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An endangered mountain gorilla from the Bitukura family, rests among vegetation inside a forest in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in the Ruhija sector of the park, about 550 km west of Uganda's capital Kampala.THOMAS MUKOYA/Reuters

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Buddhist believers carry candles as they pray during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at Wat Dhammakaya in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok.STRINGER/Reuters

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A protester takes cover behind a roadblock in the midst of tear gas as riot police officers are seen in the background during clashes in the village of Bani Jamra, west of Manama.HAMAD I MOHAMMED/Reuters

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Two- months old Bengal tiger cub Tily reacts in its enclosure at the animal refuge La Fundacion Refugio Salvaje (Furesa) in La Libertad on the outskirts of San Salvador. The refuges takes care of animals in danger of extinction.ULISES RODRIGUEZ/Reuters

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An Indian buffalo herder throws water on buffalos to cool them on a hot afternoon on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India.Biswaranjan Rout/The Associated Press

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Secondary school graduates play in a fountain as they celebrate the last day of school in Kiev. Students across Ukraine celebrated the end of the academic year on Friday, traditionally called the "last bell".GLEB GARANICH/Reuters

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A wounded Afghan policeman is carried away from the site of an explosion in Kabul. Several large explosions rocked a busy area in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday with Reuters witnesses describing shooting in the area.OMAR SOBHANI/Reuters

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Jason Owen walks past an open door as he helps his mother to salvage items from her uncle's home after it was almost destroyed by a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado was the strongest in the United States in nearly two years and cut a path of destruction 27 km long and 2 km wide.LUCAS JACKSON/Reuters

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Amanda Jacobs casts from a dock on Whipple Lake at sunset in Baxter, Minn.Kelly Humphrey

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A farmer takes a nap on a field during a break in Langfang, Hebei province, about 80 km from Beijing.KIM KYUNG-HOON/Reuters

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A girl paints graffiti on a wall at the at the Babilonia slum in Rio de Janeiro. About 10 slums are participating in a contest for the best graffiti related to the upcoming 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup subject organized by privates companies.PILAR OLIVARES/Reuters

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