This is part of a series that is posted randomly throughout the week. The series is a selection of photos and sometimes editorial cartoons that sum up visually what is going on around the world. Unless otherwise noted, I don’t necessarily endorse the actions or the sentiments portrayed in the photos, and I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the captions. Feel free to add any current events photos or editorial cartoons in the replies.
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Reaction : A Pakistani boy walks past a burning a Kentucky Fried Chicken(KFC) outlet set on fire by angry Shiite Muslim mob protesting against a bomb blast at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Karachi. (AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
How do you like `em taters?
May 30: You say potato… : Different varieties of potatoes are displayed in Lima during the celebration of the National Potato Day. (AFP/Jaime Razuri)
Snapshot from Around the <s>World</s> Universe.
The Andromeda galaxy just got bigger — three times bigger, astronomers said on Monday. The galaxy is not actually expanding. But new measurements suggest that the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way is three times broader than astronomers had thought. This undated X-ray image shows the central portion of the Andromeda Galaxy.
The grandson of Mohsen Abdel Hamid clears the debris after his home was damaged by soldiers who came to arrest the Sunni political leader in the Al-Khadra district of Baghdad. US forces admitted an embarrassing mistake when they released Hamid after detaining him in error during a morning raid on his home.(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
Katherine Dawson, left, sits with her niece Ameda Jackson, 3, at the grave of Dawson’s grandfather, and Jackson’s great-grandfather, James Gay, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, at the Anchorage Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Anchorage, Alaska, during Memorial Day, Monday May 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
Kicking off Safe Kids Week 2005, near-drowning survivor, Rachel Riddell, and her mother, Julie Rusciolelli, stand among 50 silhouette cut-outs, representing the number of children across Canada who die each summer while playing outdoors. (PR DIRECT PHOTO/Safe Kids Canada)
Doctors carry the body of a Palestinians killed by an explosion in Gaza City. Palestinian factions warned that a de-facto Middle East truce was in jeopardy after Israel launched an aerial strike against militants, wounding two sisters in the Gaza Strip.(AFP/Mahmud Hams)
Wear underwear! Hilarious caption:
Cadets take part in a ceremony at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst. Britain’s servicemen and woman have been ordered to remember to put underwear on when getting measured for new uniforms to avoid embarrassing their tailors.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)
The photo is from May 19, but was only posted on the wires May 30.
A tribal Indian tsunami survivor sits inside a relief camp in the badly affected Car Nicobar island, located in the southern part of the Indian Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, May 19, 2005. For thousands of years the Nicobarese tended their coconut plantations and reared pigs on the sandy shores of their island paradise. Today, the tribespeople have turned their backs on the sea. The tsunami that struck their shores five months ago not only killed thousands of Nicobarese, it cracked the very foundations of their economy and their society. (Staff/Reuters)
Photo from May 11, but posted on the wires on May 30.
An Iraqi school boy reads a book in class at the elementary school Al-Thakafa al-Arabia in Sadr City, Baghdad, May 11, 2005. Ten years ago, the Al-Thakafa al-Arabia elementary school had broken windows, a shortage of textbooks, and kids whose extracurricular activity was begging on the streets. Pro-Saddam Hussein slogans adorned the walls. Today, it’s still a squalid place with filthy toilets and crumbling walls, but at least the teachers have chalk and erasers supplied by the government, and the kids have pencils, notebooks and satchels. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Mexican deputy Marcela Lagarde, left, the president of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies commission on the assassination of women in Ciudad Juarez, and Special Comissioner for the Juarez Slayings Guadalupe Morfin,right, walk together after meeting with Interior Minister Santiago Creel in Mexico City, Monday May 30, 2005. However, President Vicente Fox has defended his government’s work to solve the cases. Hours before Cabeza de Vaca’s announcement, he drew stunning criticism from friends and family members of the victims and human rights groups by suggesting that many of the killings here had been solved. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Indonesian police on a armored vehicle guarding the US embassy in Jakarta 26 May. The United States said it would reopen its embassy and diplomatic offices in Indonesia on Tuesday, almost a week after they were closed due to an unspecified security threat(AFP)
A child runs among crosses in the sand during observance of Memorial Day in Santa Monica, California May 30, 2005. The Veterans for Peace creates an ‘Arlington West’ memorial with crosses in the sand representing soldiers killed in Iraq. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
Spanish matador Sergio Serrano is tossed by a bull during the ‘San Isidro’ bullfighting fair at Las Ventas bull ring in Madrid May 30, 2005. Madrid celebrates its patron saint San Isidro every year with a fair including cultural events and concerts, as well as three weeks of bull fights. REUTERS/Victor Fraile
A slightly older photo I missed when it was posted last week.
An unpublished manuscript of a three-act play by Jack Kerouac, right, based on his adventures, which was discovered recently, lies a atop a July-August issue of Bestlife magazine which features an excerpt, in New York, Tuesday, May 24, 2005 (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Thai women walk past an anti-smoking sign in Bangkok. About a quarter of Thailand’s 300,000 Buddhist monks smoke, unable to kick the habit despite an anti-smoking campaign targeting the clergy launched two years ago.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
Viciously pointed Rob Rogers editorial cartoon.
Accompanying story: Contestants Break Bones Chasing Cheese
Chris Anderson, 17, clasps his Double Gloucester cheese to his chest as he waits to be taken away on a stretcher, suffering a sprained ankle, after claiming first prize in one of the races in the ancient daredevil sport of cheese rolling at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, England, Monday, May 30, 2005. The seven pound chunk of Double Gloucester cheese can reach speeds of up to 70mph (130 km per hour) and many of competitors suffer bruises, sprains and even broken limbs. The first competitor to arrive at the bottom of the hill claims the cheese. The Cooper’s Hill Cheese Roll includes seven races in total, four downhill. (AP Photo / Barry Batchelor, PA)
Honor guards, center, carry the ashes of retired Army Col. David Hackworth, the highly decorated infantry officer who denounced U.S. policy in Vietnam, past the riderless horse, during a funeral ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Tuesday, May 31, 2005 in Arlington, Va. Hackworth, was buried with full military honors. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin arrives to attend a government crisis meeting at Matignon in Paris May 30, 2005. French President Jacques Chirac named loyalist Dominique de Villepin as his new prime minister on May 31, 2005 in a shake-up of the government following his crushing defeat over the European Union constitution. Villepin replaces the unpopular Jean-Pierre Raffarin who quit earlier on May 31st. He is a former interior and foreign minister who angered the United States but won French hearts with his fierce opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq. (Emmanuel Fradin/Reuters)