The Week in Pictures

A dance takes part in the “Karneval der Kulturen” (Carnival of Cultures) street parade through Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. The annual festival celebrates the German capital’s ethnic and cultural diversity.  (Ronny Hartmann / AFP/Getty Images)

Relatives and mourners attend a funeral for Air India Express crash victims H. Roselin and her two daughters at the St. Alphonsa Catholic Church in Mangalore. The flight overshot the runway, leaving 158 out of 166 passengers and crew dead.
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A cyclist jumps during a performance on Red Square in Moscow.  (Alexey Sazonov / AFP/Getty Images)

Children contort their faces as they play a parlor game in which they need to slide a coin from their foreheads to the mouth in order to win during the annual Feast Day of St. Rita of Cascia in Baclaran, Paranaque, in suburban Manila.  (Noel Celis / AFP/Getty Images)

A participant attends the parade at the Carnival of Cultures in Germany’s capital.  (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press)

Actor Javier Bardem, right, and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu embrace during the awards ceremony at the 63rd international Cannes Film Festival in southern France.  (Mark Mainz / Associated Press)

Czech Republic players celebrate after their 2-1 victory over Russia in the championship game of the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships. Russia had won 27 consecutive games in the tournament.  (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

At the Grand Isle State Beach, a laughing gull fishes along a shoreline tainted by oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Washington Nationals first baseman Adam Dunn makes the catch in time to force out the Baltimore Orioles’ Nick Markakis in the fifth inning Saturday. The Nationals won, 7-6.  (Nick Wass / Associated Press)

A dog competes during the fifth annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition in Imperial Beach south of San Diego.  (Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty Images)

Workers hired by petroleum giant BP rake up globs of oil that have come ashore in southern Louisiana near Port Fourchon and Grand Isle.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Kane Douglas of Waratahs tries to power through the Stormers defense during a Rugby Super 14 semifinal match. Stormers won, 25-6.  (Rob Griffith / AP Photo)

New graduates of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point celebrate. President Obama addressed the graduates at the commencement and commissioning.  (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)

People jump into the muddy water during the annual International Off Road Festival in Somogybabod,102 miles southwest of Budapest, Hungary. Environmentalists call for banning the event, saying hundreds of participating vehicles destroy the forest area close to Lake Balaton, Hungary’s largest water and tourist resort.  (Bela Szandelszky / Associated Press)

A giant kite flies high during the International Kite Festival at the Sicilian beach town of San Vito Lo Capo. The festival, in its second edition, attracts kite lovers worldwide.  (Alessandro Fucarini / Associated Press)

Tourists get an interesting view of the sculpture “Unconditional Surrender” in San Diego. The sculpture is modeled on the famous photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square to celebrate the end of World War II.  (Gregory Bull / AP Photo)

A child watches a video on a handheld device while he gets his body painted during the 5th International Fonambules Body Paint Festival. More than 300 people attended the festival, which this year focused on pre-hispanic motifs.  (Dario Lopez-Mills / Associated Press)

LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 21, 2010: LAPD traffic officer holds the grill of a police car after it was cut off as officers were responding to a back up call and went air born, coming to rest on top of two cars near the corner of Florence and Vermont on MAY 21, 2010. Two Los Angeles Police Officers were treated for injuries they received.   (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

CORONA,CA., MAY 21,2010: A Cal Fire inmate crew mops-up the few remaining hotspots of an 800 acre fire in the hills above Home Gardens in an unicorporated area east of Corona May 21, 2010.   (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Bimbo, a 26-year-old male sea lion, is cooled down by a keeper at Blair Drummond Safari Park. Bimbo arrived at the park a week ago to assist in a breeding program.  (Andrew Milligan / Associated Press)

The silhouette of a hot-air balloon appears over a field.  (Heribert Proepper / Associated Press)

A participant in the annual Wave-Gothic Festival poses for photographers. More than 20 000 people are expected to attend the festival, which offers concerts, gothic scene performances, exhibitions, readings and parties.  (Sebastian Willnow / AFP/Getty Images)

