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Greco-Roman wrestler Justin Lester stretches while posing for a portrait during the 2012 US Olympic Team Media Summit in Dallas, Texas. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
A Republican Guard attends the handover ceremony between France's outgoing Prime Minister Francois Fillon and newly-named Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault at Hotel Matignon, the French prime minister's official residence, in Paris. Regis Duvignau/Reuters
A man looks at a painting of Britain's Queen Elizabeth by Pietro Annigoni during a press view at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Stefan Wermuth/Reuters
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (l.), son and heir to the throne, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (r.), make their way along the Leeds and Liverpool canal on a barge during a trip to Burnley, northwest England. Dave Thompson/AP
A boy chases a pig through a junkyard near the Danyingone station in a Yangon suburbs, Myanmar. Damir Sagolj/Reuters
A US Army soldier of the C Company 3/82 Dustoff MEDEVAC performs a system check on a helicopter at the beginning of his shift in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
A surfer exits the water on Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Felipe Dana/AP
An anti-government protester walks towards riot police, holding stones in her hands, during a protest asking for the release of human rights activists in the village of Sanabis west of Manama, Bahrain. Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters
A baby cries as Pope Benedict XVI strokes his cheeks after the weekly audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Giampiero Sposito/Reuters
A paint spattered demonstrator is taken away by police officers clearing the tent-camp of about 300 Occupy protesters from near the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. Michael Probst/AP
An Indian man dips his daughter's feet in the water while cooling off in a fountain at the India Gate Monument on a warm day in New Delhi. Temperatures in India's capital soared to 109 degrees. Kevin Frayer/AP
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen poses during a photo call for The Dictator at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. Francois Mori/AP
A coconut vendor looks at the mirror as his wife (r.) and a relative plucks out his gray hair while waiting for customers along the streets in Manila. Aaron Favila/AP
Karin Melis Mey of Turkey competes in the women's Long Jump event at the Daegu Championships Meeting 2012 in Daegu, South Korea. Lee Jin-man/AP
An Indian man gets his retina scanned as he enrolls for Aadhar, India’s unique identification project in Kolkata. The giant identification project aims to give 1.2 billion Indians an identity record and number. Bikas Das/AP
Lady Gaga waves upon her arrival for her concert tour, at Taipei Songshan airport. The US singer will perform at two concerts at the Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei. Pichi Chuang/Reuters
Three cows stand behind blossoms on a snow covered meadow in Oberstaufen in the southern German state of Bavaria. Felix Kaestle/dapf/AP
An Afghan refugee girl stands outside her home in slums of Islamabad, Pakistan. B.K. Bangash/AP
Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing driver Bryan Clauson sits in his race car during practice time at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. Steve Baker/Reuters
UN peacekeepers from India in an armored light tank patrol the streets in the town of Bunagana, in Congo. A new rebel group, believed to be led by former warlord Bosco Ntaganda, is now fighting the Congolese government in the district of Masisi in Congo's wild east. Marc Hofer/AP
Chicago Police follow protesters during one of the demonstrations the week ahead of the NATO meeting in Chicago. Jim Young/Reuters
A graduate from Columbia University's Barnard College cheers as she takes part in the university's commencement ceremony in New York. Over 12,000 students attended the annual graduation ceremony on the university's campus. Keith Bedford/Reuters
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hands out an autographed campaign button after speaking at a campaign stop in St. Petersburg, Fla. Mary Altaffer/AP
Photographers are seen during the men's Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Billabong Rio Pro championship at Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro. Sergio Moraes/Reuters
Some 333 Bulgarian bagpipers play their instruments in an attempt to set a world record at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia. The performers aim for an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest-scale performance of bagpipers. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
A view of an illegal oil refinery is seen along the Ekulama creek outside the oil hub city Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Delta region. Nigeria is Africa's largest crude oil exporter but its production capacity has been slashed by thieves drilling into pipelines passing through winding creeks and waterways in the vast delta. Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
In Pictures: What happened to the green revolution in Iran?
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
In Pictures: Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/20
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
In Pictures: The Israeli separation barrier: A West Bank wall
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
Saeed Jalili, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, has declared his candidacy for the June 14 presidential election. The forever revolutionary is fiercely loyal to hardliner Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran’s smiling but immovable top nuclear negotiator, a revolutionary and wounded war veteran with a decades-old suspicion of the United States, has become a frontrunner in Iran’s presidential race.
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