just a few of the most emailed photos this week, according to yahoo photo beta. for the complete list, visit this site. i’m posting these photos because they made me get to know what’s happening around the world, nowadays.

 

Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile, May 2, 2008. (Carlos Gutierrez/Reuters)

 

 

Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanos are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them. Picture taken May 2, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Gutierrez (CHILE)

 

 

A gosling looks for food in front of a plastic coyote posted as a scarecrow on a lawn, in Tewksbury, Mass., Thursday, May 15, 2008. The plastic model is designed to scare away geese and keep them off the lawn, but appeared to have little effect on the young bird. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

 

 

This Monday, May 22, 2006 file photo provided by Mary Sage shows a polar bear watching a whaling crew off shore near Barrow, Alaska. Polar bears were declared as a threatened species by the Interior Department on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 saying polar bears must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Mary Sage, Joseph Napaaqtuq Sage)

 

 

Driving through rapeseed : A car seems to drive in the middle of a rapeseed field near Bautzen, in the eastern German state of Saxony. (AFP/DDP/Norbert Millauer)

 

 

A protest by pensioners, which disrupted traffic in Melbourne against the Rudd government’s lack of support for seniors (AFP/William West)