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Spectators attend the Olympic Flame handover ceremony at the Athens’ all marble Panathenaic stadium on May 17, 2012. The Olympic torch handover ceremony was held Thursday in damp weather at the Panathenaic Stadium with Greece giving the flame to British officials ahead of the London 2012 Games. (via Photo from Getty Images)
Dusk aerial view over the London 2012 Olympic Park, showing the London Aquatics Centre (center left), Water Polo Arena (bottom center), and Olympic Stadium (right). (© Jason Hawkes) (via Views From the Night Sky: London and the U.K. - In Focus - The Atlantic)
The cauldron with the Olympic Flame is seen past flags of Greece, IOC and Great Britain atop the Acropolis in Athens on May 16, 2012. The flame will be handed over to the London olympics officials on May 17. (via Photo from Getty Images)
Greek election set for June 17, as public withdraws millions from banks
Greece put a senior judge in charge of an emergency government on Wednesday to lead it to new elections on June 17 and bankers sought to calm public fears after the president said political chaos risked causing panic and a run on deposits.
Greeks have been withdrawing hundreds of millions of dollars from banks in recent days as the prospect of the country being forced out of the European Union’s common currency zone seems ever more real – although there has so far been no sign of a run on bank branches in Athens.
A Pakistani girl cools off in a water channel in Lahore on May 11. Heat wave conditions in Pakistan have brought temperatures in excess of 104 degrees Fahrenheit in many parts of the country. (Arif Ali / AFP - Getty Images via PhotoBlog - A splash of relief during heat wave in Pakistan)
Zeus help us.
A light projection of the Titanic on a 500-meter-long iceberg in the Northern Polar sea of Greenland, during the night of 13 April 2012. (via Mike Kessler / Gerry Hofstetter Marketing via EPA PhotoBlog - Light show projects image of Titanic on to giant iceberg)
Travel photo of the day: Famous Victoria Falls
BECKS!! Please be more careful.
and yes, this is 2 days in a row of a comic featuring a fanny pack.
9gag:
I guess you’re used to being detained?
Am I a prophet or what? One week my comment above, this is in the news: Teen sends prank dead body text to police officer
An atheist group is placing the above billboards in Muslim and Jewish communities in New Jersey and Brooklyn. (Photo via Al-Arabiya)
I think that atheists with this “to-your-face” attitude are same with conservative fundamentalists. #unpopular_opinion
Grone creek near Goettingen, central Germany, March 2 2012. After a fire in a storage building in Goettingen’s industrial district, chemicals were released and arrived at the creek together with the fire fighting water. According to police, the chemicals were harmless.
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Actress Jennifer Aniston was honoured with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on Wednesday, the first of the Friends actors to receive the emblem of celebrity that she described as “surreal.”
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Civilians and firemen run inside a burning cinema in Athens February 12, 2012.
Historic cinemas, cafes and shops went up in flames in central Athens on Sunday as black-masked protesters fought Greek police outside parliament, while inside lawmakers looked set to defy the public rage by endorsing a new EU/IMF austerity deal. [REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzavhdGCh11qmaoalo1_500.jpg)
Civilians and firemen run inside a burning cinema in Athens February 12, 2012.
Historic cinemas, cafes and shops went up in flames in central Athens on Sunday as black-masked protesters fought Greek police outside parliament, while inside lawmakers looked set to defy the public rage by endorsing a new EU/IMF austerity deal. [REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis]
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A cinema is burning out during anti-austerity demonstration in central Athens February 12, 2012. Greek lawmakers looked set to endorse a new and deeply unpopular austerity deal on Sunday to secure a multi-billion-euro bailout and avert what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned would be “economic chaos.” [REUTERS/Panayiotis Tzamaros]
Read more: Athens buildings burn as lawmakers weigh austerity
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A cinema is burning out during anti-austerity demonstration in central Athens February 12, 2012. Greek lawmakers looked set to endorse a new and deeply unpopular austerity deal on Sunday to secure a multi-billion-euro bailout and avert what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned would be “economic chaos.” [REUTERS/Panayiotis Tzamaros]
Read more: Athens buildings burn as lawmakers weigh austerity
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Three and a half month-old male polar bear cub is photographed at his new home at the Toronto Zoo in Toronto on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. The cub was born on Oct. 11th, 2011 but had to separated from his 10 year-old mother named Aurora after she rejected the cubs, which ther other two had succumbed to their injuries. The male cub is unnamed and there is now a contest over the next six weeks to name the bear. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
