

Women dressed as 19th century horsewomen known as escaramuzas and a charro (c.) are seen before their performance during the anniversary of the inauguration of Lienzo La Nacional, in Mexico City on Sunday. The Lienzo La Nacional is where charros practice La Charreria, a type of a rodeo based on their working practices, which has been a national sport since 1933. Eliana Aponte/Reuters
A US Border Patrol vehicle is seen from the Mexican side of the border while driving near Otay Mountain on the outskirts of San Diego, Calif., on Sunday. In response to spiraling drug violence in northern Mexico where cartels are battling for smuggling routes, President Barack Obama announced he would send 1,200 more National Guard troops and ask for an additional $500 million to secure the almost 2,000-mile US-Mexico border. Jorge Duenes/Reuters
A soldier stands guard under an umbrella near where Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is meeting with US Vice President Joe Biden in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday. Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Media personnel try to cover France's national soccer team's training session in Knysna, near Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday. Charles Platiau/Reuters
Baby sparrows cry out from a nest in Russia's city of Vladikavkaz on Monday. Kazbek Basayev/Reuters
Leaking oil is pictured at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in this image taken from a BP live video feed on Monday. BP is now collecting about 11,000 barrels per day of the leak volume with a containment cap over the blown-out well, and plans to nearly double collection efforts in coming days to 20,000 barrels per day. BP/Reuters
Oil is collected in skimming boom attached to the US Coast Guard Cutter Elm off the coast of Perdido Key, Fla., on Sunday. Spilled oil is now looming off white sand tourist beaches in northwest Florida, depositing tar balls and debris on some, after soiling stretches of coast in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in the worst US environmental disaster. U.S. Coast Guard/Reuters
A Hungarian Romani woman cooks on an open fire after the Bodva river flooded her home in Bodva, Hungary, on Monday. Arpad Kurucz/NEPSZABADSAG/Reuters
People reinforce broken embankments with sandbags along Opatowka River in Dwikozy, Poland, on Monday. Heavy rains triggered fresh floods in central Europe last week. Flooding around the region in May caused hundreds of million of dollars of damage and killed at least 18 people in Poland. Pawel Malecki/Agencja Gazeta/Reuters
On Monday, Dianne Welling looks through what is left of her in-laws' farmhouse that was destroyed by a tornado in Lake Township, Ohio. The couple were in the home when a tornado swept through the region and were injured. Rebecca Cook/Reuters
Scavengers collect items among cattle that can be resold from a trash dump in Makassar in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia, on Monday. Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters
Revellers take part in the 'La Patum' festival in Berga city, Spain, on Monday. 'La Patum' is a popular and traditional festival that is celebrated annually in Berga city during Corpus Christi, featuring dance performances and pyrotechnics. Albert Gea/Reuters
Guitarist Slash and singer Myles Kennedy perform during a concert in Berlin on Monday. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has trouble connecting to Wi-Fi for his demonstration of the new iPhone 4 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday. Robert Galbraith/Reuters
A victim of the Bhopal gas disaster attends a demonstration outside a court in Bhopal, India. An Indian court on Monday sentenced seven people to two years each in prison for negligence in failing to prevent one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed thousands of people in 1984. Raj Patidar/Reuters