June 5, 2011. Demonstrators, seen from a Druze village, flee Israeli-army tear gas as they cut through barbed wire on the Israel-Syria border, aiming for the occupied Golan Heights. Inspired by the Arab Spring, Palestinians have massed in mostly peaceful protests. This time, Israeli troops opened fire, killing 14 demonstrators.Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
This Week: the Puyehue Volcano erupts in Chile, Syrian demonstrators are killed by Israeli troops in the Golan Heights; the Iranian women’s soccer team banned from the 2012 Olympics; Anti-government protesters in Yemen celebrate President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s departure to Saudi Arabia; E.coli outbreak in Germany, Anthony Weiner’s sex scandal; and “Teddy Bear Hospital.”
June 5, 2011. Demonstrators, seen from a Druze village, flee Israeli-army tear gas as they cut through barbed wire on the Israel-Syria border, aiming for the occupied Golan Heights. Inspired by the Arab Spring, Palestinians have massed in mostly peaceful protests. This time, Israeli troops opened fire, killing 14 demonstrators.Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 5, 2011. The Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted for the first time in a half-century, scorching the sky with its ash. According to the National Service of Geology and Mining, the blast produced a column of gas 6 miles (10 km) high. Some 3,500 people were evacuated. Claudio Santana—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 7, 2011. Persia, a 7-year-old Afghan, rests as she is flown on a U.S. Army medevac helicopter to a military hospital outside Sangin in southern Afghanistan. The girl received head injuries after falling off a truck; her father took her to the nearest NATO security outpost for medical help.
Anja Niedringhaus—APJune 4, 2011. As a sandstorm approaches, a U.S. military plane drops small packages of food supplies for Marines outside Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.Anja Niedringhaus—APJune 7, 2011. Thai Buddhist monks inspect the new Sai Sena Solar Park, a green-energy facility at Ayutthaya, about 60 km from Bangkok. Thailand aims to obtain 20% of its energy production from renewable sources by 2020. This farm will account for a reduction of nearly 2,000 tons of greenhouse-gas emissions annually.Barbara Walton—EPAJune 5, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI leads a solemn Mass in Zagreb, Croatia. The Pontiff spent two days visiting the country.Alessandro Bianchi—ReutersJune 3, 2011. Members of the Iranian women’s soccer team pray in Amman, Jordan, after being barred from a qualifying match for the 2012 Olympic Games. FIFA requires that any head covering not obscure the neck and ears. According to Islamic dress code, women must cover their hair in public.
Ali Jarekji—ReutersJune 6, 2011. A green terrace field is seen after rain in Guiyang, Guizhou Province of China. ChinaFotoPress/Zuma PressJune 9, 2011. Pilgrims make their way to the shrine of El Rocio during the annual pilgrimage in which hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin del Rocio converge in and around the shrine, in Villamanrique, Spain.Miguel Angel Morenatti—APJune 9, 2011. Syrian refugee children pose at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi in Hatay province. More than 2,400 people have crossed Turkey's borders fleeing violence in northern Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday. Osman Orsal—ReutersJune 7, 2011. A Pakistani vendor displays his dolls on a roadside as he waits for customers on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 07, 2011. Firemen practice a rescue from a roller coaster in Leipzig. With the help of a telescopic hinge pole lift, rescue crews can now work at a height of 46 metres. Jan Woitas—DPA/Zuma PressJune 8, 2011. A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays after tying a thread at the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Hamzah Makhdoomi in Srinagar. According to belief, Kashmiri Muslims who believe in Sufism -- a mystical form of Islam -- traditionally tie ribbons and threads to the gates of shrines to get their needs fulfilled. Fayaz Kabli—ReutersJune 6, 2011. A boy is launched on an amusement ride during an annual Chinese traditional Dragon Boat Festival in Taipei, Taiwan. Wally Santana—APJune 3, 2011. Malak Al Shami, 6, who had a leg amputated after her house was hit by a Grad rocket, lies on her hospital bed in the west Libyan city of Misrata. Amel's house was hit by a rocket belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on May 13, 2011. She lost her sister Rodaina, 1, and her brother Mohamed, 3, on the same day of the incident. Zohra Bensemra—ReutersJune 8, 2011. Two girls prepare to operate on their cuddly toy at the "Teddy Bear Hospital" during the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Children's Hospital of Lausanne (HEL). The Children's Hospital of Lausanne was Switzerland's first hospital entirely dedicated to infants. The "Teddy Bear Hospital" is an