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Lawyer Amal Clooney takes her seat for a press conference at the National Press Club April 30, 2015 in Washington, DC. Laila Ali wife of former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed spoke about attempts to get her husband released from prison. (credit:BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty Images)
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First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) Nicola Sturgeon leaves aboard a helicopter leaving the Prestonfield House Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, on April 30, 2015, as she campaigns ahead of a general election in Britain on May 7, 2015. Britain goes to the polls on May 7 for a general election. AFP PHOTO / ANDY BUCHANAN (Photo credit should read Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANDY BUCHANAN via Getty Images)
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First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) Nicola Sturgeon poses next to a helicopter before leaving the Prestonfield House Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, on April 30, 2015, as she campaigns ahead of a general election in Britain on May 7, 2015. Britain goes to the polls on May 7 for a general election. AFP PHOTO / ANDY BUCHANAN (Photo credit should read Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANDY BUCHANAN via Getty Images)
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Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron (C), addresses locals during a 'walkabout' whilst campaigning for the UK general election in Wetherby, northern England, on April 30, 2015. Britain goes to the polls on May 7 to elect a new parliament. AFP PHOTO / POOL / TOBY MELVILLE (Photo credit should read TOBY MELVILLE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:TOBY MELVILLE via Getty Images)
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Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron (L), greets locals during a 'walkabout' whilst campaigning for the UK general election in Wetherby, northern England, on April 30, 2015. Britain goes to the polls on May 7 to elect a new parliament. AFP PHOTO / POOL / TOBY MELVILLE (Photo credit should read TOBY MELVILLE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:TOBY MELVILLE via Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 30: New Starbucks Express Format opens on Wall Street on April 30, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Starbucks) (credit:Slaven Vlasic via Getty Images)
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The Gurkhas march from Wellington Barracks to the Ghurka memorial as part of their 200th anniversary and memorial march on April 30, 2015 in London, England. There will be a service at the Gurkha Statue to re-dedicate the recently refurbished Campaign Service and Gurkha Units plates, to reflect 200 years of rich Gurkha history and to commemorate those killed in service to the British Crown. (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images) (credit:Ben A. Pruchnie via Getty Images)
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Keeper Graeme Alexander watches over Lucy, a two-tonne rhino who is struggling to mate with her partner as she prepares to undergo a delicate ultrasound with a team of vets at Blair Drummond Safari Park in Scotland. (credit:Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
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BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 28: (CHINA OUT) An Android robot designed by professor Hiroshi Ishiguro is exhibited at the Global Mobile Internet Conference on April 28, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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GUILDFORD, ENGLAND - APRIL 29: Fire brigade spray water on Clandon Park House on April 29, 2015 in Guildford, England. 60 fire officers are attending the large fire which started in the basement of the 18th century house. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
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Pemba Tamang is carried on a stretcher after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and U.S. rescue workers from a building that collapsed five days ago in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as a Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shresta) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 29: (L-R) WBC/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao pose with a WBC championship belt as Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach looks on during a news conference at the KA Theatre at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on April 29, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two will face each other in a unification bout on May 2, 2015 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) (credit:Ethan Miller via Getty Images)
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 30: British nationals arrive at London Stansted Airport after being evacuated from Nepal following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25 that struck the Himalayan nation, April 30, 2015 in London, England. The death toll stands at more than 5,000 people. About 120 Brits were evacuated from Nepal on the return journey of a UK aid flight. (Photo by Nilas Halle'n-Pool/Getty Images) (credit:WPA Pool via Getty Images)
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 30: Ricky Martin takes a selfie of his wax figure at Madame Tussauds on April 30, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage) (credit:Don Arnold via Getty Images)
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BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 29: Protesters argue near a CVS pharmacy that was looted and burned by rioters on Monday after the funeral of Freddie Gray, on April 29, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Gray, 25, was arrested for possessing a switch blade knife April 12 outside the Gilmor Houses housing project on Baltimore's west side. According to his attorney, Gray died a week later in the hospital from a severe spinal cord injury he received while in police custody. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) (credit:Andrew Burton via Getty Images)
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ROME, ITALY - APRIL 30: Justin Bieber is seen on the set of 'Zoolander 2' on April 30, 2015 in Rome, . (Photo by Agostino Fabio/GC Images) (credit:Agostino Fabio via Getty Images)
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Participants sing and dance with flags during a parade marking the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon (former name of Ho Chi Minh City) in Ho Chi Minh City on April 30, 2015. Vietnam marked the 40th anniversary of Saigon's fall on April 30 with a huge military parade celebrating the moment communist forces ended a decades-long conflict and delivered a painful blow to American moral and military prestige. AFP PHOTO / HOANG DINH Nam (Photo credit should read HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HOANG DINH NAM via Getty Images)
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 30: British nationals arrive at London Stansted Airport after being evacuated from Nepal following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25 that struck the Himalayan nation, April 30, 2015 in London, England. The death toll stands at more than 5,000 people. About 120 Brits were evacuated from Nepal on the return journey of a UK aid flight. (Photo by Nilas Halle'n-Pool/Getty Images) (credit:WPA Pool via Getty Images)
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A fire strip crosses a forest floor in the Chernobyl area, Ukraine, as fire has engulfed a large sector of woods in the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the fire is being brought under control. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Miss Universe Paulina Vega, from Colombia, jokingly sticks her tongue out at photographers from a car after visiting patients at a military hospital in Bogota, Colombia. Vega is in her native country for her first official visit since she was crowned Miss Universe in January. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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US rescuer workers, wearing yellow helmets, plan as they and Nepal policemen prepare to pull out Pemba Tamang, a teenage boy from the rubble of a building five days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. Crowds cheered Thursday as Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal. (AP Photo / Manish Swarup) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A protester throws a tear gas canister back toward riot police after a 10 p.m. curfew went into effect in the wake of Monday's riots following the funeral for Freddie Gray in Baltimore. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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US President Barack Obama, 2015 National Teacher of the Year, Texas high school English teacher Shanna Peeples (2nd R) and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, arrive in the Rose Garden for a ceremony honouring the 2015 National Teacher of the Year and finalists on April 29, 2015 at the White House in Washingon, DC. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MANDEL NGAN via Getty Images)
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A house on the higher reaches of mountains, destroyed in Saturdayâs earthquake is seen from a helicopter near Dhadingbesti, in Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. The first aid shipments reached a hilly district near the epicenter of Nepal's earthquake, a U.N. food agency official said, and distribution of food and medicine would start Wednesday, five days after the quake struck. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Burundian riot police use their shields to block stones being pelted by protesters in Musaga, on the outskirts of Bujumbura, on April 29, 2015, during demonstrations against the President's bid for a third term. At least five people have died since unrest broke out over the weekend, when the ruling CNDD-FDD party designated Nkurunziza its candidate for the presidential election to be held in the central African nation on June 26. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SIMON MAINA via Getty Images)
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Daredevil performer Nik Wallenda waves to a crowd below after he walked untethered along the rim of the Orlando Eye, the city's new, 400-foot observation wheel, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Orlando, Fla. The walk is being done in advance of next month's public opening of the attraction. (AP Photo/John Raoux) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Nepalese students and volunteers clear the rubble at Kathmandu Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Nepalâs capital and the densely populated Kathmandu valley on Saturday devastating the region and leaving tens of thousands shell-shocked and sleeping in streets. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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