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A vendor sells World Cup souvenirs at the Chic Shop in Adjame, Abidjan. The FIFA World Cup, the globe's most watched sporting event in South Africa. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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Dr. Sharon Taylor of the US Fish and Wildlife Service releases a Northern Gannet at the Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge near St. Petersburg, Florida in this photo. The bird, along with five others, was transported to the Tampa Bay area by the US Coast Guard after being found oiled near Louisiana's coast and cleaned at Fort Jackson, La. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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Photo shows the Luxembourg Pavilion at the World Expo in China which opens on May 1, 2010. -- PHOTO: AP



 
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A teacher throws a ball towards children with cerebral palsy during a training session at the Palsigunung rehabilitation homestay in Jakarta. Palsigunung homestay, founded in 1975 by Sophie Sarwono, can house about 30 patients. It treats children with cerebral palsy, a physical and mental disability, by providing them with sensory-motor therapy, and physical and speech trainings five days a week. Physical training is important as patients have limited body movements, and it could be fatal if they were to remain inactive. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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A Venezuelan student walks over a cloth with red paint and the Star of David during an anti-Israel demonstration in Caracas. Israel detained or deported on Tuesday hundreds of activists aboard Turkish-backed aid ships it seized en route to Gaza, and faced a UN call for an impartial investigation into the deaths of nine people in the takeover. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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A flash mob breaks out and dances to Abba's


 
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People perform chest compressions on mannequins while learning CPR on the steps of San Francisco city hall following a press conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of lifesaving by using CPR in San Francisco, California. Dozens of people stopped for free C.P.R. lessons given by volunteers from the San Francisco Paramedic Association. CPR -- PHOTO: AFP


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Ground-staff clear excess water off the court cover before the ressumption of play between Russia's Mikhail Youzhny and Czech Tomas Berdych in their men's quarter-final in the French Open tennis championship at the Roland Garros stadium. -- PHOTO: AFP


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A Californian sea lion hugs her just born baby at the Amsterdam zoo Artis.
The California sea lion is the playful, noisy, exuberant, quick learning,'trained seal' of the circus and zoo. -- PHOTO: AFP



 
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Employee Caryn Bloom poses with the new Spiderman exhibit in the Marvel Super Heroes 4D exhibition, at Madame Tussauds in central London. The attraction is the largest installation that Madame Tussaud's has created in seven years and features a selection of Marvel comic characters. --PHOTO: AFP


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A gust of wind covers Pope Benedict XVI's face with his dress during his weekly general audience in St.Peter's square at the Vatican. --PHOTO: AFP


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A woman walks on a platform past a picture by Iranian photographer Reza Deghati, exhibited in the Paris's subway at the Luxembourg station in Paris. The exhibition, intitled 'Chemins Paralleles' runs until September 12, 2010. --PHOTO: AFP


 
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Baby eels wriggle out of a bucket when they were released into river Elbe near Bleckede, Germany. Up to 130,000 young eels were released by the regional chamber for preservation of the countryside to increase the number of fish in that river. --PHOTO: AP


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Streaks left by oil that retreated during low tide are visible on a public beach in Dauphin Island, Alabama. Oil related to the Deepwater Horizon accident began to appear yesterday on the shores of Alabama. --PHOTO: AFP


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A dead hermit crabs lies in the water on a public beach in Dauphin Island, Alabama. Oil related to the Deepwater Horizon accident began to appear on Wednesday on the shores of Alabama. --PHOTO: AFP


 
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Sun Jian

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Aerial view of the overflowed Michatoya river, which caused heavy damage on the town of Amatitlan, 35 km from Guatemala City. The death toll from a violent weekend storm that lashed Central America neared 150 on Tuesday, and more fatalities were feared as rescuers reached villages cut off by floods and mudslides. --PHOTO: AFP


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A polar bear cub jumps into the water at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo, Quebec.
The zoo allowed public access to the cub, born on November 30, 2009, for the first time on Wednesday. --PHOTO: REUTERS


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An artist adds finishing touches to a sand sculpture of a cat at the upcoming Haeundae Sand Festival in Busan. --PHOTO: REUTERS


 
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Madame Tussauds employee Jenny Orton poses for photographers with a duster beside a waxwork of The Hulk during the launch of the Marvel Super Heroes 4D exhibition at the Madame Tussauds waxworks in London. -- PHOTO: AP


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Labourers wait for arriving boats to unload fish at a harbour in Mumbai. India's food price index rose 16.55 per cent in the year to May 22, while the fuel price index climbed 14.14 per cent, government data released on Thursday showed. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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The Tungurahua volcano spews ash and rocks during an eruption in Banos, about 130 km south-east of Quito. Tungurahua has been classed as active since 1999 and had a strong eruption in 2008. It is one of eight active volcanoes in the country. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


 
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A clown entertains children at a shelter for people who lost their homes due to Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala City. -- PHOTO: AP


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Revelers run from a bull during the annual 'Vacas das Cordas' celebrations.


