Pics of the Week: May 31-June 6 2010

A young woman lays down on the grave of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Noah Pier on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery on May 31, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. Pier was killed on Feburary 12, 2010 in Marja, Afghanistan. This is the 142nd Memorial Day observance at the cemetery. (Photo: AFP)

Employee Jenny Orton dusts the new 'Hulk' exhibit in the Marvel Super Heroes 4D exhibition, as she poses for photographers, at Madame Tussauds in central London on June 2, 2010. The attraction is the largest installation that Madame Tussaud's has created in seven years and features a selection of Marvel comic characters. (Photo: AFP)

German 'plastinator' Gunther von Hagens poses next to a plastinated exhibit during the exhibition 'Koerperwelten' (Body worlds) on June 3, 2010 in Leipzig, eastern Germany. The exhibition takes place from June 4 to September 12, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

A picture of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon burns on Taksim Square, on June 2, 2010 in Istanbul during a protest against Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 31. Angry demonstrations continued across Turkey for a third day today as protesters gathered outside the Israeli ambassador's residence in Ankara and several civic bodies laid black wreaths at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. (Photo: AFP)

Nigel Lamb of Great Britain in action on the Detroit River during the Red Bull Air Race Training day on June 3, 2010 in Windsor, Canada. (Photo: AFP)

US President Barack Obama meets with local leaders during a visit on June 4, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana. This is President Obama's third visit to the State of Louisiana since the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo: AFP)

A boy takes a dip in the river Yamuna with froth from industrial pollution floating on the surface, in New Delhi, on Saturday, June 5, 2010. World Environment Day 2010 being marked on Saturday calls for an urgent need to conserve the diversity of life on earth. (Photo: AP)

Bystanders try to lift the burning wreckage of a Cessna 206 plane as they search for survivors shortly after it crashed in a busy business district near downtown Anchorage during rush-hour on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. A small child was killed and four other people on board were injured. (Photo: AP)

Varieties of calliflower are seen for sale at a 'farmers market' on June 3, 2010, in downtown Washington, DC. (Photo: AFP)

Parachutists jump on June 5, 2010 near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, during the D-Day celebrations to mark the 66th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 allied landings in France. (Photo: AFP)

Children discover a giant model globe, part of an art installation entitled 'Cool Globes' against global warming and climate change, in Marseille, southern France, on June 3, 2010. Ahead of the 6th edition of the World Water Forum which will be held in Marseille in 2012, 68 originals globes - designed by artists around environmental theme - will be displayed in the streets of Marseille from June 8 to October 8, 2010. Cool Globes premiered in Chicago and went on tour across the world from Washington to Copenhagen. (Photo: AFP)

Cars drive under a giant advertising billboard picturing a man blowing a vuvuzela on May 31, 2010 in Polokwane, South Africa. Polokwane is one of the South African city hosting the FIFA World Cup from June 11 to July 11, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

A plaster image of the Virgin of Guadalupe which allegedly cries tears of blood, in Guatemala City, June 3, 2010. Guatemalan Juan Carlos Ramos, 14, owner of the image, says that he also saw in his dreams the Virgin, who predicted the eruption of the Pacaya volcano and the passage of the tropical storm Agatha. (Photo: AFP)

Debris flies through the air as a freak tornado tears through the coastal town of Lennox Head on June 3, 2010. The storm levelled 12 homes and damaged another 30, with twisting winds carving out a 300 metre-wide path of destruction, injuring six people and leaving thousands without power. (Photo: AFP)

The exhibition 'Koerperwelten - Eine Herzenssache' (Body Worlds - The Story of the Heart) in Leipzig, eastern Germany, on Thursday, June 3, 2010. German Gunther von Hagens present his exhibition of more than 200 preparations in Leipzig from June 4 until Sept. 12, 2010. (Photo: AP)

A Filipino diver dressed as the bride receives a kiss from the groom inside a giant acrylic acquarium during a promotional event titled 'June Weddings' at a Manila theme park on Sunday June 6, 2010. The event is made to attract more visitors to the Oceanarium. (Photo: AP)

