Earthquake survivor Yang Lingan, 82, is carried by her husband to a medical tent for treatment at a Chinese Red Cross refugee camp in Mianyang, China. (Alexander F. Yuan / Associated Press)
Chinese men in Dujiangyan, China, lower a mattress from the wreckage of a building destroyed in the May 12 earthquake. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)
Refugees board boats in Labutta, Myanmar, to return to their villages, which were devastated by cyclone Nargis. (Khin Maung Win / AFP/Getty Images)
A thunderstorm and lightning pass over the village of Arnsberg, Germany. (Julian Stratenschulte / EPA)
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A car sits on the steps in the center of the southern German town of Hechingen, after the Starzel and Reichenbach rivers jumped their banks and swept through the town, killing three people. Torrential rains swept western Europe. Flooding and mudslides also hit Italy, Belgium, Britain and France. (Michael Latz / AFP/Getty Images)
Some of the protesters from the Gujjar caste who were killed during protests are cremated near a railway track at Bayana, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. Forty-three Gujjars have been killed in recent protests to gain better access to schools and jobs. (Aman Sharma / Associated Press)
A relative mourns during the cremation ceremony for members of the Gujjar community, a lower caste, killed in protests in India. (Aman Sharma / Associated Press)
A woman mourns during the cremation ceremony for Gujjars killed in protests for better access to jobs and schools. (Aman Sharma / Associated Press)
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Black banners are unrolled during a protest at Piazza di Spagna in Rome against the participation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization summit. On his arrival in Rome, Ahmadinejad said Europeans suffered the “biggest damage” from the “artificial regime” of Israel. (Tiziana Fabi / AFP/Getty Images)
Protesters hold candles at a vigil in the rain against U.S. beef imports in front of the Seoul City Hall, South Korea. President Lee Myung-bak suggested that South Korea will seek to ban imports of U.S. beef from older cattle because of fears that the animals might have mad cow disease. (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)
An exiled Tibetan monk shouts slogans from inside a police van during a protest outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Narendra Shrestha / EPA)
A Balinese woman dries rice during a harvest in Jati Luwih, Bali, Indonesia. The Indonesian government increased the amount it will spend on food subsidies by $290 million. (Firdia Lisnawati / Associated Press)
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Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis serves to Serbia’s Novak Djokovic during their quarterfinal match in the French Open tennis tournament in Paris. Djokovic won 7-5, 7-6, 7-5. (Horacio Villalobos / EPA)
A sparrow sits on the head of an actor posing as a “living sculpture” during a warm, sunny day in the center of Kiev, Ukraine. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP/Getty Images)
A baby runs to his mother through Jesus Raphael Soto’s artwork, “Penetrable bbl bleu,” during the preview of an major art exhibit in Basel, Switzerland. More than 50,000 art collectors, art dealers, artists, curators and art lovers gather at the Art Basel exhibit every year. (Sebastien Bozon / AFP/Getty Images)
A boy jumps head first into the outdoor swimming pool at Olympic Stadium in Berlin. (Miguel Villagran / Associated Press)