For the second time this year, a New York State judge in Manhattan decided that President Trump is not immune from civil court cases that involve his unofficial activities or actions that took place before he was in office.


President Abraham Lincoln visits the Union camp at Sharpsburg Maryland in October 1862.


Latrina Bidet, a drag performer, entertained patrons at a fund-raising event in Indianapolis on Thursday.


First lady Michelle Obama campaigns for US Senate candidate Bruce Braley at a rally at the University of Iowa on Tuesday.


Shaw resident Pamela Brown 50 fills up bottles at a mobile watersupply station Friday Our water turns brown Brown said It s good they put this up.


The victims top row left to right Sean McGrotty and sons Mark and Evan Bottom left to right Ruth and JodieLee Daniels.


June 18 Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt is swarmed by teammates in celebration after hitting a walk off home run to beat the Miami Marlins 32 at Chase Field.


From left former first lady Laura Bush former president George W Bush first lady Michelle Obama and President Obama.


Vietnam veteran Clarence SmithBey is seen at the house where he used to live in the basement in Temple Hills Md.


World Bank President Jim Yong Kim told USA TODAY JFK represented hope for the world.


Trees bend around the pool area at the Isle of Capri Resort Hotel on Saturday in Virginia Beach.


This month, a square in the Abobo district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, was nearly empty. Adobo has been the scene of much of the recent violence in the city.


Brazilian soldiers standing guard at the Ministry of Defense on Thursday, a day after violent protests in the capital, Brasília.


Violence resumed in Ukraine on Tuesday with an attack at the headquarters of the party of President Viktor F. Yanukovych, among other clashes.


Pakistani Christian worshipers celebrate Mass to mark Good Friday at St Anthony s Church in Karachi on March 25.


A memorial for the victims of the shooting in El Paso on Sunday.


Florence Italy The Duomo Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral after a snow shower.


Trade unions and the 19th Century at 5 bob and 26 respectively.


Ramón J. Jiménez in his South Bronx office in 2014.


Students in Detroit sued state officials, claiming that dismal conditions in their public schools violate their constitutional rights. On Friday, a federal judge dismissed the suit.


Chinese schoolchildren attend a flagraising ceremony Monday 1 September is the first day of the school year in China.


In this Oct 22 2013 file photo Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the new iPad Air in San Francisco.


Bernie Sanders outside a polling place in Dearborn Heights, Mich., Tuesday morning.


The heavier the tree the later it will have been cut Advice from south Wales Christmas tree grower Rob Morgan on choosing a good specimen.


Miles Gray a worker with the Washington Animal Rescue League is shown with one of 10 dogs rescued from the streets of Sochi Russia.


The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum will be officially dedicated on Thursday on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas with a ceremony that will bring together President Obama and the four living ex-presidents.


Demonstrators at a shop in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the city Tuesday.


A woman using a phone walks past Apple s logo near its retail outlet in Beijing in December last year.


Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, greeted children and parents outside the Northside Center for Child Development on East 110th Street in Manhattan on a chilly Monday.


Thousands of people in Cairo gathered in Tahrir Square on Friday to demand that the interim military council now ruling Egypt increase the pace of its efforts to bring about political changes.


A Kenyan activist looks on as she holds up a placard during a demonstration against the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by Nigeria s Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Nairobi.


Kiefer Sutherland as President Tom Kirkman on ABC s Designated Survivor.


Andrew Yang has dined around the city, including in Chinatown earlier this month, to highlight restaurants that are struggling during the pandemic.


Adam Riches has won this year s Edinburgh comedy award.


A commuter used her phone while waiting for a train at a subway station in Manhattan on Wednesday. Nearly all underground stations now have cellphone service.


Greenpeace activists are led away after displaying a sign before an official state dinner hosted by the Danish Queen at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen.


North Korea s Unha3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launch pad in Tongchangri North Korea on Dec 12 2012.


Los Angeles Lakers Wesley Johnson and Kobe Bryant watch on as their season begins on the worst possible note.


The Champs Elysee in Paris on the first day of the Christmas lights.


A fan holds a sign in during Tony Gwynn s memorial service at Petco Park in June 2014.


Gov. Chris Christie at a news conference in Trenton on Tuesday. He denies there were political calculations behind his decision.


Florida Gov Jeb Bush looks over flood damage caused by Hurricane Irene in southwest Miami on Oct 16 1999 during a helicopter tour of the area.


White House deputy counsel Cheryl Mills begins her defense presentation arguing against the obstructionofjustice charge in the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton on Jan 20 1999.


Bill and Hillary Clinton at the Obama inauguaration January 2009.


Police officers securing an area of a military base in the Jammu and Kashmir region on Saturday.


A police officer patrolled on Sunday as firemen hosed down buildings that were set on fire during riots in Tottenham, a neighborhood in northern London.


New York City subway ads promoting DACA courtesy of the New York City Mayor s Office of Immigrant Affairs.


Tennessee Williams searches for an idea in his Key West studio in 1957.


Birds fly over the covered photograph of an assassinated member of the Patriotic Union political party which was launched by Colombia s Revolutionary Armed Forces.


Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, the head of Africa Command, has ordered a review of all airstrikes conducted in Somalia since 2017.


A lorry and cars travel on a road past the icecovered Vistula River near the village of Kiezmark during winter.


Lindy at the 2013 Women s Media Awards in New York City.


Ben Carson, a Republican presidential candidate, during a service last month at Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines.


Rescuers searching for survivors at the scene of a landslide in a village in West Java, Indonesia, on Sunday.


Close call Britain was obliged to buy Titian s Diana and Callisto to prevent it from being sold abroad.


A Rapier shortrange air defence system at Blackheath London in 2012 Their deployment during the Olympics boosted interest from foreign buyers.


EXO The Legend of Wale Williams was the first superhero to debut from Roye Okupe s YouNeek Studios in 2015.


Kaite Burke second from left trains Lauren Crusse 19 left and Brett Williams 20 third from left during the opening day of Texas Roadhouse in Nottingham Md.


The colors of the sunset and flora of the African savannah afford a unique background for the planetary alignment of Jupiter Venus and Mercury in June 2013.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton upon her arrival to their meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday.


At 10 down Louis van Gaal switched from 3412 to more of a 4213 with two natural wingers and Holland built pressure down the Mexico flanks.


The remains of a building after an earthquake rocked Petrinja, Croatia, on Tuesday.


Court sketch of Haroon Aswat who was first arrested in Britain in 2005 at RAF Northolt.


Tommy Tuberville celebrated his victory over Senator Jeff Sessions in the runoff election on Tuesday in Montgomery, Ala.


The number of restaurants in Yerevan serving Middle Eastern food has jumped to more than 50.


Lisa Tseng during her arraignment in court in Los Angeles in 2012.


Senator Kamala Harris’s trip to Wisconsin on Monday will be the first time she has appeared with battleground state voters.


Mark Cavendish of Great Britain loses to Marcel Kittel breaking his threeyear winning streak on the ChampsElysees.


Law enforcement investigated the home and property of Frank Artiles, a former Florida state senator, in Palmetto Bay, Fla., on Wednesday.


Red Sox Manager John Farrell argues the call with umpire Dana DeMuth.


Francine Milton, right, receiving a hug at a vigil last week for her daughter, Charnice Milton, a reporter who was shot in Washington while being used as a human shield.


Supporters of the Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga fleeing from the police at an attempted protest in the capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday.


Police officers at Perry Funeral Home in Detroit, where the remains of dozens of infants and fetuses were discovered on Friday.


Medical workers disinfecting people arriving at a hotel being used as an isolation facility in Wuhan last week.


Soldiers helped provide security at Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.


A woman watching a gathering at Al-Furqan Jame Masjid in Queens, not far where an imam and his assistant were killed on Saturday.


The graffito under a Regent s Canal bridge in Camden north London which is thought to have ignited the feud.


As good as ever John Tomlinson and Sarah Connolly in Der Rosenkavalier.


Becky Hammon as a member of the 199697 women s basketball team at Colorado State set career records at the school in points assists and threepointers made among others.


A demonstrator tried to force his way past riot policemen in Tunis on Monday.


An MQ9 Reaper armed with laserguided munitions and Hellfire missiles flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan.


People visit a makeshift memorial to the Orlando victims outside the Stonewall Inn the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement in New York.


A court spokesman announced the end of Bo Xilais trial in Jinan, China, on Monday. A conviction is considered a near certainty.


The unnamed female panda is examined on November 22 A few days earlier she was seen on the Panda Cam taking her first steps.


David Oyelowo who plays Martin Luther King Jr in Selma did not get a nomination though the film did.


HMS Glorious in the Arctic c1940 by Eric Ravilious a marvel of graphic notation.


Counting votes of the Hong Kong district council elections at a polling station in the Tuen Mun neighborhood on Sunday.


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Roy Hodgson will be aware that England players often appear tired during World Cups.


Members of the Los Angeles International Church rally support for OJ Simpson outside the Criminal Courts Building during the closing arguments.


Charles J. Hynes, center background, watched last week as Councilman David G. Greenfield endorsed him for re-election as Brooklyn district attorney and said his opponent would target Jews.


Somali security forces at the scene of the double truck bombings in Mogadishu, the capital, which killed at least 270 people on Saturday.


The MAXXI or the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts took over ten years to complete.


Azerbaijani soldiers march in front of the athletes village ahead of the first European Games.


The damaged alumina plant reservoir in Kolontar, on Saturday. Its wall is in danger of collapse.


Members of the Royal Netherlands armed forces and the United States armed forces stand in formation as the Royal Netherlands Air Force performs a flyover.


Susan s mother Bridget with her sisters Mary left and Bridie.


Vincent Kompany attempts to block a cross by Wayne Rooney during Manchester United s 21 defeat by City at Old Trafford.


Matthew Zachary with his brother after his college graduation in 1996 His senior year was marked by brain cancer.


Rookie Anthony Davis left watches the threepoint contest with AllStars Russell Westbrook Kevin Durant and James Harden.


Kirsan N. Ilyumzhinov, shown in 2011, is accused of “materially assisting” the government of Syria and top banking officials there.


Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson is a Broadway star whom you might also recognize from the Harry Potter films he plays Bill Weasly Ron s brother.


A boat sails past the medieval Fort Saint Angelo in Vittoriosa in Valletta s Grand Harbor.


Greta Gerwig left and Lola Kirke star in Noah Baumbach s offbeat comedy Mistress America.


Cruz greets supporters before a rally at the Durango Hills Community Center in Las Vegas.


