
Louisville, Ky. — At Churchill Downs, Kentucky Derby entrant Daddy Nose Best grazes after a morning workout.
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Yeovil, England — Girls from the Holy Trinity Yeovil Brownies Hamdon Division cheer the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who visited the southwest of England as part of their Diamond Jubilee Tour of the country.
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Disentis, Switzerland — Ernst Bromeis eases into icy Toma Lake, at 7,693 feet above sea level. Bromeis is swimming, wading and using other means to trace the Rhine 764 miles from its source, Lake Toma, to its mouth near Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The project is called "The blue wonder - River Rhine 2012."
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Herat, Afghanistan — Former Taliban fighters display their weapons as they join Afghan government forces during a ceremony.
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — Smoke, dust and sand rise as missiles fired from fighter jets roil the desert during joint maneuvers with the French army.
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Cairo — In the Abbassiya district, protesters beat a man they accused of attacking them. The anti-military protest, held near the defense ministry, turned deadly when it was attacked. There are reports of 12 to 20 people killed.
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Cairo — Anti-military protesters assist a participant wounded when a demonstration in the Abbassiya district was beset by attackers.
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Teba, Spain — The remains of residents executed by forces loyal to Gen. Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) are uncovered from an unmarked mass grave. Some 125 citizens of the small town were put in front of firing squads during and after the war.Teba's clandestine graveyard might be the largest in Spain.
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Seoul — Demonstrators rally against the import of U.S. beef. Estimates put the crowd at some 10,000 people.
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Vatican City, Vatican — Pope Benedict XVI embraces a child at the end of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's.
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Bassiknou, Mauritania — Malian children play in the M'bere refugee camp near Bassiknou in the Nema region of southwest Mauritania.
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Buraburi, India — A sandal is seen near the wreckage of a ferry as rescuers search the Brahmaputra River at Buraburi village. The heavily packed ferry broke apart in a sudden storm late Monday, leaving more than a 100 people dead and more than 100 missing.
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Shanghai — At the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Grand Slam, the U.S.' Misty May-Treanor dives for the ball during a first-round match as she and Kerri Walsh face Germany's Jana Kohler and Julia Sude.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press
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