Today in pictures (May 15)
Pictures from around the world for Thursday, May 15, 2008.
Section:Gallery
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American actors Jack Black, left, and Angelina Jolie arrive for the premiere of the film "Kung Fu Panda," during the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Thursday, May 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) ORG XMIT: CAN185
Matt Sayles The Spokesman-Review
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Rescue workers carry an earthquake victim evacuated by boat from Yingxiu to the Zipingpu Dam as roads are still inaccessible near Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Thursday, May 15, 2008. China warned the death toll from this week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued a rare public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled to cope with the disaster. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ORG XMIT: XHG101
Ng Guan The Spokesman-Review
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A zeppelin NT is tanked with helium at Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei GmbH company in Friedrichshafen, Germany Thursday May 15, 2008. In autumn of 2008, the zeppelin will be shipped to the new owner, the Airship ventures in Moffett Field in California. (AP Photo/Felix Kaestle) ORG XMIT: ZEP101
Felix Kaestle The Spokesman-Review
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents search and question employees from the French Gourmet Restaurant and catering company during an immigration raid, Thursday, May 15, 2008 in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi) ORG XMIT: CALI102
Lenny Ignelzi The Spokesman-Review
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Palestinian children blow up black balloons before a rally marking Israel's 60th anniversary, which Palestinians call the 'nakba,' or catastrophe, the word they use to describe Israel's establishment which resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, in the refugee camp of Aida near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Thursday May 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) ORG XMIT: JRL146
Tara Todras-Whitehill The Spokesman-Review
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A Myanmar woman visits her cyclone-damaged home on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar on Thursday, May 15, 2008. The Red Cross estimated that the cyclone death toll in Myanmar could be as high as 128,000, a much higher figure than a tally by the government, which continued to issue few visas to foreign aid experts, and all but shut them out of the hardest-hit area. (AP Photo) ORG XMIT: XAF110
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Flames and smoke is seen, in a village, after a fuel line ruptured in Port Harcourt, on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, May 15, 2008. Flames from a ruptured fuel pipeline swept through homes and a school in a Nigerian village Thursday, killing about 100 people and injuring some 20 others, a Red Cross official said. (AP Photo) ORG XMIT: ANIN102
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Same sex marriage plaintiff's Stuart Gaffney, left, and his partner John Lewis, second from left, with Myra Beals, second from right, and her partner Ida Matson, right, hold a California flag after hearing the court decision on same sex marriages outside the court house in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, May 15, 2008. In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot. (AP Photo/ Tony Avelar) ORG XMIT: CATA108
Tony Avelar The Spokesman-Review
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In this photo released on Thursday, May 15, 2008 by Japanese helicopter manufacturing company Gen Corporation, the company employee Yasutoshi Yokoyama flies in the air by GEN H-4, a compact single-seater helicopter developed by Gen Corporation, during its test flight in Matsumoto in central Japan's Nagano Prefecture Jan. 14, 2005. Gennai Yanagisawa, 75, who has developed claimed to be the world's smallest one-man helicopter will take the aircraft on a flight on May 25 in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci near Florence, Italy, in tribute to his original idea. (AP Photo/Gen Corporation, HO) **EDITORIAL USE ONLY, CREDIT MANDATORY** ORG XMIT: TOK108
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An Israeli army helicopter fires a flare near the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 15, 2008. Israeli troops fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse dozens of Palestinian stone throwers in a confrontation at the Erez border crossing. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) ORG XMIT: JRL132
Sebastian Scheiner The Spokesman-Review