9/11 museum opens, fast food workers strike, protesting the World Cup | May 15
U.S. President Barack Obama and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg look at the faces of those who died during the 9/11 attacks at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York, military policemen stand in a line behind a demonstrator wearing the figure of a skeleton holding up a trophy representing that of the FIFA World Cup and more.
- A firefighter sprays down a front lawn in the Cocos Fire in San Marcos, California, May 15, 2014. Wildfires were raging in southern California on Thursday, keeping thousands of residents and students away from their homes after San Diego county officials maintained evacuation advisories. (REUTERS/Sam Hodgson)
- Artifacts of the historical exhibition are seen inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum during a press preview in New York May 14, 2014. A museum commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington is on the verge of opening, with wrenchingly familiar sights as well as artifacts never before on public display. Among the first visitors to the National September 11 Memorial Museum are victims’ family members and others intimately involved in its creation who will attend on Thursday, after a Wednesday media preview. The doors open to the general public on May 21. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)
- Demonstrators protest in front of a McDonald’s restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, May 15, 2014. U.S. fast food workers seeking higher wages plan strikes and demonstrations on Thursday that could affect thousands of restaurants across the country the workers say make huge profits from paying them workers a pittance. (REUTERS/Jim Young)
- U.S. President Barack Obama and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg look at the faces of those who died during the 9/11 attacks at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York May 15, 2014. The museum, memorializing the September 11, 2001 attacks, opens this week to victims’ family members and next week to the public, displaying artifacts from mangled columns recalling the enormity of that fateful day to shattered eyeglasses recalling its personal pain. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
- A local man pushes his bicycle as pro-Russian rebels provide security at a check point in the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk May 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)
- People pray during a funeral at a cemetery after a mining disaster in Soma, a district in Turkey’s western province of Manisa May 15, 2014. Rescuers were still trying to reach parts of the coal mine in Soma, 480 km (300 miles) southwest of Istanbul, almost 48 hours after fire knocked out power and shut down the ventilation shafts and elevators, trapping hundreds underground. At least 282 people have been confirmed dead, mostly from carbon monoxide poisoning, and hopes are fading of pulling out any more alive of the 100 or so still thought to be inside. (REUTERS)
- Anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban smiles during a rally at the Air Force base in Bangkok May 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)
- A crowd of spectators is buffeted by the rotor wash of the Marine One helicopter as President Barack Obama lands on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, May 15, 2014. The president is returning from a trip to New York to attend the opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum. (REUTERS/Jim Bourg)
- Former Honduras’ president Manuel Zelaya (C) steps over a barricade outside congress in Tegucigalpa May 14, 2014. Zelaya was evicted from congress on Tuesday, alongside his wife, former presidential candidate Xiomara Castro, and nearly 40 other congress members who were staging a sit in over claims they had been blocked from debating critical national policies regarding the economy and security.Tensions between the left and right in Honduras have been high since ruling National Party’s Juan Hernandez, who is head of Congress, won last year’s election with 36.8 per cent of the votes, according to the country’s election tribunal. But the leftist opposition had rejected the vote, saying the result was tainted by fraud. (REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera)
- Military policemen stand in a line behind a demonstrator wearing the figure of a skeleton holding up a trophy representing that of the FIFA World Cup during a protest against the 2014 World Cup, in Sao Paulo May, 15 2014. Road blocks and marches hit Brazilian cities on Thursday as disparate groups criticized spending on the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament and sought to revive a call for better public services that swept the country last June. (REUTERS/Nacho Doce)
- A woman pushes a trolley as she evacuates a hair salon in a shopping centre during flooding in the central Bosnian town of Zenica May 15, 2014. Several Bosnian cities have been affected by floods caused by heavy rains. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic)