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Kashmiri fishermen row past water fountains at sunset on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. Set in the Himalayas at 5,600 feet (1707 meters) above sea level, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges. About 100 lakes dot its highlands and plains. --PHOTO: AP


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Bags of oil collected from the beach await pickup at Elmer's Island, Louisiana. Cleanup crews had worked for days to scrub the beach and dispose of the material. As BP prepares to try and stop the oil leak with a 'top kill' method, the Louisiana coastline is reeling from the effects of the continued gusher. --PHOTO: AFP


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Alphajet aircrafts draw a heart-shaped message in the sky during the 2010 presentation show of the French aerobatics team Patrouille de France in the French southeastern city of Salon-de-Provence. --PHOTO: AFP




 

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A man walks past a Vesak Day lanterns stall in Colombo. Vesak Day in Sri Lanka, signifies the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. --PHOTO: REUTERS


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A six-week-old kitten reaches out from its cage at the Bay County Animal Shelter in Bay City , Mich. The Animal Shelter will be holding an adoption campaign from June 1 till August 6. Across the country one half of a million animals are euthanized every year. --PHOTO: AP


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People, performing as veterans of Falklands' war, parade during celebrations for the bicentennial of the May Revolution in Buenos Aires. The May Revolution opened the road to the independence of Argentina from Spain in 1816. --PHOTO: AP



 

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Workers repair electricity pylons and wires damaged during an earthquake in February, in a rural area near Santiago. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake on February 27 was one of the world's most powerful in a century and killed more than 700 people. --PHOTO: REUTERS


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Balls line the field before a friendly match between the U.S. and the Czech Republic at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut. --PHOTO: AFP



 

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South Korean soldiers queue up to cast their absentee ballots for local elections at a temporary polling place in Seoul. The local elections will be held across South Korea. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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A woman walks past a heart-shaped board in front of a shopping mall in downtown Bangkok where people write and stick their concerns and wishes on the political situation. A week after an explosion of violence that shocked the nation.


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The giant ball of the world's largest Foucault Pendulum creates a pattern as it swings suspended below a glass spire at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Ore. Theswinging pendulum is constant and does not move, but it appears to move as the earth rotates beneath it. -- PHOTO: AP



 

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A North Korean soldier gestures to a Chinese vehicle on the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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Soldiers and a dog stand on a truck as they patrol in Betania, south of Bogota. The government has tightened the security ahead of May 30 presidential election. -- PHOTO: AP


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Pelicans are seen close to oiled booms on Queen Bess Island near Grand Isle, Louisiana. Wildlife rescue crews braced for an influx of oiled birds and animals as a heavy black tide seeped deeper into Louisiana's fragile coastal wetlands. -- PHOTO: AFP



 

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A police officer stands guard blocks away from the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood, Kingston. According to the the country's official ombudsman, at least 44 civilians have been killed as Jamaican security forces have moved into the slum stronghold of a gang leader sought by the US justice yet he remains at large after nearly 3 days of street battles. -- PHOTO: AP


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Julia Gnuse, the Guinness World Record holder for the most tattooed woman in the world, shows off some of her tattoos in New York. -- PHOTO: AP


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Pakistani students gather inside a tent serving as their makeshift classroom, after their school was destroyed by Taliban militants, in Mingora, the capital of Pakistan's troubled valley of Swat. -- PHOTO: AP



 

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Close up on boards calling for peace in french, arabian and israelian languages during a demonstration called by France Palestine Solidarity association in Paris to protest against the 'Jewish state's continuing occupation of Palestinian land', on the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit in Paris. -- PHOTO: AFP


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A rainbow appears over the Louisiana gulf in the Gulf of Mexico near Brush Island, Louisiana. As BP prepares to try and stop the oil leak with a 'top kill' method, the Louisiana coastline is reeling from the effects of the continued gusher. -- PHOTO: AFP


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Pakistani people cool off under a fountain from a leaking water-supply pipe, as temperatures reached up to 44 degrees Celsius in Islamabad, Pakistan. Summertime temperatures have shot up in most of Pakistan, touching 53 degrees Celsius in some parts of southern Sindh province in recent days, according to Pakistan Met Office. -- PHOTO: AP



 
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Visitors walk by 'Cultural Traffic' a creation by US artist Teddy Crin in the Maxxi, Italy's first national museum of contemporary art designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, during a press-day preview in Rome. -- AFP


