Combination photo shows the clock tower (top) following an earthquake on May 20 in Finale Emila. A powerful earthquake shook Italy’s industrial and densely populated northeast early Sunday, killing three people and felling homes and church steeples around the historic city of Ferrara.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron listens as President Obama speaks during the opening session of the heads of state meeting on Afghanistan at the NATO Summit in Chicago.
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Turkish Sultan Kosen, the Guinness World Record holder for tallest living male at 2.51 meters, walks on the field before a baseball game between Industriales and Ciego de Avila in Havana, Cuba.
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Atris Hussein, a Lebanese man suspected of planning a possible bomb attack, arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok. Hussein was arrested in Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi airport earlier this year and led police to a house in a suburb of Bangkok, where 9,656 lbs of urea and 8.1 gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound, were stored. He has been charged with possession of explosive devices.
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A flower-covered Mini Cooper is pictured during the Chelsea Flower Show in London. The Chelsea Flower Show is the most prestigious of Britain’s flower shows and is held every year in the grounds of the Chelsea Hospital.
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A Lebanese boy stands next to a fire which Sunni Muslim residents of the town of al-Abdeh ignited to block the highway leading to the northern Lebanese area of Akkar after the funeral of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed in his hometown al-Bireh north of Beirut. Army troops shot dead the Sunni cleric on May 20, when his convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in north Lebanon, that was set up following a week of intermittent clashes in the northern port of Tripoli between Sunnis hostile to the Syrian regime and Alawites who support President Bashar al-Assad.
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Children watch an annular solar eclipse in Fujisawa, near Tokyo. Millions of Asians watched as a rare “ring of fire” eclipse crossed their skies early Monday. The annular solar eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges, was visible to wide areas across the continent Monday morning.
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Supporters of Sri Lanka’s former army chief Sarath Fonseka, light fire crackers celebrating his release from prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka,. Fonseka, who was imprisoned after losing an election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was released from prison Monday to thousands of cheering supporters.
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A partial solar eclipse as seen during sunrise in the coastal town of Gumaca, Quezon province, southeast of Manila. Thousands turned their eyes to the sky on both sides of the Pacific to gaze excitedly as a partial eclipse occluded the sun at dawn in Asia and at dusk in the western United States. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon passes in front of the sun, but is too far from the Earth to block it out completely, leaving a “ring of fire” visible.
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Mauritanian police officer Momar Oulely, 23, rests in a khaima (traditional Mauritanian tent) before heading to work in the eastern town of Nema.
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An Indian boy plays with a polythene bag during a dust storm in Jammu, India.
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A woman toting an umbrella walks by bronze statues of men playing chess outside the federal courthouse in Washington.
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Men from the Samburu tribe walk to a festival in South Horr, Northern Kenya. The Samburu dwell in an area of roughly 21,000 square kilometres in Kenya which they share with other tribes inclinding the Turkana. The Samburu are part of the Maa speaking people which also includes the Maasai.
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Afghan youth play soccer in the evening in the city of Herat.
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A Filipino fan of pop star Lady Gaga wears eyewear made of pins as he waits outside the concert venue before her performance in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines.
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Birds fly past a man walking in Kuwait City during a heavy dust storm.
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Commander Sarah West, 40, the first woman to command a major Royal Navy warship, takes her post on board a naval ship in Faslane, Scotland.
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A man fishes on the banks of the Elbe river near Bleckede, Germany.
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A boy slides down in to a swimming pool as the sun shines in the northern German city of Hameln.
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Railway officials and onlookers stare at the mangled remains of the Bangalore-bound Hampi Express after it collided with a stationary goods train near Penneconda town in Ananthpur District. At least 19 people were killed and 36 injured when a passenger train slammed into a stationary goods train in southern India.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket heads for space carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Dragon capsule is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station in a few days.
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Flames rise from burning vehicles that were allegedly set on fire by a mob after unknown armed men opened fire on a nationalist party rally in Karachi, Pakistan.
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A fisherman floating on a rubber tube throws a net to catch fish from the waters of the Sabarmati river in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
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A body surfer rides a wave during high tide in Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.
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Workers harvest asparagus in the field of an asparagus farm near Beelitz, south of Berlin.
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Lebanese Shiite protesters burn tires and garbage boxes during a protest in Beirut.
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A man spreads rose petals, which will be used to make incense sticks, on the floor to dry in a compound in Lahore.
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Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant walks off the court after their 106-90 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 of the NBA basketball Western Conference semifinal playoff series in Oklahoma City. The Thunder won the series 4-1.
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An aerial view of the Mosquitia region near the remote community of Ahuas, Honduras.
