Madrid, Spain: butchers use a crane to lift the carcass of a bull at the Las Ventas bullringPhotograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/APCannes, France: guests take photographs on the red carpet during arrivals at Cannes film festivalPhotograph: Vincent Kessler/ReutersBeijing, China: two monks wait before the customary ceremony of lowering the flag at Tiananmen SquarePhotograph: Feng Li/Getty Images
Qinhuangdao, China: Franchon Crews of the US rests between rounds during her light heavyweight semi-final at the women's world boxing championshipsPhotograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty ImagesNew York, US: a Facebook logo at the Nasdaq stock exchange. Facebook listed its IPO on Nasdaq with an opening price of $38 per sharePhotograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty ImagesTokyo, Japan: women dressed as white egret birds take part in the Shirasagi-jinji (holy ritual of cranes) and perform a dance at the Asakusa Sanja festivalPhotograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty ImagesTurkana, Kenya: refugees from Jonglei state in South Sudan sit inside a temporary shelter in Kakuma refugee campPhotograph: Thomas Mukoya/ReutersFrankfurt, Germany: riot police in front of the city's Justice Fountain during the Blockupy protestPhotograph: Carsten Koall/Getty ImagesLa Paz, Bolivia: a woman walks past riot policePhotograph: David Mercado/ReutersAthens, Greece: an actor dressed as a high priestess lights the Olympic torch at a ceremony in the Panathenean stadium Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/APPort Vila, Vanuatu: residents of Ifira Island play island cricket in their villagePhotograph: Hamish Blair/Getty ImagesLondon, UK: the RAF, navy and army guards of honour on the parade ground at Wellington barracksPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesWashington DC, US: Oxfam activists wearing masks depicting G8 world leaders demonstrate outside the White HousePhotograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/APManagua, Nicaragua: a march to mark International Day Against HomophobiaPhotograph: Esteban Felix/APLondon, UK: Yeoman Michael Smith climbs up from the boiler room onboard the HMS Belfast before its re-opening to the publicPhotograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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