Whale hunting, Venus transiting the Sun, and the opening of Euro 2012.
1Inhabitants of the Faroe Islands catch and slaughter pilot whales during the traditional "Grindadrap" (whale hunting). (Reuters/Andrija Ilic)
2Riot police block opposition supporters during a rally against a draft law on languages, which was scheduled to be discussed during a session in Ukraine's parliament. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
3Cheerleaders for the Russian national soccer team perform as fans departure from Moscow to Poland for the Euro 2012 football championship. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
4Men search for the bodies of people killed in a NATO air strike in Afghanistan's Logar Province. (Reuters)
5A homeless man shows a bystander a photograph of himself dressed in an emperor's clothes as he stands against a wall surrounding the Forbidden City in central Beijing. (Reuters/David Gray)
6North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a concert to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the Korean Children's Union in Pyongyang. (AFP PHOTO/KCNA via KNS)
7A protester writes a message using sand and bottle caps that reads in Arabic, "The revolution continues, free Egypt, down with military rule" after Friday Prayers on Cairo's Tahrir Square. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
8Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia returns the ball during the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. (Reuters/Benoit Tessier)
9A U.S. Army soldier runs across open ground to avoid sniper fire at Combat Outpost Pirtle-King in Afghanistan's Kunar Province. (Reuters/Tim Wimborne)
10Defendants, accused of participating in the December 2011 clashes in Kazakhstan's oil town of Zhanaozen, react while Interior Ministry officers block spectators during a court session in the city of Aktau. (Reuters/Olga Yaroslavskaya)
11Police officers detain an opposition activist for taking part in a rally protesting a bill to authorize larger fines for violations during rallies in central Moscow. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)
12The planet Venus transits in front of the Sun, seen in the early morning in Russia's Ivanovo region. (ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov)
