Oprah Winfrey neared the end of her quarter-century reign on national television on Tuesday night with a star-studded send-off.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth begins a four day state visit to Ireland today which is the first state visit by a British monarch since Ireland's independence.
French climber Alain Robert, also known as "Spiderman", scales the 261-metres-high (856.3 feet) Sapphire Tower in Istanbul May 17, 2011. Sapphire Tower is Turkey's highest building.
A doctor inserts a microchip with a needle beneath a dog's skin on May 16, 2011, in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. A new rule states that dog owners in Guangzhou must have a microchip inserted beneath the skin of their dogs to strengthen the control of dogs in the city. The chip provides information about dog's date of birth, health conditions and vaccination history and records the name and address of its owner.
Smiling at the camera, a pregnant woman shows her belly in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Pregnant women in China are having their pictures taken to remember their pregnancies.
Archaeologists discover treasure horde of cultural relics beneath the waves, reports Zhang Zixuan in Guangdong.
Over 350 people were injured on Monday in violence after a protest erupted outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo to mark the 63rd anniversary for the Palestinian Nakba Day.
Chinese President Hu Jintao said Monday that China will continue to provide convenience of investment for European Union (EU) firms. 
EU thanks China for support of ailing euro zone
The International Monetary Fund ( IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed without bail over alleged sexual assault, a New York judge said on Monday.
Snapshot photos capture the moments of events happened all around the world during the past 24 hours of May 15.
The engine on a Cathay Pacific Airbus A330-300 caught fire in midair Monday, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Singapore. No one was injured in the incident.
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