Pictures Of The Day: 31 May
(01 of09)
Shiv Sena activists chant slogans after setting fire to a scooter during a strike against a petrol price hike in Jammu on May 31, 2012. India's opposition parties held a nationwide strike May 31, vowing to shut down the country to protest against petrol price rises announced last week. (Photo credit: STRDEL/AFP/GettyImages)
(02 of09)
Busker Justin Maloney (a.k.a. 'Mr IncrediBubble') performs his unusual art as a way to earn a living in Sydney's Hyde Park on May 31, 2012. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said unemployment shrank to 4.9 percent in April from 5.2 percent in March, its best level since April 2011 and much lower than the 5.3 percent expected by economists. (Photo credit: TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/GettyImages)
(03 of09)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) greets Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen at the 2012 Council of Baltic Sea States Summit on May 30, 2012 in Stralsund, Germany. Leaders of the eleven member states as well as representatives of the European Union are meeting to discuss matters related to energy, the environment and economic development during the two-day summit. (Photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
(04 of09)
Outgoing Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh salutes a farewell guard of honour in New Delhi on May 31, 2012. The head of the Indian army retired May 31 after a stormy tenure in office that included a series of public spats with the government, amid speculation he may enter political life. General Vijay Kumar Singh took the government to the Supreme Court in January in an unprecedented dispute over his retirement due to confusion over his date of birth. Singh will be replaced by Lieutenant General Bikram Singh as Chief of Army Staff. (Photo credit: MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/GettyImages)
(05 of09)
An Indian woman dries paddy after harvesting at Burha Mayong village, near Gauhati, India. India plans to export up to 7 million tons of rice this year and a similar amount in the next fiscal year, according to government figures. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
(06 of09)
In this Tuesday, May 29, 2012 photograph, a man crosses a railway track as he carries harvested paddy in village Digaru Mukh, near Gauhati, India. India plans to export up to 7 million tons of rice this year and a similar amount in the next fiscal year, according to government figures. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
(07 of09)
In this Tuesday, May 29, 2012 photograph, an Indian woman carries paddy in a basket at village Digaru Mukh, near Gauhati, India. India plans to export up to 7 million tons of rice this year and a similar amount in the next fiscal year, according to government figures. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
(08 of09)
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi shakes hands with a Myanmar worker from a car during her visit to a shrimp market in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Kicking off her first trip abroad in nearly a quarter-century, Suu Kyi offered encouragement Wednesday to impoverished migrants whose flight to neighboring Thailand is emblematic of the devastation wrought on her homeland by decades of misrule. (photo credit: APP/Wason Wanichakorn)
(09 of09)
Palestinian security forces carry a coffin ahead of the funeral procession of 91 Palestinians whose remains were returned by Israel in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 31, 2012. Israel handed over the remains of scores of Palestinian militants killed in attacks against Israel, a Palestinian official said. (Photo credit: ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/GettyImages)