Images of MAY 2013

pps: chieuquetoi,, bachkien
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Residents walk on sand dunes in the Libyan desert oasis town
of Ghadames April 19, 2013. Ghadames, a small town of
around 11,000 people that lies on Libya's western border
with Algeria, was a key destination for tourists who came to
Libya before its Arab Spring uprising. But since the 2011 war
that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, the flow of foreign holiday
makers has ground to halt, as precarious security still taints
Libya's image abroad. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
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April 19
2013
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Hu Barney (C), smokes a joint during 420Fest at the Luxe
Nightclub in Seattle, Washington April 20, 2013. In
November 2012, voters approved legalizing the
recreational use of marijuana in the state of Washington
for adults over 21. REUTERS/Nick Adams
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April 20
2013
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Candidates from law enforcement agencies
across Utah take part in Salt Lake City Police
Department's SWAT School training exercise on
an obstacle course in Draper, Utah, April 21,
2013. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
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April 21
2013
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Police try to detain supporters of Aam Aadmi Party during a protest
outside the residence of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in
New Delhi April 21, 2013. Angry crowds demonstrated in the capital
after a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped, tortured and kept in
captivity for 40 hours, reviving memories of last December's brutal
assault on a woman that shook the country. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
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April 21
2013
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Schoolgirls who fell ill after smelling gas at their school, receive treatment at
a hospital in Takhar province, Afghanistan, April 21, 2013. As many as 74
schoolgirls fell sick after smelling gas at their school Bibi Maryam in Takhar
province's capital Taluqan, and were being examined for possible poisoning,
local officials said on Sunday. While instances of poisoning are sometimes
later found to be false alarms, there have been numerous substantiated cases
of mass poisonings of schoolgirls by elements of Afghanistan's ultra-
conservative society that are opposed to female education. REUTERS/StringerJune 2, 2013 6
April 21
2013

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his
Israeli counterpart Moshe Yaalon speak
during a helicopter tour of the Golan Heights
April 22, 2013. . REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool
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April 22
2013
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Sulfur and mineral salt formations are seen near Dallol in the Danakil Depression,
northern Ethiopia April 22, 2013. The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is one of the hottest
and harshest environments on earth, with an average annual temperature of 94 degrees
Fahrenheit (34.4 Celsius). For centuries, merchants have travelled there with caravans of
camels to collect salt from the surface of the vast desert basin. The mineral is extracted
and shaped into slabs, then loaded onto the animals before being transported back
across the desert so that it can be sold around the country. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola
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April 22
2013
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A crucifix is seen in the deserted Ukrainian town of
Pripyat April 23, 2013. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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April 23
2013
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People rescue a garment worker who was trapped
under the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza
building in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka
April 24, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
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April 24
2013

A rescue worker tries to find the remains of
the garment workers, who died inside the
rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building,
in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka
April 25, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
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April 25
2013
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A woman makes a sandwich in a cell at the Los Angeles County
Women's jail in Lynwood, California April 26, 2013. The Second Chance
Women's Re-entry Court is one of the first in the U.S. to focus on
women, and offers a cost-saving alternative to prison for women who
plead guilty to non-violent crimes and volunteer for treatment. Of the
297 women who have been through the court since 2007, 100 have
graduated, and only 35 have been returned to state prison.
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
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April 26
2013

A full moon rises over the skyline of New York next to One World
Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, as seen from the Eagle Rock
Reservation in West Orange, New Jersey, April 26, 2013.
REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
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April 26
2013

An ethnic Uighur man Abulajon drives his self-made
motorcycle during a test in Manas county, Xinjiang
Uighur autonomous region, April 27, 2013.
Abulajon, a 30-year-old Uighur worker from a
sewage treatment plant, spent a year making his 0.3
tonnes motorcycle measuring 4.3 meters (14 feet) in
length and 2.4 meters (7.8 feet) in height, although
it makes it impossible for him to drive it on the
street. It cost him about 8000 yuan ($1300) to buy
all the parts from salvage stations and the
converted engine can power the motorcycle with a
speed of 40 km per hour (24.8 miles per hour), local
media reported. REUTERS/China DailyJune 2, 2013 14
April 27
2013

Roma Hattu, a Rohingya Muslim woman who is nine months
pregnant and is displaced by violence, grimaces while
experiencing labor pains on the bare floor of a former rubber
factory now serving as her family's shelter near Sittwe April 28,
2013. Myanmar authorities have begun segregating minority
Muslims from the Buddhist majority in troubled areas of a
country in transition. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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April 28
2013

Su-30 fighters of Vietnam Air Force
flying over Song Tu Tay-April 28.2013
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April 28
2013

A flag marking the empty plot of a beach home is seen in
the Breezy Point section of the borough of Queens, six
months after the landfall of Superstorm Sandy, in New
York, April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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April 29
2013

Hla Hla May, a Rohingya Muslim woman
displaced by violence, holds her one year old
daughter Roshan at a former rubber factory that
now serves as their shelter, near Sittwe April 29,
2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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April 29
2013

A man pierces the cheeks of a Hindu devotee while
pouring milk in her mouth during an annual religious
procession called Shitla Mata in the western Indian city of
Ahmedabad April 29, 2013. Hindu devotees subject
themselves to painful rituals during the religious
procession to demonstrate their faith and as a penance to
the deity at a temple dedicated to the goddess Shitla.
REUTERS/Amit Dave
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April 29
2013

U.S. WWII veterans and liberators stand to be recognized
during a ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of
the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington April 29, 2013.
World War II veterans and holocaust survivors attended the
two-day national tribute. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
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April 29
2013

People wait for news of their missing relatives, the
garment workers, who are missing after the collapse
of Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30 km (19 miles)
outside Dhaka April 30, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
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April 30
2013

