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What is known as the "Bird's Nest," the main venue for the 2008 Olympic Games, is a "pretend smile" to its designer, Ali Weiwei, who has been imprisoned for protesting the Chinese regime.
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Grave diggers show a human skull at Monkey William Mine in Zimbabwe. Hundreds of skeletons found inside one of the mine shafts have added a macabre element to the election for president. (Associated Press)
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A vessel still sits in a street of Kesennuma, Japan. The March 11 earthquake, tsunami and fires destroyed most of the fishing fleet, ports, and fishing industry along the northeastern coast of Japan. Now radiation has become an issue with seafood from the region. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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A worker (left) at a fish market reacts in an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake in northern Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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South Korean environmentalists hold umbrellas beside jets of water during a rally demanding South Korean government to stop expanding nuclear power plants in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Fears over possible radiation contamination are growing in South Korea, the country closest to Japan, after Japanese nuclear power plants were damaged by earthquakes last month.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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This undated artist rendering provided by Space Exploration Technologies (Space X), shows Space Exploration Technology's new rocket Falcon Heavy. On Tuesday, Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space X unveiled plans to launch the world's most powerful rocket since man went to the moon. (AP Photo/Space Exploration Technologies)
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Evacuees of all ages use the stairs at Rikuzen-Takata No. 1 Junior High to bide time and to keep their knees strong in case they have to escape from earthquake aftershocks or another tsunami. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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Musician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly received nearly 68 percent of the vote in Haiti's presidential runoff. (Associated Press)
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This undated artist rendering provided by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), shows Space Exploration Technology's new rocket Falcon Heavy. On Tuesday, Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of (SpaceX) unveiled plans to launch the world's most powerful rocket since man went to the moon. (AP Photo/Space Exploration Technologies)
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** FILE ** Robert Rivers, of Ravena, N.Y., is one of millions of U.S. baby boomers. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Thursday Aug. 18, 2005 file photo an iceberg is seen in Disko Bay, Greenland, above the arctic circle. Scientists are monitoring a massive pool of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean that could spill into the Atlantic and potentially alter the ocean currents that bring Western Europe its moderate climate. The oceanographers said Tuesday April 5, 2011, the unusual accumulation has been caused by Siberian and Canadian rivers dumping more water into the Arctic, and from melting sea ice. Both are consequences of global warming. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file photo, ice chunks float in the Arctic Ocean as the sun sets near Barrow, Alaska. The Arctic is a thermostat against overheating and a barometer of change, but now its own protective ozone layer that keeps out damaging ultraviolet radiation has thinned to record levels, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday April 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Arctic Sounder, Beth Ipsen)
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Illustration: Debt tsunami by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks during a news conference at an IAEA meeting in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission cites concern about too little oxygen and carbon dioxide buildup in the inflatable spheres known as "water walking balls." The commission is urging people to stay out of them because of a risk of suffocation or drowning. One company that sells the water balls says on its website that there is enough oxygen to last 30 minutes. (Associated Press/Consumer Product Safety Commission)
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With sunshine and warmer temperatures Sunday, it was a beautiful day to relax under the cherry trees that rim the Tidal Basin. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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This March 23, 2011 picture shows Steven Hamburg, left, a scientist with the U.S. Environmental Defense Fund, and John Shepherd, a University of Southampton climatologist, leaders of a three-day conference of international experts at a Royal Society retreat in Chicheley, England on how the world might oversee research into manipulating the Earth's atmosphere to combat global warming. Like many environmentalists who oppose tampering with the atmosphere, these scientists and other conferees said they would prefer that governments instead agree on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. (AP Photo/Charles J. Hanley)
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Oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer displays a necklace made of ocean flotsam on Wednesday in Seattle. He expects the first items of flotsam from Japan's tsunamis and earthquake to hit West Coast beaches in a year. (Associated Press)
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Leaking radioactive water drains through the crack of a maintenance pit (right) into the ocean near the Unit 2 reactor of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Japan. Highly radioactive water was leaking into the ocean Saturday from a crack discovered at the nuclear power plant. (Associated Press via Kyodo News)
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A man walks Sunday over debris in an area devastated by the March 11 tsunami to search for his house and belongings in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. (Associated Press)
