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Published May 28, 2014, 6:52 p.m. ET
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The Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station crew of Alexander Gerst of Germany, Maxim Surayev of Russia and Reid Wiseman of the U.S. blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome May 29, 2014. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (KAZAKHSTAN - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
The Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station crew blasts off from Baikonur cosmodrome. Reuters
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Students at UC Santa Barbara console one another at a memorial service. Reuters
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A visitor takes photos from an elevated walkway connecting giant concrete tree-like structures called Supertrees at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore May 28, 2014. REUTERS/Edgar Su (SINGAPORE - Tags: TRAVEL SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
A visitor takes photos from a walkway connecting concrete “Supertrees” at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Reuters
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the original flag Israeli paratroopers waved at the Western Wall during the 1967 Middle East War, before a special cabinet meeting marking Jerusalem Day at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem May 28, 2014. Jerusalem Day marks the anniversary of Israel's capture of the Eastern part of the city during the 1967 Middle East War. In 1980, Israel's parliament passed a law declaring united Jerusalem as the national capital, a move never recognised internationally. REUTERS/Gali Tibbon/Pool (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the original flag Israeli paratroopers waved at the Western Wall during the 1967 Middle East War. Reuters
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He Liang rides his home-made suitcase vehicle along a street in Changsha, Hunan province May 28, 2014. He spent 10 years modifying the suitcase into a motor-driven vehicle. The suitcase has a top speed of up to 20km/h and the power capacity to travel up to 50-60km after one charge, according to local media. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY TRANSPORT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
He Liang rides his homemade suitcase vehicle in Changsha, Hunan, China. Reuters
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Children holding plates wait in a queue to receive food at an orphanage run by a non-governmental organisation on World Hunger Day, in the southern Indian city of Chennai May 28, 2014. REUTERS/Babu (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Children wait to receive food at an orphanage in Chennai, India, on World Hunger Day. Reuters
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Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian during clashes at protest against a parade by Israelis marking Jerusalem Day, at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City May 28, 2014. Nine Palestinians were detained on suspicion of throwing stones at policemen and participants of the parade, an Israeli police spokesman said on Wednesday. Jerusalem Day marks the anniversary of Israel's capture of the Eastern part of the city during the 1967 Middle East War. In 1980, Israel's parliament passed a law declaring united Jerusalem as the national capital, a move never recognised internationally. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW ANNIVERSARY)
Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian at a protest against a Jerusalem Day parade. Reuters
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An electoral worker counts ballot in favour of former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during the third day of voting in Egypt's presidential election at a polling station in Cairo May 28, 2014. Egyptians cast their votes in a presidential election on Wednesday that is certain to install Sisi as president, but his call for an overwhelming mandate did not appear to have been heeded by voters. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)
A worker counts presidential election ballots in Cairo, Egypt. Reuters
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Giraffe "Maud" looks on in the zoo in Kronsberg am Taunus, central Germany, on May 28, 2014. AFP PHOTO / DPA/ BORIS ROESSLER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read BORIS ROESSLER/AFP/Getty Images)
A giraffe named Maude peers at visitors at a zoo in Kronsberg am Taunus, Germany. Getty Images
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 28: Students from Midreshet Shalhevet High School for Girls protest outside the Nigerian consulate for more action to be taken to rescue the school girls kidnapped by the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram In Nigeria on May 28, 2014 in New York City. More than 300 teenage girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from their school in Chibok, Nigeria on April 15, 2014. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Students from Midreshet Shalhevet High School for Girls protest outside the Nigerian consulate in New York. Getty Images
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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is led into the courtroom to be arraigned on homicide charges at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Hernandez pleaded not guilty in the shooting deaths of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. He already faces charges in the 2013 killing of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Dominick Reuter, Pool)
Aaron Hernandez is led into Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. AP
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Vice President Joseph Biden tries on an Air Force jacket given to him by graduating Air Force Cadets, during the commencement ceremony for the class of 2014, at the U.S. Air Force Academy, in Colorado, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Vice President Joe Biden tries on a jacket at the Air Force Academy commencement ceremony. AP
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Members of Nepal mountaineers association participate in a candle light vigil on the eve of the anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest as they remember the climbers who died in the April 18 avalanche in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953. Since then thousands of people have reached the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Nepal mountaineers hold a candlelight vigil for climbers killed in a Katmandu avalanche. AP
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The 2014 graduating class of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in West Point, N.Y., toss their hats during commencement ceremonies, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. President Barack Obama delivered the commencement address and talked about his Afghanistan plan and answered critics who say he has surrendered America's global leadership. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
West Point graduates celebrate at their commencement ceremony. AP
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Seventh grader Jennifer M. Tennant, 13, of Father Andrew White S.J. School, Leonardtown, Md., spells her word during the preliminaries, round two of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Tennant misspelled her word. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Seventh-grader Jennifer Tennant struggles during the Scripps National Spelling Bee. AP
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A protester displays how his rights were violated during an anti-coup demonstration at the Victory Monument in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Thailand's new military junta aired videos Wednesday on television stations nationwide showing some of the prominent political figures it has detained as part of an effort to convince the public that detainees in army custody are being treated well. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
A Thai man protests the coup government in Bangkok. AP
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Miners rally in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Coalminers in the Donbass coalfields have gone on an open-ended strike to demand Ukrainian troops and other forces leave the Donetsk Region, the first deputy coal minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk PeopleÂ’s Republic, Konstantin Kuzmin, has told ITAR-TASS. Poster reads "No to Fascism!' (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
Miners rally in Donetsk, Ukraine. AP
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Tom Knorr, chairman of the Measure A campaign in Tehama County, holds a State of Jefferson flag as he poses for photographs at his ranch house in Corning, Calif., Tuesday, May 27, 2014. The idea of forming their own state has been a topic among local secession dreamers for more than a century in CaliforniaÂ’s largely rural, agrarian and politically conservative far northern counties. Residents in two counties, Del Norte and Tehama, will decide June 3, 2014, on an advisory measure that asks each countyÂ’s board of supervisors to join a wider effort to form a 51st state named Jefferson. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
California secessionist Tom Knorr poses with a “State of Jefferson” flag. AP
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Police and protestors stand outside the annual ExxonMobil shareholders meeting in Dallas, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Police and protesters stand outside an ExxonMobil shareholders meeting in Dallas, Texas. AP
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President Barack Obama salutes as he steps from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, as he returns from delivering the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Obama returns a salute as he steps off Marine One at the White House. AP
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A bouquet of flowers and a magazine showing Maya Angelou on the cover lie outside a gate at the home of Angelou in Winston-Salem, N.C., Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, has died, Wake Forest University said in a statement Wednesday. She was 86. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Flowers are left outside Maya Angelou’s Winston-Salem, NC, home. AP
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