Dancers warm up before an open audition to join the world
famous Rockettes at New York City's Radio City Music hall
April 30, 2013. Hundreds of aspiring dancers try out each
year for a spot with the dance company to star in the Radio
City Christmas Spectacular. REUTERS/Mike Segar
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April 30
2013

A demonstrator attempts to break a window of a pharmacy
on Capitol Hill during May Day demonstrations in Seattle,
Washington May 1, 2013. Protesters clashed with police in
Seattle on Wednesday as a May Day rally that began
peacefully turned violent after dark, with demonstrators
hurling objects at officers who responded by firing flash-
bang grenades and pepper spray. REUTERS/Matt Mills
McKnight
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May 1
2013

A worker wearing protective glasses welds steel products at a heavy
equipment manufacturing factory in Luoyang, Henan province May 1,
2013. China's factory-sector growth eased in April as new export
orders fell for the first time this year, a private survey showed on
Thursday. REUTERS/China DailyJune 2, 2013 25
May 1
2013

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C)
smiles as Henry Kissinger, also a former Secretary of
State, presents her with a Distinguished Leadership
Award from the Atlantic Council in Washington May
1, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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May 1
2013

An ironworker uses a line to steady the final piece of a spire,
affixed with a U.S. flag, before it is lifted to the top of One
World Trade Center in New York, May 2, 2013. The piece will
be attached at a later date. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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May 2
2013

Amazon Indians from the Xingu, Tapajos and Teles Pires river basins
invade the main construction site of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam
site in protest against the dam's construction, in Vitoria do Xingu, near
Altamira in Para State, May 2, 2013. The Indians from the Munduruku,
Juruna, Kayapo, Xipaya, Kuruaya, Asurini, Parakana, and Arara tribes are
trying to force the paralyzation of the dam, projected to become the
world's third largest in energy production, that they oppose for its
impact on the environment and their livelihoods. The protesters said in
an open letter that they want a dialogue with the government.
REUTERS/Lunae Parracho
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May 2
2013

Rebel fighter William Plotnikov (R) is seen in this undated handout photo released by Dagestani branch of the Russian Federal Security Service to Reuters May 2,
2013. A mess of rubble, ash and charred vehicles is all that's left at the desolate farmhouse where a Canadian Muslim convert died fighting his last battle
alongside Islamist insurgents in the Russian region of Dagestan. At the time, few people beyond local villagers noticed William Plotnikov's death in a region where
skirmishes occur daily. But almost a year on, Plotnikov has emerged into the limelight following the Boston Marathon bombings. REUTERS/Dagestani branch of
the Russian Federal Security Service/NewsTeam/Handout via Reuters
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May 2
2013

A woman lights a fire in front of the graves of her
relatives at a cemetery in the village of Copaciu, 42
km (26 miles) southwest of Bucharest, early morning
May 2, 2013. Orthodox women went to church and
cemeteries in the early morning on Maundy
Thursday to light candles, burn incense and mourn
their dead relatives as part of a southern Romania
tradition. Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, is the
day Christians commemorate the Last Supper of
Jesus Christ. Romania's Orthodox majority celebrates
Easter on May 5. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
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May 2
2013

A resident pulls a hose line to attempt to stop flames from
spreading down the hillside as The Springs Fire pushes
towards the coast near Camarillo, California May 2, 2013. The
wind-driven wildfire raging along the California coast north of
Los Angeles prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes
and a university campus on Thursday as flames engulfed
several farm buildings and recreational vehicles near
threatened neighborhoods. REUTERS/Gene BlevinsJune 2, 2013 31
May 2
2013

Ethiopian Orthodox men eat in front of the Yemrehana Krestos
church as they break their fast ahead of the Ethiopian Orthodox
Easter celebrations, some 40 km (25 miles) north of Lalibela May
2, 2013. The Yemrehana Krestos is a 11th century monastery
built under a natural cave and a separate building situated in
front of the main church building, which is believed to be the
palace of King Yimrehane Kristos. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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May 2
2013

Relatives mourn as they look for a garment
worker, who is missing after the collapse of the
Rana Plaza building in Savar, outside Dhaka
May 2, 2013. The mayor of the Bangladesh
municipality where a factory building collapsed
killing more than 400 people was suspended
from office on Thursday, a government
minister said, as rescuers pressed on with the
task of recovering bodies from the wreckage.
REUTERS/Khurshed Rinku
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May 2
2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during
the Grand Gala Concert at Mariinsky Theatre in St.
Petersburg, May 2, 2013. REUTERS/Anatoly Maltsev/Pool
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May 2
2013

Ram Pratap Verma, a 32-year-old aspiring Bollywood film actor,
watches a film at a cinema in Mumbai May 2, 2013. Bollywood is an
addiction for many; an addiction that attracts thousands of aspiring
stars to the city of Mumbai. Ram Pratap Verma made the journey
from his small village eight years ago, and despite carrying his whole
"home" inside his bag, he is determined not to give up on his
ambitions. He endeavours to watch at least one film a week at a
cinema, where the silver screen keeps his dreams alive.
REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
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May 2
2013

Police stand guard outside the residence of the Chief of India's
ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi during a protest in New
Delhi May 2, 2013. Hundreds of Sikh protesters on Thursday
held a demonstration outside the residence of Sonia Gandhi
against the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984
anti-Sikh riots case, protesters said. More than 2,500 people
died in a wave of attacks on Sikhs in 1984 after the then Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her Sikh bodyguards.
REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal
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May 2
2013

Photo taken at a slow rate of seagulls in the sky
above the city of Rome Italy-May 3, 2013
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May 3
2013

Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky ties himself
inside a barbed-wire fence, in front of Saint
Petersburg city parliament-May 3.2013
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May 3
2013

Mohammad, 11, a Syrian
refugee boy who was
injured during the conflict in
Syria, sits in his wheelchair
at a post-traumatic care
centre directed by Union of
Syrian Medical Relief
Organizations (UOSSM) in
Hatay province May 3, 2013.
Turkey is now sheltering
more than 300,000 Syrians
who have fled the fighting
in their homeland, most of
them in camps along the
900-km (560-mile) frontier.
REUTERS/Osman Orsal
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May 3
2013

A lifeguard tower stands on the beach at
Point Mugu State Park as the Springs Fire
burns on the nearby hillside May 3, 2013.
REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
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May 3
2013

Orthodox Christian worshippers hold crosses as they take part in
the Eastern and Orthodox Church's Good Friday procession
along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City May 3, 2013.
Thousands of worshipers retraced the route Jesus took along
the Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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May 3
2013

An Orthodox Christian walks between
the famous monolithic rock-cut
churches during a Good Friday
celebration in Lalibela, Ethiopia, May 3,
2013. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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May 3
2013

Members of Malaysia's opposition party, Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS),
perform a special prayer during a campaign for the upcoming general
elections inside a stadium at Kota Bahru early May 3, 2013. Malaysia will
hold general elections on May 5 in what could be the toughest test of the
ruling coalitionâ€™s 56-year grip on power in Southeast Asiaâ€™s third-
largest economy. REUTERS/Samsul Said
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May 3
2013

The sun is about to come up over the South Pacific Ocean in this colorful scene
photographed by one of the Expedition 35 crew members aboard the Earth-
orbiting International Space Station between 4 and 5 a.m. local time on May 5,
2013 and released on May 9, 2013. The space station was at a point above Earth
located at 27.4 degrees south latitude and 110.1 degrees west longitude, a few
hundred miles east of Easter Island. NASA/Handout via Reuters
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May 5
2013

Men play pool by the roadside, as the election campaign posters
featuring the image of Nawaz Sharif (on right of poster), leader of
political party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, are seen around
the pool table, May 6, 2013. REUTERS/Mani Rana
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May 6
2013

Labourers work at the demolition site of abandoned
buildings, which were to be part of an amusement park
called "Wonderland", on the outskirts of Beijing May 6,
2013. According to local media, the demolition of the
amusement park will make way for a shopping centre
once authorities approve its construction. Wonderland's
construction, which was promoted by developers as 'the
largest amusement park in Asia', stopped around 1998
after funds were withdrawn due to disagreements over
property prices with the local government and
farmers. REUTERS/Stringer
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May 6
2013

Madonna arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Costume Institute Benefit celebrating the opening of
"PUNK: Chaos to Couture" in New York, May 6, 2013.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
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May 6
2013

Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade take part
in a drill simulating urban warfare, close to the
ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, in the
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights May 6, 2013.
REUTERS/Baz Ratner
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May 6
2013

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama adjusts
his University of Maryland visor while attending
the Anwar Sadat Lejcture for Peace at the
University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland
May 7, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
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May 7
2013

An Israeli soldier carries another soldier as they walk with their comrades
during training close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on the
Israeli occupied Golan Heights May 7, 2013. Israel played down weekend
air strikes close to Damascus reported to have killed dozens of Syrian
soldiers, saying they were not aimed at influencing its neighbour's civil war
but only at stopping Iranian missiles reaching Lebanese Hezbollah
militants. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
June 2, 2013 54
May 7
2013

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses in front of St. Basil's
cathedral during a walk at the Red Square in Moscow, May 7,
2013. Kerry is scheduled to see Russian President Vladimir
Putin on Tuesday to discuss a wide range of issues including the
Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, Afghanistan and
U.S.-Russian trade. REUTERS/Mladen Antonov/Pool
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May 7
2013

Rescue workers of a coal mining company take part in an
emergency rescue drill in Huaibei, Anhui province May 7, 2013.
The company organized a week-long training course for about
280 rescue workers to improve their skills in using rescue
equipment and providing first aid to the victims in mining
accidents. REUTERS/China Daily
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May 7
2013

Former Marine Jack Wright (L), 88, sits at the wedding
reception after marrying his girlfriend of 30 years,
Shirlene King, 57, in the oncology radiation department
of the Veterans Administration hospital in Los Angeles
May 7, 2013. Wright is one of 11 remaining U.S.
survivors of the Battle for Guadalcanal in World War II.
He decided to marry King in the oncology radiation
department after undergoing chemotherapy radiation
for his head and neck cancer there. REUTERS/Lucy
Nicholson
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May 7
2013

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire caused by the explosion
of a gas tanker truck in San Pedro Xalostoc, on the
outskirts of Mexico City May 7, 2013. A gas tanker truck
exploded on a highway north of Mexico City early on
Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens
others as a fireball tore through cars and
homes. REUTERS/Stringer
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May 7
2013

Helicopters fire during a parade of Kazakhstan's armed forces
on Fatherland Defender's Day at Otar military range, some
150km (93 miles) west of Almaty May 7,
2013.REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
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May 7
2013

A missing person poster for Amanda Berry, one of the three
woman found alive after vanishing for about a decade in their
own neighborhood, is pictured on a tree in front of the home of
Berry's sister Beth, which is adorned with balloons and a
welcome home banner for Amanda, in Cleveland, Ohio May 7,
2013. The three Cleveland women were freed from a house (not
pictured) that authorities tried to visit several years ago, police
said on Tuesday. Three brothers, one of them a school bus driver
who owns the house in Cleveland, Ohio where the women and a
child were found on Monday, are under arrest, police
said. REUTERS/John Gress
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May 7
2013

