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A village boy leads his goat past a parched pond on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India. Huge swathes of rural farmland has turned dry as farmers await the annual monsoon rains. Biswaranjan Rout/AP
The sun rises behind some coastal grasses in Dauphin Island, Ala. The beach season gears up this weekend with the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores. Dave Martin/AP
Pakistani boys listen to their teacher, not pictured, while attending their madrassa, or Islamic school, in a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Balinese Hindus carrying Pratima, the symbol of God, walk on a beach during a cleansing ceremony called Melasti in Gianyar, Bali. Balinese believe that through this cleansing ceremony, they can drive bad spirits away and cleanse their spirituality. Reuters
Green ocean turtle Gonzales plays underwater with a diver at the SeaLife aquarium in Munich, Germany. Michaela Rehle/Reuters
A man dressed as Charlie Chaplin walks on the beach in Cannes, France during the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Men prepare a tent for a performance at a circus in Lahore, Pakistan. Mohsin Raza/Reuters
Marathon runner Gladys Tejeda, the first Peruvian athlete who qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games, runs during her training in the Andean province of Junin. Pilar Olivares/Reuters
Bangladeshi main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists shout slogans from behind a police cordon during a strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bomb blasts and arrests marked an opposition-called general strike in Bangladesh in protest of a court order jailing 33 of the alliance's leaders. Sazid Hossain/AP
A H-2A rocket carrying four satellites including one from South Korea blasts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, about 621 miles southwest of Tokyo. Kyodo/Reuters
An Afghan National Army soldier lines up with others before joining a patrol in Logar province, east Afghanistan. NATO sits down May 20, 2012 in Chicago to prepare for the eventual withdrawal of international forces and the handover of Afghanistan's security to the Afghan National Army. Anja Niedringhaus/AP
A barn owl is seen in Israel's Beit Shean Valley, near the border with Jordan. Barn owls are part of a joint Israeli-Jordanian farming project launched in 2002. Baz Ratner/Reuters
Holocaust survivor Yoel Levinger, 85, right, sits during his Bar Mitzvah ceremony in the city of Ashkelon, Israel. Six Jewish Holocaust survivors who could not celebrate their Bar Mitzvah ceremony, a Jewish coming of age ritual, at the traditional age of thirteen, peformed the ritual. Tsafrir Abayov/AP
A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk bathes twelve-year-old Pasindu, before ordaining him as a monk at a temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Buddhism is Sri Lanka's state religion but its age-old tradition of youngsters being ordained is on the decline largely due to economic reasons. Eranga Jayawardena/AP
Conmael, an Irish Wolfhound, the Regimental Mascot of the Band of the Irish Guards, is seen during a rehearsal for Trooping the Colour in Horseguards Parade in London. Trooping the Colour is an annual ceremony to celebrate the official Birthday of the Sovereign, it takes place this year on June 16th. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
The Peace Tower is framed by tulips on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP
A torchbearer runs with the Olympic flame during a ceremony at Panathenaean stadium in Athens, Greece. Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
An egret flies along the river Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India. Egrets build their nests on trees along the river Brahmaputra during the monsoon season every year. Anupam Nath/AP
Students from the Yermolov Cadet School test their helmets before a parachute jump outside the southern Russian city of Stavropol. The Yermolov state school in Stavropol follows a traditional Russian middle school syllabus as well as extra lessons on military education. Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters
Three people walk along an avenue of trees at Lac Leman near Lausanne, Switzerland. Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone/AP
Singer Beth Ditto arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film 'De rouille et d'os', in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Yves Herman/Reuters
A model showcases a hairdo styled by Redken during a fashion show, part of the Audi Fashion Festival, in Singapore. Tim Chong/Reuters
Ministers pose after the first weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. First row, from left are: Housing Minister Cecile Duflot, Environment minister Nicole Bricq, Education Minister Vincent Peillon and Social Affairs minister Marisol Touraine. Michel Euler/AP
A rider arrives for the start of the 155-km 12th stage from Seravezza to Sestri Levante of the Giro d'Italia. Picture taken with a tilt-shift lens. Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters
The view taken from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. A total of 18 images were used to create the composite. NASA/Reuters
Sri Lankan commandos march during a rehearsal ahead of the War Victory parade in Colombo. Sri Lankan military forces will celebrate the third year of defeating the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) with a large parade on May 19. Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
Mejra Dzogaz shows pictures of her killed relatives before the television broadcast of the court proceedings of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic's in Potocari, near Srebrenica. Mejra's husband, three sons and a grandson were killed during the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 by a Serbian army unit commanded by Mladic. Dado Ruvic/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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