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A man and his daughter ride a bicycle along a street painted with the colors of the Brazilian soccer team, to celebrate the World Cup, at Tijuca neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro. In Brazil, where everything from the national Congress to the currency market stops in its tracks for Brazil games, it is safest to assume that nothing will be working as normal during the month-long tournament it has won a record five times. On the days Brazil's yellow-and-green shirted players take to the pitch in South Africa, banks have permission from the central bank to close early, the currency market will operate on shortened hours, and most government agencies will shut down. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A Bosnian Army soldier walks inside a nuclear bunker near the Bosnian town of Konjic, some 40 kilometers south of Sarajevo. Artists in Bosnia may end up getting one of the most expensive exhibition facilities in the world. A nuclear bunker secretly built by the Yugoslav Army during the cold war cost the nation back then $4.6 billion and was designed to protect the communist elite from a nuclear attack of up to 20 kilotons. Placed 280 meters below the surface, the 6,500 square meter bunker in the south of Bosnia would have allowed former communist leader Josip Broz Tito and his staff to live and work inside up to for six month. -- PHOTO: AP
A South Africa supporter cheers prior to the kick-off of the Group A first round 2010 World Cup football match Uruguay vs. France at Green Point stadium in Cape Town. -- PHOTO: AFP
Yaks and sheep graze on grasslands outside of Gonghe in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, known as the 'Roof of the World'. Global warming and environmental degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau are cutting into water resources for Asia's mightiest rivers including the Yangtze, Yellow and Mekong, as melting glaciers and permafrost along the mountain ranges are leading to erosion of the plateau's grasslands and wetlands. -- PHOTO: AFP
Chicago Blackhawks' Patrick Kane (left) holds the Stanley Cup beside team-mate Adam Burish during a parade to honor the winners of the NHL's hockey championship in Chicago on Firday. Two million fans turned out to celebrate the Chicago Blackhawks' National Hockey League championship with a ticker-tape parade, roaring their approval of the team's first Stanley Cup in half a century. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A female member of the Afghan National Police (ANP) aims a 9mm pistol during a training session. In the heart of the violent city of Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban movement, some women have resorted to taking up arms - against the advice of their families and society - to join the risky ranks of the ANP. -- PHOTO: AFP
Anti-US protesters burn a mock US flag with skulls replacing the stars outside the US embassy as part of action marking Philippine Independence Day in Manila on Saturday, to coincide with a government-sponsored grand parade showing the Arroyo's government achievements. -- PHOTO: AFP
A diver feeds a turtle at an aquarium in Hefei, Anhui province. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A brown pelican, one of hundreds covered with oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill, flaps its wings Friday, June 11, 2010, in a pen at the bird rescue center next to Fort Jackson, La. The birds are kept in 8-foot-by-8-foot mesh-covered pens until they are well enough to be washed. After washing, they stay in larger outdoor pens with pools until they are ready for release. -- PHOTO: AP
Cyclists take part in the annual 'London World Naked Bike Ride' event in central London. Now in it's seventh year, the event has seen participation grow from 58 in 2004 to 1,200 in 2009. Taking a route that passes many of London's most famous landmarks, the ride allows those participating to decorate their body with messages of protest against oil dependancy and motor vehicle usage. --PHOTO: AFP
Australian soccer fans wearing suits in the colors of the their national flag are silhouetted as they welcome the bus of the Australian soccer team (not pictured) as it arrives for a team training session one day before their first match at the soccer World Cup against Germany, in Group D, at the Durban Stadium in Durban, South Africa. --PHOTO: AP
Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds aerial acrobatic team perform over the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (left) and Canadian ship HMCS Protecteur during a Fleet Review in Victoria, British Columbia. The Snowbirds performed during celebrations marking the Canadian Navy's 100th anniversary. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Hugh Bowers of Beccles, Suffolk controls his 20m ripstop nylon kite 'Rusty' (center) during the Bike and Kite Festival on Blackheath in London June 12, 2010. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washes ashore in Orange Beach. Large amounts of the oil battered the Alabama coast, leaving deposits of the slick mess some 4-6 inches thick on the beach in some parts. --PHOTO: AP
Giraffes graze at Botlieskop Day Safaris, near Mossel Bay. --PHOTO: REUTERS
An array of tents dot the grounds of the Kingsmead Sahara Cricket Grounds in Durban as Australian football fans have formed a 'Fanatics' homebase for the 2010 World Cup tournament. Durban is one of the nine stadiums cities that will host the World Cup tournament, with Australia's first GroupD match taking place there on June 13 against Germany. --PHOTO: AFP
Matthew Gilpin, of Redondo Beach, Calif., dressed as Uncle Sam, poses with a cutout of English soccer star David Beckham, after England and the U.S. battled to a 1-1 tie at a World Cup viewing party sponsored by the MLS Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team in Hermosa Beach. --PHOTO: AP
Supporters hold up masks of Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus of the Green Party during a campaign rally in Cali. Colombia is preparing for the second round of its presidential elections, which will be held on June 20. --PHOTO: REUTERS
