2014-05-17



Teenage girls walk through a park fountain on May 17, 2014 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Civilians tried to get on with their daily lives in Dontesk as the political and military crisis continued in eastern Ukraine ahead of presidential elecitons scheduled for May 25. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)



People hold hands as they dance during the traditional spring Vyshyvanka Mega March in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on May 17, 2014. Thousands of Ukrainians wearing vyshyvankas, the traditional embroidered shirts, take part in the march in some Ukrainain cities as well as in London and Toronto. The mega march is non-political, the presence of symbols of political parties is prohibited, but this year the march carries special meaning and is aimed at preserving a united Ukraine. AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSKYSERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images



A Pakistani farmer harvests sunflowers in a field in Nankana Sahib on May 17, 2014. According to the federal ministry of national food security and research (economic wing) figures, Pakistans total sunflower acreage stood at 236,001 hectares in 2011-12 with major contribution coming from Sindh 79.9 per cent. AFP PHOTO/Arif ALIArif Ali/AFP/Getty Images

In this photo, released May 17, an Afghan youth pushes a friend on a ice-cream cart, as the sun sets on the outskirts of Mazar-i- Sharif on May 16, 2014. Afghanistan remains at war, with civilians among the hardest hit, as the Taliban wage an increasingly bloody insurgency against the government. AFP PHOTO/FARSHAD USYANFARSHAD USYAN/AFP/Getty Images

Steve Vincenti of Miami walks on the beach wearing 500 plastic shopping bags, protesting the use of disposable bags, during a Hands across the Sand event, part of simultaneous events happening globally to raise awareness of the need to end our dependence on fossil fuels and transition to clean energy. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

In this January 2014 photo released on Saturday, May 17, 2014 by the Museo Paletontológico Egidio Feruglio, Spanish paleontologist Jose Ignacio Canudo lies alongside a sauropod dinosaur femur, believed to be the largest in the world, in Trelew, Argentina. Paleontologists from the Museo Paletontológico Egidio Feruglio, announced Friday, May 16, 201, the discovery of the fossil remains of the sauropod dinosaur near Trelew. (AP Photo/Museo Paletontológico Egidio Feruglio)

 

(L-R) Actress Zsofia Psotta, dog actor Hagen and Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo pose during the photocall for ‘Feher Isten’ (White God) at the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, 17 May 2014. The movie is presented in the section Un Certain Regard of the festival which runs from 14 to 25 May. EPA/JULIEN WARNAND

Spain’s Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Britain’s Andy Murray during the Rome Masters Tennis match on May 16, 2014, at the Foro Italico in Rome. AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABITIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images

Gay rights activists release balloons as they take part in a flash mob devoted to the World Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in St. Petersburg, on May 17, 2014. AFP PHOTO / OLGA MALTSEVAOLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images

Baby pygmy hippopotamus “Lani” eats a salad on May 17, 2014 at the Basel Zoo. It has been 14 years since a baby pygmy hippopotamus was last born at Basel Zoo. Lani came into the world on March 18, when it was still a little cold for her outside. Now, she joins her mother in the outdoor enclosure on warm, sunny days. Lani is one around 135 pygmy hippopotamuses in the European Endangered Species Programme. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINIFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images

Martin Zatovic (R) of the Czech Republic in action against Phillip Larsen (L) of Denmark during the Ice Hockey World Championship match between Denmark and the Czech Republic in the Chizhovka Arena in Minsk, Belarus, 17 May 2014. Denmark won 4-3 on penalties. EPA/TATYANA ZENKOVICH

A Serbian rescuer carries an elderly woman out of her flooded house in the village of Obrez, near the central Serbian town of Varvarin, south of Belgrade, on May 17, 2014. Deadly floods across Bosnia and Serbia have claimed at least 14 lives and led to the evacuation of 15,000 people after the Balkans suffered its heaviest rainfall in a century, officials said on Saturday. AFP PHOTO / SASA DJORDJEVICSASA DJORDJEVIC/AFP/Getty Images

A young boy reacts as he gets his chick pierced as an act of self-torture during a religious procession in Ahmadabad, India, Saturday, May 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers light lamps around the BJP’s symbol Lotus as they celebrate BJP’s win and as a thanks giving gesture to the public after their party’s victory in the Indian Parliamentary elections in Bhopal, India, 17 May 2014. Modi led India’s Hindu nationalist BJP to unprecedented victory on 16 May in the general elections, beating the incumbent Indian National Congress. EPA/SANJEEV GUPTA

White, dark and light chocolate figures of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the image of Napoleon and a prisoner for sale in a candy shop in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv Saturday, May 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavlo Palamarchuk)

Actress Salma Hayek holds up a sign reading “bring back our girls”, part of a campaign calling for the release of nearly 300 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls being held by Nigerian Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, as she arrives for the screening of Saint-Laurent at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Sri Lankan soldiers stand at attention as their national flag is lowered as part of a daily ceremony at the Galle Face Green promenade in Colombo on May 17, 2014. The government is planning a major military “victory parade” on May 18 to mark five years since the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels, who waged a decades-long battle for a separate homeland for minority Tamils. Services have been banned to honour Tamil rebels and remember civilians killed in the conflict which ended in 2009 after claiming at least 100,000 lives. AFP PHOTO/Ishara S. KODIKARAIshara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images

In this photo released May 17, taken May 15, 2014, the green sea turtle, named “Hofesh,” the Hebrew word for “freedom,” is fitted with a prosthetic fin at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Michmoret, Israel. The badly injured sea turtle’s prospects are looking up – thanks to a new prosthetic fin designed by an Israeli team and modeled after the wings of a U.S. fighter jet. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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