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A police car explodes after being set on fire during an unauthorized counter-demonstration against police violence today in Paris, as Police across France demonstrate today against the “anti-cop hatred” they say they have endured during a wave of anti-government protests since early March: photo by Rielle Sicard/AFP, 18 May 2016
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A police car explodes after being set on fire during an unauthorized counter-demonstration against police violence today in Paris, as Police across France demonstrate today against the “anti-cop hatred” they say they have endured during a wave of anti-government protests since early March: photo by Rielle Sicard/AFP, 18 May 2016
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A police car burns during a demonstration against police violence and against French labour law reform in Paris: photo by Charles Platiau / Reuters, 18 May 2016
![TOPSHOT - An overloaded car travels through the Assaga refugee camp in Diffa on May 17, 2016, close to the Niger-Nigeria border. Chief of Humanitarian Operations of the UN, Stephen O'Brien, vowed on May 17 to raise funds at the next World Humanitarian Summit for "significant" help to the more than 240,000 refugees displaced by Boko Haram in camps in south-east Niger. / AFP PHOTO / BOUREIMA HAMABOUREIMA HAMA/AFP/Getty Images]()
An overloaded car travels through the Assaga refugee camp in Diffa close to the Niger-Nigeria border: photo by Boureima Hama/AFP, 18 May 2016
![TOPSHOT - An overloaded car travels through the Assaga refugee camp in Diffa on May 17, 2016, close to the Niger-Nigeria border. Chief of Humanitarian Operations of the UN, Stephen O'Brien, vowed on May 17 to raise funds at the next World Humanitarian Summit for "significant" help to the more than 240,000 refugees displaced by Boko Haram in camps in south-east Niger. / AFP PHOTO / BOUREIMA HAMABOUREIMA HAMA/AFP/Getty Images]()
An overloaded car travels through the Assaga refugee camp in Diffa close to the Niger-Nigeria border: photo by Boureima Hama/AFP, 18 May 2016
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An overloaded car travels through the Assaga refugee camp in Diffa, close to the Niger-Nigeria border: photo by Boureima Hama / AFP, 18 May 2016
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Sri Lankan commuters drive through floodwaters along an expressway in the suburb of Athurugeriya in the capital Colombo: photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP, 18 May 2016
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Sri Lankan commuters drive through floodwaters along an expressway in the Colombo suburb of Athurugeriya: photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP, 18 May 2016
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The area where a landslide struck in the village of Aranayake in central Sri Lanka: photo by President’s Office / AFP, 18 May 2016
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Sri Lanka’s disaster management centre said that 114 homes have been destroyed and more than 137,000 people have been evacuated to safety: photo by Eranga Jayawardena / AP, 18 May 2016
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Workers sit as they take a break near a banner of a new apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia: photo by Beawiharta/Reuters, 18 May 2016
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Workers sit as they take a break near a banner of a new apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia: photo by Beawiharta/Reuters, 18 May 2016
![epa05313534 A photograph made available on 18 May 2016 shows substitutes reacting after their team-mates scored a goal during the first school football tournament, in the rebel-held city of Douma, Syria, 20 April 2016. Twelve teams took part in the first school football tournament that started on 16 April 2016. Ten days later the tournament was postponed after the fragile ceasefire between the government and rebel groups was breached by a wave of violence and several parts of Eastern Ghouta were targeted by government shelling. The final match was held on 14 May and al-Hekma school team snatched the title after beating al-Rowad school. EPA/MOHAMMED BADRA]()
Substitutes react after their team-mates scored a goal during the first school football tournament, in the rebel-held city of Douma, Syria: photo by Mohammed Badra/EPA, 18 May 2016
![epa05313534 A photograph made available on 18 May 2016 shows substitutes reacting after their team-mates scored a goal during the first school football tournament, in the rebel-held city of Douma, Syria, 20 April 2016. Twelve teams took part in the first school football tournament that started on 16 April 2016. Ten days later the tournament was postponed after the fragile ceasefire between the government and rebel groups was breached by a wave of violence and several parts of Eastern Ghouta were targeted by government shelling. The final match was held on 14 May and al-Hekma school team snatched the title after beating al-Rowad school. EPA/MOHAMMED BADRA]()
Substitutes react after their team-mates scored a goal during the first school football tournament, in the rebel-held city of Douma, Syria: photo by Mohammed Badra/EPA, 18 May 2016
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Boys listen to their coach during a school football championship in the rebel-held town of Douma, eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta: photo by Bassam Khabieh / Reuters, 15 May 2016
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Kurdish mourners gather around coffins in Sarikamis, on the outskirts of Diyarbakir: photo by. Ilyas Akengin / AFP, 18 May 2016
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Members of the Chinese honour guard stand at attention during a welcoming ceremony for Mozambique’s President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing: photo by Mark Schiefelbein / AP, 18 May 2016
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Graduating students from Barnard College during the Columbia University 2016 Commencement ceremony in New York. Barnard College is a private women’s liberal arts college founded in 1889: photo by Timothy A. Clary, 18 May 2016
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Graduating students from Barnard College during the Columbia University 2016 Commencement ceremony in New York. Barnard College is a private women’s liberal arts college founded in 1889: photo by Timothy A. Clary, 18 May 2016
![Pakistani boys cool themselves off during a heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Various parts of the country continued to experience an intense heat wave, with the temperatures reaching 49 degree Celsius (120 Fahrenheit) in Larkana and other cities. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)]()
Pakistani boys cool themselves off during a heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan: photo by Fareed Khan/AP, 18 May 2016
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Pakistani boys cool themselves off during a heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan: photo by Fareed Khan/AP, 18 May 2016
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Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace, London, ahead of the State Opening of Parliament: photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA, 18 May 2016
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A police car explodes after being set on fire during an unauthorized counter-demonstration against police violence today in Paris, as Police across France demonstrate today against the “anti-cop hatred” they say they have endured during a wave of anti-government protests since early March: photo by Rielle Sicard/AFP, 18 May 2016
A police car explodes after being set on fire during an unauthorized counter-demonstration against police violence today in Paris, as Police across France demonstrate today against the “anti-cop hatred” they say they have endured during a wave of anti-government protests since early March: photo by Rielle Sicard/AFP, 18 May 2016
A police car burns during a demonstration against police violence and against French labour law reform in Paris: photo by Charles Platiau / Reuters, 18 May 2016
The rock is the gray particular of man's life,
The stone from which he rises, up -- and -- ho,
The step to the bleaker depths of his descents ...
