CNN Site Map for Section World (Galleries) for May - 2012
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- 2012-05-31Scottish Power has been testing the HS1000 sub-sea turbine in the fast flowing coastal waters of the Orkney Islands in Northern Scotland.
- 2012-05-31Catholic nuns in Dublin, Ireland, smile as they vote Thursday on the European fiscal treaty. Ireland is the only one of 25 nations that is putting the fiscal pact to a national vote.
- 2012-05-30President Barack Obama speaks during the Presidential Medal of Freedom award ceremony on Tuesday. The Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor. Among the recipients were three posthumous awardees, including Gordon Hirabayashi, who foug
- 2012-05-30A beluga whale plays with a soccer ball Wednesday at the Beijing Aquarium, China's largest.
- 2012-05-29An inmate gestures from her cell inside the national female prison in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Monday. Female inmates ask to join a truce declared in March by two major gangs.
- 2012-05-28A firefighter holding a flag participates in the annual Memorial Day parade in Fairfield, Connecticut, on Monday.
- 2012-05-27U.S. airman Brian Kolfage with his wife. Kolfage lost both legs and a hand in Iraq.
- 2012-05-24The flight suit of Solar Impulse pilot Andre Borschberg is placed on a chair before takeoff Thursday in Payerne, Switzerland, on its first attempted intercontinental flight. Solar Impulse is expected to stop over in Madrid, Spain, before heading to Morocc
- 2012-05-24A woman, her neighbor and his son sit near the property they used to live in. They were forcibly evicted from Skadarska street settlement, Belgrade, Serbia, in August 2011 and ended up on the street.
- 2012-05-23Olympic sailor and the first London 2012 torchbearer, Ben Ainslee, poses next to the Land's End sign in Cornwall.
- 2012-05-23Compacting trucks assemble the latest delivery to L.A.'s Puente Hills Landfill, the largest rubbish dump in America. Despite surface appearances, Puente Hills is considered one of the most state-of-the-art landfills in the world. Some aren't so
- 2012-05-23President Barack Obama smiles before delivering the commencement address Wednesday at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 2012-05-22The criteria can be confusing, but there's no argument that the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, holds the title of the tallest building in the world at 2,717 feet.
- 2012-05-22Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11on the ground.
- 2012-05-22Yemeni police cadets march Tuesday during a military parade in Sanaa marking the 22nd anniversary of Yemen's 1990 reunification.
- 2012-05-22Jake and Georgia Auricht conduct a science experiment to supplement their online classes.
- 2012-05-21A rare solar eclipse is seen from Tokyo on Monday morning. People across the globe planned viewing parties to watch the event.
- 2012-05-21Sufi Muslims gather to watch a pilgrim self-flagellate during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, India, on Monday. The annual event commemorates the death of Muhammad Moinuddin Chishti, a Sufi saint who was buried in Ajmer.
- 2012-05-18Sanergy aims to generate fertilizer from human waste and bring clean sanitation facilities to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.
- 2012-05-17A boy bathes under a water pipe in a canal to cool off Thursday in Allahabad, India, where the temperature reached 114 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 2012-05-17El escritor Carlos Fuentes autografió los dos libros favoritos de Katia en 2011, "Aura" e "Inquieta Compañía".
- 2012-05-16Torchbearer Dimitrios Chondrokoukis, a Greek high jump athlete, lights a cauldron with the Olympic Flame atop the Acropolis in Athens on Wednesday. The flame will be handed over to London Olympics officials on Thursday.
- 2012-05-15The World Wildlife Fund's latest Living Planet Report shows that the world is still consuming more resources than the Earth can replenish.
- 2012-05-15Israeli undercover police detain a Palestinian demonstrator in the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Issawiya on Tuesday as Palestinians commemorated the exodus of Arabs after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
- 2012-05-14On board research vessel the Scotia, Prince Charles fried Scottish haddock with 2012 Young Fish Frier of the Year runner-up Carlyn Johnson and winner Zohaib Hussain.
- 2012-05-14Aisen Chen and Huo Liang of China dive Sunday during the men's synchronized 10-meter platform final at the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- 2012-05-11In what experts consider nothing short of a miracle, a Polish oil company worker recently discovered the plane believed to have been flown by missing Flight Sgt. Dennis Copping.
- 2012-05-11On March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole 13 priceless works of art. Twelve of the 13 pieces stolen are included in this gallery. Here you see one of five "Gouach
- 2012-05-10Clothes designer Mary Quant, one of the leading lights of the British fashion scene in the 1960's and the designer responsible for the mini-skirt, having her hair cut by her fellow fashion icon Vidal Sassoon in 1964. Quant called Sassoon the "Ch
- 2012-05-10An unnamed two-day-old Asian elephant gets support from his mother, Nova, in their enclosure at Germany's Tierpark Berlin zoo on Thursday. The calf weighs 225 pounds and is 3 feet tall.
- 2012-05-09A priestess releases a dove at Ancient Olympia in Greece during a rehearsal Wednesday for Thursday's official lighting of the Olympic flame. The flame will burn at the 2012 Olympic Summer Games in London.
- 2012-05-08Reykjavik, Islandia
- 2012-05-08Marine One's rotor wash blows on White House visitors as President Barack Obama takes off Tuesday on his way to speak at a college in Albany, New York.
- 2012-05-07Eye catching animals like pandas are more likely to be the focus of conservation efforts, a new study has found.
- 2012-05-07Gilbert Kirui of Kenya competes in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase during the Seiko Golden Grand Prix at Todoroki Stadium in Kawasaki, Japan, on Sunday.
- 2012-05-04U.S. company Boral Roofing has introduced a line of roof tiles that it says have pollution-busting properties.
- 2012-05-03La Feria del Libro en Buenos Aires convoca, año tras año, a una multitud de todas las edades.
- 2012-05-03Double-decker buses make their way over Westminster Bridge in London in March. The iconic buses have been a wedge issue between the city's top contenders for mayor, incumbent Mayor Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party candidate, and Labour candidate
- 2012-05-03A malnourished child from Mali is weighed Thursday at a Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) medical center in a refugee camp in southern Mauritania. Fighting in Mali has left more than 60,000 people internally displaced, and a similar numbe
- 2012-05-02Cubans march in Havana on International Labor Day, Tuesday.
- 2012-05-02President Barack Obama talks with Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Tuesday aboard Marine One en route to the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul. Seated next to the president, from left, are Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough and Chief of Staff Ja
- 2012-05-02People attend a "Workers' Day concert" in Rome's Piazza San Giovanni on May 1, 2012.
- 2012-05-02Cubans march in Havana on International Labor Day, Tuesday.