Representative Charles B. Rangel, at an event in the Bronx on Wednesday.


A memorial in 2019 outside the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland, Calif., where a fire killed 36 people.


This 2013 file photo shows IRS headquarters in Washington DC.


Thais waded through a flooded street in Bangkok on Thursday.


Karen Bach of the Arizona Lottery announces that one of the winning tickets in the 5799 million Powerball jackpot was purchased in Fountain Hills Ariz.


July 5 Miguel Cabrera motions toward the Indians bench after being pushed back by a pitch.


Army National Guard Capt Beau Biden hugs wife Hallie as he arrives with fellow troops from a tour in Iraq.


Cristiano Ronaldo was devastatingly effective against Holland but every goal Portugal have conceded has come from his flank.


This 2012 photo shows a camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in PortauPrince Haiti.


The burned train at the main station in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday.


It did not take Tony Abbott long to show he possessed none of Julia Gillard s supple backroom arts.


Melissa Hill of Minnesota chalks words of support for Manning on the pavement at Fort Meade.


Micah Richards is looking forward to making his Serie A debut for Fiorentina possibly at Atalanta on Sunday.


Twins Safa and Marwa Ullah, who had been born conjoined, leaving the hospital in London this month with their mother and grandfather.


Patients at Hopital General in Bangui Central African Republic on Dec 3.


President Hassan Rouhani of Iran during a visit to Yazd on Monday.


San Diego Chargers linebacker Melvin Ingram before playing the New England Patriots on Dec 7.


Willie L. Brown Jr. has stayed active since leaving office as San Francisco mayor in 2004.


Saudi Arabias new monarch, King Salman, attending a ceremony in Riyadh last month.


During a visit to Cairo on Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry urged military leaders, including Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, right, to stick to their road map.


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Paris on Thursday as part of a European trip to drum up business deals.


Pro-independence protesters in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, on Saturday. There is a movement to change the island’s formal name from Republic of China to Taiwan.


Trump and Jared Kushner pose on their wedding day at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster NJ.


An election worker loads ballot boxes onto a truck for transport from the site of the partial recount to the Iraq High Electoral Commission in Baghdad on Friday.


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Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that he would offer Britain a vote on whether to stay in the European Union.


Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers addressed students at the Center for Information Dominance in Monterey, Calif., in 2012.


Gov. Rick Scott of Florida during his inauguration this month. A former employee said the governor forced him out of his job.


A roofer shovels snow off a roof to clear an ice dam in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston February 2015.


Pope Francis walks with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.


Palestinian children search for usable stuff among the rubble of 15storey Basha tower which contained flats and offices before its partial collapse after Israeli air strikes.


Premier Christy Clark of British Columbia, leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party, in Vancouver on Tuesday. The Green Party won three legislative seats, denying the Liberals a majority.


Adrian Coman outside the Constitutional Court of Romania in Bucharest in 2016. He is pressing for the right to legal residency for his American husband.


Pakistani security officials stand guard outside a mosque in Quetta the capital of Baluchistan province after assailants opened fire on worshipers on May 25 2015.


The wreckage of a Marine Corps transport plane, which crashed into a field on Monday in Leflore County, Miss., killing 16 people.


A man yells at police as a CVS burns near West North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue.


Jonathan Flores left and Marlin Twyman look over the scene of an icerelated accident on a highway overpass in Richardson Texas.


Students and parents passed by a memorial on their way to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday.


Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles at a news conference after being reelected in Venezuela s regional elections.


A woman and her young child were detained by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers last month after they illegally crossed the United States-Canada border near Hemmingford, Quebec.


James Rodriguez has been the star performer for Colombia scoring both goals in the 20 win over Uruguay in the last 16.


A teacher took a student's temperature in Seoul on Monday.


Banners welcoming Pope Francis to Peru on display in Lima last week.


A plaque noting the site of the 1969 Stonewall Riots is affixed to the front of The Stonewall Inn in New York s Greenwich Village on May 29 2014.


Neil Bantleman, left, a guidance counselor, and Ferdinand Tjiong, second left, a teaching assistant, in a holding cell on Thursday in Jakarta, Indonesia.


Voters registering for the 2014 primary in Fargo, N.D. A federal ruling means that the state will revert to less restrictive rules on voter identification.


Cesc Fabregas has had an excellent first half on his Chelsea debut.


Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, announced on Thursday that emergency loans to Greece have been increased by 900 million euros.


North Korean soldiers at Tongchang-ri in 2012. The site once tested engines that were used in long-range missiles.


Models wear creations for Chanel s springsummer 2015 readytowear fashion collection presented in Paris.


President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk down Pennsylvania Avenue during the inaugural parade Monday.


The developer Shalom Lamm in March 2014 at Chestnut Ridge, his townhouses in Bloomingburg, N.Y.


Taking pictures in front of a large screen in Harbin, in northeastern China, during President Xi Jinping’s nationally televised speech on Tuesday.


Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gestures as he speaks at the Republican National Committee Winter Meeting in San Diego California January 16 2015 REUTERSMike Blake.


An April 16 2016 file photo shows an All Gender bathroom sign at the San Diego International Airport.


The animatronic Mr Potato Head of Walt Disney World s Toy Story Midway Mania Flickr user Dave Margie Hill Kleerup.


Husband and wife duo Chris and Gabrielle Adcock won the mixed doubles badminton title I like the contrast between their expressions Chris s outright joy and Gabrielle s disbelief.


United we stand the women in the 2013 allEcuadorian version of the hiphop collective Somos Mujeres Somos HipHop.


Cast out Lenny Henry stars as Troy Maxson in Fences by August Wilson.


Simon Cowell one of the three original judges of American Idol bowed out in 2010.


A family in Corpus Cristi, Texas, huddled in the car after the neighborhood lost power on Tuesday.


President Ashraf Ghani earlier this month. There is a concern among some in Afghanistan about his temperament, Western style and didactic approach.


Lais Ribeiro left and Adriana Lima attend the Bloomberg Vanity Fair cocktail reception.


People protesting the government’s actions against the judiciary in front of the Supreme Court in Warsaw on Tuesday.


New York Jets fans wear paper bags on their heads during the game against the Arizona Cardinals at Metlife Stadium The Jets won 76.


Salvador Dals Gala Placidia. Galatea of the Spheres from 1952, for which his wife, Gala Dal, was the model and muse. A new exhibition in Barcelona examines Gala as someone willing to play those roles, but also as a person eager to forge her own path as an artist.


The Georgia House of Representatives voted on a bill offering protections for opponents of same-sex marriage last week in Atlanta.


Cynthia Hogan sits behind thenUS Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor at her July 16 2009 confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.


Dancing at St. Nick’s Pub, Harlem, 1995.


Representative Denver Riggleman, Republican of Virginia, in 2017.


West London free school was oversubscribed with 500 applications for 120 places.


At a national meeting at the April 25 House of Culture North Koreans mark an anniversary of the Fatherland Liberation War in Pyongyang.


About half of black college graduates are likely to have over 25000 in student debt according to a recent Gallup study.


Protest banners on a Shanghai house Chairman Mao the people miss you Corrupt officials are scared of you reads one.


Gov. Chris Christie met with New Jersey voters on Thursday morning.


The days of Brian Clough taking Nottingham Forest from the Second Division to European Cup winners is long gone.


Sri Lanka s Mahela Jayawardene is run out by Michael Clarke of Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground.


A surfer made his way into the waves as a man walked his dog on Monday in San Diego. The city opened its beaches to surfing, running and walking, but sitting at the beach remains prohibited.


Internet activist Aaron Swartz in a San Francisco bookshop in 2008 five years before his suicide.


Tom Cruise performs as les Grossman at the 2010 MTV movie awards.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu second right and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn right watch the guard of honor in Addis Ababa Ethiopia on Thursday.


Supporters of Jamaat-ud-Dawa protested the house arrest of the organization’s leader, Hafiz Saeed, in Islamabad, Pakistan, early this year.


Andrey Arshavin right celebrates with Nicklas Bendtner after scoring Arsenal s winner in the first leg against Barcelona.


Bonnie and Jake Fleury of Melbourne hug each other during Friday s vigil for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting at Eau Gallie Square.


Britain s Adam Yates and France s Angelo Tulik climb during the 19th stage of the Tour de France which started in SaintJeandeMaurienne and finished at La Toussuire.


Students walk outside the University of Missouri Student Center on Wednesday in Columbia.


A coat hanging in the home of Leola Dickerson. When she died at 88 in a New York hospital in 2008, she was the ward of a court-appointed guardian who let her house go into foreclosure.


A General Motors plant in Orion Township, Mich. The automaker’s new union contract goes into effect on Monday.


A deserted Gare de Lyon train station in Paris on Friday. Unions are aiming for a protracted strike.


British musician John Lennon and Japaneseborn American artist Yoko Ono campaigned for world peace famously spending their Honeymoon staging a Bedin in Amsterdam.


Oliver Chris and Lydia Wilson as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.


The House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, at a House Republican conference at the Capitol last month. Mr. Boehner has been caught between divisions in his party over the debt ceiling.


A video that said David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, was a paid actor became a No. 1 trending video on YouTube this week.


WMATA GM Paul Wiedefeld at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday in Washington.


Lucy Ramos, the aunt of the slain New York City police officer Rafael Ramos, spoke during a news conference Sunday in Brooklyn.


I have the aggressive courage to speak out maybe that s why I get people s attention Uruguay s president Jose Mujica at his farm near Montevideo.


The area around St Paul s Cathedral shows the damage inflicted by the Luftwaffe in 1940.


Andy Flower is likely to request that the opposition in England s Ashes warmup in Perth is strengthened by the inclusion of spare players from other states.


A woman leaves flowers in 2012 in front of the Upper West Side building where Yoselyn Ortega, who worked as a nanny, is accused of killing two children in her charge. Jury selection has begun in her trial.


A man smokes from an enormous joint at the annual 420 Marijuana Rally in Vancouver Canada in 2013.


Ariana Habert and Jill Boudreaux add sandbags near a levy located in the River Oaks neighborhood Monday Aug 15 2016 in Lafayette.


The inside of the Columbia Care medical marijuana dispensary is seen in New York Jan 7 2016.


Superbly watchable Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan in The Last Five Years.


Eva S. Moskowitz, left, founder of Success Academy Charter Schools, led a rally Tuesday in Albany, while Mayor Bill de Blasio, who differs with her, led a separate demonstration.


