

Oil-tainted water from the Gulf of Mexico sits in jars placed before a group of business people and officials called 'Gulf Voices' as they speak during a visit to Capitol Hill in Washington on June 16. Group members wanted to take their plight directly to legislators. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
A crawfish holds onto a miniature soccer ball filled with food in a tank, which has been decorated as a soccer field, at the Sea Life Aquarium in Berlin on Wednesday. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
Adam Smith, with K2 Network, plays with a toy rocket launcher at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, Calif., on Wednesday. Jae C. Hong/AP
Seal pups enjoy the water in the pool at the common seal station in Friedrichskoog, Germany, on Wednesday. The seal pups were left by their mothers and will grow up at the station before being released to their natural habitat. Heribert Proepper/AP
Chinese performers dressed in traditional attire wait for their turn at the opening of the China Farmer Arts Festival in Beijing, on Wednesday. Andy Wong/AP
South Africa goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune looks at the ball going into the net as Uruguay's team scored the opening goal during the World Cup group A soccer match between South Africa and Uruguay at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday. Matt Dunham/AP
A goose walks through a street of Draguignan, France, on Wednesday. Regional authorities in southeastern France say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of flash floods that followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars, and other objects. Lionel Cironneau/AP
Mounted Israeli police officers try to disperse Ultraorthodox Jews during a protest in Jaffa, Israel. Violence erupted on Wednesday in Jaffa between police and hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting against construction that they say is desecrating graves. Nir Elias/Reuters
Competitors take part in a dragon boat race in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated throughout China with activities such as boat races and the eating of sticky rice dumplings. Vincent Yu/AP
Virgin Atlantic president Sir Richard Branson falls off a jet ski with flight attendant Victoria Lewis in the pool in front of the Bellagio resort on Wednesday. Branson was in Las Vegas to celebrate the 10th anniversary of nonstop service to Las Vegas from Gatwick Airport near London. Darrin Bush/Las Vegas News Bureau/AP
Boys leap into a public swimming pool in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday. Hadi Mizban/AP
Visitors feed birds in Paris on Wednesday. Christophe Ena/AP
Uzbek men pray during a funeral ceremony for victims killed during ethnic rioting between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks, in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh. The official death count from the past week of violence rose to 189 on Wednesday, with 1,910 wounded, the Health Ministry said. Kyrgyzstan is observing three days of mourning for the victims of the recent mass-scale riots in the republic's southern regions. Sergei Grits/AP
The Reichstag building is seen through the Global Leadership Award of John Hopkins University's American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) after it was presented to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not shown) at the Chancellery in Berlin on Wednesday. Thomas Peter/Reuters
President Obama greets troops during a rally at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Pensacola Fla., on Tuesday. Obama was on a two-day visit to Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, stepping up his efforts to limit the economic fallout from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Michael Spooneybarger/AP