At the barbed wire fence on the border between Lebanon and Israel at Dhayra June 3, Palestinian refugees hand an Israeli soldier gifts and messages for relatives living in the Palestinian territories and Israel. Thousands gathered at the border to be reunited with relatives they have not seen for over two decades.

Police officers use pepper spray on a protester outside the Organization of American States (OAS) foreign ministers meeting in Windsor, Ontario, Canada on June 4. The Windsor protest brought the OAS face-to-face with the same anti-free trade movement that obstructed December's World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.

Los Angeles Lakers' center Shaquille O'Neal eyes a rebound against the Indiana Pacers in the second half of Game 1 of the NBA Finals in Los Angeles, June 7. O扤eal scored 43 points in the game and the Lakers went on to 104-87 victory.

Visitors walk down the spiral-shaped staircase inside the pavilion of the German recycling agency at the Expo 2000 World Exhibition in Hanover, Germany, June 4. The Expo will be open daily until Oct. 31, 2000.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, shakes hands with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung on June 13 as the two become the first leaders of the two nations ever to meet

Mourners help a woman who collapsed at the sight of President Hafez al-Assad's funeral procession in the Syrian capital of Damascus on June 13. Assad died June 10 at the age of 69.

Steve Rapp of Lafayette, Calif., tumbles on the track after crashing his motorcycle at the start of a June 10 race in Elkhart Lake, Wisc. Though the motorcycle was destroyed, Rapp was not seriously injured and raced to eighth place on his spare machine after the event was restarted.

Fijian soldiers man a roadblock at sunset near the parliament compound in Fiji's capital city of Suva on June 11. Deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and many members of his former Fiji Labor Party government are still being held hostage more than three weeks after rebel leader George Speight stormed the compound to demanding Fiji adopt a racist constitution and install him in power.

An attacker points a gun at the head of a hostage he took on a bus during a June 12 incident in Rio de Janeiro. Police later killed the gunman.

A boat crewman takes a nap at a lake in New Delhi, India on June 11.

California's Carmel Beach provides a backdrop June 15 as Tiger Woods tees off on the ninth hole at Pebble Beach during the first round of the U.S. Open. Woods won the championship by a record 15 strokes.

Neurosurgeon Ali Rezai checks the responsiveness of patient Don Davis while placing an electrode in his brain to calm the symptoms of Parkinson抯 Disease.

An Icelander peers down a fissure that opened in his garden near the town of Sellfos after an earthquake struck southwest Iceland on June 21. The quake knocked down dozens of houses but caused no serious injuries.

A Polish soldier holds a crucifix June 17 at a memorial in Kharkiv, paying tribute to more than 4,000 Polish officers who were killed near Kharkiv in 1940 by Soviet secret police.

South Korean protesters battle riot police along the barbed-wire fence which surrounds the American Koon-Ni Range on June 17. Hundreds of South Koreans protested outside the U.S. Air Force facility, demanding that the bombing range be shut down and calling for the U.S. military to withdraw from South Korea.

Climber Jamie Andrew, who lost his hands and his feet after being stranded in the Alps last year, makes his way up Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis in Scotland, on June 18. Wearing custom-built artificial legs and specially designed walking sticks attached to his arms, Andrew climbed the mountain as a tribute to his friend Jamie Fisher, who died in last year抯 alpine storm.

A mob circles a fire set in the street outside Los Angeles?Staples Center following the Lakers' decisive victory over the Indiana Pacers in the NBA Finals on June 19. Celebration turned to violence as fires were started and vehicles were torched.

A Texas Department of Public Safety Officer steps between anti-death penalty protesters John Norton and Quent Reese in front of the Governor's Mansion in Austin on June 19. The activists were protesting the execution of Gary Graham, which took place just a couple of hours later than scheduled June 22.

An elderly woman lays a bouquet of flowers at a memorial stone at Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa, on June 23. More than 5,000 people, including American and Koreans, attended the 55th anniversary of the worst ground battle in World War II抯 Pacific Theater. More than 238,000 died on Okinawa in 1945, and names of the dead are etched on the memorial stones.

Juan Miguel Gonzalez and his 6-year-old son Elian wave as they board a jet at Dulles International Airport near Washington, heading back to Cuba. Elian抯 flight capped seven months of controversy over whether the boy, who survived a tragedy at sea, should be returned to his father and his homeland.

Wendy Craig Duncan carries the Olympic Torch underwater June 27 at Australia抯 Great Barrier Reef. The flame was taken underwater using a specially designed flare. The torch is spending 100 days traveling around Australia on its way to Sydney for the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympics on Sept. 15.

South Korean students try to fight their way through a riot police barricade June 25 in an attempt to get to the U.S. Embassy to protest the presence of U.S. forces in South Korea. The disturbances came as South Korea marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean War.

Lisa White, left, hugs Trina Liles before the start of San Francisco's 30th annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Parade on June 25.v

Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush listens as supporter Daisy Bond makes a point during a campaign fund-raising reception June 23 in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Mexican presidential candidate Vicente Fox of the National Action Party flashes a victory sign next to a painting of himself wearing the presidential sash during a June 28 rally in Leon, Mexico. Polls in advance of the July 2 presidential election showed him in a virtual dead heat with Francisco Labastida of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Russian Interior Ministry officers say goodbye to their families at a railway station in St. Petersburg before departing for a three-month stint in Chechnya, where rebels are fighting Russian government troops.