Graffitti art by the "guerilla" artist Banksy is seen on May 16, 2006, in Chalk Farm, London. The striking image entitled "Sweeping It Under The Carpet" depicts a maid who cleaned the artist's room in a motel in Los Angeles. The piece commissioned by The Independent newspaper edited on Tuesday by U2's frontman Bono, is intended to represent a metaphor for the West's reluctance to tackle issues such as AIDS in Africa.
Baby Boom
A baby suffering from jaundice lies in a phototherapy unit at Xining Children Hospital on May 17, 2006, in Xining, Qinghai Province, China. Chinese population experts are predicting a mini-baby boom before 2010 as a result of the country's family-planning laws. Almost 100 million single children have been born since the initiation of the one-child policy in 1973.
Ready To Rumble
Lava flows from the Mount Merapi (Fire Mountain) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on May 17, 2006. Scientists fear Mount Merapi will erupt soon when the new lava dome that has been forming rapidly at its peak collapses. Mount Merapi spewd deadly clouds, known by locals as "wedhus gembel" (shaggy goat) on May 15.
Scales Pitch
Yellow Tang and Blue Palett Surgeon fish pick a fishbait- packed ball, looking like they're playing soccer in a football field-shaped fish tank at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on May 18, 2006. The attraction will be displayed until the end of the FIFA World Cup in Germany in July.
Atoms To Atoms, Dust To Dust
The cooling tower from the decommisioned Trojan nuclear power plant collapses in on itself in a cloud of dust and flying debris as it is imploded near Rainier, Ore., on May 21, 2006.
Brit Bodyguards
British soldiers from the 21st Air Assault Battery Royal Artillery, who are providing the Helmand Task Force Provincial Reconstruction Team, are silhouetted against the sky as they provide security for a meeting with the Afghan National Police at the fortress Qala-e-Bost in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, on May 17, 2006.
White Glove Treatment
An auction house worker holds the shirt England's George Cohen wore during the 1966 FIFA World Cup final, during a photo call in central London on May 16, 2006. The shirt is part of an upcoming auction of World Cup memorabilia. It had been in German possession for 40 years, having been swapped with Germany's Lothar Emmerich at the end of the victorious final for England.
Good Lordi!
A member of Lordi, winners of the Eurovision song contest, waves flags of Greece, left, and Finland during a press conference at the Indoor Olympic stadium in Athens, early Sunday, May 21, 2006. Finland's Lordi won the Eurovision contest with 292 points.
Fleet Street
Crew members of the America's Cup class racing yachts sail upwind during the second flight fleet race of the second day of the Louis Vuitton Act 11 competition qualifying for the 32nd America's Cup in Valencia, Spain, on May 20, 2006.
Shooting Blanks
A member of the Palestinian National Security Forces, under the control of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, participates in a routine training session in the West Bank town of Jenin on May 20, 2006.
Moving Day
The space shuttle Discovery begins its six-hour trek from the vehicle assembly building to Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on May 19, 2006. The move to the pad is a major step toward liftoff sometime between July 1 and July 19, 2006.
New Recruit
An Indian army officer measures the chest of a Kashmiri during an Indian army recruitment rally in Kupwara, about 63 miles north of Srinagar, India, on May 19, 2006. Hundreds attended the rally, organized by the Indian Army in the troubled Kashmir region, hoping to join the Army.
Summer Reading
Visitors look at a sculpture erected as part of the "Germany - Land of Ideas" initiative, depicting piled-up books by German writers, in Berlin on May 19, 2006. The initiative set up six sculptures to form a "Walk of Ideas" as an image campaign for the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
Water Balloons
People watch hot air balloons as they reflect off the Barigui Lake during the Copa de Balonismo at Barigui Park, in Curitiba, Brazil, on May 20, 2006.
Tea Light
Afghan men have lunch at an old tea shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 17, 2006.
Bull Jive
Spanish bullfighter Miguel Angel Perera gets tossed by a bull during San Isidro's bullfighting fair at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, on May 15, 2006. Madrid celebrates San Isidro, its patron saint, every year with a fair that includes cultural events and concerts, as well as three weeks of bullfights.
Big Bird
An Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft comes in to land for the first time at London's Heathrow Airport on May 18, 2006. Earlier, the A380 had flown over the two British Airbus plants at Filton and Broughton that are involved in the design and manufacture of the wings.