Yusuf Yerkel, an aide to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, kicks a person who is being wrestled to the ground by two police officers during protests in Soma, Turkey, on Wednesday, May 14. Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets across Turkey following a deadly mine fire that occurred near Soma on May 13.
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Doctors hold Jenna and Jillian Thistlewaite, twin girls born in Akron, Ohio, on Friday, May 9. The girls were born holding hands, and they are monoamniotic or "mono mono" twins -- a pregnancy in which twins share the same placenta and amniotic sac. Researchers say "mono mono" births happen once in every 10,000 births.
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An Indian Muslim waits in line to vote at a polling station in Varanasi, India, on Monday, May 12. It was the last day to vote in India's general election -- the largest in world history.
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A woman flees a wildfire as it crosses a highway in Carlsbad, California, on Wednesday, May 14. Wildfires have forced evacuations in San Diego County after a high-pressure system brought unseasonable heat and gusty winds to the parched state.
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Rapper Jay Z, at left in the white jacket, and his sister-in-law Solange Knowles, at right in the orange dress, reportedly had an altercation at a Met Gala after-party Monday, May 5, at New York's Standard Hotel. Security camera footage that appeared on TMZ this past week doesn't tell the whole story, but there are plenty of pictures of the two leaving the party along with Jay Z's wife, Beyonce. See more photos that were taken after the alleged tussle
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A member of a "self-defense" squad smashes a slot machine with a sledgehammer Monday, May 12, at an illegal club in Slovyansk, Ukraine. Pro-Russian militants are tightening their grip on Ukraine's east and south in the worst East-West crisis since the end of the Cold War.
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A dancer in Brussels, Belgium, performs during the Zinneke Parade on Saturday, May 10. The parade takes place every two years to highlight the Belgian capital's multicultural nature, according to the Brussels-Europe Liaison Office.
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Prospectors work in an open pit Friday, May 9, at the Ndassima gold mine, which is near Djoubissi, Central African Republic.
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Actor Jon Hamm takes a selfie with his wax figure after it was unveiled Friday, May 9, at Madame Tussauds in New York.
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The body of an illegal migrant lies on the shore of al-Qarboli, Libya, on Wednesday, May 14. Libyan officials said at least 40 people died and around 50 were rescued when a boat carrying mostly sub-Saharan migrants sank off the coast of Tripoli on May 11.
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the dedication ceremony of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which was Thursday, May 15, in New York. Obama said the museum is a "sacred place of healing and hope" that will ensure that "generations yet unborn will never forget" the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. It will open to the public on May 21.
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Al Santora, center, and other family members of 9/11 victims stand together on Saturday, May 10, to protest city officials' decision to keep unidentified human remains at the Memorial Museum in New York. Families who oppose the placement of the unidentified remains have advocated for a separate memorial for their loved ones. They say the underground museum is prone to flooding, and they say the $24 entrance fee is inappropriate for a place akin to a cemetery.
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The reflections of people in Marseille, France, can be seen by looking up at the mirror art installation "Ombriere" by British architect Norman Foster on Tuesday, May 13.
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A balloon flies past Pope Francis during his general audience Wednesday, May 14, at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican.
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Women in Abuja, Nigeria, hold a candlelight vigil on Wednesday, May 14, one month after nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The abductions have attracted national and international outrage.
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Destroyed buildings are seen in Homs, Syria, on Saturday, May 10, after an evacuation truce went into effect days earlier. Thousands of displaced residents have returned to the city, but civil war still rages elsewhere in the country.
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Conchita Wurst performs the song "Rise Like a Phoenix" after winning the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, May 10. Wurst, the onstage drag persona of Thomas Neuwirth, is Austria's first Eurovision winner since 1966.
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Indian farmers lie on the ground with sticks as they pray for rain during the Manda Festival, on the outskirts of Ranchi, India, on Wednesday, May 14.
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Freshman midshipmen, known as "plebes," perform situps with a log across their chests during Sea Trials, a day of physical and mental challenges that caps off their first year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on Tuesday, May 13.
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Astronaut Koichi Wakata is carried to a medical tent on Wednesday, May 14, just minutes after he and two others landed in Kazahkstan on their return to Earth. Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin and Rick Mastracchio spent more than six months aboard the International Space Station.
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A member of a local band plays his instrument during a marriage ceremony in Mumbai, India, on Sunday, May 11.
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A Brazilian national police officer aims his weapon Tuesday, May 13, during a search for fugitives in the Complexo do Alemao favela of Rio de Janeiro. Brazil is trying to pacify Rio's favelas, or slums, ahead of next month's FIFA World Cup.
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Sister Maricor from the Missionaries of Charity spends a moment with John, a 1-year-old with hydrocephalus, at an orphanage in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11. Hydrocephalus is characterized by an excessive accumulation of fluid in the brain.
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A plane drops fire retardant over a wildfire hot spot in San Marcos, California, on Wednesday, May 14. About 10,000 acres have already been charred in San Diego County.
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Afghan security forces gather around the body of a Taliban insurgent after Taliban fighters stormed a government building Monday, May 12, in Afghanistan's Jalalabad province. Taliban militants launched a wave of attacks across the country, the first day of their annual spring offensive.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her son Prince Charles attend the Order of the Bath service at London's Westminster Abbey on Friday, May 9. The British order of chivalry was founded in 1725 by King George I.
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A butcher washes a dead bull Wednesday, May 14, outside the Las Ventas bullfighting ring in Madrid. Bullfighting season runs from March to October in Spain.
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U.S. Rep. John Mica of Florida holds a fake joint Friday, May 9, during a House subcommittee hearing about marijuana laws in the nation's capital. The District of Columbia is looking to decriminalize possession of the drug. "Don't get too excited," Mica said of the prop, which he said was rolled by members of his staff.
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A prosthetic arm and leg sit at a workplace Friday, May 9, at the Stamos and Braun Prosthetics Factory in Dresden, Germany. The silicon prostheses are handmade to look as real as possible.
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Fifth-graders have lunch in the shade of the newly reopened Washington Monument on Monday, May 12. The monument had been closed for repairs after a 2011 earthquake caused $15 million in damage.
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A Palestinian charcoal worker smokes during a tea break at a production facility in Gaza on Monday, May 12.
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Manuel Zelaya, the former Honduran President who is now a congressman, reacts outside the Congress building after he and other members of his party were tear gassed Tuesday, May 13, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Zelaya, his wife and hundreds of supporters clashed with riot police and soldiers after they burst into the Congress building demanding their right to speak.
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A woman parties in a mud pool Wednesday, May 14, at the Yasothon rocket festival in Thailand. Every May, at the start of the rainy season, rocket festivals are held across northeast Thailand and Laos as a fertility ritual.
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U.S. President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Honor to Army Sgt. Kyle J. White during a White House ceremony on Tuesday, May 13. White was recognized for repeatedly exposing himself to enemy fire in Afghanistan while trying to save the lives of fellow soldiers in November 2007. He is the 10th person to receive the military's highest honor for actions in Afghanistan. See all 10
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A South Korean soldier stands guard inside a Military Armistice Committee meeting room Wednesday, May 14, at the truce village of Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
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People protesting the Turkish mine disaster run away from tear gas during a demonstration in Istanbul on Wednesday, May 14.
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Bine, a 9-day-old giraffe, licks the nose of its aunt Andrea at the Friedrichsfelde Zoo in Berlin on Friday, May 9. See last week in 25 photos
