Photos of the Day

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Friday, May 7, 2010


In this image obtained from the US Department of Defense (DoD) on May 7, 2010, smoke and fire emerge as oil burns during a controlled fire in the Gulf of Mexico on May 6. The US Coast Guard working in partnership with BP PLC, local residents, and other federal agencies conducted the "in situ burn" to aid in preventing the spread of oil following the April 20 explosion on Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon.


France's Sebastien Loeb drives his car during super stage 6 at the Rally of New Zealand in Northland, New Zealand, Friday, May 7, 2010.


Maoist supporters flee as Nepal policemen fire tear gas to disperse the crowd in Kathmandu on May 7, 2010. The United States called on Nepal's Maoists to end a strike that has shut down much of the country, voicing fear that the standoff could spiral into violence. Assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, Robert Blake encouraged all sides to try to resolve differences peacefully as hopes fade that Nepal will meet a May 28 deadline to complete a new constitution.


A group of poodles belonging to Russian poodle trainer Irina Markova perform near the World War II Memorial, Friday, May 7, 2010, in Washington.


A passenger exits a bus after a bomb threat aboard halted it in downtown Portsmouth, N.H. on Thursday May 6, 2010.


A teenage Afghan boy looks back as he passes U.S. Army Pvt. Deonte Person, of Bloomington, Ill., who was manning a checkpoint set up by members of 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade Friday, May 7, 2010, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.


A young girl withstands the crush as people rush forward to reach for promotional items distributed by presidential candidates during election campaigning Friday, May 7, 2010 in Manila's urban poor area of Tondo, Philippines. Sen. Benigno Aquino III, the son of Philippine democracy icons and a campaigner against corruption, has cemented his lead in an independent survey published Friday ahead of next week's presidential vote.


The sailing ships Sagres (right) of Portugal and Gloria of Colombia arrival at the port of Guayaquil, Ecuador, during the Bicentennial Race, on May 7, 2010.


A 9-month-old koala clings to his mother at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland, on Friday, May 7, 2010. The zoo's other adult koala also has a baby in her pouch.

[VietLang]

Tình hình là cái dome hãng BP hạ xuống dưới biển để chặn dầu trào ra coi bộ không xong. Đúng là khiếp thật ...

[VietLang]

Nhưng đó cũng chỉ là giải quyết tạm thời chứ đâu có thể dùng mãi được. Hay là họ dùng cách để đắp những cái giếng dầu đã cạn?

Vì khoan dầu ở đâu cũng vậy, chỉ bơm được 1 thời gian thì dầu sẽ hết, hoặc là còn rất ít vì sức ép của những mỏ dầu đó không còn mạnh như lúc mới khoan. Tất nhiên những công ty dầu hỏa có cách lấp lại.

Hoặc giả họ lấp tạm thời rồi khoan 1 cái giếng khác gần đấy để tiếp tục bơm dầu lên và cũng để làm giảm sức ép.

[VietLang]

Tình hình là kỹ sư dầu hỏa của hãng BP hiện thời chưa có biện pháp nào để giải quyết hết

[NEP]

Wednesday, May 12, 2010


Rescue teams search the site of the Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli, Libya Wednesday, May 12, 2010. A Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board crashed on landing Wednesday at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli. There was only one survivor, a child.


An unidentified Dutch child the sole survivor of plane crash in Libya receives medical treatment in a hospital in Tripoli in this image taken from TV Wednesday May 12, 2010. A Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, killing at least 96 people and leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris.


Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha meet Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell, right, in the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street, London, Tuesday May 11, 2010. Conservative leader David Cameron became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years Tuesday after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.


Louisiana National Guard work to build a barrier across an inlet along the Louisiana coastline near Grand Isle, Louisiana, on Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Attempts are underway to try and prevent an oil slick from entering marshlands along the Mississippi Delta.


A dolphin lies dead on a beach on Horn Island,Miss., in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Officials say that at least six dead dolphins have been found on the Gulf Coast since May 2. Authorities don't know whether the animals died from the Oil in the Gulf.


