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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Majid Salih touches the face of his eleven-year-old niece Sabaa Haitham, in front of a morgue in Baghdad, Wednesday June 1, 2005. Sabaa, two other children and her uncle, were killed when a mortar shell landed outside their home in Baghdad’s al-Doura neighborhood. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)
This false-color image taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and released May 31, 2005 shows the ‘South Pillar’ region of the Carina Nebula. The infrared telescope ‘busted open’ this murky cloud to reveal star embryos (yellow or white) tucked inside finger-like pillars of thick dust (pink). Hot gases are green and foreground stars are blue. Not all of the newfound star embryos can be easily spotted. The downward-streaming rays (top) hint at its presence Eta Carinae, which is too bright to be observed by infrared telescopes. Ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from Eta Carinae and its siblings have shredded the cloud to pieces, leaving a mess of tendrils and pillars. This shredding process triggered the birth of the new stars uncovered by Spitzer. FOR RELEASE WITH STORY SPACE SPITZER REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/N. Smith (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder) /Handout
French troupe Generik Vapeur member stage a street performance as part of ‘Marseille Week’ in Shanghai May 31, 2005. ‘Marseille Week’, which started on Sunday and will run through June 4, incorporates a series of cultural events including art exhibition, a goodwill soccer match and a performance of the classic ballet ‘Giselle.’ France also donated a replica of a famous sculpture in Marseille, ‘Spring of Hope,’ to the city. REUTERS/Ming Ming
Former Army reservist Javal Davis speaks during a news conference at his attorney Paul Bergrin’s office in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, June 1, 2005. Davis, who is the first Army reservist to be freed from jail after serving time for the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, says he is a good person who was under tremendous stress in Iraq. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)
The Colima volcano, also known as the Volcano of Fire, is seen as it lets out a small column of steam into the clouds over its crater May 30, 2005. The volcano this week produced its largest eruption in 15 years, although nearby villages have not been evacuated. (Stringer/Reuters)
Alberta Altamirano, who claims to be 113 years old, sits outside her home in the village of La Yerbabuena, near the Colima volcano, May 30, 2005. Mexico’s ‘Fire Volcano’ spewed a column of rock, ash and lava almost three miles (5km) into the sky on Monday in its largest eruption for at least 15 years, civil protection officers said. (Reuters)
A person applies his fingerprint on a digital keypad in order to enter the ‘House of the Future’ at the museum of communication in Lisbon. The home features items made by multinationals as well as prototypes still in development by local universities(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)
A Saudi woman walks in Riyadh. It took just a simple proposal from a member of Saudi Arabia’s consultative council for the lifting of a ban on women drivers to stir a heated debate on a taboo subject in the ultra-conservative kingdom.(AFP/File/Rabih Moghrabi)
Marilyn Monroe’s cocktail dress, worn in the film ‘Let’s Make Love,’ is displayed at Barclay Butera Tuesday, May 31, 2005, in Los Angeles in preparation for the Marilyn Monroe Estate Auction to be held live and online Saturday, June 4. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
It’s amazing what the surgical team did, but no one wants to look back to find this photo in their baby album.
In this picture provided by the Hospital de Solidaridad, doctors Luis Rubio, right, and Rolando Pinto, left, hold the separated legs of Milagros Cerron in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hospital de Solidaridad, Inti Lozada)
Cameramen and photographers at a police presentation of pedophile material. A hospital in the German capital will launch a revolutionary scheme later this year to treat potential pedophiles in an attempt to deprive them of the urge to prey on children.(AFP/File/Albert Olive)
Indian smokers. India has banned all scenes showing smoking, cigarette packs or tobacco advertisements in movies and TV programmes, stepping up its war against tobacco use, a government official said.(AFP/File/Prakash Singh)
Josef Rhedin (L) and Gunnar Bucht enjoy a last Cuban cigar before midnight 1 June 2005, when Sweden introduced a ban on smoking in all bars and restaurants, joining a growing band of European countries seeking to reduce the number of people who light up and limit the risks of second-hand smoke. The ban has been largely welcomed in the Scandinavian country, where a recent poll showed that 85 percent favour an end to smoking in restaurants and 77 percent support a ban in bars and clubs(AFP/Sven Nackstrand)
Buddhist monks march with an anti-AIDS banner in Phnom Penh. Cambodia faces a potential resurgence in HIV transmission among drug users as trafficking through the kingdom has surged, the deputy prime minister said.(AFP/File/Khem Socannara)
Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov visits Libyan children who were injected with blood transfusions infected with HIV at a hospital in the eastern city of Benghazi, 28 May. Libya’s high court is expected to rule on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus in a case that has raised international concern(AFP/File)
Just a reminder that while the polio virus is largely gone here, it’s still affecting so many elsewhere.
