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May 4, 2012
A boy makes a face while waiting to greet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the National Museum in Beijing.
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Reuters
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May 2, 2012
U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, left, talks on a cellphone as he accompanies blind activist Chen Guangcheng in a car in Beijing. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday embraced a statement from China that Chen could seek permission to study abroad, with U.S. officials urging the Chinese government to “expeditiously process” his application for a passport and other documents.
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Reuters
May 4, 2012
Taiwanese human rights activists display placards of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, left, and his supporter He Peirong during a protest outside the American Institute in Taipei. Taiwanese activists demanded the U.S. ensure the safety of Chen, his family and supporters, including He Peirong, whose whereabouts were unknown after she was suspected of assisting in Chen's escape.
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May 3, 2012
People seeking jobs wait in line to speak to over 60 employers at an employment fair in the Queens borough of New York.
Stan Honda
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May 3, 2012
Starbucks representatives speak to people seeking jobs at an employment fair in a youth center in the Queens borough of New York.
Stan Honda
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A sign advertises job openings outside a McDonalds restaurant in Chesterland, Ohio. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week by the most in more than three months, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
Amy Sancetta
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AP
May 3, 2012
Construction trades workers rally outside the Minnesota House at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., as they called for legislators to pass a bill for a new Minnesota Vikings NFL football stadium. which would provide jobs for thousands of workers. In the background beneath the portrait of Abe Lincoln is House Speaker Kurt Zellers.
Jim Mone
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AP
May 3, 2012
A man fixes a model of the water plane Junkers Ju 90 (originally built in 1937) in a glass case at the new permanent aviation exhibition at the Dresden Transport Museum in Dresden, eastern Germany.
Jens Meyer
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AP
May 3, 2012
Peter Jenniskens, right, the NASA scientist in charge of a group of researchers searching for pieces of a meteorite, walk to the zeppelin Eureka at McClellan Air Park in Sacramento. Researchers from NASA and the SETI Institute are using the slow moving airship in hope of spotting sites where large fragments landed after a meteor exploded in the atmosphere over the Sierra Nevada in late April.
Rich Pedroncelli
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AP
May 3, 2012
This CSIRO handout photo shows the lowering of the most sensitive of the ship-born ocean-measuring instruments through pancake ice to sample water at various levels of the ocean from the seafloor to the surface. The densest waters of Antarctica have reduced dramatically over recent decades, in part due to man-made impacts on climate, Australian scientists said. Research suggests that up to 60 percent of "Antarctic Bottom Water," the dense water formed around the edges of Antarctica that seeps into the deep sea and spreads out through the world's oceans, has disappeared since 1970.
Steve Rintoul/CSIRO
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AFP/Getty Images
May 3, 2012
This CSIRO handout 3-D graphic shows water formation at the ice edge. The densest waters of Antarctica have shrunk dramatically over recent decades, in part because of man-made impacts on climate, Australian scientists said.
CSIRO
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AFP/Getty Images
May 3, 2012
Joao Lisboa, 30, picks the last batch tomatoes at his farm, which lost 90 percent of crops as a consequence of the drought, to feed his livestock in Maracas in Bahia state, northeast Brazil.
Ricardo Moraes
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Reuters
May 3, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) arrive at a campaign stop in Portsmouth, Va.
Jae C. Hong
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AP
May 3, 2012
Marilyn Streubel, front, worships with song during the 61st annual National Day of Prayer event held at New Life Church in Manitowoc, Wis.
Matthew Apgar
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AP
May 3, 2012
Belinda Gaskins of Hyattsville, right, prays with others during the Capital Region National Day of Prayer in Upper Senate Park near the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
Matt McClain
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May 2, 2012
A police officer walks with a man who said he had a child inside of the home where five people were shot Wednesday, in Gilbert, Ariz. Police have identified one of the five people killed in a shooting in a Phoenix suburb as a former Marine with ties to new-Nazi and Minutemen groups.
