What’s going on around the world in photos.
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Mariano’s vision : A car drives through a light installation by Italian artist Lucio Mariano in Magdeburg as part of the city’s 1,200th anniversary. (AFP/DDP/Ronny Hartmann)
Members of the Spanish Air Force acrobatic group ‘Patrulla Aguila’ fly in a mirror formation over the northern Spanish town of A Coruna May 20, 2005. ‘Patrulla Aguila’ performs in aerial acrobatic exhibitions around the world. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal
Spectators sit across the street from a house fire where nine people died in Cleveland, Saturday, May 21, 2005. The fire broke out during a sleepover early Saturday, killing seven children and two adults, the fire department said. (AP Photo/Jamie-Andrea Yanak)
A gray whale swims past the Southeast Farallon Island of the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge in California, Thursday, May 12, 2005. Less than 30 miles from San Francisco, an archipelago of rocky islands rising out of the Pacific Ocean form a largely undisturbed wildlife haven that some biologists call California’s Galapagos. Federal legislation proposed earlier this year would have opened the Farallones to limited public access, but the bill appears all but dead after running into opposition from biologists and environmentalists who worry about the impact on wildlife.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
An Iraqi man looks at posters of published images showing Iraqi prisoners held in the notorious US-run Abu Ghraib prison at the entrance to the hall where an improvised Sunni Muslim congress meeting took place in Baghdad. Leading figures in Iraq’s Sunni Arab minority demanded Interior Minister Bayan Baqer Solagh is sacked for the alleged involvement of his services in anti-Sunni killings.(AFP/Karim Sahib)
Several political opponents scream in the street ‘Freedom, Freedom’, while a car with fumigation apparatuses leaves the street with smoke, Saturday, May 21, 2005 in Havana, Cuba. Several dozens of opponents celebrated the first Assembly of Promotion of the Civil Society, during two days, of fact without precedents in Cuba. (AP Photo/Jorge Rey)
May 21: Relatives of missing soldiers cry at the Los Angeles army barracks in the Andes. Sixteen Chilean soldiers were killed and 29 others were missing and feared dead after the mostly young conscripts disappeared in a snowstorm while on a training exercise, officials said.(AFP)
Belgian brothers Luc, left, and Jean-Pierre Dardenne pose with the Palme d’Or trophy they won for their film ‘L’enfant’ (The child), at the 58th international Cannes film festival, southern France, Saturday. (AP/Laurent Emmanuel)
May 21: Sri Lankan coins. International lenders downgraded Sri Lanka’s economic growth forecasts for this year after tsunamis devastated its coastline, but the island is banking on a flood of foreign aid to keep its head above the water(AFP/File/Sena Vidanagama)
Indonesian 15-month-old conjoined twins Anggi and Anjeli lie on a hospital bed before the operation aimed at separating them, in Singapore. Surgeons in Singapore successfully separated the twin girls, who were conjoined at the hip and abdomen, in a 10-hour operation that went better than expected, doctors said.(AFP/HO)
May 19: Hamas supporter : A Hamas supporter demonstrates in Beit Lahya, northern Gaza Strip, against a court decision to partially cancel voting results in three local councils Hamas won in the Gaza Strip. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
New lemur : A ring-tailed lemur holds its newborn at Amneville Zoo, France. (AFP/Jean-Christophe Verhaegen)
The way this photo is shot…makes me all dizzy.
Praying time : Iraqi Sunni Muslim perform Friday noon prayer at Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad. (AFP/Karim Sahib)
May 19: Uzbek refugees : Uzbek refugees try to keep warm at a camp just outside the Kyrgyz village of Barash at the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
Well, I seriously hope that hair styles aren’t trending this way…
Interesting hair day : A hair model participant displays his hair-style for photograph during the 2005 hair and Make-up trend competition in Manila. (AFP/Joel Nito)
Australia’s famed ‘poker’ machines will soon be fitted with pop-up messages reminding punters how long they have been gambling(AFP/Illustration)