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1U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington May 20, 2011. Obama's call for Israel to give Palestinians territory it has occupied since 1967 stunned Netanyahu and pushed the leaders' thawing relationship back into the freezer.
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2Harold Camping, 89, the California evangelical broadcaster who predicts that Judgment Day will come on May 21, 2011, is seen in this still image from video during an interview at Family Stations Inc. offices in Oakland, California May 16, 2011. The U.S. evangelical Christian broadcaster predicting that Judgment Day will come on Saturday says he expects to stay close to a TV or radio to monitor the unfolding apocalypse. The head of the Christian radio network Family Stations Inc says that he is sure an earthquake will shake the Earth on May 21, sweeping true believers to heaven and leaving others behind to be engulfed in the world's destruction over a few months. REUTERS/Reuters Television
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3An aerial view of ashes and debris of a house burned down by a wild fire in Slave Lake, is pictured in Alberta, May 20, 2011. Parts of the town were devastated by wild fires that rolled through the area May 15 and 16th. About 80 wildfires are burning in Alberta, spurred by warm temperatures and gusting winds, with 23 considered out of control in a fire season unlike any seen before. REUTERS/Todd Korol
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5A homeless woman waits to cross the street in the Liberdade neighborhood of Sao Paulo May 20, 2011. Sao Paulo currently has about 14,000 people living on the streets, with more than half of them in the city centre, according to local media. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
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7A tuna fish is cut in pieces as onlookers watch on Havana's seafront boulevard 'El Malecon' May 20, 2011. The Tuna fish was caught by Cuban fisherman Yordan Martinez in what is his biggest catch till date, taking him around four hours using a 130 pound big game fishing line trolling from his boat around 5 miles from the shore north of Havana. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
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8Second deputy President of the Cambodia'a National Assembly acting as the Ploughing Festival king Say Chhum (C) uses the royal oxen to plow the land during the annual Ploughing Festival in Phnom Penh May 21, 2011. Cambodia host the annual ploughing festival during which royal oxen will have to choose between seven bowls including rice, corn, green beans, grass, sesame, water and wine to predict the future of the farming season. The tradition, which is hundreds of years old, is followed closely by people in Cambodia, the majority of whom are farmers. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
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9Women labourers carry mud to a construction site on the dried banks of river Sabarmati on a hot day in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad May 21, 2011. This year, the country has forecast a normal monsoon. REUTERS/Amit Dave
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10Director Lars Von Trier poses during an interview with Reuters in Mougins May 21, 2011. The Cannes film festival expelled Danish director Lars Von Trier on May 19, 2011 for jokingly calling himself a Nazi and Hitler sympathiser, leaving the world's biggest cinema showcase in a state of shock. The expulsion, the first in 64 years, followed a hastily convened meeting of its board of directors. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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11Pope Benedict XVI waves after addressing astronauts on the International Space Station via a video-link, at the press hall at the Vatican May 21, 2011. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano
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12Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo runs with the ball during their Spanish first division soccer match against Almeria at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, May 21, 2011.His 39th goal in the league this season set a new La Liga record as he passed previous holders Hugo Sanchez and Telmo Zarra who had scored 38. REUTERS/Juan Medina
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13Poland's elite Special Forces Unit GROM and the Polish Air Force take part in an extraction drill before their next mission in Afghanistan, at a training field in Wegrzyn May 19, 2011. Picture taken May 19, 2011. REUTERS/Peter Andrews
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14Schalke 04's Raul and Manuel Neuer (L) lift the trophy following their victory over MSV Duisburg in their German DFB Cup (DFB Pokal) final soccer match in Berlin, May 21, 2011. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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15Wrestlers perform during a show in Budapest May 21, 2011. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
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16An Ultra Orthodox Jewish boy prays next to a bonfire during Lag Ba-Omer festivities in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood May 21, 2011. Israelis celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba-Omer, which marks the end of a plague in the Middle Ages that killed thousands of disciples of a revered rabbi in the holy land, by lighting bonfires across the country. REUTERS/Nir Elias
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17A Black Rattlesnake, which had been rescued with other animals while being trafficked illegally, is seen inside a plastic cylinder at the Federal Wildlife Conservation Center on the outskirts of Mexico City May 20, 2011. According to Mexico's Federal Wildlife Conservation Department, at least 2,500 different animals are rescued annually in the country, 70 percent from illegal animal trafficking within and outside the country and 30 percent from domestic captivity. Picture taken May 20, 2011.
