Day in Pictures

An employee experiences an installation by artist Antony Gormley entitled 'Breathing Room III', at the White Cube Gallery in London, Thursday June 3, 2010. The work is comprised of photo-luminescent 'space-frames' which are brightly illuminated at brief, regular intervals to experience both disorienting and meditative phases when plunged into complete darkness. Gormley said of the work, which measures around five by nine by 17 metres and appears almost like a hologram: "It can be virtual or real, but you are invited to enter the space of the work."

International researchers prepare to enter the facility at Moscow's Institute for Medical and Biological Problems in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, June 3, 2010. An international team of researchers will try to experience what one might be like by locking themselves up in a windowless capsule for a year-and-half -- the time needed for a roundtrip to the red planet. The all-male crew of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian and a Chinese won't endure weightlessness, but from Thursday they will live for 520 days in the spartan conditions of a mock spaceship and follow a harsh regimen of experiments and exercise.

With the grandstand covered in fog, an exercise rider jogs a race horse around the main track at Belmont Park Thursday, June 3, 2010, in Elmont, N.Y. The 142nd running of the Belmont Stakes will be on Saturday.

Tommy Foster, 11, of Tampa, Fla., right, reacts to another speller's word while waiting to compete at the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, on Thursday, June 3, 2010.

In this Wednesday, June 2, 2010 photo, a gust of wind blows pontiff's aide Bishop James Harvey's cloak over his face, left, as he holds down Pope Benedict XVI's cloak, during his weekly general audience, in St.Peter's Square at the Vatican.

American heiress Paris Hilton poses in front of the ancient great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, Thursday, June 3, 2010.

British physicist Stephen Hawking attends the 2010 World Science Festival opening night gala performance at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 in New York.

People kneel in prayer during a religious service for the victims of the Israeli naval commando raid during a funeral attended by more than 10,000 people at the Fatih mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, June 3, 2010. In a stunning reversal that illustrated the severity of the diplomatic fallout from its bloody raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, Israel on Wednesday dropped plans to prosecute dozens of the captured pro-Palestinian activists, moving instead to deport all of them quickly.

Bangladeshi boatmen wait for customers in the polluted waters of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, June 3, 2010. World Environment Day 2010 which falls Saturday calls for an urgent need to conserve the diversity of life on earth.

The coffin of a victim of the Israeli naval commando raid is carried by people at the end of the funeral service at the Fatih mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, June 3, 2010. In a stunning reversal that illustrated the severity of the diplomatic fallout from its bloody raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, Israel on Wednesday dropped plans to prosecute dozens of the captured pro-Palestinian activists, moving instead to deport all of them quickly.

Qiamuddin Kashaf, acting head of the Ulema Council of Afghanistan and a deputy chairman of the peace jirga, adjusts his turban, as he speaks at a press conference regarding the Peace Jirga developments in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 3, 2010. Hundreds of Afghan leaders held hours of talks Thursday on ways to end the insurgency wracking their country, but remained divided over whether to reach out to Taliban leaders and a host of other issues.

Muslim women hold posters as they walk to cross a street during an anti-Israel rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 3, 2010. Thousands of Indonesian Muslims continue protests for three consecutive days condemning deadly Israel's raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip.

A Chinese girl reacts while brushing her teeth in front of her house in a hutong, or a traditional alleyway of Beijing, China, Thursday, June 3, 2010.

Workers carry construction material as dry hot winds blow dust at a construction site near the airport in New Delhi, India, Thursday, June 3, 2010. Temperatures have soared above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in northern India in recent weeks as parts of the country have been enduring a heat wave that has left a number of people dead.

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