Pics of the Week: May 24 - May 30

View from Palitahua, Ecuador on May 29, 2010, of the Tungurahua volcano in eruption. Tungurahua volcano exploded into action on Friday, forcing the evacuation of at least seven villages and closing down the airport and public schools in Guayaquil, the country's largest and most populated city. (Photo: AFP)

Volcano Tungurahua throws ash and stones during an explosion, just before midnight on Friday May 28, 2010, in Cotalo, Ecuador. (Photo: AP)

Alphajet aircrafts perform during the 2010 presentation show of the French aerobatics team Patrouille de France, on May 25, 2010 in the French southeastern city of Salon-de-Provence. (Photo: AFP)

Guinness World Record-holder Julia Gnuse, the "most tattooed woman" in the world, poses at BookExpo America at the Javits Center on May 26, 2010 in New York City. Gnuse has tattoos covering 95 percent of her body and has used the same artist for every design. Guinness World Records 2011 edition will be available September 15. (Photo: AFP)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II holds the hand of her husband Prince Philip, as she arrives to address to the House of Lords, during the State Opening of Parliament in Westminster, central London on May 25, 2010. Queen Elizabeth II set out the new coalition government's legislative programme on Tuesday in a ceremony of pomp and history following the closest general election for decades. (Photo: AFP)

Argentine artists perform depicting Madres de Plaza de Mayo under the rain on May 25, 2010 during celebrations for the Bicentenary of the May Revolution that led to Argentina's Independence on July 9, 1816. (Photo: AFP)

Haitian students demonstrate on May 25, 2010 near the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince against alleged violence by UN peacekeepers against Haitian students on May 24. The students demanded the UN leave Haiti. (Photo: AFP)

A so-called landscape image showing the portrait of a woman can be seen on a field situated at the Lippe river near Datteln, western Germany. The landscape image is part of the art project "Lippe+" and was produced with the aid of GPS-controlled land management. Within several years, the plants of which the image consists will have grown, so that the image will appear in full extent. (Photo: AFP)

Australian singer Kylie Minogue (L) laughs as British televison dancer Louis Spence jokes upon their arrival at the UK premiere of Sex and the City 2 in Leicester Square, central London, on May 27, 2010. The sequel to the first film sees the group of friends travel to Abu Dhabi to continue their search for relationship happiness while discussing the highs and lows of being a women. (Photo: AFP)

Costa Rica's Arenal volcano spews geysers of lava, ash and toxic gases from its crater on May 24, 2010 in the Arenal National Park, 80 km northeast of San Jose. The 1,633-metre-tall cone-shaped mountain shuddered into activity at midday, issuing eight successive rivers of lava that flowed down its steep slopes and forcing the evacuation of the national park in northern Costa Rica where it is located, authorities said. (Photo: AFP)

Two performers entertain visitors to the Vivid Sydney festival of light, music and ideas in Sydney on May 27, 2010. "Macquarie Visions", is being held along Sydney's iconic Macquarie Street as part of Vivid Sydney, the largest light and music festival in the Southern Hemisphere and will see city buildings illuminated by breathtaking projections and moving light images. (Photo: AFP)

Polish firemen deliver food by boat to people in the flooded area of Swiniary village, in central Poland, near the Wisla river on May 25, 2010. Floods caused by torrential rains last week have swollen major Polish rivers to their highest levels in more than a century and have claimed 15 lives. (Photo: AFP)

Ivo, a 1 year old male dog which is being trained to become a guide dog, takes a unexpected bite from the bouquet of Dutch Queen Beatrix in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, on May 26, 2010. The Queen attended the 75th of the Royal Dutch Guide Dog Foundation (KNGF Geleidehonden) in Amstelveen. (Photo: AFP)

A lion sculpture sports a Chicago Blackhawks helmet in celebration of the Blackhawks appearence in the Stanley Cup Finals against the Philadelphia Fylers at the Art Institue of Chicago on May 26, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. The lion sculptures, by artist Edward L. Kemeys, were installed at the Michigan Avenue entrance to the museum in 1894. (Photo: AFP)

This NASA Artist's concept image obtained May 24, 2010 shows that the hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star, according to observations made by a new instrument on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS). The planet may only have another 10 million years left before it is completely devoured. The planet, called WASP-12b, is so close to its sun-like star that it is superheated to nearly 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit and stretched into a football shape by enormous tidal forces. (Photo: AFP)

Young Buddhist monks participate in a special prayer to celebrate Buddha Jayanti (Birth Anniversary of Lord Buddha) at the Maha Bodhi Society in Bangalore on May 27, 2010. Buddhists commemorate the birth of Buddha, his attaining enlightenment and his passing away on the full moon day of May which falls on May 27 this year. (Photo: AFP)

A glass football ball, bearing advertising, greets visitors on May 26, 2010 outside the O. R. Tambo international airport in Johannesburg. The 2010 FIFA World Cup starts on June 11 in South Africa. (Photo: AFP)

Sydneysiders look on as the Sydney Opera House sails are illuminated by American artist Laurie Anderson for the opening of VIVID Live across Sydney on May 27, 2010. The annual two-week festival of music, film, theatre and visual arts is being curated by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson and will run until June 11. (Photo: AFP)

