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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

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• Czech Republic's Nicole Vaidisova gestures as she plays Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, during their quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament, at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris.
• June 5: Cyclone Gonu, expected to be the most powerful storm to hit the Persian Gulf since 1945, barrels toward Oman.
• June 5: A Macedonian Army MI-24 gunship helicopter flies by during a live fire tactical military drill in the Krivolak training area 46 miles southeast of Macedonia's capital Skopje. Macedonian Army special forces train different anti-terrorist techniques before new nation's contingent make a regular rotation in Afghanistan.
• June 5: Activists of international anti-globalization organization Oxfam costumed as G-8 leaders, stand side by side with their long noses in the harbor of Rostock, Germany.
• June 5: Unidentified people cry as they leave the main mortuary in Nairobi, Kenya, hours after police killed 20 suspected members of a religious sect called Mungiki. The killings follow the deaths of two police officers late Monday in a northeastern Nairobi neighborhood.
• June 5: President Bush meets with Czech President Vaclav Klaus at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic.
• June 5: Soldiers stand around a bombed bus in Beirut.
• June 5: Israeli students run in old Jordanian trench positions at the site of the Battle of Ammunition Hill, where Israeli paratroopers defeated Jordanian troops in the Six Day War, in Jerusalem.
• June 5: An aerial view of a passenger train after it collided with a truck on a rail crossing killing at least eight and injuring up to 50 in southern Australia.
• June 5: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left, shakes hands with foreign journalists at the conclusion of his press conference in Tehran, Iran. Ahmadinejad said Tuesday it was 'too late' to stop Iran's nuclear program and urged the West and the United States to abandon their 'arrogant policies' of setting conditions.
• June 5: A U.S. fighter takes off from the flight deck of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, while crewmen watch. Air strikes in support of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are among duties of planes taking off from the Nimitz and a second carrier, the USS John C. Stennis, which also are positioned in the Gulf as a warning to Iran