initiative organized by medical students for children of aiming to alleviate their fear of doctors and hospitals. FabriceCoffrini—AFP/GettyJune 6, 2011. Anti-government protesters reach to catch a youth, after throwing him in to the air while celebrating President Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure to Saudi Arabia, in Sanaa, Yemen. A cease-fire in Yemen's capital was at risk of unraveling Monday as regime supporters opened fire on opposition fighters in renewed clashes that killed at least six. The violence raises fears over the potentially explosive situation after the wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh left the country, creating a deep power vacuum. Hani Mohammedi—APJune 8, 2011 . A South Korea's K1 tank fires smoke shells during a joint military drill between South Korea and the US in Paju near the inter-Korean border, aimed at deterring North Korea's military threat. Tensions on the Korea peninsula are high following two deadly border incidents last year which Seoul blames on its neighbor. Jung Yeon-Je—Getty ImagesJune 9, 2011. Thai Air Force officials clear mud while excavating the wreckage of U.S. World War II combat aircraft P-51D Mustang in Pathum Thani province on the outskirts of Bangkok. The plane was shot down during the World War II as it was dropping bombs at a military camp in Don Muang in then Japanese-allied Thailand. The owner of the land recently discovered the wreckage and alerted officials, who plan to display the remains in the Thai Air Force museum in Bangkok. Chaiwat Subprasom—ReutersJune 7, 2011. Khaled Boshala attends a client in his butcher shop in the old city of Benghazi, Libya.The butcher shop, named "Castle of February 17," paying homage to the first day when the revolutionary movement started in Benghazi. Rodrigo Abd—APJune 6, 2011. Members of the New York Hotel Workers Union stand outside New York Supreme Court in support of the victim of the alleged victim of former of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York. Shannon Stapleton—ReutersJune 2, 2011. A man argues with police agents after a pursuit in La Chacra neighborhood, one of the most violent areas of San Salvador. The Organization of American States will hold its general assembly in the Salvadorean capital this weekend, focusing on violence and security issues. Jose Cabezas—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 9, 2011. A technician examines a mobile phone in a test room at the Market Surveillance Laboratories of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority of Turkey, in Ankara. Founded in 2007 with funds from the European Union, the facility, comprising of five different labs, tests mobile telephones and other communication devices to determine their Specific Absorbition Rate (SAR) value. SAR is a measurement of how much electromagnetic radiation is absorbed by body tissue while using a mobile phone. Umit Bektas—ReutersJune 7, 2011. A cucumber rests on the desk of a Spanish member of the European Parliament at a meeting in Strasbourg, France. Spain’s fruit and vegetable exports took a beating after a German report erroneously pegged Spain as a source of the E. coli outbreak. After later reports, Germany had to point the finger of blame inward.Vincent Kessler—ReutersJune 6, 2011. The media await Representative Anthony Weiner’s press conference at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City. In an auto-da-fé with circus aspects, he acknowledged having e-trysts with women and sending them intimate photos of himself. The scandal might have subsided if he hadn’t lied for a week—and if his name wasn't Weiner. Andrew Burton—Getty ImagesJune 3, 2011. An F/A-18C Hornet fighter jet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 113 breaks the sound barrier during an air power demonstration over the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and Carrier Air Wing 17 in the Pacific Ocean in this U.S. Navy handout photo. Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Travis K. Mendoza—U.S. Navy/ReutersJune 7, 2011. Armed supporters of dissident tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar inspect damage at his house in Sana‘a. Tribal fighters have faced off against government troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who left for Riyadh to have surgery because of injuries incurred in an attack.Ahmad Gharabli—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 9, 2011. A US Marine on his way to pick up food supplies after they were dropped off by small parachutes from a plane outside Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. The smoke in the background comes from burning parachutes the Marines destroy after they reached the ground.Anja Niedringhaus—APJune 5, 2011. A car is completely covered in volcanic ash in San Carlos de Bariloche, southern Argentina. The Puyehue volcano, dormant for decades, erupted in south-central Chile on Saturday. The wind carried ash across the Andes to Argentina, dusting this tourist town which had to close its airport. Alfredo Leiva—AP
