A participant of the Life Ball poses for photographers upon her arrival ahead of the 20th Life Ball at Vienna’s international airport. The Life Ball is Europe’s largest annual AIDS charity event and takes place in Vienna’s city hall May 19, 2012.
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Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, (C), rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, Friday, May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social media company priced its IPO on Thursday at $38 per share, and beginning Friday regular investors will have a chance to buy shares.
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Honolulu Botanical Gardens, the Amorphophallus titanum plant, also known as the “corpse flower” in Honolulu. The plant’s allure is the foul odor it emits, similar to rotting flesh. Botanical Garden Horticulturist Scot Mitamura says the smell is so rotten, it makes his eyes water. It blooms once every three to five years and officials are bracing for a large crowd of curious visitors eager for a whiff. The donated plant is believed to be the only one on Oahu.
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A man tries to regain control of his tractor as the front wheels lift off the ground while driving a trolley loaded with sand on the outskirts of Lahore.
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President Barack Obama holds a bilateral meeting with President Francois Hollande of France in advance of the G-8 and NATO Summits in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
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The temple of Parthenon is silhouetted against a cloudy sunset atop the Acropolis hill in Athens. Fitch ratings agency downgraded debt-crippled Greece deeper into junk territory on Thursday, warning of a “probable” Greek exit from the euro currency union if new national elections next month produce an anti-bailout government. Fitch said it had cut Greece’s rating by one notch, from B- to CCC, the lowest possible grade for a country that is not in default.
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French bullfighter Sebastian Castella is gored during a bullfight of the San Isidro’s fair at the Las Ventas Bullring in Madrid. Castella continued with the bullfight, bleeding from his injured groin. Bullfighting is an ancient tradition in Spain and the season runs from March to October.
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Hong Kong actor Chow Yun Fat walks down the catwalk during the Hugo Boss Black Fashion Show held in Beijing, China, Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Alaska Airlines Capt. Trent Davey carries a 55-pound Copper River King Salmon as the annual first air shipment of the prized salmon arrived from Alaska early Friday morning in Seattle. Copper River salmon are prized for their high oil content and flavor. They typically bring the highest prices at restaurants and fish markets.
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Author David McCullough, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for books “Truman” and “John Adams,” gestures as he walks over the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. McCullough is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his book “The Great Bridge,” which has just been reissued with a new introduction by the 78-year-old writer.
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Lebanese students dance during “The Big Dance” event in downtown Beirut, near the parliament. “The Big Dance” is an initiative of the British Council’s global project “Connecting Classrooms” which aims to develop links between schools in Britain and Lebanon.
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Professional divers wearing gowns swim during a Flores De Mayo (Flowers of May) festival at Ocean Park in Manila. Flores De Mayo is a month long festival in the Philippines held to honour the Virgin Mary.
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An employee walks on solar panels at a solar power plant in Aksu, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The United States hit Chinese solar companies with punitive import tariffs of 30 percent or more on Thursday, ruling they had dumped cut-price solar panels on the U.S. market.
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Multihulls competes during the America’s Cup World Series regatta in the Venice lagoon, Italy.
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Palestinians throw rocks at an Israeli army bulldozer during clashes in the northern West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, near the Jewish settlement of Kdumim.
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