The Week in Pictures: May 6 – May 10 2013

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Dancers from the British theater company Motionhouse perform a show with excavators entitled [Traction] on the Prado beach in Marseille, France, on May 10, 2013. (Photo by Boris Horvat/AFP Photo)

A young dancer practicing pirouettes while participants performed yoga exercise at the bottom in front of the Mosque of Three Domes in Lodi Gardens in New Delhi, India, on May 7, 2013. (Photo by Tengku Bahar/AFP Photo)

Ray Harryhausen, who died Tuesday, on May 7, 2013 in London at age 92, became fascinated with animation after seeing King Kong in 1933. He went on to create some of the most memorable monsters of old Hollywood, from dinosaurs to mythological creatures. Medusa from 1981's Clash of the Titans is among legendary animator Ray Harryhausen's many creations. (Photo by Carl Court/AFP Photo)

Friends and family carry coffins containing the remains of victims of a gas tanker explosion in a funeral procession in Ecatepec, a Mexico City suburb, on May 8, 2013. A natural gas tanker truck lost control, hit a center divider and exploded on a highway lined by homes in the Mexico City suburb early Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring nearly three dozen, authorities said. (Photo by Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press)

Burned cars are pictured in a highway in Ecatepec near Mexico city, on May 7, 2013. A gas tanker exploded in a Mexico City suburb on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people and damaging several homes and cars, an official said. (Photo by Victor Rojas/AFP Photo)

Sheila Wilder holds May 8, 2013 the dog tags that belong to her father-in-law, Willie Wilkins, who lost them while serving in a U.S. Army Quartermaster Truck Company in the invasion of southern France in August 1944. The tags were lost in 1944 and were found by Anne-Marie Crespo, a resident of Istres, France, who was digging in her garden in 2001. dog tags were presented to Wilkins at a ceremony in Newark. (Photo by Julio Cortez/Associated Press)

Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spews large clouds of gas and ash near Banos, south of Quito, on May 8, 2013. (Photo by Carlos Campana/Reuters)

A man wrapped in a Syrian flag with a portrait of President Bashar Assad, walks past riot police at an anti-Israeli demonstration in front of the UN office in Tehran, on May 6, 2013. Iran condemns Israeli Air strikes on Syria and urged countries in the region to stand against the attack. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/Associated Press)

A bomb defusal expert carries a mock explosive device during a counter-terrorist training exercise at Nambole Stadium on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda, on May 8, 2013. Police officers from the member countries of the Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation (EAPCCO) are taking part in a joint multi-national field exercise aimed at testing their response to potential terrorist incidents. (Photo by Stephen Wandera/Associated Press)

A sculpture by artist Joaquin Liebana is seen on a street in Lima's Barranco district, May 7, 2013. The sculpture is part of the exhibition [White Night]. (Photo by Mariana Bazo/Reuters)

People ride past the unfinished office building of People's Daily, the official newspaper of the communist party of China, in Beijing, May 8, 2013. Some Chinese bloggers ridiculed that the building's outline, which they claim resembled the male genital, matched perfectly with the China Central Television (CCTV) tower that has been nicknamed [Big Underpants]. (Photo by Petar Kujundzic/Reuters)

Winter swimmers wave on a piece of drifting ice with a Chinese national flag on the Amur River, in the Chinese border city of Heihe, Heilongjiang province May 6, 2013. (Photo by China Daily/Reuters)

An injured child is treated by medical personnel after a landslide hit Lushan county, where a strong quake struck last month killing 196 people, in Ya'an, Sichuan province May 9, 2013. At least two people were killed and seven injured in the landslide on Thursday, according to Xinhua News Agency. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)

Tourists on traditional boats sail in the Beihai military water tunnels on the island of Nangan in the Matsu archipelago, off northern Taiwan, on May 8, 2013. The Matsu archipelago, which was once front line against China, is now a military tourist spot. (Photo by Pichi Chuang/Reuters)

An iron worker takes a photograph of a crane as it places the final piece of the spire on top of the One World Trade Center in New York May 10, 2013. Workers cheered and whistled as they completed the spire on New York's One World Trade Center on Friday, raising the building to its full height of 1,776 feet and helping fill a void in the skyline left by the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

Russian army jet fighters and a cargo plane fly over the Red Square and St. Basil Cathedral, right, during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade which will take place at Moscow's Red Square on May 9 to celebrate 68 years of the victory in the WWII, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)