The rock is the stern particular of the air,
The mirror of the planets, one by one,
But through man's eye, their silent rhapsodist,
Turquoise the rock, at odious evening bright
With redness that sticks fast to evil dreams;
The difficult rightness of half-risen day.
The rock is the habitation of the whole,
Its strength and measure, that which is near, point A
In a perspective that begins again
At B: the origin of the mango's rind.
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn, from The Rock, 1950, in The Rock (1954)
An overloaded car travels through the Assaga refugee camp in Diffa close to the Niger-Nigeria border: photo by Boureima Hama/AFP, 18 May 2016
An overloaded car travels through the Assaga refugee camp in Diffa, close to the Niger-Nigeria border: photo by Boureima Hama / AFP, 18 May 2016
Sri Lankan commuters drive through floodwaters along an expressway in the suburb of Athurugeriya in the capital Colombo: photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP, 18 May 2016
Sri Lankan commuters drive through floodwaters along an expressway in the Colombo suburb of Athurugeriya: photo by Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP, 18 May 2016
The area where a landslide struck in the village of Aranayake in central Sri Lanka: photo by President’s Office / AFP, 18 May 2016
Sri Lanka’s disaster management centre said that 114 homes have been destroyed and more than 137,000 people have been evacuated to safety: photo by Eranga Jayawardena / AP, 18 May 2016
A picture taken with a slow shutter speed shows a performer singing and dancing on stage during a media call for Singin’ in the Rain at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne: photo by Tracey Nearmy / EPA, 12 May 2016
Workers sit as they take a break near a banner of a new apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia: photo by Beawiharta/Reuters, 18 May 2016
Substitutes react after their team-mates scored a goal during the first school football tournament, in the rebel-held city of Douma, Syria: photo by Mohammed Badra/EPA, 18 May 2016
Substitutes react after their team-mates scored a goal during the first school football tournament, in the rebel-held city of Douma, Syria: photo by Mohammed Badra/EPA, 18 May 2016
Boys listen to their coach during a school football championship in the rebel-held town of Douma, eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta: photo by Bassam Khabieh / Reuters, 15 May 2016
Kurdish mourners gather around coffins in Sarikamis, on the outskirts of Diyarbakir: photo by. Ilyas Akengin / AFP, 18 May 2016
that which is near: point A
Members of the Chinese honour guard stand at attention during a welcoming ceremony for Mozambique’s President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing: photo by Mark Schiefelbein / AP, 18 May 2016
Models pose by an old sandstone chapel during a fashion show for label Romance Was Born on the waterfront of Sydney Harbour during Australian Fashion Week: photo by Jason Reed / Reuters, 18 May 2016
Graduating students from Barnard College during the Columbia University 2016 Commencement ceremony in New York. Barnard College is a private women’s liberal arts college founded in 1889: photo by Timothy A. Clary, 18 May 2016
Graduating students from Barnard College during the Columbia University 2016 Commencement ceremony in New York. Barnard College is a private women’s liberal arts college founded in 1889: photo by Timothy A. Clary, 18 May 2016
Fareed Khan/AP
Pakistani boys cool themselves off during a heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan: photo by Fareed Khan/AP, 18 May 2016
Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace, London, ahead of the State Opening of Parliament: photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA, 18 May 2016
Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace, London, ahead of the State Opening of Parliament: photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA, 18 May 2016
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Mangoes #9a: After the Fruit Bats: photo by Like Jazz, 4 January 2010
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Mango trees during a storm, Srimongal, Syrhet, Bangladesh: photo by s_karr, 13 May 2009
Mangoes #9a: After the Fruit Bats: photo by Like Jazz, 4 January 2010
Mango trees during a storm, Srimongal, Syrhet, Bangladesh: photo by s_karr, 13 May 2009