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A rainbow is seen over Tyrolian village of Seefeld in Austria where Netherland football team have training camp prior to the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa starting on June 11. -- AFP


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South African football fans sing the national Anthem during the friendly match between South Africa vs Colombia at Soccer City Stadium in Soweto ahead of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa. -- AFP



 
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Liang Yong, 30, who weights about 230kg (507 pounds) and is 1.58 metres (5.18 feet) tall, is pushed on to a cart by his father (left) after a medical examination at a hospital in Chongqing municipality. Liang is not able to walk due to his weight and is required to seek further medical treatment at the hospital. -- REUTERS

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South Korean Lee Seo-jin (left) experiences firsthand what it is allegedly like to be held in a North Korean cell at the Korean War exhibition in Seoul, South Korea. -- AP


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A member of a Taiwan labour group places a lily to mourn Foxconn employees who committed suicide in a protest outside Hon Hai Precision Industry,
the Taiwanese parent company of Foxconn. -- AP


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Sun Jian

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A harbor seal lazing at the base of the breakwater in the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro Bay off the coast of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. -- AFP


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Biologist Vilma Castillo applies medicine to a freshwater turtle in a clinic for turtles in Tortufauna in La Garita de ALajuela. According to Castillo, Tortufauna is the first clinic in Central and Latin America to specialize in providing treatment for injured tortoises and freshwater turtles. -- REUTERS


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A pelican tries to clean its wings while standing on a rock in the water near Grand Isle, Louisiana. -- AFP


 
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Sun Jian

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Artists perform during a presentation for the media of Cirque Du Soleil 's Quidam show in Buenos Aires. -- AP


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A person dressed as Walt Disney character Minnie Mouse crosses the street in Hollywood, California. -- REUTERS


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Journalists inspect the art work 'Between the waters' by Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrc and Ooze architects Eva Pfannes and Sylvain Hartenberg during a press preview in Essen, western Germany. -- AFP


 
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Sun Jian

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Simone Arrigoni of Italy attempts to set an apnea diving record, while being pushed by two dolphins, in Torvaianica near Rome. Arrigoni completed 12 loops in 1 minute and 42 seconds to set the record. -- REUTERS


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This US Air Force graphic obtained shows the X-51A Waverider as it is set to demonstrate hypersonic flight. Powered by a Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne SJY61 scramjet engine, it is designed to ride on its own shockwavem and accelerate to about Mach 6. -- AFP


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Farley Allen Rhodes reacts to cameras just after he was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in Charleston WV. He admitted to throwing lighter fluid on Starlena Pratt and setting her on fire in 2008. Ms Pratt died after a month in a burn unit. -- AP



 

Yukimura Sanada

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John DeFruscio of Collegeville, walks on the edge of a field of flags on Boston Common ahead of Memorial Day, in Boston. -- AP


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An FBI agent places a flower on a memorial as other agents hold photos of deceased colleagues, during a memorial service for Special Agents and their law enforcement and military colleagues killed in the line of duty, at the Federal Building in Los Angeles. -- AFP


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Monica McNeal (right) cries as she hugs a US Marine at the grave (left) of her 19-year-old son Eric Ward, at Arlington National Cemetery. Lance Corporal Eric Ward, a fourth-generation U.S. Marine, was killed in Afghanistan on February 21, 2010. -- REUTERS



 

Yukimura Sanada

Alfrescian (InfP)
Generous Asset

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Protesters chant slogans covered in a mixture of water and paint resembling oil during a demonstration at a BP gas station in the SoHo neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York. -- AP


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Cemetery employee Erroll Titus shows some of the 25 caskets lying in May Pen Cemetery near Trenchtown in Kingston, Jamaica. Bodies have been dropped off at this location, and post-mortems done before being delivered to a funeral home, after a heated battle to take down a Jamaican drug lord. -- REUTERS


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Stone workers collect stones in boats from the river Piyain in Jaflong, Bangladesh. These stones are collected to be crushed and sold for use in making roads and in construction. -- REUTERS



 

Yukimura Sanada

Alfrescian (InfP)
Generous Asset

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An Indian security personnel jumps onto the roof of a building, as smoke rises from a nearby building under fire in Allahabad, India. -- AP


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Buddhist monks gather for the commemoration of Vesak or Buddha's birthday at Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. -- AP


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An Afghan boy scurries past a burning oil tanker carrying fuel supplies for Nato forces after it was allegedly attacked by Taleban on Jalalabad highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. -- AP


 
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