An elephant wears paint on its face in preparation for the upcoming Thai New Year, on April 10, 2008 in Ayutthaya, Thailand. Thai’s are getting ready to celebrate the Thai New Year, called Songkran, a three-day holiday which is celebrated with a water festival during the hottest time of the year. A mahout is an elephant jockey. By Paula Bronstein/Getty Images.
A young boy enjoys a light dusting of snow on his sledge in the Cheshire countryside on April 6, 2008, Knutsford, England. Snow fell across most of the UK with signs of Spring being covered in blanket of snow. Forecasters have predicted heavier falls and icy conditions for much of the country later today. By Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.
Yoko Ono poses next to ‘The Wish Tree’, one of her art installations at The Bluecoat Display Centre on April, 2008 in Liverpool, England. The Wish Tree invites viewers to write their wishes on labels that are then fixed to the branches. Yoko Ono returned to perform and display her art at The Bluecoat 40 years after she first exhibited there in 1967 to celebrate the re-opening of the UK’s oldest arts centre after a GBP 12.5 million refurbishment. By Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.
French Denis Thevenin shows his invention, a unique system for viewing ones head and hair, set with light and portable mirrors to use for comb, coloring, make-up, shaving, during the opening day of the 36th International Exhibition of Invention, on April 2, 2008 in Geneva. More than 700 exhibitors from 45 countries are present at the World’s largest exhibition devoted to innovation in the world. By Fabrice Coffrini/Getty.
A villager watches from behind a barb wire fence as victorious landless farmers broke thru the protective fence and claimed a portion of the disputed property of San Miguel Corporation in Sumilao town in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on March 30, 2008. The farmers from the Higaonon tribe and San Miguel Corp, the country’s food and beverage giant, reached a compromise settlement under the government agrarian reform program, brokered by the Roman Catholic church in Manila on March 29 following a long and bitter dispute on the 144 hectare agricultural land the farmers claim as their ancestral land. By Romeo Gacad/Getty.
A Brazilian former county employee, who forms part of the group ‘Mata Mosquito’ (Mosquito Killer), which works in the combat against mosquitos, demonstrates against the Government for taking too long in implementing a strategy to deal with a dengue fever outbreak, along the main avenue of Rio de Janeiro downtown on March 28, 2008. Brazilian authorities are taking emergency measures in Rio de Janeiro to fight a dengue fever outbreak that has killed 54 people and infected more than 43,000 across the state. By Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty.
Max Mathis, 6, rides on his father Blake’s shoulders during the first day of the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival March 29, 2008 in Washington, DC. The two came from Huntsville, AL for the weekend to see the flowers. The festival commemorates Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo giving 3000 cherry trees to the city of Washington in 1912. By Melissa Golden/Getty Images.
A member of the Gicquet family dances in the FEMA Diamond travel trailer park March 21, 2008 in Port Sulphur, Louisiana. The FEMA federal trailer parks that house many Hurricane Katrina victims are set to close June 1st prompting fears that people will be forced into residences they can’t afford or will be left homeless. Residents will receive a federal subsidy to move from the trailers to apartments but the amount is decreasing and will be totally phased out in March 2009 by HUD. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images.
A Tibetan Buddhist monk in-exile looks at photographs of alleged victims of a crackdown by Chinese authorities in Tibet, outside his Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Palace Temple in Dharamsala on March 22, 2008. Tibetan exiles broke into the Chinese embassy complex in New Delhi on MArch 21, 2008 after making repeated failed bids since launching their pro-independence protests 12 days ago, police said. By Manan Vatsayana/AFP/Getty.
A supporter of Taiwan’s presidential candidate Frank Hsieh of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, whose his running mate is Su Tseng-chang, attends an election rally on March 16, 2008 in Taichung, Taiwan. Taiwan holds its presidential elections on March 22 when the party will face its rival Kuomintang on issues ranging from the economy to relations with Beijing. By Andrew Wong/Getty Images.
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