The piano man, Billy Joel, lights up the stage at the Stone Music Festival at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia.
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Cuirassiers present their arms as newly re-elected Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (not pictured) lays a wreath at the Altar of the Fatherland in Rome, Italy.
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Mustachioed US golfer Johnson Wagner digs his ball out of a bunker and on to the second green during the final round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C.
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Ethiopian Tsegaye Kebede, winner of the men’s 2013 London Marathon, hoists his trophy in celebration near the Tower Bridge in London.
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Sporting long locks and a feathered friend, Ramone and his owner Dave Larson await the start of the Drake University Relays Beautiful Bulldog Contest.
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Villagers carry the coffin of a man killed when Saturday’s powerful earthquake hit Lushan, China.
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Fishermen haul in their day’s catch near the port in of Duba, Saudi Arabia.
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Auburn University faithful “roll” the oak trees at Toomer’s Corner one last time following the school’s s A-Day football game at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala. The tradition is ending as officials plan to take the now-dying trees down.
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Eleven-year-old Bsam Ali swims in the polluted water at a slum on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.
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NASA launches its Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The test launch simulated the launch of a manned spacecraft into Earth’s orbit.
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A duck swims at about knee height by a window at the Riverfront Plaza Building in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. The Grand River crested at an all time high of 21.85 feet.
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Afghan boys edit some graffiti on a wall on the outskirts of Kabul with a large X and the word “freedom.”
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Chicago’s Bryan Bickell flattens the face of Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin during the third period of what would turn into 3-1 Canucks win, clinching the Northwest division for the canadian squad at the expense of the top team in the West.
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Huge metal beams provide a slide for Filipino children in Manila.
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A National Park Service employee pressure cleans the stone figures of the Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain in front of Union Station in Washington DC.
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A blood-covered man rushes through a hospital corridor carrying a child injured in a car bomb in Quetta, Pakistan. The blast — aimed at a Pakistani Shiite politician — missed its target but killed several others.
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Romanians wait for a chance to get their hands on the free books spread in a square during an event marking World Book and Copyright Day in Bucharest.
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Guards carry the coffin of one of four British soldiers laid to rest — with full military honors — at the Honourable Artillery Company Cemetery at Ecoust-Saint-Mein, France, nearly a century after being killed in World War I. The four were found a by a farmer clearing his fields in 2009.
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An AmeriCorps member monitoring pumps walks atop a sandbag levee set up beside the Mississippi in Clarksville, Mo. Midwestern communities are being told to brace for even more flooding with new storms looming.
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A sign simply reading “thanks” is held up over the crowd gathered in Paris to celebrate the passage of a new French law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.
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An Iraqi army vehicle lays burning in the road near the site of a massive protest in Ramadi. Protesters threw stones at a convoy and flipped an army Humvee, lighting it on fire after the solders fled.
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Workers scale the sides of the Louvre’s pyramide in the continuing quest to keep the landmark clean and shiny (to say nothing of its recent pickpocket problems).
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David Ortiz welcomes Mike Napoli home after Napoli smashed a grand slam in the fifth against Oakland. It was enough to put the Red Sox out of reach on the way to a 9-6 win at Fenway Park.
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Apartment towers and Hong Kong’s International Commerce Centre are colored by a work entitled ‘Poetic Cosmos of the Breath’ — a giant, colored solar dome created by Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno.
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Crowds of bystanders gather around as rescuers scour the rubble for survivors after an eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh.
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A young peddler mans a roadside stall offering weapons and ammunition in war-torn Syria’s Raqqa province.
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Kashmiri Muslims hoist torches, celebrating winter’s end with their small farming community’s annual festival of lights at the shrine of Sufi saint Zain-ud-din Wali in Aishmuqaam.
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Riot cops face off with supporters of La Manif Pour Tous (Demonstration for All), an anti-gay-marriage movement in Lyon, France, in the hours after the National Assembly adopted a bill legalizing same-sex marriages.
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Proving just how much they’re appreciated, Afghan polio vaccination volunteers ride in the propped-open car trunk on their way to administer the vaccine during a campaign in the Dehdaadi district.