Juventus Stephan Lichtsteiner wraps both arms around Celtic s Gary Hooper during their Champions League match.


A Muslim woman waiting for a bus in Quebec City on Wednesday. A law passed in Quebec prohibits people wearing face coverings from using public services.


Chancellor Angela Merkel and other Christian Democrats arrived for talks with the Social Democrats on Monday in Berlin.


Dan Biggar celebrates his crucial try for Wales against France with Jamie Roberts left and George North.


Covenant House on 41st Street in Manhattan. The citys Department of Youth and Community started an investigation of the shelter earlier this month.


Indian Muslims take part in a procession to mark EideMiladunNabi the birthday of the prophet Muhammad in Mumbai.


Activists dismantle Ukraine s biggest monument to Lenin at a proUkrainian rally in the central square of the eastern city of Kharkiv Ukraine on Sept 28 2014.


Matthew Barnes Aldi s chief executive The supermarket s sales increased by 17 in the past three months while sales fell at rivals Tesco Morrisons and Asda.


Greece's new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, center, at the Presidential Palace in Athens on Monday.


Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen both went for the same price in India.


The third sector can learn a lot from Malala s force of character says Ward.


French police are shown at the border with Belgium in Baisieux France on Monday Nov 16 Terrorists attacks on Friday night in Paris killed 129 people EPALAURENT DUBRULE.


De La Soul in 1989 just after the release of 3 Feet High and Rising.


President Trump told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday that the Chinese “do not want me or us to win, because I am the first president to ever challenge China on trade.”.


Rahul Gandhi, vice president of Congress party, at the memorial of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister and Mr. Gandhi's great grandfather, in New Delhi on Nov. 14, 2013.


Cambodian garment workers staged a rally to demand higher wages and better working conditions during a gathering to mark May Day celebrations in Phnom Penh Cambodia in May 2015.


A satellite image of Chinese land reclamation on Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands.


A choir singing in Binzhou, China, in 2011 for the Communist Partys 90th anniversary.


President Paul Kagame of Rwanda at the closing rally of his campaign in Kigali, the capital, on Wednesday.


This image from Senate video show Sen Ted Cruz RTexas speaking on the Senate floor at the US Capitol in Washington Tuesday Sept 24 2013.


Tiera Williams 25 reads a letter as her children Quintin four weeks Isaiah 1 and Ariyanna 5 play in the family s room at the Days Inn in Northeast Washington.


Jewish and Muslim leaders marched together silently on Sunday to honor the four people who were killed by Mohammed Merah at a Jewish school in Toulouse, a city known for tolerance.


People driving down Old Main Street during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.


School children running for cover during a protest in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on Apr. 28, 2011.


The Spider among the crowd at New York s Coney Island Beach 5 July 1942.


From left to right Jack Lawless JinJoo Lee Cole Whittle and Joe Jonas of DNCE accept the award for best new artist.


Tommy Bowe pictured in training has been selected to play for the Lions in the second Test instead of Alex Cuthbert.


Designed by acclaimed Annapolis architect Joseph Boggs the house in Pasadena Md is on a secluded estate It is on the market for 425 million.


Filipinos looking for their names and corresponding voting precincts in Manila on Monday.


New Brazilian President Michel Temer left and Senate president Renan Calheiros talk during the plenary session of the Senate in Brasilia.


President Trump held a news conference with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia at the White House on Friday.


One of the new additions this year is Thomas the Tank Engine.


Security forces near the attacked Sikh center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday.


Members of Kazakhstan s national team attend training session at the Sunkar Ski Jumping complex in Almaty Kazakhstan.


The view from the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Wednesday.


Tony Benn attends a rally in Hyde Park London during a protest organised by the Trades Union Congress called The March for the Alternative on 26 March 2011.


President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, center, campaigning ahead of Wednesday’s election.


Richard Rojas in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Thursday, where he pleaded not guilty to charges that included murder and attempted murder.


The Bergdorf Goodman department store had opposed designation as a New York City landmark since it was first proposed in 1970, but support from the community helped the building ultimately win protection.


Some of the 100 World Cup soccer trending facts teased out by Google s World Cup War Room staffers which line the walls of the team s offices.


Shipping containers at the Port of Melbourne in Australia. Australia was the only country to be fully exempted from the start from steel and aluminum tariffs that President Trump imposed last year.


President George W. Bush being welcomed in Riyadh in 2008. Bush and Obama administration officials say the Saudis are valuable in aiding the war on terror.


Glenn Ford the day he left prison after nearly 26 years on death row Ford was innocent and fully exonerated.


A gallery of photographs in her home show Lawn with Paul Newman Jimmy Carter the Obamas the Clintons and others.


Pullmantur chartered the ship to Quail Cruises in 2008 Later that year the Pacific was sent to Genoa for a muchneeded refit.


Relatives and friends at a vigil last week for Antonio Ramos, who was fatally shot while painting a peace mural in Oakland, Calif., a city that has been celebrating a business and cultural renaissance.


Police officers aided wounded colleagues in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, on Monday after clashes with Islamist hard-liners seeking an anti-blasphemy law.


The Obamas say goodbye at the Accra Ghana airport after a oneday visit to the country in July 2009.


Mike Crowe left argues with an immigrant rights supporter at an antireform protest in front of the US Capitol building on April 10 2013 in Washington DC.


Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., at a town-hall-style event in the city on Sunday. Mr. Buttigieg has left the presidential campaign trail multiple times since a police shooting in South Bend last weekend.


From left band members Yekaterina Samutsevich Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glasswalled cage during a court hearing in Moscow.


Sanders acknowledges the crowd before speaking at a campaign event in Sacramento Calif on May 9 2016.


Finnish Greenpeace activist Sini Saarela in court in Murmansk on 21 October.


REJECTING AN EXECUTION BAN | Gov. Rick Perry of Texas in 2001, announcing his veto of a bill that would have banned the execution of mentally retarded death row inmates. A Supreme Court decision later instituted the ban.


California Chrome runs to the finish line to win the 139th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico racecourse in Baltimore.


Owen Farrell of Saracens and George Ford of Bath right together at the end of the Premiership playoff final.


Michael Phelps arrives with the United States flag during the opening ceremonies for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Maracana.


Members of the group Teachers for a No Vote demonstrate outside the Irish legislature in Dublin.


The Syrian president Bashar alAssad is reasserting his country s influence in the Middle East.


Republican Presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz experiences retail politics in New Hampshire.


Hundreds of thousands of mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray in Mumbai.


The funeral procession for teacher s aide Rachel DAvino leaves the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem Conn.


United voice demonstrators protest against alleged pollution from a paper factory in Qidong near Shanghai.


Marshawn Lynch carried 24 times for 102 yards in a Super Bowl loss to New England.


Dylann Roof was arrested during a traffic stop after allegedly killing nine black people during a Bible study in Charleston SC.


News of easyJet s profits comes just weeks after it was found guilty by a French court of discrimination against three disabled passengers.


Dr. Herminia Palacio, New York City’s deputy mayor for health and human services, left, and Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the city’s health commissioner, discussed the Zika virus at City Hall on Thursday.


A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces, an American-backed militia group made up of Syrian Kurds and Arabs, walked down an empty street in Raqqa last week.


A damaged car at the site of a car bomb attack in Damascus on Friday.


Former Labor minister and powerbroker Eddie Obeid leaves after giving evidence at the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 2013.


Apples campus in Cork, Ireland. The company has had a presence in Cork since the early 1980s.


Israeli women enjoy at a local bar as they sit in front of a graffiti depicting the late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.


A man walks with two children outside the Poverello House homeless shelter Thursday July 31 2014 in Fresno Calif.


The British prime minister, Theresa May, in Parliament. A Goldman Sachs report this month placed a 40 percent probability on the chance that Britain would not leave the European Union at all.


With their dog Nancy and Ronald Reagan walk hand in hand at their Northern Virginia home Wexford after a campaign trip.


Emmanuel Dongo, a Liberian rapper known as Lyrical D, performing last month at the Code 146 nightclub in Monrovia.


Johnson thengovernor of New Mexico gestures while speaking at the NORML conference in Washington.


Hill and his third wife Bryony collect his OBE at Buckingham Palace in 1995.


Members of the nationalist Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha at a rally in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw, last week in support of the group’s leader, Ashin Wirathu.


Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel magnate, has sought closer ties for Ukraine to the West. He donated $150,000 to the Trump Foundation in 2015 in exchange for a brief appearance by Mr. Trump via video at a conference in Ukraine.


Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the New York State Assembly, left the courthouse on Thursday in Manhattan.


General Dwight D Eisenhower speaking during an Air Force Association dinner as president Ike realised that American power was based more on economic muscle than military might.


Howard Goldman drove 13 hours from Long Island NY to attend the event and has been a member of A Voice for Men for three years.


Up close in a publicity shot for Gattaca with first wife Uma Thurman.


Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson speaks to Parliament in Reykjavik.


London England Actors Helen Mirren and John Goodman attend the Trumbo photocall during the BFI London Film Festival.


Venus Williams hits to Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine on day two of the 2016 US Open.


Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis, designed by M. Paul Friedberg, has fallen into disrepair since it opened in 1975.


After selling an empty lot in Palm Springs to his neighbor, Clive Wilkinson, an architect, used the profit to buy and renovate a nearby 1955 ranch house.


Afghan refugees warm themselves by a fire in Sentilj Slovenia on Oct 29 as they wait to cross into Austria.


Norman Seabrook, the once powerful leader of the New York City correction officers’ union, in 2016. Mr. Seabrook is accused of steering union funds into a high-risk investment fund in return for promised kickbacks.


The Katskhi Pillar Georgia A Georgian hermit has lived there for the past twenty years to be closer to god.


India s Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani right with his wife Nita and son Akash at the company s annual meeting on Thursday in Mumbai.


Indian soldiers patrolling a deserted street in Kashmir on Tuesday.


The offices of New York Oil Recovery Company in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, were raided on Wednesday as part of the investigation.


A protest leader, left, shook hands with the hostages, who were held over a land dispute, as they were being released in Dong Tam, outside Hanoi, Vietnam, on Saturday.


Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks to the media about events in Brussels.


A pedestrian walks through the snow this week in Geneva.


President Obama delivers remarks on energy independence Wednesday at the Maljamar Cooperative Association Unit in New Mexico.


Senator Charles E. Schumer endorsing a fellow Democrat, Marc C. Panepinto, at his left, at a rally in downtown Buffalo on Friday.


UKFI s stakes in RBS and Lloyd s are not yet ready for sale.


Christian Day poses in the Old Burying Ground in Salem Massachusetts.


Rehana Fathima, center, a social activist, was escorted Friday by police officers in the southern Indian state of Kerala as she tried to reach the Sabarimala Temple, where protesters prevented her from entering.


Carey W. Gabay, a Cuomo administration lawyer, was shot in Brooklyn last week.


Elizabeth Espejo visits the graves in Copiapó of victims of the Caravan of Death, killed under Gen. Augusto Pinochet in 1973.


A group of children watch an interactive polar bear during a preview of part of the Frozen Planet facetoface attraction on March 23 2016.


Theater marquees lighting up the night on West 45th Street near Broadway circa 1925.


Snapchat cofounder and CEO Evan Spiegel speaks in New York City in April.


The pupils from St Paul s Catholic College in Hayward s Heath West Sussex after winning the Astellas Innovation Challenge with their mental health app Memory Star.


Shipping containers in Mexico City on Friday. After President Trump threatened Mexico with an escalating series of tariffs, the president faced enormous criticism.


A man, who said he was homeless, begging on Tuesday on Broadway in Midtown Manhattan.


Officer Edward M. Nero, center, one of six Baltimore police officers charged over their encounter with Freddie Gray, arrived for the start of his trial on Thursday.


Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor running for Congress, with his fiance, Mara Beln Chapur, right, on Tuesday. His affair with her while he was still married caused a scandal.


For the second time this month, the Quebec theater director Robert Lepage is facing criticism over the casting of a show.


Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio walks his team to Spartan Stadium prior their game against Rutgers.


Police respond outside of the United States Capitol in Washington.


A protest in Paris last week against a security bill that would restrict filming the police, a step civic groups consider a shield for brutality.


Mike and MaiLien on the Capitol Dome overlooking the National Mall during their engagement shoot.


Commuters using smartphones stand in line at a bus station in Beijing on March 2.


Pedro Espada Jr., center, a Democrat who represented the Bronx in the State Senate, leaving court after the verdict on Monday.


Chinas new prime minister, Li Keqiang, could be seen on a huge television screen at a press event in Beijing on Thursday.


A woman at a shelter in the Pizzo Elementary School in Tampa, Fla., on Saturday. A shift in the track of Hurricane Irma pushed the storm to the west.


Early voting began on Monday in Georgia. The state is embroiled in a fight over the suspension of thousands of new voter registrations.


Carlos Queiroz celebrates with his Iran players after they qualified for the 2014 World Cup.


Michael OG Law Tabon holds up chains while participating in a Democracy Awakening demonstration on the steps of the US Capitol.


People in Barcelona leaving a rally promoting unity with Spain held Sunday in response to the disputed referendum on Catalan independence.


Mitt Romneys trip to New York included a visit to a firehouse that lost 11 men on Sept. 11, 2001, and a breakfast with the mayor.


Australia s treasurer Joe Hockey will have to go to a G20 followup meeting in Washington this week with unmet policy commitments.


King Abdullah II of Jordan, left, offered his condolences on Thursday to Safi al-Kasasbeh, the father ofFirst Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, in Karak, Jordan.


Statistics and photographs from five sample neighborhoods, one in each borough of New York City, show how they have changed since the 1940s.


Seven explosions were reported Tuesday at the Qaddafi residence and military targets in the suburb of Tajura, and two explosions also rocked the capital, Tripoli.


Louis van Gaal is in his second spell as Holland coach having previously failed to reach the 2002 World Cup.


Sailendra Nath Roy, a Guinness World Record holder, attempting to cross the river Teesta on the outskirts of Siliguri in West Bengal on Sunday.


The California Department of Water Resources snow surveyors conduct winter s fourth snow survey at Phillips Station near Echo Summit on April 1 2014.


Chris Grayling said last month Reading Dorchester Blundeston and Northallerton jails would be shut by March.


This 2011 file photo from the website of Advanced Periodontics in Hamden Conn shows former employee Miriam Carey.


Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, signed legislation on Monday that made Wisconsin the 25th state to prevent organized labor from requiring all workers to pay union dues or fees.


Vidal Sassoon arguably the world s first celebrity snipper died May 9 at 84.


A punter watches a race in a Ladbrokes betting shop The group has been in talks with 888 for seven weeks.


Santorum waves his checkbook as he speaks at a forum on social security in Kansas City Mo on April 7 1998 as President Bill Clinton looks on.


A Kenyan police officer runs to take cover as shots are fired from inside Garissa University in Garissa town located near the border with Somalia.


Words lingered on a teleprompter as President Obama appeared on Wednesday at a conveyor-belt maker in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.


Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman reacts during the fourth quarter against the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX.


Donald Trump eats a piece of steak during the launch of Trump Steaks at The Sharper Image in New York City.


James Campbell of Dayton Ohio center and Micah Naziri of Yellow Springs Ohio talk to media in downtown Cleveland while carrying assault rifles.


“Yes” supporters at a campaign event for the coming referendum in Istanbul. Turks will vote on Sunday in a referendum on whether to expand the constitutional powers of the president.


An Egyptian naval vessel burned off the coast of the northern Sinai Peninsula on Thursday. A militant group and the military gave conflicting accounts of an attack.


Nearly one in two no supporters voted against Scottish independence because they felt the stakes were too high.


Not all the snow had been scraped from the city by Friday. Buses, like these in Brooklyn, ran at a slower pace than usual.


Louisville guard Peyton Siva gathers a pass to score in the second half against Michigan.


Everything s alright Yvonne Elliman as Mary Magdalene and Ted Neeley as Jesus in the 1973 film version of Jesus Christ Superstar.


A multipleexposure sequence of New Zealand s Ross Taylor shows his aggressive side against Bangladesh.


Some of the convicted police officers at District Court in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Six of them face up to three years in prison, and a seventh risks up to four. All were cleared of a more serious charge.


In 1984, news reports that hundreds of children had been abused at a California preschool helped spread panic across the nation. But the case was not all it seemed and its impact continues to be felt.


Brenda Delgado seen here in a mugshot taken in Sept 2015 after she was arrested on outstanding traffic warrants in Plano.


Malcolm Turnbull arrives for a group photo during the Apec Summit in Manila on Wednesday.


Spectators cheer as volunteers deliver one of the boxes containing signatures to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker on 17 January 2012 in Madison Wisconsin.


Meridith Kohut, center, covering anti-government street protests in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2017 while on assignment for The Times.


Sam Whitelock and Israel Dagg visit a fire house near the 911 Memorial in Manhattan.


President Rafael Correa, left, and Vice President Jorge Glass celebrated at the presidential palace in Quito on Sunday.


Learning from the Clinton playbook 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton with her then campaign chief Huma Abedin who later married Anthony Weiner.


From left, Charna Halpern, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey at the iO theater in Chicago in 2001.


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev speaks with reporters Sept 13 on Capitol Hill.


Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenouda III at an Easter service in Cairo last year.


The Sky Tower in Auckland New Zealand is partially obscured by cloud during a New Year s Eve fireworks display.


Locals hang out in RD s bar in Sedgwick Colo on July 1 The bar one of the few businesses along Main Avenue is a watering hole for residents.


San Jose California US a man wearing a pair of women s high heels attends the 10th annual Walk A Mile In Her Shoes to raise awareness against sexual violence.


People cool off as they enjoy refreshing in a public pool in Radebeul near Dresden Saturday July 4 2015.


Supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi gather on the Nile River corniche in Cairo s Maadi district to protest the killings of protesters by Egyptian security forces.


In 1999, the one-acre green space opened as part of Staten Island’s Snug Harbor Cultural Center Botanical Garden.


The Pepsi-Cola sign, a fixture in Long Island City, Queens, once sat atop the company's bottling plant, which closed in 1999 and has since been demolished.


Volunteers helped clear water on Saturday after a Wells Fargo bank was destroyed the night before during protests in Minneapolis.


John Cheever at his home in Ossining New York in 1979.


Tammam Salam whom the Lebanese parliament designated as prime minister in April 2013 following the resignation of Najib Mikati.


Hillary Clinton and Sen Bernie Sanders IVT participate in the Democratic debate.


Downton Abbey in its fourth season is thought to be the most successful British television drama ever.


Hassanal Bolkiah the sultan of Brunei with his son new daughterinlaw and wife during the young couple s wedding ceremony in Brunei in April.


From left, Marcus Shelton, Roland Young and Darius Martin retrieved free water on Sunday at Heavenly Host Full Gospel Baptist Church in Flint, Mich., where the water supply has been tainted.


China s manned deepsea submersible Jiaolong s maiden voyage revealed porcelain crabs and mussels in the South China Sea.


National Trust coastal warden Eddie Stubbings and Mark Grantham of the British Trust for Ornithology on the lookout at Blakeney Point Norfolk.


Chelsea s players head up the steps to receive the trophy and are greeted on the way by the club s owner Roman Abramovich.


Rebels in a firefight in Ajdabiya, Libya, on Tuesday.


The Escambia Bay Bridge on Interstate 10 near Pensacola Fla is completely iced over and remains closed.


Graffiti showing Pope Francis as a superhero near Vatican City in Rome.


Fans converge on the pitch at the Stade de France after bombs exploded in the north of Paris following the friendly between France and Germany on Friday.


Smoke rising from the headquarters of Libya’s national oil company in Tripoli on Monday.


Oscar Monagan 70 holds his threemonthold rottweiler puppy Sara after a tornado destroyed his home in Crawford Alabama.


NEW YORK NY MAY 15 Actress Laverne Cox attends the Orange Is The New Black season two premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on May 15 2014 in New York City.


A caretaker at the Normandie Hotel, which has been closed since 2008, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The island, in the grip of a debt crisis, is imposing new taxes.


Hannah Hawkins, left, an associate editor, and Ben Sokhean, a reporter, worked on the last regular issue of The Cambodia Daily on Thursday in Phnom Penh.


President Fuad Masum of Iraq spoke on Friday at the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly.


Game 3 in San Francisco Giants center fielder Denard Span reacts after hitting a double in the third inning.


Wayne LaPierre CEO and Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association appears on Meet the Press in Washington DC in this December 23 2012 photo.


In this Jan 24 2014 file photo Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is seen at the RNC winter meeting in Washington.


A watch stopping at 815 which is the time of the explosion time of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima displayed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on July 30.


