A bodyboarder rides a wave at Mackenzies Bay on May 1, in Sydney, Australia. A strong east-south-east swell has developed along the NSW coastline with waves between 6ft and 8ft expected to hit the coast for much of the weekend and into next week.

A picture made available on April 30 shows 'Burners' lighting Chinese lanterns during the Afrika Burn festival in the Tankwa Karoo National Park, Ceres, South Africa, April 29. Afrika Burn follows on from Burning Man in the United States and is a week long festival in the baron Tankwa Karoo. The event is styled on 'Burning Man' held in the United States and sees a temporary, non commercial sharing community build in the harsh badlands of the Karoo. Through sharing of ideas and goods, building of art instillations, dance, group drumming, human interaction and the casting off of modern day restraints the participants aim to create an annual four day nirvana.

An art installation consisting of eight Hills Hoists clothes lines complemented by eight 'mums hanging out washing' is seen at Bondi Beach on May 1, in Sydney, Australia. The installation is the latest in a series of surrealist works by artist Andrew Baines, this time to highlight the loss of the typical backyard due to the increase of high density living. The Hills Hoist is considered the epitome of Australian backyards, with Bondi Beach considered Sydney's backyard.

A man in a sulky makes his way through blooming meadow near Saalfelden in the Austrian province of Salzburg, Saturday, April 30. Weather forecasters predict light rain and temperatures up to 22 degrees Celsius (72 Fahrenheit) for Austria.

Pilgrims attend a prayer vigil on the eve of John Paul II Beatification ceremony in the ancient Circus Maximus venue on April 30, in Rome, Italy. Pope John Paul II will be beatified by Benedict XVI in a ceremony at the Vatican tomorrow.

A Saudi man cleans his windscreen during a sand and dust storm that engulfed the Saudi capital Riyadh on April 30.

A combination of images from GeoEye's IKONOS high-resolution satellite, made available to Reuters on April 29, 2011, shows an overview of the path of destruction after a massive tornado touched down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 28, 2011 (L) and an image taken April 4, 2006. President Barack Obama promised federal aid on Friday to the tornado-ravaged U.S. South, where deadly twisters have killed at least 339 people and caused billions of dollars in damage. Flying into Tuscaloosa, where a tornado touched down on April 27, 2011, Obama and his family saw a wide brown scar of devastation several miles long and hundreds of yards wide.

A boat rental building is under water at the shore of Lake Champlain on April 29, 2011 in Burlington, Vt. Already swollen to a record level, Lake Champlain continues to rise, prompting a handful of evacuations and sandbagging of low-lying homes along the Vermont and New York shore.

The Tungurahua Volcano spews ash and stones while it erupts, as seen from Cotalo, Ecuador on April 29, 2011. The Tungurahua volcano, 85 miles southeast of Quito, has been active since 1999.

A worker uses a steamroller to destroy pirated books, CDs and DVDs, seized during the last two months, during a pirate stuff disposal operation in Lima, Peru, Friday, April 29, 2011.

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, their daughters Sasha and Malia, and Astronaut Janet Kavandi, walk under the landing gear from beneath the nose of Space Shuttle Atlantis as they visit Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday, April 29, 2011.

A Palestinian man wears a plastic bag over his head to protect himself from teargas shot by Israeli soldiers at the border between Israel and Palestine during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Bilin, on April 29. Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called Friday on world countries not to recognize the Palestinian government to be set up after the Islamist Hamas and the mainstream Fatah movements announced a reconciliation deal.

Palestinian men throw stones during a demonstration in the West Bank on April 29.

Britain's Prince William kisses his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Royal Wedding in London Friday, April, 29.

A man rests in St James Park during the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in Westminster Abbey, in central London on April 29.