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18A couple of Spider Monkeys, that had been found on a bus inside a bag with three dead monkeys, rest in a hammock at the Federal Wildlife Conservation Center on the outskirts of Mexico City May 20, 2011. According to Mexico's Federal Wildlife Conservation Department, at least 2,500 different animals are rescued annually in the country, 70 percent from illegal animal trafficking within and outside the country and 30 percent from domestic captivity. Picture taken May 20, 2011.
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19Fans of Tijuana's Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente celebrate after their team won Mexico's Liga de Ascenso Championship final soccer match against Irapuato at Caliente stadium in Tijuana May 21, 2011. Tijuana's Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente is the first team in Tijuana to win a promotional tournament and advance to the first division tournament in Mexico. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
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21A three-year-old Jewish boy has his hair cut during celebrations for the Lag Ba-Omer holiday at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Mount Meron in northern Israel, early morning May 22, 2011. Lag Ba-Omer marks the end of a plague that killed thousands of Jewish scholars in ancient times, as well as the anniversary of the death of Bar Yochai, who had rebelled against Roman rule and is believed to be the author of the Zohar, the core text of Kabbalah mysticism. Holiday traditions include lighting bonfires and cutting the hair of three-year-old boys for the first time. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
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22A bombed out tank, belonging to forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, is seen on Tripoli street in central Misrata May 22, 2011. Residents of the battle-scarred city of Misrata in west Libya searched for food from poorly stocked shops on Sunday and rebels stripped weapons from the carcasses of Gaddafi's armour. Distant blasts rumbled through the eerily quiet roads of Misrata, Libya's third biggest city and the scene of some of the fiercest fighting since an uprising began in mid-February. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
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23Boys use their face to move a coin from their forehead into their mouth while participating in a game during a religious festival honouring patron saint Santa Rita de Cascia in Baclaran, Paranaque, south of Manila May 22, 2011. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo
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24England's Gary Hunt competes in the final of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 at Vouliagmeni lake southeast of Athens May 22, 2011. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis
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25Manchester United's players celebrate with the English Premier League trophy following their English Premier League soccer match against Blackpool at Old Trafford, northern England, May 22, 2011. REUTERS/Darren Staples
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26Jury President Robert de Niro arrives on stage during the closing ceremony of the 64th Cannes Film Festival, May 22, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
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27A plume of smoke rises from the background as a military official uses a phone at the entrance to the Mehran naval aviation base which was attacked by militants in Karachi May 22, 2011. Militants attacked a Pakistani naval aviation base on Sunday, killing at least four people, officials said, the latest attack on a heavily guarded military installation in Pakistan. REUTERS/Athar Hussain
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28Texas Rangers Mike Napoli is hit by a pitch from the Philadelphia Phillies during the eighth inning of their Interleague MLB baseball game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 22, 2011. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer
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29One of the three remaining Polaroid photos taken by Mary Moorman at the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, is pictured in this photograph released May 22, 2011 via BusinessWire. Moorman, 31 at the time, was just 15 feet from the presidential motorcade when the gunshots rang out. Moorman, now 78, will give a live interview about taking the photograph, on iAntique.com, an Internet news and social networking community for dealers, collectors and antiques enthusiasts, on May 24. REUTERS/Mary Moorman/BusinessWire/Handout
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30Small waves crash over rocks across the harbour from the Sydney city skyline May 23, 2011. A team of Australia's top scientists warned on Monday of dire climate change in calling for the nation's carbon-dominated energy sector to turn green, as the government struggles to win support for a carbon price to cut pollution. The report by a government-appointed Climate Commission said many of Australia's major cities faced a serious threat from rising sea-levels, particularly Sydney. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne
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31A fisherman tries to paddle his boat through a small stream amid the partially dried-up Honghu Lake in Honghu, Hubei province May 20, 2011. The Yangtze River, China's longest, has been plagued by a severe drought, with the lowest level of rainfall this year since 1961, an official with the river's flood control and drought relief headquarters said Monday, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken May 20, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer
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32North Korean workers nap on piles of fertilizer shipped from China on the banks of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Jacky Chen
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33A girl sits in front of praying women during an anti-government rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa May 23, 2011. France on Monday accused Saleh of being irresponsible by refusing to sign a power transition agreement that would see him step down.