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Models dressed in traditional clothes made with raffia, a natural fibre drawn from a palm tree, walk during a fashion show organized by Ivorian designer Genevieve Koukougnon, in Abidjan. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


 
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Palestinian children, their faces painted with Turkish flags, attend a protest against the Israeli naval commando raid on a flotilla attempting to break the blockade on Gaza, in Gaza City. -- PHOTO: AP


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Two Chinese boys step on bricks to avoid the floodwater after a heavy downpour at a school for migrant workers' children in a suburb of Beijing. Summer rain storms annually deluge many parts of China, often with devastating results leading to hundreds of fatalities. -- PHOTO: AFP


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Visitors look at robots invented by Wu Yulu, a 48-year-old farmer from Beijing, at Shanghai's Rockbund Museum in Shanghai, China. The museum opened the exhibit on May 4 alongside the Shanghai World Expo. -- PHOTO: AP


 
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Hannes Arch of Austria flies on the Detroit River during the Red Bull Air Race Training Day on Thursday in Windsor, Canada. -- AFP


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Residents survey the damage caused by a tornado after it swept through the town of Lennox Head, northern New South Wales. -- REUTERS


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A man looks at the interior of a vehicle stranded in floodwaters in Yao Ethnic Autonomous County of Du'an in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Wednesday. -- AP


 
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A child jumps into a public fountain to cool off on a hot day in downtown Algiers. -- REUTERS


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A lion at the Como Zoo yawns during a lazy sunny day in St. Paul, Minn. -- AP


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An Indian mahout feeds his elephant during a dust storm on the outskirts of New Delhi, India on Thursday. Temperatures have soared above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in Northern India in recent weeks as parts of the country have been enduring a heat wave that has left a number of people dead. -- AP


 
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Picture taken on Thursday shows a cloudy sunset over the Omani capital Muscat, as cyclone Phet approached the Gulf sultanate pushing up from the Arabian Sea and authorities raised the alert level to orange. -- AFP


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People make religious images with flower petals and salt during Corpus Christi celebrations at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Brasilia. Corpus Christi celebrates the Eucharist as the body of Christ. -- AP


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A Bulgarian man rakes burning embers prior to 'Nestinarstvo', an ancient fire dance in the village of Bulgari, southeastern Bulgaria. -- AFP


 
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Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley witnessed a bright flash (upper left) from an object hitting the Jovian surface. The discovery was confirmed by another amateur skygazer in the Philippines. -- PHOTO: AP


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Actors Russell Brand and Rose Byrne make an appearance on NBC's 'Today' show at Rockefeller Center on Thursday in New York City. -- PHOTO: AFP


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A boy wearing a traditional countryman attire looks at his ice cream during the Corpus Christi celebration in La Villa, Panama. Corpus Christi is celebrated by Roman Catholics and other Christians to proclaim the truth of the 'transubstantiation' or change of bread and wine into the actual body of Christ during Mass. -- PHOTO: AP


 
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An employee walks through British artist Antony Gormley's new installation, Breathing Room III, during a photocall for his new exhibition 'Test Sites' at the White Cube Gallery, London on Thursday. -- PHOTO: AFP


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This May 19, 2010 picture shows Kelly Gneiting, right, a 420-pound sumo wrestler, who's been ranked among the top in the world and also sometimes runs marathons, wrestling with Trent Sabo, a ranked sumo wrestler in the lightweight category in Idaho Falls, Idaho. -- PHOTO: AP


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Rosalba Urrego looks at the remains of charred homes in Medellin, Colombia. A fire broke out in the Comuna 13 slum neighborhood leaving leaving dozens of homes destroyed or badly damaged. No deaths have been reported. -- PHOTO: AP


 

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This May 29 file photo shows an overloaded vehicle on a road near Dakoro in the north of Niger. An estimated 2.7 million people will need food assistance this year while an additional 5.1 million people in the country were considered at risk of food insecurity. Thousands of pupils have abandonned their course according to UNICEF. -- PHOTO: AFP


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A Salvadorean migrant, who lost his arm three months ago after falling from a tren while trying to reach the United States, waits for a train to the US border in Lecheria, 30 km north of Mexico City. -- PHOTO: AFP


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Titled 'For the Fires of Hell,' this photograph shows the Japanese Navy's installation of a fire hydrant system throughout their main camp, a clear indication they meant to stay on Kiska Island, which is nearly 1,400 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska, for a long time. It is displayed in the exhibit 'Kiska and Adak: War in the Aleutians,' on view through Dec. 31 at the Anchorage Museum. -- PHOTO: AP


 
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