Monday, May 23, 2011

Pictures of the Week 16th to 22nd May

A veiled woman takes part in a protest calling on Syria's President Bashar Assad to step down, in front of the United Nations headquarters in Amman, on May 21, 2011. Syria buried its dead a day after a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests which killed 44 people, as US President Barack Obama expressed "acute concern" about the situation in the country

An athlete dives during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in the Vouligmeni lake, south of Athens on May 22, 2011.

Demonstrators try to stop a water canon during clashes with riot police near the Chilean Congress where President Sebastian Pinera was delivering his State of the Nation address to the National Congress in Valparaiso, Chile, Saturday May 21, 2011. The demonstration, called by one of the country's main trade union movements against government policies, was joined by opponents to a hydro-electric dam project in southern Chile and by students opposing the government's education and labor policies.

A demonstrator falls after being sparyed with a water cannon by the riot police during clashes in the surroundings of the Congress in Valparaiso, at the same time Chilean President Sebastian PiƱera delivers his annual message to the nation on May 21, 2011.

TOPSHOTS A Bangladeshi homeless man sits on the side of a road during a seasonal rainfall in Dhaka on May 16, 2011. Seasonal rain has brought a whiff of relief to the dwellers of the country's capital who have been experiencing dry and dusty weather and power failures due to load shedding.


Lightning from a severe thunderstorm flashes in the distance beyond a crucifix in a cemetery near Easton, Kan. Saturday, May 21, 2011.

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