Youths dressed in Red Army uniforms participate in a street
performance ahead of Victory Day in the Russian Siberian city of
Krasnoyarsk, May 7, 2013. Russia marks its victory over Nazi Germany in
World War Two every year on May 9. REUTERS/Ylia Naymushin
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May 7
2013

Amir Ismagulov, the father of Azamat Tazhayakov, visits the makeshift memorial for the
victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston, Massachusetts May 7, 2013. Azamat
Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both from Kazakhstan, were charged by U.S. authorities on
May 1 with interfering with the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing, saying they
hid fireworks and a backpack belonging to one of the suspected bombers as a manhunt for
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was under way. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
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May 7
2013

A statue of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong
is seen in front of buildings during a hazy day in
Shenyang, Liaoning province, May 7,
2013. REUTERS/Stringer
June 2, 2013 63
May 7
2013

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (2nd R)
speaks during a visit to a construction site of
the North Korean army, in this picture
released by North Korea's KCNA news
agency May 7, 2013. REUTERS/KCNA
June 2, 2013 64
May 7
2013

Combination photo created from May 7, 2013 booking photos provided by the Cleveland Police Department
show brothers Ariel (L-R), Onil and Pedro Castro. The brothers were arrested in connection with the abduction
of three Cleveland women found alive after vanishing in their own neighborhood for about a decade.
Cleveland Police Dept/Handout via Reuters
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May 7
2013

A farmer harvests wheat at the fields in Bhaktapur, near the
capital Kathmandu May 7, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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May 7
2013

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May 7
2013
Nepal

Josefa da Silva, 76, who hopes that her home will be
visited by Pope Francis during his upcoming trip, is
pictured inside her home at the Manguinhos slum in Rio
de Janeiro May 7, 2013. Pope Francis will visit the poor
in a favela and meet young prisoners when he travels to
Brazil on his first international trip as pontiff in July, the
Vatican said on Tuesday. Francis, who has said he wants
to make concern for the poor a hallmark of his papacy,
will visit the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro on the
fourth day of his July 22-29 trip to the world's largest
Catholic country. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
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May 7
2013

A man walks on the debris of a damaged building demolished by
diggers, at the site of the May 11 blast, in the town of Reyhanli at
Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border May 15, 2013.
REUTERS-Umit Bektas
June 2, 2013 69
May 11
2013

Harley Davidson riders attend at the annual Harley Davidson
National Rally in Qian Dao Lake, in Zhejiang Province, May 11, 2013.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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May 11
2013

A polling station in
Peshawar May 11, 2013.
May 11
2013

A man checks an apartment on a damaged building at the site of a blast in the
town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border, May 13,
2013. Syria's information minister has blamed Turkey's government for deadly
car bombings near the Syrian border and branded Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan a "murderer", state-run Russian TV company RT reported on Monday.
It said he repeated a denial of Syrian involvement in car bombings that killed 46
people on Saturday in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli. Turkey has accused
a group with links to Syrian intelligence of carrying out the
attacks. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
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May 13
2013

A dead tree stands in front of shallow water and a dried-up area of Lake
George, north of the Australian capital city of Canberra, May 13, 2013.
REUTERS/David Gray
June 2, 2013 73
May 13
2013

The train Arica-La Paz, connecting Chile with
Bolivia, is running in Arica, from Santiago, about
2,000 kilometers north, on May 13, 2013.
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May 13
2013

The Dutch police, aided by Chelsea fans, save a drunk
Chelsea fan out of a canal in central Amsterdam May
14, 2013. REUTERS/Cris Toala Olivares
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May 14
2013

Men smash a Maserati with hammers outside the Qingdao
International Automobile Exhibition in Qingdao, Shandong province
May 14, 2013. One of the men smashing the Maserati said the car
owner had asked them to destroy the car, which costs around
2,600,000 yuan ($423,280), in protest against bad after sales service
provided by a dealership store. The store had charged the owner the
price of a new part despite repairing the Maserati with an old part,
according to Xinhua News Agency. REUTERS/Stringer
June 2, 2013 76
May 14
2013

A plainclothes policeman catches a woman during a police crackdown on
prostitution in Quanzhou, Fujian province, October 29, 2011. China should
remove criminal and administrative penalties against sex workers which often
lead to serious police abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released
on May 14, 2013. The abuses include torture, beatings, physical assaults, fines
and arbitrary detentions of up to two years, as well as a failure to investigate
crimes against sex workers by clients, bosses and state agents, according to
the report. Prostitution is not permitted under Chinese law, although the
industry has boomed since the country launched economic reforms in
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May 14
2013

A police officer stands while holding handcuffs during a police crackdown action
on prostitution in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, September 12, 2012 . China
should remove criminal and administrative penalties against sex workers which
often lead to serious police abuses, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
The abuses include torture, beatings, physical assaults, fines and arbitrary
detentions of up to two years, as well as a failure to investigate crimes against
sex workers by clients, bosses and state agents, according to the report.
REUTERS/Stringer
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May 14
2013

An X-47B pilot-less drone combat aircraft performs a fly-by after
being launched for the first time off an aircraft carrier, the USS
George H. W. Bush, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia,
May 14, 2013. The U.S. Navy made aviation history on Tuesday by
catapulting an unmanned jet off an aircraft carrier for the first time,
testing a long-range, stealthy, bat-winged plane that represents a
jump forward in drone technology. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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May 14
2013

Soyuz TMA-07m landing in a remote area near the
town Zhezkargan, Kazakhstan-May 14.2013
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May 14
2013

The town of Reyhanli in Hatay province near
the Turkish-Syrian border May 14, 2013.
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May 14
2013

