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
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In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are seen behind a curtain during a traditional Jewish wedding of the granddaughter of Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem. The gauze curtain is used to separate men and women during the wedding. Oded Balilty/AP
Frenchwoman Florence Cassez (l.) is greeted by her mother Charlotte after landing at Roissy airport, north of Paris. Cassez, who spent seven years in prison in Mexico on kidnapping charges, returned to a hero's welcome in Paris, declaring she had been cleared by the Mexican court that ordered her freed. Christophe Ena/AP
Satoria Ginn, left, throws snow at Desiree Lyons during a snow battle along Laurel Street in Pocomoke City, Md. The snow was very dry making snowballs hard to make, so they settled for throwing snow at each other. Grant L. Gursky/Salisbury Daily TImes/AP
A woman looks at a French military vehicle drive past, as part of a convoy of French military vehicles including armored personnel carriers, jeeps and supply trucks, heading toward the recently liberated town of Diabaly, Mali. Eric Gaillard/Reuters
The outfit worn by then two-year-old Princess Anne at Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on June 2, 1953, is seen at the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace in central London. Summer 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the Coronation and a special exhibition at Buckingham Palace will bring together an array of the dress, uniform and robes worn on that occasion. Lefteris Pitarakis/AP
Soldiers with the US Army's Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment listen to a mission debrief while eating lunch at Command Outpost AJK (short for Azim-Jan-Kariz - a nearby village) in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Andrew Burton/Reuters
Followers of the Shi'ite sect ride a truck to the site of a rally marking the birth anniversary of the Prophet Mohamed in Sanaa, Yemen. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
Azerbaijani police officers detain a demonstrator in Ismayilli, some 110 miles from the capital, Baku. A minor car accident in the central Azerbaijan town spiraled into a showdown between residents and regional authorities, exposing underlying tensions and democratic shortcomings in the oil-rich former Soviet republic. Aziz Karimov/AP
Expatriates put face masks on statues as they raise awareness of air pollution in downtown Shanghai. According to the US consulate air quality readings, which measure PM2.5 particulates, Shanghai's air quality was "very unhealthy" on Thursday. Carlos Barria/Reuters
A man watches the religious service during the funeral of Romanian engineer TIberiu Costache who was killed during the hostage crisis in Algeria, in the village of Tatarani, Romania. The standoff at Algeria's remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant, resulted in 37 hostages and 29 militants killed. Vadim Ghirda/AP
Egyptian protesters try to tear down a cement wall built to prevent them from reaching parliament and the Cabinet building near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt. Riot police fired tear gas in fierce dawn clashes with dozens of protesters. The violence comes on the eve of the second anniversary of Egypt’s Jan. 25 uprising, which toppled longtime authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Hussein Tallal/AP
Ghana fans cheer their team during their African Nations Cup Group B soccer match against Mali at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters
A pigeon ruffles up in the cold in St.Petersburg, Russia. The temperature in St.Petersburg is -9C ( 15.8 °F). Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
Falcons sit on a wooden stand carried by a Pakistan Customs staff before their release in Kirthar National Park, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Karachi. Tari Mahmood, Senior Preventive Officer of Pakistan Preventive Customs, said that the customs and the Sindh Wildlife department have released six falcons that were seized during a raid in Karachi two months earlier. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus rests between games during her semifinal match against Sloane Stephens of the US at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. Aaron Favila/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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