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MAY 25: Union Jack pageantry hangs over Regents Street at sunrise on May 25, 2012 in London, England.

Mark your calendars: if the sky is clear on the evening of Tuesday, June 5, you'll be able to witness one of the rarest of celestial events; a transit of the planet Venus.

Now the storm is a depression, and heavy rains and flooding threats remain. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives to hold a press conference at Park Plaza Hotel on October 23, 2010 in London, England.

The Queen becomes the subject of one of her subjects, artist Nicola Wood, at the Weston-super-Mare Sand Sculpture Festival.

A pirate sits along the Somali coast. The Navy is working on a Web-based program that could track pirate behavior and help sailors navigate around them.

Babydaddy, left, Del Marquis, Jake Shears and Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters sign copies of their new album, 'Magic Hour,' at a HMV store in London.

Groupon's Chicago office is closer to a co-working space than a cubicle farm, representative of benevolent and laid-back vibe at many Silicon Prairie startups.

Katrina Darling, a distant cousin of Kate Middleton, will concentrate on burlesque dancing full time.

Islamist cleric Abu Qatada was not in court for the special immigration appeals commission hearing.

Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays, has set out his concerns in a letter to the chairman of the Commons Treasury select committee.

Exclusive: David Lawley-Wakelin talks to the Guardian about bursting into the Leveson inquiry and calling Tony Blair a 'war criminal' David Lawley-Wakelin, who disrupted former PM Tony Blair's testimony at the Leveson inquiry, is led away by police.

NHS Direct's replacement service will be staffed by call handlers, who will have as little as six weeks' training.

For world leaders, condemnation is the easy bit. Nato's role in Libya will not be replayed in Syria, and Assad knows it UN observers start their daily brief in the basement of their mission in Homs, Syria.

The Gecamines plant, right, now largely unused in Lubumbashi, which is the heart of the mineral rich Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Yellow 'be aware' signs replace yellow suns in Met Office map of south-east as warnings issued after series of drownings Youths jump into Pickmere Lake in Cheshire to cool off.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, in London, on May 28, 2012.

A set of hip-hop classics marked the close of Movement's second day as Public Enemy kicked up an... If you plan to let your patriotic colors fly today in honor of Memorial Day, do right by Old Glory... An Indonesian activist takes part in a demonstration against Lady Gaga and her planned concert in Jakarta, Indonesia.

There are plenty of reasons to regret getting a piercing -- but these guys take the cake.

Sweden's Loreen performs during the dress rehearsal of the Grand Final of the Eurovision 2012 song contest in the Azerbaijan's capital Baku.

Bill Gates speaks at the GAVI conference, in London. On Friday, the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization, voted that polio represents a global emergency at the very point at which cases of the deadly, paralysis-causing virus are at an all-time low.