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UCLA center fielder Beau Amaral tries in vain to reach a three-run triple ball hit by TCU's Taylor Featherston in the seventh inning of an NCAA College World Series baseball game in Omaha, Neb., on Monday evening. Eric Francis/AP
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An art installation, titled 'Solar Equation' by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer of Mexico is seen at Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday. The installation is part of 'The Light in Winter' festival, which runs until July 4. Mick Tsikas/Reuters
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Ethnic Uzbek refugees cross the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border as they return back to Kyrgyzstan, near the village of Yorkishlakon Tuesday. Thousands of refugees who had fled to Uzbekistan to avoid ethnic bloodshed trekked back to burned-out homes in Kyrgyzstan ahead of a vote on how the Central Asian state will be governed. Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
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A Hindu holy man looks out at Kamakhya Temple in Gauhati, India, on Tuesday. Hundreds of tantric Sadhus, or holy men from an esoteric form of Hinduism, gather to perform rituals at the temple during the annual Ambubasi festival that began Tuesday. Anupam Nath/AP
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Brooke Mefford waves to a polar bear in the shaded cool of the polar bear sanctuary during a tour of the Memphis Zoo with her family on Tuesday. Temperatures are expected to break into triple digits this week with little relief from the sweltering heat in the forecast. Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal/AP
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A woman admires oversized paper poppies at a park in Kiel, Germany, on Tuesday. Heribert Proepper/AP
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Fans cheer during a 2010 World Cup group A soccer match between Mexico and Uruguay at Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, on Tuesday. Marcos Brindicci/Reuters
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South Africa's soccer fans react as they watch the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup match between South Africa and France in Soweto, South Africa, on TV on Tuesday. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
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Crowds attend the funeral of Thai Maj. Gen. Khattiya Sawasdipol at a temple in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday. The body of renegade Thai soldier Khattiya will be cremated on Tuesday with security forces deploying up to 1,000 policemen at the temple to prevent any potential unrest during the funeral rite. Khattiya or 'Seh Daeng' (Commander Red) was shot while being interviewed by Thai and foreign reporters on May 13 near the fortress-like barricades built of tires and bamboo he designed in a high-end shopping district that protesters occupied for five weeks before an Army crackdown on May 19. Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is shown making his budget speech on television screens in an electrical store in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Tuesday. Osborne announced the harshest budget in a generation, promising to bring a record budget deficit of 11 percent of GDP down to 1 percent in five years. David Moir/Reuters
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Street vendors sell vegetables in front of a house that was burned down during fierce ethnic clashes in the city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Tuesday. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
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Iraqi policemen stand at the site of a roadside bombing in the Dora area of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday. Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb, apparently aimed at a senior transportation official, missed its target and killed bystanders instead. Karim Kadim/AP
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Rescuers help trapped children at a half-flooded house as they evacuate people from the flooded Changkai township of Fuzhou in central China's Jiangxi Province on Tuesday. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have called for increased rescue efforts after torrential rains brought down a dike in southern China, forcing 68,000 people to flee their homes. AP
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A resident looks at a flooded street as water overflows a pond's spillway in a trailer park on the south side of Indianapolis, Ind., on Tuesday after heavy rains overnight caused flooding in several areas. Michael Conroy/AP
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On Friday, France became the fourteenth country to legalize same-sex marriage. A campaign promise by French President Francois Hollande, the bill was hotly contested by conservatives in France.
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Leigh Thomas, Reuters /
May 18, 2013
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