Russian army jet fly over an Orthodox Christian church during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Moscow. Russia marks victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two every year on May 9. (Photo by Andrey Smirnov/AFP Photo)

Kazakhstan's troops march during a parade of the armed forces on Fatherland Defender's Day at Otar military range, some 150km (93 miles) west of Almaty May 7, 2013. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)

A performer with the Hal-an-Tow pageant blows his horn as part of the Helston Flora Day celebrations in Cornwall, England, on May 8, 2013. The annual event is one of the UK's oldest customs, celebrating the passing of Winter and the arrival of Spring. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Members of the religious group [Women Of The Wall] hold a prayer service to mark the first day of the Jewish month of Sivan at the Western Wall on May 10, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox protestors clashed with Israeli police during the first monthly prayer service to be held by Women Of The Wall following the recent landmark ruling by Jerusalem District Court allowing women to wear prayer shawls at the Western Wall. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters clash with Israeli police officers during the prayer service held by the [Women Of The Wall], on May 10, 2013. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

An Afghan border policeman arms a rocket launcher on his position at the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Goshta district of Jalalabad province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday warned Pakistan against trying to force Afghanistan to accept as an international border the Durand line which separates the two countries. Border tensions between the two countries have escalated dramatically in the last two weeks with both sides accusing the other of unprovoked attacks. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)

A drag queen does his makeup before participating in the first-ever Drag Walk Casting at Friedrichstadtpalast Theater in Berlin, Germany, on May 10, 2013. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Drag queens from across Germany participate in the first-ever Drag Walk Casting at Friedrichstadtpalast theatre on May 10, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The casting is to select stage performers for the grand gala in the evening following the Christopher Street Day parade in Berlin in June. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Indian Sikh Nihangs, part of an armed Sikh order, listen to a speaker, unseen, as they protest the acquittal of ruling Congress party leader Sajjan Kumar in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. An Indian court acquitted Kumar on April 30, of charges he incited mobs to kill Sikhs during the country's 1984 anti-Sikh riots. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)

Smoke billows from a British-made BAe 146 cargo plane that caught fire while being unloaded at the airport in Wamena, Papua province, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. An official said that the plane caught fire after a drum of oil fell from the aircraft and somehow sparked the fire. (Photo by AP Photo)

A survivor lies on a stretcher after being pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed near Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 10, 2013. Rescue workers freed the woman buried for 17 days inside the wreckage of a garment factory building that collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people. Soldiers at the site said her name was Reshma and described her as being in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal. (Photo by Associated Press)

Bangladeshis cover themselves with plastic sheets as it rains on a deserted street during a general strike called by 18 opposition parties in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The strike was ostensibly organized to demand changes in electoral law and to protest the deaths of 29 people, many of them Islamic hardliners, on Monday during street demonstrations calling for new anti-blasphemy laws. (Photo by Ismail Ferdous/AP Photo)

Singer Beyonce Knowles attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, [Punk: Chaos to Couture], on Monday, May 6, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/AP Photo/Invision)

Undated handout photo of the 5 ton sculpture ICON by Sebastian Conran, crafted from the authentic nose of Concorde, which will be revealed for the first time at Royal Ascot races this June. Issue date: Tuesday May 7, 2013. (Photo by PA Wire)

One of the four defendants in the NSU murder trial looks out from the window of a police van upon his arrival at the courthouse in Munich, Germany, on May 6, 2013. (Photo by Hassenstein/Getty Images)

A competitor flexes his muscles backstage during the 53rd Mr. India bodybuilding competition in the southern Indian city of Chennai May 8, 2013. Around 300 bodybuilders from across India participated in the competition on Wednesday. (Photo by Reuters/Babu)

Myanmar Hindu devotees stands with his mouth pierced with a metal stick while waiting to walk on burning embers during a traditional Hindu fire festival in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, May 5, 2013. (Photo by Khin Maung Win/AP Photo)

Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade during an exercise in the Golan Heights, Monday, May 6, 2013. Israel’s weekend airstrike on a military complex near the Syrian capital of Damascus killed dozens of Syrian soldiers, a group of anti-regime activists said Monday, citing information from military hospitals. The Syrian government has not released a death toll, but Syrian state media have reported casualties in Sunday’s pre-dawn airstrike, Israel’s third into Syria so far this year. (Photo by Ariel Schalit/AP Photo)

Honor guard troops march during a welcoming ceremony for visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on May 6, 2013. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)

A student protest during a riot at a rally demanding Chile's government reform the education system in Santiago, May 8, 2013. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

A pilgrim plays a horn during the flag hoisting ceremony to begin the Urs and Sufi festival in Ajmer, India, on May 7, 2013. The event attracts thousands of devotees to commemorate the 13th century death of their most famous saint, Moinuddin Chishti. (Photo by Deepak Sharma/Associated Press)

Troy Brouwer of the Washington Capitals and the Rangers' Ryane Clowe go airborne after colliding in the third period of Game 4 of their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series in New York, on May 8, 2013. The Rangers won 4-3. (Photo by Kathy Willens/Associated Press)

Bohemians vs Cork City, Dalymount Park, Dublin. Cork City's Denis Behan celebrates scoring from the penalty spot on May 10, 2013. (Photo by Morgan Treacy/INPHO)

Aerial view shows first responders working next to destroyed homes and vehicles after a gas tanker truck exploded on a highway in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The blast killed and injured dozens, according to the Citizen Safety Department of Mexico State. Officials did not rule out the possibility the death toll could rise as emergency workers continued sifting through the charred remains of vehicles and homes built near the highway on the northern edge of the metropolis. (Photo by AP Photo)

A police officer uses his baton to beat back supporters of Haiti's former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who gathered outside the courthouse where Aristide arrived earlier in the day, in Port-au-Prince, on May 8, 2013. The two-time president showed up at the courthouse to testify before a judge investigating the 2000 slaying of Jean Dominique, one of the Caribbean country's most prominent journalists. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press)

Pallbearers carry the casket of Ricardo Portillo as two people catch flowers that fell off the casket as it is carried to a local church for his funeral in Salt Lake City, on May 8, 2013. Portillo, a soccer official, was punched by a teenage player after issuing a yellow card during a game last week. He died of his injuries this past weekend. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)

Mikaela Smith laughs and attempts to control some of her flying hair in front of the large fan used to begin inflating the envelope of the hot air balloon, Anonymous, Friday morning, May 10, 2013 at Greenpark Elementary School in Walla Walla, Wash. during the 39th annual Walla Walla Hot Air Balloon Stampede. (Photo by Matthew Zimmerman Banderas/AP Photo/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

Two young boys and the rest of their family watch hot air balloons, including one shaped like a rocket ship, float their direction from the edge of a wheat field off Middle Waitsburg Road, Friday, May 10, 2013 in Walla Walla, Wash., during the 39th annual Walla Walla Hot Air Balloon Stampede. (Photo by Matthew Zimmerman Banderas/AP Photo/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)

Amalia Lopez, who is 114-years-old, poses for a portrait inside her home on Mother's Day in Mexico City, on May 10, 2013. Lopez was honored by the city for being the oldest living woman in Mexico City. Lopez has survived her four children, and has 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Lopez was born on July 10, 1898, and will turn 115 this July 10. (Photo by Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press)

A cloud of ash shoots up to the sky as the Mayon volcano erupts about 285 miles southeast of Manila, on May 7, 2013. A mountain guide said three foreign climbers and their Filipino guide were killed when the volcano, one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes, spewed rocks and ash after a 3-year calm. (Photo by Allan Imperial/Associated Press)

People rush for cover as Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif leaves in a helicopter after addressing an election rally near Peshawar, Pakistan, on May 7, 2013. (Photo by Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press)

A display at the [Chaos to Couture] Costume Institute Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, on May 6, 2013. (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images)

A model displays a creation by Schwarzkopf during the Fall/Winter 2013/2014 collection for [Platform Bogota] at Bogota Fashion Week, on May 9, 2013. (Photo by John Vizcaino/Reuters)

A worker raises his arm as he and others emerge from behind the massive drill nicknamed Harriet after it broke through on Watson Island in Miami, Florida, on May 6, 2013. The emergence of the drill completed the second leg of the billion dollar Miami Tunnel project, which when finished will connect the mainland to the Port of Miami. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Esme Haigh holds a piece of Mexican containing a wasp, one the items on show during the Amazing Amber exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, on May 9, 2013. The exhibition coincides with the 20th anniversary of the release of the blockbuster film Jurassic Park that featured a mosquito trapped in amber from which dinosaur DNA was supposed to have been taken. In recognition of the anniversary, the exhibition will display the cane, with its replica mosquito in amber, used by Lord Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park, The Lost World. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Wire)

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