Pictures of the Week: May 10-16

Yves Rossy, known as the 'Fusion Man,' flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland, May 14. Some people go fishing on their day off. Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure eights above the Swiss Alps. The revolutionary human flying machine comes after five years of training and many more years of dreaming.
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Anja Niedringhaus, AP

Lightning bolts appear above and around the southern Chilean Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 19 miles north of the volcano, in this picture that moved over the photo wires Saturday, May 10. It was the first eruption of this volcano in thousands of years. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them. Picture taken May 2.
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A car's rooftop is barely visible as it is driven in the middle of a rapeseed field near Bautzen, in the eastern German state of Saxony, May 16 . Rapeseeds are cultivated to produce oil and biodiesel.
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Norbert Millauer, AFP / Getty Images

Parents mourn over the body of their child who was killed in a collapsed school building in the earthquake-hit Hongbai county of Shifang, in Sichuan province, May 15.
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A survivor carrying goods walks past a huge rock lying on top of a car on a road near a mountain in the center of earthquake-hit Beichuan county, Sichuan province, China, May 16. China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake hit the area, which was thought to have killed more than 50,000 people.
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Jason Lee, Reuters

Germany's WBA and WIBF flyweight world champion Susi "Killer Queen" Kentikian, reacts after she knocked down her challenger Mary "The Heart" Ortega from the U.S. during a boxing match in Halle, Germany, May 10. Kentikian won by TKO at the first round.
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Eckehard Schulz, AP

U.S. actors Jack Black and Angelina Jolie pose as they arrive to attend the screening of directors John Stevenson's and Mark Osborne's animated film 'Kung Fu Panda' at the 61st Cannes International Film Festival at Cannes, in southern France, May 15. The Cannes film festival officially unrolled its red carpet on May 14 with a star-studded ceremony kicking off the 12-day frenzy of movies, parties, pictures and deals.
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Christian Hartmann, AFP / Getty Images

A U.S. soldier wounded by a roadside explosion is rushed to a helicopter at the military base in Shi'ite-dominated Chercook neighbourhood, in Baghdad's Khadamiya district, May 11.
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Oleg Popov, Reuters

A Myanmar boy shields himself with a leaf during a heavy rainstorm on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, May 15. Heavy rains and another potentially powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta. The U.N. warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths among the estimated 2 million survivors.
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A crocodile hatches during a crocodile hatching festival at Sriracha Tiger Zoo, 74 miles east of Bangkok, May 13. The zoo consists of more than 200 Bengal tigers and 100,000 crocodiles.
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Sukree Sukplang, Reuters