Women line up to cast their vote during gubernatorial elections in Kaduna, Nigeria. Two states in Nigeria's Muslim north voted for candidates after their polls were delayed by violence that killed at least 500 last week after the oil-rich nation's presidential election. Sunday Alamba/AP
Former US President Jimmy Carter (r.) and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland (c.) visit the Pyongsong City Hospital in Pyongsong, North Korea, on April 27. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is willing to hold talks without preconditions on any issue, including direct talks with South Korea, Carter said at the end of a trip to Pyongyang to try to defuse tensions on the divided peninsula. Richard Lewis/The Elders/Handout /Reuters
People are silhouetted as they walk through a train station in Tokyo. Japan's jobless rate held steady in March and the availability of jobs improved slightly, but the outlook is murky due to last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear crisis and disrupted production and supply chains. Yuriko Nakao /Reuters
Royal enthusiasts sleep in their tents in front of Westminster Abbey in London. Revelers are camping outside the Abbey where Prince William and Kate Middleton are due to get married tomorrow, April 29. Gero Breloer/AP
A dancer of the Hungarian National Ballet Company performs at the State Opera House in Budapest during the dress rehearsal of Adolphe Adam's 'Giselle.' Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama sits next to first lady, Michelle Obama (l.) and Oprah Winfrey (r.) during a taping of her television show, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' at Harpo Studios in Chicago, on April 27. Larry Downing /Reuters
Elderly men rest on a bench as a family with their new born baby walk past at a park in Beijing. China's population is aging rapidly and half the people now live in cities, the government said. Alexander F. Yuan/AP
As the sun sets, a soldier from the US Army's Old Guard honor guard walks at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on April 27. Mark Blinch/Reuters
A man expresses his feeling during a memorial service for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, at Flora Memorial Hall in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Buddhist priests in black and gold robes chanted and rang bells to mark the 49th day since Japan's massive tsunami when the dead are believed to end their restless wandering through the devastated coastline. Hiro Komae/AP
Tiffany Wood stands on the doorstep of what is left of her home after a tornado hit a day earlier in Pleasant Grove near downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Butch Dill/AP
Lightning streaks above Cornith Baptist Church in Athens, Ga., as a line of severe thunderstorms sweep across the state in the early morning. At least 77 people have been killed in the outbreak severe weather across the south. David Manning/Athens Banner-Herald/AP
Sprigs of Lily of the Valley, the symbol of Labour Day in France, are seen at the Rungis International food market in Rungis, south of Paris. The sprigs of Lily of the Valley will be rare and expensive next Sunday for Labour Day in France because of an early and too sunny Spring, which has reduced deliveries to wholesalers from between 40 and 50 percent. Jacky Naegelen /Reuters
The pack rides during the second stage, a 171.8 km race from Romont to Romont, at the 65th Tour de Romandie UCI ProTour cycling race in Sedeilles, Switzerland. Dominic Favre/Keystone/AP
Residents of a slum throw stones and empty bottles at members of the government demolition team during clashes at the Laperal compound in Makati city, metro Manila. The locals, who had lost their homes in a fire last week, resisted attempts by officials to relocate them, local media reported. At least 18 people were hurt during the second day of clashes. Romeo Ranoco /Reuters
A Tunisian girl sits with her mother at Zeitouna Mosque in Tunis April 16, 2011.Tunisia has boasted some of the most advanced women's rights in the Arab world. But Tunisian women are now carefully watching to see whether the uprising that ousted authoritarian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on Jan. 14 will also unravel women's rights bolstered by his secular regime in a predominantly Muslim country. Anis Mili/Reuters
Cuban inventor Yolando Perez Paez pulls his new makeshift crop-spraying tool over a road on the way to a field at a farm near the village of Guira de Melenas in the province of Artemisa, some 31 miles from Havana, on April 27. Perez, an agricultural engineer, designed and assembled the tool by welding metal pieces he found in dumps, attaching tanks for chemicals and a manual pumping system, creating a rapid crop fumigation machine. Desmond Boylan /Reuters
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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.
French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the fourteenth country to legalize gay weddings.
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