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
Buster stands behind sand bags as he stares at the flood waters around his home in LaPlace, La. Isaac has caused major flooding in the region. Eric Gay/AP
A young man wears an Ethiopian flag as he participates in a public candlelight memorial service for late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Thousands turned out for the first of three days of planned commemorative ceremonies. Rebecca Blackwell/AP
Chinese girls dressed in traditional Qing dynasty costumes play along a corridor of the Rongguofu, known as Dream of Red Mansion, which is a famous classical novel of China, in Zhengding county, northern China's Hebei province. Andy Wong/AP
A Black Crowned Crane watches the photographer from his enclosure in the zoo in Dresden, eastern Germany. Joern Haufe/dapd/AP
A Pakistani camel owner looks for customers in Karachi, Pakistan. Shakil Adil/AP
Maria Sharapova of Russia serves to Lourdes Dominguez Lino of Spain during their match at the US Open women's singles tennis tournament in New York. Adam Hunger/Reuters
The sun sets during the Burning Man 2012 'Fertility 2.0' arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, Wednesday. More than 60,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold-out festival, which is celebrating its 26th year, to spend a week in the remote desert, cut off from much of the outside world to experience art, music, and the unique community that develops. Jim Urquhart/Reuters
Cubist (rear), ridden by Brian Crowley, clears a jump on their way to winning the The Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Stakes steeplechase horse race at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Adam Coglianese/NYRA/AP
Thai masseuses perform mass massaging at a sports arena on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand has long been known as the massage capital of the world. Some 641 massage therapists massaged 641 people simultaneously for 12 minutes to win a Guinness World Record. Apichart Weerawong/AP
Greg Norman of Australia hits out of a bunker onto the 13th green during the first round of the European Masters golf tournament in the Swiss mountain resort of Crans-Montana. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
Afghan National Police attend their graduation ceremony at a training center in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. More than 141 officers graduated after receiving 2 months of training in Jalalabad. Rahmat Gul/AP
Business suits of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher are displayed at Christie's auction house in London. The suits will be auctioned in 'The London Sale' on Sept. 3. Sang Tan/AP
A Pirelli technician takes notes as he stands on the track with a bike, ahead of the weekend's Belgian F1 Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps. Jan Van De Vel/Reuters
South Korea's Jeoun Eunha (c.) fights for the ball with Japan's Kumi Yokoyama (l.) and Shiori Kinoshita during their quarterfinal soccer match of the U-20 women's World Cup in Tokyo. Japan won 3-1. Shizuo Kambayashi/AP
A meerkat is pictured with her cubs in their enclosure at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna. Four meerkats were born in the zoo on August 7 after a gestation period of 11 weeks. Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters
A boatman struggles to move his boat full of passengers through water hyacinth in a dead part of river Buriganga in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Andrew Biraj/Reuters
The Three Gorges Hotel (l.) and the passenger terminal of Chongqing Port are toppled in explosions in Chongqing, southwest China. The 32-story landmark passenger terminal and the hotel were demolished by directional blasting. Chen Cheng/Xinhua/AP
Guest dressed in white and lit by spotlight gather at the Art Science Museum of the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Diner en Blanc or 'White Dinner,' which started in Paris 24 years ago, made its Asian debut in Singapore. The 888 guests brought their own food, tables and chairs for a fine dining, flash-mob style gathering in a secret location made known to them only minutes before the event. Wong Maye-E/AP
A Syrian boy has his face painted in the colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag as he and his family take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing near the Syrian town of Azaz. He and his family hope to enter one of the refugee camps in Turkey. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
Maldives' President Mohamed Waheed is seen on the viewfinder of a TV camera as he addresses the media at the presidential palace in Male. Supporters of a former president of the Maldives poured into the streets of the capital of the holiday island chain to denounce an internationally-backed report that said the leader's removal earlier this year did not constitute a coup. Adnan Abidi/Reuters
A Sri Lankan child holds bananas to feed wild elephants, separated by an electric fence, at the Udawalawa Wildlife Sanctuary in Udawalawa, Sri Lanka. Eranga Jayawardena/AP
A worker walks by the National Mane Garrincha Stadium which is undergoing construction for the 2014 World Cup, in Brasilia, Brazil. According to the consortium in charge, the construction of the stadium is 72% complete. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
A vendor arranges fish for sale on a table at Soumbedioune beach in Dakar, Senegal. Holly Pickett/Reuters
Natalia Partyka of Poland serves during her Women's Singles C10 table tennis classification match against Umran Ertis of Turkey at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Toby Melville/Reuters
Sardinian miner Giuliana Porcu stands next to a truck during a protest 1312 feet underground to block the entrance of the Carbosulcis mine in Carbonia, Italy. Up to 100 Sardinian miners, armed with hundreds of kilograms of explosives, have barricaded themselves underground in Italy's only coal mine to put pressure on the Rome government to protect its survival. Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
Hamas boy scouts take part in a rally in Gaza City, Gaza, marking the 43rd anniversary of the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, is the third holiest site in Islam. Mohammed Salem/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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