In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
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The northern lights, or aurora borealis, fill the western sky above the Russian Orthodox Saint Nicholas Memorial Chapel in Kenai, Alaska. The display of lights came in the aftermath of a solar storm that struck Earth on Thursday. M. Scott Moon/Peninsula Clarion/AP
Japanese living in Bern, Switzerland, hold a ceremony in the Japanese embassy to commemorate the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Michael Buholzer/Reuters
People walk through the Casa Enzo Ferrari museum during a media preview in Modena, northern Italy. The museum honors the life and work of Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the Italian sports car manufacturer, and will officially open on Saturday. Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
An anti-government protester wearing a traditional hat attends a rally in Sanaa,Yemen, to demand that relatives of Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh be dismissed from army and senior police posts. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
A man is seen through a hole in an abandoned home that took heavy fire during a military operation to free two hostages in Sokoto, Nigeria. A British and an Italian hostage were killed Thursday during a failed rescue mission by British special forces and the Nigerian military. A group that claimed ties to al-Qaida claimed the kidnapping, which happened in May 2011. Jon Gambrell/AP
Oleksiy Kasyanov of the Ukraine competes in the shot put event during the men's heptathlon at the world indoor athletics championships at the Atakoy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. Osman Orsal/Reuters
A full moon rises over the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
Syrian refugees and local residents take part in a demonstration against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad after Friday prayers outside the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan. Ali Jarekji/Reuters
United States's Lindsey Vonn skis on her way to win a women's Alpine Ski World cup giant slalom competition in Are, Sweden. Alessandro Trovati/AP
The Light of Merlion projection by OCUBO of Portugal lights up the iconic statue during the i Light Marina Bay sustainable light art festival in Singapore. Edgar Su/Reuters
Cossacks form a pile at the annual folk festival to bid farewell to winter in the Siberian Cossack settlement of Sukhobuzimskoye, Russia. The traditional festival was featured in the painting 'The taking of the snow fortress' by 19th century Russian artist Vasily Surikov who was born in the village. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
A stray cat lies on a road in front of the debris of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami on Tashirojima island, known as 'Cats island,' off Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, two days before the anniversary of the disaster. The tsunami-hit isolated island (well known for more than 80 stray cats who local residents say survived the disaster) is on the way to the recovery. Itsuo Inouye/AP
An employee works inside a cotton-processing unit at Kadi town, India. India will maintain a ban on cotton exports as government ministers failed to reach an agreement on whether it should continue, Textile Secretary Kiran Dhingra said. Amit Dave/Reuters
Palestinians gather during the funeral of Zakariya Abu Eram in the West Bank town of Yatta, near Hebron. According to the Israeli military, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier in the neck during a raid in the town of Yatta, seriously wounding him. The soldier opened fire, wounding the assailant and killing Eram who was not involved in the attack, witnesses said. The Israeli military claim he was the attacker's accomplice. Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP
Rabbi Yitzhak Ehrenberg reads a Kaddish prayer as he attends a wreath-laying ceremony with the new Israeli ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman (l.,) at the Gleis 17 (Platform 17) memorial at Grunewald railway station in Berlin. The memorial marks the platform where some 50,000 Jewish citizens were deported by train to the Nazi concentration camps between 1941 and 1945. Thomas Peter/Reuters
Katrina Ivory embraces her dog after Capt. Gary Coogler pulled it from her smoldering house, heavily damaged by a fire, in Houston. There were no injuries reported and everyone made it out of the home safely, Ivory confirmed. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle/AP
Riot police stand guard as protesters from the Jordanian Islamic Action Front Party demonstrate against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to support the Syrian anti-government protesters in Amman, Jordan. Muhammad Hamed/Reuters
Fishermen gather to ice fish on the frozen Moskva River with the St. Nicholas Monastery in the background in Moscow. Ice fishing is very popular in Russia. Mikhail Metzel/AP
A supporter of a Pakistani religious party proudly shows his tape recorder as he records speeches of leaders at a rally against the US in Peshawar, Pakistan. A provocative resolution by an American congressman calling for the secession of Pakistan's largest province, which is rich in gas and oil, has caused an uproar in Pakistan. Mohammad Sajjad/AP
A woman looks for her photographs at a collection center for items that were found in the rubble of an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disaster. More than 250,000 photographs and personal belongings are displayed at the center for owners to recover. Toru Hanai/Reuters
Children playfully huddle behind a South Korean Army soldier aiming his machine gun during an anti-terrorism exercise for a successful Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea. The March 26-27 summit is expected to draw dozens of world leaders, including US President Barack Obama, to discuss nuclear terrorism and safety. Lee Jin-man/AP
A dog groomer cuts a dog's hair as part of a grooming test during the 2012 Shanghai International Dog Show in Shanghai, China. Aly Song/Reuters
The Central Michigan bench, including assistant coach Heather Oesterle, react to a three-point basket by their team in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Bowling Green in the semifinals of the Mid-American Conference women's tournament in Cleveland. Amy Sancetta/AP
A protester attends an anti-corruption demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia. Hundreds of Slovaks are protesting in the capital to demand that top politicians accused of corruption step down. Slovakia is holding early general elections on Saturday. Petr David Josek/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
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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