May 8 Photo Brief: Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus go home, The Queen addresses Parliament, sloth bear cubs, military water tunnels

Tourists on traditional boats sail in the Beihai military water tunnels on the island of Nangan in the Matsu archipelago, off northern Taiwan. The Matsu archipelago, which was once front line against China, is now a military tourist spot. (Pichi Chuang/Reuters)

Ambulance service trainee Nathalie Arndt explains the respiratory machine that is filling Donald Duck, who fictitiously fell from a building, to visiting children in an ambulance at the Teddy Bear Clinic at Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany. Charite Hospital hosts the annual Teddy Bear Clinic days and invites children from Berlin day care centers to bring their injured teddy bears for fictitious examinations, x-rays, surgery and healing as a way for small children to become acquainted with a medical environment. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Hani, a 10-year-old sloth bear, wanders her enclosure with her two cubs at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois. The cubs, which have been held in a maternity den since their birth on January 20, were making their public debut today at the zoo. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Elephants are pictured crossing the Ewaso Nyiro river in Samburu game reserve. UNEP goodwill ambassador and Chinese actress Li Bingbing was on an official visit in Kenya to highlight issues of Africa’s poaching crisis. (Carl de Souza/Getty Images)

Gina DeJesus arrives at her home in Cleveland, Ohio. DeJesus, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Berry’s 6-year-old daughter escaped a Cleveland home where they were held captive. DeJesus, now 23, vanished aged 14 in 2004. (John Gress/Reuters)

The father of kidnapping victim Gina DeJesus, Felix DeJesus (2L), hugs family members outside of their home during his daughter’s homecoming in Cleveland, Ohio. Gina DeJesus was one of three women who were held captive for almost a decade in a home in Cleveland, Ohio. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight managed to escape their captors on May 6, 2013. Three suspects, brothers Ariel, Pedro and Onil Castro, were taken into custody in connection with the crime. (Matt Sullivan/Getty Images)

Neighbors react as Amanda Berry arrives at her sister’s home in Cleveland, Ohio. Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Berry’s 6-year-old daughter escaped a Cleveland home where they were held captive. Berry, now 27, was found with her daughter, conceived and born during her captivity, along with DeJesus, 23, who vanished aged 14 in 2004, and Knight, 32, who was 20 when she went missing in 2002. (John Gress/Reuters)

A Cleveland police officer is present outside the home of Amanda Berry’s sister in Cleveland, Ohio. Amanda Berry, free less than two days from a decade of captivity with two other women in a Cleveland house, arrived on Wednesday at her sister’s home, where her family pleaded for privacy. (John Gress/Reuters)

A student protester bites a riot policeman while being detained during a riot at a rally demanding Chile’s government reform the education system in Santiago. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

Demonstrators attend a rally in protest of Sunday’s election result at a stadium in Kelana Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim vowed on Tuesday to lead a “fierce movement” to reform the country’s electoral system and challenge the results of an election he lost, starting with a rally of supporters this week. Anwar has contested the results of the most closely fought election since Malaysia was engulfed in race riots in 1969, accusing the ruling party of fraud, including use of immigrants as proxy voters, charges the government denies. (Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters)

A government employee shouts slogans from inside a police vehicle after he was detained by police during a protest in Srinagar May 8, 2013. Indian police detained dozens of employees on Wednesday during a protest demanding a greater regularization of temporary jobs and a hike in salary, according to protesters. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)

Finland’s Janne Jalasvaara (R) and Team USA’s Bobby Butler fall as they fight for the puck during their 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round match at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki. (Grigory Dukor/Reuters)

A baby reacts in front of a poster at the Guangzhou Women and Children’s medical centre in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. With China’s first breast milk bank opening in June at the centre, about 80 moms have donated to premature babies and other needy infants since the trial period started in late March, local media reported. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

A boy walks in front of a monument of the WWII open-air museum in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, prior to the Victory Day celebration. (Sergei Supinsky/Getty Images)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II arrive for the state opening of Parliament at the House of Lords in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II will unveil the coalition government’s legislative program in a speech delivered to Members of Parliament and Peers in The House of Lords. Proposed legislation is expected to be introduced on toughening immigration regulations, capping social care costs in England and setting a single state pension rate of 144 GBP per week. (Lewis Whyld – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth II leaves through the Norman Porch of the Palace of Westminster after the State Opening of Parliament in London. British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a fresh clampdown on immigration in the Queen’s Speech, seeking to bolster his right-wing credentials and counter the rise of the UK Independence Party (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

First lady Michelle Obama speaks at an awards ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC. The first lady presented the 2013 National Medal for Museum and Library Service to 10 institutions from across the country. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The Conservatory of Flowers docent Drew Risner-Davis holds a butterfly on a stick during the first day of the “Butterflies and Blooms” exhibit at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. The popular “Butterflies and Blooms” exhibit has returned to the Conservatory of Flowers and features more than 20 species of North American butterflies including Monarchs, Western Swallowtails and more. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The new permanent exhibition at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva shows pictures taken on 1994 of children separated from their families in Rwanda. Twenty-five years after it first opened, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (IRCM) will be unveiling next week its new permanent exhibition entitled “The Humanitarian Adventure” planned around three crucial topics: “Defending human dignity”. “Restoring family links” and “Reducing natural risks”. The exhibition has been completely reworked by a trio of international architects – Shigeru Ban (Japan), Gringo Cardia (Brazil) and Diebedo Francis Kere (Burkina Faso), to reflect today’s changing world, and particularly the changes affecting humanitarian action. (Fabrice Coffrini/Getty Images)

A U.S. Army carry team carries the flag-draped transfer case with the remains of Army 1st Lt. Brandon Landrum across the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base as (L-R) Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, Army Maj. Gen. William Rapp and Marine Col. Christian Cabaniss salute in Dover, Delaware. A member of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Landrum and four other soliders were killed May 4 when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb during a patrol in the Maiwand District in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

John Clarke (2nd L), a Veteran of the Battle of the Atlantic who served in the Merchant Navy, speaks with friends outside St. Paul’s cathedral before a service to mark the 70th anniversary of the battle of the Atlantic in London, England. The ‘Battle of the Atlantic’ was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II; thousands of merchant ships were sunk and tens of thousands of lives were lost. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

People dance in the grounds of Lismore House and Gardens in the centre of Helston, as they take part in the midday dance to celebrate Helston Flora Day in Cornwall, England. The annual Flora Dance, also known as the Furry Dance, is one of the UK’s oldest customs still practiced today and is said to be a celebration of the passing of Winter and the arrival of Spring. A series of dances take place throughout the day, beginning at 7am, all over the Cornish town and even in and out of private houses and shops. However the highlight is the midday dance which was traditionally the dance of the gentry in the town and is why men still wear top hats and tails while the women dance in their finest dresses. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

May 8 Photo Brief: Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus go home, The Queen addresses Parliament, sloth bear cubs, military water tunnels

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