Lamar McKay (L), president and chairman of BP America, Steven Newman (C), president and chief executive of Transocean, and Tim Probert (R) president of global business lines and chief health, safety and environmental officer for Halliburton, participate in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on May 11, 2010 in Washington, DC. The committee is gathering testimony on the accident in the Gulf of Mexico involving the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon.


A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argue with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day on May 12, 2010 in front of her disputed house in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Israel is celebrating the anniversary of the "unification" of Jerusalem, marking 43 years since it captured mainly Arab east Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East war. Thousands of people, mostly nationalist-religious Jews, were expected to take part in an annual march through Jerusalem later Wednesday that culminates in the Old City at the Wailing Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism.


President Barack Obama, left, and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, right, shake hands following their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, May 12, 2010.


Pakistani security officials stand guard near a burning oil tanker in Chaman near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, in Pakistan. A bomb ripped through the oil tanker carrying supplies for NATO forces based in Afghanistan, killing a passer-by, Pakistani border guard Fazal Bari said.


Police officers escort Pakistan's Mohammed Saif-ur-Rehman Khan, 28, center, as he arrives to a hospital for a medical check-up in Santiago, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Traces of explosives were found on Khan, who was summoned to the U.S. Embassy because his U.S. visa had been revoked, State Department officials in Washington said.


Ali Larijani, Speaker of Iran's parliament and his country's former chief nuclear negotiator, speaks during a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Iran says Brazil and Turkey have offered a new joint proposal for a nuclear fuel deal. Tuesday's remarks by Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast come as Tehran seeks to stave off new U.N. sanctions for its defiance of Security Council demands that it curb nuclear activities that could be used to make weapons.


This handout picture captured by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the Terra satellite on May 11, 2010 shows Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continuing to emit a dense plume of ash and steam. The volcanic ash cloud forced the shutdown Tuesday of airports for the first time in north Africa and the Canaries and southern Spain, as it drifted as far as Turkish airspace. While most European air travel was "close to normal" on Tuesday, the continent's air traffic agency Eurocontrol said, restrictions and airport closures caused flight cancellations as winds pushed volcanic ash in the atmosphere into new territory. Eight airports on Morocco's north and west coasts, including Rabat and Casablanca, were shut down, the first time the cloud of ash that has caused air traffic chaos in Europe over the past month has affected north Africa's airspace.


Actress Cate Blanchett appears for a photo call for the film "Robin Hood", at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.


Standing on a fallen tree, Caden Bolles looks over damage to his family's home in Little Axe, Okla., Tuesday, May 11, 2010.


Pensioners participate in a protest outside the Romanian Presidency headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Hundreds of pensioners protested and briefly scuffled with riot police after Romania announced last week it will cut pensions by 15 percent and salaries in the state sector by 25 percent to meet an IMF (International Monetary Fund) deficit target.


Germany's fans celebrate Germany's second goal during the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship match Denmark vs Germany in the western German city of Cologne on May 12, 2010. The 2010 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships are taking place in Germany from May 7 to 23, 2010.


A mosaic image of Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait made from 2,070 polo shirts in 24 colors, is displayed at a lobby in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.


Employees of a prostheses manufacturer stand on an exhibition stand during the International Trade Show for Prosthetics, Orthotics and Orthopaedic footwear technology "Orthopaedie und Reha-Technik 2010" in Leipzig, eastern Germany on May 12, 2010. The trade fair takes place from May 12 to May 15, 2010 and presents the latest innovations in orthopaedics.


Workers walk through open sewage in the "Red Shirt" controlled area on the way to work in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Thailand's deputy prime minister met with police investigators Tuesday in a bow to demands by protestors that he could face possible criminal charges before they end their two-month-old occupation of prime commercial district. Demonstrators have yet to call a date for the end of their occupation.


Hugo Parisi and Rui Carlos Marino of Brazil 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 on May 9, 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.


Bill Simpson, collections manager of fossil vertebrates at Chicago's Field Museum, dusts the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton known as Sue on display at museum Wednesday, May 12, 2010 in Chicago. The skeleton was being cleaned in anticipation of her 10th anniversary at the museum.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

A dolphin lies dead on a beach on Horn Island,Miss., in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Officials say that at least six dead dolphins have been found on the Gulf Coast since May 2. Authorities don't know whether the animals died from the Oil in the Gulf.

ahhh, poor dolphin :(

[NEP]

Thursday, May 13, 2010


In this photo made from video taken by BP PLC on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, oil leaks into the Gulf of Mexico from the end of the pipe that was supposed to pump oil from the sea floor before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sunk last month.


