Record breaking heat and lack of rainfall has resulted in fires that have destroyed homes, and loss of farmer's crops. The devastating drought has dried up streams and rivers in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico. 29th June 2011

Jockey Rosemary Homeister Jr.Wins the Top Jockey award after successive wins at Colonial Downs in 2010. Homeister also became the second winningest female jockey of all time with 2138 victories.

Tiger Woods won his 8th Arnold Palmer Invitational during the afternoon and in doing so has regained his number one position among the golfing elite this at Bay Hill, Florida.

Mauritian artists – actors, singers, musicians, dancers, sculptors, painters and others - gathered at the Plaza, Rose-Hill, second largest town in Mauritius, on 14th June 2009 to express their concern

Thousands of Mauritians marched down the streets of Rose-Hill to protest against the growing rise in food prices. The march was organised by the Confederation of Private Sector Workers (CTSP).

Canadian music artist Rose Cousins, Sarah MacDougall, Cara Luft Amelia Curran and Ladies of the Canyon perform at Trafalgar Square during the 7th Canada Day to mark their countries 145 birthday.

Called the "strawberry moon" because it signaled the harvest of strawberries for the North American Algonquin Indians, the full moon in June rises over the sacred mountain in South India, hours after the first partial eclipse of the moon in 2012.

Various ethically-aware designers teamed up with The Phoenix Rose to stage an evening of fashion and music at London's Tabernacle in support of The Big Issue magazine. London, UK. 19/09/09.

Burma Star Veteran, Richard Day, a St Albans resident who took part in today's Remembrance parade, said that the bombs and bullets did not scare him during the Battle of Kohima, but the spiders did. St Albans, UK. 14/11/2010

DMTX. Blackburn Rovers Ladies football team beat Watford ladies 4-2 in the FA Tesco Women's Premier League - National League. Manchester, UK. 28/02/2010.