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34A boy walks with water buffaloes in Sapa, northwest Vietnam, May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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36A crew member falls from the side of a U.S. military helicopter before the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama at Dublin airport May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
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37The moon appears near the earth's horizon in this photograph of an orbital moonset taken from aboard the International Space Station May 17, 2011. Picture taken May 17, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Ron Garan/Handout
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38Libyan rebel fighters prepare their heavy machine gun at Misrata's western front line, some 25 km (15 miles) from the city centre May 23, 2011. Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi shelled neighbourhoods in the west and south of Misrata on Monday, a rebel spokesman and a witness said, adding that explosions were also heard in the port area. Rebels say they have pushed Gaddafi's forces 25 km from the centre of the city after weeks of street fighting and bombardment. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
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39U.S. President Barack Obama toasts with first lady Michelle Obama in Ollie Hayes Pub in Obama's ancestral home in Moneygall May 23, 2011. Obama sipped a pint of stout and cuddled babies on Monday as a tiny Irish village on Monday welcomed home a long lost cousin with an outpouring of affection. Hoisting a glass of Guinness at Ollie Hayes pub as fiddle music played, Obama thus began a four-nation tour of Europe with a celebration of his ancestral roots. REUTERS/Maxwell's/Pool
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40Armed men walk past a dead man in this handout photo released by the United Nations Mission in Sudan May 23, 2011. Sudan's northern army on Monday vowed to hold territory it seized over the weekend in the disputed region, defying a U.N. demand it withdraw and pushing the north and south closer to conflict as the south prepares to secede on July 9. Analysts fear north-south fighting over Abyei could reignite civil war, a move that would plunge the nation back into chaos as the south splits away and could send refugees back across the borders to neighboring African states. REUTERS/Stuart Price/UNMIS/Handout
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41Boxers train on Havana's seafront boulevard 'El Malecon' May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
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42A truck lies in rubble after a devastating tornado hit Joplin, Missouri May 23, 2011. A monster tornado killed at least 116 people in Joplin, Missouri when it tore through the heart of the small Midwestern city, ripping the roof off a hospital and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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43A couple stands in front of the skyline after a rain storm in Toronto, May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
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44A member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security team is seen on stage as Netanyahu speaks at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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45The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft is seen as it lands with the ISS crew of NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and European Space Agency Astronaut Paolo Nespoli in a remote area southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, May 24, 2011. A Russian Soyuz capsule delivered an international trio of astronauts back to Earth on Tuesday after six months on the International Space Station, parachuting through clear skies toward a safe landing on the Kazakh steppe. REUTERS/Bill Ingalls/NASA/Handout
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46Riot police try to drag out unionised workers (C) from Yoosung Enterprise as the workers occupy their factory during a strike in Asan, about 100 km (62 miles) south of Seoul, May 24, 2011. South Korean police have entered a factory run by auto parts supplier Yoosung Enterprise to disperse striking workers who occupied production lines after failing to agree on new wage and shift systems, Yonhap reported on Tuesday. The week-long strike at Yoosung, which provides 70 percent of the piston rings used in vehicles made by Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors, crippled Hyundai's production of SUVs and diesel engines this week. REUTERS/Yang Yeong-Seok/Yonhap
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47Jailed Russian ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands in the defendant's box during a court session in Moscow May 24, 2011. A Russian appeals court upheld a multibillion-dollar theft and money laundering conviction against Khodorkovsky on Tuesday and reduced his 14-year prison sentence to 13 years. The Moscow City Court ruling means the former Yukos chief who fell foul of the Kremlin during Vladimir Putin's presidency and has been jailed since 2003, is to remain in prison well into 2016. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
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48Rescue worker Thorsteinn Jonsson smokes a pipe in the village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur May 24, 2011. People living next to the glacier where the Grimsvotn volcano burst into life on Saturday were most affected, with ash shutting out the daylight and smothering buildings and vehicles. An ash cloud from a volcano on Iceland shut down flights in northern Britain and elsewhere in north Europe on Tuesday and was heading to Germany, but officials expected no repeat of last year's air chaos. REUTERS/Ingolfur Juliusson