Dutch boy 9 Year-old Ruben van Assouw is seen in his hospital bed in Tripoli's El Khadra hospital, Libya Thusday, May 13, 2010. Ruben is the only survivor of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board that crashed on landing Wednesday, May 12 at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli.


Pope Benedict XVI prays in front of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima during the blessing of the candles at Fatima's Sanctuary, Portugal, on Wednesday, May 12, 2010.


Reporters record the voice of a woman speaking through the door of a house in Centerreach, N.Y., Thursday, May 13, 2010, where earlier in the day a Pakistani couple who rent a basement apartment there were reportedly questioned in connection with the Times Square bombing investigation, according to the home's owner, Ashim Chakraborty. A series of raids that are part of the ongoing investigation took place across the Northeast on Thursday. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press homes were searched in Centerreach and Shirley, both on Long Island.


Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, rides the Senate Subway during her day of meetings on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.


This image obtained May 13, 2010 and taken with NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features one of the bright stars in the constellation Perseus, named Menkhib (at upper left near the red dust cloud), surrounded by the large star-forming California Nebula, running diagonally through the image. Menkhib is one of the hottest stars visible in the night sky; its surface temperature is about 37,000 Kelvin (about 66,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or more than six times hotter than the sun). Because of its high temperature, it appears blue-white to the human eye. It has about 40 times the mass of our sun and gives off 330,000 times the amount of light. Menkhib is a runaway star, and the fast stellar wind it blows is piling up in front of it to create a shock wave. This shock wave is heating up dust, which WISE sees as the red cloud in the upper left of the image. Menkhib and the California Nebula are about 1,800 light-years away from Earth and are located within the same spur of the Orion spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy as Earth. All four infrared detectors aboard WISE were used to make this image.


People peep to watch the Sony Corp.'s 3-D Bravia flat-screen TVs showing promotional images of the upcoming World Cup in South Africa as part of the Japanese electronics maker's countdown of the world's biggest soccer event in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, May 13, 2010. Sony, which has an official contract with FIFA to show world's first World Cup games in 3-D, stayed in the red last business year but shrank losses through cost cuts and better sales of consumer electronics.


Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (C) visits Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery with Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal (L), and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (not pictured) May 13, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. Section 60 is where the majority of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried, including 140 casualties from Afghanistan.


Palestinian boys watch from inside a bus a rally marking the 62nd anniversary of the "Nakba," Arabic for catastrophe, in Gaza City, on May 13, 2010. The rally marked the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who either fled or were driven out of their homes during the 1948 war over Israel's creation.


A Chinese bride and groom react for a photo shoot by a photographer, unseen, at the Temple of Heaven, in Beijing, China, Thursday, May 13, 2010.


A supporter of Fulham attends the final football match of the UEFA Europa League Fulham FC vs Aletico Madrid in Hamburg, northern Germany on May 12, 2010.


An injured child holds a paper bird while being transferred from intensive care unit to a room for further treatment at a hospital in Hanzhong, north China's Shaanxi Province Thursday, May 13, 2010. The child is one of the survivors after a man charged into a kindergarten in northwestern China with a cleaver Wednesday and hacked to death seven children and two adults, the fifth such rampage in less than two months. The attacker then went home and killed himself.


An Afghan woman clad in a burqa walks past a graffiti painted wall, in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, May 13, 2010.


A dragonfly on a branch near Pad 39A May 13, 2010 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch of Atlantis is scheduled for May 14. During the 12-day mission, Atlantis and the mission's six astronauts are delivering an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini Research Module to the International Space Station.

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Friday, May 14, 2010


Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off of launch pad 39-a at Kennedy Space Center for its final scheduled launch May 14, 2010 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Atlantis is scheduled for a 13-day mission to the International Space Station.


A Sri Lankan man walks through heavy rain along a street in Colombo on May 14, 2010. The capital city was lashed by heavy rains causing majot traffic jams throughout the city.


