Pics of the week: May 17 - 23

This May 17, 2010 NASA handout image shows NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS-132 mission specialist, participating in the mission's first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. US astronauts on Monday completed the first of three planned spacewalks from the shuttle Atlantis a day after the craft docked with the International Space Station. Astronauts Garrett Reisman and Stephen Bowen finished the seven-hour, 25-minute spacewalk after installing a second space-to-ground communications antenna and a spare parts platform on Dexter, the two-armed robotic device on the orbiting ISS. (Photo: AFP/NASA)

A Greenpeace activist walks along an oil-contaminated beach at the mouth of the Mississippi River on May 17, 2010 in near Venice, Louisiana. BP announced that it is successfully siphoning off 1,000 barrels of oil per day from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded and sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on April 22, killing 11 crew members. The amount of oil escaping from the well is a matter of dispute, making the success of BP's effort difficult for regulators to ascertain. (Photo: AFP)

A Sri Lankan man carries his catch at the sea front as it rains in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday, May 21, 2010. Sri Lankan government says that 19 people have died in floods, earthslips and hazards caused by strong winds during a week of heavy rain across the country. (Photo: AP)

French national football team players jog during a training session on May 21, 2010 around Tignes' lake, in the French Alps, as part of their preparation for the upcoming World Cup 2010 in South Africa. France will play Uruguay in Capetown in its group A opener match next June 11. (Photo: AFP)

A thunderstorm cloud hangs in the sky near Edmond, Oklahoma on Wednesday afternoon, May 19, 2010. Many thunderstorms in central Oklahoma went super-cell and produced numerous tornadoes in the late afternoon and into the evening. (Photo: AP)

A tow truck operator tries to figure out how to tow a Jeep Liberty after the driver drove through the back wall of his own garages, falling one story to the ground Monday, on May 17, 2010, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. According to officials, the driver said as he was returning home, the vehicle's accelerator stuck and he couldn't stop before hitting the house. The driver was not hurt, a fire official said. (Photo: AP)

Employee Kevin Wilson works behind the counter at a Panera Bread Co. restaurant, on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Clayton, Mo. The national bakery and restaurant chain launched the new nonprofit store this week that has the same menu as its other locations. But customers are told to donate what they want for a meal, whether it's the full suggested price, a penny, or $100. (Photo: AP)

In a photo provided by the NHRA, fire shoots from Jim Head's Funny Car after an explosion in a semifinal against Jeff Arend in the NHRA Summer Nationals drag races on Sunday, May 23, 2010, at Heartland Park in Topeka, Kan. Head lost the round to Arend, but both Head and Arend were unharmed in the explosion. (Photo: AP)

In this Monday, May 17, 2010 photo, Lisa, a rescued 700-plus pound Yorkshire pig, lays next to Sansa Collins, resident manager at Sanctuary One, a nonprofit animal sanctuary at Double Oak Farm in the Applegate Valley, Oregon. (Photo: AP)

In this photo taken on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, a Buddhist monk prays at Kyeikhtiyoe Pagoda in Kyeikhto, about 200 kilometers northeast of Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo: AP)

Imtiaz Zainule, right, of New York, looks up as he poses for a picture with Nicole Dhillon, of New York, under the sculpture 'Unconditional Surrender', on Friday, May 21, 2010 in San Diego. The sculpture, by J. Seward Johnson, commemorates the iconic image by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, during the celebration to mark V-J Day, the end of World War II. (Photo: AP)

Workers set up the installation 'Oasis 7' by the Austrian artist group Haus-Rucker-Co on the frontage of the 'Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe' (Museum for Art and Industry) in Hamburg, northern Germany on May 17, 2010. The synthetic bubble with a diameter of seven metres can be explored during the exhibition 'Climate capsule. Survival Conditions during the disaster', taking place from May 28 to August 8, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Sun rays appear through the clouds at daybreak in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on May 17, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

French matador Sebastien Castella performs a muleta on a Nunez del Cuvillo bull, on May 20, 2010, during the Nimes Feria Bullfighting Festival (Feria de la Pentecote). (Photo: AFP)

A lion yawns at a zoological park in Hyderabad, on Tuesday, May 18, 2010. (Photo: AP)