Black clouds loom over Muscat in the early hours of June, 03, 2010, as authorities begin the evacuation of the Omani island of Masirah over fears that Cyclone Phet might hit the country's east coast on the Arabian Sea, a civil defence official said. (Photo: AFP)

Activists of the Ukrainian womens movement FEMEN dressed as policemen beat journalists, photographers and cameramen during their symbolic protest action called '100 days' on Independence Square in Kiev on June 3, 2010. They protested against the limitation of democratic liberties and freedom of the press during the first hundred days of Viktor Yanukovych's presidency commemorated on June 3, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

British artist Antony Gormley poses for photographers in his new installation, Breathing Room III, during a photocall for his new exhibition 'Test Sites' at the White Cube Gallery, in London on June 3, 2010. The exhibition is set to run until July 4. (Photo: AFP)

Commander Oleg Kotov of Russia holds an apple minutes after the landing near the town of Zhezkazgan June 2, 2010. Kotov, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi and US astronaut Timothy Creamer who make up Russian Expedition 23 and are commanded by Kotov, left Earth in December of last year for the $100 billion, 16-nation International Space Station (ISS). (Photo: AFP)

Participants of the so-called 'Wattoluempiade' Tidelands Olympics lay in the mud on June 6, 2010 in Brunsbuettel, northern Germany. About 500 mud enthusiasts compete in different disciplines such as mudflat volleyball or mudflat handball. (Photo: AFP)

Blue palett surgeon fish and orange sea-perch pick at a fishbait football, in a football field decorated fishtank at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on June 1, 2010. The new attraction is for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Japan (blue team color) will play against Netherlands (orange) in the first round of the World Cup. (Photo: AFP)

A man dressed up as the devil jumps over babies lying on a mattress in the street during the 'El Salto del Colacho' (the jump of the devil) to mark the Corpus Christi feast in Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, on June 6, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Young people cool off in a fountain during the 'Rock in Rio' music festival in Arganda del Rey near Madrid on June 5, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Hooded and clad in military fatigues, armed with guns, rocket launchers, members of a commando claiming to belong to the National Liberation Front of Corsica answer media questions at a press conference held near Ajaccio in May 2010. The outlawed military branch of the Corsican nationalists FNLC said in an interview due to be released on June 3, 2010 that they 'will carry on their armed struggle, against the colonial policy of France'. (Photo: AFP)

People take part in an annual vigil marking the Tiananmen Square crackdown at a park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2010. Tens of thousands in Hong Kong were expected Friday to mark the bloody 1989 crackdown on democracy protests in Beijing, as agitation against China's stewardship intensifies in the ex-British colony. (Photo: AFP)

Two Chinese boys step on bricks to avoid the floodwater after a heavy downpour at a school for migrant workers' children in a suburb of Beijing on June 2, 2010. Summer rain storms annually deluge many parts of China, often with devastating results leading to hundreds of fatalities. (Photo: AFP)

The installation 'Scramble for Africa' by British artist of Nigerian origin Yinka Shonibare is pictured during a press preview of the exhibition 'Who Knows Tomorrow' on June 2, 2010 at the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin. The exhibition can be visited from June 4 till September 26, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Eric Anderson, of Washington, flies a Palestinian flag and an Israeli flag with a skull and crossbones on it during a protest in front of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, June 1, 2010, against Israel's raid on a flotilla of aid ships heading to the Gaza Strip. (Photo: AP)

Mark Rosenthal, holds a three-foot long alligator at the Woodhaven Animal Control in Woodhaven, Mich., on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. The alligator was spotted walking down Riverside Drive in Trenton, Mich., on Tuesday night and was captured by Trenton police. Rosenthal, who owns a nonprofit rescue that handles abandoned exotic animal cases planned on taking the alligator back to his business. (Photo: AP)

A man wearing a devils mask dances during the traditional Corpus Christi celebration in La Villa, Panama, on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Corpus Christi is celebrated by Roman Catholics and other Christians to proclaim the truth of the 'transubstantiation' or change of bread and wine into the actual body of Christ during Mass. (Photo: AP)

