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  • Charles Dharapak/AP

    The witness chair of Fabrice Tourre, Goldman Sach's Executive Director of Structured Products Group Trading, is photographed on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, prior to the Senate Investigations subcommittee hearing on Wall Street investment banks and the financial crisis.

    I wonder how the thought process works in "media fishbowl" shots like this. Maybe: "We better make sure to get a shot of the guy from the AP making a picture of that empty chair!" Or vice-versa?

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  • Evan Vucci/AP

    A person rests on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, awaiting to enter the Senate Investigations subcommittee hearing, with Goldman Sachs employees and former employees, to discuss Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: The Role of Investment Banks".

    More evidence that public interest is at least a bit higher in this hearing than in the average Capitol Hill affair.

  • David Guttenfelder/AP

    A pro-government demonstrator holds a photo showing Thai King Bhumibol Adulyade during a rally in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 27. The ailing king, seen as the best hope to end the crisis, spoke publicly Monday for the first time since the crisis began. He made no direct comment on the political situation, but made oblique calls for stability.

    It's fascinating, here in the year 2010, to have a monarch be widely viewed as the most stable and postive force in a nation's fractious political scene.

  • Ed Reinke/AP

    An exercise rider works his horse around the track at Churchill Downs Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in Louisville, Ky.

    Very pretty. When I was a boy, my dad took me to the parking lot of Churchill Downs to look at rich folks' carsI remember an old Jaguar, a number of Rolls, and a Ferrari. Sadly, I've never been to the Derby. Have any of y'all?

  • Charlie Riedel/AP

    A horse runs through the mud at Churchill Downs Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in Louisville, Ky.

    I wonder how much serious horseplayers look at pictures like this to gauge track conditions.

  • Ali Jarekji/Reuters

    Lolo, a black jaguar, licks her spotted cub inside their cage at Jordan's zoo in Yaduda, on Tuesday, April 27. The four-month-old cub was given the name Ward on Tuesday after being born to Lolo and Falah, who originate from South America.

    Their coats are different, but you can see the family resemblance in their tongues. . .

  • Anupam Nath/AP

    Stranded passengers rest on luggage at a railway platform during a 12-hour general strike in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Flights, rail services and road traffic in parts of India were badly affected by a strike called by the country's opposition communist parties and their allies to protest rising food and fuel prices.

    Sometimes it's a volcano, sometimes it's a strike, sometimes you don't even know the reason. Is one cause for a travel delay "better" or at least more understandable than another?

  • Sergei Supinsky/AFP - Getty Images

    A smoke bomb is thrown during a parliament sitting in Kiev on April 27, 2010. Fighting broke out and smoke bombs and eggs were thrown as Ukraine's parliament erupted into chaos as it ratified a bitterly controversial deal with Russia extending the lease of a key naval base.

    When folks bemoan the lack of bipartisanship in the States, I guess we can point to this and say "Well, it could be worse."

  • Manish Swarup/AP

    Young Buddhist monks study religious scriptures during a class at the Dechen Phodrang monastery in Thimpu, Bhutan, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Dechen Phodrang monastery is a school of Buddhism which has 300 students and 15 teachers.

    I wonder what is in the boxes.

  • Dar Yasin/AP

    Afghan National Army soldiers march on Saturday, April 24 near tanks and armored personnel carriers which were destroyed in Soviet occupation and civil war, during a training exercise in Kabul. NATO hopes to grow the Afghan National Army from about 97,000 troops to 171,600 by the end of next year.

    I wonder if it's possible for these recruits to imagine the current war ending in a setting so fraught with recent history.

  • Kacper Pempel/Reuters

    A stork builds its nest after sunset at Mazurian village Sasek Maly near Szczytno, northern Poland April 26, 2010.

    Again, I break the no-silhouettes rule. . . I can't help myself.

  • Andre Penner/AP

    A man sits on a couch inside an abandoned building which was invaded by families in Sao Paulo, Monday, April 26, 2010. A squatters group says about 2,000 protesters occupied vacant buildings to demand more housing for the poor in Brazil.

    Strong environmental portrait.

  • Andres Martinez Casares/EPA

    A firefighter rests during a fire in the 'Marche du Port' market, best known as 'Geri', in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, 26 April 2010.

    It's sad to see even more hardship in this shattered city.