A deflated Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn
Hofman floats on Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, with the island
skyline looming at the background, May 14, 2013. The 16.5-
meter-high inflatable sculpture, which made its first public
appearance in the territory on May 2, will be shown at the Ocean
Terminal for a month. The Rubber Duck was deflated after some
of its parts broke. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
June 2, 2013 82
May 14
2013

Tropical Storm Mahasen spin in the
northern Indian Ocean, May 15, 2013
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May 15
2013

A giant shoe is pictured outside a life-size
Barbie Dreamhouse of Mattel's Barbie
dolls in Berlin, May 15, 2013
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May 15
2013

German Chancellor and head of the Christian Democratic
Union (CDU) Angela Merkel drinks a beer after her speech in a
beer tent in Munich May 15, 2013.REUTERS/Michaela Rehle
June 2, 2013 85
May 15
2013

Chinese inventor Tao Xiangli welds a
component of his self-made robot (back) at
the yard of his house in Beijing, May 15,
2013. Tao, 37, spent about 150,000 yuan
(USD 24,407 ) and more than 11 months to
build the robot out of recycled scrap metals
and electric wires that he bought from a
second-hand market. The robot is 2.1-
metre-tall and around 480 kilograms (529
lbs) in weight, local media
reported. REUTERS/Suzie Wong
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May 15
2013

President Barack Obama checks to see if he still needs the umbrella held by
a U.S. Marine to protect him from the rain during a joint news conference
with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden of
the White House in Washington, May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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May 16
2013

Activists from women's rights group Femen burn a barbie
doll on a cross as they protest outside a "Barbie
Dreamhouse" of Mattel's Barbie dolls in Berlin, May 16,
2013.REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
June 2, 2013 88
May 16
2013

An Afghan man walks with two school children at the site of a suicide
attack in Kabul May 16, 2013. A suicide bomber in a car targeted two
vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital Kabul on
Thursday, police said, but it was not immediately clear if there were
casualties. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
June 2, 2013 89
May 16
2013

An Israeli policeman scuffles with an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man
during a demonstration against plans to enlist men from their
community into the military, near the recruitment offices in
Jerusalem May 16, 2013. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews
protested in Jerusalem on Thursday against plans to enlist men
from their community into the military, a proposal supported by
the secular majority pushing for a more equal share of the
burden on Israeli society. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
June 2, 2013 90
May 16
2013

Rescue workers comb through debris May 16 after tornados
swept through the town of Granbury, Texas late May 15, 2013. At
least six people were killed and about 100 injured on Wednesday
as three tornadoes ripped through a stretch of Texas near the
Dallas-Fort Worth area, destroying a number of homes, authorities
said. REUTERS/Richard Rodriguez
June 2, 2013 91
May 16
2013

Indian boy bathing in Dara, outside the city
Srinagar.-May 16.2013
June 2, 2013 92
May 16
2013

A woman and her children evacuate to a safe place
before Cyclone Mahasen land at a Rohingya internally
displaced persons (IDP) camp outside of Sittwe,
Myanmar, May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
June 2, 2013 93
May 16
2013

An Iraqi soldier steps over wreckage of a car bomb at the
site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City May 16,
2013. Two car bombs exploded in busy markets in Sadr
City, north-eastern Baghdad and killed at least 11 people
and wounded another 18, police and medical officials
said. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen
June 2, 2013 94
May 16
2013

Afghan policemen stand guard at the site of a suicide attack in
Kabul May 16, 2013. A suicide bomber in a car targeted two
vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital Kabul on
Thursday, police said, but it was not immediately clear if there
were casualties. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
June 2, 2013 95
May 16
2013

Soldiers demonstrate unarmed combat
techniques during a military graduation parade
for trainees from the Libyan Army "Thunderbolt"
Special Forces unit, in Benghazi May 16, 2013.
The trainees form the first batch of graduates
which enlisted after the 2011 Libyan
revolution. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori
June 2, 2013 96
May 16
2013

A man rests on a bench at Rossio square in
downtown Lisbon May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Rafael
Marchante
June 2, 2013 97
May 16
2013

A diver (L) rescues a man who was trapped in a flooded semi-
underground store for 8 hours, after heavy downpours hit
Xiamen, Fujian province May 16, 2013.REUTERS/China Daily
June 2, 2013 98
May 16
2013

Director Sofia Coppola (R) and actresses Claire Julien
(L), Taissa Farmiga (2ndL), Katie Chang (3rdL), Emma
Watson (2ndR) and actor Israel Broussard, cast
members of the film 'The Bling Ring', arrive for the
screening of the film 'Jeune & Jolie' (Young & Beautiful)
in competition during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in
Cannes May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
June 2, 2013 99
May 16
2013

Waves crash into people sitting by the shore of the Bay of Bengal before cyclone
Mahasen approaches in Chittagong May 16, 2013. Mahasen started crossing
Bangladesh's low-lying coast on Thursday, bearing down on the ports of Chittagong
and Cox's Bazar, as tens of thousands of people huddled in shelters from a storm
which the United Nations says threatens 4.1 million people. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
June 2, 2013 100
May 16
2013

A soldier searches a site of the accident in a shoe factory
in the Kong Pisei district of Kampong Speu province, 50
km (30 miles) west of the capital, Phnom Penh May 16,
2013. Three people were killed when the ceiling of a
warehouse fell in at a shoe factory in Cambodia, a
government minister said on Thursday, adding to
concerns about safety standards at Asian factories
producing cheap clothing. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
June 2, 2013 101
May 16
2013

M23 rebel recruits stand at attention during a training session
at the Rumangabo military camp in eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo, May 16, 2013. REUTERS/James Akena
June 2, 2013 102
May 16
2013

