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A child looks on as she observes the Bisket festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur near Kathmandu. The nine-day festival takes place over the Nepalese New Year, during which the devotees try to pull the chariot to their respective locations and the winners are believed to be blessed for the coming year with good fortune. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Men use ropes to try and right a supply truck overloaded with wheat straw, used as animal feed, along a road in Dargai, in the Malakand district, northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad. Mian Khursheed/Reuters
Colombian army soldiers stroll with a companion dressed as a sailor as they contact pedestrians in a public relations campaign, as heads of state arrived for the Americas Summit in Cartagena. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
A visitor looks at a work by South Korean artist Kang Hyung-Koo at China International Gallery Exposition 2012 in Beijing. Jason Lee/Reuters
A giant US flag is stretched across the outfield as players line the first and third base lines during a pre-game ceremony prior to the New York Yankees season home opening MLB American League baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium in New York. Mike Segar/Reuters
Racegoers take shelter from the rain during the second day of the Grand National meeting at Aintree in Liverpool, northern England. Phil Noble/Reuters
US men's water polo team captain Tony Azevedo trains for the London 2012 Olympics in Thousand Oaks, near Los Angeles, California. The team won the silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Family members and friends of Ismael Abdulsamad shout anti-government slogans as they march with the Bahraini flag during Abdulsamad's funeral procession in the village of Salmabad, south of Manama. Abdulsamad died two weeks ago from a single gunshot wound to the thigh fired from a moving car, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior. Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters
A Secret Service agent stands guard as US President Barack Obama departs on the Marine One helicopter for travel to Colombia for the Summit of Americas, from the White House in Washington. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
A North Korean woman cries during the unveiling ceremony of bronze statues of North Korea founder Kim Il-sung and late leader Kim Jong-il attened by tens of thousands of people in Pyongyang. Bobby Yip/Reuters
Christian worshipers carry crosses as they take part in the Eastern and Orthodox Church's Good Friday procession in the Old City of Jerusalem. Thousands of worshipers retraced the route Jesus took along the Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Nir Elias/Reuters
A Syrian refugee runs with a Syrian opposition flag during a demonstration against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, outside the Syrian embassy in Amman. Ali Jarekji/Reuters
A Hindu devotee walks over burning coals during the annual Shiva Gajan religious festival at Pratapgarh, 19 miles from Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura. Jayanta Dey/Reuters
Tourists visit the Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province. Tourism is one of the key currency earners for Cambodia with a reported growth of 5.0% in services, Asian Development Bank (ADB) said this week in its outlook. Samrang Pring/Reuters
Supporters of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) take part in a rally in support of South Sudan taking control of the Heglig oil field, in Juba. The African Union denounced South Sudan's occupation of a vital oil field in a disputed border region with Sudan as illegal, and urged the two former civil war foes to work to avert a 'disastrous' war. Reuters
People chant during a protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Thousands of Egyptians packed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to protest against a run for the presidency by former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, in an Islamist show of strength against Hosni Mubarak's old guard. Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Revin (r.) and Genady Padalka (c.) and US astronaut Joseph Acaba take part in a training exercise at the Star City Space center outside Moscow. The three-man team is preparing for a mission to the International Space Station on May 15. Sergei Remezov/Reuters
A lightning strike is seen near the water tower of Benkelman, Nebraska. Gene Blevins/Reuters
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
Under Hugo Chávez, big businesses endured threats of state takeover. This week, Chávez's successor reached out to the boss of Venezuela's largest privately held company.
In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez's successor seems to be turning toward big business for help in ending rampant scarcities of basic consumer goods and an almost 30 percent annual inflation rate.
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