Burnt trees and shrubs are seen at the Gamla National Park on May 27, 2010. A bush fire which reports said was sparked by an army live-fire exercise raged through a park in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on scorching an ancient archaeological site. Gamla is the site of an ancient Jewish town destroyed in 67 CE during a revolt against Roman rule. According to Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, Roman soldiers killed 4,000 of the cliff-top town's 9,000 defenders and the remainder committed suicide by hurling themselves into a canyon below. (Photo: AFP)

Employee Jo Maxwell, poses for photographers with an Atlas moth, during a photocall at Kew Gardens in London on May 27, 2010. Kew Gardens' summer festival runs from May 29 to September 5, and they have added displays to their Prince of Wales Conservatory to illustrate the relationship between flowering plants and their pollinators. (Photo: AFP)

Visitors walk by "Cultural Traffic" a creation by US artist Teddy Crin in the Maxxi, Italy's first national museum of contemporary art designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, during a press-day preview in Rome on May 27, 2010. The Maxxi will open its doors to the public on May 30. (Photo: AFP)

Adolf Hitler in a pink uniform is seen on a billboard in a street of the Sicilian city of Palermo for a fashion advertisement on May 24, 2010. The advertisment, shows the German dictator wearing an armband with a red heart instead of a swastika and a slogan that says "Change Your Style. Don't Follow Your Leader". (Photo: AFP)

Lena Meyer-Landrut, 19, of Germany performs to win the final of the Eurovision Song Contest at the Telenor arena in Baerum just outside Oslo, on May 29, 2010. The 55th annual competition was expected to be watched by more than 120 million viewers in 39 European countries. (Photo: AFP)

Two dogs play together on May 30, 2010 at the Champs-de-Mars, in Paris, during the first "dogdating" ever set in France. Copied on Speedating, this event, organised by Gardicanin company, allows dog owners and their pets to meet dogsitters in preparation for holidays. (Photo: AFP)

Eight-month old Nigerian conjoined twins named Peace, below, and Patience look on as they lie on a bed during a press meet at Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital in Bangalore, India, Saturday, May 29, 2010. Peace and Patience, who weigh 10 kilograms are scheduled to be operated next week by a team of 24 medical personnel. The twins are joined at the abdomen, sharing liver and intestine and are called omphalopagus, the hospital statement said. (Photo: AP)

Models walk on the starting grid after the third free practice ahead of the Turkish Formula One Grand Prix at the Istanbul Park circuit racetrack, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday, May 29, 2010. The Formula one race was held on Sunday. (Photo: AP)

A sign left by the side of the road points to a toilet on May 30, 2010 near Grand Isle, Louisiana. With BP's failure to stop the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon well, residents of the Gulf Coast are growing increasingly frustrated. (Photo: AFP)

An Italian circus's member gives orders to an elephant as they parade during the celebration the 307th anniversary of Russia's old imperial capital Saint Petersburg on May 29, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Blondes parade through the streets of Latvia's capital Riga on May 29, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

A border collie jumps to catch a Frisbee during the European Disk Dog competition in Mogyorod, Hungary, on Sunday, May 30, 2010. The competition is the qualification race for the upcoming Skyhoundz World Championship. (Photo: AP)

A kite flies during Open Kites Festival in village of Pirogovo, not far from Kiev, on May 29, 2010. Hundreds of the people took part in the festival. (Photo: AFP)

Indonesian monks hold prayers during the Vesak festival at the Borobudur temple in Magelang on May 28, 2010. Vesak day is a Buddhist holiday commemorating the birth, enlightement and death of the historical Gautama Buddha, in Indonesia is held on May 28. (Photo: AFP)

Lucifer, a male Asiatic lion, holds a football painted in the England colours in his mouth at London's Zoo in Regents Park London, on Thursday, May, 27, 2010. The zoo gave the media a opportunity to film the lion playing with a ball filled with meat and painted in the colours of England, who are due to compete in the the World Cup in South Africa. (Photo: AP)

Two retired police cruisers have a head on collision during live, full scale motor vehicle crash testing during the ARC-CSI Crash Conference at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Monday, May 24, 2010. About 300 traffic officers and collision reconstruction experts are attending the annual three day conference. The two cars in the photo were driven by remote control. (Photo: AP)

An artwork entitled 'Nelson's Ship in a Bottle' by Anglo-Nigerian contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare is unveiled on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, on May 24, 2010. The artwork featues a large scale model of the ship HMS Victory, from which Horatio Nelson commanded the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. (Photo: AFP)

A trained monkey performs tricks on a wooden replica of a racing bike made resembling that of Italian MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi's as cyclists rides past by, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday, May 30, 2010. (Photo: AP)

A full moon rises over a farm in Ashland, Nebraska, on Thursday, May 27, 2010. (Photo: AP)

Hot air balloons light up at night at the annual Balloon Glow during the Blossom Time Festival in Chagrin Falls, Ohio on Thursday, May 27, 2010. (Photo: AP)

