Cannons fire a salute outside Moscow's Kremlin wall after the inauguration ceremony of president elect Vladimir Putin as Russia's new President. Vladimir Putin took the oath of office for a third term as Russia's president. (AP)

A new Vatican Swiss Guard gives a salute while holding the flag during the swearing-in ceremony at the Vatican, May 6, 2012 at the Vatican. Twenty-six Swiss men have joined the oldest standing army in the world, swearing to give up their lives to protect the pope as the Vatican's newest Swiss Guards. (AP)

Team Sky rider Mark Cavendish (C) of Britain crashes during the final rush of the 190-km third stage of the Giro d'Italia in Horsens, Denmark. (Reuters)

Lanterns release by Buddhist worshipers fly during a procession commemorating Waisak day which marks the birth, death and enlightenment of Buddha at the 9th century Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. (AP)

Greek presidential guards perform ceremonial duties at the monument of the unknown soldier in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens. (AP)

Mascots representing a variety of sports club and associations participate in the Mascot Grand National 2012 in aid of the Have a Heart Charity at Kempton Park race course in Sunbury on Thames, southern England. (Reuters)

A full moon as seen from West Orange, New Jersey, rises over the skyline of Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center (L) in New York, May 6, 2012. (Reuters)

A protester, right, waves a stick at Egyptian soldiers during clashes outside the Ministry of Defense in Cairo. (AP)

The Turanor Planetsolar ship arrives in the port of Monaco after completing the first around-the-world trip using solar energy. (Reuters)

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, in academic dress, is congratulated after he received five honorary degrees from several universities at a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. (AP)

A radar station at the missile defense facility in Sofrino, 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia (AP)

A Chinese woman protesting about her own grievances is taken away by plain clothes security personnel and uniformed police officers outside the hospital where blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng is recuperating in Beijing. (AP)

Hot walker Cesar Zarko holds Kentucky Derby entrant Union Rags during his bath after a morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. (AP)

Serbian police officers escort an arrested ethnic-Albanian, in Belgrade, Serbia. Police have arrested 8 people in the tense, ethnic-Albanian dominated south -  five of whom on suspicion of war crimes against Serbs during a 2001 conflict. (AP)

Slovakia's team players gather near their goal before their 2012 IIHF men's ice hockey World Championship Group H game against the Canada in Helsinki, Finland. (Reuters)

Citroen 2CV cars are parked at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, before a rally tour. (Reuters)

A Crimson rumped Toucanet in the private reserve of Paz de las Aves (Peace of the Birds) near Nanegalito, Ecuador (AFP)

A Malian refugee pulls a jerrican of water at the Mbere refugee camp near Bassiknou, southern Mauritania, 60 km from the border with Mali. The fighting in Mali has left more than 60,000 people internally displaced. (AFP)

Birds flying over the marsh near the village of Smolichi, 160 km (100 miles) south of Minsk, Belarus. (AP)

Children wait for alms from passing devotees during the chariot festival of Rato Machhindranath in Lalitpur, Nepal. Rato Machhindranath is known as the god of rain and both Hindus and Buddhists worship Machhindranath for good rain to prevent drought during the rice harvest season. (Reuters)

Women march during a demonstration demanding a trial for Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sana'a. (Reuters)

Traditional drummers wait for dancers from a school to perform during their debut with a traditional country dance form known as Kandian dance at the Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Reuters)

Members of the 1st Battalion and 7 Company the Coldstream Guards line up for inspection before being presented with their new colors by the Queen at Windsor Castle, near London. (Reuters)

A man rides his bicycle between policemen in riot gear who are guarding the venue of a meeting of the European Central Bank in Barcelona, Spain. (Reuters)

Lawmakers debate in the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires. The nationalization of the country's biggest oil company is expected to sail to final congressional approval. (Reuters)

A model wearing designs by Jenny Lee stands in a static display during Australian Fashion Week in Sydney. Lee used natural props including leaves and branches from the country's native trees such as Gum Trees. (AP)

Grooms take part in a mass wedding ceremony in Tabuk, 1500 km (932 miles) from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 2, 2012. Governor of Tabuk Prince Fahad Bin Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz and a local group organized the mass wedding for about 1600 couples to help youths who are unable to afford expensive ceremonies because of the rising cost of living. (Reuters)

A Thai cleaning worker at Bangkok Art and Culture Center (AP)

A little Golden Lion Tamarin at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany (AP)

A giraffe near Lesser flamingos at Lake Oloidien near Naivasha. Kenya's Lesser flamingos are currently in abundance in the country's drier regions after heavy rains nationwide have altered the salinity of the water in many lakes forcing the birds to fly to drier regions. (AFP)

Actress Scarlett Johansson and actor Jeremy Renner pose by her star after it was unveiled on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California, May 2, 2012. (Reuters)

A nun films as Pope Benedict XVI holds his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican. (Reuters)

