CNN Site Map for Section World (Galleries) for June - 2012
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- 2012-06-30Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir listens to introductions before he addresses a convention of U.S. Jewish leaders on November 21, 1991, in Baltimore. The former soldier, spy and statesman has died at the age of 96, Israeli officials said on June 30, 2
- 2012-06-29Anthony Davis of the Kentucky Wildcats recently made headlines for being the top pick in the NBA draft and for unibrow-related phrases such as "Fear the Brow." Click through to see other members of the unibrow clan.
- 2012-06-28An airliner lands Wednesday near farmers in Kunming, China. China says it will build 70 airports in the next three years.
- 2012-06-27Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander, on Wednesday, June 27. What might seem like a simple handshake marks a historic step forward in the peace process rela
- 2012-06-27A penguin named Mr. Munro fails in his first attempt to leave his footprint on a white canvas Wednesday at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Keepers have been collecting the footprints of almost 4,000 animals for a fundraising effort.
- 2012-06-27Students from the Iberoamerican University chant a school cheer during a protest last weekend in Mexico City. A video they uploaded to YouTube helped launch a nationwide youth protest movement. The demonstrators have added fuel to the political frenzy lea
- 2012-06-26Thousands of Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square after Mohamed Morsi is declared the nation's first democratically elected president on Sunday, June 24. In a nationally televised speech, the longtime member of the Muslim Brotherhood promised to represe
- 2012-06-26A Pakistani soldier in Karachi destroys seized bottles of liquor during a ceremony Tuesday to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
- 2012-06-26Mugly, campe�n de este a�o, parece muy desconcertado con su t�tulo.
- 2012-06-25An umpire sits to judge a game on the first day of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London on Monday.
- 2012-06-24Tall ships participate in the Windjammer Parade on Saturday, June 23, 2012, in Kiel, Germany.
- 2012-06-23Twenty years after the historic Earth Summit, world leaders once again gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the Rio+20 -- the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. But there were some notable absentees including U.S. President Barack Obama and G
- 2012-06-22The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle is made by the Indian Space Research Organization to launch satellites into geostationary orbit. The first developed launch system, GSLV-D1 is shown here in its launchpad in March 2001. The first flight took pla
- 2012-06-21A summer solstice reveler stands in front of Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument near Salisbury, England, where hundreds gather annually on June 21, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
- 2012-06-21Certified: Living -- A state-of-the-art water-reclamation facility and environmental education center in New York, the OCSL is the first green building in the United States to receive both LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge certification.
- 2012-06-21A Bulgarian man cools off in a waterfall Thursday during a heat wave, near the town of Blagoevgrad. Temperatures in Bulgaria reached 99 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 2012-06-20New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras is sworn in as Greece's new prime minister during a ceremony at the presidental palace in Athens on June 20, 2012.
- 2012-06-20Jennifer Lopez performs during a concert Tuesday in Santiago, Chile, as part of her "Dance Again" world tour.
- 2012-06-19The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published its annual Red List, which details threats to animals and plants. The 2012 report has assessed more than 60,000 species. Coral reefs are among the most threatened organisms on Earth,
- 2012-06-19A five-month-old orphaned elephant called Tembo plays Tuesday with his keeper, Thomas Chalice, who has nutured the elephant at Tony Fitzjohn's rhino sanctuary in Mkomazi, Tanzania.
- 2012-06-18Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sits in a 1961 Rambler owned by Michael Scheib, left, during a campaign event Sunday at K's Hamburger in Troy, Ohio. Romney's father, George Romney, was the chairman and president of American Motors
- 2012-06-14A Rothschild giraffe calf is groomed by its mother Shahni on Thursday at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. The calf was born June 5.
- 2012-06-13Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session Wednesday in Strasbourg, France.
- 2012-06-12A woman touches the coffin of Cuban boxing great Teofilo Stevenson on Tuesday in Havana, Cuba. The three-time Olympic gold medalist died Monday.
- 2012-06-12Una imagen satelital del Mar Chukchi, entre Alaska y Rusia, muestra el brote de fitoplancton (en verde).
- 2012-06-12Polish and Russian football fans clash in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday ahead of the match between Poland and Russia at the Euro 2012 championships.
- 2012-06-11Demonstrators help a fellow protester, who is lying down in front of Egypt's cabinet office, during a hunger strike in Cairo on Monday. The protesters oppose politicians and policies associated with former President Hosni Mubarak.
- 2012-06-11A satellite image of the Chukchi Sea, between Alaska and Russia, shows phytoplankton bloom (in green).
- 2012-06-07Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies Thursday before the Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill.
- 2012-06-06Venus appears as a black spot against the sun on Tuesday, as seen from the west side of Manhattan in New York. Astronomers around the world are training their telescopes on the skies to watch the transit of Venus as it passes between Earth and the sun.
- 2012-06-06Thai schoolchildren gather during a ceremony Wednesday for donation of various items from the king of Thailand in the restive southern province of Narathiwat.
- 2012-06-05A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen on Monday.
- 2012-06-05This pooch gets into the Diamond Jubilee festivities at a London street party Saturday, June 2, 2012, the first of four days celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne.
- 2012-06-04A barge carries the space shuttle Enterprise toward the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York on Sunday. The shuttle is on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where it will be put on permanent display.
- 2012-06-04Katarzyna Biniek captured this image of a spectacular light show at a fountain in central Wroclaw. The city is known as Poland's "little Venice," she says, and with displays like this it effortlessly "captures the modern, fun face"