The Week in Pictures

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James reacts after a play against the Boston Celtics during the first half of Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals. Boston won, 97-87, to tie the best-of-seven series at two apiece.  (Elise Amendola / Associated Press)

A young opera performer from the Anhui art college prepares for a Peking Opera performance at the school in Hefei, central China.  (AFP / Getty Images)

Russian pilot Sergey Rakhmanin competes in the Red Bull Air Race in Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro.  (Felipe Dana / Associated Press)

U.S. Army troops march during the Victory Day parade in Red Square.  (Misha Japaridze / Associated Press)

Thousands of Taiwanese hold candles during the Taiwan National Buddha’s Birthday celebration in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.  (Chiang Ying-ying / Associated Press)

U.S. President Barack Obama receives the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws after giving the commencement address at Hampton University in Hampton, Va. During his speech, the president urged the graduates to be role models and mentors in their communities.  (Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images)

Tiger Woods is driven off the course after a neck injury on the seventh hole during the final round of the Players Championship golf tournament.  (Chris O’Meara / Associated Press)

Activists of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami party protest against price increases in oil and utility bills and electricity shortages.  (Asif Hassan / AFP / Getty Images)

A traveler sleeps as he waits for a flight in Barcelona’s international airport. Hundreds of flights between Europe and North America were delayed or canceled due to ash from Iceland’s volcano.  (Emilio Morenatti / AP)

Camilla, duchess of Cornwall, smiles as an umbrella goes awry during a London ceremony to honor Allied victory in Europe during World War II.  (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)

Partizan Belgrade soccer fans cheer their team with flags and signal flares at a match against Red Star Belgrade in Serbia.  (Marko Drobnjakovic / AP)

Vice President Joe Biden speaks to paratroopers in Paracuellos del Jarama, outside Madrid, Spain. Biden is spending two days in Spain, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.  (Dominique Faget / AFP/Getty Images)

As crude oil continues to float to the surface above the damaged Deepwater Horizon well, flying fish, like this one swimming off the Louisiana coast in oil-contaminated water 30 miles from the leak, are among many forms of marine life at risk.  (Christopher Berkley / EPA)

France’s Sebastien Loeb drives his car during super stage 6 at the Rally of New Zealand.  (Wayne Drought / Associated Press)

Crowds of people join in the 2010 Field of Women, forming a shape of a woman at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to raise awareness about breast cancer. It took about 14,000 women and men to make the shape.  (David Crosling / EPA)

A South African soccer fan waits to view the World Cup trophy at the launch of the South Africa FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour. The tour is scheduled to travel through 38 cities and towns across all nine provinces of South Africa, giving the public the chance to view and photograph the trophy.  (Nic Bothma / EPA)

Ferrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain sits in his car as he waits to begin practice for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix.  (Alvaro Barrientos / Associated Press)

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange before the opening bell. Stocks began the session mixed after a wild ride Thursday, with the Dow plunging almost 1,000 points before closing down 347 points.  (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Afghan army commandos stand on a sand bank as a U.S. Army Apache helicopter flies overhead in Marja, Afghanistan.  (Patrick Baz / AFP/Getty Images)

Haley Ishimatsu of the U.S. dives in the women’s platform preliminaries at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center during Day 1 of the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix.  (Al Bello / Getty Images)

Traders shout orders in the S&P 500 futures pit at the CME Group exchange in Chicago near the close of trading. The stock market had one of its most turbulent days ever, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging nearly 1,000 points in half an hour before recovering two-thirds of its losses.  (Kiichiro Sato / Associated Press)

An exit poll prediction for the outcome of Britain’s general election are projected onto the side of Battersea Power Station in south London. Polls showed the opposition Conservatives ahead but falling short of a clear majority.  (Geoff Caddick / AFP/Getty Images)

One of four baby white lions presented to journalists at a German park playfully bites a zookeeper on the nose. The lions were born at the park in March.  (Mark Keppler / AFP / Getty Images)

A Los Angeles police officer inspects a Corvette that was involved in a single-car accident that killed four people in the early-morning hours Thursday.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

On the Big Island, lava cascades into the ocean. The flow has spurred the closure of the Kalapana lava viewing area. Civil defense officials will make an assessment Friday as to whether the viewing area will be reopened.  (Bruce Omori / EPA)

The new Orion crew capsule is catapulted into the air at White Sands Missile Range during a test of Orion’s launch-abort system, which should whisk astronauts and the capsule to safety in case of a problem on the launch pad, such as a fire, or during the climb to orbit. The Orion capsule was originally designed to take astronauts back to the moon. But President Obama in February killed NASA’s $100-billion plans to return to the moon, redirecting the money to new rocket-technology research.  (Craig Fritz / Associated Press)

Palestinians wait to release balloons during a ceremony preceding Nakba Day, May 15, the anniversary of what they call “the catastrophe,” when Palestinians fled or were ejected from their homes with the 1948 creation of the state of Israel.  (Majdi Mohammed / Associated Press)

Residents lay flowers at a makeshift memorial outside a bank where three people were killed during protests Wednesday over government austerity measures. Three people, one of them a pregnant woman, died when protesters set the bank on fire.  (Milos Bicanski / Getty Images)

The rain-swollen Cumberland River flows by downtown Nashville at sunrise. A sculpture and a pedestrian walkway on the east bank of the river are still underwater.  (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)

Marine conservationist Rick Steiner collects a sample near Breton Island, La.. Efforts continue to clean up oil spilled after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.  (Mark Floegel / EPA)

Samaritans pray on Mt. Gerizim near the northern West Bank city of Nablus during celebrations of the Shavuot festival.  (Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP/Getty Images)

