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The Week in Pictures: May 5 - 12

Child monks in South Korea, protesters painted purple in Uganda, Sunbathers in Germany, a  flooded sidewalk in Tennessee and more

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Multimedia monks

Shaven-headed young boys wearing 3-D glasses watch a 3-D TV monitors at SK Telecom Ubiquitous Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 9, 2011. A group of children entered a temple, the main temple of Korean Buddhism's Chogye Order, to experience a monk's life for a month to celebrate Buddha's birthday on May 10.(AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
Lee Jin-man / AP
Image: A farmer removes rice grains from their stalks at a rice field at Gowa district

The price of rice

A farmer removes rice grains from their stalks at a rice field at Gowa district, Indonesia's South Sulawesi province May 7, 2011. ASEAN, together with China, Japan and South Korea, has agreed to have a rice reserve of over 700,0000 tonnes to protect against volatile commodity prices, which had surged this year before unexpectedly diving this week. REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad (INDONESIA - Tags: BUSINESS AGRICULTURE IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Yusuf Ahmad / X02334
Image: Police spray Ugandan opposition party leaders with coloured water during demonstrations in the capital Kampala

The color protest

Police spray Ugandan opposition party leaders with coloured water during demonstrations in the capital Kampala, May 10, 2011. President Yoweri Museveni has vowed to crush the protests and blamed rising food and fuel costs on drought and global increases in oil prices.
James Akena / X02107
Image: 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit Lorca, southern Spain

Shaken in Spain

epa02727909 A local policewoman (R) tries to console the daughter (2-R) of a victim at the Galicia street in Lorca after an earthquake measuring 5.3 hit the town on 11 May 2011 causing houses to collapse, damaging historic churches and killing at least 10 people. EPA/ISRAEL SANCHEZ
Israel Sancez / EFE
Image: A man speaks on a public telephone near the Great Hall of People in Beijing

One-sided conversation

A man speaks on a public telephone near the Great Hall of People in Beijing May 11, 2011. REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)
Petar Kujundzic / X00150
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The shallow end

A wrecked car sits in a shallow water of a river in a port area which was hard hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
Junji Kurokawa / AP
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Sunny daze

TOPSHOTS Sunbathers lay in the sun at the \"Uferlos\" swimming pool in the western German city of Moehnesee on May 7, 2011 as temperatures rose to a summerly 24 degrees centigrade in most parts of the country. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS DUNKER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read ANDREAS DUNKER/AFP/Getty Images)
Andreas Dunker / DPA
Image: Pedestrians run from the scene of a fire ravaging four fuel tankers on Lagos' Ibadan highway on May 11.

Running for cover

Pedestrians run from the scene of a fire ravaging four fuel tankers on Lagos' Ibadan highway on May 11, 2011. Two people lost their lives following a collision between two tankers loaded with fuel that exploded spreading the fire to two additional tankers driving along on Lagos-Ibadan highway, a gateway leading to other parts of the country. The accident cut off traffic around Lagos. AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP
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Victim of security

A wounded Yemeni anti-government protester receives treatment at a makeshift field hospital following clashes with Yemeni security forces during a demonstration calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on May 11, 2011. AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Mohammed Huwais / AFP
Image: Mississippi River Flooding 2011

Memphis blues

May 8, 2011 - Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. - LEE POWELL stands at the water's edge on the sidewalk that leads down Orchi Road at North Highland. The water from the swollen Wolf River has swallowed several houses in the neighborhood along with Bethesda World Life Christian Center. (Credit Image: © Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMAPRESS.com)
Mike Brown / The Commercial Appeal
Image: A train leaves the Rio Tinto Parker point iron ore facility in Dampier at the Pilbarra region in Western Australia

Light rail

A train leaves the Rio Tinto Parker point iron ore facility in Dampier at the Pilbarra region in Western Australia April 20, 2011. Picture taken April 20, 2011. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz (AUSTRALIA - Tags: BUSINESS TRANSPORT)
Daniel Munoz / X01439
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