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 flies near the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline, in New York. Enterprise will be placed on a barge that will eventually be moved by tugboat up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in June. (NASA/Robert Markowitz)
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)
Japanese fan Shoko Kimura, dressed as U.S. pop diva Lady Gaga, waits for Gaga's concert in front of the venue in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)