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Indian youths perform karate moves during a summer training camp in Hyderabad.
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A pilgrim makes her way to the shrine of El Rocio on a horse, during the annual El Rocio pilgrimage, in Seville. The pilgrimage to Almonte which houses the Virgin del Rocio is the largest in Spain with hundreds of thousands of devotees in traditional outfits converging in a burst of color as they make their way on horseback and decorated carriages across the Andalusian countryside.
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A fish jumps out of the water near a water bird, seen in front of a cargo ship sailing to an industrial port in Tokyo. Japan’s exports rose in April from a year before at the fastest pace in more than a year, helped by a recovery in overseas demand.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts at a news conference after an energy “summit” with German state premiers at the Chancellery in Berlin.
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Christ the Redeemer statue on the Corcovado mountain stands out from the Guanabara Bay in the background at daybreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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The luxury cruise ship “Pearl 7” bumps the Wenzhou bridge in Wenzhou, China. No injuries were reported, but the deluxe liner lost its chimney which left a mark on the bridge. The cruise was being dragged by four tugboats to a downtown terminal ahead of opening to the public during the National Day holidays in October.
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Britain’s female beach volleyball team brought rush-hour traffic to a halt today to highlight how busy the capital’s roads will be during the Olympics. The team went through their paces in Parliament Square in an event that was also held to launch Transport for London’s online tool, Temporary Road Changes, which will allow drivers to plan their route around road closures.
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A police officer and a dog stand guard near packages of marijuana seized in Cali. Narcotics police seized eight tons of marijuana at checkpoints on roads in Valle del Cauca.
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Balinese youth play football at the beach in Jimbaran on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.
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Yemeni officers and soldiers carry coffins of soldiers who were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a parade square during their funeral procession in Sanaa, Yemen. A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing tens of fellow soldiers and wounding at least 200.
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Brian Banks becomes emotional as his attorneys Justin Brooks and Alissa Bjerkhoel stand by, as Banks’ rape conviction is dismissed in Long Beach, Calif. It has been 10 years since Banks, then 16, pleaded no contest to a rape charge brought after a childhood friend falsely accused him of attacking her on their high school campus, shattering his dreams of a pro career.
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Some of the buildings of Sydney skyline are lighted up in pink as part of the Vivid Festival in Sydney. Vivid Sydney, a festival of light, music and ideas, will run until June 11.
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Miners stand behind burning barricades in Montico, Spain. Spanish coal miners are staging a protest underground as part of nationwide strike action by unions opposed to cuts in government subsidies to the sector.
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People walk through a portion of the Boston Common covered with American flags, in Boston. Relatives and volunteers planted the 33,000 flags in the historic park in advance of the Memorial Day weekend, in tribute to Massachusetts soldiers killed in conflicts as far back as the Civil War.
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Lawmakers from pro-presidential and oppositional factions in the parliament session hall in Kiev, Ukraine. A violent scuffle erupted in Ukraine’s parliament over a bill that would allow the use of the Russian language in courts, hospitals and other institutions in the Russian-speaking regions of the country.
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A Cal Fire aircraft drops flame retardant on the Topaz Ranch Estates Fire in Wellington, Nevada. Evacuations were lifted today as the fire moved north into the canyons.
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A full-size replica of the space shuttle departed Kennedy Space Center for Texas riding on top of a barge. The space shuttle mockup was known as “Explorer” and formerly displayed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor complex. The barged mock-up was making its way through Port Canaveral after going through Canaveral Lock.
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Students take their seats for the diploma ceremony at the John F. Kennedy School of Government during the 361st Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Spanish swimmers Ona Carbonell and Andrea Fuentes compete in the synchronised duets technical routine during the 31st LEN European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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Ships float up the Hudson during the start of Fleet Week in New York.
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Special team officers stand guard around boxes with 1,030 pounds of cocaine prior to incinerate it in Kiev. Cocaine was confiscated from international criminal group in July 2010 by the Ukrainian Security Service in close collaboration with the special services the U.S. and Germany.
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Students of the Krasnoyarsk choreographic college prepare backstage before a dress rehearsal of an annual graduate ballet performance at the Opera and Ballet State Theatre in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
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Riot police arrest a demonstrator during a general strike and protest against cuts in government spending on education in Madrid. Tens of thousand of striking teachers and students and their supporters demonstrated across Spain to protest deep government cuts to education spending.
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A new wax figure of Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal is unveiled during a photocall in Regents Park, central London. The waxwork will later take up residence amongst other sporting stars at the Madame Tussauds museum in London.
