powerful tornado ...
The path of a powerful tornado is seen in Joplin, Mo. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses.
tornado ripped through the Falcon Lake area of Piedmont in Oklahoma
A member of a search and rescue crew looks for missing children after a tornado ripped through the Falcon Lake area of Piedmont in Oklahoma May 24, 2011. Several tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon, the largest one striking El Reno, west of Oklahoma City, and continuing to the northeast, the National Weather Service said.
the Grimsvotn volcano casts shadow to the west.
This image provided by NASA shows an image taken by a NASA MODIS satellite acquired at 1:15 a.m. EDT on May 22, 2011 shows the ash plume from the Grimsvotn volcano casts shadow to the west. The Grimsvotn volcano began erupting on Saturday, May 21 sending clouds of ash high into the air. The amount of ash spewing from the volcano tapered off dramatically on Tuesday, however, said Elin Jonasdottir, a forecaster at Iceland's meteorological office. The blue dots are data dropouts probably caused by the very bad light in the shadow of the plume.
Children in traditional Bavarian clothes
Children in traditional Bavarian clothes wait for the arrival of Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and her husband Prince Daniel, the Duke of Vastergotland, at a beer garden in Aying near Munich May 24, 2011. The royal couple is on a visit to Germany with stops in Munich and Berlin.
Libyan Muslims
Libyan Muslims perform their evening prayer at Benghazi's Revolution Square on May 24, 2011 as Jordan said it recognises the National Transitional Council as the "legitimate representative" of the Libyan people and intends to appoint an envoy the rebels' capital.
bestselling NOOK product line
The newest Barnes & Noble device in its bestselling NOOK product line, a 6-inch touch eReader, is pictured at an event held in their Union Square bookstore in New York, May 24, 2011. The compact new NOOK features a full touch screen, best-in-class battery life and a high-contrast E Ink Pearl display and for reading books and periodicals.
the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
An undated Lockheed Martin handout picture shows the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle being assembled and tested at Lockheed Martin's Vertical Testing Facility in Colorado, USA. The US space agency revealed plans on 24 May 2011 for a new spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to distant destinations and eventually to Mars. The system known as the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle is based largely on the spacecraft called Orion that was part of scrapped plans developed during president George W Bush‘s administration to return astronauts to the moon. Up to four astronauts will be able to live for 21 days aboard the cone-shaped craft, which is designed to be 10-times safer than the soon-to-be-retired space shuttle fleet.
The three final couples
The three final couples are shown on stage during the final one-hour performance show of "Dancing with the Stars" in Los Angeles in this May 23, 2011 photograph. The finale takes place on Tuesday, with the winner being named. The couples are (from L to R) Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy; Kym Johnson and Hines Ward and Chelsea Kane and Mark Ballas.
A woman sells grocery
A woman sells grocery in a street in Hanoi, Vietnam 25 May 2011. Vietnam's inflation accelerates to 19.78%, highest in Asia. Prices rose 19.78 percent from a year earlier, compared with 17.51 percent in April, according to data released by the General Statistics Office. The rate is the highest since December 2008
Cambodian environmental
Cambodian environmental activists perform during a rally in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 25 May 2011. Environmental activists celebrate the forest in a mass rally to call on the government of Cambodia to stop granting economic land concessions and suspend all those already granted in Prey Lang forest and conserve Prey Lang forest as a heritage for Cambodia.
The Tree of Life,"
Jessica Chastain, second from right, a cast member in "The Tree of Life," poses with fellow cast members, from left, Hunter McCracken, Tye Sheridan and Laramie Eppler at a screening of the film, Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Los Angeles.
Pakistani onlookers ..
Pakistani onlookers gather around a police building after it was attacked by a suicide bomber in an explosives-laden pickup truck in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2011. A suicide bomber leveled a police building, killing five police officers and wounding at least 30 people in the latest round of bloodshed to rattle the country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
temperatures reached 43 degrees Celsius
Indian men bathe using water from a road side pipe in New Delhi on May 25, 2011 where temperatures reached 43 degrees Celsius. A torrid heat wave buffeted northern India with mid-summer temperatures rising above 44 degrees celsius.
Residents swim along a flooded street
Residents swim along a flooded street after heavy downpour brought by Tropical storm Songda in Manila on May 25, 2011. A fierce storm approaching the Philippines intensified into a typhoon, the government said, warning it would unleash heavy rains across the main island of Luzon.
"the Legend Of Lady Yang"
Actresses pose for photos after a rehearsal of Chinese opera "the Legend Of Lady Yang" at the national theater center hall in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, May 25, 2011. The works will perform the play from May 26-29
Russia's Tatarstan
(FILES) In this photograph taken on April 15, 2011 Muslims pray during Friday noon prayers in the central Qol Sharif mosque in Kazan the capital of Russia's Tatarstan region. The authorities of Tatarstan worry about the rise of the radical Islam and the appearance of the militant Islamic groups in this mainly Muslim central Russian region known as a model of religious tolerance.
falling on the street"
Karren, part of the Pujie Girls, poses for a photograph while demonstrating planking during an interview with Reuters outside Taiwan's National Theatre in Taipei May 25, 2011. Lying face flat on the ground may not be the world's most glamourous photo pose but two Taiwanese "planking" women have made a name for themselves on the Internet -- and hope to use the craze to spread positive social messages. Calling themselves the Pujie Girls which literally translates to "falling on the street" in Mandarin, the pair are Taiwan's most well-known plankers, with almost 100,000 fans following them on Facebook.
'Your Plural View
A woman looks at a work entitled 'Your Plural View' by Olafur Eliasson featuring a mirror using stainless steel and aluminium at the Hong Kong International Art Fair in Hong Kong on May 25, 2011. Art HK11 runs from 26-29 May 2011 gathering 260 galleries from 38 countries
Cambodian villager
A Cambodian villager with his face painted participates in a protest to save rain forests at Democracy Square in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, May 25, 2011. The villagers from Cambodia's four provinces of Preah Vihear, Kampong Thom, Steung Treng and Kratie demanded the government to stop giving land concession to private companies.
photograph while demonstrating planking
Pujie Girls, Karren (R) and Jinyu, pose for a photograph while demonstrating planking during an interview with Reuters at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial in Taipei May 25, 2011. Lying face flat on the ground may not be the world's most glamourous photo pose but two Taiwanese "planking" women have made a name for themselves on the Internet -- and hope to use the craze to spread positive social messages. Calling themselves the Pujie Girls which literally translates to "falling on the street" in Mandarin, the pair are Taiwan's most well-known plankers, with almost 100,000 fans following them on Facebook.
Debris from destroyed homes are seen after a massive tornado
MAY 24: Debris from destroyed homes are seen after a massive tornado passed through the town on May 24, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. 116 people are known to have been killed and authorities expect the death toll to climb in the town of 50,000 people. Rescue workers are searching for survivors as the threat of further storms still looms.
MAY 24: Christal Comstock sits outside her family home which was destroyed when a massive tornado passed through the town killing at least 116 people May 24, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. The tornado that ripped through the town of about 50,000 people May 22, is being called the deadliest single tornado in the U.S. in 60 years.
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