Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Starr of the New York Army National Guard stands at attention as taps is played during a memorial service at the New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs in Latham, NY. The service remembered the 32 members of the New York Army National Guard and one member of the New York Naval Militia who have died on active duty since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Mike Groll/AP
Darryl Strickland walks through what is left of his garage that was blown 50 yards along US 72 near Elgin, Ala., by Wednesday night's severe weather that raced across northwest Alabama. Matt McKean/Times-Daily/AP
Visitors shelter during a heavy rain shower at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. /Luke MacGregor/Reuters
Rosa Maria Cartaya, 104, center, arrives to attend a meeting of the 120 Years Club at the National hotel, in Havana, Cuba. The country is hosting the 9th International Congress for Satisfactory Longevity May 25-27. Franklin Reyes/AP
Brazil's President Rousseff talks to journalists during a signing ceremony of agreements for the construction and improvement of schools using the Acceleration Growing Program 2 (PAC 2) and Paths of School (Caminhos da Escola) at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
A giraffe licks its back at an enclosure at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad, India. Mahesh Kumar A./AP
Belarusian children take part in a military style competition at an army base in the village of Pechi, some 44 miles east of Minsk. The Ministry of Defence organized the competition called the 'Bastion of Courage' for children aged 13-16 to take part in. Vladimir Nikolsky/Reuters
General view of the room where G8 summit leaders meet for a working session at the G8 summit in Deauville, France. Jewel Samad/Reuters
A muslim woman, Malic Zuhra, reacts while watching a television news program flashing images of wartime General Ratko Mladic in Potocari near Srebrenica. Bosnian Serb wartime general Mladic was arrested in Serbia after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the once-pariah state to approach the European mainstream. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Protesters gather in front of the parliament during a rally against a new austerity package in Athens. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has invited political party leaders to meet on Friday in a fresh bid to reach consensus on steps to exit a debt crisis that the IMF warned would likely take a decade to overcome. Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters
Supporters of Nepal's pro-monarch National Democratic Party take out a torch rally close to Nepal's Constitutional Assembly building in Katmandu, Nepal. The party, which supports monarchy and want the former king to be reinstated, were protesting demanding a national referendum. Five years after the country's communist rebels gave up a bloody revolt to join a peace process, raising hopes of a new era of stability, the country is sinking deeper into political turmoil, leaving its dreams of becoming a modern Switzerland of the East unrealized. Binod Joshi/AP
Internally displaced southern Sudanese gather outside a church serving as a makeshift camp in the village of Mayen Abun, southern Sudan. Tens of thousands of southern Sudanese fled heavy fighting in the hotly contested border town of Abyei earlier this week. More than one hundred people have holed up inside the church. Owing to the intensity of the fighting, many people fled their homes with nothing. International humanitarian organizations are moving to supply them with basic goods and services. Pete Muller/AP
Rebel fighters rest inside an abandoned barber shop in the front line between them and Muammar Qaddafi forces, 10 miles west from Misrata, Libya. The deputy leader of Libya's rebel administration said it could take up to two years to organize elections, backtracking on promises of a six-month transition to democracy and adding to internal dissent already brewing within the movement seeking to topple Muammar Qaddafi. Rodrigo Abd/AP
Former Belarussian presidential candidate Nikolay Statkevich (c.) sits in a guarded cage during a court hearing in Minsk. Statkevich appeared in court on Thursday as the trials of activists arrested on December 19, for rallying against the re-election of Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, continue. Vasily Fedosenko /Reuters
The arm of a vendor rests on a big tennis ball at a souvenir stand at the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Lionel Cironneau/AP
Thomas Michel, a professor at Harvard Medical School, waits for the start of the 360th Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Brian Snyder/Reuters
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Video footage and eye witness accounts from the scene of a brutal murder in London on Wednesday seem to indicate that the attackers may have been politically motivated. Counterterrorism officers are leading the investigation. Two men have been arrested.
Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took them into custody.
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