Some of the estimated 1.3 million snow geese take flight and fill the skies creating an illusion of a blizzard at a national wildlife refuge, Missouri, United States.
A boy swims in the Black Sea in the Crimean village of Beregove June 20, 2013.
Tiger helicopters participate in a flying display during the 50th International Paris Air Show at the Le Bourget airport in Paris, France, June 17, 2013.
The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012.
Former NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden revealed the massive US global surveillance program.
A trio of daredevil musicians known as Led Zipline takes to the skies for jamming sessions, dangling 300 meters above a French gorge.
Two men married each other in the southern French city of Montpellier on Wednesday, in the first same-sex wedding in a country rocked by protests for and against the reform.
Austrian tightrope walker Christian Waldner passes the roof of St. Stephen's cathedral on a high line in Vienna May 24, 2013. The line was fixed between St. Stephen's cathedral's two south towers 60 meters above ground.
Buddhists carry candles while encircling a large Buddha statue during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at a temple in Nakhon Pathom province on the outskirts of Bangkok May 24, 2013.
Every year, inhabitants of the village take part in a Sufi Muslim ceremony called Gamou-Ndande.
A visitor looks at a display of flowers during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 20, 2013.
The world's largest animal appears to be making a comeback in waters off New Zealand.