Palestinians Sadi al-Masri (R), 27, Moutasem Abu Karsh he was
hit in an Israeli air strike in 2009. The swimming training
sessions are organized by the Merciful Hands Society for
wounded Palestinians in an attempt to help rid them of trauma
and frustration. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem(C), 16, and Asad
Redwan (L), 31, rest after taking part in a swimming lesson
inside al-Sadaka Club in Gaza City May 16, 2013. Al-Masri's leg
was amputated after clashes between Palestinians and Israeli
soldiers during the first Intifada in 1987, while Abu Karsh lost
his leg in an explosion, and Redwan said his leg was amputated
after
May 16
2013

A man carries toilet paper at a supermarket in Caracas May 17, 2013. Supplies
of food and other basic products have been patchy in recent months, with long
lines forming at supermarkets and rushes occurring when there is news of a
new stock arrival. The situation has spawned jokes among Venezuelans,
particularly over the lack of toilet paper. The government announced this week
it was importing 50 million rolls to compensate for "over-demand due to
nervous buying." REUTERS/Jorge SilvaJune 2, 2013 104
May 17
2013

Actress Eva Longoria poses on the red
carpet as she arrives for the screening
of the film 'Le Passe' (The Past) in
competition during the 66th Cannes
Film Festival in Cannes May 17,
2013. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
June 2, 2013 105
May 17
2013

The area of Heror, near Metina mountain on the
Turkish-Iraqi border, a Reuters witness said.
June 2, 2013 106

A workers stands in front of an 18-meter (59 ft)
high and 1.6 km (1 mile) long tsunami defence
wall at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka
Nuclear Power Station in Omaezaki, Shizuoka
Prefecture May 17, 2013.
REUTERS/Toru Hanai
May 17
2013

Chubu Electric Power Co.'s
Hamaoka Nuclear Power
Station is seen through a
window in Omaezaki, Shizuoka
Prefecture May 17, 2013.
Chubu Electric is spending at
least $1.5 billion on safety
upgrades at its Hamaoka
nuclear plant to reduce the risk
of a repetition of the disaster
that hit Tokyo Electric's
Fukushima station, when an
earthquake and tsunami
caused three reactor
meltdowns. Picture taken May
17, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
May 17
2013

Bineta Ndiaye, 22, looks at herself in the mirror as her
friend Coumba Faye, 19, fixes her hair in Faye's house in
the village of Ndande, Senegal, May 19, 2013. Every year,
inhabitants of the village take part in a Sufi Muslim
ceremony called Gamou-Ndande. The ceremony
combines nights of praying and chanting as well as
traditionally animist ceremonies.REUTERS/Joe Penney
May 19
2013

People riding on motorcycles are seen
through a hole of a damaged building in
Deir al-Zor May 19, 2013. REUTERS/ Khalil
Ashawi
May 19
2013

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires back at Syrian Army's position
during what activists say was clashes between the Free Syrian
Army and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in
Deir al-Zor May 19, 2013. Picture taken May 19,
2013. REUTERS/ Khalil Ashawi
May 19
2013

People sit in a U.S.-made car used as a private
collective taxi parked near the sea on the outskirts of
Havana May 19, 2013. Collective taxis, also known as
"almendron" (big nutshell), have established routes
around or near Havana, picking up and dropping off
passengers along the way. The price of a journey in
these taxis ranges from $0.50 for a ride within the city
to $1 for a 30km (18.7 mile) ride to the outskirts of
Havana. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
May 19
2013

A man ascends by bungee cords from a large former well
during a traditional ceremony in the village of Ndande,
historian Baye Niass, the well dates back tSenegal, May 19,
2013. The well, called Kalom, was the site of historic battles in
Senegalese history. According to local o the 16th century.
Today there is no water in the former well and it is used for
ceremonial purposes. REUTERS/Joe Penney
May 19
2013

A huge tornado approaches the town of Moore, Oklahoma,
near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013. A massive tornado tore
through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday,
killing at least 51 people as winds of up to 200 miles per hour
(320 kph) flattened entire tracts of homes, two schools and a
hospital, leaving a wake of tangled
wreckage.REUTERS/Richard Rowe
May 20
2013

A damaged car is seen as a resident stands on top of
wreckage after a tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma,
May 20, 2013. A huge tornado with winds of up to 200
miles per hour (320 kph) devastated the Oklahoma
City suburb of Moore on Monday, ripping up at least
two elementary schools and a hospital and leaving a
wake of tangled wreckage.REUTERS/Gene Blevins
May 20
2013

A women wearing a dress of fresh flowers
designed by Zita Elze poses for photographers
in the M & A Centenary Garden during
media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in
London May 20, 2013. The annual show opens
to the public on Tuesday. REUTERS/Stefan
Wermuth
May 20
2013

Supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hasan Faisal Sheker, an 18-
year-old Hezbollah member, carry the coffin during his funeral in Nabi
Sheet near Baalbeck May 20, 2013. About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah
fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar
al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel
stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday. REUTERS/Stringer
May 20
2013

Afghan girls look for items to recycle in Kabul, May 20,
2013. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
May 20
2013

A woman wearing a traditional Korean Hanbok
costume sits in front of South Korean soldiers
before a traditional coming-of-age day ceremony
at Namsangol Hanok Village in Seoul May 20,
2013. The ceremony marks the entrance of boys
and girls into adulthood at the age of 19, and
reminds them of their individual responsibilities
as young men and women.REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
May 20
2013

A mock North Korean Russian-made Scud-B ballistic missile (R, in grey)
and mock South Korean U.S.-made MIM-14 Nike Hercules missiles are
displayed at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul May 20, 2013.
North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast on Sunday, a
day after launching three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency
said, ignoring calls for restraint from Western powers. REUTERS/Kim
Hong-Ji
May 20
2013

