Gymnasts from Heathrow gymnastics club perform a routine themed around the Olympic Torch Relay, near the Millennium wheel in London, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. With just over two years to go until the start of the Olympic Games, the London 2012 Organizing Committee has teamed up with members of one of the UK's leading gymnastics clubs to arrange the display.
Flowers of Jacaranda trees are seen on the ground as a tourist walks near the Zappeion in Athens' National Gardens, Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, Iranian President Ahmadinejad, waves to his well wishers as he arrives in the city of Kerman, about 625 miles (1040 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Iran's president on Wednesday urged Barack Obama to accept a nuclear fuel swap deal, warning the U.S. leader will miss a historic opportunity for improved cooperation from Tehran if the offer is rejected.
Faithful take pictures of Pope Benedict XVI during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
An Israeli army video explains how to use a gas mask at an army gas mask distribution center in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Air raid sirens have sounded across Israel as part of a massive air raid drill. Citizens rushed to air raid shelters Wednesday in the public part of the four-day-long drill. Israel is practicing its response to a widespread rocket attack all over the country.
A Chinese child reacts while playing between sculptures outside a museum in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
U.S. and Bahraini government officials including U.S. Vice Adm. William Gortney, 2nd left, Manama Governor Sheikh Hamoud Al Khalifa, third left, and U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli, fourth left, break ground Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at the Manama, Bahrain, site of a $580 million project to develop 70 acres of Persian Gulf waterfront near the U.S. Navy base on the island for American and coalition ships and personnel. The project, scheduled to be completed in 2015, is to include port operations, a harbor patrol facility, personnel barracks, administrative buildings and a dining facility.
An unidentified woman passes U.S. Navy sailors holding ceremonial shovels Wednesday, May 26, 2010, in preparation for a groundbreaking ceremony at the Manama, Bahrain, site of a $580 million project to develop 70 acres of Persian Gulf waterfront near the U.S. Navy base on the island for American and coalition ships and personnel. The project, scheduled to be completed in 2015, is to include port operations, a harbor patrol facility, personnel barracks, administrative buildings and a dining facility.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the opening of the German-Saudi Arabian economic conference in the Jiddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. (
Elderly Chinese women talk while sitting in a hutong, or a traditional alleyway, in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
A young girl drinks water from a hand pump on a very hot day on the outskirts of Amritsar, India, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Severe heat conditions continue in northern, western and central India
European Union Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard gestures while talking to the media during a press conference at the EU Commission headquarter in Brussels, Wednesday May 26, 2010. The European Commission presented this Wednesday an analysis of the costs, benefits and options for moving beyond the EU's greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020 from 20 percent below 1990 levels to 30 percent once the conditions are met.
An Israeli boy sits under a desk in a bomb shelter during an air raid siren drill at the Hashalom school in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Air raid sirens have sounded across Israel as part of a massive air raid drill. Citizens rushed to air raid shelters Wednesday in the public part of the four-day-long drill. Israel is practicing its response to a widespread rocket attack all over the country.
A Pakistani youth cools off himself from a leaking water-supply pipe, as temperature reached up to 44 degress Celsius (111.2 Fahrenheit), in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Summertime temperatures have shot up in most of Pakistan, touching 53 degrees Celsius (127.4) in some parts of southern Sindh province in recent days, according to Pakistan Met Office.
Pakistani people cool off under water from a leaking water-supply pipe as temperatures reach up to 44 degrees Celsius (111.2 Fahrenheit) in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. Summertime temperatures have shot up in most of Pakistan, touching 53 degrees Celsius (127.4) in some parts of southern Sindh province in recent days, according to Pakistan Met Office.
Marines and sailors line the deck of the U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima as it passes the Statue of Liberty in New York on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The Iwo Jima and other military vessels are visiting New York as part of Fleet Week.
President Barack Obama walks away after speaking at Solyndra, Inc., a solar panel manufacturing facility, in Fremont, Calif. Wednesday, May 26, 2010.
Christian Russian pilgrims shop for souvenirs in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, May 26, 2010.