Wednesday, May. 05, 2010

This won't hurt a bit? Then why the barbecue mitts around my neck? (A 2-month-old clouded leopard cub gets vaccinated at the Prague Zoo.)

Get that man some Rogaine: FC Barcelona's Daniel Alve has a balled head. (Match against Tenerife at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona.)

Betcha can't eat just one: An underclassman impresses the girls with his superior potato crisps in London's Trafalgar Square.

Hey! I'm still here! The volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier would like to remind everyone who's completely forgotten about it in the light of a certain oil spill that it is still erupting and causing new air traffic delays in Ireland and Scotland.

This might be the city limit: Travelers to Caddo Lake, Texas, sometimes find themselves in Uncertain territory.

Help, police! A wayward baby sea lion hiding under a San Diego cop cruiser in Ocean Beach balks at being rescued by Kevin Robinson of Sea World. The pup, estimated to be about 8 months old, was to be taken to Sea World, examined and rehabilitated before being released back in the ocean.

Duck down the drain: Firefighter Scott Dawson drops into a storm drain in Almedia, Pa., in search of a baby duck that a witness saw fall through the grate. Firefighters were unable to find the duckling, but left a clear path out of the pipe so it could escape.

A Panzer is no match for the well-aimed sidearm: A Russian officer captures a Nazi tank with a pistol during a World War II reenactment on the outskirts of Moscow.

Flames from a fire bomb engulf a riot cop in Athens during a violent protest against harsh new spending cuts. Tens of thousands of outraged Greeks took to the streets to protest the country's latest austerity measures aimed at preventing bankruptcy. The condition of the policeman was not known.

The body of a shark lies in the sand of Ship Island, Miss. It was not known if it died due to the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead.

Blown ashore, oil-retention booms lie tangled in the growth near the nests of young brown pelicans on New Harbor Island in the Gulf of Mexico. A few hours later commercial fisherman hired by BP repaired the booms.

An Afghan girl spins on a merry-go-round at a cemetery in west Kabul.

Poor Pakistani children play in a dirt alley on the outskirts of Islamabad.

Tidying up the dirt: A woman sweeps leaves in Beijing's Ditan Park.

Slippery road ahead: Wherever the Pacifica banana slug goes in rural Oakland, Ore., slime is sure to follow.

But where will they put their documents proving they aren't illegal immigrants? Arizona State students strip to their skivvies for the AXE Undie Run Challenge in Tempe.

Washing away her sins: A Hindu devotee takes a holy dip in the River Ganges in Allahabad, India.