Doris Morgan, of Tampa, Fla., playfully attempts to dislodge the Bubble Rock near the summit of South Bubble Mountain, on Friday, June 4, 2010, in Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor, Maine. Although thousands of hikers have tried, no one yet has been able to budge the glacial erratic. The boulder was deposited on the precipice by a receding glacier about 10,000 years ago. (Photo: AP)

A worker from Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China loads down the 'Goddess of Democracy' statue as it is returned by police at a park in Hong Kong on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Hong Kong police on Tuesday agreed to return a statue dedicated to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown that they had confiscated, in a dispute that has sparked worries about freedom of speech in this semiautonomous Chinese territory. A senior police official said the police agreed to release the 21-foot 'Goddess of Democracy' statue and a large carved tablet depicting the June 1989 crackdown in Beijing as a goodwill gesture.(Photo: AP)A worker from Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China loads down the 'Goddess of Democracy' statue as it is returned by police at a park in Hong Kong on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Hong Kong police on Tuesday agreed to return a statue dedicated to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown that they had confiscated, in a dispute that has sparked worries about freedom of speech in this semiautonomous Chinese territory. A senior police official said the police agreed to release the 21-foot 'Goddess of Democracy' statue and a large carved tablet depicting the June 1989 crackdown in Beijing as a goodwill gesture.(Photo: AP)

A man pushes a vehicle in flood in Yao Ethnic Autonomous County of Du'an in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on June 2, 2010. The rainstorms had damaged 3,260 homes and 103,450 hectares of crops, according to Guangxi's Civil Affairs Department. (Photo: AFP)

View from Guadalupe, Ecuador on June 3, 2010, of the Tungurahua volcano in eruption. Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano grew more active on Tuesday, spewing out incandescent materials during powerful explosions, the national Geophysical Institute said. The renewed activity came after the volcano experienced one of its biggest eruptions Friday. It forced the evacuation of at least seven villages and closing the airport and schools in Guayaquil, the country's largest and most populated city. (Photo: AFP)

View from Guadalupe, Ecuador on June 3, 2010, of the Tungurahua volcano in eruption. Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano grew more active on Tuesday, spewing out incandescent materials during powerful explosions, the national Geophysical Institute said. The renewed activity came after the volcano experienced one of its biggest eruptions Friday. It forced the evacuation of at least seven villages and closing the airport and schools in Guayaquil, the country's largest and most populated city. (Photo: AFP)

A girl recovers objects from the mud outside La Isla market, after it was flooded by triopical storm Agatha in Tegucigalpa, on June 1, 2010. Seventeen people were killed in Honduras as a result of tropical storm Agatha, according to official figures. (Photo: AFP)

Football graffiti are seen on a pavement in a shopping centre on June 4, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The FIFA WC2010 will take place in South Africa from the 11 of June to the 11 of July. (Photo: AFP)

People sitting around the contour of a heart scratched into the lawn enjoy the sun on June 6, 2010 in the center of Berlin. Spring brought temperatures up to 29 degrees Celsius to the German capital. (Photo: AFP)

Picture taken on June 2, 2010 at Jouy-en-Josas, of the remains of an open-air banquet shoveled underground almost 30 years ago by Switzerland's artist Daniel Spoerri as an art performance. Supervised by the creme-de-la-creme of French archeology, a bunch of dusty diggers are unearthing the leftovers from a work now known as "The lunch under the grass" -- a meal for 80 in sumptous gardens south of Paris where the star course was offal. (Photo: AFP)

A man walks in front of an old car dump on a road near Skopje on June 2, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Ukrainian mothers hold their babies, in the one year-old category, in a starting position before the crawling run during a Baby Drive competition in Kiev on May 31, 2010. Dozens of babies will crawl the four-meter distance on all fours during the International Children's Day celebrated on June 1, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Japan's electronics giant Sharp unveils the new multi-screen display, that consists of 6x5 60-inch sized LCD display with the world's thinnest panels frame, the width of bezel between neighboring display is only 6.5mm on its width, in Tokyo on June 7, 2010. The 30 multi-display, enabling it to show 8k x 4k high-definition images, will go on sale from the end of August. (Photo: AFP)

Detained activists from the Gaza-bound flotilla which was stopped by the Israeli navy during a deadly raid, place their hands on a bus window transporting them from a prison in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on June 2, 2010, on their way to be deported to their home countries. (Photo: AFP)

