Colourful Events In Pictures

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An oil slick lies across the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana after last week's rig blast.

 South Korean soldiers salute in front of portraits of dead sailors from the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan 

A worker cleans the glass of an office building in Beijing

 Climbers nearing the peak of Annapurna in the Himalayas, Nepal

Two snowploughs tackle a heavy spring fall on the Grossglockner road near Salzburg, Austria.

The 21-mile long Saemangeum seawall in Gunsan, south of Seoul, South Korea.

 Lolo, a black jaguar, is seen with her spotted cub inside their cage at Jordan's zoo in Yaduda.

 Performers rehearse for the opening of the Shanghai World Expo in Beijing.

Deputies of Ukraine's parliament come to blows as a smoke bomb goes off during a stormy sitting in Kiev.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II tours an arena in Llandudno, Wales.

People walk past a memorial for Chernobyl victims in Slavutich, Ukraine, which marked the 24th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster. On April 26, 1986 a reactor exploded, contaminating the then Soviet states of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus with fallout which also spread to other parts of Europe.

 A makeup artist applies historical Egyptian beauty items and toiletries at The Science Museum in London. 

The US space shuttle Discovery touches down at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida completing fifteen days in space. Nasa has just three more missions before it retires the shuttle fleet.

The Buick EN-V concept car is unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in China. Major global automakers plan to unveil dozens of new models. 

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light- year-tall pillar of gas and dust. It lies within the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years from Earth. The picture was related for Hubble's 20th anniversary.

A man tests out the new Samsung 40-inch 3D television in John Lewis, the first store to offer the new technology.

 The new high-tech design of the $100 bill is unveiled in Washington. It was changed as part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters.

 Rescue workers come to the aid of a beached whale, at Hollywood Beach, in Hollywood.

 Sand sculpture depicting Indian freedom fighters Mahatma Gandhi, left, and Subhash Chandra Bose is seen on a beach, in Puri, India.

A dirt road leads to the local cemetary outside the town of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland.