One thousand Venetians gathered today in Saint Mark’s Square to form a giant rosebud of more than 1,000 square meters to celebrate the Festa del Bocolo, when the Venetian males give a bocolo (a blooming red rose) to their women to show their love.
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A pigeon flies from a monument of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in central Slavyansk, Ukraine.
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An E-Fan aircraft participates for its first public flight during the e-Aircraft Day at the Bordeaux Merignac airport, southwestern France. The all-electric plane E-Fan, developed by Airbus Group, is 6.7 metres long with a 9.5 metre wingspan, and has two electric turbines with a total power of 60kW. Its has a cruising speed 99 mph for about an hour of flight time.
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Grooms smile as they greet each other during a mass wedding ceremony in Peshawar, Pakistan. A total of 25 couples from Pakistan’s northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa participated in the ceremony, organized by Al-Khidmat Foundation, a welfare organization of Pakistan’s political and religious party Jammat-e-Islami.
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Saddam, 19, practices stunts at a beach along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India. Saddam belongs to a small group called the Scrolls who travel from the far northern suburbs of Mumbai to the city on to perform breakdancing and other stunts in marriages parties and other events.
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An explosion is seen during a car bomb attack at a Shi’ite political organisation’s rally in Baghdad, Iraq. A series of explosions killed 18 people at a Shi’ite political organization’s rally in Iraq on Friday, police and medical sources said.
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A member of the Mudgeeraba light horse troop takes part in the ANZAC dawn service at Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club in Gold Coast, Australia.
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Lucy Goldberg hugs her father, Major AJ Goldberg, during a homecoming at Del Mar Beach in Camp Pendleton, California. Approximately 2,400 Marines from the 13th Marine Expeditionary unit were returning from an Eight Month deployment to the Western Pacific where they provided humanitarian aid and disaster relief efforts, reinforced embassies, and conducted non-combatant evacuation operations, through the combined capabilities of the Marine Air Ground Task Force.
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Wreaths are laid at the Australian War Memorial during a dawn remembrance service at the Wellington Arch on ANZAC Day at Hyde Park in London. It is the 99th anniversary of the Galipoli landings in which tens of thousands of servicemen died.
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A woman places a candle during a mass at the Polish Church, Santo Spirito in Sassia, Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Rome.
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The moon rises in the sky above the domes of the Smolny Cathedral in St.Petersburg, Russia. One of St. Petersburg landmarks, the Smolny convent’s main church was built between 1748 and 1764 by Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
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Women supporters of a religious party Pakistan Awami Tehreek rally to support Pakistan’s army in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Protesters shout slogans as they burn a mock U.S. flag in an almost-daily protest against next week’s visit of President Obama in Manila, Philippines.
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A relative of a passenger aboard the sunken ferry Sewol weeps as he waits for news on his missing loved one at a port in Jindo, South Korea.
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A trio of wild fox cubs cautiously exit their den near a farm road in Northampton County, Va.
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A woman walks past a show window of a luxury cafe at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo. Tokyo’s inflation jumped to a 22-year high in April by a key measure, an early sign that companies are making progress in passing on a new tax increase to customers as policy makers seek to pull Japan out of years of deflation.
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Firefighters pull a pig as they try to rescue it from a well at a pig farm in Huanghua township of Leqing, Zhejiang province, China. Seven local firefighters successfully rescued a the pig, which weighed 661 pounds, after it fell down a well on Friday morning.
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Michael Phelps leaps at the start of a 50-meter freestyle preliminary heat during the Arena Grand Prix swim event in Mesa, Ariz. It is Phelps’ second competitive event after a nearly two-year retirement.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stands behind a fence with Seaside Park Mayor Robert Matthies, second from left, and Seaside Heights Mayor William Akers, right, while looking at reconstruction of the Seaside Park boardwalk in Seaside Heights, N.J. Christie visited the boardwalk to see progress following last September’s massive fire that burned down the Seaside Park side of the boardwalk. Previously, the boardwalk had been rebuilt following Superstorm Sandy. Investigators determined the fire started in wiring under the boardwalk in Seaside Park that had been damaged by exposure to storm water from Sandy.
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A Jazz Fest visitor takes a photo of the puppetry by Fernando Augusto Goncalves, from Olinda, Brazil, at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The sights and sounds of Brazil are being featured as part of festival’s tribute to countries that have contributed to New Orleans’ culture.
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A stunt man dressed as Spider-Man poses during a photo call for the film “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” at the Empire State Building in New York City.
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