What’s going on around the world in photos with a few cartoons thrown in.
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Roma musicians : The shadows of Roma musicians are cast of the pavement as they parade through Prague’s downtown during the Khamoro World Gypsy Festival. (AFP/Michael Cizek)
An injured Iraqi man lies in a hospital bed as a relative covers his face with netting following a car bomb in the northern city of Tikrit. ‘A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a police patrol’ said police spokesman Lieutenant Mahmud al-Azzawi.(AFP/Dia Hamid)
An Iranian man passes photographs of martyrs killed during Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) at war museum in the southern Iranian port of Khorramshahr 1,000kms (620 miles) south of Tehran near the Iran-Iraq border Saturday May 28, 2005. Iranian forces liberated Khorramshahr from Iraqi occupation on May 24, 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war. The economy of Khorramshahr is still largely affected by the destruction and depopulation of the city in the 1980’s during the first years of the war. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
Pfc. Bradley Hewitt of Canal Winchester, Ohio talks with Iraqi men during a foot patrol in Haditha, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Saturday, May 28, 2005. U.S. Marines finished searching houses in the center part of the city on the fourth day of Operation New Market. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
Fifty-seven-year-old Noo Laotong tries to tackle a poisonous serpent at Thailand’s king cobra village in Kok Sanga. Laotong has been bitten four times by poisonous serpents(AFP/File/Michael Mathes)
Cambodian Royal oxen eat corn during the annual ploughing ceremony in Phnom Penh May 26, 2005. The oxen choose between seven bowls of rice, corn, green beans, grass, sesame, water and wine to predict the upcoming farming year. The tradition is hundreds of years old and followed closely by the poor nation’s estimated 13.6 million people, the majority of whom are farmers. (Chor Sokunthea/Reuters)
Cleric and his book : A Muslim cleric holds up a copy of the Koran during a demonstration in front of the US embassy in Awkar, east of Beirut, against the alleged desecration of the Koran by US military interrogators. (AFP/Joseph Barrak) Fri May 27
Serve : Nikolay Davydenko of Russia returns the ball to Tommy Haas of Germany during their third round match of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
By the bonfire : Ultra-orthodox Jews watch a bonfire during the traditional holy day of Lag Baomer in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood. (AFP/Eitan Abramovich)
Fri, May 27: Hats off : US Naval Academy graduates celebrate their graduation by throwing their hats up in the air in Annapolis, Maryland. (AFP/Jim Watson)
Actor Peter Mayhew, right, who played Chewbacca in the ‘Star Wars’ movies, poses with a Chewbacca character, Friday, May 27, 2005, during ‘Star Wars Weekends’ at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The month-long fan-fest continues through June 12, at Disney-MGM Studios. (AP Photo/Walt Disney World, Mark Ashman)
Egyptian baby girl Manar Maged, who was born with a rare birth defect, yawns at Benha Neonatal Hospital, near Cairo Saturday. (AP/Mohamed al Sehety)
A child eats a food aid ration in a school in Shambuko in western Eritrea in 2004. Neglect by international donors is stoking a food crisis in drought-stricken Eritrea, the United Nations said(AFP/File)
