual gay parade in Sao Paulo. -- PHOTO: AFP
Women dressed as Escaramuzas, also known as cowgirls, and Charros, prepare before their performance during the anniversary of the inaguration of Lienzo La Nacional, in Mexico City. La Charreria has been a national sport since 1933. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Bastien Salabanzi competes at the Maloof Money Cup on Sunday at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. -- PHOTO: AFP
A US border patrol vehicle is seen from the Mexican side of the border while driving near Otay Mountain on the outskirts of San Diego, California. In response to spiralling drug violence in northern Mexico where cartels are battling for smuggling routes, President Barack Obama announced he would send 1,200 more National Guard troops and ask for an additional $500 million to secure the almost 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Elizabeth Phelps (centre) and others protest against the BP oil company while walking along Pensacola Beach where oil globs have come ashore as oil continues to flow from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Pensacola, Florida. Reports indicate that BP's latest plan to stem the flow of oil from the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident may be having some success. -- PHOTO: AFP
An activist wears a mask with the face of President Hugo Chavez, hours before the inauguration of the 40th Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly in Lima on Sunday. The opposition group protests against what it considers a policy of arbitrary expropriating, conducted in Venezuela for the past five years. -- PHOTO: AFP
Revelers burn flares as they take part in a Patum in Berga, Spain on Sunday. The Patum de Berga, or simply 'La Patum' is a popular and traditional festival that is celebrated each year in the Catalan city of Berga during the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. It consists of several performances of mystical and symbolical figures that dance to the rhythm of a big drum and vivid music. The balls are marked for their solemnity and the use of fire and pyrotechnics. -- PHOTO: AP
Actor Ken Jeong poses with his award for Best WTF moment in 'The Hangover,' at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
An American flag flies nears a tornado damaged house in Lake Township, Ohio. Authorities say tornados and thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest overnight killed a number of people in Ohio, destroyed 50 homes and damaged a high school gymnasium where graduation was to be held Sunday.
-- PHOTO: AP
Protesters display a placard of Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, depicting him as a devil, along with paper figures depicting workers who died in recent suicides outside a venue where a Foxconn AGM is held in Hong Kong. iPhone maker Foxconn has offered workers at its Shenzhen manufacturing hub in China a 66 per cent performance-based pay rise as it tries to deal with the fallout from a spate of suicides there. Apple CEO Steve Jobs called recent suicides at the plant troubling but said last week the site was not a sweatshop. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A dead jelly fish floats in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, La. -- PHOTO: AP
A member of Mexico City's rapid response tactical unit emerges from a cloud of smoke while taking part in a training of anti-kidnapping and anti-extortion techniques in Mexico City. -- PHOTO: AP
A bumblebee comes in for a landing on flowers in Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis. -- PHOTO: AP
A flooded roadside religious statue is seen in the village of Wilkow, southern Poland.
A second wave of flooding in a matter of three weeks is hitting Poland after heavy rains in the south. -- PHOTO: AP
Palestinian labourers build structures as part of a recreational area using sacks of sand in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. Sacks of sand are being used because of shortages in construction material in Gaza due to Israel's blockade of the Strip after Hamas took over the coastal territory in 2007. -- PHOTO: AFP
A football fan shows his haircut before the start of a training session of the Paraguayan national team at the Michaelhouse School in Balgowan ahead of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. -- PHOTO: AFP
A resident walks past a mural of Brazil's national soccer captain Lucio holding the World Cup in a suburb neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An Omani man sits in front of a display of jambiyas (traditional daggers) in Mattrah Souq,
the oldest market in Oman, in the capital Muscat. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Greenpeace activists hold a banner during a protest demanding justice for whales and their defenders on World Oceans Day in New Delhi on June 8, 2010. Greenpeace activists held a symbolic demonstration in support of Japan's 'Tokyo Two' undertrials at New Delhi's landmark 'Gyarah Murti (eleven statues)' sculpture, depicting the Dandi march led by Mahatma Gandhi against the oppressive British regime, to demand justive for Junich Sato and Toro Suzuki. The duo faces a possible jail term of up to ten years for exposing large scale embezzlement and theft in Japan's tax payer funded whaling programme.
-- PHOTO: AFP
A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activist wearing a cow costume holds a sign outside the Manila international airport June 8, 2010 to greet former US Vice-President Al Gore on his arrival. Al Gore arrived in the capital on Tuesday to deliver lecture on climate change, part of the world's environment day celebration. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Two people walk past a giant red nose adorning the famous Mr Moon Face at the front of Melbourne's Luna Park, as support of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and Kids Victoria annual Red Nose Day fundraising appeal. SIDS and Kids Victoria is one of Australia?s best known not-for-profit organisations, dedicated to saving the lives of babies and children during pregnancy, birth, infancy, and childhood. -- PHOTO: AFP
A young visitor plays with a performer of Cirque du Soleil at the Canadian pavilion at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Cirque du Soleil has long designed its own theatres, but increasingly it is applying its creativity to bars, galleries and restaurants such as the MGM Mirage's Beatles-themed Revolution Lounge and sculpture galleries at City Center and the Bellagio -- all in Las Vegas. -- PHOTO: AFP
The swollen Cottonwood Creek laps at the foundation of a home that is being threatened by high runoff water from in Murray, Utah. The previous evening, crews worked through the night to shore up the ground, just to the right of the home, with giant boulders. The creek jumped its banks and swept a portion of the home's yard away which originally extended out to the tree that is in the middle of the overflowing creek. -- PHOTO: AP
A 90 kg burger sits on a scale at the Ambrosia on the Spot cafe in Randwick, Sydney's eastern suburbs. The Australian cafe is claiming a world record after cooking a giant hamburger with an 81 kg patty that took 12 hours to cook and four men to flip. The monster burger cooked up by Sydney cafe owners, Joe and Iman El-Ajouz, weighed in at 90 kg in total, eclipsing the previous record of 84 kg, set in Michigan in the United States. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
