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Participants chase down an oxen prior to an ox fight, as part of May Day festivities in Dingxian, southwest China’s Guizhou province. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world attended May Day rallies to defend workers’ rights they say are under fresh attack from austerity measures, and to press for democratic reform, but in China, it’s business as usual. AFP/Getty Images

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Jim Schweizer, assistant to the director of Fort Snelling National Cemetery, straightens flowers at the grave of Thomas Burnett in Bloomington, Minn. Burnett died Sept, 11, 2001 along with 39 other passengers and crew when Flight 93 was hijacked and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pa., while flying to San Francisco from Newark, N.J. Osama bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a firefight with elite American forces in Pakistan on Monday, then quickly buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run. AP Photo

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Floodwaters flow over Wappapello Lake’s emergency spillway, left, on Monday. The normal spillway is at center right, and the dam is at far right. The Wayne County, Mo., lake sits on the St. Francis River, and the overflow threatens at least 1,000 people downstream. AP Photo

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Demonstrators arrange their hair in front of an anti-riot water cannon during a May Day demonstration in Bogota, Colombia. AFP/Getty Images

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A 200-ton boat deposited on top of a building by the March 11 tsunami is seen in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on May 2, 2011. Work to scrap the boat is expected to begin in early May. AFP/Getty Images

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The US flag flies amid debris in the devastated town of Hueytown, Alabama. Grieving storm survivors turned to prayer and the good grace of volunteers across the US south as shattered communities looked to rebuild after the second-worst tornado disaster on record. AFP/Getty Images

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Airline passengers pass through security at Orlando International Airport in Florida. Security in airports and train stations has been increased in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden. AFP/Getty Images

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Anti-government protesters watch as fellow protesters ride motorcycles during a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz. Yemeni activists urged street protesters on Monday not to raise banners of Osama bin Laden to avoid inviting a harsher crackdown on demonstrations seeking democratic change in the al Qaeda leader’s ancestral homeland. REUTERS

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Mark Hominick, of Thamesford, Ontario, left, trades blows with Brazil’s Jose Aldo during their featherweight title fight in a UFC 129 in Toronto. AP Photo

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Tourists and local Va ethnic people are seen covering with mud during the ”Monihei” carnival held in the Va Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture of Cangyuan, southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The four-day carnival kicked off here Sunday, where people mud each other with clay-like material to express their wishes for health and happiness. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Road signs rise out of flood water along Interstate 55 outside Cape Girardeau, Mo. Residents of Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee and Arkansas are bracing for record flooding from the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Getty Images

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Cows drink from a pond of water in the Sudanese oil-producing northern state of South Kordofan. AFP/Getty Images

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Libyans enjoy a day on a beach in Tripoli. AP Photo

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A reader points to a death notice for Osama bin Laden placed in News Limited’s Daily Telegraph newspaper in Sydney. AFP/Getty Images

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Afghan children play on a vehicle that destroyed during the civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan. ZUMAPRESS.com

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Sotheby’s employee Jessica Wyndham poses for photographs with an extremely rare pink diamond mounted as a ring, weighing 10.99 carats, at the auction house’s offices in London. The piece is expected to fetch €6 million to €10.7 million when it comes up for auction in Sotheby’s Geneva sale of Magnificent and Noble Jewels. AP Photo

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A woman tries to open the door of a metal gate next to a statue of a headless red guard in Beijing. AP Photo

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Hooligans undress one of the players on the pitch after the Polish Cup final soccer match between Legia Warsaw and Lech Poznan in Bydgoszcz. Hooligans clashed with police and damaged the stadium after Legia Warsaw won the Polish Cup final 5-4 on penalties against Lech Poznan in Bydgoszcz on Tuesday. REUTERS

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Indian children cool themselves at a water fountain on a hot afternoon in New Delhi, India. AP Photo

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An elderly man reads a script carved on stones at Zuiganji temple in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Matsushima, known as one of Japan’s three most famous views, survived massive destruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. AP Photo

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Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, U.S. astronaut Michael E. Fossum, left, and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov smile for the camera during a training exercise in the Soyuz capsule simulator in the Russian cosmonaut training centre at Star City outside Moscow. The three man team is scheduled to leave for the International Space Station on June 7. REUTERS

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Bruno Aguiar, left, of Brazil’s Santos battles for the ball with Vicente Vuoso of Mexico’s America during their Copa Libertadores soccer match at Corregidora stadium in Queretaro, Mexico. REUTERS

