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Top 2012 NFL draft prospect Robert Griffin III, left, reacts as food sculptor Jim Victor shows off his food statue celebrating Griffin's induction as "Famous Fan of Subway" in New York. Subway unveiled the life size creation, which join a roster of famous athletes including Michael Phelps and Blake Griffin, to announce its new Smokehouse BBQ Chicken sub made for Griffin. The statue contains over 300 pieces of chicken with garlic for teeth, and dried chilli peppers for hair.

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Coast Guardsmen take advantage of gale-force winds and high waves to conduct heavy-weather training on the Genesee River in Rochester Monday.

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President Obama is seen through the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy before he presented it to the Air Force Academy football team.

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A security worker removes a flare thrown by supporters of Eintracht Frankfurt during their German second division Bundesliga soccer match against Alemannia Aachen.

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George Zimmerman, left, walks out of the intake building at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility with a bondsman on Sunday.

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Models showcase designs on a 3D street painting at Modern Plaza in Beijing.

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The body of Brazilian journalist Decio Sa, center, lies on the ground after being shot at a restaurant and bar in Sao Luis, Maranhao state, Brazil. Sa, a political reporter for the O Estado do Maranhao newspaper in northeastern Brazil, is at least the fourth journalist slain this year in the South American nation, one of the deadliest for reporters to work in, according to watchdog groups.

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An Indian Hindu devotee holds her child inside the Balaji Kama Kheda Temple, after attending marriage rituals for others in Kama Kheda, Rajasthan, India.

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Albert White, a student at Boston College, reaches down to make a tail grab while kite boarding at Castle Island in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston.

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"Act Up" Wall Street protesters chained themselves in a line across Broadway, blocking traffic until police cut the chains and the protesters were arrested.

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The 2012 NFL draft prospects pose for a group photo on Radio City Music Hall's marquee.

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Chilean demonstrators perform during a protest against the government demanding changes in the public state education system in Santiago.

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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: A man attempts to retrieve a dog after it escaped from its cage during transportation on an airline at LaGuardia Airport on April 25, 2012 in New York City. The dog was caught after approximately ten minutes but not before halting plane traffic at the busy metro airport while the chase was underway. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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An Israeli man cries beside a memorial stone for a fallen soldier during the annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.

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The North Shore Animal League America's 15,000 Mile Pet Adoption Tour Grand Finale at WE tv Headquarters in New York.

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Media chase a minivan carrying the family of Osama bin Laden, in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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A woman and her child from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan wait outside of the Yida refugee camp registration center in Yida, South Sudan. After an initial attack by SPLA-N rebel forces in South Kordofan, thousands of people from the Nuba Mountains have fled to neighboring Yida to escape the fighting and retaliatory airstrikes.

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Belarus opposition supporters march in Minsk to commemorate the Chernobyl nuclear disaster victims on the 26th anniversary of the tragedy.

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An installation named 'A hundred dreams dead on workplace' by Italian advertising creative Gianfranco Angelico Benvenuto is seen in downtown Milan.

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A man looks through the remains of a house destroyed by a Sudan Armed Forces airstrike, in Tabanya.

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The space shuttle Enterprise touches down at Kennedy Airport.

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Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier, is seen behind the Statue of Liberty.

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Detroit Tigers slugger Delmon Young is escorted out of the Midtown North precinct and into a waiting squad car.

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Visitors to Freeman's auction house view a 13-star American Naval color flag in Philadelphia.

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A young girl draped in the colors of the Bahraini flag takes a rest on the street during an opposition march. Thousands of pro-reform protesters demanded the introduction of democratic reforms and release of prisoners.

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Russia's space agency ground personnel rolls a Soyuz capsule shortly after landing outside the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. A Soyuz space capsule carrying Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA's Daniel Burbank touched down safely Friday on the sweeping steppes of central Kazakhstan, ending the men's 163-day stay on the International Space Station.

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A regatta kicks off the celebratory activities marking the Hemingway International Yacht Club's upcoming 20th anniversary, in Havana, Cuba.