Gallery: In the evening's first race jockey Jorge Carreno rode Ella's Kitten from start to finish in the lead for the win in the Canterbury Park Claiming during opening night at Canterbury Park Friday, May 16, 2014, in Shakopee, MN.
Emre Tazegul – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: Rows of graves of the victims of mine accident in Soma, Turkey, Friday, May 16, 2014. A Turkish mining company defended its safety record Friday, four days after over 250 people died in an underground blaze at its coal mine in western Turkey.
Emre Tazegul – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: Family members pray at the grave of a victim from the mine accident, in Soma, Turkey, Friday, May 16, 2014. A Turkish mining company defended its safety record Friday, four days after over 250 people died in an underground blaze at its coal mine in western Turkey.
Amel Emric – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: Members of the Bosnian Army rescue people from their flooded homes, in the Bosnian town of Maglaj, 150 kms north of Sarajevo, Friday May 16, 2014. Two people drowned in Serbia and the country declared a national emergency Thursday as rain-swollen rivers across the Balkans flooded roads and bridges, shut down schools and cut off power. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated. In Serbia and neighboring Bosnia, meteorologists said the rainfall was the most since measuring started 120 years ago. Belgrade authorities say the average rainfall of a two-month period hit the city in just 40 hours.
Philip Toscano – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: A woman huddles up as she walks past a swarm of about 5,000 honeybees that have been attracted to a discount sign on the window of a shop in central London, Friday, May 16, 2014, turning the fashion store display into a carpet of insects. It is understood the unusual nesting place was picked by the Queen bee, who landed there first and was quickly followed by her devoted colony. (AP Photo/PA, Philip Toscano) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE
Patrick Semansky – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: Rain runs down a pane of glass as a woman aboard a pony waits to guide a horse off the track during a workout session at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Friday, May 16, 2014. The Preakness Stakes horse race is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 17.
Mahesh Kumar A. – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: An Indian election official opens a ballot box to count votes at a polling station in Hyderabad, India, Friday, May 16, 2014. India's Election Commission said that early results show that the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has won enough seats to form a government on its own. The party now has a commanding lead in 272 seats, the majority needed to move forward without forming a coalition with smaller parties in the country's lower house of Parliament.
Rajesh Kumar Singh – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters dance and burst firecrackers to celebrate the news of early election result trends in Allahabad, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Friday, May 16, 2014. India's opposition leader Narendra Modi and his party won national elections in a landslide Friday, preliminary results showed, driving the long-dominant Congress party out of power in the most commanding victory India has seen in more than a quarter century.
Anupam Nath – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters celebrate the party�s winning preliminary result outside their office in Gauhati, India, Friday, May 16, 2014. India's opposition leader Narendra Modi and his party won national elections in a landslide Friday, preliminary results showed, driving the long-dominant Congress party out of power in the most commanding victory India has seen in more than a quarter century.
Saurabh Das – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: Opposition leader and India's next prime minister Narendra Modi listens to his 90-year-old mother Hiraben during a visit to seek her blessings after preliminary results showed his party winning by a landslide, in Gandhinagar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Friday, May 16, 2014. The 63-year-old Modi is widely seen as the darling of India's corporate world and a decisive, 21st-century administrator expected to revive job creation and economic growth. The top official in Gujarat state for a decade, Modi often contrasted his humble roots with the posh background of his main rival, 43-year-old Rahul Gandhi, heir to India's most powerful political dynasty.
Eugene Hoshiko – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: Heron-hooded dancers prepare to parade down the streets toward Asakusa Shrine in the compound of Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, Friday, May 16, 2014, prior to the annual Sanja Festival, one of the three major festivals in Tokyo, scheduled on May 16-18.
Eugene Hoshiko – Associated Press - Ap
Gallery: Shadow of heron-hooded dancers is seen as they parade down the streets toward Asakusa Shrine in the compound of Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, Friday, May 16, 2014, prior to the annual Sanja Festival, one of the three major festivals in Tokyo, scheduled on May 16-18.
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