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Prime Minister Stephen Harper waves to the crowd following his speech on election night in Calgary, Alberta, Monday, May 2, 2011. Harper won his coveted majority government in elections Monday.
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Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, left, puts up a shot as Dallas Mavericks guard DeShawn Stevenson defends in Game 1 of a second-round NBA playoff basketball series, Monday, May 2, 2011, in Los Angeles.
Mark Terrill Associated Press
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A poster showing the Statue of Liberty holding the head of Osama bin Laden is taped to Francisco Miranda's clothes as he sells flags at ground zero in New York, Monday, May 2, 2011. Joyous at the release of a decade's frustration, Americans streamed to the site of the World Trade Center, the gates of the White House and smaller but no less jubilant gatherings across the nation to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden cheering, waving flags and belting the national anthem.
Seth Wenig Associated Press
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Utility companies set new power poles in Pratt City, Ala., Tuesday, May 3, 2011, as storms move into the area already severely damaged by tornados the week before.
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The Damascus-based leader of Hamas Khaled Mashaal, left, and Arab League chief Amr Moussa, right, speak to the media during a press conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Fifteen Palestinian factions, including militant Islamic groups, endorsed a reconciliation deal Tuesday meant to end a four-year rift between the two major Palestinian political movements, Hamas and Fatah.
Khalil Hamra Associated Press
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British actor Robert Pattinson arrives for the UK film premiere Water For Elephants at the Westfield centre in west London, Tuesday, May 3, 2011.
Joel Ryan Associated Press
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Benny, a dog owned by the Phelps family, jumps over a puddle on their farm in Pembroke, N.Y., Wednesday, May 4, 2011. On soggy New York farms, tractors are sitting idle and their owners are growing anxious waiting for skies to clear in this unusually wet spring.
David Duprey Associated Press
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Indian children cool themselves at a water fountain on a hot afternoon in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Most parts of northern India are experiencing temperatures above 40 degrees celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
Tsering Topgyal Associated Press
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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley laughs as he presides over his final City Council meeting, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 in Chicago. Daley, the longest serving mayor in Chicago history and one of the most powerful mayors in recent American history announced last Fall that he would not seek a seventh term, will be succeeded by Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff who quit his job in President Barack Obama's administration to return to Chicago to run. Emanuel is scheduled to be sworn in May 16.
M. Green Associated Press
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A man dressed as a female Mexican rebel takes part in a recreation of the Battle of Puebla during "Cinco de Mayo" celebrations in Mexico City, Thursday, May 5, 2011. On May 5, 1862, Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated French troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla, in Puebla, central Mexico.
Marco Ugarte Associated Press
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A youth sits on stacked tires next to a rooster perched on an old car seat in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday May 5, 2011.
Brennan Linsley Associated Press
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A boy walks through an open sewer choked with garbage, rooting pigs visible in the background, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday May 5, 2011. As the rainy season begins in Haiti, local and international health experts are concerned about the spread of water-borne diseases including cholera.
Brennan Linsley Associated Press
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Belarusians celebrate the pagan ceremonial Yurya, in the village of Pogost, some 250 km (155 miles) south of Minsk, Friday, May 6, 2011. This annual traditional ceremony marking the pagan god Yurya is devoted to good future harvests.
Sergei Grits Associated Press
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Children gestures as they pose, wearing ammunition belts, during Friday prayers, in Ajdabiya, Libya, Friday, May 6, 2011.
Rodrigo Abd Associated Press
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Workers clean the side of the One Churchill Place skyscraper, of which 32 floors serve as the headquarters of Barclays Bank, in the Canary Wharf business district of London, Friday, May 6, 2011.
Matt Dunham Associated Press