World News in Pictures

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A costumed dinosaur, Baby T, from the "Walking with Dinosaurs" theatrical performance throws out the first pitch before a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on Wednesday, in San Diego, Calif

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A photo of a firenado that was captured last weekend in Chillicothe, Oklahoma is spinning its way across the internet. A producer of Weather Center Live on the Weather Channel tweeted the photo after a viewer sent it to him.However, Chillicothe Fire Chief Darrell Wright told KCTV5 News that he cannot verify the picture. 'We have searched our records and cannot match that road service type with any address we responded to,' Wright said



Mayor of London Boris Johnson takes part in a photocall to officially launch the 2015 World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge, with international wheelchair rugby stars including Michael Kerr (left), Mike Brown (third from right) and Kylie Grimes (second from right) outside City Hall in London

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An Amur tiger walks over the new Big Cat Crossing as visitors look on at the Philadelphia Zoo, Pennsylvania. The new animal exploration trail experience called Zoo360 enables animals to roam around and above the zoo



Rich space fans are being given the chance to own a piece of history when an auction house sells the world's most expensive joystick The Rotational Hand Controller (which looks exactly like a computer game joystick) was used to guide the Apollo 15 lunar module safely onto the surface of the Moon in 1971, and is expected to reach a whopping £250,000 when it goes under the hammer at RR Auction in Massachusetts on May 15

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A bouquet of flowers is placed on top of the burnt-out shell of a car where clashes between pro-Russian gunmen and the Ukrainian army took place in Slovyansk, Ukraine



A kookaburra perches on a fence with a rat in its beak that it has caught in Brisbane, Australia



A tornado touches down in a field in Akron, Colorado. The National Weather Service says there have been no reports of injuries or damage after at least two tornadoes touched down briefly on Colorado's Eastern Plains

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Visitors stroll through a flower garden covered by over 800,000 Shibazakura, or moss phlox, in full bloom during the Fuji Shibazakura Festival at the foot of Mount Fuji in Fujikawaguchiko, Japan



The Aurora Basin Science Camp living quarters in Antarctica where polar scientists on May 8 successfully drilled a 2,000-year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica in a bid to retrieve a frozen record of how the planet's climate has evolved



Confiscated plastic made guns made with a 3D printer are displayed at a police station in Yokohama, Japan. A man suspected of possessing printed guns has been arrested in what was said to be the country's first such detention. Officers who raided the home of Yoshitomo Imura, a 27-year-old college employee, confiscated five weapons, two of which had the potential to fire lethal bullets.

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Messages written on yellow paper ships left at a memorial for the victims of the 'Sewol' ferry in Seoul. Recovery teams should try to wrap up their search for bodies from South Korea's ferry disaster by the weekend, Prime Minister Chung Hong-won said three weeks after the disaster



A worker on the production line at Panini's factory in Tambore, an industrial suburb north of Sao Paulo, where Fifa's Brazil World Cup stickers and albums are produced. The World Cup is just weeks away and millions of fans are putting down their iPads to collect and trade soccer stickers, a decades-old hobby that has defied the digital age.



A mock 'missing persons' poster with a picture of Rob Ford is seen in Toronto. The city mayor, who said last month he would take time off to get treatment for an alcohol problem, described rehab as 'amazing' and said he would return in time for the forthcoming city election

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Singer Conchita Wurst representing Austria performs the song 'Rise Like a Phoenix' during a rehearsal for the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark. Challenging conceptions of masculine and feminine beauty, Wurst seems to have stolen the limelight ahead of the televised extravaganza, with a potential worldwide audience of some 170 million viewers



Actors perform during a concert of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army in Moscow, Russia. The concert commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union's Red Army over Nazi-Germany in World War Two

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Chicago White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu shows his glove to first base umpire Marvin Hudson, after catching a fly ball off the bat of Chicago Cubs' Darwin Barney in the seats, during the second inning of an interleague baseball gam in Chicago



Clusters NGC 2024 can be found in the centre of the so-called Flame Nebula, about 1,400 light years from Earth. In this image, X-rays from Chandra are seen as purple, while infrared data from Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope are colored red, green, and blue. A study of NGC 2024 and the Orion Nebula Cluster, another region where many stars are forming, suggest that the stars on the outskirts of these clusters are older than those in the central regions, according to NASA.



A Somali meat vendor waits for customers in a market in Hudur two months after the town was liberated from al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels by the Ethiopian contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia. While the situation in the town is now largely peaceful, the disruption of supply routes into Hudur by Shebab has caused massive food shortages in the town. War-torn Somalia risks sliding back into acute crisis less than three years after being hit by a devastating famine, aid agencies warned.



US President Barack Obama talks with a family as he visits the tornado devastated town of Vilonia, Arkansas. The tornadoes were part of a storm system that blew through the Southern and Midwestern United States earlier this week, killing at least 35 people. Mr Obama has already declared a major disaster in Arkansas and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts

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Crews removed an airplane's wreckage from a house Tuesday after it crashed in a Denver suburb.

The pilot walked away uninjured after the aircraft crashed into an unoccupied home in Northglenn, Colo., on Monday afternoon, setting the building on fire, authorities said.





The single-engine airplane was pulling an advertising banner

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A lone house is seen at a construction site of an urban transformation project in Fikirtepe, an Istanbul neighborhood, in the Asian part of the city, May 7, 2014. The house belongs to a family who has refused to give its approval for the demolishment of the building, bringing the transformation project to a standstill.



A birdhouse is seen outside the 'Crazy House', which is completely built upside-down, in the village of Affoldern, Germany, May 7, 2014.



U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Israel's President Shimon Peres speak during their meeting in Jerusalem May 7, 2014.



A pink bicycle is strapped to a fishing boat near the village of Cushendall in Northern Ireland May 7, 2014. The bicycle has been painted pink to welcome the arrival of the Giro d'Italia cycle race, whose race leader wears a pink jersey.

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Do pigs fly?: Well, these porkers (probably) don't have a choice as they are cajoled into leaping off a diving board into a pool at a holiday resort in Wenchang city, Hainan, China where inevitably they will end up doing a...



...pork belly flop

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Peter Besenyei of Hungary flys against the iconic Putra Mosque during a demo flight in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Malaysia's Putrajaya will host for Round 3 of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship on 17 and 18 May.



Constable Yasa Amerat (left) and Constable Craig Pearson pictured in their police car wearing body-worn video (BWV) cameras, ahead of a year-long pilot scheme by the Metropolitan police, at Kentish Town in London

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World War Two veterans march through the streets of Jerusalem, Israel, to mark the anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.



South Korean police detain students taking part in a protest on a statue of King Sejong the Great calling on President Park Geun-hye to resign over the Sewol ferry disaster.

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Artist Trina Merry spent around nine hours painstakingly painting 17 naked models and forming them into a living, breathing Nepalese temple in San Jose, California. The work has been released by Trina to promote her partnership with charity Beyond the Four Walls - an organization that works with young women in Nepal to help improve their lives



A paddy frog shelters under a leaf to escape a rain-shower in Borneo, Indonesia



Chinese soldiers endure jets of water as they wrestle with heavy logs during training in Jinan

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Medical staff from Handan City 2nd Hospital in northern China learn how to smile by holding sticks in their mouths



Bolivarian National Guard soldiers load a truck with students belongings as they dismantle student encampments outside of UN headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela

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An anti-government protester takes part in a protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas. Venezuelan security forces on Thursday rounded up hundreds of youth activists and dismantled camps set up as part of protests against President Nicolas Maduro, leading angry residents to stage demonstrations in backlash against the move. Pre-dawn raids by National Guard troops broke up four tent camps maintained by student activists as part of a three-month wave of protests that have steadily waned over recent weeks even as sporadic clashes continue



Ovi of Paula Seling & Ovi from Romania performs on stage during a semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Workers from the Royal Ontario Museum begin dissection of a 82 foot (24m) blue whale in Woody Point, Newfoundland. The whale is thought to be one of a group of blue whales that died several weeks ago in heavy ice off Newfoundland's Western coast. It is now emitting an odour that's hard to ignore



A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico on Thursday, causing this road in Tecpan de Galeana to collapse

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Kara Walker's 'Subtlety' installation sits inside the former Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn, New York, USA. The installation features a 35-foot-tall sculpture of a woman in a sphinx pose as well as smaller child-like figures, some made from sugar and others made from resin



Angelina Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt arrive for a special Maleficent costume display at Kensington Palace in London, ahead of the film's release on 28 May



Scientists have taken a considerable step forward in modelling galaxy formation. This simulation, the most accurate ever, shows dark matter density, left, transitioning to gas density, right, in a simulation of the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang

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A singer drinks from a huge bowl of beer on-stage as he pays tribute to the customers after performing at an entertainment club in Beijing, China



A young boy is carried by a rescue worker as Dallas Police and Fire Department members take part in a high water rescue near Glen Oaks and Brook Valley in Dallas, Texas, USA. According to Dallas police, a group of students who were skipping school were trapped in a drainage tunnel along a tributary of Woody Branch. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said the five teenagers rescued from the water were skipping school.



Queen Mary 2 joins Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria. Southampton is the only place in the world to have hosted the Three Queens three times. Three 'royal' luxury cruise liners sailed side-by-side to mark the 10th birthday of the flagship Queen Mary 2.

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An athlete dives from Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series platform during a training session in Havana, Cuba. The world's best cliff divers will jump from the 27-metre platform positioned on the historic Morro Castle in Havana on Saturday in the first of the competitions



Wild ducklings eat out of a feeder on a high rise apartment roofdeck on the Upper East Side section of New York, USA. These duckings, 16 that were born a week ago, are enjoying the hospitality of a 12th-floor deck between Madison and Park avenues that has been home to wild ducklings for the last four years



Balloons are inflated during the 40th Annual Balloon Stampede in Walla Walla, Washington, USA



A burning Chilean riot police officer trips and falls as he and other officers run from a petrol bomb thrown by protesters in violent clashes during a student march in Santiago

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One of Luo Qianxi's stomach paintings. Throughout her pregnancy a Chinese woman has painted pictures of her growing baby on her stomach. Luo, from Beijing, said she came up the idea as she is painter. "Some people writes pregnancy diaries or take pictures to record the process, while I chose to paint."



The 83-year-old Formula One magnate Bernie Ecclestone and his lawyers Sven Thomas, Andreas Weitzell, Norbert Scharf and Ecclestone's wife Fabiana arrive for the third day of his trial for bribery in Munich, Germany

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More royalty: A jolly-looking Queen attends the Order of Bath service at Westminster Abbey in London



In her hat decorated with pins showing portraits of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a Thai anti-government protester during a rally ouside the Government House in Bangkok. Police fired tear gas at anti-government protesters outside the Police Club, injuring four people amid a day of protests around the city

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Residents salute as the hearse carrying the coffin for Sgt. Shawn Farrell passes following a funeral in his hometown of Accord, N.Y., on May 8. Sgt. Farrell, 24, was killed on April 28 from wounds suffered during a firefight in Afghanistan. Farrell was a member of the Army 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum. He was married with no children.

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Debris lie on a deserted street in Homs, Syria, on May 8, 2014 after Syrian government forces regained control of rebel-controlled areas.

After holding the city of Homs for nearly two years, close to 1,200 rebel fighters boarded buses which took them out of the "capital of the revolution" in convoys on Wednesday and Thursday. They were driven to rebel-held territory outside the city under a cease-fire deal agreed between the insurgents and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

Syrian forces say they will take full control over Homs, a city once vibrant with pro-democracy crowds but now associated with images of ruin that epitomize the brutality of Syria's civil war

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Thousands of Russian troops march in Red Square in a show of military strength marking the 69th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany