Indonesian performers parade wearing masks during the traditional Topeng or mask festival in Malang in East Java province. Topeng festivals are held in many parts of Indonesia, the highly popular masks vary from modern colorful cutouts, papermache, painted faces to the traditional woodcarvings symbolizing faces of spiritual figures that is largely part of ancient Javanese rituals.
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A pelican dives aiming a catch as the sun set over the ocean in St John’s.
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Czech team captain Tomas Rolinek celebrates with the trophy he received from Czech Republic’s President Vaclav Klaus (L) after the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship final match Russia vs Czech Republic in the western German city of Cologne.
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A Giraffe eats a branch of leaves given by a visitor at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur. The 47 year-old National Zoo, locally known as Zoo Negara, consists of around 5137 animals from 459 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.
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Friends and relatives of slain Italian photograher Fabio Polenghi attend his funeral at a temple in Bangkok. Polenghi, a freelance photographer and documentary maker, was shot while covering the military offensive to close down long-running “Red Shirts” demonstrations in the capital on May 19.
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Venus Williams wears nude colored shorts while playing against Patty Schnyder of Switzerland during their women’s first round match in the French Open tennis championship at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris.
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Blind Ukranian fashion designer Sergey Ermakov feels one of his dresses while fitting a model in Dallas,. Ermakov, who opened his own design studio in Kiev at the age of 24, has lost about 95 percent of his vision but can still see fabric colors if he gets very close.
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Crews try to clean an island covered in oil on the south part of East Bay. The U.S. government threatened on Sunday to remove BP from efforts to seal a blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico if it doesn’t do enough to stop the leak, though it acknowledged only the company and the oil industry have the needed know-how.
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Performers take part in a mime to demonstrate a mock natural disaster on the first anniversary of Cyclone Aila in Dhaka. Hundreds of survivors of the cyclone gathered in the University of Dhaka campus demanding that the government give their rehabilitation a top priority.
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Pilgrims dressed in Bavarian clothes pray as they ride horses during a traditional catholic horse-riding procession in the southern Bavarian town of Bad Koetzting. Since the early 14th century, farmers have taken part in the pilgrimage.This tradition, the so called “Koetztinger Pfingstritt”, is Europe’s biggest horse-riding procession with approximately 900 horses.
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A priest prays to the Virgin of El Rocio during a procession around the shrine of El Rocio in Almonte, southwest Spain. Every spring, devotees converge at the shrine to pay homage to the Virgin during an annual pilgrimage which combines religious fervour and festive colour.
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A Dancer for the Phoenix Suns performs during Game Three of the Western Conference Finals against Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA Playoffs at US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Greenpeace flag ship, Rainbow Warrior sailing in the Mediterranean sea. Greenpeace is in the Mediterranean to take action against the bluefin tuna fishing fleets and to promote marine reserves.
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Seats in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Nelson Mandela Bay stadium in Port Elizabeth. The World Cup has brought Port Elizabeth a stunning new landmark in its oceanside stadium, but questions remain about who will fill the stands once the global football fans leave. Port Elizabeth’s two-billion-rand, 46,000-seater hopes to lure a top football or rugby team to offset its annual 18 million rand running costs.
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World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk (R) from Russia and World Chess Under 16 Champion Deysi Cori (L) from Peru are seen during a game of chess in Machu Pichu, Peru.
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Laborers work on scaffolding at a construction site in Mumbai. Mumbai, being a financial hub, attracts migrant labor from across India. Inter-state labor migration is an important feature of the Indian economy which has contributed in the rapid expansion of India’s cities.
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Chinese artists performing in the dance drama ‘The Moon Over the Helan Mountains’ at the Opera House in Cairo, Egypt. The Moon Over the Helan Mountains is adapted from a folktale in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, where the Helan mountain is located. It tells about the hardships of a group of Arab merchants and a love story between a young Arab man and a Ningxia local girl on the ancient Silk Road. The dance drama is staged in Egypt and Qatar as part of cultural exchanges between China and Arab countries.
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Garden co-designer, Jeanne Noua, an indigenous woman from Cameroon, squats in the Green & Black’s Rainforest Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
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Alex Wolslegel 8, runs through a sprinkler ball in his front yard in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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David Beckham, dressed in protective clothing, is seen running from an attack dog at the Theater Working Dog Unit during a visit to Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
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Visitors walk between planted fields on the Champs Elysees near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Young French farmers organised a two-day event called ‘Nature Capitale’ where the Champs-Elysees was transformed into a vast garden of flowers, herbs and crops, and replete with farm animals. The two-day event that started Sunday during a holiday period in France was drawing thousands of Parisians and tourists strolling down the country lane, crowned by the Arc de Triomphe.
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Spain’s Marc Duran serves against Germany’s Bastian Steger during their Group C First Division match at the 2010 World Table Tennis Championships in Moscow.
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Lindsay Lohan arrives at the Beverly Hills Courthouse to attend a probation status hearing in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lohan missed a scheduled court appearance last Thursday. Lohan pleaded no contest in August 2007 to two counts each of DUI and being under the influence of cocaine, along with a reckless driving charge.
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