A protester is silhouetted behind a Syrian flag during a demonstration against President Bashar Al-Assad in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan. Majed Jaber/Reuters
Turkish soldiers stand on the border as a group of Syrians wait inside Syria for authorization to enter Turkey near the Turkish village of Guvecci. Turkey said Wednesday it would open the border to Syrians fleeing violence. Burhan Ozbilici/AP
A fisherman ties his traps to his boat before heading out to fish off the coast of the western fishing village of Malkiya, Bahrain. Hasan Jamali/AP
Chinese passengers play cards as they wait at Carrasco Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay, where flights were canceled due to a volcanic ash cloud that is grounding most air travel. The wind carried volcanic ash to the area from the Chilean Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano which erupted Saturday, resulting in the closing of six airports and the cancellation of flights. Matilde Campodonico/AP
A US Marine heads out to pick up food supplies after they were dropped by small parachutes from a plane outside Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. The smoke in the background comes from the burning parachutes the Marines destroyed after they reached the ground. Anja Niedringhaus/AP
Students throw their teacher in the air after finishing their national college entrance exams in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Wednesday. More than nine million high school students took the exams this year. AP
A policeman helps Larry, the Downing Street cat, into Number 10 Downing Street, the residence of British Prime Minister David Cameron in London. The four-year-old tabby came from London's Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/AP
Emily Demgen, 93, poses for photos at the Richard I Bong Historical Center, in Superior, Wis., with the Red Cross uniform that she wore during World War II. Demgen was a Red Cross volunteer in Milwaukee and Chicago during the war. She came to museum as part of an open house for veterans. Paul M. Walsh/The Country Today/AP
Master of Hounds, (l.), looks at his neighbor, Viscount Nelson, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Master of Hounds, trained in Ireland, is entered in Saturday's Belmont Stakes. Mark Lennihan/AP
An Afghan man prays as he sits in a field in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP
A young Muslim boy waits his turn to offer rose petals at the Shrine of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Awlia in New Delhi. Altaf Qadri/AP
Office workers cast shadows as they walk on a busy street in central Sydney, Australia. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
Pilgrims make their way to the shrine of El Rocio during the annual pilgrimage in which hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin del Rocio converge in and around the shrine in Villamanrique, Spain. Miguel Angel Morenatti/AP
Suspects are lined up as weapons are displayed to the media by the Mexican Navy in Mexico City. According to the Mexican Navy, 204 rifles, 11 guns, 15 hand grenades, uniforms of the Mexican Navy and of the US Army, more than 29,000 cartridges, and more than 441 pounds of cocaine were seized in an operation against the Zetas drug cartel in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon in the north of Mexico. Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters
Chinese movie star Gao Yuanyuan poses in a gown made of lettuce and cabbage leaves during an event organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia in Beijing Wednesday. According to the organizers, the aim of the event is to encourage people to quit meat and adopt a healthy and animal-friendly vegetarian diet. Petar Kujundzic/Reuters
A man leaves Karachi's China Creek after tying his boat in Pakistan. Athar Hussain/Reuters
A Chelsea Pensioner takes a photograph during a Founder's Day ceremony at the Margaret Thatcher Infirmary at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Paul Hackett/Reuters
Elderly women sell clothes outside a supermarket to earn money in Minsk, Belarus. Belarus has asked the International Monetary Fund for a loan of up to $8 billion to stabilize its plummeting economy, as it struggles to manage the country's most severe financial crisis since the Soviet collapse. Sergei Grits/AP
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Saudi woman scales Everest with group of 64 climbers Saturday. Raha Moharrak, a 25-year old graphic designer, is the first Saudi woman to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.
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