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Ethiopian migrants walk on the side of a highway leading to the western Yemeni town of Haradh on the border with Saudi Arabia. Plagued by sandstorms, drought, gun runners and drug smugglers, the 1,800-km strip of land along the Yemeni-Saudi border has long been a desolate, dangerous place.Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS

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People hold umbrellas as they cross a flooded street by stepping on wooden tables and ladders amid heavy rainfalls in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.China Daily/REUTERS

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A worker cleans the roof of the National Grand Theatre, nicknamed "The Egg", on a sunny day in Beijing, China.Petar Kujundzic/REUTERS

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Teenagers sell flowers and balloons on the street on Mother's Day in Managua.Oswaldo Rivas/REUTERS

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Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives flowers from migrant workers from Myanmar, as she visits them in Samut Sakhon province. Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi ventures outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years on Tuesday in an unmistakable display of confidence in the liberalisation taking shape in her country after five decades of military rule.Sukree Sukplang/REUTERS

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Protesters march in the streets of Montreal to protest against tuition hikes and Quebec's Bill 78 aimed at controlling student demos.Paul Chiasson/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Fans of Zenit St. Petersburg soccer team fight with riot police after the Russian Premier League match between Zenit St. Petersburg and Dinamo Moscow at the Petrovsky stadium in St. Petersburg.Maxim Shemetov/REUTERS

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A striking coal miner places a burning tyre onto a barricade on the A-66 motorway to protest against the government's spending cuts in the mining sector, in Campomanes, near Oviedo, northern Spain.Eloy Alonso/REUTERS

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