An Indonesian dancer smiles as she performs, along with others, during Cultural Art performance in Jakarta.
Chinese models wearing pagoda roofs wait for their street parade at the Shanghai World Expo in China.
Competitors dive into the Han River during the ITU mens Triathlon World Championships in Seoul, South Korea.
Palestinian girls take part in a race during a track meet for Gazan women at the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City. The sporting event was co-sponsored by the Palestinian Olympic Committee and the UN in order to encourage Gazan women to do more sports.
Afghan police officers shoot with their pistols while training with Canadian police instructors at a range in Camp Nathan Smith, Kandahar City.
A group of poodles belonging to Russian poodle trainer Irina Markova perform near the World War II Memorial in Washington.
A fan of Mexico celebrates in the parking lot before a match against Ecuador in the FMF US Tour at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Inmates behind bars watch the celebrations for Mother's Day at Santa Monica female prison in Lima, Peru. Some 34 inmates from the prison, 13 of them foreigners sentenced for drug-dealing charges, were pardoned by Peru's President Alan Garcia on humanitarian grounds and had their sentences commuted. There are also about 40 children that are permitted to stay with their mothers in the prison till they are three years old.
A man is reflected on a mirror while having his hair cut at a camp for earthquake displaced people in Port au Prince, Haiti.
Sydneysiders gather on Bondi Beach to form giant red and white human life rings to show politicians that many Australians believe in saving lives by helping refugees fleeing war and persecution in Sydney. Those taking part in the events taking place in other major cities in Australia are urging the government to reverse the discriminatory freeze on processing of Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum applications, and the reopening of the remote Curtin detention centre.
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