Young women enjoy sunbathing in unusually warm weather for May.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

A flock of laughing gulls fly from Breton Island in the Gulf of Mexico refuge, where thousands of birds make their home. One dead brown pelican was found on the island Thursday. An offficial with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the bird had oil on its wings.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

A man helps himself to milk that spilled during a free distribution by dairy farmers. The milk was distributed during a demonstration against a free trade agreement between Colombia and the European Union.  (Raul Arboleda / AFP/Getty Images)

A girl sells charcoal at the Telele market in Haiti’s capital.  (Esteban Felix / Associated Press)

Greek riot police try to remove people from a sit-down protest on a main street after the end of a demonstration in central Athens. More than 20,000 people took part in a demonstration against austerity measures in debt-strapped Greece.  (Evi Zoupanou / Associated Press)

Russia’s Konstantin Korneyev (22) and Canada’s Steve Downie (9) fight during a quarterfinal match Thursday at the ice hockey world championships. Russia won, 5-2, eliminating Olympic champion Canada.  (Martin Meissner / Associated Press)

Cyclist Lance Armstrong is helped up after crashing Thursday in the Amgen Tour of California race. Armstrong resumed riding, but then his injuries forced him to quit the race.  (Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press)

Actress Jennifer Lopez arrives for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc Thursday, during the Cannes Film Festival.  (Joel Ryan / Associated Press)

A firefighter works to control a fire that burned all night at CentralWorld shopping mall, attacked by “Red Shirt” protesters venting their anger against the government. An army operation finally evicted the protesters after a six-week takeover of Bangkok’s major shopping district. So far over the last several weeks, 44 people have been killed and 400 injured during the political turmoil that has plagued the capital.  (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)

Catalonian police escort Briton Lianne Ross-Smith, who allegedly suffocated her two children Tuesday while on vacation in northeastern Spain. According to sources involved in the investigation, autopsies will be carried out Thursday.  (Toni Garriga / EPA)

Greek demonstrators march through central Athens to protest austerity cuts due to the crippling debt the country is under. Unions called for the strike, believing the measures hurt the poor and working class.  (Milos Bicanski / Getty Images)

South Korean marines stand guard near the border with North Korea. South Korea accused North Korea on Thursday of firing a torpedo that sank a naval warship in March, killing 46 sailors in the country’s worst military disaster since the Korean War.  (Kim Ju-sung / Associated Press)

About 100 mayors of the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna, Umbria, Tuscany, Marche and Lazio stage a protest in Piazza Signoria in Florence over the rigidity of the Stability Pact of the European Union.  (Maurizo Degl’Innocenti / EPA)

The first Airbus A380 in the fleet of German airline Lufthansa arrives at the airport in Frankfurt. Lufthansa has ordered15 Airbus A380 planes, four of which will be delivered in 2010.  (Martin Oeser / AFP/Getty Images)

Wenlock, left, and Mandeville, the mascots for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, respectively, pose for photos after their debut.  (Julian Finney / Getty Images)

Cindy Hickey, from left, Nora Shourd and Laura Fattal, the mothers of three Americans jailed by Iran, arrive at the Tehran airport. They are scheduled to visit their children -- Shane Bauer, 27; Sarah Shourd, 31; and Josh Fattal, 27, respectively -- and seek meetings with top Iranian officials.  (Atta Kenare / AFP/Getty Images)

Sevilla FC’s supporters celebrates their victory after winning the King’s Cup final match against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday. Sevilla won, 2-0.  (Cristina Quicler / AFP / Getty Images)

Indian students of a yoga college show their skills during a function in Bangalore to promote yoga.  (Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP/Getty Images)

The peloton makes its way up a mountain road in San Jose during Stage 4 of the Tour of California cycling race Wednesday.  (Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press)

Colorful bathing boxes are lined up on the beach at Muizenberg, near Cape Town, South Africa.  (Rodger Bosch / AFP/Getty Images)

