A selection of photographs from around the world.
Defending world chess champion Viswanathan Anand (L) of India and challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel take part in the tiebreak match at the FIDE World Chess Championship at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, May 30, 2012. Anand beat Gelfand to win his 5th FIDE World Chess Championships title.
A protester burns a portrait of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a protest against the proposed rise in petrol prices in the eastern Indian state of Orissa May 23, 2012. State oil companies will raise the price of petrol on Thursday for the first time in more than six months in a gesture of fiscal discipline that economists said is unlikely to give a significant lift to the embattled rupee.
Members of the media wearing protective suits adjust their masks in the Seismic Isolated Building at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture May 26, 2012.
A tourist takes photograph of "Let Me Play So I Can Lose My Way" light and music installation by Australian artists David Kenworthy and Steve Kilbey during the Vivid Festival in Sydney May 27, 2012. The festival of light, music and ideas will run until June 11.
A man flies a monkey-shaped kite made out of balloons at a beach in Mumbai, May 27, 2012
Italian artists Antonio Garullo (R) and Mario Ottocento (L) look at their exhibit entitled "The Dream Of Italian", which comprises of a wax figurine representing Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi as being dead, at the Ferrajoli Palace in downtown Rome May 29, 2012.
People hold umbrellas as they cross a flooded street by stepping on wooden tables and ladders amid heavy rainfalls in Wuhan, Hubei province May 29, 2012.
Ukrainian police detain an activist from women's rights group Femen as she enacts a performance in central Kiev May 31, 2012. The activist was protesting against prostitution during the upcoming UEFA Euro 2012 soccer tournament. Kiev is set to host the final match of the Euro 2012 soccer tournament.
A man kisses a camel at the Pyramids Plateau in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo May 31, 2012.
The sky is seen at night just before the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, in this NASA photo illustration released May 31, 2012. About 3.75 billion years from now, Andromeda's disk will fill the field of view and its gravity will begin to create tidal distortions in the Milky Way. The view is inspired by dynamical computer modelling of the future collision between the two galaxies. The two galaxies collide about 4 billion years from now and merge to form a single galaxy about 6 billion years from now.
A woman walks past U.S. Army soldiers of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, securing an area during a patrol in the town of Senjaray, Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan June 1, 2012.
Space Shuttle Enterprise waits to be craned onto a barge at John F. Kennedy International Airport's harbor, for a four-day journey to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York June 2, 2012.
Mani, 60, a fisherman casts his fishing net into the waters of a fish farm during a heavy rain shower on the outskirts of Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala June 3, 2012. The June-September rainy season starts over the Kerala coast and covers the rest of India and neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal by mid-July.
Royal rowbarge Gloriana leads manpowered craft towards Westminster Bridge during Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames in London June 3, 2012. Britain's Queen Elizabeth joined an armada of 1,000 boats down London's River Thames to the pealing of bells on Sunday in a spectacular highlight of four days of nationwide celebrations to mark her 60th year on the throne.
Members of Queer Utah Aquatic Club dance in a gay pride parade in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 3, 2012. Over 300 active Mormons and more than 5,000 members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community with their supporters marched in the parade as part of the Utah Pride Festival.
A woman wraps her sleeping baby on her back after a talk with members of the Spanish Non-Governmental Organization Accion contra el Hambre (Action against hunger) about good sanitation and hygiene practices in Niomel, in the Guidimakha region, Mauritania June 3, 2012. A full third of the country's population, amounting to around a million people, are at risk of suffering from malnutrition if rain doesn't fall by July, according to estimates from Accion contra el Hambre, which has been warning about the food crisis since the beginning of the year after poor rainfall in 2011.