In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
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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
Emirati weightlifter Amna Al Haddad pushes a tire during a training session at Fast Performance Center in Ahdaaf Sports Club in Dubai. Al Haddad, 23, an Olympic weightlifter, hopes to make it to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters
A total solar eclipse observed in Green Island, Queensland state, Australia. Starting just after dawn, the eclipse cast its 150-kilometer (95-mile) shadow in Australia's Northern Territory, crossed the northeast tip of the country and was swooping east across the South Pacific, where no islands are in its direct path. AP
A four-day old newborn silverback gorilla holds to his mother gorilla in the Ramat Gan safari, near Tel Aviv, Israel. Ariel Schalit/AP
Palestinians extinguish the fire on a car in Gaza City after an Israeli air strike. Ahmed Al-Jaabari, Hamas's military chief, was killed when his car was hit by an Israeli airstrike. Multiple other Israeli attacks rocked the Gaza Strip. Ali Hassan/Reuters
Lasha Pataraia pulls an eight-ton truck with his ear during a test event in Rustavi outside Tbilisi, Georgia. The 32-year-old sportsman will attempt to break a record registered by the Guinness Book of World Records by the end of the month. David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters
Hotel hostesses that serve the delegates of the 18th Communist Party Congress pose for photographers outside the Great Hall of the People, where the closing ceremony of the congress is held, in Beijing, China. Alexander F. Yuan/AP
German Shepherd dogs play in a park in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
An ethnic Newari community girl, dressed in traditional attire, participates in a parade to celebrate their New Year in Katmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
A protester covers her head in a plastic bag, meant to show that austerity measures are suffocating Greeks, outside Parliament during a union protest in Athens. Petros Giannakouris/AP
A man adjusts a water cooler loaded on a handcart on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Anjum Naveed/AP
Elementary school boys tie their shoes after crossing the river from their village to go to school in Nagari Koto Nan Tigo in Indonesia's West Sumatra province. School children from around 46 families in the village are forced to cross the river every day because there is no bridge. Reuters
An Ethiopian Jewish man prays during the 'Sigd' holiday in Jerusalem. The prayer is performed by Ethiopian Jews every year to celebrate the biblical union between the Jewish people and God. Sebastian Scheiner/AP
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi scatters rose petals at the memorial of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi. Suu Kyi is on a six-day visit to India. Reuters
Adam Abdalah (l.), a farmer from West Darfur's Adar, accompanies his son Yassim Adam who is being treated for yellow fever at the Teaching Hospital in El Geneina. Albert Gonzalez Farran/UNAMID//Reuters
Artists of the KUKLI Theatral Russian Circus perform in front of the National Congress a day before their show in Brazil. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
Singer Madonna (l.) is addresses the audience onstage with South Korean rapper PSY during Madonna's MDNA concert at Madison Square Garden in New York. Psy joined the Madonna and her troupe of dancers onstage to perform his hit song “Gangnam Style”
An assistant mixes essences in the laboratory at the Galimard perfume factory in Grasse, France. Perfume-makers are urging the European Commission to back down from possible legislation they fear could kill top fragrances by restricting natural ingredients linked to allergies, altering some of the world's most iconic scents, according to industry sources. Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Rebels clean their weapons and check ammunition at their base on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Khalil Hamra/AP
A soccer fan looks on during the international friendly soccer match between South Africa and Zambia at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. Themba Hadebe/AP
A Brazilian student works on a car's bodywork during the Worldskills Americas 2012 in Sao Paulo. Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
The 2012 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is put in position by a crane and crew of workers outside Rockefeller Center in New York. This year's tree is an 80-foot tall Norway Spruce from Flanders, New Jersey, and was donated by Joe Balku. Andrew Burton/Reuters
A worker looks up at a hole caused by a foundation destroyed by Hurricane Sandy to the home of Leslie Mahoney in the Brooklyn borough region of Belle Harbor in New York. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
The aurora borealis is on display north of Havre, Montana, Tuesday evening. Lindsay Brown/Havre Daily News/AP
Tiram, a 26-year-old male orangutan, munches on greens in the Rainforest at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Ohio. The zoo celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Rainforest this weekend. Mark Duncan/AP
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Pelosi told fellow Democrats in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday that she is willing to run to be their leader again. Mary F. Calvert/Reuters
Investigator Terry Myers walks through the historic Frank Lloyd Wright designed Beth Sholom synagogue, in Elkins Park, Pa. Myers' company, DJS Associates is capturing a high-definition 3-D scan of the landmark synagogue outside Philadelphia for historic documentation and preservation. Matt Slocum/AP
A Samburu elder and other residents attend a security meeting called by government officials in Baragoi town where policemen were killed in an ambush by cattle raiders in the remote northern region of Samburu district in Kenya. Siegfried Modola/Reuters
The sun rises over the plains east of the Rocky Mountains, in Boulder, Colo. Brennan Linsley/AP
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
The launches may be more an effort to get attention and test weaponry rather than actually provoke the region, following the end of the joint South Korea-US military exercises last month.
On Monday North Korea launched missiles into the East Sea for the third straight day, showing that it may be looking to further develop its military capabilities or grab international attention at a time when inter-Korean tensions had appeared to be cooling.
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