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Ukrainian parliament fight, SpaceX cargo craft, Mars rover Opportunity and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
May 24, 2012
Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Volodymyr Litvin, bottom, looks on as deputies of the Ukrainian opposition fight with deputies of the pro-presidential majority during a session of parliament in Kiev. A violent scuffle erupted in Ukraine's parliament over a bill that would allow the use of the Russian language in courts, hospitals and other institutions in the Russian-speaking regions of the country.
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May 24, 2012
Lawmakers from pro-presidential and oppositional factions fight in the parliament session hall in Kiev, Ukraine.
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May 24, 2012
Deputies of the Ukrainian opposition fight with deputies of the pro-presidential majority during a session of parliament in Kiev.
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May 24, 2012
Deputies scuffle during a session in the chamber of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev.
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May 25, 2012
Government employees shout slogans as they are detained by Indian police during a protest by the employees outside the civil secretariat in Srinagar. Indian police detained dozens of the employees as they tried to enter the civil secretariat, which houses the office of Kashmir's chief minister and his colleagues, to demand their long-pending arrears, employee union leaders said.
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May 24, 2012
Skydivers from the 101st Airborne Division's Demonstration Parachute Team link up to form a three-person star formation before deploying their parachutes above Sedalia, Mo. The paratroopers — Staff Sgt. Derek Slade, Sgt. Matthew Thode and Sgt. Brendan Quisenberry — are part of a team that will perform at the Memorial Day Air Show in Columbia, Mo.
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May 24, 2012
This image provided by NASA-TV shows the International Space Station taken from the thermal imaging camera aboard the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft as it approaches the International Space Station.
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May 24, 2012
This image provided by NASA shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft as it approaches the International Space Station for a series of tests to clear it for its final rendezvous and grapple. Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple the supply ship Friday. Dragon is scheduled to spend about a week docked with the station before returning to Earth on May 31 for retrieval.
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In this undated image provided by NASA, Mars rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in a view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars. The rover used a panoramic camera between about 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. local Mars time to record images taken through different filters and combined into this mosaic view. Most of the component images were recorded during the 2,888th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity’s work on Mars, which corresponds to March 9, 2012, on Earth. The view is presented in false color to make some differences between materials easier to see, such as the dark, sandy ripples and dunes on the crater’s distant floor. Opportunity has been studying the western rim of Endeavour Crater since arriving there in August 2011.
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May 25, 2012
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope project is seen in this artist's impression image made available by the Manchester-based SKA Organization. A group in charge of the project was to meet in the Netherlands on Friday to decide the location of the huge radio telescope, strong enough to detect extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe. When completed in 2024, the SKA will be made up of 3,000 dishes, together with many more antennae, that will stretch over 1,864 miles. Scanning the sky 10,000 times faster and with 50 times the sensitivity of any other telescope, it will be used to study the origins of the universe and will be able to detect weak signals that could indicate the presence of extraterrestrial life. A joint bid between Australia and New Zealand to host the telescope is pitted against South Africa for a $2 billion project that will bestow an economic boost and major scientific prestige on the winner.
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May 25, 2012
The Square Kilometer Array radio telescope project is seen in this artist's impression image made available by the Manchester-based SKA Organization.
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May 24, 2012
The suit and boots of Solar Impulse project CEO and pilot Andre Borschberg are pictured before takeoff at Payerne airport in Payerne, Switzerland. The Solar Impulse HB-SIA prototype aircraft, which has 12,000 solar cells built into its wings, attempted its first intercontinental flight from Payerne to Rabat in Morocco with a few days for a technical stop and a change of pilot in Madrid. This flight will act as a final rehearsal for the 2014 round-the-world flight.
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May 25, 2012
Workers secure a giant canvas along the River Thames of a photograph showing Britain's royal family during the 1977 Silver Jubilee in London. Queen Elizabeth will mark her Diamond Jubilee by travelling in a 1,000-boat regatta on the river on June 3.
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May 24, 2012
Kohei Hasegawa, right, takes part in a training session for the Japan men's wrestling team for the London 2012 Olympic Games at the National Training Center in Tokyo.
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May 25, 2012
Tamae Watanabe of Japan poses with a copy of the Guinness World Record certificate during a news conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, organized by Asian Trekking to congratulate her. For the second time, the 73-year-old woman has become the world's oldest woman to climb Mount Everest, repeating her own record set 10 years ago, the company that organized the climb said.
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May 24, 2012
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama takes a seat after blessing a new temple and a Buddha statue during his visit to the Yeunten Ling Institute in Huy, Belgium.
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May 25, 2012
A homeless Afghan stands next to a washing line under a rail bridge in central Athens. Most Greek parties have promised to crack down on illegal immigration in campaigning ahead of June 17 general elections in the crisis-hit country.
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May 24, 2012
Libby, a lion cub, puts her head under a sprinkler that was placed in the lion enclosure by staff at Blair Drummond Safari Park, Scotland, to help the animals stay cool.
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May 23, 2012
A young deer and a cat touch noses in a village near Jodhpur, Rajasthan state, India.
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May 24, 2012
Indiana Pacers fan Matt Asen taunts Miami Heat forward LeBron James after he fell to the floor after a missed layup during the first half of Game 6 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series in Indianapolis.
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May 24, 2012
Brian Banks becomes emotional while attorneys Justin Brooks, right, and Alissa Bjerkhoel stand by, as Banks's rape conviction is dismissed in Long Beach, Calif. It has been 10 years since Banks, then 16, pleaded no contest to a rape charge brought after a childhood friend falsely accused him of attacking her on their high school campus, shattering his dreams of a professional football career.
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May 24, 2012
Men play backgammon outside a hardware shop on Potsdamer Street in Berlin. A shabby area of Berlin notorious for its curb-crawling prostitutes and drug dealers is recovering some of the Bohemian allure of its glory days in the 1920s as low rents and its central location lure art galleries.
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May 25, 2012
Images by the German design collective Urbanscreen are projected onto the walls of the Museum of Contemporary Art during the opening of the Vivid Sydney festival of light in Sydney. Vivid, one of the largest annual festivals of its kind in the world, features 60 light art installations by Australian and international artists until June 11.
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May 25, 2012
The Sydney Opera House is illuminated as part of Vivid Sydney.
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May 24, 2012
Alicia Alonso, director of the Cuban National Ballet, attends a news conference in Havana. Alonso presented the upcoming Festival de la Huella de Espania 2012, a scenic dialogue between Spanish and Cuban culture.
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