Buddhists carry candles while encircling a large Buddha statue during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at a temple in Nakhon Pathom province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. This year is the 2600th anniversary of Buddha's enlightenment. Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters
Released prisoners make their way out of Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar's new government began freeing about 14,000 prisoners and commuted thousands more sentences in an amnesty critics dismissed as a token gesture aimed at improving its international image. Activists said the vast majority of those released were common criminals and few were political prisoners, which number at least 2,200, according to rights groups. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Buddhist nuns offer joss sticks as they visit the famed Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, during the full moon day of Kasone, one of the holiest days of the year for Buddhists. Khin Maung Win/AP
French climber Alain Robert, also known as 'Spiderman,' scales the 856.3-foot-tall Sapphire Tower in Istanbul, Turkey. Sapphire Tower is Turkey's highest building. Murad Sezer/Reuters
Director Jodie Foster poses during a photo call for 'The Beaver' at the 64th International Cannes Film Festival in France. Lionel Cironneau/AP
Visitors stand in front of the installation 'A Uniform Sample' from 2004 by Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret at the Aargauer Kunsthaus art museum in the town of Aarau, Switzerland. Perret's exhibition 'The Adding Machine' runs through July. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
A battered and dirty American flag sits atop the remains of a power pole broken by a tornado on April 27th in southern Limestone County, Ala. Storms on April 27th killed 238 Alabamians. Gary Cosby Jr./The Decatur Daily/AP
A Pakistani child, his face covered with flies, sits inside a wooden cart in an alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Devotees unfurl a giant canvas painting of Sakyamuni Buddha in Ipoh, Malaysia. Vincent Thian/AP
Mick Fanning of Australia competes in round one of the Billabong Rio Pro men's surfing competition at Arpoador Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Felipe Dana/AP
Debra Emery holds her grandson Cayden Peebles as she watches floodwaters rise around her mobile home in Vicksburg, Miss., Monday. A sand berm they built around their trailer failed in the night and floodwaters from the rising Mississippi river rushed in. Dave Martin/AP
Britain's Mark Cavendish celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 10th stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy, cycling race form Termoli to Teramo. Alessandro Trovati/AP
Sahara the leopard Gecko turned up safe and well after hitching a 2-day, 100-mile ride inside an envelope following an internet shopping mix-up. Sahara sneaked into an open parcel at his owner, Lisa Richardson's, home in Sedgeford, England, last Wednesday, and popped out again in front of a shocked Phillipa Durrant, in Finchampstead, England, who had been expecting the parcel to contain a belt she had bought on internet shopping site eBay from Richardson. Ian Nicholson/AP
Tibetan exiles participate in a candlelight vigil to protest against the Chinese government, demanding the whereabouts of the Panchen Lama appointed by the Dalai Lama, in Katmandu, Nepal. Gendun Choekyi Nyima was named by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnated Panchen Lama in 1995. The boy and his family, who are from a remote part of Chinese-controlled Tibet, disappeared soon after and have not been heard from since. Binod Joshi/AP
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II meets students and staff at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The Queen set foot on Irish soil at the start of a historic state visit which will herald a new era in relations between Britain and the Republic. Politicians on both sides of the Irish Sea have described the four-day event as momentous. Tony Maxwell/AP
A woman is detained by riot police during disturbances in Dublin, Ireland. Britain's Queen Elizabeth's four day state visit to Ireland began today and is the first state visit by a British monarch since Ireland's independence. Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
Space shuttle Atlantis makes its way from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building to prepare for its final launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today/AP
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Scotland will vote in 2014 whether to split off from England and the rest of the United Kingdom. Scottish nationalists argue that Scotland would be better off alone.
Ending Britain's 306-year rule would allow Scotland to reverse generations of economic mismanagement and free its lawmakers to boost economic growth, say Scottish nationalists campaigning to split from the UK.
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