An infant receives a polio vaccine in Bandung. Health officials in three provinces, Jakarta, West Java and Banten, hold vaccination drive to reach 6.4 million children in an effort to halt the polio virus.(AFP/Banyu Sakti)
A Salvadoran student wearing a U.S flag participates in a demonstration in San Salvador June 1, 2005. Social organisations and students protested against President Antonio Saca’s first year in power and against Free Trade agreements between the United States and the Central American countries. REUTERS/Luis Galdamez
Ecuadorean and Peruvian immigrants rest in a temporary shelter on the Isla de Coco, approximately 500 miles south-west of Costa Rica, Tuesday, May 31, 2005. A desperate message for help stuffed into a bottle saved 48 Ecuadoreans and 40 Peruvian immigrants abandoned by smugglers at sea. The immigrants boat was towed to the Isla del Coco by a boat from the environmental group MarViva on Sunday,Costa Rican officials said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Manuel Vega/Al Dia)
Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (2nd L), Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz (2nd R), incoming army Chief of Staff Dan Halutz (R) and outgoing Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon (L) attend a ceremony in the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem June 1, 2005. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on June 1 he would hold a second summit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on June 21. The two leaders last met on Feb. 8 in Egypt where they called a halt to four and a half years of fighting in a deal that has sharply reduced violence in the region. Photo by Reuters (Handout)
An Afghan prisoner (C) is hugged by his family in Kabul after his release from the U.S. custody in Bagram airbase, Afghanistan June 1, 2005. U.S. forces in Afghanistan released 53 prisoners no longer considered a threat on June 1, saying their freedom was a sign of peace and progress, but at least one of those set free said he was abused. Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters
Chinese pedestrians walk in a flooded street after heavy rain in Yingtan, east China’s Jiangxi province June 1, 2005. Flood control authorities across China have been told to intensify flood control and prevention efforts as the whole country enters flood season, Xinhua News Agency reported on June 1. Photo by China Newsphoto/Reuters
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin (L), JSC Director Gen. Jeff Howell (C) and House Majority leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) look at a piece of Space Shuttle thermal tile with the tail of a full-size shuttle mock-up in the background while touring the Johnson Space Center in Houston May 31, 2005. REUTERS/Richard Carson
An older photo, but one I didn’t find until now.
Fossil of an armadillo is shown in a private home in Cuzco May 18, 2005. Builders have found the fossil of a giant armadillo — which lived up to 2 million years ago and would have been the size of a Volkswagen Beetle — in southern Peru, an archeologist said May 19. ‘They were carrying out work inside a private home and stumbled upon this surprise during the digging,’ Pedro Luna, an archeologist from the National Institute of Culture in the southern city of Cuzco, told Reuters. Photo by Stringer/Afghanistan/Reuters
A man stands outside the Elephant and Castle mall in south London, Tuesday May 31, 2005. The Elephant and Castle mall is one of several in Britain that have banned hoods since the Bluewater shopping mall in Kent, south east England, got widespread publicity for doing so in early May. Britain has a new public enemy, the teenager in a hooded sweatshirt. Hoods, no longer just an adolescent fashion statement, have recently become a highly charged symbol of thuggish, intimidating behavior. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Austrian President Heinz Fischer and his wife Margit, from left, stand in front of a model of a Maya temple during their visit at the Anthropological Museum in Mexico City, on Monday, May 30, 2005. Fischer is on an three-day official visit in Mexico. (AP Photo/Rudi Blaha)