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (2nd R) waves during a visit to
the Pyongyang Myohyangsan Children's Camp, situated at the foot
of Mt. Myohyang in North Phyongan Province, in this photo
released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on
May 20, 2013. REUTERS/KCNA
May 20
2013

China's Zhang Jike (C) reacts among family members after
defeating his compatriot Wang Hao in the men's singles final
at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Paris May
20, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
May 20
2013

A boy throws a sheep into the waters of Jhelum
river to wash it, in Srinagar May 20,
2013. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
May 20
2013

Relatives carry the coffin of an Iraqi police officer killed by militants, during a
funeral in Najaf, around 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad May 20, 2013. The
attacks took place in the Sunni heartland of Anbar, where gunmen on Saturday
ambushed and kidnapped 10 policemen near the provincial capital of Ramadi,
and four members of a government-backed Sunni militia fighters were killed
near Falluja city. When Sunni-Shi'ite bloodshed was at its height in 2006-07,
Anbar, which shares a border with Syria, was in the grip of al Qaeda's local
affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, which has regained strength in recent
months. REUTERS/Haider Ala
May 20
2013

A general view shows the opening ceremony of Vietnam's
National Assembly 2013 Spring session in Hanoi May 20, 2013.
Deputies of the National Assembly gathered in Hanoi for the 2013
Spring session from May 20 to June 22. REUTERS/Kham
May 20
2013

Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's ruling Congress
party, waits to receive Chinese Premier Li
Keqiang (not pictured) before their meeting
in New Delhi May 20, 2013. Li is in India on a
three-day state visit. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
May 20
2013

The Virgin of El Rocio is carried by pilgrims during a procession around
the shrine of El Rocio in Almonte, in the province of Huelva, southwest
Spain, May 20, 2013. Every spring hundreds of thousands of devotees
converge at a shrine to pay homage to the Virgin del Rocio during an
annual pilgrimage which combines religious fervour and festive
colour.REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo
May 20
2013

Cast member Marion Cotillard poses during a photocall for
the film "Blood Ties" at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in
Cannes May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Yves Herman
May 20
2013

(L-R) Toronto Blue Jays' Anthony Gose, Colby Rasmus,
and Jose Bautista celebrate defeating the Tampa Bay
Rays in their MLB American League baseball game in
Toronto May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
May 20
2013

U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (R) arrives at
the courthouse for a motion hearing at Fort Meade in
Maryland, May 21, 2013. Manning, 25, is accused of
providing diplomatic cables and other secret documents to
the WikiLeaks website. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana
May 21
2013

Ethnic Miao man Gun Yuangu, 45, fires his gun during a shooting
practice near his house, in the village of Basha in Congjiang
county, Guizhou province, May 21, 2013. The village, an old ethnic
Miao settlement with a population of 2,200, is believed to be the
last community authorized by the Chinese government to keep
guns. Although people in Basha no longer subsist on hunting,
guns and gunpowder pots have become part of their traditional
dress, while firing towards the sky is seen as a ritual to welcome
guests, according to local media. REUTERS/Jason Lee
May 21
2013

Danielle Stephan holds boyfriend Thomas Layton as
they pause between salvaging through the remains of
a family member's home one day after a tornado
devastated the town Moore, Oklahoma, May 21,
2013. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
May 21
2013

A man uses electric rods to catch fish at a river
junction point in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China,
May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
May 21
2013

A man powers a boat near a house built on a rock on the river Drina
near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta, May 22, 2013. The
house was built in 1968 by a group of young men who decided that
the rock on the river was an ideal place for a tiny shelter, according
to the house's co-owner, who was among those involved in its
construction.REUTERS/Marko Djurica
May 22
2013

Sarah Dick reads a Doctor Seuss book to her
three-year-old daughter Jadyn at the driveway
of her tornado-destroyed house in Oklahoma
City, May 22, 2013.REUTERS/Rick Wilking
May 22
2013

A police forensics officer investigates a crime
scene after a British soldier was hacked to
death in Woolwich, southeast London, May
22, 2013. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
May 22
2013

Lightning flashes in the sky in Zhuhai, Guangdong
province, China, May 22, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
May 22
2013

Sudarshan Gautam, 32, drinks water using his
feet as he speaks with a media personnel in
Kathmandu, Nepal, May 23, 2013. Gautam,
who believes that disability is not an inability,
this week became the first double amputee to
climb Mount Everest. He lost both arms in an
accident. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
May 23
2013

A pedestrian carrying an umbrella walks through a Memorial Day
display of U.S. flags on the Boston Common in Boston, May 23,
2013. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
May 23
2013

The clouds of a thunderstorm roll over
neighborhoods heavily damaged in a
tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, May 23,
2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
May 23
2013

A visitor tries on a metal mask, used as a torture device by
the regime of Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussein,
displayed at an exhibition gallery at the Martyrs Monument
in Baghdad, May 24, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani
May 24
2013

A wounded Afghan policeman is carried away
from the site of an explosion in Kabul after
Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack
on a U.N. compound in the center of the Afghan
capital, May 24, 2013. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
May 24
2013

Sri Lankan Buddhist monk Bowatte Indaratane sets himself on
fire in Kandy, May 24, 2013. According to local media, the
monk had set himself on fire in a form of protest against the
slaughter of cattle. REUTERS/StringerMay 24
2013

A gunman takes shelter from gunfire
in Bab Al Tabbaneh, a Sunni district,
in the northern Lebanese town of
Tripoli May 26, 2013
May 26
2013

Two Lebanese Sunni gunmen fire a weapon in Bab
Al Tabbaneh, a Sunni district, in the northern
Lebanese town of Tripoli May 26, 2013
May 26
2013

