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Buddhist devotees visit the landmark Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, on Myanmar's New Year's Day, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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Japan Aquarium A Green sawfish swims at Shinagawa Aqua Stadium aquarium in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Belarus Paper La... In this photo taken with a fisheye lens and long exposure young people launch paper lanterns to the evening sky during the shooting of a music video on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, late Wednesday, April 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
North Korea Cele... A North Korean security guard watches fireworks in Pyongyang to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the North Korean founder Kim Il Sung on Sunday, April 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Ireland Titanic ... Six-year old Alex Warouaon from Chicago, USA, who's great-great-great-grandfather died in the Titanic disaster, touches his name Anthony Frost, on the Titanic Memorial Plaque during the service at Belfast City Hall, Northern Ireland, Sunday, April 15, 2012, one-hundred years after the Titanic sank. The Titanic passenger liner was built in Belfast, and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage from England to New York, USA, in the early hours of April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg and over 1,500 people perished in the sinking. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Songkran Thai Ne... Children play in the water at the Songkran and Thai Food Festival held at Wat Buddharangs in Homestead, Fla. Sunday, April 15, 2012. The Songkran Festival is the traditional Thai New Year, and is celebrated with a religious ceremony and public festivities. People enjoy splashing water on each other as they believe that water will wash away bad luck, and splashing water over friends or anyone will give them a New Year blessing. When the young pour scented water on their elder's hands, the elders, in return, wish them good health, happiness and prosperity. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
Severe Weather i... A tornado forms and touches down north of Soloman, Kan., Saturday, April 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Nepal New Year F... Nepalese devotees throw vermilion powder on each other during Sindur Jatra festival in Thimi, on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 14, 2012. Sindur Jatra Festival, is celebrated to welcome the advent of spring and the New Year. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Persian Day Para... Dancers participate in the Persian Day Parade in New York, April 15, 2012. (REUTERS/Keith Bedford)
South Korea Budd... A South Korean worker hangs lanterns to prepare for the celebration of the upcoming birthday of Buddha on May 28 at the Chogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 16, 2012. About one-third of South Korea's 48 million people are Buddhists. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Vatican Pope Bir... In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Children dressed in the traditional Bavarian costumes dance for Pope Benedict XVI on the occasion of Pontiff's 85th birthday celebrations in the Clementine hall at the Vatican, Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)
Boston Marathon Runners start the 116th running of the Boston Marathon, in Hopkinton, Mass., Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)
Germany Nazi Con... Nazi concentration camp survivor Albert van Hoey of Belgium reacts with a rose in his hand during the commemoration ceremonies for the 67th anniversary of the liberation of former Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora near Nordhausen, central Germany, Monday, April 16, 2012. Hitler's V-2 rocket has been produced in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
Japan Tallest To... The Tokyo Sky Tree soars in Tokyo Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The world's tallest freestanding broadcast structure that stands 634-meter (2,080-foot) will open to the public in May. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Iran National Ar... Iranian troops march during a military parade commemorating National Army Day in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Gundam Model Journalists look at a full-size model of Japan's popular robot animation character Gundam standing in front of a new shopping mall in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront area Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The 18-meter (60-foot)-tall Gundam greets shoppers at Diver City Tokyo Plaza which opens on Thursday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Monte Carlo Tenn... Andy Murray of Great Britain plays a return to Serbia's Viktor Troicki, during their match of the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament in Monaco, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
Germany Art Fair... A man watches artwork in the shape of a disco skull by French artist Bruno Peinado at the art fair in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Around 200 leading international galleries show and sell selected top 20th and 21st century artworks at the ART COLOGNE until April 22. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Germany Asparagu... Seasonal asparagus harvesters work on their vegetable crops near Elsholz, southwest of Berlin, Germany, in this aerial photo taken on Tuesday, April 17, 2012.(AP Photo/dapd, Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert)
Myanmar New Year... Buddhist devotees visit the landmark Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, on Myanmar's New Year's Day, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
Space Shuttle Di... Space shuttle Discovery atop a 747 carrier jet departs the Kennedy Space Center, Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Discovery is being transported to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Lovers' Locks Thousands of padlocks are fixed by lovers at a fence on a pedestrian bridge over the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Lovers want to fix their love with the lock when they throw the key into the river below. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Welcoming Honour... Honour guards stand during a welcome ceremony for Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil at the Presidential Palace in Algiers April 16, 2012. Abdel Jalil is on the second day of his official visit in Algeria. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)
South Korea Bull... Kang Sang-gi pulls his bull Ja Mi Sung to an arena to fight against its opponent Dae Gam during the 2012 Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. About 100 bulls are taking part in the five-day festival. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Casualty Return An Army carry team salutes a vehicle transporting a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Tanner S. Higgins Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Higgins, 23, of Yantis, Texas, died April 14, 2012 in Logar province, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
100 Days to Olym... The Olympic rings made up of 25,000 flowers are displayed at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London to mark the 100 days to go to the start of London 2012 Olympics, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
War of 1812 Bice... A boat spraying colored water escorts the USCG Barque Eagle tall ship as it arrives in the Mississippi River at the port of New Orleans as part of weeklong festivities commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The event, which starts four years of events around the nation, began Tuesday with a parade of tall ships and modern Navy vessels sailing up the Mississippi River into the Port of New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Vanity Fair Trib... The State Supreme Courthouse's exterior is set up for the Vanity Fair Tribeca Film Festival party on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Volvo Ocean Race... CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand, skippered by Chris Nicholson from Australia, are followed by spectators boats as they finish leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, from Auckland, New Zealand, to Itajai, Brazil. on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. CAMPER completed the leg to claim fourth place and collect a vital 15 points 31 days after they left Auckland. (Paul Todd/Volvo Ocean Race photo via AP Images)
India Train Commuters travel hanging from an overcrowded local train in Mumbai’s Central line in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Train services were disrupted following a midnight fire in a signal cabin. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
Malaysia Welcomi... Malaysian army soldiers march during a welcoming ceremony for Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev at Parliament House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
Bald Eagle Eagle... Two bald eagle eaglets sit in their nest as their mother looks for food, Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at Gray's Lake Park in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Germany Art Exhi... A man stands inside the art work 'Five Minutes Of Pure Sculpture' by British artist Anthony McCall at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin, Thursday, April 19, 2012. Anthony Anthony McCall's work will be used at the official arts festival running alongside the London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012. The exhibition in Berlin will run from April 20. until August 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Mexico Volcano A plume of ash and steam rise from Popocatepetl volcano seen from San Andres Cholula, Mexico, Wednesday April 18, 2012. Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano is continuing to spout gases and hot rock fragments and it is dusting towns on its flanks with volcanic ash. (AP Photo)
Vertical Fashion... A model shows off a fashion creation by Ted Baker London as he rappels down a 24-story-high side of the new Revere Hotel Boston Common during a fashion show held to commemorate the opening of the newly renovated hotel, in Boston, Thursday, April 18, 2012. Rock climbers and dancers modeled spring and summer creations by the designer as they performed in the vertical fashion show. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Macedonia Holoca... An elderly man looks at the portraits of Macedonian Jews who were killed in the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, displayed in the Holocaust Memorial center of the Jews of Macedonia in the country's capital Skopje, on Thursday, April 19, 2012. Macedonia is marking the annual remembrance day for the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
Germany Weather Rape is in blossom under a blue sky with clouds on Thursday, April 19, 2012. Changing weather with sun, rain and wind is forecasted for Germany during the next days. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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Nepal Record Att... Nepal's Thaneshwor Guragain spins a basketball on a toothbrush during his attempt to break the Guinness World Record set by Thomas Connors of the U.K., in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 19, 2012. Guragain reportedly spun the ball for 22.4 seconds in the attempt to break the existing record of Connors which is 13.5 seconds. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
India Missile Te... In this photo released by Indian Ministry of Defense, India’s Agni-V missile, with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), lifts off from the launch pad at Wheeler Island off India's east coast, Thursday, April 19, 2012. India announced Thursday that it had successfully test launched a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it, for the first time, the capability of striking the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai. (AP Photo/Indian Ministry of Defense)
Germany Zoo Peng... A penguin dives into the water in their pond at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, April 20, 2012.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Germany Exhibiti... The shadow of German artist Gerhard Mantz falls into his video installation 'Future Memory Number 4' during a press preview at the exhibition 'Abstract Confusion' at the Kunsthalle (Art Hall) in Erfurt, central Germany, on Friday, April 20, 2012. The exhibition traces certain abstract tendencies in visual art with 20 different artistic positions, which have emerged in the last ten years. The exhibition starts on April 22, 2012 and lasts until June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
North Korea Sold... North Korean soldiers chant at Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang, North Korea, during a rally denouncing South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Friday, April 20, 2012. North Koreans said Lee's radio comments about North Korea last week "hurt the dignity" of the North Korean people. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Egypt Protesters Egyptian protesters attend Friday prayers during a rally in Tahrir square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 20, 2012. Tens of thousands of protesters packed Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square on Friday in the biggest demonstration in months against the ruling military, aimed at stepping up pressure on the generals to hand over power to civilians and bar ex-regime members from running in upcoming presidential elections.(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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India Art Security officers stand guard near an installation titled "Line of Control" by Indian artist Subodh Gupta in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 20, 2012. The installation made of steel utensils is in the shape of a giant mushroom cloud referring to the dust-cloud of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while also literally alluding to the contested India-Pakistan border, according to a press release. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
China Camera Fai... A Chinese girl poses in front of a mural of a city view depicted by using hundreds of color portrait photos during the China Photograph and Electrical Imaging Fair in Beijing, Friday, April. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Oklahoma City Bo... Bagpiper Kevin M. Donnelly marches past the Field of Chairs during the 17th annual Remembrance Ceremony at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, in Oklahoma City, Thursday, April 19, 2012. Timothy McVeigh was convicted on federal murder charges for the 1995 deadly bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building and was executed in 2001. The bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil before the 9/11 attacks.(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, Pool)
Paraguay America... Chamacoco Indian shaman Ramon Zeballos of the Bahia Negra region sings during an American Indian Day celebration at the Plaza de Armas public downtown square in Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday April 19, 2012. The day was established in 1940 at the American Indian Conference in Patzcuaro, Mexico, to safeguard and perpetuate American native cultures and to remember the communities that inhabited the Americas' territory before the arrival of the Spanish. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Shuttle Enterpri... In this photo provided by NASA, the space shuttle Enterprise rests atop of the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for transport to New York at Washington Dulles International Airport, Friday, April 20, 2012, in Sterling, Va. Enterprise is expected to go on display at the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum in New York. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)