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X-Men: First Class takes a more measured approach to storytelling than its predecessors.Jun 03, 2011

Erik Lehnsherr, who will later morph into Magneto, is on a hunt for those who killed his family and his people in the concentration camps.

Russia had banned imports of vegetables from Germany and Spain on Monday over the E. coli outbreak, which has killed at least 17 people and made more than 1,500 others ill in eight European countries.

Its source is unknown.

A fisherman rows a boat in the morning on the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui Province, China, yesterday.

Drought in China’s rice-growing central areas is set to continue this month, as it has been forecast that rainfall will be insufficient, state media reported on Monday.Jun 03, 2011

algae水藻, 海藻

Hermes Cifuentes, who calls himself “Brother Hermes,” performs an exorcism(驅邪) on Claudia Gaviria, 28, who claims to be possessed by spirits, on Wednesday in La Cumbre, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

Cifuentes, 50, has performed exorcism rituals(儀式) for the past 20 years.Jun 03, 2011

A couple walks on the Great Wall of China in Beijing’s Huairou District, about 50km away from downtown Beijing, May 7.

這張五月七日攝於距離北京市區五十公里左右懷柔區的兩個人正在中國萬里長城上步行

Heavy equipment sits submerged in flood waters in an industrial area of Brisbane on Jan. 13.

Australia’s economy shrank 1.2 percent in the first quarter, its biggest decline in 20 years, after extensive flooding hit coal exports.Jun 02, 2011

Chiu Chien-fu, mayor of Changhua City, leads city government officials, teachers and students from National Changhua University of Education in a dragon boat race on land yesterday as a warm-up for the upcoming land dragon boat competition.Jun 02, 2011

Sixteen-year-old Buddhist novice(見習修士)

monk Rajinda walks through the streets of Yangon, Myanmar, collecting morning alms(施舍金) on Sunday.

Rajinda became a novice when he was nine, after his cancer-stricken mother requested to see her son in monk’s robes.

He has not left the monastery since. Entering monkhood is a rite(儀式) of passage for many boys in Myanmar, although most of them spend a few days to a few months rather than making a lifetime commitment.Jun 02, 2011

A visitor interacts with an audio/visual interpretation of a painting entitled 'Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains' by Chinese painter Huang Gongwang at the National Palace Museum in Taipei yesterday.

A man wears goggles to play a 3D racing game on a system developed by Asustek Computer Inc, the world’s No. 6 PC brand, at Computex in Taipei yesterday.Jun 01, 2011

US first lady Michelle Obama, left, and Samantha Cameron, the wife of British Prime Minister David Cameron, pose during a barbecue at 10 Downing Street in London last Wednesday.Jun 01, 2011

Members of the EcoWaste Coalition’s “Alert Toxic Patrollers” hold placards and banners in Manila yesterday urging shop owners to stop selling Taiwanese beverage and food products until they have been certified free of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, or DEHP

A man and a girl perform a skit at a press conference organized by the Anti-Bullying Care Association in Taipei yesterday to announce a street demonstration on Saturday calling on the Ministry of Education to take more practical action against schoolyard bullying.Jun 01, 2011

Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times

Members of Metroccolis, a Berlin-based performance company, perform on Monday during the “Play For All” children festival in Pristina, Kosovo, on Monday.Jun 01, 2011

The two “Lingodroids,” developed by the University of Queensland, have picked up their shared language by playing location games that led them to construct a shared vocabulary for places, distances and directions.

A Harley-Davidson-riding Sarah Palin, outfitted in black leather and heels, joined a massive annual motorcycle rally on Sunday .

A group of macaques watch a passing rider in Greater Kaohsiung’s Shoushan mountain yesterday.

According to a recent survey, the birthrate of local macaques has declined over the past few years because of the combination of a no feeding policy and pollution.May 31, 2011

Photo: Chang Chung-yi, Taipei Times