CONTINUE TO MAY 2010
In New York City Sunday, children played with cherry blossoms, would-be elevator operators looked for a way up, a film festival was underway and a dead body was found under a bridge.
A man and a dog stood along the waterfront in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Lillian Rodriguez Lopez, president of the Hispanic Federation, spoke at a press conference in lower Manhattan to protest of a new Arizona law cracking down on illegal immigration. At center is the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Peter Foltmer of Elmont and Edwin Henry of Queens waited in line on 35th Street in Long Island City where the Local 3 elevator mechanics’ union was dispensing applications for apprenticeships.
Police officers covered a dead body that was found under the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge in Brooklyn.
People stopped Sunday to pay their respects at a shrine to James Williams, killed on West 118th Street in Manhattan Saturday.
Children played with the last of the cherry blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Pedestrians on Main Street in Flushing, Queens, shielded themselves from the rain.
The red carpet was empty before a screening of “Meet Monica Velour” as part of the Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theater.
A woman walked past the “Spirit of Harlem” mosaic at Eighth Avenue and West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan.
COLORFUL KITE: Thomas Schroeder adjusted his turbine-kite in the North Sea coastal village of Norddeich, Germany, Monday.
HEAD IN A HOLE: A man put his head into a hole to see Denmark’s iconic Little Mermaid statue at the opening Sunday of the Denmark Pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai. The famed statue made its first trip abroad in its 96-year history.
LOOKING UP: World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy (center, back row) looked up during a group photo at an International Monetary Fund/World Bank spring meeting in Washington Sunday.
NEWS CONFERENCE: Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship (second from right) and other company officials announced Monday in Charleston, W.Va., that air samples did not show high levels of explosive gases before a blast killed 29 miners earlier this month.
BLOWN AWAY: Tommy Backstrom and his wife, Debbie, stood in front of what used to be their home in Yazoo City, Miss., Sunday. A massive tornado damaged structures and killed at least 10 people in rural Mississippi and two in Alabama.
24 YEARS LATER: A woman placed a framed photograph of her husband, who died during the cleanup after the Chernobyl explosion, at a memorial site in Kiev Monday. The 1986 explosion spread radiation over much of Europe.
PRAYING FOR STRENGTH: Antigovernment protesters prayed during a ceremony Monday in Bangkok to remember the Red Shirt protesters who have died in the conflict. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has rejected a compromise offer to end weeks of protests if he dissolves parliament and holds elections.
SHOUTING OUT: A pro-government supporter shouted slogans at a member of the Ladies in White, a group of women with relatives who are political prisoners, during a rally in Havana Sunday.
HUG IT OUT: Combatants hugged after competing in an authentic reproduction of a 14th-century tournament held by the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts in Toronto Sunday.
HELD BACK: The San Antonio Spurs’ Manu Ginobili was grabbed from behind by the Dallas Mavericks’ Eduardo Najera during their NBA playoff game Sunday in San Antonio. Mr. Najera was called for a flagrant foul and ejected from the game; the Spurs won 92-89.
GREEN MEANS GO: Rene Perez, of the Puerto Rican band Calle 13, performed during the “Vive Latino” music festival in Mexico City Sunday. Mr. Perez’s back reads, “Green light to invade Arizona,” in reference to a new state law that criminalizes illegal immigration.
READY TO SWIM: Swimmers rode on a boat to the starting point of the “Swim Across the Orinoco and the Caroni Rivers Race” in San Felix, Venezuela, Sunday. Hundreds of swimmers participated.
COLLAPSED: A hillside collapsed onto a major highway in Keelung, Taiwan, Sunday, burying three cars. Authorities, who blamed several days of rain for the collapse, have been unable to locate the motorists.
KICKING THROUGH: Protesters trying to force their way to the presidential palace in Manila clashed with riot police during an antigovernment rally Monday. They demanded that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo promptly step down when her term ends June 30.
MEETING IN THE MIDDLE: Napoli midfielder Marek Hamsik (left) fought for the ball with Cagliari goalkeeper Federico Marchetti during their match in Naples, Italy, Sunday.
SHANTY FIRE: A resident carried a karaoke machine to safety as fire gutted shanties in Quezon, Philippines, Sunday. At least one resident was killed, 600 homes were destroyed and more than 10,000 people were left homeless.
VIEW FROM THE TOP: A man held a boy up to watch firefighters tackle a rooftop blaze at a London apartment building Wednesday. The building was extensively damaged, but no one was injured.
GETTING EGGED: Eggs thrown by students protesting against proposed restrictions on part-time work hit riot police officers’ shields in front of Parliament in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Wednesday. The government also plans to reduce state scholarships and lower spending for students’ meals as part of a plan to reduce a budget deficit.
A LITTLE LAMB: Agriculture workers held up a lamb while shouting antigovernment slogans during a protest Wednesday in Bucharest against spending cuts to meet International Monetary Fund loan commitments.
