In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
Madame Tussauds employee Marie Chandler poses for photographers beside a waxwork of The Hulk during the launch of the Marvel Super Heroes 4D exhibit at the Madame Tussauds waxworks in London on Wednesday. Matt Dunham/AP
Taronga Zoo nurse, Gemma Watkinson, holds an overweight, adult, female, laughing Kookaburra before weighing it at the zoo's medical facility in Sydney on Wednesday. The Australian kookaburra, who weighs 565 grams (1.2 pounds) nearly 40 percent heavier than a normal adult bird, is beginning a personal training regimen after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages. Tim Wimborne/Reuters
Baby eels wriggle in a bucket prior to their release the Elbe river near Bleckede, Germany, on Wednesday. Up to 130,000 young eels were released by the regional chamber for preservation of the countryside to increase the number of fish in the river. Philipp Guelland/AP
A Palestinian boy looks out of a window of a bus while waiting to cross to Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Egypt opened its border with the Gaza Strip to let Palestinians cross, following a storm of international criticism of Israel's bloody enforcement at sea of its blockade on the enclave. Officials in Egypt and Gaza said the crossing would open until further notice. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews. Bill Ingalls/NASA/AP
Pakistani and Afghan refugee children play on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Vincent Thian/AP
A girl looks at a glob of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil leak that washed ashore in Dauphin Island, Ala., on Wednesday. Lee Celano/Reuters
A girl waits for her mother to cast her vote for a local election at a polling station in Seoul on Wednesday. The South Korean president's conservative party could get a boost in local elections Wednesday that are serving as a progress report on how the pro-American leader is handling a crisis with North Korea, blamed for sinking a warship. Lee Jin-man/AP
Members of the Danish World Cup squad (from l.) Jakob Poulsen, Lars Jacobsen and Mikkel Bechmann workout at the 'Virgin Active Health Club' in Krugersdorp, South Africa on Wednesday ahead of the start of the World Cup. Lars Poulsen/Polfoto/AP
Pope Benedict XVI kisses a child as he leaves at the end of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Wednesday. Benedict XVI says he is anxiously following the news about the deadly Israeli raid on aid ships for the Gaza Strip and worries about its consequences for Middle East peace. Benedict told pilgrims in St. Peter's Square that violence will generate more violence and have 'dramatic consequences.' Andrew Medichini/AP
South African kids play soccer in an open field in Soweto, South Africa, on Wednesday. The Soccer World Cup 2010 starts on June 11. Hassan Amma/AP
Louisiana National Guardsman Specialist Anthony Chase of Bogalusa, Louisiana, walks back from work through the night to put together a Tiger Dam to protect the Grand Isle from encroaching oil coming in with the high tide in Grand Isle, La., on Wednesday. Oil from BP's out-of-control Gulf of Mexico oil spill could threaten the Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week, U.S. forecasters said, as public anger surged over the nation's worst environmental disaster. Sean Gardner/Reuters
A man walks in the Ferrari World theme park, which is currently under construction, on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Mosab Omar/Reuters
Outside Tel Aviv University on Wednesday, Israeli students demonstrate in support of Israel after the nation's deadly naval raid on an aid flotilla bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip. Ariel Schalit/AP
Hezbollah supporters burn an Israeli flag during a demonstration at the Lebanese-Israeli border, in Kfar Kila village, southern Lebanon, on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. About 5,000 people took part in the demonstration that was organized by Hezbollah to protest the Israeli attack on ships carrying activists who tried to break a siege imposed by Israel on Gaza. Hussein Malla/AP
U.S. President Barack Obama leaves the stage after delivering remarks on the state of the economy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Wednesday. Jason Reed/Reuters
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
Saudi woman scales Everest with group of 64 climbers Saturday. Raha Moharrak, a 25-year old graphic designer, is the first Saudi woman to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.
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