An Indian saleswoman holds two bars of Emirates - Hallmark 995, 24 carat gold, weighing a kilogramme each at Forever Precious Jewellery and Diamonds Ltd. in Ahmedabad on May 14, 2010. Gold traders across India are gearing up for the most auspicious day in the Hindu calendar, Akshaya Tritiya, which falls on May 16. Owing to surges in gold prices prevailing currently the demand for gold on Akshaya Tritiya is likely to remain low this year.


A police officer approaches a water pipe in a forest on May 14, 2010 to look for the trace of the wife of a banker, kidnapped in Heidenheim, southern Germany on May 12, 21010, the local police announced.


A gust of wind blows part of Pope Benedict XVI's vestment on his face prior to his departure from Sa Carneiro Airport, in Porto, Portugal ,Friday, May 14, 2010 after celebrating a mass closing his four-day visit to Portugal. Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up a trip to Portugal on Friday with an appeal to spread the faith, capping a pilgrimage marked by an explicit admission of church guilt in the clerical abuse scandal with a fresh bid to move beyond the crisis.


Riders take the start of the fifth stage of the 93rd Giro d'Italia, from Novara to Novi Ligure on May 13, 2010.


Crab trap builder Shawn Platt stands with his idle traps in on May 13, 2010 in Hopedale, Louisiana. The traps were all pulled from the Gulf waters last week after the federal government banned all fishing in the area due to the BP oil spill. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig operated by BP continues leaking an estimated 1,000-5,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf. Efforts to contain the spill have done little to slow its flow.


African Union soldiers in an armored personnel carrier passes in the background as a Somali boy carry fish on his head to take to the market in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, May 14, 2010.


Visitors use umbrellas as they wait for the beginning of the "All you need is love" event at the second Oecumenic Church Congress on May 14, 2010 in Munich, southern Germany. According to organisers, the event running until May 16, 2010 aims to be "an occasion for openness, for looking beyond our boundaries, for reflecting, for listening to others, for raising our spirits".

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Monday, May 17, 2010


This photo released by The Boeing Company shows the new 787 Dreamliner flying alongside its ancestor, a Boeing Model 40, in the skies over Mount Rainier south of Seattle. The fully restored 1928 vintage Boeing Model 40, owned and flown by Addison Pemberton of Spokane, Wash., is the only flyable Model 40 in the world and the oldest flying Boeing aircraft of any kind. The Model 40 not only is notable as Boeing's first production commercial airplane, but its innovation and efficiency were the deciding factor in Boeing Air Transport (the airline subsidiary of the Boeing Airplane Company) winning the lucrative Oakland-to-Chicago air mail route in 1927.


An anti-government protester 'Red Shirt' throws a tire into a burning truck as the violence in central Bangkok continues on May 16, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. At least 154 have been injured and over 20 killed in the clashes as the military and the government launched an operation to disperse anti-government protesters who have closed parts of the city for two months. A state of emergency is in effect that spreads to 17 provinces in the country. The Thai army declared certain protest areas where clashes are taking place as a "Live Fire Zone."


A tow truck operator tries to figure out how to remove a Jeep Liberty after its driver drove through the back wall of his own garage, falling one story to the ground Monday, May 17, 2010, in Lancaster, Pa. According to officials, the driver said as he was returning home, the vehicle's accelerator stuck and he couldn't stop before hitting the house. The driver was not hurt, a fire official said.


Sri Lankan army soldiers take cover from rain as they wait for the start of the rehearsal of a Victory Day parade scheduled for Thursday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 17, 2010. Ethnic Tamil leaders called for a day of mourning for civilians killed during Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war, as the government prepared to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its victory over Tamil Tiger rebels.


The planet Venus is visible on top of the Moon over Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Sunday, May 16, 2010. The rare occurrence is called the Venus planetary occultation by the thin crescent Moon.


Local residents try to rescue a car from flooding water near the village of Alsovadasz, northeastern Hungary, Monday, May 17, 2010. Officials in Hungary and Serbia say that three people have died as a result of flooding caused by heavy rainfall.


