A keeper checks on two beluga whales as they swim in their enclosure at the Beijing Aquarium June 21, 2012. The aquarium is the largest in China, and promoted as "the world's largest inland aquarium", with more than 1,000 marine species and freshwater fish on display.
A dolphin jumps in the air at the Marineland aquatic park in Antibes, France.
Cast members, including Nikki Tuazon (C), perform in the "Dance, Dance, Dance" scene during a media preview of "Surf the Musical" at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. As The Beach Boys travel the world on their 50th anniversary reunion tour, a musical about a surfer's adventures featuring the band's iconic songs is hoping to catch a wave in the desert casino city of Las Vegas. The show opens at the resort in mid-June.
Paramilitary policemen patrol as visitors watch water gushing from the section of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River, during a sand-washing operation in Jiyuan, Henan province.
People ride the Radiator Springs Racers in Cars Land on the eve of the public grand reopening of Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California. Disney California Adventure Park has been undergoing a five-year expansion. Cars Land is the largest portion of the expansion and is based on the town of Radiator Springs in the Disney Pixar movie "Cars".
A boat sails past the medieval Fort Saint Angelo in Vittoriosa in Valletta's Grand Harbour June 17, 2012. The fort, which served as the headquarters of the Knights of St John during the 1565 Great Siege, is undergoing extensive restoration with the European Regional Development Fund providing 13.4 million euro for the project, expected to be completed by mid-2015, according to government officials.
People enjoy an Athens beach, on election day, June 17, 2012. Greeks voted on Sunday in an election that could decide whether their heavily indebted country stays in the euro zone or heads for the exit, potentially unleashing shocks that could break up the single currency.
Workers sit in gondolas as they perform tests on the new cable car link across the River Thames in London June 17, 2012. The scheme, revealed in July 2010, links the Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Docks, where the O2 and ExCel respectively will host London 2012 Olympics competitions.
Tourists take pictures against a smog covering Malaysia's Putra Mosque (L) and Putra Perdana, the office of the prime minister, in Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur June 16, 2012. The yearly haze is back and is expected to last for some time, with Air Pollutant Index in Kuala Lumpur recording unhealthy levels of between 105 and 147 at 5pm on Friday, as reported by Malaysia's daily The Star.
A tourist swims around the flooded ruins of an ancient Roman Bath in a small bay called Hamam Koy near Gocek Bay in Mugla province.
A woman from the ethnic Buyi minority group serves a visitor a cup of wine as she greets him at Pianpo Village in Kai county, Guizhou province. A majority of the population in the village belong to the Buyi ethnic group, who have a long history of growing rice and are believed to be known as "the people of the rice paddies", according to local media.
People stand on the decks as the battleship USS Iowa approaches the Vincent Thomas Bridge on its way to its final berth at the Port of Los Angeles, where it will become a floating museum, in the San Pedro section of Los Angeles, California June 9, 2012. The battleship USS Iowa served the US for six decades, hosting US presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush. The warship carried President Roosevelt across the Atlantic to ...
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Visitors stand on a platform beside the Rhine Falls in the town of Neuhausen south of Schaffhausen June 13, 2012. The Rhine Falls are the largest falls in Europe, with an average flow of 700 cubic metres per second (25,000 cubic ft/sec) the water cascades down the cataracts, which are 150 metres (450 ft) wide and 23 metres (75 ft) high.
A man looks at the world's first energy-powered wheel for bicycles during the 'Intersolar' Europe trade fair in Munich June 13, 2012. The front wheel called 'Roola' is developed by proEco, powers at 250 watt and travels up to 65 km (40 miles). Around 1,900 exhibitors present their new technologies at the trade fair running until June 15, 2012.
Women hold a rainbow flag from a rooftop during an annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv. On June 8, revelers paraded in the streets of Israel's free-wheeling city of Tel Aviv, which has become a Mediterranean hotspot for gay tourism, ending their celebration with a party on the beach.