Today in photos (May 20)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Monday, May 20, 2013.

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Mon., May 20, 2013

Two Chelsea pensioners, enjoy a coffee break as Clara Nicholson, age 10, serves cakes, at a stand to celebrate 100 years of Chelsea Flower show being in the Royal Hospital Grounds, during the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 20, 2013. Chelsea Flower Show celebrates its centenary anniversary this year. The garden design is inspired by the story of Stoke-on-Trent�s journey from its rich industrial past to its present transformation into a modern contemporary city.

Sang Tan Associated Press
Beachgoers fish from a concrete platform next to the popular beach of Paleo Faliro in southern Athens on Monday, May 20, 2013. Greece is in the grip of an early heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) on Monday.

Thanassis Stavrakis Associated Press
Stray dogs sleep in the premises of a railway station to escape the heat in Allahabad, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Severe heat conditions are prevailing across northern India with temperatures soaring past 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) at several places.

Rajesh Singh Associated Press
Egyptian border policeman read an Egyptian newspaper reporting on the abduction of their colleagues last Thursday, at the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Rafah, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013. Security officials said 17 military and more than 20 police armored vehicles were deployed in northern Sinai Monday as a response to the kidnapping by suspected militants of six policemen and a border guard there last Thursday. It was not clear if they deployed to rescue the hostages, to make a show of force to intimidate their captors, or for another reason.

Roger Anis El Shorouk Newspaper
North Korean nurses sing and play the accordion while children dance during an event to start a campaign to give Vitamin A supplements and deworming pills to children at a nursery school in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Child Health Day, Monday, May 20, 2013. UNICEF and North Korean government agencies are collaborating in the campaign to assist 1.7 million children across the country under the age of five.

David Guttenfelder Associated Press
A Sri Lankan vegetable seller pushes a bicycle as it rains in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 20, 2013.

Eranga Jayawardena Associated Press