Ultraorthodox Jewish men harvest wheat ahead of the Jewish Shavuot holiday in a field outside the Israeli community of Mevo Horon on Monday. Shavuot commemorates Moses receiving the Ten Commandments and is also a harvest holiday. It begins next Tuesday at sundown. Oded Balilty/AP
Liam E. McGee, chairman, president and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group, applauds during the opening bell ceremonies at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Richard Drew/AP
Mahouts sit atop elephants while taking part in a fireworks ceremony to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Thai King Bhumibol's coronation in Bangkok's Royal Plaza on Sunday. Sukree Sukplang/Reuters
Firefighters from Wheaton, Dumont, and Browns Valley try to stop a fire as it spreads at the scene of a fire at the D Bar & Grill in Wheaton, Minn., early Monday. The blaze destroyed two buildings on Main Street. Fire Chief Adam Wilson says the fire started in the bar and spread to an adjoining building that was vacant. An office building also sustained smoke and water damage. Jim Smoger/Wheaton Gazette/AP
A white-tailed deer tries to avoid two Pittsburgh Water & Sewage Authority workers as they attempt to rescue the distressed deer from the waters of Highland Reservoir No. 1 in Highland Park on Monday. It is unknown how the deer fell in the reservoir, but it was eventually captured and released into nearby woods. Justin Merriman/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review/AP
Morgan Edmonds plays in the surf as a clean-up crew combs the beach on Dauphin Island, Ala., on Monday, two days after tar balls washed up onshore. Oil workers, volunteers, and the military have been battling to stop a gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and to contain the spreading oil slick. Brian Snyder/Reuters
Pedestrians are reflected in an electronic board showing a graph of market data displayed outside a brokerage in Tokyo on Monday. Japan's Nikkei share average rose 1.6 percent on Monday, buoyed by a technical rebound after falling over 6 percent last week and by a massive stabilization plan for the eurozone to keep Greece's fiscal woes from spreading. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters
New Zealand's opener Brendon McCullum plays a shot during a Twenty20 Cricket World Cup match with England in Gros Islet, St. Lucia, on Monday. Andres Leighton/AP
Swedish commandos launch their fast attack boat from HMS Carlskrona in an antipiracy exercise off the coast of Somalia on Monday. The Carlskrona is the Swedish flagship of the European Naval Force Somalia tasked with protecting World Food Program shipments to Somalia, as well as hunting pirates off the coast of Somalia. Tim Freccia/AP
Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi (c.) meets US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell (r.) and United States Embassy Charge d’Affaires Larry Dinger in Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar) on Monday. US Embassy Rangoon/Reuters
Rescue miner Sergei Izvekov seen outside the Raspadskaya mine, in Kemerovo, Russia, on Monday. Two explosions tore through Russia's largest underground coal mine in western Siberia, and the death toll is still rising. A rescue operation is under way for about 60 people who are still trapped underground, according to government officials. Sergey Ponomarev/AP
Female cycling fans wait at the finish of the third stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race from Amsterdam to Middelburg in the Netherlands on Monday. Michael Kooren/Reuters
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown reads a statement to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London on Monday. Brown said he intended to stand down as Labour Party leader, but first hopes to broker a pact with the third-place Liberal Democrats to keep his Labour Party in office as part of a coalition government. Brown said the Labour Party, which came a distant second in Thursday's national election, would begin a leadership contest to replace him as he focused on talks with the Liberal Democrats aimed at breaking Britain's election deadlock. Simon Dawson/AP
Passengers waiting for a flight to Helsinki, Finland, rest on cots at Lisbon's Portela International Airport on Monday morning. The airport reopened after being closed for 10 hours due to an ash cloud drifting over from a volcano in Iceland that caused major air travel chaos last month. Francisco Seco/AP
A Filipino voter writes on a ballot inside a makeshift precinct in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines, on Monday. About 50 million Filipinos vote today to elect a new president, vice-president, and officials to fill nearly 18,000 national and local posts in the country's first-ever automated elections. Aaron Favila/AP
Solicitor General Elena Kagan is applauded by President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as she is introduced as Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Monday. Susan Walsh/AP
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of his cheering supporters in Istanbul saying, 'My patience has run out' with anti-government protests.
Turkey’s largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.
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