This week; Tennessee floods as the Mississippi River rises to historic levels; airlifting the wounded in Afghanistan; saving the Pope; Anish Kapoor’s monumental sculpture; rebuilding in Haiti; the colorful retort to Uganda’s protests.
May 10, 2011. U.S. Marines rush a wounded compatriot through a dust storm kicked up by a U.S. helicopter near Sangin, Afghanistan.
Kevin Frayer—APMay 7, 2011. A farmer in the Helmand province of Afghanistan raises his hands after Lance Corporal Michael Horne of the U.S.’s 2nd Marine Division draws his weapon.Bay Ismoyo—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 11, 2011. An injured Afghan boy who suffered severe burns lays on a stretcher in a medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment on his way to hospital from Musa Qalah, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan.Kevin Frayer—APMay 7, 2011. Both equine and human members of Europe’s Epona Spanish Riding School perform in Budapest. The school was honoring the Royal Guards of Hungary’s past.Bela Szandelzsky—APMay 6, 2011. Palestinians throw bricks and rocks at an Israeli car in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
Baz Ratner—ReutersMay 12, 2011. Cars crashed by debris in Lorca, southern Spain after a magnitude 5.1 quake killed at least 8 people, toppling buildings into the streets and sending panicked residents fleeing. Thousands of terrified Lorca residents spent a night shivering in parking lots, public squares and playgrounds fearing aftershocks from a quake of an intensity they never expected. Pedro Armestre—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 8, 2011. No, they aren’t bulls. But these two horned cows of the Herens breed went at it during the final Battle of the Queens in the Swiss village of Aproz. The battle is an Alpine ritual dating back to at least 1923.Fabrice Coffrini—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 7, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI nearly fell at St. Mark’s Square in Venice. Cardinal Angelo Scola, right, and two other Vatican officials helped him regain his red-shoed footing.Andreas Solaro—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 9, 2011. General view of the set-up "Leviathan" by Indian born, British based, artist Anish Kapoor for the Monumenta 2011 event in the Nave of the Grand Palais in Paris. Benoit Tessier—ReutersMay 11, 2011. One of the beauties at the Windsor Castle horse show in England looks through its royal blue headgear. The animal exhibition began in 1943.
Stephen Simpson—lNP/Zuma PressMay 6, 2011. A man walks the grounds of a housing project in Cabaret, Haiti. The land was donated to Mission of Hope, a Christian group dedicated to building 500 homes there.
Dieu Nalio Chery—APMay 9, 2011. A Libyan woman works outside her tent in Dehiba, near the Libya-Tunisia border. An estimated 20,000 displaced people have ended up in Dehiba.
Zohra Bensemra—ReutersMay 6, 2011. An Afghan man catches pigeons on a rooftop in the old city of Kabul. Manan Vatsyayana—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 10, 2011 - Cars lie submerged in overflow water from the Wolf River on McMiller Road near Jackson. After weeks of rising to historic levels the Mississippi River reached a crest just shy of the forecasted 48 feet at the Memphis gauge. Mike Brown—The Commercial Appeal/LandovMay 7, 2011. An artist welds a cage to trap himself in the corner of the outside wall of the embattled Tacheles art centre, to protest against a possible eviction, in Berlin. The artists who occupied the early 20th century department store shortly after Berlin's reunification are facing eviction as the property is put up for sale to investors. Thomas Peter—ReutersMay 6, 2011. A Mexican soldier shows a gun through a security window in the military zone of Mexico City. Members of Mexican drug gangs often ornament their weapons with gold and elaborate carvings. 70 -80 percent of all seized guns are melted down. Usable weapons that conform with military regulations are sometimes given to the army.
Jorge Dan Lopez—ReutersMay 12, 2011. A Bosnian Muslim woman reacts, near the coffin of her relative during a mass funeral for Bosnian Muslims in Bratunac, 140 kms northeast from Sarajevo, Bosnia. Thousands of Bosnian Muslims attended at funeral of 16 men, women and children killed by Bosnian Serb forces at the beginning of the Bosnian 1992-95 war in Bosnian town of Bratunac. All of the bodies were found and exhumed from a mass grave and identified by DNA method.Amel Emric—APMay 12, 2011. Ugandan riot policemen fire coloured tear gas canisters to disperse supporters of opposition Forum for Democratic Change during a procession to welcome their leader Kizza Besigye in the capital Kampala. James Akena—ReutersMay 12, 2011. A worker uses a high pressure hose to clean the roof of Congress, in Brasilia. Congress couldn't reach consensus on the new Forestry Law being debated, and delayed the voting until next week. Ueslei Marcelino—Reuters
