Pictures of the Week May 28 to June 4

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. 

Massive Japanese dock from tsunami washes up on on US beach
A very large and heavy dock measuring 7' tall, 19' wide and 66' long that has washed ashore on Agate Beach one mile north of Newport, Oregon on June 6, 2012. The Japanese consulate has confirmed that the dock washed ashore on Agate Beach is debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.

Oregon Parks and Recreation Department photograph shows a very large and heavy dock measuring 7' tall, 19' wide and 66' long that has washed ashore on Agate Beach one mile north of Newport, Oregon on June 6, 2012. The Japanese consulate has confirmed that the dock washed ashore on Agate Beach is debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan. 

 Oregon Parks and Recreation Department photograph shows a very large and heavy dock measuring 7' tall, 19' wide and 66' long that has washed ashore on Agate Beach one mile north of Newport, Oregon on June 6, 2012. The Japanese consulate has confirmed that the dock washed ashore on Agate Beach is debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan. 

Oregon Parks and Recreation Department photograph shows a metal placard bearing Japanese writing that details manufacturer and fabrication date, among other information on a very large and heavy dock measuring 7' tall, 19' wide and 66' long that has washed ashore on Agate Beach one mile north of Newport, Oregon on June 6, 2012. The writing reads "Misawa region wide-area fishery harbor improvement work. June 2008, Nishimura Sangyo Co., Type of Structure: PC Segment, Constructor: Zeniya Kaiyo Service Co. The Japanese consulate has confirmed that the dock washed ashore on Agate Beach is debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.

Coast Guard and government officials examine garbage washed out to sea by the 2011 Japan tsunami, which litters the wreck line of Montague Island, Alaska in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters May 25, 2012. Cleanup workers will soon attack the jumble of debris, as residents in the state gear up to scour their shores for everything from buoys to building material that has floated across the Pacific.

REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR Styrofoam washed out to sea by the 2011 Japan tsunami, litters the wreck line of Montague Island, Alaska in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters May 25, 2012. Cleanup workers will soon attack the jumble of debris, as residents in the state gear up to scour their shores for everything from buoys to building material that has floated across the Pacific. 

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  A Harley-Davidson motorcycle lies on a beach in Graham Island in this picture taken by Canadian Peter Mark in the end of April 2012 and released by Kyodo May 2, 2012. According to local media, the Harley-Davidson motorcycle was washed up on a Canadian Island by last year's tsunami disaster in Japan and it was found by Mark. The owner of the bike, Ikuo Yokoyama, was located through the license plate number. Ikuo said he lost three members of his family during last year's natural disaster.
 


A soccer ball, pictured in this NOAA handout photo, washed away during the Japan tsunami has been found on Middleton Island, in the Gulf of Alaska, and eventually could be headed back to the Japanese school grounds it originally came from. REUTERS/NOAA/David Baxter/Handout
Japanese fishing vessel, "Ryou-Un Maru", shows significant signs of damage after U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Anancapa fired explosive ammunition into it, 180 miles (about 290 km) west of the Southeast Alaskan coast April 5, 2012. The U.S. Coast Guard opened fire on Thursday on a derelict Japanese fishing vessel washed out to sea by last year's devastating tsunami in a bid to sink it and eliminate a threat to navigation, a spokesman for the agency said.

In this handout image provided by U.S. Air Force, a house is seen adrift off the coast of northeastern Japan from a HH-60G helicopter surveying the damage stricken area as part of Japan's earthquake and tsunami recovery effort March 14, 2011 in Japan. The quake struck offshore at 2:46 pm local time on March 11, triggering a tsunami wave of up to 10 metres which engulfed large parts of northeastern Japan. The death toll is still yet to be fully known, with fears that the numbers could run into the tens of thousands.

This file photo taken March 13, 2011, and provided by the U.S. Navy, shows a Japanese home adrift in the Pacific Ocean, days after a massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami hit Japan's east coast. Scientists believe ocean waves carried away 3-4 million tons of the 20 million tons of debris created by tsunamis that slammed into Japan after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake nearly a year ago. One-to-two million tons of it _ lumber and other construction material, fishing boats and other fragments of coastal towns _ are still in the water and are being carried across the Pacific by ocean currents. One to five percent of that may reach coastlines in Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon and Washington states.