A group of chimpanzee play with a football in the colours of the German national flag at the Serengeti-Park in the northern German city of Hodenhagen on June 1, 2010. With just over a week to go before the start of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa excitement is rising around the world. (Photo: AFP)

A giant strawberry figure can be seen as an Airbus A380 of German airline Lufthansa flying towards the airport of Baden-Baden next to the village of Rheinmuenster, southern Germany, during a landing training for pilots on May 31, 2010. The German national football team will use this A380 when they travel on June 6, 2010 to South Africa to take part in the 2010 Football World Cup. (Photo: AFP)

Luthiers (L-R) Udo Kretzschmann, Ekkard Seidl and Frank Schlegel work on the world's allegedly biggest playable violin on May 31, 2010 in Markneukirchen, eastern Germany. Twelve luthiers of the region known for its violin making tradition are building the instrument which is 4,28 meters tall, 1,45 meters large and has a weight of more than 100 kilograms. (Photo: AFP)

A speedboat races through a sheen of oil June 2, 2010 south of Biloxi, Mississippi. Oil believed to be related to the Deepwater Horizon accident began to appear on June 1 on the shores of Alabama and Mississippi. (Photo: AFP)

A tent city is seen in Leogane, 33 km south of Port-au-Prince, on June 2, 2010. Haiti faces an 'immense challenge' in rebuilding after January's earthquake, President Rene Preval told a donors' conference on June 2 called to speed payment of billions of dollars in pledges. (Photo: AFP)

This NASA artist's concept obtained June 2, 2010 shows a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core. The black hole is shooting out jets of radio waves. New research led by theoretical astrophysicist David Garofalo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., suggests supermassive black holes that spin backwards might produce more ferocious jets of gas.(Photo: AFP)

Three 'Hombres de Musgo' (Moss Men) take part in the Corpus Christi procession on June 6, 2010, in the Spanish village of Bejar, Salamanca province. The Moss Men have been taking part in the Corpus Christi procession since 1397. (Photo: AFP)

Landscape 'artists' put finishing touches on a giant rainbow flag on the top of a dormant landfill, nicknamed Mount Trashmore, on Friday, June 4, 2010, in Key West, Florida. The gay-and-lesbian pride icon measures about 125 feet by 60 feet and was spearheaded by local landscaper John Mumford and artist Rick Worth. It was created to highlight Key West's annual PrideFest celebration, set for June 9-13. (Photo: AFP)

Peter Besenyei of Hungary gets ready at the Race Airport duing the Red Bull Air Race Previews on June 2, 2010 in Windsor, Canada. (Photo: AFP)

A new multimedia art exhibition entitled 'In Other People's Skins' by British artist Terry Flaxton is shown at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on June 3, 2010 in New York City. The exhibit, which is housed under a black tent inside the historic church, features a table surrounded by chairs with an overhead projector beaming life-size images of hands and arms enjoying a meal. Inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper', 'In Other People's Skins' looks to celebrate different cultures and the daily act of eating with others. (Photo: AFP)

A woman with her face covered against a dust storm speaks on a mobile phone in New Delhi on June 3, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Poland's acting President Bronislaw Komorowski (2nd L) sniffs a loaf of bread during a visit to the Polish Bakery in west London on June 2, 2010. Komorowski, the frontrunner in Poland's forthcoming elections, is on a whistle stop visit to the UK. (Photo: AFP)

An elderly Chinese man, laughs while preparing to launch his eagle shaped kite in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, on Friday, June 4, 2010. Chinese authorities, tightend security on Tiananmen square during the anniversary of the deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protestors, which is marked for Friday. (Photo: AP)

A model of an Ariane 5 rocket is pictured on June 2, 2010 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. (Photo: AFP)

A policeman walks past a promotional billboard at the Global Investors' Meet 2010 venue in Bangaluru on June 2, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Michael Goulian of USA in action during the Red Bull Air Race Training day on June 4, 2010 in Windsor, Canada. (Photo: AFP)