GOING UP: Workers stacked sacks of maize in a warehouse in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday. The World Food Program provisions are intended for distribution to the needy and internally displaced persons.
UNDER THE GUN: A protester lay dead in Bangkok Wednesday as the army stormed the Red Shirts’ encampment. Protest leaders surrendered earlier in the day, but clashes that left at least six people dead continued. A curfew was put into effect.
SHARING A SPACE: A stray dog fed her puppies as street children slept on a sidewalk in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday.
DEMANDING JUSTICE: Activists from India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party demanded the execution of Afzal Guru, who was involved in a 2001 militant attack on the Indian Parliament, during protests in New Delhi Wednesday.
FLEXING HER MUSCLE: First lady Michelle Obama flexed her muscles as she met with students during their physical activities class at a Silver Spring, Md., elementary school. The school was awarded the USDA’s HealthierUS School Challenge silver award in 2009.
DISCONNECTED: An activist from the Jamaat-e-Islami Party during protests Wednesday in Karachi, Pakistan, urged users to log off in protest of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published on Facebook. Pakistan temporarily blocked access to the site after a competition encouraged users to post the images.
LISTENING IN: Media members held audio recorders up to a speaker to hear a news conference with President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the White House Wednesday. The pair are working to address immigration.
FRIENDLY SKIES: A new Lufthansa Airbus A380 aircraft was welcomed at Frankfurt’s airport Wednesday.
SLEEPING OUT: A Palestinian man slept on the rubble of his house in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Wednesday. The Islamist Hamas rulers demolished more than 20 homes, claiming they were built without permits, according to a human-rights group.
MAKING TRACKS: French soccer players walked in the snow near their training camp in the French Alps resort of Tignes Wednesday.
WAIST DEEP: A man pushed his motorized two-wheeler through a flooded street in Chennai, India, Wednesday. Heavy rains and strong winds battered the area as forecasters warned that a cyclone would soon make landfall.
CHECKING IN: A man called his family from a hospital after getting hurt in a suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday. At least 18 people, including U.S. and Canadian troops, were killed.
CARRIED AWAY: Riot police carried off a medical professional who blocked train tracks Tuesday in Paris in protest of hospital working conditions. Some 2,500 nurse-anesthesiologists blocked the high-speed train, disrupting travel for thousands of passengers.
AWAITING WORD: Miners awaited word about 30 colleagues trapped in a methane-gas explosion at the Karadon coal mine in Zonguldak, Turkey, Monday. Rescue workers struggled to reach them Tuesday, dimming hopes that the miners would be found alive.
IN THE SHADOWS: Protesters hid after setting tires on fire in Bangkok Tuesday. The government rejected the Red Shirts’ proposal for peace talks, saying protesters must disperse first.
SPECTATOR SCUFFLE: Actor David Arquette, in purple, was somehow pulled into a skirmish involving security and a man while watching the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns Western Conference finals game in Los Angeles Monday. The Lakers won 128-107.
ROWING ALONG: A man navigated floodwaters in Chelm Maly, Poland, Tuesday. Flooding in southern Poland has killed at least five people, while heavy rainfall is also causing flooding in parts of Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
PICTURE PERFECT: A visitor took a picture of Mount Saint Helens in Washington state Tuesday, the 30th anniversary of the volcano’s 1980 eruption. The top 1,300 feet blew off the mountain, killing 57 people and knocking down 230 square miles of forest.
CASTING HIS BALLOT: Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) cast his vote Tuesday in Philadelphia during the Democratic primary. Mr. Specter, who switched from the Republican party, is facing questions about whether he is sufficiently loyal to party priorities.
COVERED UP: Men employed to clean up debris after a suicide attack Tuesday in Kabul, Afghanistan, took cover under wheelbarrows from sudden rainfall.
SEEKING COMFORT: Grieving relatives comforted each other Tuesday in Salang Pass, Afghanistan, where a plane carrying 44 people is believed to have crashed in the mountainous terrain Monday.
MORTGAGE OUTRAGE: Carmen Edwards waved her mortgage papers during a demonstration outside J.P. Morgan Chase’s annual shareholder meeting in Manhattan Tuesday. Demonstrators protested against the bank’s mortgage practices.
ALL ABOARD: People boarded a crowded train in New Delhi Tuesday.
SEAT’S TAKEN: Joints Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen’s hat was stowed beneath his seat before his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday in Washington about the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia.
LITTLE MINHS: Gold-colored busts of Communist revolutionary figure Ho Chi Minh were displayed for sale near his mausoleum in Hanoi Tuesday.
Artist Tony Walker, in red pants, an operating room nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital, prepared his sculpture, Chessie, right, at the start of the Kinetic Sculpture Race May 1. It was the tenth race for Fifi, center, a giant pink poodle entered by the American Visionary Art Museum, the race’s organizer.
