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Japanese sumo wrestlers joke around with Japanese fans gathering to take photos of them at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine during an annual spring festival ceremony Friday. The Yasukuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine which commemorates Japan's war dead.

Leverkusen's Hans Sarpei, top, and Petersburg's Viktor Faizulin challenge for the ball during the UEFA Cup quarter final soccer match between the Germany's Bayer Leverkusen and Russia's Zenit St. Petersburg in Leverkusen, Germany, on Thursday.

Pandas sleep at the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Wolong, in southwest China's Sichuan province, Tuesday. Eight pandas chosen by an online poll were unveiled at the center last Saturday and will be sent to Beijing Zoo on May 24. Approximately 10 million online votes were cast for the pandas, which will be on exhibition for six months for visitors in Beijing before, during and after the 2008 Olympic Games.

A cow that got loose walks along Geneva Avenue as the Grand National Rodeo cattle drive moves toward the Cow Palace in San Francisco, Thursday.

A Thai woman arranges flowers at Wat Pho temple on Tuesday in Bangkok, Thailand. Wat Pho, built during the Ayutthaya period on orders by King Rama I, is one of the oldest and largest temples in Bangkok. Wat Pho is to be included in next year's UNESCO Memory of the World program.

Scott Brygger deflates and inflates tires in the pit area during preparations for the IRL Honda Grand Prix of St Petersburg auto racing Thursday in St. Petersburg, Fla. The race is scheduled for Sunday.

Birds flock in the sky at dusk above the city of Amman, Jordan on Tuesday, with the Jordan Gate twin towers under construction in background. The towers are being built by Gulf developer Bayan, and will be the highest buildings in the country, expected to rise to 44 floors and become a landmark visible from every corner of the capital.

As snow from a harsh snowstorm earlier this week melted, a horse drank from a small stream created by dripping snow in Rawlins, Wyo on Wednesday.

A man throws fake paper money into the air as an offering to the dead as he stands among tombstones on Friday in Singapore during "Ching Ming" day. "Ching Ming" which literally translates to "Clear and Bright, " is a time of year when Chinese families visit the graves of their ancestors to clean the gravesite and pay their respects. About 80 percent of Singapore's 4.4 million population are Chinese.

German Tai Chi teacher Thomas Richter, left, performs some practices in Chinese Tai Chi exercises spontaneously with passers-by at the Bruehlsche Terrassse boulevard in Dresden, Germany, Friday. The exercises are offered by the Dresden State Art Collections to promote their exhibition "Humanism in China".

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Japanese sumo wrestlers joke around with Japanese fans gathering to take photos of them at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine during an annual spring festival ceremony Friday. The Yasukuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine which commemorates Japan's war dead.

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