Competition was intense during the start of The Seattle Trike Race which raced from 7th Ave. W. and W. Blaine Street on Queen Anne Hill, racing pretty much downhill all the way to a tavern on lower Queen Anne. at Western Ave., basically from one tavern to another. To win the race the trike must roll into a 36" x 36" chalked box and be human powered. Those are the only rules. Money from the entry fee will be donated to the seattle Riders biker down fund.


Hazel Soares, 94, right, gets ready before the start of commencement exercises at Mills College, as her son Matthew Soares, 59, looks on in Oakland, Calif., Saturday, May 15, 2010. Hazel received a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Art History.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010


In this handout from NASA, an oil slick from the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling platform is seen off the coast of Louisiana with a portion flowing south from the accident site May 17, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will face lawmakers May 18, 2010 over the spill that could potentially reach Florida in the coming days.



The eye of a frog is reflected on the surface of a pond located at the Spring River Golf Course in Roswell, N.M., Tuesday, May 18, 2010.



In this May 17, 2010 photo provided by NASA, astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS-132 mission spet, takes a self portrait into his helmet visor while participating in the first of three spacewalks scheduled for the space shuttle Atlantis crew and their Expedition 23 hosts.



A pair of swans sit on their nest at Abbotsbury Swannery - the only publically accessible colony of nesting mute swans in the world - on May 18, 2010 in Dorset, England. The arrival of the cygnets is traditionally seen as the start of summer and local traditions claim the Benedictine Monks who owned the swannery between 1000 AD and the 1540s believed the first cygnet signalled the season's first day. Abbotsbury Swannery's mute swans - up to 1,000 in total - are all free flying, and are not kept in cages.



Members of the "501st Legion," an international group of Star Wars fans who own and wear realistic costumes from the movie saga, wait in Houston's City Council chamber before Mayor Annise Parker declared Tuesday, May 18, 2010, "Star Wars: The Clone Wars at Space Center Houston Day."



A local sailboat, known as faluka, sails in the River Nile on the outskirts of Cairo on May 18, 2010. Four African countries signed on May 14 a new treaty on the equitable sharing of the Nile waters despite strong opposition from Egypt and Sudan who have the lion's share of the river waters.



A Hummingbird flies by a feeder at the home of Chris Caviezel, on May 11, 2010 in Hyak, Wash. Each year, Caviezel buys between 150 and 200 pounds of sugar and uses it to create the nectar, that draws the tiny birds to the dozen bright red feeders that hang outside his home.

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Nếp sưu tầm được nhiều tấm hình hay quá nhỉ

[NEP]

Smoke billows from a commercial area of Bangkok where Red Shirt demonstrators had their camp in downtown Bangkok on May 19, 2010. Thai protest leaders surrendered and told thousands of "Red Shirt" supporters to end their weeks-long rally after an army assault on their fortified encampment left at least five people dead. Thai fire authorities said that arsonists have set 20 locations ablaze in Bangkok, including a massive shopping mall and bank branches.



"La barre 220", a building in the neighborhood "La Duchere" in Lyon, central France, is brought down by controlled explosions, part of a renovation program in the city, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. The building also known as "barre des 1000" will be replaced by new social housing.



An Indian motorcyclist is assisted by youths as he uses a wagon to move his vehicle through flood waters in Chennai on May 19, 2010, during heavy rain ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Laila. A "severe" cyclone packing winds of up to 125 kilometres an hour closed in on India's southeast coast as thousands of residents evacuated their homes fearing major storm damage. Cyclone Laila was set to slam into the state of Andhra Pradesh early May 20, with forecasters warning of a sea surge and disrupted power and communication lines.



A grey egret feeds her newborn chicks in Panbazar area, on the banks of the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati, on May 19, 2010. Scores of egrets build their nests among trees in the populated Panbazar area, a major business centre of Guwahati, this time of the year. But the city's urban expansion threatens to reduce the number of nesting egrets as trees are cut down to make way for buildings.



Pensioners enjoy keep-fit equipment in London's first pensioners' playground in Hyde Park, London, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. The outdoor facility features keep-fit equipment to help adults in their later years to keep fit and improve strength and flexibility.



