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The pack rides past a poppies field, in the 191 km second stage run between Evian-les-Bains and Saint-Laurent-du-Pont
of the 62th edition of the Criterium of Dauphine Libere cycling race. -- PHOTO: AFP
Children run near replicas of the Fifa WCup trophy and a tiger at the Engenho de Dentro neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Painting and decorating walls and streets with national colors and soccer stars is a tradition among Brazilians ahead of each World Cup. -- PHOTO: AP
Men on a raft pass by flooded houses 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
People walk in the streets in Knysna, decorated with flags of the countries participating in the upcoming South Africa 2010 World Cup. -- PHOTO: AFP
South Africa's defender Matthew Booth and teammates train ahead of the start of the Fifa 2010 World Cup football tournament in South Africa.
-- PHOTO: AFP
An Afghan boy carries water cans for sale in Kabul. NATO, US and Afghan troops are preparing their biggest offensive yet against the Taleban in Kandahar province, with total foreign troop numbers in the country set to peak at 150,000 by August. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dancers from the English National Ballet walk across a pedestrian crossing during a photocall to promote the opening of 'Swan Lake in-the-round', which coincides with the company's 60th anniversary, outside the Royal Albert Hall in west London. -- PHOTO: AFP
Dancers from Chile's Santiago de Chile Ballet perform 'Emotions' during the 4th edition of the International Ballet Festival in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia. The festival has the participation of 17 international companies from 12 countries. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Pakistani fire fighter tries to extinguish burning NATO supply trucks carrying military vehicles and oil following militants attack on the outskirts of Islamabad. Armed militants attacked a terminal near the Pakistan's capital of Islamabad, torching dozens of trucks carrying military vehicles and oil used to supply fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan. -- PHOTO: AFP
Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg is covered in shaving cream after the Nationals defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 in Strasburg's debut in the majors, in Washington. -- PHOTO: AP
A bee collects nectar from a flower at a lawn near the city of Probishtip. Honey, a traditional medicine in Macedonia is used to treat common ailments. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
The 'Gloriette' is seen above a stage set up in the park of Schoenbrunn castle as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs the 'Sommer Night Concert' in Vienna. The popular open-air concert with free admission takes place in the setting of Schoenbrunn Palace and its baroque gardens, a UNESCO world cultural heritage site. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An activist from the People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), centre, dressed as a rat, leads a protest against plans by Vivo Bio Tech, an Indian bio-tech company to build an animal testing laboratory in Malaysia outside the High Commission of India in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. -- PHOTO: AP
Amanda Mathews inspects a horse at the Amazing Bodies exhibition which showcases a variety of whole animal bodies that haven been plastinated, displaying their internal organs, muscles and body parts, true to life and in a way never seen before by the general public. Having its world debut in Melbourne, the exhibition is a captivating display of science and 'avant-garde' art that is both amazing, confronting - and to some shocking! Staying true to every physical detail, visitors are offered an opportunity to see and understand the anatomy of animals. -- PHOTO: AFP
Eleven year-old Palesa Majoro walks with her donkey after filling water into containers from a well, nearly one hour away from her house at the Maqhaka village in Maseru. Each month Lesotho, a landlocked kingdom surrounded entirely by South Africa, sells some 65 million cubic metres of water to its giant neighbour, generating some four million dollars (S$5.66 million) in badly needed revenue for the impoverished country. -- PHOTO: AFP
Residents walk through a flooded street in Felsozsolca. Heavy rains caused the Sajo river to swell, flooding parts of western Hungary.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
Chef Jason Stoller Smith checks out a large wood stick with a salmon smoked over a fire pit at the Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC. Seven hundred pounds of salmon were cooked for the picnic in a traditional native American style. -- PHOTO: AFP
Sand from a dredge is pumped onto East Grand Terre Island, La. to provide a barrier against the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. -- PHOTO: AP
A man wearing a mask of Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero protests during a demonstration by public sector workers in downtown Oviedo, northern Spanish region of Asturias. Spain's unions said 75 per cent of public sector workers went on strike to protest against an austerity package on Tuesday, although many hospitals, schools and government offices in Madrid reported few disruptions. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A Palestinian girl uses a small box as a bed, inside a tent in northern Gaza Strip.
