![CHILDREN PARTICIPATE IN THE FEAST OF SAINT RITA OF CASCIA IN PHILIPPINES A boy contorts his face as he competes in a parlor game trying to move a coin from his forehead to his mouth as part of the feast day of Saint Rita of Cascia in Paranaque, Philippines, on May 18, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/29445310.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
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![APTOPIX Japan Daily Life A couple sticks their heads out of holes while taking a photograph at a public park in Tokyo, on May 19, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/0e02eb2577c341fb8d79501418d173de-0.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![TOPSHOTS-RUSSIA-WEATHER-FEATURE A teenager rides a bike across fountains in central Moscow, on May 19, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ts-dv1732851.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![BESTPIX San Francisco's Famed Lombard Street Recoils From Heavy Tourism Tourists take pictures while driving down Lombard Street in San Francisco, on May 20, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/492453581.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![TOPSHOTS-ISRAEL-RELIGION-JUDAISM-LAG BAOMER Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance at the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the northern Israeli village of Meron on May 18, 2014, at the start of the day-long holiday of Lag Baomer that commemorates the Jewish scholar's death.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ts-nic6328721.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![TOPSHOTS-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-POLITICS-CRISIS Girls play in a park in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk on May 16, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ts-par7881816.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![CHILDREN PARTICIPATE IN THE FEAST OF SAINT RITA OF CASCIA IN PHILIPPINES A boy contorts his face as he competes in a parlor game trying to move a coin from his forehead to his mouth as part of the feast day of Saint Rita of Cascia in Paranaque, Philippines, on May 18, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/29445310.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![APTOPIX Missouri Legislature Members of the Missouri House of Representatives throw papers in the air in celebration of the end of the legislative session in Jefferson City, Mo., on May 16, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/8f2ae926c63c4c39ac5e0cdf0b13444b-0.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![A "scissors" dancer performs in a national scissors dance competition at Lima's Exposition Park A "scissors" dancer performs in a national scissors dance competition at Lima's Exposition Park, on May 18, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-19t025147z_847827253_gm1ea5j0u.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Crisis Continues In Eastern Ukraine Men practice parkour on the beach in Mariupol, Ukraine, on May 18, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/492000221.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![TOPSHOTS-FRANCE-HORSERACING French horse Unmix is pictured before a training session on May 16, 2014 in Dragey-Ronthon, northwestern France.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ts-par7881417.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![TOPSHOTS-FBL-FRA-LIGUE1-SAINT ETIENNE-AJACCIO Saint-Etienne's players celebrate victory at the end of the French League football match between Saint-Etienne and Ajaccio, at the Geoffroy Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne, central France, on May 18, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ts-arp3880804.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![North Korean leader Kim Jong un plays with children during a visit to the Taesongsan General Hospital in this undated photo released by North Korea's KCNA agency in Pyongyang North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plays with children during a visit to the Taesongsan General Hospital in Pyongyang, in an undated photo released on May 19, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-19t114953z_358642223_gm1ea5j1h.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![A man smokes as he waits with his painted buffalo before a buffalo bodypainting competition in Jiangcheng county, Yunnan province A man smokes as he waits with his painted buffalo before a buffalo bodypainting competition in Jiangcheng county, Yunnan province](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-18t074310z_545774714_gm1ea5i17.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Bobby Moore Waxwork Unveiling - May 19, 2014 Madame Tussauds unveils a new wax figure of 1966 England Captain, Bobby Moore at West Ham United's Boelyn Ground in London, on May 19, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/492192853.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![APTOPIX Germany Weather A boy swims at the Olympic open air public pool in Berlin, on May 21, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fe7be20fa0834f90bcbca21afbec600e-0.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Marlene lies over the original fossilised femur of a dinosaur displayed on exhibition at the Egidio Feruglio Museum in the Argentina's Patagonian city of Trelew A girl, Marlene, lies on top of the original fossilized femur of a dinosaur displayed on exhibition at the Egidio Feruglio Museum in Argentina's Patagonian city of Trelew, on May 18, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-19t154017z_978491601_gm1ea5j02.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![BESTPIX Cambridge United v Gateshead FC - Skrill Conference Premier Play-Offs Final Ryan Donaldson of Cambridge United celebrates his goal with team mates during the Skrill Conference Premier Play-Offs Final between Cambridge United and Gateshead FC at Wembley Stadium in London, on May 18, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/491968591.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![TOPSHOTS-SERBIA-WEATHER-FLOOD-ANIMALS A child plays with rescued dogs in an animal shelter in the village of Drazevac near the flooded Serbian town of Obrenovac, on May 21, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/was8627872.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![TOPSHOTS-AFGHANISTAN-SOCIETY An Afghan youth pushes a friend on a ice-cream cart as the sun sets on the outskirts of Mazar Sharif on May 16, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ts-del6321058.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![England's national soccer team player Wayne Rooney speaks with his son after a training session in Almancil England's national soccer team player Wayne Rooney speaks with his son, Kai, after a training session in Almancil, near Faro in Portugal, on May 21, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014-05-22t033358z_1299916428_gm1ea5l1.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Summer weather in Germany People enjoy the warm weather in the English Gardens in Munich, on May 21, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/04217598.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Animals in Zurich Zoo A young black-necked swan chick with its mother swim in a pond at the Zoo in Zurich, on May 21, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/04217061.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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