A visitor leaves the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.  (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP/Getty Images)

A tourist films Cardinals attending Pope Benedict XVI‘s weekly general audience at St Peter’s square.  (Christophe Simon / AFP/Getty Images)

A man is helped out of water in a flooded area on the outskirts of the town in south east Poland on Wednesday. Massive flooding hit southern Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic after heavy rainfalls.  (Krzysztof Lokaj / Associated Press)

An encouraging hand reaches out to Chinna Salio, a freshman or “plebe,” as she struggles through a mud trench during sea trials, a day-long series of physical challenges that caps off freshman year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.  (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)

U.S. soldiers remove a body from the scene of a deadly suicide car bombing. The morning rush-hour blast hit a Western military convoy and nearby civilian vehicles, killing at least 18 people.  (Dion Nissenbaum / McClatchy-Tribune)

The ancient Parthenon atop the Acropolis is illuminated by the late evening sun despite a dark cloud overhead.  (Aris Messinis / AFP/Getty Images)

An investigator walks past the broken rear window of a Santa Monica Police Department patrol car, after an officer was shot during a routine traffic stop near the corner of Bay Street and Lincoln Boulevard. The gunman was later shot by officers in a rear alley near the scene of the crime and taken into custody.
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A dark cloud sits over the ancient temple of Parthenon atop the Acropolis hill, illuminated by the late evening sun in Athens on May 18, 2010.  (Aris Messinis / AFP/Getty Images)

A dark cloud sits over the ancient temple of Parthenon atop the Acropolis hill, illuminated by the late evening sun in Athens on May 18, 2010.  (Aris Messinis / AFP/Getty Images)

Robin Lopez of the Phoenix Suns grabs a rebound in front of Ron Artest of the Lakers as Kobe Bryant hits the court during Game 1 of the Western Conference finals. The Lakers won, 128-107.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Window cleaners work on a new building in central London.  (Adrian Dennis / AFP/Getty Images)

LAPD Sgt. James Davis speaks with Salvador Sanchez, left, during a protest outside Staples Center on Monday.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

A water spout hits the sea behind a surfer on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.  (James Alcock / AFP/Getty Images)

Members of the Arcoiris, or Rainbow, Lesbian, Gay, Transsexual and Bisexual Assn., demonstrate on the International Day against Homophobia in the streets of Tegucigalpa.  (Orlando Sierra / AFP/Getty Images)

A resident runs in a street near Ding Daeng intersection in Bangkok. Thousands of protesters in the Thai capital defied a deadline to leave their fortified encampment despite the threat of a crackdown after street clashes that left at least 35 people dead.  (Nicolas Asfouri / AFP/Getty Images)

Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.  (Gali Tibbon / AFP/Getty Images)

A couple share a kiss outside Heathrow airport in London. Conciliation service Acas said it would broker talks between British Airways and the Unite union in an effort to forestall four planned five-day strikes, the first of which is scheduled to begin May 18.  (Carl de Souza / AFP/Getty Images)

A trading house employee comments on stock index curves in Shanghai as Chinese shares hit their lowest level in more than a year, tumbling 5.07% percent amid concerns that the government may step up tightening measures in the real estate sector, dealers said.  (Philippe Lopez / AFP/Getty Images)

New ash clouds erupted from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, bring fresh chaos to thousands of air travelers as key European airports shut down.  (Heidar Kristjansson / AFP/Getty Images)

Orthodox Jewish men take to the streets of the Meah Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem in protest of the relocation of tombs next to the Ashkelon hospital Barzilai.  (Kobi Gideon / EPA)

Palestinians in the West Bank town of Ramallah raise their hands in support of refugees during the annual commemoration of Nakba, what they consider the catastrophe of Israel’s creation in 1948.  (Atef Safadi / EPA)

A police Special Task Force member rappels down the side of a building during a presentation of police readiness for the FIFA 2010 soccer World Cup to be held in South Africa next month.  (Kim Ludbrook / EPA)