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A policeman stands guard as voters wait to cast their votes at a polling station in Lalgarh village in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. The results for the month-long, staggered election will be known on May 13. Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
A man covered with a plastic bag rides his electric bicycle through heavy rain in Hefei, Anhui province, China. Jianan Yu/Reuters
Workers install canvas covers on the glacier ice on top of Germany's highest mountain, the 9,718-foot Zugspitze, near the southern Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. To keep ski-lift sections safe for the winter season, the glacier ice is protected from melting from May to September. Michaela Rehle/Reuters
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk past a large flag made of lights on the wall of Jerusalem's old city during Israel's 63rd Independence Day celebrations. Sebastian Scheiner/AP
A wave crests above Filipino women playing along a bayside park in Navotas, north of Manila. Tropical storm Aere pummeled the capital with fierce wind and rain that sparked floods and landslides. Aaron Favila/AP
A man uses a horse to plough up a field near the village of Bugayvka in western Ukraine. Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Zhaoli Wang, 84, performs during his audition for the television show 'China's Got Talent' in downtown Shanghai, China. China's version of the internationally popular talent show will start its second season with more than 5,000 applicants and an estimated audience of more than 35.5 million people. Carlos Barria/Reuters
Water from the swollen Mississippi River surrounds the Historic Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot in Vicksburg, Miss. More residents were warned to get out of the way of the raging Mississippi River as it surged toward a near-record crest in its southern reaches. Sean Gardner/Reuters
Pakistani girls attend a daily Islamic religious class in a mosque in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Police spray Ugandan opposition party leaders with coloured water during demonstrations in the capital of Kampala. President Yoweri Museveni has vowed to crush the protests and blamed rising food and fuel costs on drought and global increases in oil prices. James Akena/Reuters
Cyclists observe a minute of silence to honor Wouter Weylandt prior to the start of the fourth stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, in Genoa, Italy. The Leopard-Trek team will continue to ride in the Giro d'Italia despite the death of their cyclist Wouter Weylandt. The Belgian rider crashed Monday during a descent after clipping a wall during the third stage of the race and died at the scene. Daniele Badolato/AP
A young girl enjoys playing in a fountain at Lustgarten place on a hot sunny day in Berlin. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gives cash assistance to the child of a political prisoner during a ceremony at her National League for Democracy party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar. Khin Maung Win/AP
Actress Melanie Laurent poses during a photocall in Cannes, France. Laurent will be the master of ceremonies for the opening ceremony of the 64th Cannes Film Festival which runs from May 11 to 22. Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Aspiring dancers watch auditions for the Radio City Rockettes' upcoming production of the 'Radio City Christmas Spectacular!" in New York. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Two-week-old baby robins wait to be fed in a nest on a windowsill at a home near Danville, Ky. Clay Jackson/AP
Fire tears through Detroit public magnet school Paul Robeson Academy. The fire started about 4 a.m. and has heavily damaged the upper floors. Investigators have not released information on the cause of the fire. Tammy Stables Battaglia/Detroit Free Press/AP
A resident in protective gear throws food kept in her refrigerator into a plastic bag as she returns to her house for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. About 100 evacuees were allowed into the exclusion zone around Japan's troubled nuclear plant for a brief visit to gather belonging from their homes. Kyodo News/AP
Jun Mizutani (l.), and Seiya Kishikawa of Japan compete during the first-round men's doubles match at the World Table Tennis Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Robin van Lonkhuijsen/Reuters
Do brief, high-priced volunteer service programs in tough places actually help the needy?
The vigil in South Africa for Nelson Mandela during his hospital stay took a turn Thursday as the nation rallied to celebrate his 95th birthday.
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