Amazon Indians occupy the main construction site of
the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Vitoria do Xingu,
near Altamira in Para State, May 27, 2013. Indians
from various tribes returned to force the suspension
for the second time in a month, of the dam projected
to become the world's third largest in energy
production, opposing it for its impact on the
environment and their livelihoods. REUTERS/Lunae
Parracho
May 27
2013

A man runs away as waves whipped up by winds
surge past a barrier onto a seaside road in Yantai,
Shandong Province, China, May 27, 2013. Strong
thunderstorms and heavy downpours are hitting
Shandong province from Monday to Tuesday,
according to the local meteorological authority,
Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Stringer
May 27
2013

Damage on the Royal Caribbean ship
Grandeur of the Seas is pictured as the
ship is docked in Freeport May 27,
2013. A fire broke out on the ship's aft
mooring deck in the early hours of
Monday morning. The fire was
extinguished at 0458 ET, and all 2,224
passengers and 796 crew members
were safe and accounted for, according
to the company.REUTERS/Vandyke
Hepburn
May 27
2013

People look at flowers and flags left in memory
of British soldier Lee Rigby at the scene of his
murder in Woolwich, southeast London May 27,
2013. One of two men arrested over the murder
of a British soldier in a London street was
detained in Kenya in 2010 on suspicion of
seeking to train with an al Qaeda-linked group
in Somalia, Kenyan police said on
Sunday. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
May 27
2013

Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad carry
their weapons as they move during what they said
was an operation to push rebels from the road
between Dahra Abd Rabbo village and Castello in
Aleppo May 27, 2013. REUTERS/George Ourfalian
May 27
2013

A wooden likeness of a World War II era U.S.
soldier stands above debris piles around the
Veterans Memorial Park in a neighborhood heavily
damaged by the May 20 tornado in Moore,
Oklahoma May 27, 2013. The tornado was the
strongest in the United States in nearly two years
and cut a path of destruction 17 miles (27 km) long
and 1.3 (2 km) miles wide. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
May 27
2013

A topless man sits atop a wire pole in Xi'an, Shaanxi province,
May 27, 2013. The man was persuaded to get down to ground
by one of his fellow villagers after he climbed up and down the
pole for three times and threatened to kill himself to keep the
police away. REUTERS/StringerMay 27
2013

Students walk on bricks laid out along a road after the rain, in a
middle school in Shangqiu, Henan province, May 27, 2013. The
150 meter long road is always flooded after rain in recent years.
A project to build a higher road for the students' safety in rain
was scheduled last year but has not yet been carried out,
according to local media. REUTERS/Stringer
May 27
2013

Russia's President Vladimir Putin crosses a stream during
a walk with his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev
(not pictured) in Kyrgyzstan's Ala-Archa National Park,
some 40 km (25 miles) south of Bishkek May 28,
2013. REUTERS/Alexei Nikolsky/Ria Novosti/Pool
May 28
2013

A worker harvests cannabis plants at a plantation near the northern
town of Nazareth May 28, 2013. Marijuana is an illegal drug in Israel.
Medicinal use of it was first permitted in 1993, according to the health
ministry. Today cannabis is used in Israel to treat 11,000 people suffering
from illnesses such as cancer, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's
disease and post traumatic stress disorder, according to Israel's health
ministry. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
May 28
2013

A South Korean soldier checks his weapon before a ceremony
to commemorate the battle of the Nevada Cities during the
Korean War, at the South Korean army 25th Infantry Division in
Yangju, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Seoul, May 28, 2013.
The Defence Ministry said about 70 veterans from the U.S. and
France, and their families attended commemorative events
marking the 60th anniversary of the armistice. REUTERS/Kim
Hong-Ji
May 28
2013

Members of the TUM CREATE group ride a
prototype of their VOI scooter at the
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in
Singapore May 28, 2013. The electric-
powered VOI multipurpose scooter was
designed to provide the ease of mobility and
affordability of a scooter while offering car-
like comfort and protection to the passenger.
TUM CREATE is a joint research programme
between Germany's Technische Universitat
Munchen (TUM) and the NTU. The group is
looking to further develop the
prototype. REUTERS/Edgar Su
May 28
2013

A Swiss air force helicopter transports a mobile water
pump during an exercise in front of the nuclear power
plant near the northern Swiss town Leibstadt May 28,
2013. The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI)
tested, in co-operation with Swiss air force and the power
plant operators, the transport of technical emergency
equipment by air.REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
May 28
2013

Part of an installation called "Campo de Color" by Bolivian
artist Sonia Falcone is pictured during the 55th La Biennale
of Venice May 28, 2013. The exhibition runs till September
15. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
May 28
2013

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A man holds a water hose as he cleans a tank in
Azaz near Aleppo May 30,
2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman
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2013

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The Backstreet Boys (from 2nd L-2nd R) Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Kevin Richardson,
Howie Dorough and A.J. McLean hold giant panda cubs as they pose for photographs at
the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province
May 30, 2013. The band is currently on a tour in China, including stops in Shanghai,
Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu etc., local media reported. REUTERS/Stringer
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2013

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Farmers shear an alpaca in
its enclosure at a zoo in
Shijiazhuang, Hebei province,
China May 30,
May 30
2013

June 2, 2013 166
Storm chasers follow a large cloud lowering between
Perkins, Oklahoma and Cushing May 30, 2013, as storm
systems moved across the state. REUTERS/Bill Waugh
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2013

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A demonstrator reacts as riot police use water cannon to
disperse the crowd during a protest against the destruction of
trees in a park brought about by a pedestrian project, in
Taksim Square in central Istanbul May 31,
2013. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
May 31
2013
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