Iraqi federal police covered in dust arrive to join the forces surrounding Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, on Tuesday. Rwa Faisal/AP hide caption
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (right), along with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (left), speak to reporters in London on May 12. They tried to assure European banks they won't be penalized for conducting legitimate business with Iran. Critics say it should not be up to the U.S. to encourage investment in Iran. Josh Lederman/AP hide caption
John Kerry's Awkward Push For Investment In Iran
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko (center), who was freed from jail in Russia as part of a prisoner exchange, talks to the media upon arrival at Kiev's Boryspil airport on Wednesday. Anatolii Stepanov /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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'Mirror Test' Reflects On The Consequences Of The Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan
U.S. officials and members of Native American Nations attend an "emergency meeting" at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. They were gathered to object to a Paris auction house's upcoming sale of objects sacred to Native Americans. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
Margaret Chan (left), director general of the World Health Organization, is among the dignitaries visiting a military base in Conakry, Guinea, on a tour of west African countries affected by Ebola. Also pictured: Guinean President Alpha Conde (fourth from right) and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (right). BINANI/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Chechen regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov speaks as he attends celebrations marking Defenders of the Fatherland Day in Chechnya's provincial capital of Grozny, Russia, in February. Musa Sadulayev/AP hide caption
Demonstrators gather in a silent rally to mourn the death of an Okinawa woman in front of Camp Zukeran on May 22. The crime is thrusting the opposition to the U.S. presence on Okinawa back in the spotlight. The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images hide caption
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Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the new leader of the Afghan Taliban, poses for a portrait. The date and location are unknown. Afghan Islamic Press/AP hide caption
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Patricia Gallagher (from left), who first proposed the tasting; wine merchant Steven Spurrier; and influential French wine editor Odette Kahn. After the results were announced, Kahn is said to have demanded her scorecard back. "She wanted to make sure that the world didn't know what her scores were," says George Taber, the only journalist present that day. Courtesy of Bella Spurrier hide caption
The Judgment Of Paris: The Blind Taste Test That Decanted The Wine World
A vendor counts bank notes at a market in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
A police car sits outside Google's offices in Paris on Tuesday as authorities carry out a search as part of a tax fraud investigation. Matthieu Alexandre/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Chance Henderson, an orthopedic surgeon, stands in the operating theater of the military hospital at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. Henderson is fighting to save the leg of a 6-year-old Afghan girl who was shot during a firefight between U.S. and Afghan forces and the Taliban. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption
Saving 6-Year-Old Ameera, Shot In An Afghan Firefight
President Obama listens to the U.S. national anthem in Havana on March 21. Behind him is an image of Cuba's revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Dennis Rivera/AP hide caption
Performers at the opening ceremony of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey on May 22. Berk Ozkan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption