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Gored bullfighter, Air Force Academy graduates, suicide car bomb
28
May
A bar-headed goose walks with one of her day-old chicks on Wednesday at the Servion Zoo near Lausanne, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone, Dominic Favre)
Visitors check out the new African penguins the National Aviary in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, while one of the penguins checks out the photographer. The aviary is participating in a breeding program to preserve healthy, genetically diverse populations of African penguins. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Protesters rally near the U.S. Embassy in Manila on Wednesday, the 10th anniversary of a United States and Philippines joint military exercise known as the Visiting Forces Agreement. Calls are mounting to scrap the VFA following the conviction but subsequent release of a U.S. Marine accused of raping a Filipino woman. An appeals court overturned the rape conviction. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Spanish matador Israel Lancho is gored during a bullfight on Wednesday at the Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, during the San Isidro's Fair. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
The Mexican Navy's Cuauhtemoc, on a training cruise, arrives at Yokohama port near Tokyo on Wednesday to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first contact between Mexico and Japan, and to participate in a 150th anniversary celebration of the port. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Slum dwellers cross a bridge on Wednesday, over a stream of raw sewage in Nairobi, Kenya. The Kiberia slum houses almost one million people, is the largest slum in Africa and one of the biggest in the World. It has only two main water pipes, and few toilet. One hole-in-the ground latrine is shared by up to 50 shacks. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
A sick Bangladeshi man and children await treatment on Wednesday at the village of Ashasunee, 110 miles southwest of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Heavy rains caused deadly mudslides and slowed rescue efforts after Cyclone Aila pounded eastern India and Bangladesh, killing at least 191 people. (AP Photo/ Pavel Rahman)
Cambodian fishermen earn their living on the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday. Fish play a major role not only in the diet and economy of the Cambodian people. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Air Force Academy graduates celebrate on Wednesday as F-16 Thunderbirds fly over the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The class of 2009 contained 1,046 graduates. Tens of thousands of family and friends watched the ceremony at which Vice President Joe Biden gave the commencement speech. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
An injured police officer is helped by rescue workers at the site of suicide car bombing in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday. Gunmen detonated the bomb near police and intelligence agency offices. At least four men with rifles stepped from the car and opened fire on the building, then set off a massive blast when security guards returned fire, officials said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Women mourn for inspector Abdul Rauf Sultan on Wednesday, victim to a suicide bombing that left at least 23 dead and more than 200 wounded in Lahore, Pakistan. The attack was aimed at the offices of the police and Pakistan's main intelligence agency. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, the third in Lahore, but most blame the Taliban. The army launched a sweeping operation against the Taliban in the Swat region three weeks ago. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
A young red-tailed hawk occupies a nest in a cottonwood tree about 200 yards from a runway at the airport in SeaTac, Wash. on Wednesday. The hawk, about five weeks old, was one of two removed from two nests for relocation as part of a raptor strike avoidance program at the airport. (AP Photo/Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, John Mailhiot)
Chairman of the Czech Republic's Social Democrats, Jiri Paroubek, was pelted with eggs at a rally for the European Parliament elections in Prague on Wednesday. The bloc's 27 members hold elections in early June. (AP Photo/CTK, Rene Volfik)