Members of the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins stand during the national anthem before Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the Stanley Cup playoffs at Wachovia Center in Philadelphia.  (Jim McIsaac / Getty Images)

An almost 2-month-old clouded leopard cub is vaccinated at Prague’s zoo.  (Stanislav Zbynek / Associated Press)

The Geode, an Omnimax theater, celebrates its 25th anniversary in Paris.  (Johanna Leguerre / AFP/Getty Images)

A ticket office at a soccer stadium in Soweto, South Africa, host country of the World Cup, which begins next month.  (Alexander Joe / AFP/Getty Images)

People dress in traditional outfits for the Feria del Caballo, or Festival of the Horse, in the southern city of Jerez, Spain.  (Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press)

A gasoline bomb ignites next to riot poice in Athens, where tens of thousands protested against the Greek government’s austerity measures amid its financial crisis. At least three people died in the rioting.  (Nikolas Giakoumidis / Associated Press)

Canada’s Pete McLeod flies his plane off Rio de Janeiro during the Red Bull Air Race.  (Mike Hewitt / Getty Images)

A boat moves along the edge of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico near Louisiana’s Chandeleur Islands.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Belen Gallardo, right, and Julissa Ruiz, of Xipe Totec Danzantes Aztecas, perform during Cinco de Mayo festivities at El Pueblo de Los Angeles.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Tiger Woods plays a practice round in preparation for the Players Championship golf tournament in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.  (Chris O’Meara / Associated Press)

FC Barcelona’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden, center, duels for the ball against Tenerife during a La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain.  (Manu Fernandez / Associated Press)

A Russian refueling plane and fighter jets fly over the Kremlin during a Victory Day parade rehearsal.  (Andrei Smirnov / AFP/Getty Images)

Two ducks prepare to land on a pond in Capitol Hill.  (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images)

A great blue heron eats a fish at Water Works Park in Des Moines.  (Charlie Neibergall / AP Photo)

A boy prominently displays a temporary tattoo of ousted Philippine leader and former action movie star Joseph Estrada, one of nine candidates in the May 10 presidential elections, during a campaign stop in suburban Taguig, south of Manila.  (Aaron Favila / Associated Press)

An injured woman is rushed to safety after she was trampled in a stampede of thousands of people who were frightened after hearing a loud voice scream out during a moment of silence at a Remembrance Day gathering in Amsterdam. The ceremony honors fallen Dutch soldiers and peacekeepers.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

A man looks at a Superman sculpture by German artist Marcus Wittmers in front of the Jewish Museum. The sculpture called “Also Heroes Have Bad Days” is part of the exhibition “Heroes, Freaks and Superrabbis: The Jewish Dimension of the Comic.”  (Gero Breloer / Associated Press)

Ronnie Russell, general manager of Metrolink Commuter Operations, walks down the center aisle of one of the new Crash Energy Management-enabled passenger cars at the Metrolink Eastern Maintenance Facility. The new cars are designed to better protect riders and crews with crash-absorbing collapsible impact zones.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Anti-government protesters react to speeches as leaders discuss a proposed reconciliation process in Bangkok’s main shopping district. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has come out with a five-step plan to end Thailand’s eight-week political crisis.  (Athit Perawongmetha / Getty Images)

A technician works in a vacuum chamber used for engine tests at the Rolls-Royce Mechanical Test Operations Center, which opened for work after a 1 1/2-year construction period.  (Sebastian Willnow / AFP/Getty Images)

A face transplant patient at the Hospital Virgen del Roci, identified only as Rafael, hugs a nurse at a news conference to thank the family of the donor. Rafael suffers from neurofibromatosis, a genetically inherited disorder in which his nerve tissue had grown tumors that had severely disfigured his face.  (Cristina Quicler / AFP/Getty Images)

Boston Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference, top, goes airborne as he collides with Philadelphia Flyers center Blair Betts, bottom, during the second period of Game 2 of a second-round NHL playoff series.  (Charles Krupa / Associated Press)

Arsenal defender Sol Campbell, top, vies with Blackburn Rovers forward Jason Roberts during the English Premier League soccer match at Ewood Park.  (Andrew Yates / AFP / Getty Images)

Members of the Alabama National Guard work on a barrier to protect Dauphin Island against the Gulf of Mexico oil leak.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Kijivu the gorilla cradles her 9-day-old baby at the Prague Zoo.  (Michal Cizek / AFP/Getty Images)

Super Saver and jockey Calvin Borel, right, win the 136th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.  (JASON SZENES / EPA)

An Indian boy helps Olive Ridley turtles reach the sea at a beach in the Ganjam district, about 90 miles south of Bhubaneswar, India. Olive Ridley turtles nest their eggs in parts of the Bay of Bengal’s Orissa coast.  (Biswaranjan Rout / Associated Press)

A may beetle flies near Darmstadt, Germany. A massive appearance of the beetles, which eat tree leaves, occurs every four years.  (Boris Roessler / EPA)

A dead fish lies on a beach in Biloxi, Miss., as concern continues for creatures in the path of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It is not known if the fish died because of the oil spill. Oil is still leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead at a rate of 1,000 to 5,000 barrels a day.
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Competitors participate in a cheese-rolling competition on Stilton High Street in Stilton, England. The annual event, featuring teams of four, is held every May Day Bank Holiday.  (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

Pedestrians walk past 42nd Street and 7th Avenue in New York’s Times Square. There was an increased police presence in the area after a car bomb was discovered before detonation on Saturday, but normality had generally resumed.
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Visitors look at an electronically animated giant baby inside the Spain Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo.  (Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press)

Japan’s Kimiko Date Krumm casts a shadow while preparing to serve to Croatia’s Petra Martic during their Estoril Open first-round tennis match.  (Armando Franca / Associated Press)