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Firefighters battle a fire that broke out at the School of Architecture in Stockholm, Sweden. The assembly hall has been destroyed, but the building was empty when the fire broke out. In 2008, the large concrete building designed by architect Gunnar Henriksson in the 1960’s was voted Stockholm’s ugliest building by city residents. AP Photo

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A child sits amongst women praying during an anti-government demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, as the impoverished country’s oil-rich Gulf Arab neighbours have been trying to broker an end to the three-month-old bloodshed through a plan that would see the veteran ruler quit within 30 days. AFP/Getty Images

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This picture of the Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442), was taken by the Wide Field Imager telescope at La Silla, Chile. It shows a much broader view than the Hubble image, although less detailed. This view includes the whole galaxy and the surrounding sky, and clearly shows the asymmetric spiral arms. The longer of the two arms has intense star formation, which is visible here as a pink glow: this is due to the radiation of young stars ionizing the gas they form from. The asymmetric shape and star formation are both thought to be caused by tidal disruptions from a near-miss with another galaxy at some point in its history. UPI

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Republican Guards assist a colleague who fainted on the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris. REUTERS

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US Marines Doctor Arthur Carter, left, Corporal Joshua Boston, second left, and Corporal Fernando Uribe, center, from 2nd Marine 8 Batallion (2/8) Weapons Company 81’s Platoon, inspect a high frequency radio communication device they found buried in a field at a farm of a local in Sistani, Helmand Province. AFP/Getty Images

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Steam rises off a horse as it gets a bath after a morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. AP Photo

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Migrants wait for transportation after arriving at the port in Benghazi from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, Libya. AP Photo

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Passengers wait in Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. An Israel Airports Authority spokesman says all flights set to take off from Israel have been grounded due to fears of contaminated jet fuel. Adar Avisar says dozens of flights have been stalled at the country’s main airport near Tel Aviv. It was unclear when flights would resume. AP Photo

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Romanians are back dropped by a poster that reads ‘It’s not a solution’ during a protest by animal rights activists outside the Democratic Liberal ruling party headquarters in Bucharest, Romania. A parliamentary committee has passed a draft law that says stray dogs can be killed. Hundreds of animals rights’ activists gathered outside Parliament to protest the decision. AP Photo

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A woman harvests wheat stalks in a village near Abbottabad. Life has returned to normal on Thursday in Bilal Town, Abbottabad, where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces early on Monday. REUTERS

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People travel on a vessel across the Yangon river to return home after working in Yangon. REUTERS

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An Afghan youth, Mujtaba, carries a pedestrian from one side of a road to other side on a push cart, in flood water, after rain in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mujtaba, charges 10 Afghanis ($0,22 USD cents) each person for transporting from on side to the road to the other side of the road which is covered with flooded water. AP Photo

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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, right, celebrates defeating the Los Angeles Lakers with center Tyson Chandler following Game 2 of the NBA Western Conference semifinal basketball playoff in Los Angeles. REUTERS

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A group of Auburn students assist in the clean up of debris in Pleasant Grove, Ala. A tornado left a path of total devastation as it passed through on April 27. AP Photo

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A man walks on the beach of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. REUTERS

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Pakistani schoolgirls walk past the hideout house of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. US officials said they gave no notice to Pakistan before the May 2, 2011 daring raid, in which special forces killed the world’s most wanted man at a mansion near the country’s top military academy in Abbottabad. AFP/Getty Images

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Russian military vehicles are driven in convoy for a Victory Day parade rehearsal in Moscow. The parade will take place on the Red Square in Moscow on May 9, to commemorate the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany. AFP/Getty Images

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A soldier of the Forces Republicaines of Ivory Coast (FRCI) of Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara carries a sawed-ff shotgun during a patrol in the district of Yopougon, western Abidjan. The bodies of 60 people killed in recent fighting between government forces and militiamen loyal to former strongman Laurent Gbagbo have been retrieved in the Abidjan district of Yopougon, the Ivorian Red Cross said. The vast Yopougon neighbourhood in northwestern Abidjan is the last pro-Gbagbo stronghold following Gbagbo’s arrest on April 11. Several hundred militiamen are believed to still be active in the district. AFP/Getty Images

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Israeli army decommissioned tanks are is seen in a scrapyard in the “Tanks Cemetery” located inside an army base near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat. Some 700 decommissioned Israeli tanks used by the Jewish state during different wars are for sale for about 0.25 USD/kilo, to be used for metal recycling AFP/Getty Images

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South Korean citizens stage an acrobatic wire show, about 32 yards above a public park in Seoul, to herald the start of a spring festival. The show, called “Rainbow Drops”, involved 48 volunteers and a giant crane. AFP/Getty Images

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The Dalai Lama speaks during a conference at the University of California in Irvine, California. The Dalai Lama spoke on ‚”Compassion & Global Leadership,” to mark the sixth anniversary of UCI XIV Dalai Lama Endowed Scholarship and thank the scholars for their efforts to foster peace, ethical leadership and positive global relations. AFP/Getty Images

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A Coast Guard boat patrols near the landing zone as President Barack Obama arrives in New York to participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial. AFP/Getty Images

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A migrant stands in a line after arriving at the port in Benghazi from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, Libya. AP Photo

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A Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police (MTA) officer keeps a watch as people move through Grand Central Station in New York, one day after information from Osama bin Laden’s compound indicates al-Qaeda considered attacking US trains on the upcoming anniversary of the September 11 attacks. AFP/Getty Images

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Belarusians celebrate the pagan ceremonial Yurya, in the village of Pogost, south of Minsk. This annual traditional ceremony marking the pagan god Yurya is devoted to good future harvests. AP Photo

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Taliban fighters pose with weapons at an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan. REUTERS

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Workers clean the side of the One Churchill Place skyscraper, of which 32 floors serve as the headquarters of Barclays Bank, in the Canary Wharf business district of London. AP Photo

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Mexico’s Jaguares de Chiapas’ Luis Esqueda kicks a Colombia’s Junior’s fan who jumped into the field during a Copa Libertadores soccer in Barranquilla, Colombia. AP Photo

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Bulgarian troops participate in a military parade in central Sofia. Bulgaria celebrates the day as Saint George’s Day and also as a Day of the Bravery of the Bulgarian Army. AFP/Getty Images

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A man walks by a burnt fishing boat in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Salvage companies are in town to drain oil from many boats washed ashore, burnt and sunk following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before taking them out for scraps. AP Photo

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Pope Benedict XVI meets new Vatican Swiss Guards and their families, in the Vatican’s Clementina Hall, Friday, May 6, 2011 prior to their swearing-in ceremony. The swearing in ceremony is held each May 6 to commemorate the day in 1527 when 147 Swiss Guards died protecting Pope Clement VII during the Sack of Rome. AP Photo

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People view the ‘Art In The Streets’ exhibit at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California. The exhibit is the first major historical exhibition of graffiti and street art to be organized by an American museum. REUTERS

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Kashmiri boatmen row across the Dal Lake under the rain in Srinagar. Hardline seperatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has appealed Muslim devotees to offer funeral prayers in absentia for slain Al Qaeda’s leader Osama Bin Laden. Geelan was however placed under house arrest by Indian police to prevent him from leading the prayers. AFP/Getty Images

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A man stands on an escalator at the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai. China needs to keep the promises it made when it joined the World Trade Organization and change discriminatory industrial policies that give its own firms an unfair advantage, the top U.S. trade official said. REUTERS

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Actors of Prague’s Black Theatre perform during a presentation of “The flying bike” at the Enrique Buenaventura Municipal theatre, in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The company combines stark lighting effects, pantomime sketches, humor and modern music. AFP/Getty Images

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John Wade (L) and Jose Peralta take a break from building a sandbag levee around Wade’s home which is surrounded by floodwater from the Ohio River in Metropolis, Illinois. Heavy rains have left the ground saturated, rivers swollen, and have caused widespread flooding in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Getty Images

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A horse makes it’s way to the track for a morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. AP Photo

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Palestinian youths throw bricks and stones at an Israeli car that mistakenly drove into the mostly Arab neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem. Demotix.com

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A member of China’s Circus Group from Henan Province, performs during the Hi Seoul Festival 2011 in Seoul, South Korea. The performance features the combination of high-level artistic and acrobatic movements with Chinese martial arts. AP Photo

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A Hamas supporter gestures with a V-victory sign in front of a Palestinian flag atop a Fatah flag, center, and an Islamic green flag used frequently by Hamas, as people march during a rally, in the West Bank city of Hebron. AP Photo

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A model parades lingerie by Ms Couture during the Australian Fashion Week spring/summer collections show in Sydney. The annual festival showcases over 50 renowned and up-and-coming designers from across Australia. AFP/Getty Images

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President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House. VIDEO: New Yorkers Rejoice at News of bin Laden’s DeathVIDEO: President Obama Says Osama bin Laden Dead Getty Images

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President Barack Obama talks with members of the national security team at the conclusion of one in a series of meetings discussing the mission against Osama bin Laden. Getty Images

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President Barack Obama listens during one in a series of meetings discussing the mission against Osama bin Laden. AP

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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Green Room of the White House in Washington, following his statement detailing the mission against Osama bin Laden. AP

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