  • S. Brunier/ESO via Reuters

    Undated file photo shows a night view of the Armazones hill in the Atacama desert, about 130 km (80 miles) south of the northern Antofagasta city, where the world's largest telescope will be built by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The world's largest telescope will be built in Chile's northern desert at a cost over $1 billion, the ESO said on April 26, 2010 and will set its sights on discovering other worlds like our own.

    Looks like the perfect place to put a telescope (which, presumably, is why the observatory gave the picture to the press).

  • Andy Nelson/Getty Images

    A Buddhist monk peers through a barricade erected by anti-government protesters across from the Silom Road in Thailand's central business district on April 26, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.

    Colors + geometry.

  • /Taiwan National Freeway Bureau via EPA

    An aerial view of a landslide covering a part of the National Expressway No. 2 near Taipei, Taiwan. Rescuers are searching for car passengers buried by a massive landslide when a hillside collapsed in northern Taiwan.

    There was an earthquake in Taiwan today, but this landslide happened before the quake and was caused by rain. Three cars are believed to be buried.

  • Alaa al-Marjani/AP

    Gravediggers set to work as victims of a wave of bombings arrive for burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, April 23, 2010. A deadly series of blasts tore through Iraq Friday, killing at least 60 people, in a concerted attack on the country's Shiite community that appeared designed to show the Sunni-led insurgency's defiance despite the deaths of its two top leaders less than a week ago.

    This scene away from the actual bomb sites, conveys the scope the attacks today in a way that images we saw earlier couldn't. A link to the slideshow from the attacks is below.

  • /for msnbc.com

    A man poses in the dark for a portrait lit with flashlights in Voggu, Ghana, February 20, 2010. In northern Ghana, 73 percent of residents don't have electricity. The lack impacts the region's ability to educate their youth and grow their economy. Around the world, 1.6 billion people live without electricity.

    Multimedia journalist Peter DiCampo shows us what it's like for people in northern Ghana to live in darkness 12 hours a day. See the video linked below.

  • NASA via AP/

    A pillar of gas is eaten away by light from nearby stars in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away.

    Hubble: you are the most complex and sensitive space observatory ever constructed. You never cease to amaze me. I'm eager to see what the James Webb Space Telescope reveals.

  • Lucas Jackson/Reuters

    The Northern Lights are seen above the ash plume of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the evening April 22, 2010.

    Wow.

  • Ho/AFP - Getty Images

    This high-resolution view of the plume coming out of the Eyjafjoell volcano released by the Nasa Earth Observatory on April 20, 2010 and captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASAs Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. A cloud of charcoal-brown ash covers half the image. A fresh plume of ash rises over the summit, its southern face illuminated by sunlight and its northern face deeply shadowed. The ash column casts a tall shadow onto the snow-covered ground to the north.

    We had many compelling volcano images to choose from for this week's The Week in Pictures. This image didn't make the cut because while its texture is interesting the satellite perspective made editors feel like the photo was sideways which made for awkward viewing.

  • Vladimir Rys/Getty Images

    Nigel Lamb of Great Britain in action over the Swan River during the Red Bull Air Race Training Day Two on April 16, 2010 in Perth, Australia.

    We considered this image for the Week in Pictures this week but it didn't quite make the cut. Has anyone out there experienced an Air Race live? Is it cool?

  • SAUL LOEB/AFP - Getty Images

    Bob Greifeld, left, CEO of NASDAQ, Paul Calello, center, CEO of Credit Suisse, and Bob Diamond, right, President of Barclays, listen to a speech by President Barack Obama about the financial reform bill in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York, April 22, 2010.

    This was the reaction to Obama's speech on financial reform today. What did you think?

  • Saurabh Das/AP

    A girl scavenges for plastic and other items that can be sold to scrap dealers, at a garbage dump on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 22, 2010. Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day which aims to urge local action and increase awareness about the state of the worlds environment.

    We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors; we borrow it from our Children. ~ Native American Proverb

  • Cliff Owen/AP

    A large globe, with the U.S. Capitol in the background, on the Mall as part of Earth Day celebrations in Washington, Thursday, April 22, 2010.

    Sharon Begley, in Newsweek, makes a pretty compelling argument that real environmental change only happens via legislation. She writes that shopping for the planet is just one manifestation of how green activism has gone seriously off course as it has spread a gospel of personal change rather than collective action.

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