Selected and fresh photos from around the web.
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Editor's pick
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An illustration of the Sleipner natural gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea which pumps natural gas (green) to the surface and then reinjects excess carbon dioxide (blue) back into porous rocks for burial as part of a plan to slow global warming. The field, the longest-running commercial greenhouse gas burial project in the world, has pumped 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the subsea reservoir since it started in 1996, equivalent to about a fifth of Norway's annual carbon dioxide output.
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Real Madrid football club players celebrate their 31st league title win in Madrid on May 4, 2008. Thousands of Real Madrid fans converged on the famous Cibeles fountain in the Spanish capital on May 4 to celebrate their team's 31st league title after a 2-1 win over Osasuna.
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People watch cockfighting during May Day holidays in Tongguan county, Yunnan province May 3, 2008.
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Press Freedom campaigners cover their mouths with white towels during a press conference in Hong Kong on April 30, 2008 ahead of the World Press Freedom Day event May 1 to 3. In the run up to the 100-day countdown of the Beijing Olympics, renowned writers and artists are gathering in the territory for a two-day seminar and an arts fair to send a message to the Chinese government of making Freedom of Expression Dream a reality in China.
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Hot off the wire
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Australia's Brumbies Tyron Smith, right, avoids a tackle from Bulls Pierre Spies, left, during the Super 14 rugby match at the Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday May 9, 2008.
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to the media while on a visit to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, May 9, 2008. Ban urged Myanmar's military government on Friday to allow aid and relief workers into the Cyclone Nargis-hit country "without hindrance," saying the survival of its people was at stake.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL - MAY 09: Bernhard Langer of Germany rests on his putter during the second round of THE PLAYERS Championship on THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass on May 9, 2008 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
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Recently starred
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Shown is the Benjamin Franklin Bridge through a broken window in an unoccupied condominium unit in Philadelphia , Friday, March 14, 2008. As America's housing market has foundered, homeowners who bought into newly rising projects at just the wrong time have found themselves marooned in stalled, abandoned or largely unoccupied developments with little place to turn, placing a strain on them and municipalities forced to pick up the pieces.
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Shown is the Benjamin Franklin Bridge through a broken window in an unoccupied condominium unit in Philadelphia , Friday, March 14, 2008. As America's housing market has foundered, homeowners who bought into newly rising projects at just the wrong time have found themselves marooned in stalled, abandoned or largely unoccupied developments with little place to turn, placing a strain on them and municipalities forced to pick up the pieces.
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Shown is the Benjamin Franklin Bridge through a broken window in an unoccupied condominium unit in Philadelphia , Friday, March 14, 2008. As America's housing market has foundered, homeowners who bought into newly rising projects at just the wrong time have found themselves marooned in stalled, abandoned or largely unoccupied developments with little place to turn, placing a strain on them and municipalities forced to pick up the pieces.
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The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, John Holmes (C), tours a camp where Kenyans who have been displaced by post election ethnic violence have sought refuge in Nairobi on February 10, 2008. More than 1,000 people have been killed and 300,000 displaced in rioting, tribal violence and police raids since the December 27, 2007 elections that President Mwai Kibaki officially won, but the opposition claims was rigged. Holmes is in a three-days mission to assess the humanitarian situation in the country.
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