Memories Of 2010 -Days In History

CONTINUE TO MAY 2010

TOUGH TALK: South Korean soldiers in Seoul watched Monday as President Lee Myung-bak said North Korea would pay for the March sinking of the Cheonan warship, and he slashed trade with the country.

CYCLONE SURVIVOR: A survivor of Cyclone Aila cried during a demonstration Monday in Dhaka, Bangladesh, demanding the government speed recovery efforts. The May 25, 2009, storm killed at least 300 people in Bangladesh and India.

READY TO VOTE: People lined up to vote Monday in Bujumbura, Burundi, in the first phase of elections that will see a new Parliament and president installed in the conflict-torn nation.

FUNERAL PHOTOGRAPHS: Photographs of Air India crash victims Savitha Philomene D’Souza, left, and her husband Naveen Walton Fernandes were displayed at their funeral in Mangalore, India, Monday. Officials say human error may be to blame for the crash that killed 158 people Saturday.

TAKING A BREAK: Soldiers rested before welcoming Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia, Monday.

GEORGIA PRIDE: A woman walked past a wall decorated with Georgia’s national flags in Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday. The country’s Independence Day is Wednesday.

SOLEMN DISCOVERY: A man cried after identifying the body of a relative who was killed in an attack on a public bus in Guatemala City Monday. According to the human rights ombudsman’s office, 112 people have been killed and 157 injured in bus attacks in the first four months of 2010.

MILITANT KILLED: A hospital worker took a weapon out of a car that belonged to a Taliban militant whose body lay in the back after he was killed in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, Monday. Foreign and Afghan forces killed 19 militants, a local official said.

ARRESTED: Men were arrested Monday in Kingston, Jamaica, in clashes between gunmen allied with alleged drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who is trying to avoid extradition to the U.S., and security forces. At least two people died in fighting.

JUMP IN: Farmers coaxed a horse into jumping into an amphibious vehicle in Juliszew, Poland, Monday. Flash floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least 15 people.

FACE FIRST: A man jumped into a lake in southern Germany Monday.

WINGS SPREAD: The solar-powered aircraft “Solar Impulse” took off from a military airport Monday in Payerne, Switzerland, on its fifth test flight. The company that made the plane plans to circumnavigate the world on solar energy alone.

BOMB DAMAGE: A policeman examined the debris of a vehicle damaged in a blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday. At least two people were killed.

NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS-132 mission specialist, wears a New York Yankee symbol on the instruction reference card strapped to his wrist as he participates in the mission’s first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) on the International Space Station.

Allie Bond, 15, of Montclair picks out makeup for Bobbi Brown makeup artist Cassandra Garcia to apply before attending the New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital’s prom for teen patients. The theme was “Moonlight Masquerade.”

Sean Bell’s family was on hand for the naming of a Queens street after Bell, who was killed by police on the eve of his wedding.

Columnist Ralph Gardner takes a power nap at Yelo, a spa at 315 West 57th St.

A Veggie Pride Parade in West Village involved humans dressed as veggies.

Several pieces of street art from British street artist Banksy, like this one in DUMBO, were tagged by rival artists.

Sign painters from Colossal Media at work on a advertisement at West Broadway and Grand Street in SoHo.

Leo Heinert, 18, skates on opening day at Hudson River Park’s Pier 62 Skatepark in Manhattan.

The owner of Shamrock Stables, the West Side home for 23 Central Park carriage horses, is pleading with the city to help him find a new site for his stable.

Bensonhurst native Paulie Malignaggi fought — and lost to — British boxer Amir Khan at Madison Square Garden for the WBC Super Lightweight World Title last Saturday.

The Big Apple Circus raised the big top this week in Cunningham Park, Queens.

Players from the Manhattan Center for Science and Math varsity team were on hand for the opening of new ballfields on Randall’s Island.

The Kansas City Sweet and Sticky Pork Ribs, left, and the beef brisket sandwich at Daisy May’s BBQ USA in Hell’s Kitchen.

Three canaries, Mariano Rivera, far left, Jessica, center, and Jessika, right, make their home inside the Loading Dock, a gallery and taqueriea in downtown Brooklyn.

VIRGIN MARY: The decapitated head of a statue of the Virgin Mary lay in a garden at the Immaculate Conception Church in Weymouth, Mass., on Monday. The 600-pound, 66-year-old statue was found decapitated and in pieces Sunday evening after Mass. The incident was reported to police but there are no suspects.

TUNE UP: Astronaut Garrett Reisman, STS-132 mission specialist, participated in the mission’s first session of extra-vehicular activity as construction and maintenance continued on the International Space Station.

LEGS: Prosthetic legs lay on a bed in a hospital in Szikszo, Hungary, that was evacuated Monday due to floods caused by heavy rain.

PHONE CALL TO FAMILY: An Afghan man called his family Tuesday to update them about his condition after getting hurt in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.. At least 18 people, including six coalition-force members, were killed and almost 50 were wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. military convoy.

VOTING TIME: Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) emerged from a voting booth after casting his ballot in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Mr. Specter was defeated in the Democratic primary.

DAILY EXERCISE: A Montenegrin man exercised as police patrolled in Podgorica, Montenegro, on Tuesday.

DECISIONS, DECISIONS: Eight-year-old Sarah Maurice, an amputee victim of Haiti’s January earthquake, decided on a shirt as she shopped during a donated $3,000 K-mart shopping spree in New York on Tuesday. Yele Haiti, founded by singer Wyclef Jean, worked with the Global Medical Relief Fund to bring Maurice and two other teens from Haiti to Philadelphia, where they will be patients at Shriners Hospital and fitted for prosthetic devices.

HEAD TO TOE: Indian students of a yoga college showed their skills during a function in Bangalore, India, on Wednesday. The function was organized to promote yoga and make people aware of healthy living through the regular practice of yoga.

THAI AFTERMATH: A statue of Buddha and a torn Thai national flag remained in front of Bangkok’s Central World shopping mall, which was gutted by fire after army soldiers advanced toward an encampment of thousands of antigovernment “red shirt” protesters Wednesday. The death toll has reached at least 82 since the protests began in March.

TAKING SHELTER: Afghan workers employed to clean debris after a suicide attack took shelter underneath their wheel barrows Tuesday after a sudden downpour in Kabul, Afghanistan.

YOLKED SHIELDS: The shields of riot policemen are coated with egg yolk during a demonstration by students in front of the parliament in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on Wednesday. Students protested against proposed government restrictions on part-time work.

MARCHING AND SINGING: Thirteen-year-old Meem, center, recited the school pledge with other students during a morning assembly at Baptist Mission Integrated School in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Wednesday. Meem’s father left her family when she was 2 years old, and she was raised in an orphanage. She now lives at the school with 76 other visually impaired girls and women.

SHOW OF ANGER: Carmen Edwards waved her mortgage papers during a demonstration outside JP Morgan Chase’s annual shareholder meeting in Manhattan, N.Y., on Tuesday. Ms. Edwards said the bank was attempting to foreclose her home.

CRASH COURSE: Cyclist’s Lance Armstrong is helped up after crashing Thursday during the fifth stage of the Tour of California cycling race in the outskirts of Visalia, Calif. Earlier in the day, Mr. Armstrong disparaged charges by cyclist Floyd Landis that he and others participated in doping, accusing Mr. Landis of harassing and threatening him for years.

REUNITED: Laura Fattal, right, and her son Josh Fattal hugged as they met at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran on Thursday. Iran detained the three Americans Sarah Shourd, 31; her boyfriend, Shane Bauer, 27; and Mr. Fattal, 27, along the Iraqi border and accused them of spying. Their relatives rejected the accusation and say the three were hiking in the scenic and largely peaceful northern Kurdish region.

PRAYING FOR THE MARKETS: A financial professional gestured on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the middle of the trading day Thursday. Stocks dropped Thursday over concerns that Europe’s debt problems could slow a global recovery.

UNDERNEATH THE STARS: U.S. Army Spc. Kevin O’Connor rested on a cot before pulling guard duty at an outpost in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on Wednesday.

MOURNING: Charanjeet Kaur cried Friday near the body of her husband, Paramjit Singh, who allegedly died Thursday in police custody in Jammu, India. The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered a probe, local media reported.

VICTIMS’ REMAINS: Officials in Parwan province, Afghanistan, on Friday unloaded the remains of the passengers of a Pamir Airways plane that crashed Monday with 44 people aboard. A search plane spotted the wreckage Thursday.

PACKING IT IN: A Red Shirt protester carried a fan from Bangkok to a Chiang Mai, Thailand, train station Friday. The protesters were encamped in the capital for months.

A COOL SPLASH: A Marine on patrol poured water on his head while resting in Marjah, Afghanistan, Friday.

SCRATCHING HIS HEAD: A man looked at a video display of Tokyo stock prices Friday. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average retreated 2.5%.

SWIMMING UNDER THE RADAR: A dolphin swam in a wave in Durban, South Africa, Friday.

ART HEIST: An official searched for clues as he packed up frames of paintings stolen from the Paris Museum of Modern Art Thursday. Five paintings valued at a total of more than $100 million, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, were stolen overnight.

FACE COVERED: A demonstrator wore a gas mask in front of riot police during demonstrations in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens Thursday. Unions called a 24-hour strike over social security and pension reforms.

TAKING A MOMENT: A mother of two who earns less than $1 a day rested inside her shanty after a day of scavenging in Manila Thursday.

FIGHTING FIRE: A firefighter worked to extinguish a fire set by Red Shirt protesters at a shopping mall in Bangkok Thursday. A curfew remains in effect in an attempt to curb violence.

IN THE MIDDLE: A man walked through a crowd of protesters outside the Economic Ministry during a demonstration Thursday in Madrid against the government’s public-sector job cuts and taxes hike for high-income earners.

DO NOT CROSS: Tourists stood on a sidewalk Thursday along Fifth Avenue in New York where an anonymous artist painted a white line and the words “New Yorkers” and “Tourists” in an attempt to divide pedestrian lanes.

AMMO UP: An Afghan National policeman carried a machine gun and rounds while on patrol with U.S. Army soldiers in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Thursday.

WAVING FOR HELP: A villager waved for assistance atop his thatched house that was immersed in water in Hafeji, Kenya, Thursday. The River Tana burst its banks after a power-producing firm released water from dams, leaving more than 100 people homeless.

WAITING FOR HIS HOLINESS: A monk prayed before the arrival of the Dalai Lama at Radio City Music Hall in New York Thursday. The spiritual leader was there to discuss his teachings on two Buddhist texts about developing compassion.

A supporter of Agathon Rwasa lifted a picture of the opposition presidential candidate above a crowd at a rally in Nyanza-Lac, Burundi, Thursday. The country’s presidential election is June 28.

HOMES UNDER WATER: Buildings were submerged in floodwaters in southern Poland Thursday. Thousands were evacuated due to flooding from heavy rainfall that has killed at least five people there.

LOOKING IN: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men participated in a ceremony Thursday in Jerusalem in which bones excavated from Ashkelon, Israel, were reburied to make way for the construction of a bomb-proof emergency hospital ward.

HARD WORK: Coal miners waited for their shift to start in Tkibuli, Georgia, Thursday.

CHIN UP: Charles Nicholson, 73, worked out at a beach in St. Petersburg, Fla., Thursday. Mr. Nicholson bikes up to 50 miles a day.

RIDING BY: Queen Elizabeth II left Parliament in London after opening the legislative session Tuesday. She unveiled the new coalition government’s legislative program.

HOOF CHECK: A horse that was part of the queen’s escort detail was re-shoed.

FIRED UP: A South Korean tank fired during an exercise Tuesday at a demilitarized zone. Tensions have been high since the March sinking of South Korea’s Cheonan warship, which South Korea says North Korea sank with a torpedo.

A RENOWNED VOICE: Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Tuesday in Washington about the role of strategic arms control in a post-Cold War word.

TOUGH TRADING: A trader worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. The Dow, which was off 200 points at its intraday low, finished with a 23-point decline.

DEEP GASH: The Malaysian-registered MT Bunga Kelana 3 oil tanker collided with another vessel in waters between Malaysia and Singapore Tuesday, spilling thousands of tons of oil.

CROWD CONTROL: Police kept watch as hundreds of thousands of government supporters celebrated Tuesday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after the ruling party swept parliamentary elections Sunday. International observers said election standards “fell short.”

VOTERS PROTEST: Residents used a car to set up a barricade in Fomboni, Comoros Island, Tuesday. They demanded the government set a timetable for elections, as President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi’s term is set to end.

GUN CHECK: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, visited a weapons manufacturer in Izhevsk, Russia, Tuesday.

WRIT LARGE: Spain’s Economy and Finance Minister Elena Salgado arrived at the Brussels Economic Forum conference Tuesday. Risks posed by bonds sold by debt-ridden countries such as Spain worried markets and spurred talk of bank bailouts.

UPSET IN ISRAEL: A police officer stood in front of ultra-Orthodox Jewish people protesting against what they say is the desecration of graves at a construction site in Jaffa, Israel, Tuesday.

RAISING HIS VOICE: Contract workers for the Ministry of Culture protested Tuesday in Athens in front of the Parthenon against the government’s austerity measures, which include a hiring freeze.

BEACH COWS: Cows rested on a beach in Corsica Monday.

PUTTING OUT A FIRE: A man extinguished a fire on Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Mike Patterson’s truck at the Eagles’ football practice facility Tuesday.

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