E.J. Viso, of Venezuela, hits the wall in the first turn during practice for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, on Tuesday, May 18, 2010. (Photo: AP)

Participants in the Miss Abuelita, or Miss Grandmother, contest organised by the Guatemala City municipality, gather at the asylum Nino de Praga before moving to the contest site in Guatemala City, on Thursday, May 20, 2010. (Photo: AP)

Participants in an annual Wave-Gothic festival pose on May 21, 2010 in Leipzig, eastern Germany, where more than 20 000 people are expected to attend the festival attracting the friends of gothic romanticism. The festival offers a very special spectacle with a range of concerts, historical markets, theatre and cinema, gothic scene performances, exhibitions, readings and parties. (Photo: AFP)

Joel Hicks of the Modern Family team from Leicester, England, in action during the annual World Custard Pie Championship held in Coxheath, England, on Saturday May 22, 2010. (Photo: AP)

In this handout photograph released by Lewis Pugh via PlankPR on May 23, 2010, British environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh gestures after completing his swim in Lake Pumori at an altitude of 5,300 metres, below the summit of Mount Everest, on May 22, 2010. Everest Ridge, Mount Everest and Mount Nuptse (L to R) can be seen in the background. An environmental campaigner has swum across a glacial lake on Mount Everest to highlight the impact of global warming, a report said. (Photo: AFP)

A member of the San Jose Sharks skates out onto the ice during introductions before the Sharks take on the Chicago Blackhawks in Game Two of the Western Conference Finals during the 2010 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at HP Pavilion on May 18, 2010 in San Jose, California. (Photo: AFP)

Robby Gilbert, left, and Rickey Crum, of Billings Productions, Inc., guide a life-sized Tyrannosaurus Rex down a walkway as it is unloaded to be put on display at the Houston Zoo on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Houston. Beginning Memorial Day weekend and through out the summer months, DINOSAURS! At the Houston Zoo will feature several pre-historic animatronic creatures in a natural setting. (Photo: AP/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer)

Matt Harvey the first Wimbledon tennis 'Championships Poet', sits in an umpire's chair as he poses for the cameras at Centre Court at Wimbledon, England, on Tuesday, May 18, 2010. The All England Club said on Tuesday that Harvey will write a poem per day to sum up the matches and atmosphere of the the grass-court Grand Slam tournament. (Photo: AP)

Acrobatic performers Preston Jamieson and Kelsey Wiens perform atop the the Empire State Building 86th floor observation deck on May 21, 2010 to promore the official opening night performance of the new Cirque du Soleil show 'Banana Shpeel'. The show will run until August 29 at the Beacon Theatre. (Photo: AFP)

A toddler shows off the new Huggies Little Movers Jeans Diapers during the 'What's Your Denim Style' baby fashion show in Union Square on May 20, 2010. The all-new jeans design by Huggies are the new look for summer. (Photo: AFP)

A dog competes during the 5th annual Loews Coronado bay resort surf dog competition in Imperial Beach, south of San Diego, California on May 22, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Spanish bullfighter Daniel Luque performs a muleta on a Garcigrande's bull, on May 22, 2010 during the Nimes Feria Bullfighting Festival (Feria de la Pentecote), in southern France. (Photo: AFP)

A water spout (tornado) hits the sea behind a surfer on Sydney's Bondi Beach on May 17, 2010. A rare sight in Australia, the water spout lasted around five minutes and expired before landfall. (Photo: AFP)

Football players wear blindfolds during a football match in front of the Reichstag, the building which houses the lower house of parliament, in Berlin on May 20, 2010. Turkish and German teams took part in the Blind football competition. (Photo: AFP)

This picture released by Greenpeace on May 19, 2010 shows an aerial view vesels passing through leaking oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead off the Louisiana coast. BP said that a tube inserted into a ruptured oil pipe now is sucking up about 40 per cent of the crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, about twice as much as it did one day earlier. The company said in a statement that its 'riser insertion tube tool' is estimated to be collecting and carrying about 2,000 barrels a day of oil to flow up to the drillship Discoverer Enterprise on the surface 5,000 feet above. (Photo: AFP/Greenpeace)

A cyclist jumps during a perfomance on Red Square in Moscow on May 23, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

