Maria Gomes Valentim, 114,
Maria Gomes Valentim, 114, lies on her bed in Carangola in this May 19, 2011 file photograph. Valentim, who was the world's oldest living person according to the Guinness World Records, passed away on June 21, 2011, according to local media reports. Picture taken May 19, 2011.
Mulher mais velha do mundo é brasileira e tem 114 anos !!! 23/05/11
Yoga practitioners
Yoga practitioners salute the sun while celebrating the solstice in New York's Times Square, Tuesday, June 21, 2011
A Libyan boy writes verses on a wooden slate
A Libyan boy writes verses on a wooden slate as he memorizes the holy Koran at a school in Benghazi June 21, 2011. The usage of wooden slates for religious studies was popular during the era of the Libyan resistance leader Omar Mokhtar, and has recently made a comeback.
truck believed to be loaded with explosives
Members of a police bomb squad inspect a truck believed to be loaded with explosives in Corinto, southern Colombia, Tuesday June 21, 2011. The officers did not find explosives in the vehicle, instead they found one ton of marijuana. Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, and the National Liberation Army, ELN, are active in the region
A fisherman holds his fishing
A fisherman holds his fishing net in his mouth in a polluted river in Wuhan, Hubei province June 21, 2011. More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country's economic boom. Picture taken June 21, 2011.
CHILE VOLCANO
View of the house on 20 June 2011, of Delfin Avila, one of the residents from the areas close to the volcano complex Puyehue-Cordon Caulle, which erupted on 04 June, and who makes part of the group of more than 4,000 people that can now return to their homes. Authorities stated that the quality of the air from the areas located close to the volcano complex, does not represent a risk for the health of those who were authorized to return to their homes due to the reduction of volcanic activity
Pakistani boy
A Pakistani boy leaps into a watercourse, as he and other children cool off, as the temperature rises, on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Unionised workers from Korean Federation
Unionised workers from Korean Federation of Construction Workers Unions hold a rally demanding an improvement in their working conditions in Seoul June 22, 2011. About ten thousand construction workers took part in the rally.
Residents use boats
Residents use boats as a form of transport through the flooded streets in Ghatal town, located in the West Midnapore district of the Indian state of West Bengal June 22, 2011. At least 3,000 families have been affected by flooding of several villages in the district, triggered by heavy rainfall and release of water from the dams and barrages across of river Damodar, local media reported.
A girl carries a basket of chillies
A girl carries a basket of chillies on her head after picking them from a field in Noida, located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh June 22, 2011.
one of Spain's "ghost airports"
In this Wednesday, May 11, 2011 photo, the new Central airport terminal in seen in Ciudad Real, Spain. The glittering buildings rise up from Spain's arid central plain. Draw closer and there's something eerie about Ciudad Real's Central Airport. There's hardly a plane in sight. Nobody's around. Cars can only be heard faintly in the distance. This is one of Spain's "ghost airports" huge projects often funded by taxpayer money that helped drive Spain's economic boom and now symbolize the wasteful spending that helped trigger its catastrophic bust.
the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
A tourist stands in front of a row of busts in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens June 22, 2011. Greek tourism revenues could increase by up to 10 percent in 2011 after two years of sharp declines, senior industry officials told Reuters, in a rare piece of good news for the debt-choked country.
old port of Acre
In this photo taken on Sunday June, 19, 2011, an Israeli Arab youth jumps off the 250-year-old seawall surrounding the old port of Acre, on the Mediterranean coast in northern Israel. Off the track beaten by most Holy Land tourists lies one of the richest archaeological sites in a country full of them: Acre, where the busy alleys of an Ottoman-era town cover a uniquely intact Crusader city now being rediscovered.
A woman paddles her boat
A woman paddles her boat through a flooded street in Ghatal town, located in the West Midnapore district of the Indian state of West Bengal June 22, 2011. At least 3,000 families have been affected by flooding of several villages in the district, triggered by heavy rainfall and release of water from the dams and barrages across of river Damodar, local media reported.
15-M Movement spend the night camping outside
Activists of the 15-M Movement spend the night camping outside Lower House of Spanish Parliament building early 22 June 2011 in Madrid, Spain, to protest against the so-called Euro Pact and the new collective barganing reform which will be voted at the chamber later today.
Austrian world heritage village
A general view of the Austrian world heritage village of Hallstatt June 21, 2011. Chinese architects plan to rebuild the village in full details in the province Guandong.
