Friday, June 15, 2007

I'll take two cans and a bag of stud muffins: In Australia, entrepreneurs and shellfish farmers are infusing tanks of oysters with a mixture of crushed Viagra and calcium, and marketing it in Asia. Reuters photo by Mick Tsikas



My leg tickles! Dante the thoroughbred bends over to find out why, and there is Cuddles doing her tail-swishing thang in Kalispell, Mont. Daily Inter Lake photo by Jennifer Demonte via Associated Press



Mass. celebration: Greg Kimball (left) and Brian O'Connor hug as they cheer the defeat of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage at the Statehouse in Boston. Associated Press photo by Stephan Savoia



Wait your turn! A Mexican wolf pup tries to grab a hunk of meat away from its mother at the Cincinnati Zoo. Associated Press photo by Tom Uhlman



A rope lattice restricts a dancer's moves in the art installation "Floor of the Forest" by Trisha Brown at the "documenta 12" international art show in Kassel, Germany. Associated Press photo by Jens Meyer



Seating is limited for the "X-times people chair" performance art production in Prague. CTK photo by Roman Vondrous via Associated Press



Knut? Little girls show their stuffed polar bears to a puzzled Kachina as the Hearst Grizzly Gulch bear exhibit opens to the public at the San Francisco Zoo. More bears: Satisfy your grizzly urges. Chronicle photo by Paul Chinn



He'll dance no more: A Stanev gypsy boy plays with Misho, one of three dancing bears owned by the gypsy clan in Getsovo, Bulgaria. Animal rights activists bought the bears' freedom by paying off the villagers who exploited them. Associated Press photo by Petar Petrov



Losing face: A protester takes a bite out off Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul. In a full-page ad in the Washington Post, a group of Japanese lawmakers defended the installation of brothels during World War II and accused "comfort women," or sex slaves, of distorting the facts. Reuters photo by Lee Jae-Won



A beating in Baltimore: Maurice Gordon Bey Sr. (in red) and an unidentified accomplice pummel a young man they spotted walking past the Gordon-Bey family home in Baltimore. They suspected the youth, who was able to limp away after the assault, may be associated with the slaying of Bey's 15-year-old son, Maurice, who died after being shot while sitting on the porch of a neighbor's home. Police are investigating both the shooting and the beating. Baltimore Sun photo by Monica Lopossay via Associated Press



Remove your shoes or else: Hamas shows off its playful side to journalists at a security checkpoint at the Rafah Border Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. After seizing control of Gaza, the Islamic militant party granted amnesty to leaders of the rival Fatah party. MaanImages photo by Hatem Omar via Associated Press



Is that a kangaroo in your pocket or ...? An 8-month-old Matschie's tree kangaroo joey pops its head out of the pouch to see what the commotion is at the Bronx Zoo. Wildlife Conservation Society photo by Julie Larsen Maher via Associated Press