Matt York
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AP
May 3, 2012
A malnourished Malian refugee child is weighed at the Medecins sans Frontières (MSF) medical center of the M'bere refugee camp near Bassiknou, southern Mauritania. The fighting in Mali has left more than 60,000 people internally displaced, and a similar number have fled to Mauritania and neighboring countries.
Abdelhak Senna
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May 3, 2012
A Malian refugee pulls a jerrycan of water at the Mbere refugee camp near Bassiknou, southern Mauritania.
Abdelhak Senna
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Gloved hands work with a 1685 print of Stonehenge as English Heritage prepares for its first temporary exhibition at the newly renovated Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner in London.
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Gloved hands hold a mace head stone, excavated at Stonehenge as English Heritage prepares for its first temporary exhibition at the newly renovated Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner in London.
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May 2, 2012
This photo provided by Holland Coke shows a turtle he found on the family's property in Washington, Pa. He believes it is the box turtle his son, Jeff Coke, carved his initials into the shell of 47 years ago. His son is now 59 and lives near Rochester, N.Y.
Holland Coke
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AP
This photo provided by Holland Coke shows him holding a turtle he found on the family's property in Washington, Pa.
Holland Coke
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AP
May 4, 2012
Visitors look at the carcass of the world's most well-preserved baby mammoth named Lyuba being displayed in a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Discovered in the permafrost of Russia's Yamal Peninsula in 2007 by a reindeer herder, the female baby mammoth named Lyuba remained almost fully intact with organs and eyelashes preserved.
Laurent Fievet
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May 2, 2012
A saltwater crocodile is seen on a boat trailer following its capture from Daly River on in Darwin, Australia.
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May 3, 2012
Brazilian Indians from the Pataxo tribe dance in the Pau Brasil reserve, south of Bahia state. A majority vote on Wednesday by ministers of the Supreme Court acknowledged the rights of Indians to land in the Caramuru-Catarina Paraguassu reserve, in southern Bahia, after a long trial that began four years ago.
Lunae Parracho
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Reuters
May 3, 2012
A supporter waves a French national flag as she listens to France's incumbent president and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party candidate for the French 2012 presidential election delivering a speech during a campaign meeting in Toulon.
Lionel Bonaventure
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May 3, 2012
A topless student demonstrator protests against tuition hikes in Montreal.
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May 3, 2012
Harry Thomas Jr., former Ward 5 D.C. Council member, departs the courthouse after being sentenced for stealing $350,000 in earmarked city funds.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
May 3, 2012
Chilean people pose on the work of British artist Julian Beever, who specialized in pavement drawings, wall murals and realistic paintings, in Santiago. Beever produced a painting with color chalks showing a fortune wheel, during the Creative Days activities in Chile.
Martin Bernetti
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AFP/Getty Images
May 3, 2012
A man walks on a giant jigsaw showing an Albrecht Duerer painting ”Self-portrait in fur coat“in Nuremberg, Germany. The jigsaw, made of 1,023 parts, is supposed to be built by citizens at the red square in Moscow to open the German year in Russia on June 20,2012.
Timm Schamberger
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AP
May 3, 2012
A baker poses with a marzipan mosaic of Britain's Queen Elizabeth at Konditor and Cook in the City of London. The mosaic is a template for a 94-square-foot cake, made of 3,120 small cakes, which will be displayed at the Diamond Jubilee Festival on June 3, in Battersea Park, London.
Olivia Harris
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Reuters
Supporters of leader of the Greek conservative party New Democracy Antonis Samaras wave flags during a pre-election speech in Athens.
Aris Messinis
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AFP/Getty Images
May 3, 2012
Kashmiri veterinary paramedics carry a female stray dog from an operation theater after her sterilization at a veterinary hospital of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Shuhama, east of Srinagar, India.
Fayaz Kabli
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Reuters
May 3, 2012
Workers wear panda costumes as they carry a box to transport giant pandas back to the wild, at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Wolong, southwest China's Sichaun province.
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May 2, 2012
Alpacas stand on a field in Friedberg, central Germany. Originally coming from South America, Alpacas are kept as hobby animals in Europe.
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