Called Wyandanch Village, the 40-acre, $500 million development project calls for adding a mix of stores, offices and apartments in the middle of low-slung strip malls and auto-repair shops. Ground was broken on the 12-acre first phase last year.


England s Stuart Broad left celebrates the dismissal of New Zealand s Hamish Rutherford.


Joaquín Guzmán Loera, Mexico's most powerful drug lord, after he was captured in 2014.


Location of latest search for the body of former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa June 17 2013.


Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, left, with the premier of Greenland, Mute Egede, during an aerial tour of the territory on Thursday.


Police officers inspected a crime scene near the corner of Fulton Street and Utica Avenue in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening. Two men were shot by gunfire near the subway entrance for the A and C trains around 5 p.m., the police said.


FBI Director James B Comey testifies on Capitol Hill last week before the House Oversight Committee in Washington to explain his agency s recommendation to not prosecute Hillary Clinton.


An old car on the Baker Ranch near Baker Nev in November Ranchers there complain about the loss of water to the cities.


J.B. Pritzker, the Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois, left, faced off against the Republican incumbent, Gov. Bruce Rauner, in a debate in Chicago this month.


A judge on Tuesday ruled that New York City had exceeded its authority in devising a plan to require that taxi operators purchase the same vehicle.


George Allen the Republican Senate candidate in Virginia talks with voters as he and others wait to vote at Washington Mill Elementary School in Fairfax County.


A view of Eighth Street in Greenwich Village. Nov. 18, 1965.


A commuter wears a mask on a polluted evening in Beijing on Monday.


Paul Butler left and Zolani Tete after the weighin for the IBF world superflyweight fight at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.


One of several memorials on Yonge Street in Toronto to the victims hit by a van driver this week.


Muammar Gaddafi shakes hands with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov the president of the International Chess Federation in Tripoli on Sunday But is the Libyan leader finally facing his endgame.


The pack with Tejay van Garderen of the US second rider from left takes the start at the MontSaintMichel rear during the first stage.


Jill Biden introduces her husband Vice President Biden at the White House Summit on Working Families.


A police officer patrolled Wednesday by the airport in Sana, Yemen.


Megyn Kelly right listens as Fox News colleague Chris Wallace begins introductions during the first Republican presidential debate on Aug 6 in Cleveland.


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel during his Likud Party conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.


Protesters fleeing from security forces in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday.


At the selfie Games Usain Bolt celebrates Jamaican relay gold with some fans at Hampden Park.


Olympiakos have turned down two bids from Fulham for their striker Kostas Mitroglou but a deal could be agreed before Friday.


A mobile lab sits in front of the National Center for Blood Transfusion in Conakry Guinea on Jan 28.


Students practicing kung fu at the Shaolin Tagou School, one of the private academies near the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, China, in November 2014.


Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one of several highprofile entrepreneurs behind the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.


Wayne LaPierre executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee.


Father Kenneth Walker gives a first blessing to Bishop Bruskewitz after Walker s ordination May 19 2012 at Cathedral of the Risen Christ in Lincoln Neb.


Investigators on Tuesday at the site of a shooting at the Ernesto Ramos Antonini housing complex in the Río Piedras neighborhood of San Juan, P.R.


Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on Gaza on Saturday in an offensive that shows no signs of slowing down.


Republican volunteer Glenn Heffner knocks on a door in Mentor Ohio on Sept 29 2012.


The German defence minister KarlTheodor zu Guttenberg with General Stanley McChrystal in Berlin last year.


Residents in Houston waded through floodwater on Monday after Hurricane Harvey inundated the Texas Gulf Goast with rain, causing widespread flooding.


Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie attend the presidential debate at Hofstra University on Sept 26 2016.


Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens listens to defense attorney Kirk Nurmi with his cocounsel and prosecutor Juan Martinez on Tuesday Jan 15 2013.


The Northern Sinfonia and conductor Lars Vogt performing at Newcastle station.


Supporters of Catalan independence marched in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday.


Sarasota police officer David Dubendor left and case worker Sherree Brown visit a homeless camp on an empty lot They re part of a HOT team.


Artist Alan LeQuire works on a monument for the Women s Suffrage Movement at his studio in this file July 28 2015 photo.


Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to be chief of the Cherokee Nation She is seen here in this Nov 15 1993 portrait.


Chris Martin of the group Coldplay performs Til Kingdom Comes during funeral services for Beau Biden.


Government soldiers stood next to the Philippine national flag on a mosque formerly occupied by Muslim rebels of the Moro National Liberation Front on Saturday in Zamboanga City.


President Obama on Wednesday visited the Linamar Corporation, which makes parts for heavy-duty engines, in Asheville, N.C.


A 2007 aerial photograph showing mud covering almost 1,400 acres in the East Java region of Indonesia.


Bill Clinton and Kim Jongil in a rare encounter between the US and North Korea in August 2009.


Wildebeest at sunset on the Masai Mara Kenya Photographer Paul Goldstein has spent years trying to photograph the perfect beginning and ending of the Masai Mara day.


Passengers stand in line at JetBlue checkin counters inside Terminal A in June 2013.


A firefighter doused a line of flames last weekend as crews battled one of California’s devastating wildfires, called the Butte Fire, near San Andreas.


Winton Australia Ethan Moller of the 9th Battalion AIF Living History Unit from Rockhampton stands alongside the Anzac troop train.


A supporter of the Russian band Pussy Riot holds a placard against Vladimir Putin.


The Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis makes a point during the Premier League match against Aston Villa.


Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, right, and David Miliband, a former foreign secretary, before a speech on the European Union at the British Museum in central London on Monday.


Obama s sister Auma Obama center watches as he proposes a toast to Kenyatta during the state dinner.


Mercy Wong protests at a Silicon Valley homeless encampment known as The Jungle on Dec 4 in San Jose Calif.


Kyrgyz security forces confronted a crowd massing on the outskirts of the capital Bishkek on Tuesday where looters have attacked homes belonging to mainly ethnic Russians and Meskhetian Turks.


Protesters filled up Puerta del Sol square in Madrid on Saturday.


FILE In this Jan 18 2008 file photo a customer signs his credit card receipt at a Target store in Tallahassee Fla.


Protesters threw rocks at a riot vehicle during clashes with government security forces in Taiz, Yemen, on Monday.


Shirel Shaar the sister of slain teen Gilad Shaar speaks at his eulogy while their mother Batgalim holds on to her arm His father Ofir seated at left listens.


Fire boat response crews battled the blazing remnants of the BP-operated off-shore oil rig, the Deepwater Horizon, in the Gulf of Mexico, in April 2010.


Twins at a camp for flood survivors in Pakistan on Tuesday. More help is needed, aid groups say.


Elizabeth W. Smith, a former assistant New York City parks commissioner, was named on Thursday as the president and chief executive of the Central Park Conservancy.


Celtic s 30 defeat by Milan in the Champions League ended the Scottish club s interest in Europe for another season.


Students in Staffordshire, England, protested their exam results on Monday. The sign in the foreground refers to Gavin Williamson, the British education secretary.


Nevada Democrats on Saturday caucused at Cheyenne High School in North Las Vegas.


French soldiers in Niamey, Niger, last year.


BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi listens to advice from his mother Hira Ba at her home in Gandhinagar near Ahmedabad as the results are announced.


President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine this year.


Women calling for the repeal of a law in Jordan allowing rapists to escape punishment if they marry their victims stood outside Parliament in Amman on Tuesday.


Counting rupees at a phone store in Mumbai. The rupee has fallen 8.1 percent in the last month.


Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces on Thursday in the West Bank city of Hebron.


A severely wounded man lay unattended in a mosque on Thursday in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, after a day of fighting.


Mark Hamill emphasized the theme of family at this year s Anaheim event for Star Wars.


Oracene Price mother of Serena Williams watches her in the women s singles final match during the 2016 Australian Open.


A Wisconsin voter leaves the voting booth after marking his ballot at the American Legion hall in Wrightstown in 2008.


Margaret Thatcher addressing a meeting at Putney Constitutional Club in the 1979 election campaign.


Distraught relatives of passengers of the crashed Aseman Airline flight gathered at the Mehr-Abad Airport in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday.


Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC governor general of Australia and his wife Lady Lynne Cosgrove with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at the Anzac dawn service.


A NASA image shows the coolerthanaverage water known as La Nina in the central tropical Pacific Ocean.


Busy love life Deirdre Barlow with Ken Barlow and Mike Baldwin.


Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes on June 6.


Florida Gators dancers perform during a timeout in the second half of the Sweet 16 game against the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles at Cowboys Stadium.


Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told an influential clerical council on Thursday that there would be no nuclear deal if sanctions were “suspended” rather than “lifted.”.


The central business district in Beijing on Monday, when the capital was engulfed in a sandstorm.


A US soldier destroys opium poppies in Tani district of Khost province Afghanistan.


Former President Álvaro Colom of Guatemala, center, was arrested Tuesday in Guatemala City in connection with a corruption investigation.


Edward Leung of the party Hong Kong Indigenous, leaving an election briefing for Legislative Council candidates in Hong Kong on Tuesday. He said he had been barred from running.


Australian upandcomer Michael Matthews wins a stage of the Tour de Suisse for Australian team OricaGreenEDGE.


The Flame Towers and Port Baku are lit up at night in Baku Azerbaijan.


Pencils candles and flowers are set up next to the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office in Paris on Jan 21.


Peterborough s Conor Washington looks to control a high ball under pressure from Southend s John White during Dave Robertson s final match in charge.


Women protested against bans on abortion access in Memphis last year.


Activists and workers converge near the McDonald s campus during a Fight for 15 rally in 2015 in Oakbrook Illinois.


The Guardian s gardening editor Jane Perrone has warned of Jubilee overkill at Chelsea this year.


A police officer displays a shoe found in September near the Matterhorn mountain in Zermatt Switzerland.


Former President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea, center left, was escorted to a prison in Seoul on Friday after his arrest on charges of bribery, embezzlement and tax evasion.


Gov. Chris Christie visited Asbury Park, N.J., on Friday. New Jersey faces a $2.7 billion budget hole and has one of the lowest credit ratings in the nation.


Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, at a Falcons game in Atlanta last month.


Totality from Above the CloudsCatalin Beldea Earth Space highly commendedOne of nature s greatest spectacles a total solar eclipse captured from a plane 32 kilometres above Turkana in Kenya.


Joint List leader Ayman Odeh votes in Haifa His group has brought together Israel s Arab parties and could win up to 15 seats.


Manchester United s Tom Cleverley seems to massage Will Buckley s back in the early exchanges.


