A gust of wind blows off Pope Francis’ cap during his weekly general audience at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
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Workers install a demilitarized Soviet-made T-62M1 tank at a memorial in a park in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
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Prisoners who underwent Sri Lankan traditional dance training perform as prison guards watch during their “graduation ceremony” at Welikada Prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka. According to the prison, about 26 prisoners went through months of training this year as traditional dancers under a rehabilitation program. The program, which was first introduced in 1982, aims to equip prisoners with skills to allow them to find jobs or join traditional dancing troupes upon their release.
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An Indian Muslim devotee, who is on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti for Urs, performs a stunt during a procession at Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Urs is an annual festival which is held for over six days at Ajmer, commemorating the death anniversary of Sufi saint Chishti.
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A child holds a candle as youth groups participate in a candlelight vigil in memory of those killed in a recent avalanche at Mount Everest in Katmandu, Nepal. Sixteen local guides were killed during the April 18 avalanche, the highest in a single day in Everest history.
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A woman walks on Broad St. past the New York Stock Exchange during the rainy morning commute.
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A Humboldt penguin swims through its basin at the zoo in Krefeld, western Germany.
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A truck is stuck in the middle of flooded Piedmont Street in the Cordova Park neighborhood after it washed out due to heavy rains in Pensacola, Florida. A major storm system that brought tornadoes to regions of the South dumped more than two feet of water in a little over a day in the Florida Panhandle.
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An Indian laborer’s legs are covered in mud as he works at a brick- manufacturing unit on the eve of International Labor Day in Chennai, India.
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Kayla Holcey, right, holds her 8-month-old son Kristian Hampton as she looks at the debris that was once her home in Crawford, Ala. Holcy said that she was terrified that her son had been killed until she heard his cries under the rubble. A tornado tore through the Crawford community before dawn on Tuesday.
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A beach goer photographs the exhibit “United Buddy Bears” at Leme beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Each bear statue represents a member state of the United Nations. Each was painted by an artist of the country represented. The “United Buddy Bears” stand together, hand in hand, symbolizing the future vision of a peaceful world.
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Silke (L) and Lara (R) pose dressed as witches near the mountain Broken near Schierke, Germany. Both Silke and Lara are taking part in the Walpurgis Night celebration. Walpurgis, named after Saint Walpurga, is celebrated in countries in central and northern Europe and is traditionally marked with bonfires and dancing to usher in the spring season. In the Harz region Walpurgis is also associated with witches in a tradition going back centuries.
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People hold a witch figure during a procession of devils and witches in the Harz mountains in Schierke, Germany, to celebrate Walpurgis Night.
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A men costumed as devil kisses a skull in a small train in Wernigerode, Germany. Hundreds of costumed devils and witches meet to celebrate Walpurgis Night, a traditional religious holiday of pre-Christian origins. The event is named after St. Walburga, an English nun who helped convert the Germans to Christianity in the 8th century.
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Police officers stand nest to a table of guns on display during a news conference at police headquarters in New York City. Authorities say they’ve arrested six people and charged them with selling 155 guns transported from Georgia to an undercover officer in Brooklyn.
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A volunteer helps burn debris from a destroyed house in Vilonia, Arkansas. A tornado struck the town late Sunday. Along stretches of damaged houses, volunteers with chain saws cleared trees from across homes, driveways and streets.
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A Star Wars fan wearing a stormtrooper costume parades along Tunis’ stately, tree-lined Bourguiba Avenue in Tunisia. The empire was not striking back against the poster child for Arab democracy — just an innovative campaign to encourage tourists to return to this sunny desert-and-beach nation in North Africa. “We came here to Tunis to help save the Star Wars sites in Matmata and Tozeur and convince people to return to Tunisia,” said Ingo Kaiser, head of a Star Wars fan club in Europe, referring to the movie sets that are slowly being covered up by sand in the Tunisian desert.
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Smoke from a wildfire looms in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Schools and homes were evacuated Wednesday as dry, gusty winds fanned a smoky wildfire in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains in California. At least three schools were shut down due to the smoky conditions in parts of Rancho Cucamonga, a city of 165,000 people east of Los Angeles.
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Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada introduces the Marvel characters at Disney Infinity 2.0 launch at Pacific Theatres Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.
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Women react during a protest demanding security forces to search harder for 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants two weeks ago outside Nigeria’s parliament in Abuja. Scores of suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed an all-girls secondary school in the village of Chibok, in Borno state, on April 14, packing the teenagers onto trucks and disappearing into a remote, hilly area along the Cameroon border.
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A worker walks through a salt pan on the eve of May Day on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Chennai.
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“Dasparkhotel” hotel rooms are pictured in a public park in the Upper Austrian town of Ottensheim. The rooms are constructed from repurposed concrete drain pipes and can be booked anonymously on the internet. Owner Andreas Strauss says the hotel is a hospitality project on a “pay as you wish” basis, a system where customers pay what they can afford. The hotel is open from May 1 till October 1.
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Israeli soldiers stand next to graves of fallen soldiers during a ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, ahead of Memorial Day. Israel commemorates its fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, which begins Sunday night.
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Greenpeace members speed up in a rubber speedboat while waiting for the Russian oil tanker Mikhail Ulyanov off the coast of the Hague. Environmental group Greenpeace has dispatched one of its campaigning vessel to block the Mikhail Ulyanov, an oil tanker owned by Russia’s state oil firm Gazprom loaded with the first cargo of Arctic oil from the Prirazlomnaya platform.
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