Best pictures of the week: May 22, 2015 - MSN.com

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London, England
Temporary duck lanes have been painted on busy towpaths in London, Birmingham and Manchester to highlight the narrowness of the space that is shared by a range of people and wildlife on May 15, 2015 in London, England.





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Andaman Sea, Thailand
Rohingya migrants pass food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter to others aboard a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman sea on May 14, 2015. A boat crammed with scores of Rohingya migrants -- including many young children -- was found drifting in Thai waters on May 14, with passengers saying several people had died over the last few days.





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Reunion, France
A helicopter flies overhead as lava flows out of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano as it erupts on May 17, 2015 on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The Piton de la Fournaise started to erupt early on May 17, with its last eruption dating back to February 4.





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Bucharest, Romania
An elderly woman walks by posters in front of downtown shops on May 20, 2015.





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Bujumbura, Burundi
A protester prepares to throw a stone at a policeman during a protest against Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza and his bid for a third term on May 21, 2015.





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St. Polten, Austria
Participants await the start of the race during the Ironman 70.3: St. Polten on May 17, 2015.





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Jammu, India
A pedestrian walks with an umbrella as lightning strikes during an evening thunderstorm on May 14, 2015.





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Cincinnati, Ohio
Brandon Crawford of the San Francisco Giants steals second base ahead of the throw to Brandon Phillips #4 of the Cincinnati Reds in the second inning of the game at Great American Ball Park on May 15, 2015.





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Baku, Azerbaijan
A police officer and a fire fighter help child victim of an apartment building fire on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Azerbaijani officials say 16 people have died and more than 50 have been injured in a fire at an apartment building.





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Qingdao, China
This photo taken on May 15, 2015 shows a raindrop-covered damselfly resting on a flower.

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Langsa, Indonesia
A rescued Rohingya woman (R) reads a copy of the Quran at a holding facility for rescued migrants on May 19, 2015.





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Kasimovo, Russia
A man bows to a bust of Russian president Vladimir Putin on Saturday, May 16, 2015. The bust made of some synthetic material that looked like bronze featured Putin in an image of a Roman emperor dressed in toga.





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Siauliai, Lithuania
A Norwegian Air Force F-16 fighter plane patrols over the Baltics during a NATO air policing mission from Zokniai air base on May 20, 2015.





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Baghdad, Iraq
An Iraqi Sunni displaced woman, who fled the violence in the city of Ramadi carries her child on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq May 19, 2015. Iraqi security forces on Tuesday deployed tanks and artillery around Ramadi to confront Islamic State fighters who have captured the city in a major defeat for the Baghdad government and its Western backers.





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Guimaraes, Portugal
In this May 17 2015 photo, a riot policeman holds a crying boy as his father is attacked by other policemen with batons, right, outside of a stadium. Prosecutors are investigating a policeman who beat a man in front of his young children and punched their grandfather, sparking a national scandal.





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Seoul, South Korea
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, holds 8-month-old Andrew Belz as he poses for photos with the children of U.S. troops and U.S. Embassy personnel at Collier Field House on Monday, May 18, 2015.





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Langsa, Indonesia
Ethnic Rohingya men take a nap on a pile of clothes donated by local residents at a temporary shelter on Sunday, May 17, 2015. Boatloads of more than 2,000 migrants — ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar and Bangladeshis trying to escape poverty — have landed in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in recent weeks. Aid groups estimate that thousands more are stranded at sea after a crackdown on human traffickers prompted captains and smugglers to abandon their human cargo.





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Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England
Heavy storm clouds gather over the beach and pier at Saltburn by the Sea in Cleveland





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Ahmedabad, India
A girl bathes to cool off herself with water that is leaking from a broken pipe valve on a hot summer day on May 18, 2015. Temperature in Ahmedabad on Monday reached 44 degrees Celsius (111.2 degrees Fahrenheit), according to India's metrological department website.





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Baghdad, Iraq
Shi'ite pilgrims carry a mock coffin during a symbolic funeral marking the death anniversary of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim at the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in Baghdad's Kadhimiya district on May 14, 2015. Every year, thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims gather at the shrine to commemorate the death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, one of the 12 imams of Shi'ite, who was imprisoned for four years and poisoned by then-ruler Harun al-Rashid in 795 AD.

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Sydney, Australia
Gorilla mother Frala is seen holding her new born baby, which is still to be named as keepers are yet to determine the baby gorillas sex, at Taronga Zoo on May 19, 2015.





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Xianyang, China
A bus is seen after overturning and falling into a valley on May 16, 2015. At least 35 people were killed in the accident when the bus carrying 46 people plunged into a ravine on Friday, Xinhua News Agency reported.





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Salt Lake City, Utah
Former Massachusetts Governor and two-time presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) fights five-time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield during their boxing match on May 15, 2015. The two boxed to benefit the medical charity CharityVision.





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Panama City, Panama
Visitors enjoy a tour organized by the Panama Canal to the expansion project on May 17, 2015. Panama Canal Authority hosted a general public tour of the new, expanded locks on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal. Visitors went inside the new locks before they will be filled with water.





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London, England
A model wears a floral head dress as she promotes a chain of garden centres at the Royal Horticultural Soceity's Chelsea Flower Show on May 18, 2015.





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Kuala Langsa, Indonesia
A Bangladeshi migrant who recently arrived in Indonesia by boat sits inside a shelter after having a haircut on May 19, 2015. United Nations agencies urged Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand on Tuesday to step up sea rescue operations and stop preventing thousands of desperate migrants from reaching land.





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Toronto, Canada
Mark Marczyk and Marichka Kudriavtseva participate in the "hora" during their Ukrainian-themed public wedding at Dufferin Grove Park on May 17, 2015. The couple met during the uprising in Kiev's Maidan square in January 2014. Kudriavtseva, from Ukraine, and Marczyk, from Canada, wanted to have a public wedding in a Toronto park and invited the general public over social media to celebrate with them.





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Little Rock, Arkansas
A woman holds rainbow flags for the grand entry at the International Gay Rodeo Association's Rodeo In the Rock on April 26, 2015.





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Liuzhou, China
A man travels down a flooded alley on a styrofoam board following heavy rainfall on China, May 20, 2015.





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Benfeita, Portugal
Lisa Vella-Gatt, 46, hugs an alpaca in her farm on May 11, 2015. Lisa came to Portugal from England in 2009 to set up Monte Frio Alpacas, a project where she breeds alpacas, which produce wool. Lisa's 14 alpacas produce about 50 kilos (110 pounds) of wool annually.