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. WARNING: There may be VERY graphic photos depicting death and violence in each edition of this series.
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Ultralight into the sun : A man and his ultralight are silhouetted by the sun during the King cup Balloon 2005 in Villanueva del Pardillo, near Madrid. (AFP/Pedro Armestre)
A man works on a sand sculpture during the international sand-sculptures festival in Berlin June 14, 2005. The festival runs from June 6 to July 31. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz
The main suspect in the killing of a Canadian school boy in Siem Reap, Chea Sokhum, is led from a jail cell for more questioning Saturday, June 18, 2005. According to Cambodian police Chea Sokhum, a former driver of Siem Reap school children, led a band of masked men into the Siem Reap International School on Thursday taking hostages and demanding weapons and money. Police later overpowered the gang but not before Chea Sokhum allegedly shot and killed a two year old Canadian boy. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Abdul Aziz al Hakim, the chairman of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq, speaks during a mass demonstation in Basra, Iraq Saturday June 18, 2005 in front of a poster of his late brother Mohammed Bakir al Hakim who was killed in a bomb attack in Najaf in 2003. (AP Photo/Nabil Al Jurani)
Before the vote : An Iranian girl stands among women queueing up outside a polling station in the Shiite holy shrine of Mahsoumeh for Iran’s presidential elections. (AFP/Patrick Baz)
A jolly Chinese baby. At least 200 million people in China will suffer from obesity within 10 years if current trends spurred by unhealthy lifestyles continue(AFP/File/Peter Parks)
Flooded home : A Georgian resident stands in his flooded house in the Dusheti district of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, northern Georgia. (AFP/Vano Shlamov)
Tears for her brother : The unnamed sister of convicted Pakistani drug trafficker Zulfikar Ali weeps during a demonstration in Lahore, to protest against his death sentences and appeal to the government of Pakistan to assist him. (AFP/Arif Ali)
Studying their form : Two young ladies pause to study the form amongst the hussle and bussle of Ladies Day on the third day of Royal Ascot which this year is being held at York Racecourse, in York, while Ascot is being refurbished. (AFP/Paul Barker)
Wall of water : People gather on a platform to watch as water from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir is released into the Yellow River in Xiaolangdi, in central China’s Henan province. The annual event happens in order to rid the reservoir of excessive sand. (AFP/Stringer )
An Iraqi woman cries for her son in a Baghdad hospital after he was injured in a car bomb blast in Baghdad June 18, 2005. REUTERS/Ali Jasim
Villagers carry the coffins of the victims of a mudslide in San Antonio Senahu, Guatemala June 17, 2005. Hundreds of Maya Indians climbed to a hilltop graveyard in this Guatemalan highlands town on Friday and buried the 22 victims of a huge mudslide. Nearly 100 homes, many of them tin or cinder-block shacks, were flattened are cars were swept away by the mudslide on Wednesday night. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair
A red AIDS ribbon is emblazoned on the United Nations Secretariat Building in New York. The number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to more than double by 2010 requiring one billion dollars annually to care for them, the United Nations said.(AFP/File/Doug Kanter)
Viera creation : A model presents a design by Patricia Viera during the Spring-Summer 2005 collection of the Rio Fashion Week at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AFP/Vanderlei Almeida)
Rev. John Sentamu speaks to the media at London’s Church House Friday after he becomes the Church of England’s first black archbishop. He was appointed Archbishop of York, the Church of England’s second most senior position. (AP Photo/Matthew Fearn, PA)
An US soldierpays his last respects to his comrade Jorge M.Estrada during a Memorial Ceremony. US marines, sailors and Iraqi soldiers backed by warplanes have ben battling insurgents in Iraq’s Euphrates River valley in a new operation to rout them from positions near the Syrian border(AFP/Yuri Cortez)
June 17: King Cup Balloon : A man flies in an ultralight flies in front of two hot-air balloons during the King cup Balloon 2005 in Villanueva del Pardillo, near Madrid. (AFP/Pedro Armestre)
A Jewish rabbi places letters addressed to God in the wailing wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. The Postal office of Israel receives hundreds of letters from around the world written to God which are placed in the wailing wall during the year(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)
Fishy waters : An Indian fisherman takes out a handful of dead fish from the Puttenahalli Lake, in Bangalore, in the wake of a possible contamination of the lake waters by sewage. (AFP/Dibyanshu Sarkar)
The skyline of Toronto is masked by pollution. Chronic exposure to smog will kill up to 5,800 people in Canada’s most populous province this year, Ontario’s doctors said Tuesday. (CP/Kevin Frayer)
June 17: Kraftwerk in red : The four members of German band Kraftwerk perform a concert in Skopje. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
A Palestinian girl holds pictures of late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat (R) and her relative who is in an Israeli jail during a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 18, 2005. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins a Middle East visit on Saturday hoping to nudge Israeli and Palestinian leaders into close coordination of Israel’s Gaza pullout in August, a U.S. official said. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun
Tokyo shopkeepers. A record number of Japanese workers applied for compensation in the year to March after suffering depression or other mental disorders due to stress or being overworked, news reports say(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
An Iraqi calls to family members at his roadside home, as Iraqi firemen try to extinguish a burning oil truck after it was struck by a suicide car bomb attacker in Baghdad, Iraq Friday June 17, 2005. The suicide car bomber slammed into the loaded fuel tanker, killing two people and injuring another six, after missing an Iraqi army patrol, police said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
A pearl brooch (top R) is seen in a closeup of Raphael’s ‘Fornarina’ portrait in Milan June 13, 2005. The tiny pearl brooch seems an innocuous detail in Raphael’s enigmatic ‘Fornarina’ portrait, but for one group of historians it unlocks a scandalous love affair kept secret for centuries. According to new research published in May, the pearl, pinned onto an elaborate turban, is part of a web of allusions to the Renaissance artist’s clandestine marriage to the beautiful sitter, a baker’s daughter — despite a very public engagement to the niece of a powerful Vatican cardinal. Photo taken June 13, 2005. (Reuters – Handout)
Covered in a sheet, the body of 10-year-old Iraqi girl Haya Khalid lies on a hospital bed next to her mother Mona al-Janabi at a Baghdad hospital Saturday, June 18, 2005. The girl was killed when a roadside bomb, targeting a US military convoy, exploded in her neighborhood. Two other Iraqi civilians were also injured. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)