Their house was destroyed during Israel's three-week offensive in Gaza during 2008-2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A young man surfs in the waves of the so-called Eisbach canal in the English garden in Munich as the temperatures in Bavaria rose up to 26 degrees celsius. The Eisbachkanal is a popular surfer's place, especially during nice warm weather conditions. -- PHOTO: AFP
A handout image released in London, and made available by the University College Cork in Ireland,
shows the 5,500-year leather moccasin said to be the world's oldest leather shoe. -- AFP
Buses from Rockin' 'R' River Rides lie on their sides, wrapped around trees along the banks of the Guadalupe River in the Gruene Historic District in New Braunfels, Texas. The Guadalupe River in the area is a popular water recreation destination known for inner tube float trips. -- AP
A cemetery in Troszyn Polski , Poland, on Wednesday, which was flooded for the second time following heavy rains,
covering the gravestones with more than a meter of new flood water. -- AP
Twenty five-day-old lynx kittens, not named yet, are displayed for media at the zoo in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Wednesday. -- AP
Oil covered brown pelicans found off the Louisiana coast and affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico wait in a holding pen for cleaning at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana. -- AFP
Elderly survivors hold posters as they wait for the verdict in the premises of Bhopal court in Bhopal, India. -- AP
General views of Eldora Speedway during the Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway, in Rossburg, Ohio. -- AFP
Lindsay McElhinney (left) dances with her husband Brandon at a prom organised by The Children's Hospital for cancer patients, in Denver. The couple, who have been married for a year, are cancer survivors and they met at a cancer camp organized by the hospital. -- REUTERS
Hutsul women dance in the village of Myzhgiria, some 150 kms from the western Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod, during a traditional festival, marking the parting with shepherds who leave the village for a few months as they take sheep to graze in the highlands. -- AFP
A young couple shelters under an umbrella at Colombo's sea-front Galle Face promenade. Sri Lanka's police have stepped up rounding up couples kissing and indulging in intimate acts in public following complaints from elders that they were embarrassed by their behaviour. -- PHOTO: AFP
With their faces painted and dressed up in uniforms, inmates take part at the opening ceremony of the Prison World Cup 2010 Behind Bars to celebrate the FIFA World Cup 2010 soccer tournament in South Africa at Klong Prem prison in Bangkok, Thailand. The World Cup in South Africa is scheduled to kick off on Friday. -- PHOTO: AP
An Afghan girl Frishta begs for money as youth play football in front of the war-damaged Darlaman Palace in Kabul. -- PHOTO: AFP
Local Cambodian villagers plow a farm field in preparation for planting rice in Kob Srov village, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Thursday. -- PHOTO: AP
A model introduces the Mercedes Benz SLS AMG, equipped with a 6.3-litter V8 engine inside an aluminium body featuring gull-wing doors, at a hotel in Tokyo. Merdeces started to accept orders and will deliver to Japanese customers from October. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Chinese parent sleeps outside a kindergarten to ensure she gets to enrol her child for the new semester, in Beijing. A third of primary schoolchildren in China are suffering from psychological ill-health as a result of classroom stress and parental pressure, according to a recent study. -- PHOTO: AFP PHOTO
Former North Korean defectors and anti-North Korea activists prepare to release balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets towards the north at Imjingak pavilion, near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul on Friday. The activists denounced the North's attack on the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan. The letters on balloons read, 'Overthrow traitor Kim Jong-il!' -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Visitors to Beijing's Urban Planning Exhibition Center look at a scaled models of the the Chinese capital's urban development in Beijing. Property prices in China rose at a slower pace in May from the previous month, suggesting measures aimed at cooling the red-hot real estate market were working.
