World's Tallest Man

World’s tallest man: Leonid Stadnyk, left, at 2.58 meter tall, named as the world’s tallest man, stands next to Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko in Kiev, Monday. Stadnyk received a car as a present from the president./

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A BIg Fish

Senior Bush’s largest fish: Former U.S. President George H.W.Bush, left, displays a tarpon he caught and released, while fishing with George Wood, off the Florida Keys near Islamorada, Fla., Saturday./

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108th Birthday

108th birthday in Havana: Mary McCarthy blows out the candles on her 108th birthday cake with the help of her godson Elio Garcia at their home in Havana, Sunday. Despite being wheelchair bound, she still dresses up in a satin dress and with red lipstick coloring her wrinkled face. Her jewelry, though, are plastic while her real jewelry and the small fortune she inherited when she was widowed in 1951 have been frozen in a Boston bank since the U.S. placed Cuba under sanctions after Fidel Castro’s leftist revolution in 1959./

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Breath Holding Record

Breath-holding record: Magician David Blaine is helped out of a water-filled sphere where he set a new world record for breath-holding at 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds during a live telecast of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in Chicago, Wednesday. He looked relaxed and said the record was “a lifelong dream.” The previous record was 16 minutes and 32 seconds, set Feb. 10 by Switzerland’s Peter Colat, according to Guinness World Records. Before he entered the sphere, Blaine inhaled pure oxygen through a mask to saturate his blood with oxygen and flush out carbon dioxide. Guinness says up to 30 minutes of so-called “oxygen hyperventilation” is allowed under their guidelines. Next, Blaine said he plans to try to break the world record for staying awake./ AP-Yonhap

Boat Race in Venice

Boat race in Venice: Rowers take part in the Vogalonga, or long row, in the waters round the Adriatic city of Venice, Sunday. The annual boating event features a 30-kilometer course starting at St. Mark’s Square./

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Honorara Pilot

Honorary pilot: South Korea’s first astronaut Yi So-yeon, right, smiles after wearing a red scarf, the symbol of the South Korean Air Force, presented by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kim Eun-ki during a ceremony marking her successful space mission aboard a Russian spaceship last month held at the Gyeryongdae military compound in South Chungcheong Province, Wednesday. Yi was appointed as honorary pilot of the Air Force./

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Heavy rains pound Hong Kong, cause floods, landslides

Hong Kong has been left with flooded streets and landslides after being hit by torrential rain on Saturday.

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Protests

One more!

One more!: A student sits-up with teeth clenched at a physical test at the Korea National Sport University in eastern Seoul, Friday, to be picked for an overseas exploration team./

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Memorial Day

Memorial Day: A child puts a flower in a vase in front of a grave at the Seoul National Memorial Cemetery, Seoul, Thursday, a day before Memorial Day./

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Flunked

Flunked: Members from the YMCA and other youth groups denounce the Lee Myung-bak administration’s English and other education policies at a rally at Cheongwun-dong, Seoul, Tuesday. The placard reads, “President Lee gets zero in an assessment of his education policy.”/

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Protests all over the world

Protests over the world: Overseas Koreans take part in rallies protesting against a beef import agreement with the United States in France, Sunday./

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Dust blanket

Dust blanket: A woman covers her mouth, looking over the city covered by the yellow dust from China at an observatory on Mt. Namsan, Friday. The Korea Meteorological Administration posted a yellow dust warning on Seoul after the worst yellow dust recorded in May hit the nation, advising citizens to take precautions when engaging in outdoor activities. The yellow dust is expected to stay strong over the weekend./

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McDonald's Sign

Members of the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement rally atop McDonald’s big outdoor signboards at an outlet in Seoul, Thursday, wearing masks featuring Korean President Lee Myung-bak and the U.S. President George W. Bush. The banner reads: “Opposing the imports of mad cow.” McDonald says it’s not using American beef./

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Taking cover

Taking cover: Students take cover by ducking under desks during an earthquake drill at Segumjung Elementary School in Seoul, Tuesday. More than 8.2 million students at 19,241 kindergartens, primary and secondary schools nationwide participated in the drill amid concerns Korea may not be immune to the quake./

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News in Pictures

Safe to eat!: Restaurant owners dressed up as chickens and ducks hold a rally calling for citizens to eat food consisting of poultry at Seoul Station, Thursday. Chicken and other bird-related restaurants have been on the verge of going under due to avian influenza that has swept across the nation since mid-April./

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