Didier Lombard, right, the former chief of France Télécom, arriving at the court in Paris on Friday.


Carl Weisbrod, center, at a 2015 meeting of the Planning Commission. Mr. Weisbrod is retiring form his dual roles as director of New York City’s Planning Department and the Planning Commission chairman.


Journalists surrounded Cho Hyun-ah,a former Korean Airlines executive, at a court in Seoul on Tuesday.


A rally against the arrest of two prominent Turkish journalists, Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, in front of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet in Istanbul on Friday.


Supporters of President Mohamed Morsi protested on Friday in Nasr City, a neighborhood of Cairo.


A reformists’ campaign rally for the coming parliamentary elections in Tehran on Saturday.


Residents of Joplin, Mo., recovered possessions on Wednesday from an apartment building destroyed by a tornado.


Donald Trump left and fight promoter Don King in 1988.


Police officers and rescue workers stood near a van that plowed into a crowd watching a fireworks display Thursday in Nice, France.


Love the Coopers gets waylaid by fart jokes and a phony dance routine one of the year s many Christmas films underwhelms.


Fabian Gonzales and Michelle Martens were arrested Wednesday in Albuquerque.


A young lion looks toward the Nairobi skyline from Nairobi National Park in 2015.


Monica Lewinsky leaves the Howard County Courthouse in Ellicott City Md after testifying in the Linda Tripp wire tapping trial.


Shopkeeper Arman Amin 40 works at his shop along the Karakorum Highway.


President Obama is briefed by Gen Joseph F Dunford Jr commander of the USled International Security Assistance Force after arriving at Bagram air base for an unannounced visit.


Children sit in a window in the Shejaeiya neighborhood east of Gaza City near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel on May 5.


Zack Dickerson helps clean out the flooded basement of Michael Kaplan whose home sits along Frederick Road.


Chris Christie and Marco Rubio trade barbs during the Fox Business Network debate at the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center on Jan 14 2016.


Brigitte Macron with her husband, Emmanuel, then the French economy minister, at the Élysée Palace, the presidential residence, in Paris in 2015.


Pangolin scales seized by the Hong Kong Agriculture Fisheries and Conservation Department are displayed at the AFCD Operation Center in Hong Kong.


Soldiers check a house they suspect belongs to members of the Knights Templar drug cartel near the town of Holanda in Mexico s Michoacan state.


MercedesBenz EClass shown here as a coupe was fourth on the list with 381 stolen.


Canada s prime ministerdesignate Justin Trudeau announces the withdrawal of Canadian fighter jets from Syria and Iraq the day after his election victory.


Roland Delorme takes a kick from Alex Caceres during their Bantamweight bout at UFC 165 at the Air Canada Centre.


Alice ButlerShort cheers early numbers at the Ed Gillespie electionnight party in Springfield.


Gov. David A. Paterson, left, and Andrew M. Cuomo, the governor-elect, attended a news conference at the governor’s office in Manhattan on Tuesday.


DC activist Adam Eidinger is carried from a vote in April on Capitol Hill.


Pilots worked in the ROV (Remotely operated vehicles) control station onboard Discoverer Inspiration in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday.


Sanders speaks to protesters taking part in a Do nt Trade Our Future march organized by Campaign for America s Future on April 20 2015 in Washington.


Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran, left, conferred with a staff member Friday after a negotiation session over Irans nuclear program.


Carolyn Rivers right dances during a service at Charity Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston SC.


Tight End Greg Olsen of the Carolina Panthers participates in drills during practice prior to Super Bowl 50 against the Denver Broncos at San Jose State University.


Range Rover Evoque body panels at Jaguar Land Rover s plant in Halewood Export difficulties held back factory output in the last quarter.


Labour Clement Attlee waves to wellwishers on election day 26 July 1945 He was in power until 26 October 1951 during which time interest rates were held at 2.


Robert Eugene Koehler appeared in  court in Miami on Thursday and was ordered held without bond.


Siddiqui n a Feb 3 2010 courtroom sketch in New York City in this still image taken from video footage on Jan 18 2013.


Aseli Tikoirotuma scores Harlequins second try in the European Champions Cup win over Leinster.


Despite a long chain of Republican senators, the incumbent, Pat Roberts, left, is trailing Greg Orman, an independent, in polls. They debated Wednesday in Overland Park, Kan.


The JVC GZMS100EK has a 35x zoom and records to SD cards 15799 from Amazoncouk.


Representative Justin Amash of Michigan, a frequent critic of President Trump, left the Republican Party last year to become an independent.


One of a series of photographs by Henry Flather showing the construction of the Metropolitan Railway s underground lines in London in 1866.


Anarchic but avuncular Sam Rockwell seen here with Liam James plays an amusement park manager Owen in The Way Way Back.


Canada s new national defense minister Harjit Sajjan is sworn in at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday.


Claire Danes and Leonardo Dicaprio kiss in the film adaptation of Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet.


Parade goers assemble for the start of the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade.


US Secretary of State John Kerry talks during a special address at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan 24 2014.


Baltimore City sheriff s deputies surround and protect Officer Edward Nero s family members as demonstrators and members of the news media crowd around outside the Mitchell CourthouseWest.


Donald J. Trump on Wednesday evening in Kinston, N.C.


Former President Lee Myung-bak arriving in court in Seoul in 2018.


The original Filene’s Basement opened in Boston in 1909 and served as a heart of the community.


Documents from the Whitewater investigation are unloaded at the Ford House Office Building on Capitol Hill in 1998.


Roger Federer needed 87 minutes to beat Richard Gasquet in the quarterfinals.


The antigovernment protest in Sana, Yemen, on Thursday.


Patti Glessner relaxes on her raft at Keen Lake in Canaan Township Pa July 21 2016.


Alice in Wonderland from the Nursery Alice illustrated by John Tenniel.


Most elderly people in Ikaria work on their land daily and eat everything they grow Here Yiannis Melis 82 tends to his goats.


A paramilitary officer near recovered Etruscan vases displayed on Tuesday in Rome.


Firefighters said an explosion at a Sichuan Province industrial park seemed to have been fueled by methanol, but investigators said Friday that they were still determining the cause.


Storage tanks at a plant operated by Aramco in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government began selling shares in the company last week.


Patrick Omberg started his day as Arlington police chief with a ride to work in a police car.


Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, center, flanked last month by officials of a hospital in Royal Oak, promoted his Medicaid plan.


Leonardo DiCaprio left and Djimon Hounsou in a scene from Blood Diamond.


Safer points to one of his watercolors alongside his wife Jane and daughter Sarah in New York.


An Italian police dog sniffs passengers luggage at Leonardo Da Vinci airport in Fiumicino near Rome on March 22 2016.


Rupert Everett an openly gay actor with Christopher Walken in a still from The Comfort of Strangers.


The lights were out in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on Thursday.


Mayor Bill de Blasio greeted Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at the dedication of the new Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island on Wednesday, after Mr. Cuomo gave a speech hailing Mr. de Blasio’s predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg.


A cyclist looks at pictures of the 1985 earthquake displayed on a fence at Chapultepec park in Mexico City.


Teargas rains down on a woman after a protest over the killing of Michael Brown on 17 August in Ferguson Police will henceforth have to give notice of teargas use.


Robin Vos, the Republican speaker of the Assembly, left, during debate at the State Capitol on Tuesday in Madison, Wis.


For 2016 Honda has sharpened the looks of its Civic sedan.


A nuclear reactor under construction in Flamanville, France. Last month imperfections were discovered in the steel used to make the caps of the main reactor vessel.


Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado, last month. He has criticized his Republican rivals radical agenda on abortion.


The five defendants in the Central Park jogger case, behind the table, in court in 1990.


President Obama with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, his former White House chief of staff, during a visit on Friday to Hyde Park Academy in Chicago.


Statues that are part of “The Torlonia Marbles, Collecting Masterpieces,” which opened in a refurbished wing of the Capitoline Museums in Rome on Wednesday.


Janet Leigh in Hitchcock s Psycho Robert Bloch s novel reveals more of Bates s mind and still delivers potent suspense and horror.


Pakistani soldiers arrange a temporary tent for earthquake survivors in Lower Dir Pakistan.


Portuguese special forces take part in a exercise as part of the NATO s Trident Juncture 2015 in Troia 100 kms south of Lisbon on November 5 2015.


Nationals manager Matt Williams takes a moment to pose for a picture in his golf cart with young Nats fans Grant 5 and twoyearold Zachary Yeshnowski of Omaha Nebraska.


Riders wait on a Metro train at a darkened Dupont Circle station in Washington during the power outage.


Republican delegate Rachel Hoff center recites the Pledge of Allegiance during the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19.


Students gathered Tuesday after the shooting at the North Harris campus of Lone Star College, on the outskirts of Houston.


Metro Police respond to an active shooter call at the Hickory Hollow Carmike Theater Wednesday Aug 5 2015 in Nashville.


High wave hits a lighthouse as typhoon Neoguri approaches the Korean Peninsula in Seogwipo South Korea.


A Yemeni protester shouts slogans during a rally against Huthi rebels control of capital Down down with the Huthis rule chanted the protesters.


Deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg leaves 10 Downing Street to visit the Queen.


An antiindependentist Catalan wearing glasses and an umbrella hat bearing colours of the Spanish flag takes part in a demonstration for the unity of Spain at Catalunya square Barcelona.


George Bednarski and his wife, Karen, surveyed the damage to their condominium in Ortley Beach, N.J., after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.


Cartman and Kyle about to say something awful in South Park.


US Marine Lance Cpl Torffic Hassan 26 an immigrant from Ghana is a Marine reservist and nursing student living in the Bronx.


Melania Trump waves to the crowd after her wedding to Donald Trump at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda by the Sea on Jan 22 2005 in Palm Beach Fla.


Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi chats with Graham and Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt right in 2012.


Woods hits a putt as his girlfriend Lindsey Vonn son Charlie and daughter Sam look on.


Relatives on Monday moving the body of one of the people killed in a clash carried out by Afghan forces in Helmand Province.


Builders sit in the drained fountain nicknamed the Floozie in the Jacuzzi in Birmingham s Victoria Square during a heatwave.


A worker at a rare earth metal smelting site. In 2009, China significantly reduced its export quotas for rare earth elements, causing world prices to soar.


The river Tamar near Cotehele Cornwall in an early morning mist December 2009.


An artist s drawing of an Verandah Stateroom on Holland America s Koningsdam.


The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at an event in Brussels.


