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May 21, 2012
A woman walks through lilies on a stand during press day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
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May 21, 2012
Chelsea pensioners pose for pictures as they stand in the pyramid-shaped Westland Magical Garden during the Chelsea Flower Show in London,.
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May 21, 2012
Abra Dunsbury-Sircana poses in a hat made of flowers and leaves on the Leeds University stand during press day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
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May 21, 2012
John Fiorenzo catches a brief nap during the address to the graduates at his Boston College commencement ceremony at Alumni Stadium on the university's campus. Fellow graduates Patrick Dingham, left, and Brandan Kirby, right, watch the stadium's score board. All of the men received their Bachelor of Science degrees from the university's Carrol School of Management.
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May 21, 2012
Parachutist Steve Vaughn of the Carolina Skydiving Team approaches for a landing, trailing a 1,200-square-foot American flag at the golf course at Hampton Hall in Bluffton, S.C., during the opening ceremony of the second annual Wounded Heroes Golf Classic. The charity golf tournament honors wounded soldiers and their families and is sponsored by the Lowcountry Foundation for Wounded Military Heroes.
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May 22, 2012
A man, with a hairstyle shaped like the Tokyo Skytree (in the background), waits to enter the tower, the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 2,080 feet, in Tokyo . The tower opened to the public on Tuesday, and the new Japanese capital landmark is expected to draw 200,000 visitors on the first day, local media reported.
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May 21, 2012
Google chief executive Larry Page, left, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg talk after a press announcement at Google's headquarters in New York. Google will allocate some 22,000 square feet of its New York headquarters to CornellNYC Tech, while the university completes its campus on Roosevelt Island. The space will allow Cornell to build its presence in New York in close proximity to the tech companies and entrepreneurs with whom it will collaborate, according to media reports.
Eduardo Munoz
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May 21, 2012
Television correspondent Sabrina Quagliozzi reports from inside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square.
Richard Drew
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May 21, 2012
President Obama, right, and British Prime Minister David Cameron sit together at the start of the Partners Meeting at the NATO Summit in Chicago.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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AP
May 17, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney speaks at the River City Brewing Company in Jacksonville, Fla.
Mary Altaffer
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May 21, 2012
Protesters stage a protest outside the Boeing building during the NATO summit in Chicago.
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May 21, 2012
A woman yells at police officers during an anti-NATO protest march in Chicago.
Eric Thayer
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May 21, 2012
Dharun Ravi wipes a tear from his eye as his mother, Sabitha Rav, reads a statement during a sentencing hearing for his conviction in using a webcam to invade the privacy of his roommate, Tyler Clementi, and another man in their college dorm room, in New Brunswick, N.J. The former Rutgers University student was sentenced on Monday to 30 days in prison for bias crimes after he spied on his roommate's gay encounter in a case that drew national attention to bullying.
Lee Celano
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Reuters
May 21, 2012
An aerial view of the Mosquitia region near the remote community of Ahuas, Honduras. On May 11, a joint Honduran-U.S. drug raid, on a helicopter mission with advisers from the DEA, appears to have mistakenly targeted civilians in the remote jungle area, killing four riverboat passengers and injuring four others. Later, according to villagers, Honduran police narcotics forces and men speaking English spent hours searching the small town of Ahuas for a suspected drug trafficker.
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May 21, 2012
Rosela Zelaya Valderramoi, 70, rests inside her house in the Paptalaya pier, where helicopters of a joint Honduran-U.S. drug raid landed last Friday, in Ahuas, Mosquitia region, Honduras.
Rodrigo Abd
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May 21, 2012
Honduran Navy officers patrol in Patuca river, near Ahuas, a remote community in La Mosquitia region, Honduras.
Rodrigo Abd
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May 21, 2012
A Kashmiri woman rows a boat carrying lotus leaves, to be used as food for livestock, at Dal Lake in Srinagar, India.
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May 19, 2012
Women from the Samburu tribe dance at the Lake Turkana Festival in Loiyangalani, near Lake Turkarna in northern Kenya. The festival is an annual cultural festival designed to promote tourism in the area and to forge better relationships between the seven different tribes in the area.
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May 19, 2012
Performance artist Torch blows fire from his mouth at the biker bar Suck Bang Blow in Murrells Inlet, S.C. Performances are scheduled during the annual Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Spring Rally, one of several annual rallies in and around Myrtle Beach.
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May 21, 2012
Pro golfer Tiger Woods, center left, laughs after losing one of the three chip shots to Thvan "Tyler" Nguyen, center right, of Centreville in a chipping contest at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda.
Ricky Carioti
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The Washington Post
May 21, 2012
Redskins starting QB Robert Griffin III, right, during training at Redskins Park in Ashburn.
John McDonnell
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The Washington Post
May 21, 2012
With their mascot, Wrigley the goat, in tow, from left, Blake Ferell of Marcellus, Mich.; Matt Gregory of Koos Bay, Ore.; Philip Aldrich of Memphis; Kyle Townsend of Marcellus, Mich.; and P. J. Fisher of Prescott, Ariz., walk along Route 66 north of McLean, Ill., on their way to Chicago's Wrigley Field. The diehard Cubs fans have walked almost 2,000 miles in 87 days, after their quest began on Feb. 27. They hope to take Wrigley onto the field, this time to bring a little good luck to the Cubs and raise money and awareness to fight cancer.
David Proeber
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May 21, 2012
Fort Hood soldiers and family members cheer and wave the U.S. flags as buses transporting Vietnam veterans arrive at a Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Ceremony in Fort Hood, Tex.
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May 21, 2012
Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, sign the Canadian government's guest books at CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick.
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May 14, 2012
Tourists walk down a twisting mountain path in the Paul Valley on the island of Santo Antao in Cape Verde, off the coast of West Africa.
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May 22, 2012
An artist writes a slogan in Arabic that reads, "I will never give you peace," next to a graffiti picturing the morphed faces of presidential candidates Ahmed Shafiq , left, and Amr Mussa, military ruler Hussein Tantawi and ousted president Hosni Mubarak near Cairo's central Tahrir square.
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May 22, 2012
An Iraqi woman is comforted by a relative as she is treated for breathing problems in a hospital during a heavy sandstorm in Baghdad.
Karim Kadim
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AP
May 22, 2012
An Iraqi man stands in a Baghdad street, in a yellow haze from a heavy dust storm that shut the capital's airport .
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May 21, 2012
Tourists stop to photograph shafts of light coming through the sandstone canyon walls while touring through Antelope Canyon near Page, Ariz.
Julie Jacobson
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May 22, 2012
The SpaceX launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and a unmanned Dragan capsule turns night into day during liftoff from a Cape Canaveral launch pad.
Craig Rubadoux
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AP
May 21, 2012
This multi-exposure picture shows a solar eclipse, seen at Utsunomiya city in Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo.
Jiji Press
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May 21, 2012
A partial solar eclipse as seen during sunrise in the coastal town of Gumaca, Quezon province, southeast of Manila, Philippines.
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