Buddhists devotees enjoy a sunset visit at the Kyeikhtiyoe Pagoda in Kyeikhto, about 125 mile northeast of Yangon, Myanmar, on Tuesday, May 18, 2010.



The Dalai Lama speaks to students, faculty, and guests at the University of Northern Iowa, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Cedar Falls, Iowa.



A polar bear lays in his new enclosure at the zoo in Hanover on May 19, 2010. The zoo inaugurates its new theme world "Yukon Bay", which is one of seven so-called zoo worlds.

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Thursday, May 20, 2010


Cyclist Lance Armstrong is helped up after crashing during the fifth stage of the Tour of California cycling race in the outskirts of Visalia, Calif., Thursday, May 20, 2010.



Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser and La. Gov. Bobby Jindal tour Roseau Grasses that mark the coastline of Southeast Louisiana at Pass a Loutre at the mouth of the Mississippi River where oil has washed ashore, Wednesday.



A Police officer searches for clues among the frames of a stolen paintings outside the Paris Museum of Modern Art, following the report of five paintings having been stolen, Thursday May 20, 2010. Police and prosecutors say a lone thief has stolen five paintings worth a total of Euros 500 million ($613 million), including works by Picasso and Matisse and Modigliani.



Fire brigade officers help to evacuate people from a flooded street on the outskirts of the town of Sandomierz, south east Poland, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Massive flooding has hit southern Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic after heavy rainfall.



A man holds a child on his shoulders to watch firemen tackling a rooftop blaze on a roof above an apartment in London on May 19, 2010. The building was extensively damaged but no one was injured.



A robot balances on one leg during a show titled "better living with robots"at the Japanese pavilion at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai on May 18, 2010. Organisers expect 70 million visitors -- most of them Chinese -- to attend the biggest-ever World's Fair, with an average of 380,000 people expected to visit the site daily.



Blind Ukranian fashion designer Sergey Ermakov feels one of his dresses while fitting a model in Dallas, Thursday, April 15, 2010. Ermakov, who opened his own design studio in Kiev at the age of 24, has lost about 95 percent of his vision but can still see fabric colors if he gets very close.



This picture taking from a helicopter shows an aerial view of a lake caused by a landslide in the Hunza district of northern Pakistan on May 20, 2010. Flooding from a lake in northern Pakistan risks affecting 40,000 people with residents from up to 34 villages already evacuated to safety, a top disaster management official warned. The artificial lake emerged on January 4 as a result of a massive landslide that killed 20, left about 25,000 people stranded and blocked the Hunza river in a remote Himalayan region about 750 kilometres (450 miles) north of Islamabad.



A young woman pauses while selling charcoal at the Telele market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 20, 2010.

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Friday, May 21, 2010


A tornado touches down just north of Hennessey, Okla., Wednesday, May 19, 2010 along US Highway 81.



A Tricolored Heron catches a fish after plucking it from clean waters near Venice, La. Thurday, May 20, 2010. Coastal birds like the heron are at risk as oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has started drifting ashore along the Louisiana coast.



This NASA image obtained May 21, 2010 shows the Seagull nebula, seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, drawing its common name from it resemblance to a gull in flight. The image spans an area about seven times as wide as the full moon, and three times as high (3.55 by 1.37 degrees), straddling the border between the constellations Monoceros and Canis Major (the Big Dog). Astronomers catalog the nebula as IC 2177. This cosmic cloud is one of many sites of star formation within the Milky Way galaxy. It is located 3,800 light-years away from Earth, inside the Orion spur -- the same partial spiral arm of the Milky Way where our solar system is located. The nebula is nearly 240 light-years across.



Nepalese devotees hang onto the chariot of Rato Machhendranath being pulled through the narrow streets of Patan, on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, as part of a month long festival. The sixty-feet tall chariot of Rato Machhendranath, the rain bringing deity, is pulled around the streets of Patan in a plea for prosperity and good crops.



A rescuer hands a loaf of bread to residents of a flooded area in the village of Trzesn, south east Poland, Friday. Polish authorities said that flooding in the country had killed nine people this week. A national police spokesman said the victims drowned in flooding that submerged some farms and residential areas in the south of the country following heavy rains since last weekend.



