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Maria Vittoria Longhitano (L), a 35 year-old married teacher from Milan, is ordained as Italy’s first female priest, in the All Saints Anglican Church near Rome’s famous Spanish Steps, on May 22
Sri Lankan commandos perform a drill during their graduation ceremony in Kudaoya, in the southeastern Sri Lanka, on May 22. Some 675 commandos passed out in the parade presided over by the Army Commander Lieutenent General Jagath Jayasuriya.
A Palestinian woman reacts outside a destroyed house following an overnight Israeli incursion into the village of Abbassan outside the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis on May 22.
Natural gas siphoned from the BP oil leak still burns on May 21, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.
Japan’s H-IIA rocket has successfully released a Venus probe and a kite-shaped “space yacht” designed to float through the cosmos using only the power of the sun after lifting off into space from Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima Island, on May 21
Thai firemen try to put douse the flames at Thailand’s biggest shopping mall after it was set ablaze the day before an army assault on an anti-government protest site in Bangkok on May 20.
Indian students of a yoga college show their skills during a function in Bangalore. The function was organised to promote yoga and make people aware of healthy living through the regular practice of yoga
A man pushes his motorized two-wheeler through a flooded street in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
India’s Kumbh Mela: Largest Hindu’s Mythical festival
Kumbh Mela festival (Pitcher festival), is one of the festival’s main bathing days, hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees took a ritual bath in India’s holy Ganges river before daybreak Thursday as the world’s largest religious gathering got under way. Braving chilly weather, hordes of pilgrims rose before sunrise in and around the northern town of Haridwar and made their way in darkness to the banks of the river to immerse themselves in the sacred waters.
For Hindu devotees, the three-month Kumbh Mela festival offers them the chance to wash away their sins and break the karmic cycle of life and rebirth. Even in a country where mass events are commonplace, the sheer size of the Kumbh Mela sets it apart.
Pakistani villager Zainab Bibi (L) is surrounded by her children as she stitches a football at her home.
Shahzad Hussain Shaeheed Age 28 , Martyred By Banned Organisation Sipah e Sahaba Terrorists by Un provocative firing on the Residents of Habib Bank Quarters , Orangi Town Ship 11 1/2, on 28.05.10