Smoke billows out from a compound after it was attacked by militants in Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents attacked a compound housing foreigners in the Afghan capital, killing seven people, hours after President Barack Obama made a surprise visit. (AP)

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) and members of parliament from the National League for Democracy take their oaths in the lower house of parliament in Naypyitaw. (Reuters)

A man walks in the M'bere refugee camp near Bassiknou in the Nema region of Southwestern Mauritania. More than 320,000 people have fled their homes in Mali since mid-January, with more than half seeking refuge in neighboring countries, U.N. officials said. (AFP)

China's Wang Mengyu hits a shot past Argentina's Carla Rebecchi (L) during the women's International Invitational Hockey Tournament at the Riverbank Arena in the Olympic Park in London. (Reuters)

Smoke is seen after United Arab Emirates F-16 fighter jets fired missiles during joint military maneuvers with the French army in the desert of Abu Dhabi. (Reuters)

A cyclist passes by a statue of a giant bicycle in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Reuters)

A laborer stacks firewood in a brick kiln as smoke billows from a chimney on the outskirts of Jammu, India. (Reuters)

Tear gas fired by Israeli troops falls near Palestinian stone-throwers during clashes outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The clashes broke out following a protest in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. (Reuters)

Canadian female action sports star Jolene Van Vugt makes a practice run prior to setting a new land speed Guiness World Record for a motorized toilet in Sydney, Australia. After a few technical issues with the toilet Van Vugt beat the existing record of 68 km/h by 7 km/h, after completing the stunt in both directions with an average of the two speeds taken to give her the new world record. (AFP)

A double rainbow appears in the sky as lightning strikes during a severe thunderstorm in Hamilton, Ohio, USA, May 1, 2012. (AP)

France's far-right National Front candidate for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, center, delivers her speech at Opera during the traditional May Day march in Paris. (AP)

Armed North Korean soldiers joke with Chinese tourists as they keep guard at Hwanggumpyong Island, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong. (Reuters)

Hundreds of thousands of people march through Havana's Revolution Square during the May Day parade, Cuba. (Reuters)

Malian military junta troops, who carried out a coup in March, guard a street after renewed fighting in the capital Bamako. Forces of Mali's ruling military junta battled troops loyal to ousted president Amadou Toumani Toure in several parts of the capital Bamako for a second day, forcing residents to flee their homes. (Reuters)

Shop owners look out from under the shutters of their shop during an anti-government protest in the capital Manama, Bahrain. Dozens of protesters tried to march towards the capital square Bab al-Bahrain during an anti-government rally organized by Al Wefaq. Riot-police fired tear-gas and sound grenades to disperse the protesters. (Reuters)

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and President-elect, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drink beer in the Zhiguli beer bar in Moscow. (AP)

Men guide a camel while ploughing farmland in the area of Bani Matar, outside the Yemeni capital Sana'a. (Reuters)

Newlyweds dressed in Han-dynasty costumes bow to each other during a traditional group wedding ceremony in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China. (Reuters)

Cheerleaders perform during an Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Pune Warriors and Deccan Chargers in Cuttack, India. (AP)

A Soyuz space capsule with a three-men crew, two Russians and an American on board, lands outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Capsule carrying Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA's Daniel Burbank touched down safely on the sweeping steppes of central Kazakhstan, ending the men's 163-day stay on the International Space Station. (AP)

U.S. astronaut Daniel Burbank, left, and Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov rest shortly after landing in a Soyuz capsule outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. (AP)

Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, takes off for New York from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Sterling, Virginia. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for NASA performing test flights in the atmosphere but was incapable of spaceflight.(NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Mark Avino)

Afghan youths play atop a destroyed bus in front of the palace of former Afghan King Darul Aman, which was destroyed during the civil war, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

A Civil Defense member tries to extinguish a fire that broke out at a waste dump in Dawra area in Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters)

Members of a Chinese navy band walk past a Russian military vessel ahead of their performance to bid farewell to the Russian navy at a port in Qingdao, Shandong province. (Reuters)

Armed police carry equipment outside a building near Tottenham Court Road in central London. Heavily armed, masked police surrounded a site in central London after a woman reported that a mentally unstable man had walked into her office threatening to blow himself up.(AP)

A supporter of opposition leader and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko shouts under her portrait during a rally in Kyiv. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, under fire from European politicians over the treatment of his jailed opponent, has ordered prosecutors to investigate her alleged beating by prison guards last week. (Reuters)

A view through the damaged windshield of a bus shows Syrian security personnel inspecting wreckage after a bomb exploded in central Damascus. Seven people were killed and 20 wounded, including members of the security forces, in a suicide bombing in the central Damascus district of Midan, Syria's state news agency SANA said. (Reuters)

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama place a flag and a coin on a marker as they visit Warriors Walk at Fort Stewart, Georgia before speaking to troops, veterans and military families at the Third Infantry Division Headquarters. (AP)