A baby sits in a hand-made pram during the First Festival of Prams in Kiev on May 21, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

This Tuesday, May 18, 2010 photo released by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment shows the Meridian Boundary Fire near South Branch Township, Mich., in Crawford County. Crews continue to fight two forest fires in dry, windy northern Michigan, both of which have forced people to leave their homes. (Photo: AP Photo/Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment)

Anti-government protesters take to a street half dressed to prove that they are unarmed on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Thai government rejected a proposal on Tuesday for peace talks with leaders of the Red Shirt protesters to end the deadly mayhem gripping Bangkok, saying negotiations cannot start until the protesters disperse. (Photo: AP)

Cleaners clean carpet after heavy rain prior to a ceremony of the meeting Ukrainie's President Viktor Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Kiev on May 17, 2010. Medvedev arrived in Ukraine for a two-day official visit. (Photo: AFP)

Grass is pictured as heavy clouds over dwellings set near the Eyjafjoell volcano in Iceland, on May 17, 2010. New ash clouds blasted out from Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano brought fresh travel chaos to thousands of air travellers on May 17, 2010 as key European airports shut down. (Photo: AFP)

A fan dressed in a Star Wars costume takes part in a meeting in Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, on May 21, 2010, to conmemorate the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back film. (Photo: AFP)

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith (L) visits the Australian pavilion during its official inauguration at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai on May 18, 2010. Smith said during the event his country's relationship with China was remaining strong despite differences surrounding the trial of Australian Rio Tinto employee Stern Hu. (Photo: AFP)

Visitors enjoy a slide inside the Swedish pavilion at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai on May 18, 2010. Organisers expect 70 million visitors -- most of them Chinese -- to attend the biggest-ever World's Fair, with an average of 380,000 people expected to visit the site daily. (Photo: AFP)

Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic looks at pictures of Holocaust victims in the Hall of Names during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on May 17, 2010. The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. (Photo: AFP)

Canadian actors Monia Chokri and Niels Schneider attend the Canal+ TV show Le Grand Journal at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2010 in Cannes. (Photo: AFP)

This photo taken on May 23, 2010 shows Indonesian performers parading with their bodies and faces are painted as masks during the traditional Topeng - or mask festival - in Malang, East Java province. Held in many parts of Indonesia, the highly popular masks festivities vary from modern colorful cutouts, papier-mache, and painted faces to the traditional woodcarvings symbolizing faces of spiritual figures that is largely part of ancient Javanese rituals. (Photo: AFP)

View of a plastinated human body at 'Body - The Exhibition', in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 22, 2010. Plastination is a technique used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts in which water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most microscopic properties of the original sample. (Photo: AFP)

Models pose in a barn during a photocall to promote the 'Young Farmers Calendar 2011' on a farm in Schraudenbach, southern Germany, on May 20, 2010. More than 250 young women have applied to become one of the calendar's motives. (Photo: AFP)

A Red Shirt anti-government protester runs after throwing a tyre into other burning ones on a street near Ding Daeng intersection in Bangkok on May 18, 2010. The Thai government said there would be no negotiations with protesters in the capital until they end their crippling rally, after a Senate offer to mediate crisis talks. (Photo: AFP)

Shrek poses after being honored by a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California on May 20, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

People wallow in the mud during the annual Somogybabod International Off Road Festival in Somogybabod, 165 km southwest of Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday, May 22, 2010. Environmentalists call to ban the annual off road event, saying that the hundreds of 4X4 vehicles destroy the forest area close to the Lake Balaton, Hungary's largest water and tourist resorts. (Photo: AP)

Dancers for the Phoenix Suns perform during Game Three of the Western Conference Finals against Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA Playoffs at US Airways Center on May 23, 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo: AFP)

An elderly woman leaves her home to bring drinking water as she steps over some sandbags around her house in flood water of Szendro village, northeastern Hungary about 200 kms from Budapest on May 17, 2010. The area of north-eastern Hungary has declared as a disaster-hit territory. (Photo: AFP)

A Thai army soldier stands guard in downtown Bangkok on May 22, 2010 three days after a deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters. Thailand's premier said that order has been restored after a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests triggered mayhem in the capital, but that the divided kingdom faces 'huge challenges'. (Photo: AFP)