People watch as a crane lifts the tail of a plane after it crashed at Iju-Ishaga neighborhood in Lagos. Nigerian emergency services pulled more bodies out of the still-smouldering, ash-covered wreckage of a plane on Monday that crashed in the commercial hub Lagos, killing all 153 people on board.
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A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard beside the Monument to the People’s Heroes at Tiananmen Square on the 23rd anniversary of China’s crackdown of democracy protests, in Beijing. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, are believed to have died when the government sent in tanks and soldiers to clear Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3-4, 1989, bringing a violent end to six weeks of pro-democracy protests.
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Protestors tussle with police as the Olympic Torch approaches the Peace Bridge in Londonderry , Northern Ireland. The torch had to be stopped and re-routed.
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Indian villagers walk on a footbridge which crosses a polluted section of the Sabarmati river at Vautha village on the eve of World Environment Day. Residents claim the water that flows in this section of the Sabarmati, contaminated by chemical effluent from the Narol and Vatva GIDC estates, is so polluted that Hindu devotees refrain from completely submerging themselves in the holy river.
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Repsol Honda Team’s Australian Casey Stoner rides during a Moto GP training session at the Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, near Barcelona.
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A wounded woman is helped by men at the scene after a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq. A suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside Iraq’s main religious affairs office for Shiite Muslims on Monday, tearing down part of the three-story building and killed and wounded scores of people.
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Tens of thousands of protesters take part in a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park to mark the 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown of the pro-democracy movement at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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A boy runs as he plays on a beach against the background of pre-monsoon clouds gathered over the Arabian Sea at Kochi, in the southern Indian state of Kerala. India’s monsoon rains are likely to hit the southern Kerala coast in two days, easing concerns about the onset delay threatening planting of summer crops such as rice, soybean and cotton in the farm-dependent economy.
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Coal miners run during confrontations with the riot Civil Guard after setting an incendiary device to a barricade near highway A-66 in Vega del Rey, near Oviedo, northern Spain. Spain’s economy contracted for the second time since late 2009 and four years of stagnation and recession have pushed unemployment above 24 percent, the highest rate in the European.
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The Moon called the “strawberry moon” because it signaled the harvest of strawberries for the North American Algonquin Indians rises over the sacred mountain above Mt Arunachala in South India, hours after the first partial eclipse of the moon in 2012.
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Julian Wilson of Australia surfs during round two scoring a near perfect nine point ride during the Volcom Fiji Pro in Tavarua, Fiji.
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A Kashmiri fisherman prepares to cast his net into Dal lake at sunset in Srinagar.Thousands of holiday makers have arrived in Kashmir valley to enjoy the beauty of its landscapes, as violence ebbs in the Muslim-majority state wracked by insurgency since 1989.
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A fan embraces a wax replica of the Portugese soccer star Ronaldo in front of Brandenburg Gate close to the Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin, Germany. Germany will play Portugal at the European Football Championship on Sunday June 10.
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Designer Dieter Senft sits on a handmade tricycle which rolls along on 100 soccer balls. The 60-year-old inventor has created five extraordinary bikes, among them three Guinness record winners, which are on view on the island of Usedom until November in an exhibition called “World of Inventions.”
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Former President Bill Clinton and President Obama wave at a fundraiser, at the Waldorf Astoria.
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A Kashmiri fisherman throws his net into Dal lake at sunset in Srinagar. Thousands of tourists have arrived in Kashmir Valley to enjoy the beauty of its landscapes, as violence ebbs in the Muslim-majority state wracked by insurgency since 1989.
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People living close to the Arabian Sea try to put down sand bags to protect their house from heavy waves in Kochi, India.
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A Palestinian protester uses a sling shot to throw stones at Israeli soldiers as he takes cover behind a burning garbage bin during clashes at the entrance to Ofer prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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Members of a Chinese honor guard prepare for the arrival of Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.
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Nomad women milk buffalos on the outskirts of Amritsar, India.
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Russian police detain leader of the Yabloko Party Sergei Mitrokhin, center, outside the parliament building in Moscow. At least two dozen people have been detained outside the Russian Parliament in Moscow as they were protesting against a bill on public rallies.
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A surfer takes advantage of wild weather and large swells hitting Newcastle, Australia.
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Protesters take part in a demonstration at Tahrir square in Cairo. Thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday to reclaim a revolt they say has been hijacked after Hosni Mubarak was jailed for life and his top security officials freed in a sign they say his old guard is still in charge.
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A woman searches for reusable material at a garbage dump near Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. The World Environment Day is celebrated June 5 every year by the United Nations to stimulate global awareness on environmental issues.
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An explosion is seen in an area near the village of Lozenetz, some east of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. A series of explosions rocked an arms depot in eastern Bulgaria, injuring seven people and blocking traffic on a major highway.
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Athletes ride their jet skis across the Corinth canal in Peloponnese, Greece. The Second International Jet-Raid Corinthian race has begun with pilots from fifteen countries and will continue for five days.
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Faroe Islands residents catch and slaughter pilot whales during the traditional ‘Grindadrap’ (whale hunting in Faroese) near Sandur on Sandoy island. Residents of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, slaughter and eat pilot whales every year.
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The Red Arrows fly over Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in London. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II wraps up four days of celebrations with a thanksgiving service and ceremonial carriage procession in London, a formal contrast to the spectacular pop tribute staged outside Buckingham Palace the day before.
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Russian climber and B.A.S.E. jumper Valery Rozov climbs to the peak of the Shivling in the Indian part of the Himalaya.
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An Israeli border policeman arrests a Palestinian boy who joined a demonstration against the Israeli occupation and to mark “Naksa Day,” the 44th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War, at the entrance of the old city in the West Bank town of Hebron near the Jewish settlement of Beit Romano. The Palestinian boy was later released by the security forces.
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British Olympic diver Tom Daley dives into the pool at the London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre in east London.
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Egyptian protesters flash the sign for victory as they chant slogans during a demonstration in Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square to protest against verdicts handed down in ex-president Hosni Mubarak’s murder trial.
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Netherlands’ national soccer players walk through Auschwitz’s notorious gate with the sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work sets you free) during their visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Oswiecim. Netherlands will play its first match of the Euro 2012 soccer championships against Denmark in Kharkiv on June 9.
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People look at the planet Venus transiting across the sun during sunrise over Amman. Venus made a slow transit across the face of the sun on Tuesday, the last such passing that will be visible from Earth for 105 years.
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A man walks in the boardwalk at Aterro do Flamengo, on a rainny day in southern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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A Thai fisherman catches freshwater white tilapia fish at a fish farm in Samut Prakarn province. The price per kilo of white tilapia fish has decreased to almost half the price it was before historic floods hit Thailand last year.
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A visitor looks at a work entitled “Button” by the Grevis group from the Ukraine in Kiev’s Botanical Garden. Kiev will host the first international festival of contemporary sculpture “Kiev Sculpture Project” from June 2 to July 2.
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A man runs onto a bridge over a canal in Santos, Brazil.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads his weekly general audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
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DEA officers escort a handcuffed suspect after his arrest on drug smuggling charges in San Juan, Puerto Rico. U.S. federal agents say they raided Puerto Rico’s international airport and other areas early Wednesday, arresting at least 33 people suspected of smuggling millions of dollars worth of drugs aboard commercial flights.
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A large dock is washed ashore off Newport, Oregon’s Agate Beach. State parks officials say a metal plate with Japanese writing has been found attached to the dock, raising speculation it might be debris from last year’s tsunami in Japan.
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Skywatchers, who gathered to witness the transit of Planet Venus, look through protective eyewear in a futile wait for a break in the clouds during overcast skies in Mumbai. Sky-gazers around the world held up their telescopes and viewing glasses to watch a once-in-a-lifetime event as Venus slid across the Sun.
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A man rests at his damaged house in Homs, Syria.
