World in Photos
A man sits covered in charcoal from loading it into bags for sale in the slum area of Hlaing Thaya on May 2, 2009 in Yangon, Myanmar. The country’s government spends only 0.3% of its gross domestic product on health, the lowest amount worldwide, according to the 2008 United Nations Development Program survey. (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)
Members of a U.S. Army team prepare to transport a flag-draped transfer case holding the remains of Army Spc. Lukasz Saczek at Dover Air Force Base on Tuesday in Dover, Del. Spc. Saczek was killed while serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images)
A Chinese parent, right, and a schoolteacher hug as they grieve Tuesday outside the Beichuan middle school where an estimated 1,000 students and teachers were killed when the school collapsed during the May 12, 2008, earthquake in Beichuan, southwestern Sichuan province. Survivors of last year’s devastating quake trekked into the ruined town of Beichuan for anniversary commemorations of the tragedy that left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing and 5 million homeless. (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)
Muslims pray in Bratunac, Bosnia on Tuesday at the funeral ceremony of 33 Bosnian Muslims killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Vlasenica 17 years ago, during the war in Bosnia 1992-1995. (Fehim Demir / EPA)
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Michael Waltrip’s car (55) catches fire as his engine blows in turn three during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 auto race at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, S.C. last Saturday. Waltrip was not seriously injured in the mishap. (Richard Shiro / Associated Press)
The French aerobatic team Cartouche Dore flies in formation near Aix-en-Provence, southern France on Monday. (Joel Saget / AFP / Getty Images)
A shipyard worker who was forced to retire early from Spanish shipbuilding company Naval Gijon runs from a barricade of burning tires during a protest in Gijon, northern Spain, on Monday. The workers who have been retired early have occupied the headquarters to demand that the company continues paying their salaries after the firm’s closure at the end of May. (Juan Gonzalez / EFE /Associated Press)
Luxembourg’s riot police protect the broken main entrance gate of the company ArcelorMittal’s headquarters on Tuesday after workers from Belgium and France, angry over labor issues, disrupted the firm’s shareholders meeting by hurling cobblestones and wrecking steel fencing at the building, smashing windows and tearing off a steel molding from the ornate 1920s exterior. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Associated Press)
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The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canveral, Fla., on Monday. The shuttle’s seven-member crew is on an 11-day mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. (John Raoux / Associated Press)
Photographers jockey for position at the opening ceremonies of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. Cannes will add a new chapter to its history -- and give a nod to what some hail as the future of cinema -- when the Riviera film festival kicks off with a 3-D animated movie, Pixar’s “Up.” The hotly awaited premiere will make cinematic history as it becomes the first-ever animated feature, and the first three-dimensional movie, to open the world’s paramount cinema showcase, which runs from May 13 to May 24. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP / Getty Images)
