A girl cools off herself in the waters of the river Ganges during a hot summer morning in Allahabad, India, May 31, 2015. Photo credit: Jitendra Prakash
In Stark Contrast
Agricultural farm land is shown next to the desert in the central valley near El Centro, California, May 31, 2015. California is enduring its worst drought on record. Photo credit: Mike Blake
Aurora borealis shares the sky with a bright moon in Iceland.Named for the Roman goddess of dawn,result from collisions between charged particles released from the sun’s atmosphere and gaseous particles in Earth’s atmosphere.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un provides field guidance to the Wonsan Baby Home and Orphanage in the run-up to a ceremony for their completion, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News.
World's shackles
A woman walks past graffiti illustrating a modified dollar banknote in Athens, June 3, 2015. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday called on international creditors to show "realism" and help clinch a deal that will end speculation of the country leaving the euro zone.
Photo credit: Alkis Konstantinidis
Worlds apart
A cow stands in the middle of a busy road as auto-rickshaws pass by in Bengaluru, India, June 2, 2015.
Photo credit: Abhishek N. Chinnappa
Chocolate milk?
A fisherman casts his line into heavy seas off the promenade in Blackpool, Britain, June 2, 2015.
Photo credit: Phil Noble
In abhorrence
A mock skull with text G7 is placed on the roof of a mobile toilet at G7 opponents' tent camp on the field near the Loisach river in the outskirts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, June 3, 2015. The camp is set a few miles from Elmau where the G7 leaders will meet.
woman walks up a bridge sculpted out of ice at the newly opened Harbin Ice Wonderland in Bangkok, Thailand. The leisure park is kept at a temperature of -15C and features ice sculptures created by Chinese artists.
Moroccan surfer is photographed as the Sun sets on the beach at Oued Charrat.
A photographer takes pictures of an installation titled Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled With the Brilliance of Life by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, at the Rufino Tamayo museum in Mexico City.
Japan Self-Defence Force (JSDF) soldiers continue rescue operations and the search for bodies on Mount Ontake, following its deadly eruption towards the end of September. In the worst volcanic disaster in Japan for 90 years, it spewed grey ash and stones that blanketed the entire area.
king vulture, which is native to the jungles of Central and South America, is seen at the Los Angeles Zoo, home to more than 1,000 animals from around the world.
A humpback whale swims with her calf in Roca Partida.
Bees begin to emerge from their cells, in this still photo taken from Anand Varma’s timelapse video of bee development.
A pelican rests, floating above a school of scad, which are forming a bait ball. The multitude of scad along the coast in the shallow waters of Bonaire provide food for predators.
A view of the Calbuco volcanic eruption from Frutillar, Chile.
Chile’s Calbuco volcano erupts as lightning flashes in the sky above
A man drove down Florida’s U.S. 1 with what looks like an Israeli-built Shafrir-2 air-to-air missile in the passenger seat of his Volvo convertible and nobody really seemed to care enough to call anyone. Oh, and it was the same day that the President was visiting nearby.
The missile mover in question is local business man Tom Madden. Madden is said to have acquired the missile from a widow whose husband supposedly won it decades ago at a Palm Beach auction to benefit the Israeli Defense Forces. Instead of calling a truck to cart it off, he thought he would have some fun and take it home in his drop-top C70 Volvo.