Street artists make sand sculptures of the soccer stadium to be used in the South Africa 2010 World Cup at the beach of Durban, on June 5, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Inflatable humpback whales with the Sydney Opera House (top), help to launch the official start of the whale watching season in Sydney on June 1, 2010. From May through to late July, thousands of whales travel from their summer feeding grounds in Antartica passing by Australia's east coast on their way to warmer waters to mate and calve. (Photo: AFP)

Cape Penguins stand next to a minature soccer ball at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on June 1, 2010. The new attraction is for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in South Africa. (Photo: AFP)

Iraqi soldiers display materials used for making bombs they found at the house of a man who allegedly makes them in the area of Sabaa al-Bor, north of Baghdad, on June 2, 2010 after the suspect who was wearing an explosive belt blew himself up when security forces surrounded his house. (Photo: AFP)

The Soyuz capsule lands near the town of Zhezkazgan on June 2, 2010. US astronaut Timothy Creamer, Commander Oleg Kotov of Russia and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi who make up Russian Expedition 23 and are commanded by Kotov, left Earth in December of last year for the $100 billion, 16-nation International Space Station (ISS). (Photo: AFP)

Wooden statues made in Malaysia representing players from some of the 32 teams taking part in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa are on sale at a mall in Johannesburg on June 4, 2010, among the many souvenirs offered in the framework of the World Cup. Football's World Cup tournament will take place from June 11 to July 11, the first time on African soil for the biggest and most prestigious competition in sport. (Photo: AFP)

Dogs and their owners gather on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on June 5, 2010 for a world first 'Music for Dogs' concert, the brainchild of New York performance artist Laurie Anderson. Almost 1,000 dog-lovers packed onto the Opera House steps and forecourt to treat their beloved pets to the free outdoor event, which is part of the Vivid LIVE arts festival curated by Anderson and rock legend partner Lou Reed. (Photo: AFP)

Two shoppers walk past advertisements for fashion goods outside a shopping mall in Beijing on June 3, 2010. China's inflation could top the government's three percent target in 2010 due to price pressures in the second half of the year, a central bank adviser said, raising pressure for a possible rate hike. (Photo: AFP)

Workers work on a giant billboard advertising swimwear on a highway in the town of Dbayeh, north of Beirut on June 2, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Pakistani demonstrators burn tyres during a protest against Israel, after its military move against a relief aid fleet on its way to the Gaza Strip, in Peshawar on May 31, 2010. Pakistan condemned an Israeli commando attack on a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, describing the killings of up to 19 activists as "brutal and inhuman." (Photo: AFP)

A Californian sea lion hugs her just born baby at the Amsterdam zoo Artis, on June 1, 2010. The California sea lion is the playful, noisy, exuberant, quick learning, 'trained seal' of the circus and zoo. (Photo: AFP)

Five fiberglass sculptures from Italian architect and designer Fabio Novembre, inspired by the Fiat 500C model and contain a planted tree, are exhibited on the prestigious Place Vendome in Paris, on June 4, 2010. The exhibition, named 'Un Arbre pour l'Espoir' (A Tree for Hope) will be displaying 12 sculptures from Fabio Novembre, from June 3 to June 29, 2010. Since 2005, Designing Hope uses contemporary art as a tool to create awareness in its fight against HIV and AIDS related discrimination. (Photo: AFP)

1,250 people, each holding a piece of a reproduction of a painting by Monet, gathered to form a gigantic living impressionist painting in Rouen, on June 5, 2010. This short lived creation baptised 'Monet seen from the sky' occupied 600m2 of the Town hall square closed for the occasion. (Photo: AFP)

Young people cool off in a fountain during the 'Rock in Rio' music festival in Arganda del Rey near Madrid on June 5, 2010. (Photo: AFP)

People pose for photogrpahers in British artist Antony Gormley's new installation, Breathing Room III, during a photocall for his new exhibition 'Test Sites' at the White Cube Gallery, in London on June 3, 2010. The exhibition is set to run until July 4. (Photo: AFP)

Madame Tussauds employee Caryn Bloom poses for photographers beside a waxwork of actress Jessica Alba as The Invisible Woman character from the Fantastic Four during the launch of the Marvel Super Heroes 4D exhibit at the Madame Tussauds waxworks in London, on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. (Photo: AP)