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01-Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking floats on a zero-gravity jet over the Atlantic Ocean off Florida.
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02-(L-R) Jennifer Delaney, Executive Director GAC, Actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador for High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie and Kay Warren, Executive Director of Saddleback Church, HIV/AIDS Initiative attend the launch of "Global Action for Children" in Washington.
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03-Musician Bono attends the premiere of "We Are Together" at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
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04-Goslings take refuge from the rain under the wing of their mother in the Municipal Park of Urbana, Ohio.
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05-Brown bear cubs play with their mother at a wildlife park in Poing, Germany.
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06-Riding instructor Karen Frelgus gets a hug at Claremont Riding Academy in New York. The academy will close this month after 115 years in business.
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07-People light candles placed in the form of a radioactive symbol in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine marked the 21st anniversary of the deadly explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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08-A fireman runs near fire as he tries to extinguish burning cars following an arson attack at an Athens police station.
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09-A soldier stands guard at Colombo International airport in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka suspended air traffic and switched off power around its capital following reports of a suspicious aircraft.
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10-Activists of the "Young Guards of United Russia" movement wearing WW II Soviet army uniforms shout slogans during a rally in Moscow.
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11-Yeisleny Nodarse, left, and her sister, Yamilka Cortina, display a photo during a news conference in Miami, as they talk about their uncle who died in jail after being left unattended for more than a week.
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12-Vaughn Gausney and his family wait for replacement housing after the homeless shelter they were living in was evacuated due to a partial building collapse in Brooklyn, New York.
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13-U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during the South Carolina Democratic party's presidential candidates debate at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C.
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14-Inmates react as they listen to an educational remark at a prison in Nanjing, China.
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15-Policemen stand next to some of 57 bags with human remains found in several mass graves near La Cooperativa, Colombia.
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16-A woman carries a fake television with a portrait depicting Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during a march to support RCTV (Radio Caracas TV) broadcasting station in Caracas.
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17-A Palestinian demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag as foreign activists are hit by a water cannon fired by Israeli troops during a demonstration in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
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18-Indonesian Muslims display posters during an anti-Israel protest in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.
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19-U.S. Marine honor guard carry the body of Lance Coporal Jesse D. Delatorre to graveside services in Montgomery, Ill. Delatorre died while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq.
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20-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaks at a news conference as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. David Obey (D-WI) join other Democratic leaders and Iraq War veterans for a news conference in Washington. The Senate voted 51-46 to include a timetable for withdrawal of troops from Iraq in a war funding bill.
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21-Vice President Dick Cheney (L) shakes hands with the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gordon B. Hinckley as he attends Brigham Young University Commencement giving the main address in Provo, Utah.
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22-People on the campus of Brigham Young University protest the impending visit of Vice President Dick Cheney for commencement services in Provo, Utah.
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23-Passengers try to squeeze onto a bus during a nationwide strike by a taxi and bus drivers protesting high gasoline prices in Panama City, Panama.
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24-Women wearing traditional mantillas watch a bullfight in the Maestranza bullring in Seville, Spain.
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25-Wildlife biologist Susan Kaveggia, right, and wildlife technician Julie King prepare to examine an ailing California brown pelican at the LA Oiled Bird Care & Education Center in Los Angeles.
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26-Dogs wait to be harnessed up to pull sleds across snows covering the Norwegian Arctic island of Spitsbergen.
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27-An orphaned cougar cub plays at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. Three cougar cubs were given to the park after they were found motherless in the wild.
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28-Instars in the final stage before becoming adult mosquitoes breath through their breathing siphons that break through the surface of water in a container after they were scooped from a swimming pool near Hemet, Calif.
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Pics of the day in the world. (nsf56k)