A supporter of ruling People's Party jumps over burning tires to condemn Pakistan's judiciary in Peshawar. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has challenged the opposition to unseat him in a fiery speech a day after he was convicted by the Supreme Court for contempt. (AP)

Al-Arabi's Majdi Seddiq (R) and Abdulaziz Hatem (L) fight for the ball with Al-Gharafa's Yousef Ramadan during their match at the Emir Cup soccer tournament in Doha, Qatar. (Reuters)

Thiago Pereira of Brazil, representing the Corinthians Club, swims to win men's 400 m individual medley at the Maria Lenk Trophy swimming competition to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. (Reuters)

Weedy seadragons float at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, USA. (AFP)

Valentina Lopatyuk, 79, cries at the grave of her son Viktor Lopatyuk, 29, at the Mitino Cemetery Memorial, for those who died after the Chernobyl 1986 nuclear disaster, in Moscow. Russians marked the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which was the world's worst ever nuclear accident. (AP)

Horsemen wearing traditional Libyan clothes ride their horses at a wedding in Sauq Al-Sibet, about 45 km (28 miles) south of the capital of Tripoli. (Reuters)

Sunflowers forming to the letter 'G' and roses lie on the stairs of the Gutenberg High School during a commemoration ceremony in memory of the victims at the 10th anniversary of the deadly massacre in Erfurt, Germany. The 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser fatally shot 12 teachers, a secretary, two students and a police officer before turning the gun against himself on April 26, 2002. (AP)

The Church of Pokrov on Nerli is surrounded by floodwaters near the village of Bogolyubovo, some 190 km (118 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. (Reuters)

People place flowers near the entrance of a courthouse in Oslo where the trial of Norwegian anti-Muslim fanatic Anders Behring Breivik takes place. (Reuters)

A Turkish folkloric group performs traditional music in Tripoli, northern Lebanon during an annual ceremony to commemorate the 723rd anniversary of the liberation of the city from the Crusaders by the Mamluks. (Reuters)

An Afghan woman beggar sleeps next to two children on a road in the city of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

India's PSLV C-19 lifts off carrying country's first indigenous radar imaging satellite RISAT-1 at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. (AP)

Tens of thousands march down Lisbon's main Liberdade Avenue, celebrating the anniversary of the 1974 Carnations revolution that restored democracy in Portugal after nearly half a century of right-wing dictatorship. (AP)

A Tibetan man carries a portrait of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, during a function to mark the 23rd birthday of Panchen Lama Gendun Choekyi Nyima, the second-highest Tibetan religious leader, in Katmandu, Nepal. Nyima was named the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama in 1995 by the Dalai Lama. (AP)

A rose hangs on the wall of names at the Armored Corps memorial for fallen soldiers after a ceremony marking the annual Memorial Day for soldiers and civilians killed in more than a century of conflict between Jews and Arabs, in Latrun, near Jerusalem, Israel. (AP)

A girl cries in her mother's arm while receiving a vaccination from a nurse at a hospital in Huaibei, Anhui province, China. (Reuters)

Air Force Space Command early warning system at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, USA (Reuters)

Filipino protesters brace themselves as they are hit by water cannon from anti-riot police who tried to prevent them from entering the gates leading to the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. The group denounced the violence that erupted during a recent demolition of a flea market in Paranaque city. (AP)

Jose Sanchez of France, in a WWI uniform, walks during the wreath-laying ceremonies at the Australian National Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux, northern France, during Anzac Day. The ceremony marks the 94th anniversary of the recapture of the village of Villers-Bretonneux on April 25, 1918. (AP)

An Afghan man walks though a poppy field in Zharay district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. (Reuters)

A man guides donkeys through a mountainous road covered by snow after the Srinagar-Leh highway was opened to traffic in Zojila, 108 km (67 miles) east of Srinagar, India. The 443 km (275 miles) long highway was opened by army authorities for traffic after remaining snowbound at Zojila Pass, 3,530 meters (11,581 feet) above sea level, for the past six months.(Reuters)

A massive fire at 'La Primavera' forest in Guadalajara, Mexico. More than 700 firefighters were sent to the site where the fire has been burning uncontrolled for almost five days, and has consumed over 5,000 hectares so far. (AFP)

Novice Thai nuns stand in line to receive food from people at the Sathira Dammasathan Buddhist meditation center in Bangkok, Thailand. A small but growing group of Thai girls are choosing to spend part of the school holiday as Buddhist nuns. (Reuters)

The Palace of Arts Reina Sofia at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, by architect Santiago Calatrava. (Reuters)

A goose lies on the meadow in the Olympic park in Munich, Germany. (AP)

A pack of riders cycle during the first stage of the Tour de Romandie cycling race near Cossonay, Switzerland. (Reuters)

Udinese's supporters hold placards written '25' in memory of the late player Piermario Morosini, prior the Italian Serie A football match between Udinese and Inter Milan at Friuli Stadium in Udine. (AFP)