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49Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates his victory against John Isner of the U.S. during the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris May 24, 2011. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
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50Pink jersey and overall leader Alberto Contador of Spain climbs during the time trial for the 12.7 km ( 7.9 miles) 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race from Belluno to Nevegal May 24, 2011. Contador won the stage and retained the leader pink jersey. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
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51U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and first lady Michelle Obama (R) talk to Britain's Prince William (2nd L) and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at Buckingham Palace, in London May 24, 2011. Obama was treated to royal pomp at Buckingham Palace Tuesday on a two-day state visit aimed at ensuring the United States and Britain keep the special in their relationship. REUTERS/Charles Dharapak/Pool
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52U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L) and first lady Michelle Obama (2nd R) pose with Queen Elizabeth (L) and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh (R) before a State Dinner at Buckingham Palace in London May 24, 2011. REUTERS/Larry Downing
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53An inmate rides a horse and listens to a prison guard on an agrarian field of a penal colony settlement some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, May 24, 2011. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
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54An inmate makes a phone call from his cell at the Orange County jail in Santa Ana, California, May 24, 2011. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Monday an order that California reduce its overcrowded prisons by some 40,000 inmates to fix longtime problems with inadequate medical and mental health care. Officials plan to move low-level offenders to county jails. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
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55Kootenay Ice forward Erik Benoit is hit into the boards by Saint John Sea Dogs defenseman Eric Gelinas (R) during the first period of their Memorial Cup round-robin ice hockey game in Mississauga May 24, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Cassese
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56A fisherman rides a motor tricycle to transport dead fish killed by drought at his fish farm at Honghu Lake in Luoshan county, Hubei province May 24, 2011. The lingering drought devastating the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River since May is expected to affect agricultural production in some regions and this may push up prices of farm products, analysts say, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken May 24, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin Zhao
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57Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade (R) and Chris Bosh celebrate a basket against the Chicago Bulls during Game 4 of their Eastern Conference Finals NBA basketball series in Miami, May 24, 2011. REUTERS/Hans Deryk
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58Workers prepare traditional Chinese herbal medicines at Beijing's Capital Medical University Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital May 25, 2011. The hospital distributes around 20,000 prescription doses daily, more than five tonnes of ingredients, from their stock of 600 different types of plants, herbs, and animal organs. Almost all traditional Chinese herbal medicine has been banned from sale in European Union (EU) countries since May 1, following the implementation of the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive that was originally passed in 2004. Under the guidelines, all herbal medicinal products are required to obtain a certificate before entering the EU market, and have a history of at least 30 years, including 15 years in EU regions. REUTERS/David Gray
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59Du, 80, an ethnic Hmong woman, sits inside a house near Sapa town in the northern Lao Cai province, 350 km (217 miles) from Hanoi May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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61Plant sprouts are seen as small streams of water travel in the cracks of the dried-up river channel at a branch of Hanjiang River in Wuhan, Hubei province May 25, 2011. The worst drought in 50 years which hit the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has affected 9.89 million people in four central provinces, including Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/Stringer
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62A Christian Orthodox faithful stands outside Bet Medhane Alem rock church in Lalibela April 23, 2011. According to legend, angels helped King Lalibela build this church and others like it in the 11th and 12th century after he received an order from God to create a new Jerusalem in Ethiopia. Picture taken April 23, 2011. REUTERS/Flora Bagenal
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63People with painted faces attend a protest at the Freedom Park in Phnom Penh May 25, 2011. About 100 local activists attended a demonstration and news conference appealing to the government to save Prey Lang forests in Kompong Thom, Stung Treng, Kratie and Preah Vihear provinces and demanding to stop granting economic land concessions and suspend all those already granted. Protesters, who call themselves Cambodia's Avatars, had their bodies painted in green and blue and wore traditional ethnic Kuy clothes, including hats made from tree materials. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
