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Students console each other at a memorial service held Tuesday, May 27, for victims of a shooting rampage near the University of California, Santa Barbara. Elliot Rodger, 22, stabbed three people to death at his apartment before shooting and killing three more in a nearby neighborhood, sheriff's officials said. Rodger also injured 13 others and died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

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A cat toys with a mouse in Hanover, Germany, on Monday, May 26. The mouse didn't make it.

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U.S. Air Force Academy graduates throw their caps into the air Wednesday, May 28, as jets fly over the stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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For Memorial Day, divers deploy an American flag on the USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, an artificial reef about seven miles off Key West, Florida, on Sunday, May 25.

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A stunt driver performs at the "Well of Death" exhibition in Srinagar, India, on Friday, May 23. Motorcycles are also driven around the vertical walls.

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Police in Brasilia, Brazil, use tear gas to impede natives from marching toward the Mane Garrincha stadium and protesting the World Cup on Tuesday, May 27. The World Cup trophy was on public display at the stadium.

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The daughters and brother-in-law of Miriam Riva hold hands during her funeral Tuesday, May 27, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Riva and her husband, Emanuel, were killed May 24 when a gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium. Another person was killed and one was critically injured.

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Ukrainian television reporter Vitalii Sediuk is taken away in handcuffs after allegedly striking actor Brad Pitt in the face as Pitt walked the red carpet at the "Maleficent" premiere in Hollywood, California, on Wednesday, May 28. Sediuk has a history of confronting celebrities at red carpet events.

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A child holds a toy gun as voters fill out their ballots in the village of Kodra, Ukraine, on Sunday, May 25. A new president, Petro Poroshenko, was elected in Ukraine, three months after the ouster of Viktor Yanukovych. But there is still unrest in the eastern part of the country, where there is a large separatist movement following Russia's takeover of the Crimean peninsula.

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Sub-Saharan migrants scale a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Wednesday, May 28. Several hundred migrants charged the border fence, with many managing to get across while others were beaten back by police.

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Firefighters put out a blaze that erupted in the main temple of a Buddhist monastery Wednesday, May 28, in Amitkhasha, Russia.

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Ahmad al-Jarak treats the wounds of Mohammad Houweija in the countryside near Idlib, Syria, on Monday, May 26. Houweija was shot in the thigh during clashes in the village of Saraqib. See more photos from the Syrian civil war

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Two men paddle in a canoe on a flooded road in Trysil, Norway, on Monday, May 26. Rain and melted snow have increased the water level of the river Trysilelva.

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Paramilitary policemen demolish an unstable building after a 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit China's Yingjiang County on Saturday, May 24.

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Pilots in a historical airplane perform during the Berlin Air Show on Friday, May 23.

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On Tuesday, May 27, boys in the Arhab region of Yemen look inside a vehicle that was destroyed during a police raid on an al-Qaeda hideout. Yemen said on May 25 that it had killed one of the country's most-wanted al-Qaeda militants.

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Pavlo Klets, left, and Mariya Gafitsa have metal clamps removed from their backs Friday, May 23, after they traversed the Dnipro River in Kiev, Ukraine. The two were suspended over the river by cable wire that was attached to their metal-clamp piercings. According to reports, they set a new world record for the longest Tyvolean traverse with clamp piercings -- nearly 1,800 feet.

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Pallbearers dressed as Sebastian Gerena's favorite superheroes carry his coffin during the 7-year-old's funeral in Philadelphia on Wednesday, May 28. The young boy, who had a rare heart defect, died after collapsing at his school.

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American astronaut Reid Wiseman gestures a heart to his daughter before he and two others were launched into space Thursday, May 29, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Wiseman and two other men will be spending six months at the International Space Station.

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Well-wishers hand cold drinks to Thai soldiers who are trying to prevent a demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday, May 29. Thailand's military recently took control of the country in a coup.

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Police collect evidence near the body of Farzana Parveen, who they say was killed by her relatives near the Lahore High Court building in Lahore, Pakistan, on Tuesday, May 27. Parveen, 25, was beaten to death with bricks because she had eloped with the man she loved rather than marry the man chosen by her family.

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A security guard watches passengers line up at a subway station checkpoint during morning rush hour in Beijing on Tuesday, May 27.

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Alexandra Harper, of Guayama, Puerto Rico, concentrates before spelling the word "bildungsroman" on Wednesday, May 28, during the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland. More than 250 students from the United States and seven other countries gathered to compete in the annual contest.

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Gao Bingguo is covered with bees as he tries to break a Guinness World Record in Taian, China, on Tuesday, May 27. He set the record after having 326,000 bees on his body at one time, according to local media.

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A tornado touches down Monday, May 26, before heading toward Watford City, North Dakota. Authorities said several people were injured and more than a dozen recreational vehicles were damaged or destroyed when the twister tore through an oil field camp.

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Security personnel and rescue team members stand next to a damaged passenger train that derailed in Khalilabad, India, on Monday, May 26. At least 40 people were killed and more than 150 were injured after the train collided with a stationary cargo train, police and railway officials said.

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An Afghan policeman kicks the body of a dead gunman who officials say was one of four people trying to attack the Indian consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, on Friday, May 23. The attackers were eventually surrounded by security forces as they approached the consulate. The consulate wasn't damaged, and no one there was injured.

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A farmer is reflected in water as he walks along terraced fields in China's Zhejiang province on Tuesday, May 27.

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Christopher DiCapua, left, and Oscar Cabrera kiss after saying their wedding vows Friday, May 23, at Philadelphia's City Hall. Earlier in the week, Pennsylvania's governor said he would not appeal a federal judge's ruling that overturned the state's 1996 ban against same-sex marriage.

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A man with an artificial leg attaches an artificial leg to 8-year-old Ashraf ul-Shiekh at a prosthetics facility in Kolkata, India, on Tuesday, May 27. Ashraf lost his left leg in a tragic road accident two years ago. His impoverished family was unable to afford the artificial limb, but the facility gave him one free of charge.

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Flower petals cover the streets during a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, May 28 -- the anniversary of Pakistan's first nuclear tests in 1998.

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A U.S. soldier looks at an Afghan mountain range from a Chinook helicopter on Wednesday, May 28. U.S. forces could complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2016, President Obama said, unveiling a plan to end America's longest war.

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Pope Francis prays next to a rabbi at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on Monday, May 26. The Pope went on a three-day trip to the Holy Land, and he was accompanied by Jewish and Muslim leaders from his home country of Argentina.

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The body of a pro-Russian militant lies on a stretcher at a morgue in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Tuesday, May 27. He was killed in clashes around Donetsk's airport, which was seized by pro-Russian separatists a day earlier. Ukrainian forces moved in and reclaimed the facility.

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The Soyuz TMA-13M spaceship blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying a new crew to the International Space Station on Thursday, May 29. See last week in 36 photos