A tourist group tours the Free Derry Corner area in the Bogside area of Londonderry, in Northern Ireland. The Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday will be published on Tuesday after 12 years and a cost of �190 million pounds (275 million dollars, 230 million euros). The 5,000-page report examines the events of January 30, 1972 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, when 13 civilians were shot dead by British soldiers at a civil rights march. Another man died later from his wounds. -- PHOTO: AFP
W.A.S.P. performs during the Sweden Rock Festival 2010 in Solvesborg, Sweden on Saturday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Artists perform during the International Fire Fest in Kiev late on Saturday. Artists from Germany, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Russia, Lithuania, Sweden, Ukraine and others take part in the annual fire performance this weekend. -- PHOTO: AFP
A worker installs scaffoldings in front of a statue of China's late leader Mao Zedong at a square in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
A naked cyclist cools down in a fountain after taking part in the World Naked Bike Ride in Mexico City. The event aims to highlight what the organisers said were the dangers to cyclists, pedestrians and the environment posed by oil and other forms of non-renewable energy. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Antennas used for space communication are seen during sunrise at Baikonur cosmodrome. The crew of US astronauts Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin is scheduled to take off to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 16. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A boy floats in an inflatable sphere at a lake in a park in Sofia as the temperatures registered almost 35 degrees Celsius throughout the Balkan country. --PHOTO: AFP
The surface of the Gulf of Mexico glistens with color as light reflects off the oil sheen at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil continues to flow from the wellhead some 5,000 feet below the surface. --PHOTO: AP
An artist performs during an annual fire festival in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The festival, which is in its fourth year, showcases fire art performances from June 11 to 13. --PHOTO: REUTERS
A boy and his father walk during a march against hunger in Tegucigalpa. Honduras, an impoverished coffee, textile and banana exporter with a population of 7 million, is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. --PHOTO: REUTERS
An artist performs during an annual fire festival in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. --PHOTO: REUTERS
South African Aryan. 3, held by his father feeds an elephant at Pretoria's Zoo during the 2010 World Cup football tournament in South Africa. The tournament is on its third day and will last until July 11. --PHOTO: AFP
Artists perform during an annual fire festival in Kiev. --PHOTO: REUTERS
Australia's Richard Green tess off on the 16th hole during the last round of the Estoril Open golf tournament in Sintra, Portugal. Thomas Bjorn, from Denmark, won the tournament on 23 under par winning by 5 shots from Green. --PHOTO: AP
An bull drawing (center, right) appears on the walls of Coliboaia cave, situated in the Apuseni Natural Park, Bihor County. Romanian experts have discovered the most ancient cave paintings found to date in Central Europe, aged up to 35,000 years old, Romanian and French scientists said Sunday. --PHOTO: AFP
Debris from a landslide is shown from the air near Testalinden Creek, just south of Oliver, British Columbia, Canada. As rescuers made their way through the debris of a landslide that struck several homes in southern British Columbia, it began to appear that most area residents had made it out in time.
-- PHOTO: AP
Several hundred security personnel who worked at Moses Mabhida stadium are held by police in Durban. Riot police armed with shotguns and riot shields chased the workers, who were deployed as stewards in the ground and were protesting over wages, out of the stadium where Germany had earlier beaten Australia 4-0 in their opening World Cup game. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
The successful re-entry of the Japanese space probe Hayabusa causing a bright streak in the night sky, is seen from Glendambo in the Australian outback. Hayabusa landed in the Australian outback on Monday after a 7-year voyage to an asteroid, lighting up the night sky and bringing what scientists hope is a rock sample, witnesses said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Jockey Mike Smith rides Zenyatta to win the Vanity Handicap horse race at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California. Zenyatta has won her 17th consecutive race, giving her the longest winning streak by a modern day thoroughbred in unrestricted races. -- PHOTO: AP
A flip-flop hangs on a tree branch near a pile of flood debris near Langley, Arkansas. Search and recovery efforts continue after flooding swept through a nearby campground early Friday, killing at least 18 people. -- PHOTO: AP
Protestors scuffle with riot police during a demonstration in downtown Cairo near the Interior Ministry. Egyptian opposition groups scuffled with security forces after rights groups accused undercover officers of beating to death an activist who attempted to expose police corruption. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A supporter of Germany's football team has his face decorated in the German colours before watching the match against Australia on giant screens during the public viewing event in the southern German city of Munich. -- PHOTO: AFP
Three oil-coated white ibis sit in marsh grass on a small island in Bay Barataria near Grand Isle, Louisiana. These birds are being rescued and transported to the Fort Jackson Rehabilitation Centre by well-trained and knowledgeable wildlife responders, veterinarians, biologists and wildlife rehabilitators.