Visitors of the exhibition 'Bruce Nauman. Dream Passage' are passing Nauman's piece of art 'Five Marching Men' (1985) in the museum Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday, May 27 2010. The exhibition will be shown until October, 10. 2010. (Photo: AP)

Firefighters evacuate a dog and a resident from a flooded area on the outskirts of the town of Iuliszew, near Plock, in Poland, on Monday, May 24, 2010. Some thousands have been forced to leave their homes, as floods sweep through many parts of central Europe. (Photo: AP)

A Sotheby's employee poses with an iconic sculpture 'The Skin Speaks a Language not its Own' by Indian artist Bharti Kher on display at the auction house in London, Monday, May 24, 2010. The life-sized female Indian elephant sculpture is to be auctioned in the 'Contemporary Art Evening' sale on June 28 with an estimated price of 700,000 to 1,000,000 pounds (US$1,010,700 to 1,443,800). (Photo: AP)

Louie Sanders talks on his phone while picking up a stack of free ice cream that was being given away at the site of the former Reinhold Ice Cream factory in Pittsburgh, on Tuesday, May 25, 2010. About 10,000 gallons of ice cream were being given away at the factory that is being converted into an oil processing facility. (Photo: AP)

US First Lady Michelle Obama plays with kids at an event on the South Lawn of the White House, on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, in Washington, to kick-off the South Lawn Series. The South Lawn Series are summer activities happening at the White House to promote physical activity and engage children from the DC community in support of Let's Move! (Photo: AP)

The giant ball of the world's largest Foucault Pendulum tells time as it swings suspended below a glass spire at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The direction along which the pendulum swings rotates with time because of Earth's daily rotation. (Photo: AP)

The space shuttle Atlantis is towed towards the orbiter processing facility on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Atlantis and her crew of six astronauts wrapped up a 12-day mission. (Photo: AP)

Marines and sailors line the deck of the US Navy amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima as it passes the Statue of Liberty in New York on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The Iwo Jima and other military vessels are visiting New York as part of Fleet Week. (Photo: AP)

A rainbow is seen over Tyrolian village of Seefeld in Austria on May 27, 2010 where Netherland football team have training camp prior to the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa starting on June 11. (Photo: AFP)

This May 27, 2010 NASA image, combining data from two instruments aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, depicts an orbital view of the north polar region of Mars. The ice-rich polar cap (the quasi-circular white area at center) is approximately 1,000 kilometers across. The white cap is riven with dark, spiral-shaped bands. (Photo: AFP)

Chinese artist Li Wei performs outside a shop in Hong Kong on May 27, 2010. Li Wei has performed all over the world to communicate his artistic message. His current exhibition is entitled 'Beyond Gravity' dealing with desire for material goods and power. (Photo: AFP)

A Sri Lankan worker adjusts lightbulbs on a pandal, a coloured structure that is illuminated with bulbs, in Colombo on May 25, 2010, ahead of the key Buddhist festival of Wesak. Buddhists commemorates the birth of Buddha, his attaining enlightenment and his passing away on the full moon day of May which falls on May 27 this year. (Photo: AFP)

A Eurovision Song Contest advertisment banner is displayed in Oslo on May 25, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Pakistani eunuch Kashif (L) sits in police station in Peshawar on May 25, 2010. Police arrested Malik Iqbal, a man for marrying Kashif also known as Rani in northwestern Pakistan. Under Pakistani law, gay marriage or a man's marriage to a eunuch is a criminal offence and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence. (Photo: AFP)

Members of the Tea Party movement protest outside the Fairmont Hotel before US President Barack Obama arrives for a fundraiser on May 25, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Hundreds of protestors from different political groups staged the demonstration at a campaign fundraiser for US Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). (Photo: AFP)

A 100 Australian dollar note (C) is displayed with other foreign currencies in Sydney on May 26, 2010. The plunge in the Australian dollar, which has hit nine-month lows, is due to traders selling down the local currency amid recent sharp falls on the share market and fresh concerns about the stability of Europe's financial system. (Photo: AFP)

Wu Jingzhou carries his twin daughters after his sixty-year-old wife, only referred to by her pseudonym Cheng Lin, gave birth at a hospital in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on May 25, 2010. Cheng, received in vitro fertilisation, after losing her daughter Tingting, who died in a gas poisoning accident in 2009, making her the oldest woman to give birth in the Asian nation. (Photo: AFP)

In this photo taken on Sunday, May 23, 2010, a performer with fire sparks, during a traditional fire-show, in Minsk, Belarus. (Photo: AP)

Floods surround a water-level control point standing on the plains of the Oder river in Ratzdorf near the Polish-German border on May 24, 2010. Public authorities expect the highest level of the flood wave to come to Germany on Wednesday or Thursday. Floods sweeping across Poland have killed 10 people in the past week, and caused damage estimated at more than 2.4 billion euros (3.2 billion dollars). (Photo: AFP)

A young man jumps into the Woerthsee lake near Inning am Ammersee, southern Germany, on May 24, 2010. Temperatures reached 20 degrees Celsius and even more in the southern state of Bavaria. (Photo: AFP)