Mr. Trump embraced Senator Luther Strange on Friday in Huntsville.


Las Vegas Nevada US Attendees get their first handson look at the new LG G Flex2 smart phone at the LG press conference at 2015 Consumer Electronics Show.


In this Sept 10 2015 photo Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a labor rally in New York.


Samantha Power US ambassador to the United Nations and her husband Cass Sunstein.


Harvard University in Cambridge Mass has the largest endowment in higher education 376 billion as of 2015.


New York City welcomed a record number of visitors in 2017, including many foreign travelers, despite the Trump administration’s proposed travel ban and immigration restrictions.


Dancers from the Impact Repertory Theater perform at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial during the Realize the Dream rally.


Fans celebrated in Shanghai after Li Yuchun won in 2005 on Super Girl, a talent show like American Idol.


James Corden is hosting the Tony Awards as planned Sunday night.


A Palestinian protester throws back a teargas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes following a demonstration against Jewish settlements in the West Bank village of Bilin.


Glorious gardens childfriendly Villa Lila near Es Trenc beach in Mallorca.


The Johnny Cash Boyhood Home in Dyess, Ark. The Cash home and a museum about the town’s beginnings as a farming colony will open this weekend.


Smoke billows out of the People s Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison second building from right in Hong Kong No one was injured in the blaze.


Portland Timbers fans show there s plenty to cheer about in MLS despite the distraction of a World Cup.


Little League World Series fan Landen Sterner slides down a hill prior to the game between Japan and South Korea.


Rosie ODonnell addresses the audience as host of Nickelodeon s Kids Choice Awards in Santa Monica Calif in 2003.


Russian politician and businessman Boris Titov speaks during the Russian International Affairs Council in Moscow.


Van Morrison performing on The Midnight Special TV Show on 22 April 1977.


Biden is greeted by Ambassador Kennedy and other officials upon his arrival in Tokyo.


People throw colour powder during the Holi Festival of Colours in Moscow The festival was originally celebrated in India to celebrate spring and to drive away evil spirits.


The aftermath of a mass shooting at a social services facility in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday. Entire neighborhoods were on lockdown afterward.


Nixon s letter of resignation to Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger.


Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico devastated last month.


LinManuel Miranda writing in Aaron Burr s bedroom at the MorrisJumel Mansion in a scene from Hamilton s America.


State Representative Susan Lontine of Colorado plans to introduce a bill this month that would remove the term “illegal aliens” from state law and replace it with “undocumented immigrants.”.


A man who was stopped for not wearing a seat belt discussed the matter with Sgt. Lee Savage, left, and Police Constable Graham Pinney on Thursday in Britain’s Dorset County.


Blake Shelton wins for male vocalist of the year during the 48th annual CMA Awards.


A visitor to the Potocari Memorial Centre where 175 newlyidentified Bosnian muslims were buried at a funeral in Srebrenica on the 19th Anniversary of the massacre.


Livestock herders near the central Somali town of Belet Weyne in the Hiiraan region.


The number of rough sleepers in England jumped 55 between 2010 and 2015.


A student solves maths equations while balancing on a ladder Movement during lessons is encouraged at Charles Pinckney elementary school in Charleston South Carolina.


Donald J. Trump, a co-owner of the Miss Universe contest at the time, at an after-party for the 2013 pageant in Moscow. He also used the visit to Moscow to discuss development deals.


Caswell Bay cafe south Wales This was 20 minutes after high tide The shutters and windows had been smashed in and waves were entering the building.


A voter fills out his ballot for Montana s primary election at the Lewis and Clark Library in Helena Mont.


A climate protester atop West Burton gas power station on 29 October.


Smoke plumes ascend in Jobar eastern Damascus after reported Syrian regime bombings on rebel positions.


Mourners carried the coffins of bomb victims at their funeral on Thursday, a day after suicide attacks on a religious procession in Lahore, Pakistan.


Plumes of smoke from the fire, which broke out at the Straight & Narrow halfway house in Paterson, N.J., could be seen for miles on Saturday.


South African president Jacob Zuma was one of many African leaders who attended.


An opposition rally in Minsk, Belarus, last week.


An Israeli soldier sleeps on an 155mm mobile artillery cannon along the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip.


A passenger waiting for a train last week in the late evening sun on the platform at Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore.


Relatives of the victims of a fire at a Shanghai apartment tower mourned Tuesday. The fire killed more than 50 people and injured at least 90 others.


Duterte left returns a salute to the chief general of the armed forces Ricardo Visaya before departing to Japan at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport near Manila.


A severely wounded man is held by Morsi supporters during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Cairo s Ramses Square.


The final ballots in Israel's national elections were tallied on Thursday.


Christian Taylor won the triple jump at the World Championships in Beijing with this distance.


Supporters of Sen Ted Cruz attend the Republican convention at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs on April 9.


Silvio Berlusconi as a media mogul he helped unify Italy but as prime minister his policies helped spur an exodus of Italians to the US and elsewhere.


Roma in Stains, France, cut up a pig this week. The Roma hope that President Franois Hollande will annul an expulsion order.


Rallies were held across the country, including in Rome, where a gay couple held up clocks on Saturday near the Pantheon.


In a Guatemala City courtroom on Thursday, former President Otto Pérez Molina said he intends to “face up” to allegations. Meanwhile, his vice president, Alejandro Maldonado, was sworn in.


Actor Miguel Ferrer left and his wife Lori Weintraub arrive at Venice s airport.


The entrance of the Trump condominium waterfront tower in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Construction was originally supposed to have been completed in 2016. Now people involved in the project said they are not sure if or when it will be finished.


Tourists lamented the removal of 45 tons of padlocks from Paris’s Pont des Arts on Monday. Authorities say their weight is damaging the structure, and will replace them with plexiglass panels.


A doctor looked at an X-ray of a patient with tuberculosis at a hospital in Bhopal, India, last month.


Parker and Broderick leave Lenox Hill Hospital with their new baby son in New York Friday on Nov 1 2002.


Australia s Tim Cahill center celebrates after tying the score at 1 with a header.


President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, left, with Maikel Moreno, the president of the country’s Supreme Court, in Caracas on Friday.


President Obama walks to the Rose Garden of the White House to speak about the breakthrough in the Iranian nuclear talks on April 2 2015.


Painters on Wednesday repairing an area inside a cordon at the Central Station in Brussels where an explosive device went off the previous evening.


How many beats is it again Laurence Olivier right and Anthony Nicholls in William Shakespeare s Coriolanus 1959.


Hillary Clinton prepares to walk on stage at a rally with former vice president Al Gore at Miami Dade College Kendall Campus on Oct 11.


Richard Blumenthal, left, and Linda E. McMahon, candidates for United States Senate from Connecticut, during their debate on Thursday in Norwalk. It was streamed live on the Internet and televised later.


Customs officers wearing face masks and gloves screen passengers arriving at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja Nigeria.


Workers at Boeing's Wichita, Kan., plant left a meeting Wednesday where the company announced it would close the operation.


Two bucks and a doe stand in a field under a flock of Canada geese in Huntingtown Md.


Mohamed Badie pictured with Mohamed Morsi in 2011 Badie is among the defendants in one mass trial.


Sinatra in New York 1956 He conquered every medium television recording films Tony Bennett said after his death He was just born for what he did.


Andrea Ramsey said Friday she would drop out of a congressional race in Kansas after sexual harassment allegations against her resurfaced.


Postal clerk Elisha Toni joined colleagues at a rally opposing post office closures on Sept 27 2011 in Los Angeles.


Miami running back Knowshon Moreno runs at the Dallas Cowboys defence.


Sen Barbara Mikulski who is retiring at the end of this term at a Maryland Democratic Party reception for her on Oct 26 in Baltimore.


Islamic State flags flutter on the Mullah Abdullah Bridge in southern Kirkuk Iraq.


A photo of Fidel Castro throwing a baseball is displayed outside the office of Cuba s baseball commissioner Heriberto Suarez back right in Havana on Feb 22.


Bloodstock UK 2014 Black metal band Emperor were headlining Bloodstock the night this was taken This brought out lots of amazing outfits and corpse paint.


A worker at Volkswagen s factory in Dresden prepares a car for delivery Politicians traditionally have a big influence on the company s management decisions.


A cabin and corridor of a Thello train of French Veolia Transdev and Italian Threnitalia.


Gonzalo Higuain centre celebrates Argentina s penalty shootout win over Holland.


Brazilian soldiers guarded the Olympic beach volleyball arena in Rio de Janeiro last week.


Children scrambled for comic books and kites at a festival in Kabul on Friday. Some children were beaten by police officers trying to impose order at the gathering.


Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas at a memorial on the grounds of Santa Fe High School, where a gunman killed 10 people on Friday. The governor’s campaign changed a contest for a gun because of the shooting, a spokesman said.


Rihanna on the Met gala red carpet in a gown by Chinese designer Guo Pei.


Donald Trump s children Donald Trump Jr Eric Trump and Tiffany Trump listen to the debate.


Workers from the Ilva steel plant protested its possible closure in Genoa, Italy, on Tuesday.


Two protesters injured in during clashes were carried. Rival crowds of demonstrators hurled rocks, missiles, Molotov cocktails and fireworks at each other in Tahrir Square, the spiritual center of Egypt’s 2011 revolution.


Madame Jo Jo s nightclub in London s Soho was forced to close in November 2014.


Debris littered a field near the West Fertilizer Company plant in West, Tex., where a blast last week killed 14 people. Investigators believe it may have been set off by ammonium nitrate stored there.


Hillary Clinton took a selfie with a girl during a campaign event in Des Moines on Sunday.


Pakistan s Rahat Ali right celebrates with Shahid Afridi after dismissing Williams at the Gabba in Brisbane.


President Obama and Christie return from Paterson NJ after viewing damage caused by Hurricane Irene.


Olivia Harper 2 plays in a closed playground at Lincoln Park Her grandfather Lorenzo Knight found a gate that was unlocked.


A wall painted with anti-American slogans in Tehran last month. The fate of American citizens held in Irans prisons is uncertain in light of the fragile relationship between the two countries.


President Obama meets with African Union Chairperson Nkosazana DlaminiZuma at the African Union in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.


Patrick Reed with his wife Justine and their daughter WindsorWells during the Par 3 contest.


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell RKy and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid DNev face reporters after a Nov 16 2012 meeting at the White House.


The site of an explosion in the center of Kabul on Saturday, where 12 people were killed by a suicide car bomber.


