U.S. Marines run through dust kicked up by a Black Hawk helicopter from Task Force Lift “Dust Off,” Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment as they rush a colleague wounded in an IED strike for evacuation near Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan.
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South Korean Buddhists carry a huge dragon lantern during a lantern festival to celebrate the upcoming birthday of Buddha on a street in Seoul.
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Protestors hit posters of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad (R) and Liya’s Colonel Gadaffi with shoes during a demonstration outside the Syrian embassy in London. The demonstration was called to show support for the uprising in Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen.
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A policeman stands guard at the site of a bomb blast in Nowshera district, northwest Pakistan. The explosion outside the district court in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killed a female police constable and at least one other person.
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A girl prepares backstage for her audition for the television show “China’s Got Talent” in downtown Shanghai. China’s version of the internationally popular television talent show will start its second season with more than 5,000 applicants and with an estimated audience of more than 35.5 million people.
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Leopard Trek team riders pay respect to their teammate Wouter Weylandt before the start of the fourth stage of Giro d’Italia at Quarto dei Mille. Giro d’Italia cyclists, sporting black armbands, took part in a “stage of respect” for Weylandt on Tuesday after the Belgian rider was killed in a crash the previous day.
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A visitor is seen inside the set-up “Leviathan” by Indian born, British based, artist Anish Kapoor for the Monumenta 2011 event in the Nave of the Grand Palais in Paris.
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A couple embraces in the sea as Israeli navy ships perform in the Mediterranean Sea off Tel Aviv’s coast during a military parade marking Israeli Independence Day, the 63rd anniversary since the country’s declaration of statehood in 1948.
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Yves Rossy AKA Jetman flies through the air at speeds of up to 190mph during his flight in the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Flying his jet-propelled wing attached to his back, and steering only by moving his body, Yves ‘Jetman’ Rossy launched from a helicopter 8,000 feet up into the breathtaking blue of the Grand Canyon sky. Skimming the rockscape at speeds of up to 190 mph, Jetman sustained his flight for more than eight minutes, 200 feet above the rim of Grand Canyon West. He ended the flawless precision flight by deploying his parachute and gracefully descending to the canyon floor.
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Students of Shankar Dev Campus, which is affiliated to the Nepal Student Union, gather stones to throw at the police during a clash with them while staging a protest demanding the release of their fellow student Binendra Giri of Trichandra Campus in Kathmandu.
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President Barack Obama arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to board Air Force One en route to El Paso, Texas. Obama will deliver a speech on immigration reform in El Paso, across the Mexican border from violence-wracked Ciudad Juarez.
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A massive fire consumes forestry on the south side of U.S. Highway 82 overlooking Mayhill, N.M. Fighters from many area volunteer departments, including Alamogordo, Cloudcroft, Mayhill, Boles Acres, Sacramento, Weed and Mescalero Apache, all responded to the scene. About 35 residents of Mayhill were urged to leave their homes and a shelter for the evacuees has been opened at Cloudcroft High School west of Mayhill.
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Pakistani police cadets show off their skills during the 25th passing out parade in Karachi. Pakistan is a key ally in the US-led war on terrorism centered in neighboring Afghanistan. But tense relations have been stretched even further by the discovery of bin Laden living less than a mile from a military academy.
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Kayakers take in the last of the day’s light as they paddle past a ship anchored off Cape Town, South Africa.
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Fire tears through Detroit public magnet school Paul Robeson Academy. The fire started about 4 a.m. and has heavily damaged the upper floors. Investigators have not released information on the cause of the fire.
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A conservationist is arrested by riot police during a protest against the project to build several hydroelectric power stations in the Chilean Patagonia, in Santiago, Chile.
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A local resident of Kawauchi village, who lived within 20km area from stricken nuclear power plant and were evacuated to Koriyama city, checks his children’s room as he returns his home briefly to pick up his personal belongings at Kawauchi village in Fukushima prefecture. Japanese government imposed the no-entry zone on April 21, banning residents of areas within the 20-km radius from the Fukushima nuclear plant.
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First Lady Michelle Obama exercises with Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes (R) and others on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington during an event announcing the creation of a program to promote military family wellness.
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An aerial view of flooding brought by tropical storm Aere is seen in Camarines Sur province, central Philippines. The death toll from tropical storm Aere climbed to 15 people as emergency workers rushed to restore electricity and telephone services in the central Philippines.
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Dancers line up during auditions to become a Radio City Rockette for the upcoming 2011 Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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