Japan's H-IIA rocket takes off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on May 21, 2010. The rocket blasted off and successfully released a Venus probe and a kite-shaped "space yacht" designed to float through the cosmos using only the power of the sun.



A Sri Lankan fisherman carries his catch along the sea front in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, May 21, 2010.



This undated handout photo provided by the National Geographic shows a long-nosed tree frog, Litoria sp. nov., a new species of frog discovered by Paul Oliver of Australia with funding from the National Geographic Society.



Imtiaz Zainule, right, of New York, looks up as he poses for a picture with Nicole Dhillon, of New York, under the sculpture "Unconditional Surrender," on Friday, May 21, 2010 in San Diego. The sculpture, by J. Seward Johnson, commemorates the iconic image by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, during the celebration to mark V-J Day, the end of World War II.



A couple sits on the rail in front of the re-designed fountain on the plaza at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, Thursday, May 20, 2010.

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Monday, May 24, 2010


An oil-covered pelican flaps its wings on an island in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010. The island is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills and is being impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.



Indian firefighters carry a child, reportedly a survivor, out of the debris of an Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Saturday, May 22, 2010. The plane arriving from Dubai crashed Saturday morning after it overshot a runway while trying to land in southern India, and officials feared as many as 160 people on board were killed.



Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., celebrate Saturday, May 22, 2010.



A child watches a video on a handheld device while he gets his body painted during the 5th International Fonambules Body Paint Festival in Mexico City, Friday, May 21, 2010. More than 300 people attended the festival, which 2010 edition focused on painting pre-hispanic motifs on the participants bodies, according to organizers.



British environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh celebrates after completing his swim in Lake Pumori at an altitude of 5,300 metres, below the summit of Mount Everest, on May 22, 2010. Everest Ridge, Mount Everest and Mount Nuptse (L to R) can be seen in the background. The environmental campaigner swam across the glacial lake on Mount Everest to highlight the impact of global warming, a report said.



Spanish matador Julio Aparicio is gored by a bull during a bullfight during the San Isidro Feria at the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid. Aparicio underwent surgery and is out of critical danger.



An Indian from the northern Chaco province of Argentina, watches a parade of civilians representing all the Argentine provinces along 9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires, Saturday, May 22, 2010. The parade is part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the May revolution, that opened the road to the independence of Argentina from Spain in 1816.



A dog competes during the 5th annual Loews Coronado bay resort surf dog competition in Imperial Beach, south of San Diego, California on Saturday, May 22, 2010.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010


This US Coast Guard photo distributed May 25, 2010 shows the crew of a Basler BT-67 fixed wing aircraft as they release oil dispersant over an oil discharge from the mobile offshore drilling unit, Deepwater Horizon, off the shore of Louisiana, May 5, 2010. More than 7000,000 gallons of chemicals have been used to break up the oil spill. Fresh waves of crude oil swept onto Gulf of Mexico shores May 25, 2010 as energy giant BP readied for a desperate effort to plug a massive leak that is threatening an environmental disaster.



Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, is driven in a horse drawn carriage, to the Houses of Parliament, for the State Opening of Parliament, in central London on May 25, 2010. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II set out the new coalition government's legislative program on Tuesday in a ceremony of pomp and history following the closest general election in decades.



Farmers try to help a horse to jump into an amphibious vehicle in flooded Juliszew village along the Wisla River in central Poland Monday. Flash floods caused by days of heavy rainfall have hit parts of central Europe, killing at least 14 people, disrupting power supplies and forcing thousands of people from their homes.



Tourists on a boat visit the former Soviet underground submarine base of Balaklava in southern Ukraine, near Sevastopol. Although the base has been turned into a museum, it has not yielded all its secrets. Built at the height of the Cold War, the secret base housed the Soviet fleet's arsenal, including nuclear warheads, as well as repair areas for nuclear submarines.



An image released by Nasa shows the Heart and Soul nebulae in an infrared mosaic from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The image covers an area of the sky in the constellation Cassiopeia over ten times as wide as the full moon and eight times as high. Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. The nebula to the left is the Heart, designated IC 1805 and named after its resemblance to a human heart. To the right is the Soul nebula, also known as the Embryo nebula, IC 1848 or W5. Also visible near the bottom of this image are two galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. Maffei 1 is the bluish elliptical object and Maffei 2 is the spiral galaxy.