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64Rescue workers retrieve the body of a victim from the rubble of a police station which was leveled by explosives in Peshawar May 25, 2011. A suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into the police station on Wednesday as the Taliban intensified attacks against Pakistan's security forces after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. At least five policemen and a soldier were killed in the attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban said they were responsible. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
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65Picture shows smoke from the Grimsvotn volcano, under the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland, at 03:00 GMT, May 25, 2011. The Icelandic volcano which disrupted hundreds of flights in northern Europe is no longer spewing out ash and the eruption seems to have halted, weather officials said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Agust Gudbjornsson
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66Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama serve food to a guest at a barbecue in the garden of 10 Downing Street, in central London May 25, 2011. U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday will stress a united effort to pressure Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to step down, while glossing over differences between their two governments. REUTERS/Matt Dunham/Pool
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67Women wearing red shoes rest after a performance marking the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito's birth anniversary in Belgrade May 25, 2011. Tito, who died aged 87 in 1980, became leader of the country in 1945 and president in 1953. His death in 1980 was soon followed by a decade of ethnic wars which broke his federation along ethnic lines. REUTERS/Ivan Milutinovic
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68After spending 157 days aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev (L) of Russia and Flight Engineers Catherine 'Cady' Coleman of the U.S. and Paolo Nespoli of Italy close the hatch on their Soyuz spacecraft before returning to earth in this NASA photo taken May 24, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Ron Garan/Handout
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69A Palestinian girl walks in front of a section of the controversial Israeli barrier in al-Ram in the West Bank on the outskirts of Jerusalem May 25, 2011. Palestinians and Israelis alike saw little prospect of a fresh start to Middle East peace talks on Wednesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's keynote speech to Congress. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
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70Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they demonstrate to denounce violence in Sanaa May 25, 2011. Yemenis fled the capital on Wednesday to escape gunbattles between loyalists and opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who said he would make no more concessions to those seeking his ouster. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
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71A Roma boy walks through rubbish behind houses at the Lunik IV settlement unit in Kosice, east Slovakia May 25, 2011. Some 7,000 Roma inhabit the neighbourhood. REUTERS/Petr Josek
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72Sabine Lisicki of Germany returns the ball to Vera Zvonareva of Russia during the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
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73This collection of galaxy specimens, taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission is pictured and released by NASA May 25, 2011. It showcases galaxies of several types, from elegant grand design spirals to more patchy flocculent spirals. Some of the galaxies have roundish centers, while others have elongated central bars. The orientation of the galaxies varies as well, with some seeming to peer straight back at us in the face-on configuration while others point to the side, appearing edge-on. Infrared light has been translated into colors we see with our eyes, such that the shortest wavelengths are blue and the longest are red. The oldest stars appear blue, while pockets of newly formed stars have yellow or reddish hues. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team/Handout
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74Policemen gather around the wreckage of a chartered aircraft which crashed in a residential area in Faridabad, west of New Delhi, May 26, 2011. A small plane crashed into a residential area outside India's capital New Delhi late on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people, local television said. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
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75Riot police stand guard along a street after clashes with protestors in Tbilisi May 26, 2011. Georgian riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon on Thursday to disperse several hundred opposition protesters demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, a Reuters reporter said. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
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76A nurse adjusts earphones playing relaxing music to a newborn baby in Saca Hospital in Kosice, east Slovakia May 25, 2011. The hospital uses music as therapy for newborn babies when they are separated from their mothers. REUTERS/Petr Josek
