Firefighters battle a wildfire south of Gardnerville, Nev. On May 22, 2012. The fast-moving blaze near the Nevada-California line destroyed at least two homes on Tuesday as it forced evacuations and sent up huge plumes of black smoke, witnesses said.

A boy slides down a water slide as the sun shines in the northern German city of Hameln on May 22 as temperatures reached 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit).

Shots taken on May 23, 2011, left, and May 7, 2012, show progress made in Joplin, Mo., in the year after an EF-5 tornado destroyed a large swath of the city.

These three-photo combos, taken on May 25, 2011, top, July 20, 2011, center, and May 7, 2012, bottom, show scenes of destruction, cleanup and rebuilding in the year since an EF-5 tornado destroyed a large swath of the city and killed 161 people.

A worker selects coffee beans from coffee plants during a harvest at a farm in Esp'rito Santo do Pinhal, Brazil. Brazil's coffee crop faces a smaller risk of frost this year, forecasters said, lowering chances that the world's biggest producer will suffer freezes that contributed to 34-year high in prices last year.

A worker selects coffee beans from coffee plants.

A tractor loaded with coffee beans drives through a coffee field.

A worker rakes coffee beans to dry during.

Workers unload coffee beans from a tractor.

Workers pick coffee beans from coffee plants.

A worker stands next to a sacks of coffee beans at Sumatra factory.

A worker carries a sack of coffee beans at Sumatra factory.

Family members carry a coffin during the funeral procession. 29,300 people were evacuated after rain and hail battered the county.

Family members grieve during the funeral.

A car is stranded in a flooded tunnel after a heavy rainstorm hit China's Jiangxi Province on May 12, flooding roads in several cities.

A young girl makes her way along a mud-covered street after a storm hit the village of Minxian, China. Forty people were killed when a brief but violent hailstorm and torrential rain swept through a mountainous region of northwest China.

A tornado is seen in Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, in this picture taken by a resident, May 6.

This picture whows a tornado sweeping through Tsukuba, Japan.

A damaged residential area is seen after a tornado struck Tsukuba, Japan.

A woman breaks down with her son as the search for her missing husband continues.

The body of a victim is retrieved at the bank of the Seti River by locals.