Scavengers look for recyclable items at a garbage dump in Medan Marelan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 25, 2010.



A Giraffe eats a branch of leaves given by a visitor at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur on May 23, 2010. The 47 years-old National Zoo, locally known as Zoo Negara, consist of around 5137 animals from 459 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish covers 110 acres of land.

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Photos of the Day | Wednesday, May 26, 2010


Costa Rica's Arenal volcano spews geysers of lava, ash and toxic gases from its crater on Monday in the Arenal National Park, 80 km northeast of San Jose. The 1,633-metre-tall cone-shaped mountain shuddered into activity at midday, issuing eight successive rivers of lava that flowed down its steep slopes and forcing the evacuation of the national park in northern Costa Rica where it is located, authorities said.


Space Shuttle Atlantis lands on May 26, 2010 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth Wednesday, wrapping up the final mission of its 25-year career. Once the shuttle program ends, the United States will rely on Russian Soyuz rockets to carry its astronauts to the space station until a commercial US launcher can be developed. That is scheduled for 2015.


A man armed with a locally-made gun waits in Tembura to receive shelter items from the International Organization for Migration on May 24, 2010. Thousands of residents from the area have fled their homes in fear of attacks by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels near the southwestern Southern Sudan town of Yambio. US President Barack Obama has signed legislation ordering his administration to develop a strategy for battling the LRA. It recognises that the United States must strengthen its ability to "protect and assist civilians caught in the LRA's wake, to receive those that surrender, and to support efforts to bring the LRA leadership to justice." The LRA took up arms against the government in northern Uganda in 1988 but since 2005 moved into remote outlying areas in neighboring countries after coming under pressure from the Ugandan army.


Mushtaq Wahab slumps on the grave of his son, who was killed in a bombing in Baghdad in 2009, during a visit to the Shiite cemetery in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. The cemetery, which stretches off into the horizon, is a kind of map to Iraq's history, at least that of its majority Shiites. The country's natural disasters, wars and tragedies are etched across the tomb stones that fill every square foot of its dusty, sun-blasted expanse.


This photo released Aug. 4, 2008 by NASA shows the Phoenix Mars Lander's solar panel and the lander's Robotic Arm with a sample in the scoop on Mars. NASA declared the three-legged spacecraft officially dead Monday, May 24, 2010 after repeated failed attempts to regain contact. A recent image taken by an orbiting spacecraft appeared to show one of Phoenix's solar panels had collapsed from ice buildup. Phoenix landed near the Martian north pole on May 25, 2008, and successfully operated for five months _ two months longer than planned _ until sunlight at its far northern location waned.

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Photos of the Day | Thursday, May 27, 2010


Residents of a village near Kunduz walk past a soldier of the German armed forces Bundeswehr, left, securing a road on May 25, 2010. The German contingent in Afghanistan, based mostly in the north of the unstable country, is the third largest after those of the United States and Britain.


A flotilla of 'little ships' arrive in off Dunkirk, France Thursday to mark the 70th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. The ships sailed from England in a reenactment of the massive operation in May 1940, when hundreds of vessels, made up of mostly fishing vessels and privately owned boats set sail across the English Channel enabling the evacuation of 225,000 British troops and 125,000 French from the Dunkirk beaches early in World War Two.


An Afghan man walks during a dust storm in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, May 27, 2010.


The Sydney Opera House is lit with vibrant colors during the launch of the annual Vivid festival in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, May 27, 2010. Landmarks across the city will be illuminated, street performers and musicians will entertain during the month-long festival.


People kiss under an umbrella after rain stopped play in the French Open tennis championship at the Roland Garros stadium, on May 26, 2010, in Paris.

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Photos of the Day | Friday, May 28, 2010


A full moon, seen through a telephoto lens, rises over a farm in Ashland, Neb., Thursday, May 27, 2010.


Buddhist monks gather for the commemoration of Vesak or Buddha's birthday at Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, Friday, May 28, 2010.