FIFA President Sepp Blatter leaves a news conference after announcing his resignation on Tuesday, June 2. FIFA, world soccer's governing body, is mired in a massive corruption scandal, with the U.S. Justice Department charging 14 people, including nine FIFA officials, in a 47-count indictment. While Blatter wasn't charged by the Justice Department, he isn't in the clear. U.S. officials told CNN that Blatter, who has led FIFA for 17 years, is under investigation by the FBI.
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A woman is helped by divers after she was pulled from a sunken ship in Jianli, China, on Tuesday, June 2. The Eastern Star riverboat capsized in stormy weather with more than 450 people on board. Days later, many of them were still missing.
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Vice President Joe Biden rests his head in his hand during a viewing for his late son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, on Thursday, June 4. Beau Biden died of brain cancer May 30 at the age of 46. Standing with the vice president, from right, is his wife, Jill, and Beau Biden's immediate family: daughter Natalie, wife Hallie and son Hunter.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie bats during the "True Blue" celebrity softball game Wednesday, June 3, at New York's Yankee Stadium. The charity event raised money to support the families of fallen New York police officers.
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Carly Lehwald sits with her son Ben at her home in Chicago on Saturday, May 30. Carly is transitioning to life as a woman, and her story is the basis for a new reality television show called "Becoming Us."
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A child is carried on a stretcher following a barrel-bomb attack in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, May 30. The bombs were reportedly dropped by helicopters aligned with Syria's government forces, who have been battling rebels since an uprising in March 2011 spiraled into civil war.
A bodybuilder in Kabul, Afghanistan, prepares to compete in the Mr. Afghanistan bodybuilding competition on Wednesday, June 3. Bodybuilding is one of the country's most popular sports.
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Police in riot gear chase after students of the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa after the students tried to reach the city of Chilpancingo, Mexico, to protest on Wednesday, June 3. In September, 43 students from the school went missing in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Four months later, Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said there is "legal certainty" that the students "were abducted, killed, burned and thrown into the San Juan River, in that order."
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A boy plays cricket on a garbage-covered beach in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, June 3.
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Visitors take photos from the One World Trade Center observatory, which opened to the public Friday, May 29, in New York.
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A protester hiding from police in Bujumbura, Burundi, tries to retrieve a machete during a demonstration against President Pierre Nkurunziza on Friday, May 29. Animosity against Nkurunziza boiled over in April when he expressed his intention to run for a third term. There have been demonstrations and a failed coup attempt.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, center, prepares to cut a cake in London on Thursday, June 4, during the 100th annual meeting of the National Federation of Women's Institutes. On the left is Elizabeth's daughter, Princess Anne, and on the right is Elizabeth's daughter-in-law Sophie, Countess of Wessex.
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A dog waits while a voter casts a ballot in Naples, Italy, on Sunday, May 31.
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Cattle, sheep and goats are led to summer pastures at a mountainous region in Altay Prefecture, China, on Sunday, May 31.
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Paris city employees remove a railing loaded with locks on the Pont des Arts bridge on Tuesday, June 2. For years, couples have put locks on the bridge to symbolize their affection -- a tradition often followed by throwing the key into the Seine River below. But the city decided to remove the padlocks because sections of the bridge's fencing started crumbling under the locks' weight.
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Delegates from the inaugural China Australia Millennial Project Summit stand atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge, above the roof of the Sydney Opera House, on Monday, June 1.
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A Ukrainian serviceman fires a weapon while fighting pro-Russian separatists near Donetsk, Ukraine, on Saturday, May 30. Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine despite a fragile ceasefire agreed upon in February. More than 6,400 people have been killed in the conflict since April 2014, the United Nations says.
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Migrants who were found at sea collect rainwater at a temporary shelter in Myanmar on Thursday, June 4. Myanmar, which has previously disavowed responsibility for Rohingya migrants stranded at sea, has said it will provide search and rescue for "boat people" in its territorial waters. Thousands of Rohingya -- minority Muslims in Myanmar -- and economic migrants from Bangladesh have taken to sea in recent weeks, hoping to settle elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
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A gay rights activist is attacked by an anti-gay protester during an LGBT rally in Moscow on Saturday, May 30.
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A man helps his friend to remove clothespins from his back while they play dominoes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday, May 29. Their rules stipulated that a player who loses a game must place clothespins on his body. The pins could only be removed when another player lost.
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Empty boats float on Lake Phew in Pokhara, Nepal, on Saturday, May 30. Tourism in the country has plummeted following a devastating earthquake in April.
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A man in Srinagar, India, looks inside a vehicle that was damaged in a grenade attack on Monday, June 1. One person was injured in the attack, which targeted a cell phone tower, police said.
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A coffin is carried in the harbor of Augusta, Italy, on Sunday, May 31. The bodies of 17 would-be migrants were brought ashore by an Italian naval vessel.
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A man applies makeup to his pet monkey, Gulabo, before it performed tricks for money in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday, May 31.
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A car drives past walls of snow on a mountain road in Norway on Saturday, May 30.
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Police enter the Madrid apartment of Carmen Rives, center, to evict her on Tuesday, June 2. The eviction was carried out by dozens of police officers who also arrested at least 12 anti-eviction activists. Evictions in Spain have soared since the country's economic crisis began in 2008, and protesters regularly try to prevent them.
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Ina Bass gives a thumbs-up as her sister Elsie Shemin-Roth accepts the Medal of Honor from U.S. President Barack Obama during a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, June 2. The women accepted the award on behalf of their late father, Army Sgt. William Shemin. Shemin was posthumously awarded the medal for his actions in combat during World War I.
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A moorhen walks on a chain while carrying building materials for its partner's nest near the Serpentine Lake in London on Monday, June 1.
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A Boston police officer holds a photograph of the knife that they say Usaamah Rahim was waving at police officers when they fatally shot him on Tuesday, June 2. The FBI and Boston police made their move on Rahim because a bugged phone call tipped them off that he was about to act in an alleged plot to kill police, authorities say. The FBI had been watching him for a few years, and officials believe he was radicalized by the ISIS militant group.
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A person dressed as the anime character Princess Serenity rides down an escalator Friday, May 29, during the MomoCon convention in Atlanta.
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Women run after their hats Tuesday, June 2, during a windy garden party at Buckingham Palace in London.
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Visitors of Tokyo Tower take photographs under LED lights representing the Milky Way on Monday, June 1.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, accompanies Russian artist Ilya Glazunov during a visit to Glazunov's art gallery in Moscow on Tuesday, June 2.
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The Dalai Lama pinches the nose of a well-wisher after arriving in Sydney on Thursday, June 4. The Tibetan spiritual leader was visiting Australia for the 10th time.
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Residents of the Marshall Square Retirement Resort watch it go up in flames Tuesday, June 2, in Evans, Georgia. One person was killed in the fire, according to the Columbia County News-Times.
