An Iranian woman displays her ink-stained finger as she casts her vote in the first round of the presidential election at a polling station in Tehran on June 14. Iranians are voting to choose a new president in an election the reformists hope their sole candidate will win in the face of divided conservative ranks, four years after the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read about social media use during the election here and see the candidate's fashion choices here. Supporters of Iranian moderate presidential candidate, Hassan Rowhani, hold portraits of him at a street rally at Valiasr Square in Tehran, on June 12. General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), commander of the US Cyber Command and chief of the Central Security Service testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the agency's PRISM program, which tracks web traffic and US citizens' phone records, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 12. FP's Joshua E. Keating examines the technology to catch the next Edward Snowden. Protesters clash with riot police during a demonstration near Taksim Square on June 11 in Istanbul, Turkey. What began as a protest over the fate of Taksim Gezi Park, has turned, with the heavy-handed response by police, into a protest over what is being seen as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian agenda. Read about Turkey's ties to the war in Syria here. A man plays piano amid hundreds of protesters at Taksim Square, on June 12 in Istanbul, Turkey. A Greek public TV technician sits in an editing room at the ERT headquarters in Athens on June 12. The placard reads in Greek 'the revolution won't be televised.' A day earlier, a shock decision by the government shut down the state broadcaster's operations with immediate effect, affecting nearly 2,700 jobs. A destroyed BMW Isetta is pulled from a private garage ruined by recent flooding from the nearby Danube River on June 10 in Deggendorf, Germany. Floods along rivers in southern and eastern Germany in the last week have left devastation in their wake and at least seven people have died. Joerg Koch/Getty Images Works by Rob Pruitt, 2013, presented by Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York at Unlimited, Art Basel are displayed on June 10 in Basel, Switzerland. Unlimited, Art Basel runs from June 13 until June 16. Getty Images for Rob Pruitt German Football Association President Wolfgang Niersbach and members of the German delegation visit Yad Vashem on June 10 in Jerusalem, Israel. Alex Grimm/Bongarts/Getty Images In this handout provided by the South Korean Unification Ministry, South Korea's delegate, left, shakes hands with North Korea's head of working-level delegation, right, as she crosses the military demarcation line for the meeting at the border village of Panmunjom on June 9 in South Korea. Photo by South Korean Unification Ministry via Getty Images South Korean soldiers participate in an anti-terror exercise on June 13 in Incheon, South Korea. Tension between the two Koreas has increased after scheduled talks between the nations were cancelled, following a disagreement over the rank of officials that were slated to participate in the discussions. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images A Chinese paramilitary policeman walks past an LED screen in Tiananmen Square on June 9 in Beijing, China. Children sit on wooden planks along a creek in the P. Casal district of Manila, Philippines, on June 9. It has been reported that 105,000 of 580,000 informal settlers in Manila have set up home in disaster-prone areas. The Philippines may be Asia's fastest growing economy, but a housing shortage is still a major concern for many of Manila's poorest communities. Veejay Villafranca/Getty Images Manager of the Jurong Frog Farm, Chelsea Wan, shows off a large female North American Bullfrog on June 11 in Singapore. The country's only frog farm has seen a huge boom in sales in the past year after developing the only fresh, locally made Hashima, also known as Snow Jelly. Traditionally imported from China, Hashima is made from the bullfrogs's oviducts and is often referred to as one of the top five most valued Chinese ingredients. Because it comes from the reproductive organs of the frog, it is rich with collagen protein and is said to help skin complexion as well as strengthen the kidneys and lungs. Chris McGrath/Getty Images In the build-up to the G8 summit in Northern Ireland next week, protesters gathered on Regent Street on June 11 in London, England. Oli Scarff/Getty Images Boats line up at the Aberdeen Dragon Boat Races, on June 12 in Hong Kong. Jessica Hromas/Getty Images A "flying bike" carries a dummy during its first public flight on June 12 in Prague, Czech Republic. The F-Bike has four main motors and two stabilization motors. It has an estimated constant flight time of 3-5 minutes. Matej Divizna/Getty Images Festival worker Rowan Elliott moves metal trash bins that will be distributed around the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site at Worthy Farm on June 13 near Glastonbury, England. Tickets to the event, now in its 43rd year, sold out in minutes -- before any of the headline acts had been confirmed. The festival, which started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid 1 GBP to watch Marc Bolan, now attracts more than 175,000 people over five days. Lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) on June 12 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images Teresa Rousseau, right, the mother of school teacher Lauren Rousseau who was killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, is hugged by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi during an event marking the six-month anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting at the U.S. Capitol on June 13 in Washington, D.C. Friends and family members of the victims joined members of Congress for a day-long event to honor the 26 children and educators killed in the December shooting, and to renew calls for gun reform legislation. Horse-mounted shrimp fishermen work the nets during the visit of King Albert and Queen Paola of Belgium on June 13 in Oostduinkerke, Belgium. Mark Renders/Getty Images A veterinarian helper holds Kabang, upon her arrival at a vet center in Makati City on June 8 in Manila, Philippines. The female aspin returned to the Philippines after completing eight months of various procedures at University of California, Davis for the loss of its snout when she saved two young girls from the path of an incoming motorcycle in 2011. Kabang has since been named as one of the world's top 10 heroic canines for 2012. Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images Artist Cosmo Sarson sits besides his giant mural of Jesus breakdancing. The controversial mural took 4 days to paint and involved a kilo of glitter; it was officially unveiled on June 11 in Bristol, England. "Breakdancing Jesus" was inspired by an actual event in the Vatican when breakdancers performed to an applauding Pope John Paul II in 2004. Representatives of Mickey's gay bar ride a fire truck in the 43rd L.A. Pride Parade on June 9 in West Hollywood, California. David McNew/Getty Images