John Jairo Velásquez, right, with a tourist last year near the tomb of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellín cocaine cartel, in Medellín, Colombia.


Mexican journalists from left, Ana Cristina Ruelas, Rafael Cabrera and Carmen Aristegui, and the director of the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center, Mario Patron, at a news conference in Mexico City on Monday.


Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Wednesday that four live-action television series based on Daredevil and three other Marvel comic book heroes will be shot in New York City.


Young women and girls gather outside the Masjid AtTaqwa mosque in Brooklyn New York last year.


A sale pending sign is posted in front of a home for sale on May 22 in San Anselmo Calif.


What s happening Paul Walker and Vin Diesel in Fast Five.


Sharyn Hakken appears via video feed from jail in front of Judge Walter Heinrich on Thursday in Tampa.


Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, who in 2013 ruled that New York Citys stop-and-frisk policy had violated the rights of minorities, said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg really never appreciated what was wrong with the Police Departments procedure.


Tre Smith cuts 2yearold Jaiden Newland s hair at PJ s Barbers Stylists and Nails on Martin Luther King Jr Avenue in Anacostia.


Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 26, center, of the Pakistan Peoples Party, greeted supporters at a rally in Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday.


Property owners Jim and Lorraine inspect their destroyed house near Roseworthy.


Kurdish fighters move about in Sinjar a day after the Iraqi city was liberated from the Islamic State.


Defectors with the Free Syrian Army resting in Idlib Province on Saturday. The continued violence suggests that diplomacy has made little headway.


A moose licking a visitor’s car last month in Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada.


Five US states are considering raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour.


Jeff Koonss Coloring Book sculpture was unveiled outside the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento last week.


Staff members at Port St. Joe Elementary School in northwest Florida contacted the police on Friday after seeing a disturbing picture drawn on a student’s homework assignment.


Russians attend a rally in support of Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Crimea.


President Park Geun-hye of South Korea bowed after issuing a statement of apology in Seoul on Tuesday.


Mendy Vogel goes for a goal at Hamilton Metz Field during the Crown Heights Cup on Sunday.


Shadow minister for women and equalities Gloria De Piero stands with other female Labour MPs at last year s Labour party conference.


Main Street Casino staff members watching a second thunderstorm approaching after a tornado in Billings, Mont., on Sunday.


A person who was hurt in an explosion on the subway in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Monday. With the attack, Russia once again appeared to have found itself a target of terrorism, after a long lull in its main urban centers.


Thousands of protesters marched in Hong Kong on Sunday to express opposition to a proposed overhaul of extradition laws.


Napoli s Edinson Cavani celebrates after putting his side 10 up against Manchester City in the Champions League.


Tyrone Howard, right, with his lawyer, Michael Hurwitz, at State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Monday.


The jury box right inside Courtroom 201 at the Arapahoe County District Court in Centennial Colorado.


Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele in the film of Fifty Shades of Grey.


China’s homegrown C919 passenger jet at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai after completing its maiden flight last year.


Thousands of opposition activists demonstrating in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday.


Graeme McDowell hits his second shot out of the bunker on the eighth hole.


An artist s impression of the Dragon spacecraft with solar panels deployed It will take about a day to reach the International Space Station s orbit Illustration SpaceX.


A family visiting a memorial to the victims of the 1981 massacre in El Mozote, El Salvador.


Sara Bauleke left of Arlington and Erica Heintz of Portland Ore take a look at the titan arum.


Actress Julia LouisDreyfus and her father William LouisDreyfus at a screening of Generosity of Eye on May 27 2014 in New York City.


Niagara Falls, as seen from the Prospect Point observation tower in New York on Thursday.


Traffic in Beijing The Chinese economy is expected to be twice as big as that of the US by 2050.


This satellite image, taken in 2009, shows construction of what is believed to be a nuclear facility at a mountain outside Qum.


Secretary of State John F Kerry attends State Department dedication ceremonies for new names on the American Foreign Service Association Memorial Plaque in 2013.


ACDC lead singer Brian Johnson and lead guitarist Angus Young perform the first concert in Australia on their Rock or Bust world tour in Sydney.


Campaigners gathered at the crossing of Oxford Street and Regent Street in central London on Saturday.


CNN founder Ted Turner in 1996 shortly before he was forced out.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes a photo with Madison County Sheriff Jason Barnes at the John Wayne Museum on Saturday June 27 2015.


Election commission officials sorted out ballots as they began the counting process in Seoul on Wednesday.


Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania on Capitol Hill in 2016.


Security guards surround the former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre on his first appearance at the special international court in Senegal s capital Dakar.


An abandoned house at the west end of Shishmaref, Alaska, that slid during a storm in 2005. Residents have voted in favor of relocating the community to the mainland.


Naomi Watts in Diana a recent UK coproduction that became a boxoffice flop.


Alan Mulally Ford president and CEO executive chairman Bill Ford and COO Mark Fields are dwarfed by the F150.


Jim Devine MP David Chaytor MP Elliot Morley MP and Conservative peer Lord Hanningfield charged with expenses offences.


The US Marine Corps War Memorial is shown here in December 2014 with the Washington Monument in the distance across the Potomac River BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIAFPGetty Images.


Maryland Gov Martin OMalley waits for President Obama to speak in remembrance of the 12 victims of the Navy Yard shooting.


A memorial to Kathryn Steinle on Pier 14 in San Francisco. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, charged in Ms. Steinle’s death, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges on Thursday.


David Clarke Jr. had been Milwaukee County sheriff since 2002.


A woman cries in one of Ecuador s worsthit towns Pedernales on April 18 2016 two days after a magnitude78 quake hit the country.


Chinese border police officers watching the arrival of a container ship at a port in Qingdao, China. On Wednesday, China threatened to retaliate against many of the American products and industries that President Trump has vowed to protect.


New England Patriots cornerback Darrelle Revis reacts after intercepting a pass against the Indianapolis Colts in the third quarter in the AFC Championship Game at Gillette Stadium.


A slum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Wide dissatisfaction has followed the boom of the 1990s.


Dheepan director Jacques Audiard holds up the Palme d Or for the photographers.


Brad Hogg centre pictured here playing in the Big Bash took four for 29 in Kolkata Knight Riders victory over Chennai Super Kings.


Fanning poses for photographers during a photo call for the film The Neon Demon at the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival in southern France on May 20 2016.


Israel’s Parliament in 2019. Opposition officials say that coalition talks stumbled because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to protect his position amid his legal troubles.


Iowa State head coach Paul Rhoads was fired Nov 22.


Andy Murray of Britain hits a return to Novak Djokovic of Serbia during their men s singles final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne Australia.


Divers retrieve what is thought to be the largest chunk of the meteorite from Chebarkul Lake near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.


Primitive sophistication a visitor takes a picture of Matisse s The Dance at the State Hermitage museum in St Petersburg Russia.


Republican presidential candidates former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney left and Texas Gov Rick Perry speak during a Republican presidential debate Tuesday Oct 18 2011 in Las Vegas.


Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India in New Delhi on Friday. Despite slow progress on economic reforms, and religious and caste tensions, 81 percent of Indians had a favorable view of Mr. Modi.


Painful parenting Denis Lawson and Lydia Wilson play father and daughter in Anya Reiss s The Acid Test at the Royal Court.


Original unveiled in 2001 the Seven Seas Mariner was built at the Chantiers de LAtlantique shipyard in France.


US archer Brady Ellison s tattoo is on full display as he takes aim during a practice session Thursday.


Wild golden monkeys in the Qinling Mountains in Ningshan China Monkey numbers there have increased to about 5000 according to the Shaanxi provincial forestry department.


Pope Francis holds a parrot given by faithful during the general audience in Saint Peter s Square at the Vatican January 29 2014 REUTERSOsservatore Romano.


Tunisians arrived at the El-Abidine Mosque in Tunis for the Eid al-Fitr prayer last week. Some fear restrictions, enforced after the massacre of 38 tourists, signal a return to authoritarian rule.


Rudi Voller front of West Germany and Frank Rijkaard of Holland at San Siro in Italia 90 West Germany won the match 21.


Tennis fans lined up to fill their water bottles during the Wimbledon tournament in southwest London in 2015.


Wall Street lobbyists have been working to water down former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker s contribution to the DoddFrank financial reform act.


The RB and gospel singer Mavis Staples at the Beacon Theater in New York in 2012.


Mohamed Fahmy centre with his alJazeera colleagues Baher Mohamed left and Peter Greste during a court appearance in Cairo Egypt on 1 January Fahmy is represented by Amal Clooney.


A traveller buys an underground season ticket from a vending machine at Highgate Station in 1932.


Antonio Orozco recounts crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in his youth, and explains how the experience differs for his sons today.


Kasas City s Jarrod Dyson celebrates with the Commissioner s Trophy after defeating the New York Mets to win the World Series.


Medical workers outside Mount Sinai Morningside hospital in Manhattan on Thursday as people applauded their efforts.


Boats slam against a pier after breaking free from their moorings as a storm surge and high winds from Tropical Storm Debby batter Bradenton Beach Florida June 25 2012.


Surprise guests Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performing during the halftime show at the 2004 Superbowl The notorious flash provoked media regulators.


Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland, spoke to protesters near the Monument of Fallen Shipyard Workers in Gdansk on Saturday.


Questions have been raised as to how prosecutors for the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., left, handled a 2015 sexual assault allegation against the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.


A Palestinian woman watched an Israeli boy lighting candles at the site of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem this month.


A wounded police officer received medical care after a car bomb killed 15 people outside a police training academy in Baghdad on Sunday.


A protester demonstrated on Sunday outside a Starbucks in Philadelphia, where the police arrested two black men who were sitting inside.


Kirk Cousins celebrates a touchdown against the Buffalo Bills last December.


Construction last month on the Seabrook floodgate complex in New Orleans. The overall defense system includes the biggest pumping station on the planet.


In the distant reaches of the Kuiper Belt dwarf planet Sedna could be in the gravitational pull of another unseen planet nicknamed Planet 9 Video provided by Newsy.


A worker drives a forklift at the Mondragon group s Fagor electrical appliances plant in the Northern Spanish Basque town of Arrasate Mondragon.


US Secretary of State John F Kerry right speaks next to Afghan presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani center and Abdullah Abdullah during Friday s news conference in Kabul.


Forensics investigators inside a building in Boussy-Saint-Antoine on Thursday, where three female suspects, said to have been planning acts of violence in Paris, were arrested.