Miners are helped by rescue workers and friends from a coal mine on Wednesday in Soma, Turkey, more than 19 hours after an explosion and fire killed at least 238 miners and trapped hundreds more. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 787 workers had been in the mine when the blast occurred. Image via Ozgu Ozdemir/Getty.
Plantiffs in the federal suit over Virginia's ban on gay marriage, Emily Schall-Townley, Carol Schall, and Mary Townley, raise their arms after a hearing on Virginia's same sex-marriage ban in Richmond on Tuesday. Image via Steve Helber/AP.
A Thai Buddhist monk and a group of people carrying lotus and candles march in front of Marble Temple in Bangkok on Tuesday as part of Wesaka Bucha activities. Wesaka Bucha, the most important Buddhist holy day of the year, marks the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha. Image via Sakchai Lalit/AP.
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station on Sunday in Hartsizk, Ukraine. A referendum on greater autonomy was held after pro-Russian activists took over at least ten cities in the eastern part of the country in a bid for less control from the central government from Kiev. Image via Brendan Hoffman/Getty.
Visitors line up for tickets at the Washington Monument on ahead of Monday's ceremony to celebrate its reopening. The monument, which sustained damage from an earthquake in August 2011, was under repair until this month. Image via AP.
A boy walks past Indian Muslim brides sitting during a mass marriage. Thirty-five couples participated in the ceremony in Mumbai on Sunday. Image via Rajanish Kakade/AP.
Drag queen Conchita Wurst, representing Austria, celebrates after the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Thursday. Image via Frank Augstein/AP.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Obama's nominee to become secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing on Thursday. Image via J. Scott Applewhite/AP.
Protesters lobby for higher wages for fast food workers outside a McDonald's in New York City on Wednesday. Image via Andrew Burton/Getty.
An Amur tiger walks across a passageway after a news conference at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday. The mesh pathway, called Big Cat Crossing, is part of a concept called animal rotation that zoos use to enrich the experience of both creatures and guests. Image via Matt Slocum/AP.
Pro-Russian activists bring captured fire service employees to the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Monday. They have for a few weeks been seizing and ransacking government buildings across eastern Ukraine amid a mounting anti-government insurgency. Image via Evgeniy Maloletka/AP.
A bystander throws a tear gas canister that came back from the al-Azhar University campus after it was shot by the Egyptian security forces towards protesters at the school in Cairo on Friday. Image via Mohammed Abu Zaid/AP.
Tourists snap a selfie as demonstrators burn a trash container during a May Day rally in Barcelona on Thursday. Image via Manu Fernandez/AP.
Cars are submerged in the Schuylkill River's flood waters along Main St. on Thursday in Philadelphia. During a nine-hour period that ended early Thursday, Chester County got 6.6 inches of rain, Delaware and Montgomery counties got 5.5 inches or more and Philadelphia almost 5 inches. Image via Matt Rourke)/AP.
Protesters from workers' unions protest during a march to mark the May Day, which is also International Workers' Day, in Hong Kong on Thursday. The slogans, from left, read "Less holiday, Long working hours, No compensation." Image via Kin Cheung)/AP.
India's Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi displays the victory symbol to supporters after casting his vote in Ahmadabad, India, on Wednesday. Image via Ajit Solanki/AP.
Queen Elizabeth II hangs with horse Teaforthree and human Rebecca Morris of Cotts Farm Equine Hospital during an official visit to Narbeth, Wales, on Tuesday. Image via Matthew Horwood/Getty.
Friends and volunteers help remove Dan Wassom's 1934 Ford on Tuesday from the debris left by Sunday's tornado in Vilonia, Ark. Image via Eric Gay/AP.
Udomsak Ratanotayo and Suttinan Boonsomkiat wear stormtrooper costumes while donating blood at the Thai Red Cross in Bangkok on Monday. Thai Star Wars fans are donating blood and giving toys to an orphanage as part of a promotional campaign. Image via Sakchai Lalit/AP.
