Today in photos (May 23)

View a gallery of photos taken around the world on Monday, May 23, 2011.

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Mon., May 23, 2011

In this photo provide by the Chilean investigative police, Legal Medical Service experts exhume the coffin of Chile's late President Salvador Allende in Santiago, Chile, Monday May 23, 2011. Nearly 38 years after Chile's former president died in a military coup, his body is being exhumed with the hope that forensics can solve a mystery: whether Allende committed suicide or was murdered by the troops who mounted Gen. Augusto Pinochet's attack on the presidential palace.

Policia Investigaciones Policia De Investigaciones
France's Finance and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde speaks to journalists during a G20 Globalization conference in Paris, France, Monday May 23, 2011. The Netherlands has thrown its support behind French finance minister Christine Lagarde as the next head of the International Monetary Fund.

Bob Edme Ap Pool
A rescue team is seen near to Kirkjubaearklaustur, approx. 260 km from Reykjavik, Iceland, Monday, May 23, 2011. A dense cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano was being blown toward Scotland Monday, forcing two airlines to cancel their flights, U.S. President Barack Obama to cut short his visit to Ireland and carriers across Europe to fear a repeat of the huge disruptions that stranded millions of passengers a year ago.

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Farmers Thormar Eller and Henny Hrund go to check their livestock as an ash cloud is seen in background, near Kirkjubaearklaustur, approx. 260 km from Reykjavik, Iceland, Monday, May 23, 2011. A dense cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano was being blown toward Scotland Monday, forcing two airlines to cancel their flights, U.S. President Barack Obama to cut short his visit to Ireland and carriers across Europe to fear a repeat of the huge disruptions that stranded millions of passengers a year ago.

Brynjar Gauti Associated Press
In this image taken from TV onlookers watch as the presidential state car of U.S. President Barack Obama is seen as it appears to get stuck on the ramp and comes to a halt as it drives out of the US Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, Monday May 23, 2011.
Anti-government protestors, attend noon prayers during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May 23, 2011.

Hani Mohammed Associated Press
A shelf cloud containing a thunderstorm approaches a tornado-ravaged neighborhood in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital, hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 89 people.

Charlie Riedel Associated Press
Dharun Ravi, center, walks into the Middlesex County Courthouse for a hearing in the webcam-spying case involving the suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi, Monday, May 23, 2011, in New Brunswick, N.J. Ravi is one of two former Rutgers students accused of spying on Clementi's intimate encounter with another man days before the classmate committed suicide.

Julio Cortez Associated Press