Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
In Pictures: What happened to the green revolution in Iran?
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
In Pictures: Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/20
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
In Pictures: The Israeli separation barrier: A West Bank wall
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
US Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona and his wife, Cindy McCain, address the media as they leave a polling station in Phoenix as Apollo, a dog owned by McCain's son Jimmy, licks the camera. Matt York/AP Photo
Young Muslim girls wait for instruction on the Quran from a teacher in a one-room madrasa housing five classes in the Dar- es-Salam neighborhood of Bouake, the former rebel capital of northern Ivory Coast. Electoral workers in Ivory Coast continued to count ballots Tuesday from the country's first election since civil war split the world's biggest cocoa producer in half nearly a decade ago. Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo
A man is overcome by emotion as the coffins of two slain priests and their parishioners arrive at a funeral mass in Baghdad, Iraq. The victims were killed Sunday when gunmen stormed a church during mass and took the entire congregation hostage. The attack, claimed by an Al Qaeda-linked organization, was the deadliest recorded against Iraq's Christians since the 2003 US-led invasion unleashed a wave of violence against them. Hadi Mizban/AP Photo
Hisham Mohammed Assem appears behind bars at a state security court in Sanaa, Yemen. Assem, a gunman who last month killed a Frenchman at Austrian oil and gas company OMV's headquarters in Yemen, was part of a group of three defendants including the radical US-born preacher Anwar al-Awlaki charged on Tuesday with conspiring to kill foreigners. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
People walk past the US Capitol on election day in Washington. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Rebelann Barfield (l.) and her sister, November, sit as their mother Khara casts her vote in the general election in Star, Idaho. Charlie Litchfield/AP Photo
The governor of Paktika Province, Mohibullah Sameem, gives a turban to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Paktika Province. Omar Sobhani/Reuters
Students sweep volcanic ash from their classroom in Candi Binangun village in Sleman, near the ancient city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The Mount Merapi volcano erupted on Monday for the third time in a week, driving the number of refugees to almost 70,000, officials said. The fresh eruption forced a thick ash cloud a mile into the air above Merapi, and caused panicked residents to flee villages on the slopes of the mountain for safety shelters. Dwi Oblo/Reuters
Tiger Woods of the US (l.) and Lee Westwood of Britain (r.) perform the Chinese martial art of tai chi together with a tai chi master on a stage against the Pudong Financial District during a photo call in Shanghai, China. Andy Wong/AP Photo
Bianca Keybach passes a group of musicians playing alphorns as she rides a Google Street View trike in Oberstaufen. The first panoramic images of German locations became available on Tuesday in Google Street View online service. Michaela Rehle/Reuters
People play a ball game in central Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar). Soe Zeya/Reuters
A Pakistani child sleeps on her mother's shoulder as they line up along with other women to have a medical checkup at a field hospital for displaced flood victims in Kot Addu village, Punjab Province, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo
Members of the mariachi band Los Munecos and volunteers from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles march while serenading North Hollywood immigrant area voters, urging them to vote early in the Los Angeles election. Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo
Storm clouds are seen at launch pad 39A over the space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Discovery is scheduled to launch on Wednesday and weather predictions are favorable. John Raoux/AP Photo
Children play in floodwater as a man casts his fishing net in an area affected by floods in Thailand's southern Pattani Province. Heavy rains drenched the main rubber-growing region in Thailand on Tuesday, flooding commercial hub Hat Yai, while 12,000 people were evacuated from bordering regions in Malaysia. Surapan Boonthanom/Reuters
Earthquake survivors gather around a bonfire at a makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Many people in the camps said they didn't know tropical storm Tomas might be coming, but that there was little they could do living in flimsy shelters to protect themselves from the elements. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said Tomas could hit Haiti this week. Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
In Pictures: What happened to the green revolution in Iran?
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
In Pictures: Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/20
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
In Pictures: The Israeli separation barrier: A West Bank wall
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Greece is rolling out the red carpet for Chinese investors as a means of stabilizing its shaky economy.
Officials in Brussels and Washington may view China’s global shopping spree with alarm, as the Asian power house continues to buy up companies, sovereign debt, ports, and bridges around the world. But the Greeks are already dusting off the red carpet.
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