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Pakistani drivers stand on top a fuel tanker, used to transport fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan, parked near oil terminals in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi. US missiles killed four militants in a Taliban stronghold of Pakistan on May 23, officials said, amid increasing strains with the West over a six-month blockade on NATO supplies into Afghanistan. Relations plummeted into deep crisis after US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26, prompting Islamabad to shut its Afghan border to NATO supplies and evict US personnel from an airbase reportedly used as a hub for drones.
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Former President Jimmy Carter, (C), observes the election process inside a polling station in the Sayeda Aisha neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt.
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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers put out a fire on a blocked street during a demonstration against the killing of protesters by gunmen at a rally, in the troubled Lyari area in Karachi.
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A protester throws a stone during an anti-immigration rally outside of the former Piraiki-Patraiki factory, where immigrants are staying, in the port city of Patra, Greece. The anti-immigration rally was held by angry residents and supporters of the extreme far-right party Golden Dawn due to the fatal wounding of a 30-year-old local man by three Afghans.
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A couple of pilgrims kiss on a horse on the route to the shrine of El Rocio in Donana national park during the annual El Rocio pilgrimage in Sanlucar de Barrameda, near Cadiz, in southern Spain.
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An AN-30 military aircraft lies off the runway at the Czech air force base in Caslav, east of Prague. An official says the Russian military plane caught fire after problems during the landing maneuver, injuring at least six people on board.
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President Barack Obama (C) walks to greet a crowd upon arriving at the Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to deliver the commencement address at the US Air Force Academy.
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Adventurer Ben Fogle stands in the shallows of the Serpentine lake in London’s Hyde Park, where he announced his attempt at swimming across the Atlantic Ocean. Fogle will have to spend up to 12 hours a day in the water, swimming the equivalent of the English Channel, to make it in his target of 100 days.
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A girl sun bathes in a field of daises in Regent’s Park in London. Britain’s met office has forecast temperatures of 80 Fahrenheit in London Wednesday, making it the hottest day the capital has experienced so far this year.
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Niagara Falls emergency officials rescue a man who plunged over Niagara Falls and survived in an apparent suicide attempt. The man is only the third person known to have gone over without a safety device and live. A waiting helicopter flew him to Hamilton General Hospital, where a spokeswoman says he has critical but non-life-threatening injuries.
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Hot air balloons are prepared for a rehearsal of the opening ceremony of China Anyang Aviation Tourism Festival in Anyang, central China.
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Israeli soldiers wearing gas masks walk through black smoke rising from burning tires during clashes in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, near the Jewish settlement of Kdumim.
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High school graduates celebrate the last day of their classes outside a school in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Russian teenagers celebrated today the end of their studies in a traditional ceremony called the “Last Bell” that has rung out across the country.
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Greece’s team competes in the synchronised teams technical routine during the 31st LEN European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
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A surfer walks on the beach with his dog in Cape Town, South Africa.
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A boat passes a giant image of Britain’s Royal family standing on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the Queen’s 1977 Silver Jubilee. The giant canvas, weighing nearly two tons, was officially unveiled on Friday and will be displayed until the end of June, in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee, marking the Queen’s 60 year reign.
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Buranovskiye Babushki of Russia perform their song “Party For Everybody” during a rehearsal for the Eurovison Song Contest final in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Indian Sufi Muslim pilgrims sit under a tree as they take shelter from blowing dust before prayers at the Adhai-Din Ka Jhonpra Mosque near the Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India annually travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, for the annual Urs festival observed to mark his death anniversary.
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British climber Kenton Cool crosses a precipice at the ice fall about halfway up the south side of Mount Everest as he was acclimatising for his summit attempt. Cool reached the summit of Everest on May 25, his website announced, fulfilling an 88-year-old promise to carry an Olympic gold medal to the top of the world’s highest peak. He was carrying one of 21 golds awarded to members of the 1922 British Everest expedition at the 1924 Winter Olympics, in an era when mountaineering was included as an Olympic sport.
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A woman pushes her dog in a stroller along the beach in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Hurricane Bud lost a little of its sting early Friday, but remained a potent Category 2 storm as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico’s Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta.
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A streaker runs onto the field during the seventh inning of the St. Louis Cardinals game against the Philadelphia Phillies in St. Louis, Missouri.
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An inmate, handcuffed to the bars of his cell as punishment for beating a guard, smokes a cigarette at the San Pedro Sula Central Corrections Facility in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
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Dancers from the “Unost” troupe representing the Ukraine stretch in the foyer of the theater ahead of their performance at the 10th World Dance Championships in Modern Dance Sport, in Eastbourne.
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Night falls over radio telescope dishes of the KAT-7 Array at the proposed South African site for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope near Carnavon in the country’s remote Northern Cape province in this long exposure picture.
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People enjoying sunshine and hot weather in Hyde Park, London.
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