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May 16, 2012
A woman walks past an artwork of “Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II” by Andy Warhol as it's being filmed in the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition ”The Queen: Art & Image” in London. The exhibition, which opens to the public May 17 and runs until Oct. 21, features a wide-ranging display of images of the queen from throughout her 60-year reign.
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Well-wishers wait for Britain's Queen Elizabeth to arrive for her visit to the ”Wild London” exhibition in Richmond, west London.
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Confetti falls and flags fly from Harrods department store in London as employees of the store celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's forthcoming Diamond Jubilee.
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A spectator is seen wearing a pink three-piece suit during the Sevens World Series at Twickenham Stadium in London. Rugby sevens is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players, instead of the usual 15, and play shorter matches. A total of 103,027 fans attended the two-day tournament, with many of them wearing fancy dress..
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May 12, 2012
Spectators wearing white and pink boots attend the Sevens World Series at Twickenham Stadium in London.
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May 15, 2012
Ferrari Barbie dolls are displayed during a Barbie exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia.
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May 15, 2012
Prostitutes hide from riot police inside of a store during the eviction of a few activists who gathered at Puerta del Sol square to mark the anniversary of the "indignados" movement in Madrid.
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May 15, 2012
Protesters with Spain's Indignant movement raise their hands in the air during a rally at Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Spain's Indignant movement has prepared events across Spain to mark the first anniversary of their movement, formed to protest against corruption in politics, the economic crisis and the high unemployment rate.
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May 15, 2012
A clown jokes as he sits at a bus stop during a clown parade in San Salvador. More than 100 clowns from Central America and Mexico attended the clown convention.
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May 15, 2012
A Moroni angel statue is lifted with cranes to be placed on the spire of the Gilbert Temple the southeast corner of Pecos and Greenfield Roads in Gilbert, Ariz. Moroni is an iconic symbol of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is used on most of the Mormon temples worldwide. Hundreds of people turned out to see the angel put into place.
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May 15, 2012
Salvation Army Lt. Dana Bigelow hands out free cookies to passersby, including Gary Jones, at right, in front of a Marion, Ind., grocery. Bigelow and other Salvation Army members dressed as World War I doughnut girls for the event in celebration of Salvation Army Week.
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May 15, 2012
Mike Patterson, who is without employment, eats lunch at Mother Marianne's West Side Soup Kitchen in Utica, N.Y. Like many Upstate New York communities, Utica is struggling to make the transition from a former manufacturing hub.
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May 15, 2012
Eugenid Vasquez brings clothing donations into a food bankin Utica, N.Y.
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May 15, 2012
Nathan Oldick, with the National Guard and currently unemployed, speaks with a representative from a company at the Hiring Our Heroes Veterans/Military job fair in Utica, N.Y.
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May 14, 2012
Lee McLeod calms his chicken, Persia, in his back yard in Gainesville, Fla. Within hours of the adoption of a two-year urban chicken pilot program, 25 people in Orlando scooped up all available permits and a waiting list of 25 formed. Raising backyard chickens in cities is growing in popularity nationwide, driven by a desire for more fresh, local, wholesome and safe food, said Dennis Mudge, the University of Florida's agriculture extension agent in Orlando.
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May 15, 2012
“Catadores” (scavengers) dig through trash at the Jardim Gramacho landfill, the biggest in South America, in Rio de Janeiro.
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May 15, 2012
People pick tomatoes from the garbage of the La Terminal food market in Guatemala City.
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May 16, 2012
German riot police carry a demonstrator fully covered in paint as police clear the camp of occupy protestors in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt.
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May 15, 2012
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks leaves Lewisham police station in London. Brooks, a former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, has been charged with perverting the course of justice over a phone hacking scandal at one of the media mogul's papers, Sky News said on Tuesday.
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May 16, 2012
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and German Chancellor Angela Merkel address a press conference at the German Chancellery in Berlin. Merkel and Karzai are due to sign a bilateral cooperation agreement, as well as hold talks paving the way for a May 20-21 NATO summit in Chicago.
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May 15, 2012
Shakila Naderi, left, teaches a girl how to drive a car in Kabul. The morning after the Taliban fell, Naderi shed her head-to-toe burqa, sat behind the wheel of a car for the first time and asked her husband to teach her how to drive. Now Kabul's only female driving instructor, she teaches women a rare skill that confronts harsh opposition in ultra-conservative Muslim Afghanistan.
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May 15, 2012
Former U.S. president George W. Bush sits alongside Syrian activist Ammar Abdulhamid, left, and Chinese religious freedom activist Xiqiu "Bob" Fu as they listen via video conference to Burmese human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi during an event celebrating the successes of dissidents and activists from around the world, hosted by the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Washington.
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May 15, 2012
A Palestinian protester jumps during clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli security forces outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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May 15, 2012
An RAF Hercules C130 flies over Wales during a practice flight after taking off from RAF Brize Norton in England.
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May 16, 2012
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko poses for a picture onboard the international space station.
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May 15, 2012
A newly arrived refugee child from the Democratic Republic of Congo plays at a makeshift refugee camp at Bunagana near Kisoro town, southwest of Uganda ‘s capital Kampala.
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May 15, 2012
A man, injured in a suspected grenade attack, receives treatment at the Coast General Hospital in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa.
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May 15, 2012
Newly arrived refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo wash their faces at a makeshift refugee camp at Bunagana, Uganda. The refugees fled the Masisi region in Congo's North Kivu province after fighting broke out between Congolese troops and fighters loyal to a renegade general Bosco Ntaganda.
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May 15, 2012
Paralympic swimmer Xavi Torres, 37, of Spain carries his orthopaedic legs after a training session on the Balearic island of Palma de Mallorca. This summer, Torres, who has previously won 16 paralympic medals, will participate in his sixth paralympic games. He currently owns four world swimming records in different categories.
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May 15, 2012
Commuters look at the scene of a bomb explosion as they ride past on a bus in Bogota, Colombia. A bomb targeting former Colombian interior minister Fernando Londono killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 31 others in the heart of Bogota's uptown commercial district, authorities said.
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May 15, 2012
Chan Sung Jung straddles Dustin Poirier, bottom, during his defeat of Poirier in the UFC Main Event featherweight bout at the Patriot Center in Fairfax.
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May 15, 2012
Dustin Poirier, left, is on the floor after losing to Chan Sung Jung, “The Korean Zombie,” during the UFC Main Event in the UFC featherweight bout at the Patriot Center in Fairfax.
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The Washington Post
May 15, 2012
Chan Sung Jung straddles the fence in celebration after defeating Dustin Poirier in the UFC Main Event featherweight bout.
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May 15, 2012
A red fox sits in the grass as a magpie dives toward it in a field east of Walla Walla, Wash.
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May 15, 2012
A baby sea eagle sits in a nest at a wild animals park in Eekholt, northern Germany.
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