Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in ChilePuyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile
Lightning strikes over the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile, seen from the international cross border way Cardenal Samore, in southern Chile, Sunday June 12, 2011. The volcano erupted June 4 after remaining dormant for decades. Chilean officials ordered most residents already evacuated from homes near the erupting volcano to stay in shelters and with family and friends Sunday due to the threat of deadly landslides. The ash spread across the Pacific, prompting authorities to suspend flights in Australia and New Zealand.
Mt Tarawera situated behind Lake Rotomahana
An undated handout photo by GNS Science obtained on 13 June 2011 shows Mt Tarawera situated behind Lake Rotomahana, near Rotorua, in New Zealand. Scientists are planning to use unmanned submarines to search the lake this summer for traces of the famed Pink and White Silica Terraces, which were promoted as a tourism wonder before vanishing during the 1886 eruption of Mt Tarawera.
Aaron Tveit
Aaron Tveit
20- kilometer exclusion zone
A city official shows a survey meter in Minami Soma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Radioactive soil in pockets of areas outside the 20- kilometer exclusion zone around the plant have reached the same level as in Chernobyl following a reactor explosion in the former Soviet Union territory 25 years ago, said a research report published May 24 and given to the government.
Demonstrators walk away
Demonstrators walk away with their belongings as another sleeps on a mattress at the end of their last day camping out at Madrid's landmark Puerta del Sol early June 13, 2011. Spaniards protesting since May 15 over the government's handling of the country's economic crisis started to leave the protest in the central city square on Sunday.
'Priscilla Queen of the Desert
The cast of 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert,' perform during the American Theatre Wing's 65th annual Tony Awards ceremony in New York, June 12, 2011
New Zealand's Mount Taranaki has a warm glow lighting the snow peak as an ash cloud from a Chilean volcano drifts across the Pacific, Sunday, June 12, 2011. Most airlines grounded more flights to and from southern Australia and New Zealand on Monday morning after an ash cloud from the Cordon Caulle volcano in southern Chile expanded overnight.
1,000 people participated in the SlutWalk
People march in a Slutwalk rally in Sydney June 13, 2011. About 1,000 people participated in the SlutWalk, a series of rallies in cities aorund the globe organised after the remarks by a Canadian police officer, who advised women "to avoid dressing as sluts", if they did not want to be harassed, sparked a worldwide protest movement
Children play
Children play on the shores on the Mexican side of the Rio Bravo at the border crossing between between Mexico and the United States in Ciudad Juarez June 12, 2011.
Afghan man
An Afghan man, selling used shoes as he trims his mustache while waiting for customers in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, June 9, 2011
Danish Queen Margrethe II
Danish Queen Margrethe II (C) and Victoria Kennedy (L), widow of the late U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy watch ballet performers Hilary Guswiler and Ulrik Birkkjaer practice their moves, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where the Royal Danish Ballet is performing, in Washington June 7, 2011.
Staysha Randall break the Guinness Book record for "Most Body Piercings in a Single Sitting
Piercing assistant "Jenn O. Cide" (R) celebrates as body piercer Bill "Danger" Robinson (C) and sideshow performer Staysha Randall break the Guinness Book record for "Most Body Piercings in a Single Sitting", at Inktoxicated Tattoos in Las Vegas, Nevada June 7, 2011. The previous record was 3,100 piercings, and Randall attempted 3,600 piercings, but decided it was enough after 3,200 piercings. The record is awaiting verification by Guinness to be official
NASA show the International Space Station
Picture taken on May 23 and released late June 07, 2011 by the NASA show the International Space Station (R) together with the space shuttle Endeavour (L), the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade. The picture is the first taken of a shuttle docked to the station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. On May 23, the Soyuz was carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli back to Earth. Once their vehicle was about 600 feet from the station, Mission Control Moscow, outside the Russian capital, commanded the orbiting laboratory to rotate 130 degrees. This move allowed Nespoli to capture digital photographs and high definition video of shuttle Endeavour docked to the station.
children enjoy
A group of children enjoy the surging water from a drainage and the surf cause by passing vehicles after a sudden downpour Saturday, May 28, 2011 in suburban Taguig City south of Manila, Philippines. Typhoon Songda did not make a landfall in the country but rains caused by the southwest monsoon flooded parts of the city
flooded due to the rain..
A man pulls the outrigger while passengers get off in rain Wednesday, June 8, 2011 in suburban Navotas City, north of Manila, Philippines. Parts of the low-lying ground in the area are flooded due to the rain.
