Snapshots of the Fortnight (May 15-30)

Jun 01, 2013, 07:53 IST3 min

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A child watches jellyfish swim in a large tank at the Vancouver Aquarium in Vancouver, British Columbia on May 16. The tank contains around 2,000 spotted jellyfish and is part of a major display of 15 various species from around the world

Image by Andy Clark / Reuters

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This frame grab taken from AFPTV footage received on May 28 shows rescue workers breaking away bits of a pipe to remove a newborn baby boy stuck inside in the city of Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang. The newborn baby boy was rescued from a sewage pipe in a Chinese apartment building after being flushed down a toilet, state media said, provoking online outrage on May 28

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth sits in a bus as she arrives for a visit to Cambridge on May 23

Image by Andrew Winning / Reuters

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Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) members wait in the queue outside the ground before the fourth day of the first test cricket match between England and New Zealand at Lord's cricket ground in London on May 19

Image by Philip Brown / Reuters

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Children run away after an explosion in Kabul on May 24. Several large explosions rocked a busy area in the centre of the Afghan capital

Image by Omar Sobhani / Reuters

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The Backstreet Boys (from 2nd L to 2nd R) Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough and AJ McLean hold giant panda cubs as they pose for photographs at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province on May 30. The band is currently on a tour in China, including stops in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu, local media reported

Image by Reuters

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A pilgrim rides next to the shrine of El Rocio in Almonte, southern Spain on May 18. Every spring, hundreds of thousands of devotees converge at a shrine to pay homage to the Virgin del Rocio during an annual pilgrimage which combines religious fervour and festive colour

Image by Marcelo del Pozo / Reuters

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Vincent Autin (L) and Bruno Boileau (R) kiss on the terrace of the city hall after they were married in Montpellier on May 29. The two men are the first same-sex couple to marry in France under a reform which has stoked some of the ugliest protests in the country in decades. The law, backed by most French and feted by gay and lesbians as it came into force this month, makes France the 14th country to allow same-sex marriage despite heated street protests by conservatives, Catholics and extreme-right groups

Image by Philippe Laurenson / Reuters

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Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch the wedding ceremony of Rabbi Shalom Rokach, the Grandson of the Belz Rabbi to Hana Batya Pener, in Jerusalem in the early hours of May 22. Some 25,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews participated in one of the biggest weddings in the past few years

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Supporters stand in the bleachers during the Italian Cup final soccer match between AS Roma and SS Lazio at the Olympic stadium in Rome on May 26

Image by Alessandro Bianch / Reuters