An image of Florencio Avalos, one of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose collapsed mine, is seen on a television set near the mine in Copiapo, Chile.
This image made from video released by British Petroleum (BP PLC) early Saturday morning, May 29, 2010 shows drilling mud escaping from the broken pipe on the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Wounded U.S. Marine Sgt. Shane Hanley, center, a squad leader from Easy Company, 2-2 Marines, receives treatment by U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael G. Patangan while airborne in an army Task Force Pegasus medevac helicopter, shortly after Hanley was wounded, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Sgt. Hanley, of Punxsutawney, Pa., who agreed to have photos of himself published, sustained shrapnel injuries to the left side of his body, face and eye when an improvised explosive device detonated below him while he was on a foot patrol.
A daughter of Lt. Col. Robert Baldwin, of Eliza, Ill., looks on as a flag is presented during a burial service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Lt. Col. Baldwin was killed in Afghanistan.
Pilot Capt. Brian Bews parachutes to safety as his a CF-18 fighter jet plummets to the ground during a practice flight at the Lethbridge County Airport for the weekend airshow in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Magma churns and gushes in the lava lake of Mount Nyiragongo, one of Africa's most active volcanos, in Goma, Congo.
Anairplane passes in front of a rainbow above the Mediterranean sea in Nice, southeastern France.
A flash of lightning illuminates the sky over the 2,500-year-old Ancient Parthenon temple, on the Acropolis hill during heavy rainfall in Athens.
A bird is mired in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast.
AU.S. Navy helicopter takes off in front of the National Palace after members of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne, front, landed in Port-au-Prince Haiti.
A visitor stands on the artwork 'Floor' created by South Korean artist Do Ho-suh at the Hong Kong International Art Fair.
Polar bear 'Lady' arrives on the surface in her pool in Budapest, Hungary. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)
Lighting is seen amid the lava and ash erupting from the vent of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in central Iceland early morning as it continues to vent into the skies over Europe. Low-energy lightning is sometimes active during eruptions, arcing between particles as they exit the volcanic vent at around 100 metres per second.
An image of the annular solar eclipse is seen on a shadow falling on the ground formed by a bifocal spectacle in Bangalore, India
4-year-old male Royal Bengal Tiger, named Joy, is cremated after it died at the Assam State Zoological Park in Gauhati, India. The cause of its death was yet to be ascertained by the zoo officials. Tiger numbers in recent decades have plummeted because of human encroachment, with the loss of more than nine-tenths of their habitat and poaching to supply a vibrant trade in tiger parts. From an estimated 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, the number of tigers today is less than 3,500.
A traditional Indian wrestler smears mud on himself during a practice session in Calcutta, India.
A woman kisses the shrouded body of her four-year-old niece, Zainab, who was killed in a Baghdad bombing, as the family prepares for her burial in the Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. The child was killed along with her entire family _mother, father, and sister, when suicide bombers in a crowded Baghdad commercial district killed scores as insurgents tried to turn a months long deadlock over forming a new Iraqi government to their advantage.
A sea lion catches a fish during meal time at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, Japan
Bloodied Kyrgyz police officers huddle together for protection, as they are attacked by protestors in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, following clashes with police. Police in Kyrgyzstan opened fire on thousands of angry protesters who tried to seize the main government building amid rioting in the capital as protests spread across the Central Asian nation.
A protester braves a pepper spray during a May Day rally in Macau against illegal labor. Most of the demonstrations marking international workers' day were peaceful, but in the Chinese territory of Macau police used water cannons and pepper spray against rowdy protesters who tried to break away from the approved route.
Palestinian Umm Eyad, pours olives from a bucket she picked before sorting out the leaves, during the harvest on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
A Palestinian man performs a summersault as others watch on the beach of the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City.
Raj Kaliya Dhanuk lies still on a bed with weights on her eye after receiving local anesthesia at Hetauda community eye hospital, Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal. Dhanuk and more than 500 others, most of whom have never seen a doctor before, have traveled for days by bicycle, motorbike, bus and even on their relatives' backs to reach Dr. Sanduk Ruit's mobile eye camp. Nepalese master surgeon Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach. Once condemned by the international medical community as unthinkable and reckless, this mass surgery 'in the bush' started spreading from Nepal to poor countries worldwide nearly two decades ago.
A Pakistani boy, right, reacts after he caught a fish while fishing with other boys in a flooded field next to their camp in Muzaffargarh in Punjab province, Pakistan.
Police and SWAT members break the glass window of a tourist bus during an assault to rescue hostages at Manila's Rizal Park in Manila, Philippines. Rolando Mendoza, a dismissed policeman armed with automatic rifle, seized the bus in Manila Monday with 25 people aboard, mostly foreign tourists in a bid to demand reinstatement. Mendoza was killed along with an undetermined number of hostages.
Russian police officers detain protesters during a banned rally in Moscow. Russian police broke up unauthorized protest against Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and his policy detaining several of demonstrators
A woman struggles with Basque riot police during a clash in the Basque city of Bilbao northern Spain. Thousands of Basque workers took part in a one-day general strike against the economic crisis of Spain where more than four million people are unemployed.
Thai soldiers fire on anti-government protesters during clashes near Bangkok, Thailand.
Guards cover parliament speaker Volodymr Lytvyn with an umbrella from eggs thrown by opposition lawmakers during ratification of the Black Sea Fleet deal with Russia, in parliament in Kiev, Ukraine