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Day in photos: May 21, 2013

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A visitor strolls through floral artist Rebecca Louise Law’s stand at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. Reuters
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Out for a walk with his mom Mopani is a week-old baby white rhinoceros. The youngster was born May 14 at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Australia. Leonie Saville / Splash News
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Rescue workers remove the body of a victim of a road cave-in in Shenzhen, China. Reuters
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Masked Chilean protesters do battle with a haphazard blockade during a demonstration in Valparaiso City. Reuters
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An audience member snaps a shot of the multi-screened stage at a Microsoft press conference in Redmond, Wash. The company unveiled its new console, the Xbox One, at the event. AP
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‘Pentateuque,’ a sculpture by created by contemporary French artist Fabien Merelle stands in a fountain in Hong Kong’s business district. AP
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The pack pedals through a mountainous landscape during the 16th stage of the Tour of Italy race — from Valloire, France, to Ivrea, Italy. AP
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A trio of surprisingly obedient prisoners is led blindfolded to a holding area by a member of the Somali Police Force. Cops rounded up a large group in the Wardhiigley district of Mogadishu in an attempt to weed out members of the Al-Shabaab extremist group. Reuters
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A glob of tar found washed ashore at Bermuda Beach in Galveston, Texas. Small, thick, wet oil masses were also visible in the seaweed over a roughly 2.5-mile span of beach. AP
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Thousands of women wearing red — a traditional color of mourning — march (some rather blindly) in protest of the death of opposition figure Etienne Yakanou, in Lome, Togo. Yakanou died in police custody. AP
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An Oklahoma man seems to be in good spirits as he holds up a copy of the movie ‘Twister’ he found while searching through the rubble of a home in a destroyed neighborhood in Moore, Oklahoma. EPA
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Yes, that’s a tortoise getting acupuncture. No, we’re not sure why, but Dexter here was found stranded on Cape Cod over the winter. He’s now staying at the New England Aquarium’s sea turtle hospital in Quincy, Mass., so we’ve got to assume they know what they’re doing. AP