The race entrants, known as “kinetinauts,” have their own pit crews. At left, Ivy Smith, a member of the pit crew for a team the called itself PLATYPUS (“Personal Long-range All-Terrain Yacht Proven Un-Safe”), waited for the race to begin.
“Some people think it’s trash on wheels,” says Theresa Segreti of the American Visionary Art Museum. “But it’s art.” The Going to Hell entry, left, featured a red devil’s head on its front.
The competition was inspired by a 1969 kinetic sculpture race in California started by the late sculptor Hobart Brown. The Baltimore race is the largest on the East Coast. Spectators lined the route for the 2010 race, at left watching from the top of Federal Hill Park.
Sarah Templin, left, and Theresa Segreti, pilots for the Fifi the pink poodle, dressed appropriately for the race.
Bumpo the Circus Elephant got a push along Warren Avenue at the start of the race.
The Moderately Famished Caterpillar, driven by six bicyclists, wound around Key Highway. It was one of two caterpillars in the race.
Frank Conlan and Shari Edelson rode Los Baltimuertos, a tribute to Baltimore’s endangered cart vendors, in the next-to-final leg of the race.
Spectators wore their own creative gear.
One of the entries, a life-size gingerbread house, had a surprise waiting for the water-bound portion of the race: lollipop paddles. For finishing in the middle of the pack, the Candy Haus team won the event’s most coveted prize, the “mediocre award.”
Mr. Walker’s Chessie emerged from the Baltimore harbor as it neared the end of the water portion of the race.
Fifi also successfully completed the water portion of the race.
Members of the Platypus team struggled in the giant mud pit, where three large hills and valleys of knee-deep mud forced the crew to dismount and push.
Sarah Jennings lay exhausted on the pavement after her team’s sculpture, Circus Rat, emerged from Baltimore’s harbor. In all, the race lasted from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with teams assembling hours ahead of time, and it was people-powered from start to finish.
GRUESOME MAKEUP: Makeup artists demonstrated techniques for applying makeup, whether for film or beauty, at the Beautyworld Japan event in Tokyo Monday. Nearly 600 exhibitors from 23 countries and regions attend the annual show.
TIRES AND FIRE: Firemen worked at a cement warehouse in Manila Monday. No injuries or deaths were reported in the fire, which is under investigation.
CLEANSED SPIRIT: Supporters of Maj. Gen. Khattiya Sawasdipol poured water on a picture of him at his funeral in Bangkok Monday. He was shot Thursday during a clash. Protesters and the military clashed again Monday.
TOUCHING A KAFFIYEH: Palestinian children held up a large kaffiyeh, a traditional Arab headdress, during Nakba celebrations in Ramallah, in the West Bank, Monday. Nakba commemorates the uprooting of Palestinians who lost their homes in the Arab-Israeli War.
WATER TWISTER: A water spout formed in the water off of Bondi Beach in Sydney Monday. The rare site lasted about five minutes.
UNDERCOVER: A man sat under a table in his car-parts store as he waited for customers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday.
LEGS LEFT: Prosthetic legs lay on a bed in a hospital that was evacuated Monday in Szikszo, Hungary, due to flash floods caused by heavy rainfall.
AT ATTENTION: Chinese soldiers prepared to perform a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Monday.
SORTING THEIR CATCH: Shrimpers separated their catch at a processing plant in Buras, La., Monday. BP said it was capturing about one-fifth of the estimated oil gushing from its ruptured undersea Gulf of Mexico well and hoped to increase that amount before trying to fully stop the flow later in the week.
SEEKING SHELTER: Army soldiers took cover from rain as they waited for rehearsals Monday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, for a Victory Day parade that’s scheduled for Thursday. The parade will mark Sri Lanka’s victory over Tamil forces.
ARRESTED: Two men were arrested while protesting Monday in New York over the issue of immigration reform.
A CLOSER LOOK: A villager looked through binoculars at the mountains where a Pamir Airways plane is believed to have crashed in the Salang Pass, near Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday. Dense fog hindered rescuers who tried to search for the 44 passengers onboard.
CLEAN CUT: U.S. Army Spc. Jay Villa of Long Beach, Calif., shaved his head outside his tent in Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, Monday.
READY TO BOX: A young woman paused while hitting a punching bag during a boxing training session at a stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday. Women were banned from the sport under Taliban rule.
HAULED IN: A family member moved a blood-stained sofa back into a Detroit home Monday, a day after police searching for a homicide suspect burst in and an officer’s gun went off, fatally striking Aiyana Jones, 7, in the neck. State police will take over the investigation.
BOYS AT PLAY: Boys played Nintendo DS games in front of the official Pokemon store in Tokyo Sunday. Nintendo recently announced that the device is the best selling hand-held game of all time, with more than 125 million units sold since its launch in late 2004. Nintendo now plans to sell a portable 3-D gaming device.
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