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Karl Lagerfeld and Diane Kruger auction off items for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit during the 65th Cannes film festival in Cap d'Antibes, southern France, on Thursday. The gala raised a record-breaking $11 million for AIDS research, organizers said Friday. (Associated Press)
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Russian police detain gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev during a demonstration in Moscow on Sunday, May 27, 2012, to demand the right to hold a gay pride parade. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Neighbors in Northeast Philadelphia react as police remove the bodies of toddler twins on Thursday May 24, 2012, after they were found dead in their home. Police say the 18-month-old boy and girl appear to have died of suffocation and the mother is in custody. Police say their 41-year-old mother attempted to take her own life by slitting her wrists and they believe she gave some kind of prescription pills to her 4-year-old daughter. The 4-year-old girl is hospitalized. Information on her condition wasn't available. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)
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Members of a religious group stand in front of a picture of pop star Lady Gaga as they hold a protest against her concert near the venue in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines, on Monday May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Young workers are having a hard time getting even entry-level jobs. McDonald's managers, who once hired a lot of first-time workers, now can choose older employees with more experience who don't have to wait until classes end to show up. (Associated Press)
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A man in a wheelchair shouts slogans outside the Interior Ministry during a protest Thursday in Athens demanding welfare payments. People with disabilities have not received payments for two months. Greece, which has been mired in a financial crisis for 2 1/2 years, has avoided bankruptcy by receiving loans. (Associated Press)
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Loretta Nowakowski, president of the Democratic Club at the Greenspring retirement commmunity in Springfield, chats with Democratic Senate hopeful Tim Kaine, who was there to court seniors. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Tensions between the Chinese people and foreigners – countries and visitors alike – are on the rise. Examples range from Chinese protesters (above) voicing their anger with the Philippines at the embassy in Beijing to a foreign woman teasing a young boy in Tiananmen Square (top). Many view the antagonism as an attempt by China's government to put the spotlight on outsiders as a distraction from the slowing economy, a high-level political scandal and a blind activist's daring flight into U.S. custody. (Associated Press)
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Michael Alvarez Montoya (right), originally of El Salvador, looks up as he waits to go on stage to receive his certificate of citizenship from Alejandro Mayorkas, director of U.S. Citieznship and Immigration Services, at a naturalization ceremony Thursday, May 24, 2012 at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
