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A carnival reveler celebrates the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in the western German city of Dusseldorf. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz, and Dusseldorf are the highlight of the German street carnival season. Ina Fassbender/Reuters
A reveler participates in the traditional carnival group known as Maracatu in Engenho Cumba, at the state of Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil. Marcos Michel/Reuters
A crescent moon is seen in the sky with the cross of Orthodox Christianity in the foreground in the town of Novogrudok, 93 miles west of the Belarus capital, Minsk. Sergei Grits/AP
Children dressed as devils wait at the Malecon to take part in the last day of the annual national carnival in Santo Domingo. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
A spotlight from an Italian Coast Guard boat shines on a boat loaded with migrants spotted at sea off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy. Over 1,000 migrants from North Africa have arrived in Italy overnight, some in rickety boats that had to be escorted ashore by the Italian Coast Guard. It was one of the biggest arrivals since a steady influx of Tunisians started in mid-January, when an uprising ousted the country's longtime president and caused a breakdown in coastal patrols. Antonello Nusca/AP
Members of the Spanish Royal Guard are seen before the arrival of Chile's president, Sebastian Pinera, at the Pardo Palace in Pardo, Spain. Arturo Rodriguez/AP
An Antigovernment protester, masked with his national flag, looks on during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Activists of the National Federation of Indian Women participate in a torch rally on the eve of International Women's Day in Hyderabad, India. Mahesh Kumar A./AP
Prayer beads are seen as a Tibetan monk chants prayers during Tibetan New Year or "Losar" celebrations at a monastery in Katmandu. "Losar" can be traced back to the pre-Buddhist period in Tibet when Tibetans practiced the Bon religion. A spiritual ceremony would be held every winter, whereby people offered incense to appease the local spirits, deities, and protectors. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
A man hangs a bird cage by Halais Lake in Hanoi. A group of about 300 Hanoi residents drink coffee as they listen to their Zosteropidea birds sing every day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. by Halais Lake in Vietnam's capital city. A bird can cost anything from $3 to $3,000, members of the groups said. Kham/Reuters
A boy climbs onto a sculpture in front of Brighton's West Pier in southern England. Luke MacGregor/Reuters
A trader works with three telephone receivers in the crude oil and natural gas options pit on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
People demonstrate in front of the Egyptian Television building to protest the torching of a church in the village of Sol in Atfeeh, south of Cairo. Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters
Men from Ghana, who used to work in Libya but recently fled the unrest, wait to be called to deliver their passports during their repatriation process in a refugee camp at the Tunisian-Libyan border at Ras Ajdir, Tunisia. Emilio Morenatti/AP
Pakistani fisherman Fida Khan is helped by his son as he arranges a fishing net on a Karachi beach in Pakistan. Shakil Adil/AP
Dogs pull their owner toward the finish line during the Sprint-Sibir-2011 Sled Dog Races near the major Russian Siberian city of Novosibirsk about 1,750 miles east of Moscow. Ilnar Salakhiev/AP
Pedestrians stop to look through a window at the construction site of the World Trade Center in New York. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
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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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