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77Police detain protesters during clashes in Tbilisi May 26, 2011. Georgian riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon on Thursday to disperse several hundred opposition protesters demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, a Reuters reporter said. REUTERS/Stringer (GEORGIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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78Scotty McCreery celebrates after winning the 10th season of American Idol during the show's finale at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Michael Becker/Fox/Handout
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79A migrant worker sits with his son on their bed as his wife uses a facial mask at a dormitory of a construction site in Shenyang, Liaoning province May 25, 2011. Over the past decades, China's economic boom has largely been built on cheap labour and excessive use of resources. But a new generation of migrant workers demanded higher pay and better treatment, which adds to labour costs at home, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer
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80Inmates play bagpipes as part of their routine training inside Kotbhalwal central jail in Jammu May 20, 2011. Jail authorities have formed a 20-member pipe band of a team of prisoners who are being trained to play and perform musical instruments. Once the band is ready, they will be sent to perform at weddings and other social functions, a jail superintendent said. The main aim of creating the pipe band is to develop relations of these prisoners with the rest of the outside world and to involve them in various social functions so as to change their mindset, the superintendent added. Picture taken May 20, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta
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81Palestinian farmer Muhamed Zaben harvests wheat in his field in the West Bank village of Burin near Nablus May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
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82A visitor carries a floral umbrella during a heavy rain shower at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
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83Bolivian Casilda Paco, a dancer in the Senor del Gran Poder (Lord of Great Power) festival, smiles and shows her gold ornament-decorated teeth in La Paz May 24, 2011. The pagan celebration begins on June 18 and coincides with the Aymara indigenous new year. Believers parade down the streets of La Paz to celebrate the ethnic traditions of the city and compete to have the most extravagant costumes and songs. Picture taken May 24, 2011. REUTERS/David Mercado
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84Fans of Uruguay's Penarol cheer as they play Argentina's Velez Sarsfield in a Copa Libertadores semi-final soccer match in Montevideo, May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Andres Stapff
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85Miami Heat's Chris Bosh dunks on the Chicago Bulls during Game 5 of their NBA Eastern Conference Finals playoff basketball game in Chicago, May 26, 2011. REUTERS/John Gress
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86A boy looks at power lines outside a window of a building, built in the British Raj era, during a power outage in Karachi May 27, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
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87Combination photo shows Bosnian Serb army commander General Radko Mladic in Pale dated May 7, 1993 and in Belgrade after he was arrested on May 26, 2011. Mladic was arrested after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the once-pariah state to approach the European mainstream. The Belgrade-based war crimes court stopped questioning the war crimes suspect on Thursday because of his poor health, his lawyer said. REUTERS/Files/Politika/Handout
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88Secondary school graduates dressed in traditional uniforms dance in a fountain as they celebrate the last day of school in Kiev May 27, 2011. Students across Ukraine celebrated the end of the academic year on Friday, traditionally called the last bell. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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89U.S. President Barack Obama walks to Air Force One in Paris for his departure to Poland after attending the G8 Summit in France, May 27, 2011.
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90The Russian Soyuz capsule is seen docked to the International Space Station with the earth's horizon and the sun in the background in this photo taken using a digital camera with a fish-eye lens by spacewalking astronaut Mike Fincke and provided by NASA May 27, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
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91Rainbow is seen over Duomo's cathedral during a political rally of leftist candidate Giuseppe Pisapia in downtown Milan May 27, 2011. Italians vote in run-offs for local elections on Sunday and Monday, with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his centre-right coalition scrambling to avoid defeat in the key battlegrounds of Milan and Naples. REUTERS/Paolo Bona
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92A wounded Italian U.N peacekeeper is seen in his vehicle at Remaily village near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon May 27, 2011. A bomb blew up a U.N. jeep near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on Friday, wounding six Italian U.N. peacekeepers, the Italian military chief of staff said, in the first attack of its kind in three years. Lebanese security sources earlier said one peacekeeper had died in the attack on a busy highway leading to the port city, leaving a huge, grey plume of smoke. REUTERS/Sharif Karim
 

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