A French matador stabs the bull during the bullfight in the Maestranza Bullring in Sevilla.

Pavel Lyzhyn of Belarus competes in the men's shot put at the IAAF Diamond League in Doha

Swiss guards take part in a swearing-in ceremony in honour courtyard of the Swiss guard at the Vatican.

Firefighters stand in smoke during demonstration to protest the Hungarian government's austerity measures in Budapest.

Rebels perform prayers in the eastern city of Ajdabiya on as Muammar Gaddafi's regime reacted angrily to a decision by world powers to provide funding to rebels fighting to overthrow his rule in Libya, saying plans to tap assets frozen abroad were 'piracy'.

US Marines search a villager's compound after they found grenades buried in a backard in Afghanistan.

People burn a US flag against the killing of Osama bin Laden during a protest, in Pakistan.

A member of one of the search teams which looked for the remains of Soviet soldiers killed while fighting against Nazi Germany's forces, prepares coffins before a funeral ceremony at a memorial cemetery in Russia.

A soldier takes his position on a patrol tower in Afghanistan.

A Ballet dancer from Canada performs her classical variation during the Prix de Lausanne semi-final competition in Lausanne.

A man walks past the outside wall of the 'Art In The Streets' exhibit at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

Actress Mamtha Mohandas posing for a photo after she was announced as the brand ambassador for ‘Kochi International Fashion Week’ in Kochi.

Women stand in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company in Tokyo during a rally demanding the abolition of nuclear power plants.

A tourist takes a photo at sunrise on May 8, 2011 of the leaning tower of Pisa in an empty square.

Activists of India's Fight Against Terrorism Society shout anti-Pakistan slogans during a protest in New Delhi.

A photograph dated between 1932 and 1940, shows one of the hostels with a sculpture of Ramkinker Baiji, artist from a village recruited by Rabindranath Tagore, at the university at Santiniketan. An exhibition of newly-uncovered photographs of Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-western writer to win a Nobel prize, has opened in Bangladesh to mark the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth.

Picture taken in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero in Paris, of the installation by French artist Rachid Khimoune of 1,000 turtle-shaped statues made in the 90s out of helmets from different countries. The statues, exhibited here on the 66th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, aim at symbolizing 'the never ending horrors of war'.

A 12-metre-tall breakwater is seen broken and nearly collapsed by the March 11 tsunami in the Toni area of the tsunami-devastated city of Kamaishi, Iwate state. Some 10,808 people were still listed as missing as of May 2, with 14,728 confirmed dead from the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the northeastern part of Japan.

Pope Benedict XVI (C) sits in a boat as he crosses the Grand Canal in Venice during his pastoral visit to Aquilea and Venice.

Men walk along the tracks of Algiers new tramway system which opened on May 8, 2011. After a two-year delay, the new tramway service opened, starting with a 7.2 km section running between Bordj El Kiffan and Bab-Ezzouar, serving residents in the densely populated eastern part of the city.