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A windmill and the surrounding Dutch countryside — built with Lego bricks — is just one of the creations at Portugal’s largest Lego exhibition ever at the Campo Pequeno bullfight ring in Lisbon.
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Two young Britons from Hounslow Heath infants school play in one of four new adobe huts designed to help minimize aircraft noise from the nearby Heathrow Airport.
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Law enforcement personnel salute during a memorial service for MIT police officer Sean Collier on the school’s Cambridge, Mass., campus. Collier was allegedly killed by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the accused marathon bombers.
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A tiny green flying frog helps the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe, Germany, promote its Great State Exhibition.
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Overall leader Christopher Froome rides in line with his Sky Procycling teammates during the first stage — from Saint-Maurice to Renens, Switzerland — of the Tour de Romandie.
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Ukranian daredevil Mustang Wanted hangs precariously from a spire high above Moscow.
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Rain streaked messages cover a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston’s Copley Square.
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Members of a Dutch artillery squad pratice in ‘t Harde, Netherlands, in preparation for their role in next week’s abdication of Queen Beatrix (and the crowning of Prince Willem-Alexander).
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Paratroopers dot the sky over Stranraer, Scotland, as British and French airborne forces run a joint exercise.
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A woman yells over a fence blocking the Madrid street that leads to the Spainish parliament. The demonstrators gathered in response to hardline protest movement’s call to “besiege congress” indefinitely, hoping to force the government to quit.
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Lightning brightens the night sky over Colombo, Sri Lanka, as heavy rains approach.
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Pop singer Pink hangs in a heart-shaped tableau as she performs at London’s 02 Arena.
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Rescuers line the edges of a hole cut into the concrete of a collapsed building as rescue efforts continue in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The death toll in the tragic collapse has reached at least 194.
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Russia’s goalie Igor Shestyorkin looks over his shoulder just in time to see the puck clang off the crossbar during his team’s U18 International Ice Hockey World Championship quarterfinal against Germany in Sochi.
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Conrado Marrero, the oldest living ex-major league player at 102, holds up a ball with his signature on it at his Havana home. The former Washington Senator just this week received a $20K payout from the MLB that had been held up since 2011 due to the U.S. embargo on Cuba.
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The skeleton of a newly-built fence along Israel’s border with Syria lines the edge of the Golan Heights.
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Members of the Albert Battery shoot a volley during a dawn service in Gold Coast, Australia, where veterans, dignitaries and members of the public marked the 98th anniversary of Australia New Zealand Army Corps Day.
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Protesters flee oncoming Egyptian Police vehicles during clashes resulting from an anti-government protest near the Ittihadeya presidential palace in Cairo.
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A giant panda rests on a tree at a ‘kindergarten’ for baby pandas in Ya’an, China.
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The New York Rangers pile on forward Ryan Callahan after he scored the game winner in overtime, topping the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh.
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A protester introduces his sneaker to a portrait of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying during demonstrations outside the leader’s home. The protesters want the government to help settle a dock workers strike that’s stretched into its fourth week.
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A protester waves a Palestinian flag as he sits overlooking the Jewish settlement of Ofra in the West Bank.
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A model walks the runway during the Yohji Yamamoto fashion show — titled ‘Cutting Age’ — at St. Agnes Church in Berlin.
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Rescuers unload relief supplies in Shuangshi, China, as the country continues to recover from the April 20 earthquake.
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A garment worker — pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building — is hoisted on a stretcher in Savar, Bangladesh.
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MTA conductor Rawle Henry pilots a G train into the newly reopened Smith/9th Street station in Brooklyn. It’s been closed for nearly two years and cost the MTA $32 million to rennovate.
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Princes Harry and William flank Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, as they raise their wands on a Harry Potter film set. The trio was visiting the new Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden.
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Pussy Riot member Nadia Tolokonnikova peers out of a holding cell during an appeal hearing in Zubova Polyana, Russia. Tolokonnikova is appealing her conviction for hooliganism motivated by religious hate — which is code for protesting, we suppose.
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Toronto’s Munenori Kawasaki fires a double play ball to first base over Robinson Cano to end the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium.
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