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A baby owl peers down from a tree branch in the backyard at the home of Margaret Vaughn on Sunday, in Hutchinson, Kan. Lindsey Bauman/The Hutchinson News/AP
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Aspiring models attend a casting session for next month's Dakar Fashion Week, Sunday in Senegal. Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters
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Tennessee's Madison Shipman is taken out at second base by Georgia's Ashley Pauly during a softball game of the NCAA Knoxville Super Regional between Georgia and Tennessee, Sunday, in Knoxville, Tenn. Saul Young/The Knoxville News Sentinel/AP
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Volunteers help inflate a hot air balloon for the KLAQ Balloon Festival, Sunday, in Santa Teresa, N.M. Hundreds of spectators gathered at a local country club to watch the hot air balloons take off. Juan Carlos Llorca/AP
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People attend the launching ceremony for a social protection program that uses credit transferred through mobile phones called "Ti Manman Cheri," or Creole for "Dear Little Mother," in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday. The program aims to reach 100,000 families in four of the capital's poorest neighborhoods. Dieu Nalio Chery/AP
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United States Army soldiers from Task Force Arrowhead play basketball at Forward Operating Base Apache in Afghanistan's Zabul Province, Sunday. Tim Wimborne/Reuters
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Crew members for Dario Franchitti, of Scotland, service the car in a pit stop during IndyCar's Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Sunday. Tom Strattman/AP
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US Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. (r.), congratulates actress Viola Davis on her honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Brown University during the university's 244th commencement exercises, Sunday, in Providence, R.I. Lewis also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree during the ceremony. Stew Milne/AP
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Girls dance around a pole during the Festa do Divino, or Festival of the Divine, in Sao Luiz do Paraitinga. The Festa do Divino is one of Brazil's most important Catholic celebrations, marking Pentecost 50 days after Easter. Roosevelt Cassio/Reuters
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Scouts light up more than 17,000 candles before the 2012 Fredericksburg National Cemetery Lumnaria at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery in Fredericksburg, Va. Peter Cihelka/The Free Lance-Star/AP
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Cadets throw their hats in the air to conclude a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the US Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., Saturday. Mike Groll/AP
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Yannick Lebherz of Germany competes in the men's 200m backstroke final during the 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. Bernadett Szabo/Reuters
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Sauber Formula One driver Sergio Perez of Mexico loses a tire following contact against a wall during the qualifying session at the Monaco F1 Grand Prix, Saturday. Max Rossi/Reuters
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A Bosnian Muslim woman cries next to coffins during a mass funeral in Visegrad, Saturday. The remains of 66 Bosnian Muslims, murdered and dumped in the River Drina 20 years ago, were buried in a solemn ceremony marred by a march through the eastern town by Serb veterans of the 1992-95 war. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
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A reveler in vampire costume poses in a central shopping street during the Wave and Goth festival in Leipzig, Germany. Thomas Peter/Reuters
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Colnago-CSF Inox's Domenico Pozzovivo (c.) of Italy leads Garmin-Barracuda's Ryder Hesjedal (r.) of Canada and Lampre-ISD's Michele Scarponi of Italy as they climb Mortirolo pass during the 219km (136 miles) 20th stage of the Giro d'Italia. Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters
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A Buddhist monk looks on as he attempts to hold down his robe at Galle Face Green in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
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Students participate in the "Power Of The Games" festival, which is part of Big Dance 2012, ahead of the London 2012 Olympics at a school in Hanoi, Vietnam. Kham/Reuters
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Members of the media wearing protective suits adjust their masks during a press tour to Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Saturday. Tomohiro Ohsumi/AP
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Border guards display their skills during the celebrations for Border Guards' Day, at the "Stalin Line" memorial near the village of Goroshki, Belarus. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
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Actors jump on a trampoline during celebrations marking the 309th anniversary of the city, on Nevsky Avenue in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
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Soldiers of the US Army's 1st Platoon, 18th Engineer Company, Task Force Arrowhead cross a river as they search for improvised explosive devices near the village of Khaleqdad Khan in Afghanistan's Zabul province. Tim Wimborne/Reuers
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Youths pose for the photographer as they jump into the sea in Brighton, southern England, Saturday. Paul Hackett/Reuters
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Jessica Ennis of Britain competes in the high jump event at the two-day international heptathlon meeting in Goetzis, Austria. Miro Kuzmanovic/Reuters
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Leroy of Canine Angels takes a donation in his mouth and drops it in the bucket after the annual Memorial Day Parade on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Saturday, Janet Blackmon Morgan/The Sun News/AP
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Members of Boy Scout Troop 450 and 278 lead the parade carrying a large American flag during the Memorial Day observance ceremony at the Memphis National Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn. Saturday. Chris Desmond/The Commercial Appeal/AP
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A Pakistani man walks in a park in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday. Fareed Khan/AP
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Burmese are celebrating an end to their long international isolation with the first state visit to the US by a Myanmar president in almost 50 years.
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Simon Roughneen, Correspondent /
May 21, 2013
Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic Monday meeting with US President Obama has been well-received at home, with Burmese seemingly happy that the country is gaining some positive recognition on the world stage after decades of isolation.