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A Kashmiri woman collects lotus roots to feed cattle on Dal Lake in Srinagar. Thousands of tourists have arrived in Kashmir valley to enjoy the beauty of its landscapes, as violence ebbs in the Muslim-majority state wracked by insurgency since 1989.
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Pakistanis work in a brick factory as rain falls in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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This combo picture shows living statues depicting (top row) an Apache Indian, a sand man, Elvis Presley, a matador, (bottom row) the invisible man, the newspaper man, a bronze sweeper and Charlie Chaplin near the Puerta del Sol square. Since the beginning of the economic crisis in Spain, the number of living statues has increased in Madrid. Spain has the highest unemployment rate in the industrialized world, with 24.44 percent of the workforce idle.
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Meghan Vogel, right, of West Liberty-Salem, helps Arden McMath of Arlington, to the finish line after McMath collapsed yards short of the finish line in the 3,200 meter finals of the Ohio High School Athletic Association state track meet in Columbus, Ohio. Vogel was in last place in the race as she caught up to McMath, whose body was giving out. Instead of zipping past her to avoid the last-place finish, Vogel put McMath’s arm around her shoulders, dragged her the final 20 meters and pushed her competitor over the finish line before crossing it.
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Boats surround the space shuttle Enterprise as it is towed by barge past lower Manhattan to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum where it will be permanently displayed.
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A horse and its rider are seen in silhouette during early morning workouts at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.
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A Kashmiri farmer walks through a paddy field as it rains in Srinagar, India.
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Anti government protesters hold a flag of Nepali Congress party during the protest rally in Kathmandu. The rally organized by the various opposition parties to protest against the Maoist led government decision of announcing for fresh election after the dissolution of Constitution Assembly.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai review a guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Karzai is in Beijing to attend the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. The SCO was founded in 2001 to enhance security cooperation between its six member states of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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Kashmiri Muslims belonging to nomadic Gujjar tribe pray at a forest shrine of Miyan Peer, in Baba Nagri northeast of Srinagar, India.
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Security officers inspect the site where a booby-trapped vehicle exploded at al-Thawra Street, in the Damascus suburb of Qudsya, Syria. Media reports said at least two security personnel were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in the district of Qudsya on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
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A child inspects cow sculptures on display in Shanghai, China.
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Pakistani security officials examine the wreckage of a destroyed bus after a bomb explosion on the outskirts of Peshawar. A bomb blast ripped through a Pakistani bus, killing at least 18 people, including six women and a child, on the outskirts of Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar.
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Egyptian protesters perform the weekly Friday noon prayer in central Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Hundreds of people gathered in the landmark square to demand that Hosni Mubarak’s last premier be banned from standing in a run-off election to replace the ousted president.
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Firefighters carry out rescue operations at the wreckage of a police car after a bus crashed into it on a street in central Beijing. A bus and a police car collided in downtown Beijing Friday, killing one person in the police vehicle.
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A cleaner rows a boat as workers clean the algae in the algae-filled Yueya Lake in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. Population growth and consumption are set to inflict irreversible damage on the planet, the United Nations said on Wednesday, and called for urgent agreement on new environmental targets at an Earth summit this month.
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British adventurer Sarah Outen, center of foreground boat, is rescued by the Japan Coast Guard in the Pacific Ocean off northeastern coast of Japan. Outen’s blog said she was hit by a storm during her attempted journey around the world, and that her boat rolled over and was damaged. Another Briton on a similar trek was still awaiting rescue.
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Palestinian protesters run away as an Israeli military bulldozer clears a road block placed by the protesters during clashes at a demonstration against the nearby Jewish settlement of Kdumim, in the West Bank village of Kfar Kadum, near Nablus.
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A woman poses for her friend in front of the Donetsk’s stadium during the Euro 2012 soccer championship in Donetsk, Ukraine.
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Dancers of Incolballet Ballet Company of Colombia perform during the VI International Ballet Festival in Cali. Dance groups from 10 countries around the world will be participating in the festival which runs till June 10.
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