May 2, 2012

May 2 Photo Brief: Inflatable Corgis, Kentucky Derby preparation and trouble in Egypt

Inflatable Corgis, underground cops, Derby horses, a high tech nun and more in today’s daily brief.

: Horses train on the track in preparation for the 138th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)

: Kentucky Derby hopeful Rousing Sermon reacts to the crowds outside his stall after an early morning gallop on the track at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. (John Sommers II/Reuters)

: A visitor views a portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II by British artist Michael Noakes during a preview at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition at the Mall Galleries in central London. The exhibition, which runs from May 3-18, includes paintings by Royal Society members of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and other prominent figures. (Carl Court/AFP/GettyImages)

: School children wait with inflatable Corgis dogs prior the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II for a visit to Exeter, England. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are visiting the South West of England as part of their Diamond Jubilee Tour of the country. (Ben Bichall/Getty Images)

: A veterinarian prepares a cat for neutering at a mobile clinic, as part of a drive to reduce the growing number of dogs and cats in Bangkok. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) launched a campaign to control the number of stray dogs and cats in the Thai capital by providing free birth control operations. The initiative also aims to work towards ‘zero’ strays in the capital. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)

: Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops during a demonstration outside Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah in solidarity with prisoners held in Israeli jails. Clashes erupted for the second day in a row between stone-throwing youths and the Israeli army near the military jail in the occupied West Bank. (Abbas Momani/AFP/GettyImages)

: A Malian refugee holds her baby at the UNICEF medical cantre in the M’bere refugee camp near Bassiknou in the Nema region of Southwestern Mauritania. More than 320,000 people have fled their homes in Mali since mid-January, with more than half seeking refuge in neighbouring countries, UN officials said. (Abdelhak Senna/AFP/GettyImages)

: Sana, a five-year-old girl, plays on a cloth sling hanging from a signalling pole as smoke from a garbage dump rises next to a railway track in Mumbai (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)

: Former President George W. Bush, center, helps push Warrior rider Daniel Gade, who is missing his right leg, up a hill on day three of the Warrior 100K Bike Ride through parts of Palo Duro State Park outside of Amarillo, Texas. (Brad Loper/Dallas Morning News/MCT)

: A member of the Catalan Regional Police (Mossos d’Esquadra) Underground Unit inspects a sewer in Barcelona two days before the European Central Bank summit. An exceptional police presence is in place in Barcelona ahead of next week’s key ECB meeting, with authorities fearing violence in Spain’s climate of social unrest. Authorities fear fresh violence as the city hosts a meeting of the European Central Bank’s governing council to discuss monetary policy at a time when Spain is a major focus of concern. (Pedro Armestre/AFP/GettyImages)

: A Kashmiri nomad boy carries his sister on his shoulders in Srinagar. Nomads travel with their livestock and trek through the state’s rugged mountain terrain to reach pasture areas where they spend the summer months in the mountains and the winter in the shelter of valleys. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/GettyImages)

: Combine harvesters crop soybeans in Campo Novo do Parecis, about 400km northwest from the capital city of Cuiaba, in Mato Grosso, Brazil. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/GettyImages)

: Black smoke, dust and sand rise after UAE F-16 fighter jets fired missiles during joint exercise with the French army in the desert of Abu Dhabi. (Karim SahibAFP/Getty Images)

: Egyptian protesters beat a man as he tries to escape on the back of a motorcycle after he was accused of attacking demonstrators in the Abbassiya district in Cairo. At least 12 people were killed when attackers stormed an anti-military protest near the defence ministry in Cairo, medics and a security official said. (AFP/GettyImages)

: An Egyptian anti-military protester reacts as he is struck by a rubber bullet in the eye during clashes in the Abbassiya district of Cairo. Thugs attacked an anti-military protest near the defense ministry in Cairo and at least 20 people were killed, officials said, in the politically tense run-up to the first post-uprising presidential election. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)

: A labourer stacks firewood for use in a brick kiln as smoke billows from a chimney on the outskirts of Jammu, India. With four times the population of the United States, an economy growing 8-9 percent a year and surging energy demand, India’s race to become an economic power has propelled it to No. 3 in the list of top carbon polluters. India’s greenhouse gas emissions will keep rising as it tries to lift millions out of poverty and connect nearly half a billion people to electricity grids. (Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)

: Pope Benedict XVI kisses a child at the end of the weekly general audiencein St. Peter square at the Vatican (Tiziana Fabi/AFP/GettyImages)

: A nun films as Pope Benedict XVI leads his weekly audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Max Rossi/Reuters)

: An Oakland police officer pauses after being hit in the face with paint as officers advanced on Occupy protesters blocking an intersection during a May Day demonstration in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

: A patient with cataracts lies on a hospital bed upon receiving anesthesia during a cataract surgery at the Tilganga Eye Center in Kathmandu. About 150,000 of Nepal’s 26.6 million people are estimated to be blind in both eyes, most of them with cataracts. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)