Ino Menegaki, a Greek actress, in the role of an ancient high-priestess, lights a torch from a cauldron with the Olympic Flame during a handover ceremony in Athens. Photo: Reuters/John Kolesidis
Toronto FC’s Terry Dunfield (R) kicks Vancouver Whitecaps’ John Thorrington in the groin during the first half of the Amway Canadian Championship soccer final in Vancouver, British Columbia May. Photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms
A view of an illegal oil refinery is seen along the Ekulama creek outside the oil hub city Port Harcourt in Nigeria’s Delta region.Nigeria is Africa’s largest crude oil exporter but its production capacity has been slashed by thieves drilling into pipelines passing through winding creeks and waterways in the vast delta. The underground industry is thought to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Photo: Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye
An anti-government protester walks towards riot police, holding stones in her hands, during a protest asking for the release of human rights activists Nabeel Rajab and Zaynab al-Khawaja in the village of Sanabis west of Manama. Photo: Reuters/Hamad I Mohammed
Women stand on a performer who calls himself ‘The Human Floor’ as he lays on a bed of broken glass at the Watch City Festival celebrating Steampunk in Waltham, Massachusetts. Steampunk is a movement that explores the notion of what the world might look like had modern technology been available at the turn of the twentieth century. Photo: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi