May 24, 2013

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Buddhists carry candles while encircling a large Buddha statue during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at a temple in Nakhon Pathom province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand.

2
Boys play cricket on the Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai.

3
A collapsed portion of the Interstate 5 bridge lies in the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Washington, USA.

4
An Iraqi man wears a metal mask used as a torture device by the regime of Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussein at the Shaheed Monument in Baghdad, Iraq.