-- PHOTO: REUTERS
German Heinrich Haussler (left) sprints on the finish line next to Spain Pablo Urtasun (centre) and Italian Marco Marcato (right) during the second stage Ascona - Sierre of the Tour de Suisse cycling race. -- PHOTO: AFP
Daniel Parker splashes water while sitting on his mailbox in front of his house in Edmond, Oklahoma,
after flood waters inundated a number of homes in the area. -- PHOTO: AP
Crosses with descriptions of fish, wildlife and summer pastimes are displayed in
a front yard of a home in Grand Isle, Louisiana, of things potentially lost to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. -- PHOTO: AFP
Oil soaked boom is seen near the base of a fishing pier in Gulf Shores, Alabama. US government scientists have estimated that the flow rate of oil gushing out of the ruptured Deepwater Horizon oil well in Gulf of Mexico may be as high 40,000 barrels per day. -- PHOTO: AFP
Residents of Llagua-Belen, a small town located some 125 km south of La Paz, beat up a man accused of dealing drugs and stealing in the village. Leaders of Llagua-Belen attempted to implement community justice to four members of the town for common crimes, but they lost control and the mob hit these four suspects, local media reported. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A dolphin rises up out of the water off the coast near Grand Terre Island off the coast of Louisiana.
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to impact areas across the coast of gulf states. -- PHOTO: AP
A hand painted sign with characters from Spongebob Squarepaints covered in oil, sits by the road in Grand Isle, Louisiana,
as cleanup continues on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. -- PHOTO: AFP
A fan of Paraguay's soccer team holds up a rosary and prays after Italy scored a goal against Paraguay as she watches a South Africa 2010 World Cup game on a screen set up in downtown Asuncion. The game ended tied 1-1. -- PHOTO: AP
A member of the Afghan National Police (ANP) watches as US soldiers of the 97th MP Battalion (not pictured) search the site of a Taliban weapons cache in Kandahar City discovered after an informant contacted NATO forces in the area. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appealed to tribal and religious leaders to support a major operation in their southern province, the heartland of a Taliban insurgency. -- PHOTO: AFP
A Palestinian boy runs towards a summer camp run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA), on the beach in Gaza City. UNRWA has prepared 38 beach locations and 86 schools for its program entitled 'Summer Games' providing educational programs, physical education activities and recreation for the children and teens. -- PHOTO: AP
Boys wearing soccer uniforms sit outside the national stadium in Tegucigalpa. Honduras will face Chile in their World Cup Group H soccer match on June 16. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A worker cleans between metal barriers outside of Soccer City stadium in Soweto, suburban Johannesburg. The 2010 World Cup hosted by South Africa continues through July 11. -- PHOTO: AFP
A young Indian boy shelters under an umbrella as pedestrians face a downpour in Mumbai. The monsoon season, which runs from June to September, accounts for about 80 percent of India's annual rainfall. -- PHOTO: AFP
French aerobatics team Patrouille de France performs in Nice, southern France,
during the ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the return of Nice and Savoy to France. -- PHOTO: AFP
Models are illuminated by a yellow ground spot light as they line up to present outfits by designer Alexandre Herchcovitch, during the closing day of the 2010-2011 Spring-Summer collections of the Sao Paulo Fashion Week, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. -- PHOTO: AFP
The installation 'Three sets of tangented arcs in daylight and cool white' (1969) by artist Dan Flavin, represented by David Zwirner (New York, USA), is shown at the exhibition 'Art Unlimited' in the context of the international art show 'Art 41 Basel', in Basel, Switzerland. -- PHOTO: AP
Two street entertainers dressed as ancient romans listen to the WC2010 football game between Italy and Paraguay on the radio, in front of Rome's colosseum during the 2010 FIFA World Cup held in South Africa. -- PHOTO: AFP
Indian tourists visiting The Red Fort watch as finalists of Misss Hongkong Beauty Pageant pose during a official photo shoot in New Delhi. The Miss Hong Kong Pageant is a beauty pageant organised by the leading Hong Kong television station, Television Broadcasts (TVB). -- PHOTO: AFP
A EA-6B Prowler aicraft prepares for take off from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman at an undisclosed position in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Sicily. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