-- PHOTO: AFP
Saudi special force units attached to the Ministry of Interior are seen training in al-Haytheiyah, 100 kms north of Riyadh, a week after the Al-Qaeda urged in an audio message for supporters in Saudi Arabia to kidnap Christians and Saudi princes to press for the release of a female militant the group says was nabbed north of Riyadh. -- PHOTO: AFP
Three female health workers look on a m&d house during the excavation of soil contaminated with lead poison at Dareta village, Anka district in Zamfara State. An outbreak of lead poisoning linked to illegal gold mining that left more 160 people dead in Nigeria is unprecedented, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on June 7, 2010. More than 100 of those killed in the poisoning in recent weeks are children aged five years or under. -- PHOTO: AFP
An injured protester (centre), is taken away by police after a fight with other protesters during a demonstration against Haiti's President Rene Preval and the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in Port-au-Prince. Demonstrators demand Preval's resignation and that the MINUSTAH leave the country. -- PHOTO: AP
The FIFA World Cup trophy is displayed during the Kick-off Concert at the Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg ahead of the start of the 2010 football World Cup. -- PHOTO: AFP
A boy blows a vuvuzela near a painted vuvuzela painted on a street of Soweto, near Johannesburg, a day before the start of the 2010 World Cup football tournament in South Africa. -- PHOTO: AFP
A woman sprays water on her kid during a hot day outside Belarus town of Mikashevichi. -- PHOTO: AFP
Activists stage a protest and make themselves available for arrest at the office of US Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The activists staged the protest in response Rep. Sherman's public call to 'prosecute any American involved in what was clearly an effort to give items of value to a terrorist organization,' referring to the flotilla delivering aid to Palestinians in Gaza, which was attacked by Israel on May 31. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a prayer vigil marking the end of the Year for Priests in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A statuette depicting the Holy Child of Miracles, dressed in the Mexican national soccer team uniform, is displayed at the Saint Gabriel Archangel Catholic Church in Mexico City. The statuette was dressed in the uniform ahead of the World Cup in South Africa which will kick off on June 11. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A clown demonstrates during a protest in San Salvador. The clowns were protesting against the crimes perpetrated by two men who had dressed as clowns and killed a man on a bus before robbing the other passengers on the vehicle. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Keith Jones, whose son Gordon Jones was killed during the BP well explosion, wears a ribbon with 11 stars on it as he talks with the media outside the White House in Washington, following a meeting with President Barack Obama. -- PHOTO: AP
A 25-foot-long dead baleen humpback whale calf lies on the beach after it washed ashore near the east end of Jones Beach in Wantagh, New York. Animal rescue crews were on the scene to assist but the whale was already dead when it washed ashore and will likely be buried in the dunes on the beach. -- PHOTO: AFP
Palestinian boys play soccer in a playground in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza Strip.
The FIFA World Cup 2010 is hosted in South Africa between June 11 and July 11, 2010. -- PHOTO: AP
Large and colourful oil plumes can be seen floating near the surface of the water about 6-10 miles south of Pensacola Pass in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the plume is two miles wide and stretches 40 miles into the Gulf. -- PHOTO: AP
A child polishes military boots in a street in Santo Domingo. Around 215 million children are caught in child labour throughout the world, 14.1 million in Latin America and the Caribbean with the most child ages 5-17, where 26 percent of these children work in the service sector, selling and carrying goods in streets and local markets, or as domestic servants, according to International Labor Organization (ILO). -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A white rhinestone spandex glove used in the late 1970's by pop star Michael Jackson (estimated price of $14,000-$16,000), is on display at a preview of Bonhams & Butterfields 'Legends and Goddesses' entertainment memorabilia auction in Los Angeles. The auction will take place June 13 in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: AFP
Zack de la Rocha, singer of the US rock band Rage against the Machine, performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in Arganda del Rey on the outskirts of Madrid. -- PHOTO: AP
A fan cheers during the Group A first round 2010 World Cup football match South Africa and Mexico at Soccer City stadium in Soweto, suburban Johannesburg. The game ended in a 1-1 tie. -- PHOTO: AFP
A bird covered in oil is cleaned at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana. US government scientists today estimated that the flow rate of oil gushing out of a ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil may well be as high 40,000 barrels per day, doubling previous estimates. Environmentalists fear that thousands of birds and countless other wildlife are being affected by the spill. -- PHOTO: AFP
A French supporter sits in the stands after the World Cup group A soccer match between Uruguay and France in Cape Town, South Africa. -- PHOTO: AP
Tourists view the American Falls in Niagara Falls, NY. -- PHOTO: AP
Sitka Summer Music Festival cellist Armen Ksajikian plays for the resident bears at the Fortress of the Bears bear sanctuary in Sitka, Alaska. Ksajikian was inspired by the acoustics at the converted pulp mill clarifier tank and played a selection of music, including a composition by Hector Berlioz for the bears With Ksajikian is Les Kinnear director of the sanctuary. -- PHOTO: AP
