Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - Stars Shine on the Red Carpet in Cannes - May 16, 2012

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Lana Del Rey attends opening ceremony and "Moonrise Kingdom" premiere during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2012 in Cannes, France. 

 

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Jury member Diane Kruger arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film "Moonrise Kingdom", by director Wes Anderson, in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival May 16, 2012.    

 

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Actor Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas arrive for the opening ceremony and screening of Moonrise Kingdom at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, May 16, 2012. 

 

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CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 16:  Actress Eva Longoria attends the opening ceremony and "Moonrise Kingdom" premiere during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2012 in Cannes, France. 

 

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Eva Longoria attends opening ceremony and "Moonrise Kingdom" premiere during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2012 in Cannes, France. 

 

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Model Eva Herzigova attends opening ceremony and "Moonrise Kingdom" premiere during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2012 in Cannes, France.

 

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Actors Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis and Edward Norton attend opening ceremony and "Moonrise Kingdom" premiere during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2012 in Cannes, France. 

 

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Actors Jane Fonda, left, and Alec Baldwin arrive for the opening ceremony and screening of Moonrise Kingdom at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, May 16, 2012.

 

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Actress Fan Bing Bing arrives for the opening ceremony and screening of Moonrise Kingdom at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, May 16, 2012.

 

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Actress Jessica Chastain arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film "Moonrise Kingdom", by director Wes Anderson, in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival May 16, 2012.   

 

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Actor Chris Pine and guest attend opening ceremony and "Moonrise Kingdom" premiere during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2012 in Cannes, France. 

 

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Actress Freida Pinto attends the opening ceremony and "Moonrise Kingdom" premiere during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2012 in Cannes, France.

 

Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - Handstands for Playgrounds - May 15, 2012

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Julie Dumont discovered Handstand February, a project started by an Australian couple devoted to doing a handstand — and posting a picture of said handstand — each day of the second month.

The Vancouver native made the idea a charitable cause, http://www.justgiving.com/Julie-Dumont elongating the handstand challenge to a year with the goal of raising money to build playgrounds in Uganda.

Here are a some of the handstands the 26 year old Cardiff University neuroscience student has photographed in various locations.

February 5, 2012 - Double handstands.

 

March 31, 2012 - Friends in high places = cool handstand shots. Photo by Anonymous friend.  It was taken in Canada.  That's as much as she will say. 

 

April 5, 2012 -  With her para Olympian mother Jacqueline Roy on Minoru track in Richmond, B.C.   Roy won all gold medals on Minoru track in 1979 as well as best all around female athlete.

 

April 14, 2012 - In front of the Wales Millennium Centre. Photo by Lewis Smile

 

March 11, 2012 - At Cardiff Castle.

 

May 4, 2012 -  An Olympic size handstand. Photo by Eman Amin.

 

April 4, 2012 -  Vancouver from the Sea wall Stanley Park. Photo by Jacqueline R.

 

March 9, 2012 - In one of Cardiff's playgrounds.  Photo by Carmen V. Ei

 

Apr 21, 2012 - Using the force to help her do a handstand in Cardiff.

 

Feb 26, 2012 - City Hall, Cardiff.  Photo by Esther Lin

 

Feb 19, 2012 -  WWI memorial. Photo by Carmen V. Ei

 

Julie is raising funds for Handstands for East African Playgrounds

 

 Julie Dumont, right side up.

 

Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - Meet the World's Oldest Yoga Teacher - May 14, 2012

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At 93 years old, Hartsdale New York resident, Porchon-Lynch was named the world's oldest yoga teacher by Guinness World Records.

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Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch goes through yoga poses at her yoga class in Hartsdale, New York May 14, 2012.

 

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Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch stretches her arms out  yoga  in her yoga class.

 

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Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch demonstrates her strength and flexibility.

 

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Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch moves through some of her poses during a class.

 

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Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch helps a student through a yoga hand stand.

 

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Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch leads one of her classes.

 

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Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch goes through yoga poses in her yoga class.

 

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Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch hugs one of her students after leading a class.

 

Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - Horst Faas Retrospective - May 10, 2012

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Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday May 10, 2012. He was 79.  Here's a look at some of his award winning images.

In this June 1965 photo, South Vietnamese civilians, among the few survivors of two days of heavy fighting, huddle together in the aftermath of an attack by government troops to retake the post at Dong Xoai, Vietnam.

 

In this Jan. 1, 1966  photo, two South Vietnamese children gaze at an American paratrooper holding an M79 grenade launcher as they cling to their mothers who huddle against a canal bank for protection from Viet Cong sniper fire in the Bao Trai area, 20 miles west of Saigon, Vietnam.

 

In this March 1965 photo, hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.

 

In this Jan. 1, 1966 photo, women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon, Vietnam.

 

In this December 1965 photo, a U.S. 1st Division soldier guards Route 7 as Vietnamese women and school children return home to the village of Xuan Dien from Ben Cat, Vietnam.

 

In this March 19, 1964 file photo, one of several shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas which earned him the first of two Pulitzer Prizes, a father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border.

 

In this Aug. 1962 photo, South Vietnamese government troops from the 2nd Battalion of the 36th Infantry sleep in a U.S. Navy troop carrier on their way back to the Provincial capital of Ca Mau, Vietnam.

 

In this Jan. 9, 1964 file photo one of several shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, earning him the first of two Pulitzer Prizes, a South Vietnamese soldier uses the end of a dagger to beat a farmer for allegedly supplying government troops with inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillas in a village west of Saigon, Vietnam.

 

In this April 2, 1967 photo, a wounded U.S. soldier is given water on a battlefield in Vietnam.

 

 

In this Jan. 16,1966,  Lt. Col. George Eyster of Florida is placed on a stretcher after being shot by a Viet Cong sniper at Trung Lap, South Vietnam.

 

 

 

In this May 11, 1965 file photo, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas tries to get back on a U.S. helicopter after a day out with Vietnamese rangers in a flooded plain of reeds.

 

In this undated file photo, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas is shown on assignment with soldiers in South Vietnam.

 

Associated Press photographer Horst Faas is shown in this undated file photo in Ca Mau, Vietnam.

 

20 Ways to Yawn - It's contagious and we bet that we can make you! - May 08, 2012

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This fun gallery is inspired by a workplace prank played between myself and fellow photo editor (who is now my boss) Taras Slawnych.  We would often taunt each other by leaving a "yawning" image on our screen when we would leave the remaining night editor on duty to wrap up the shift into the wee hours.  Here are a few classics from our files.

Feel free to share this gallery to taunt your friends and co-workers!

 

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A Siberian tiger yawns at the St-Felicien Wildlife zoo.

 

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Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama yawns while at the Central school for Tibetans in Kalimpong.

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US pop star Madonna, left, and her daughter Lourdes attend the ground breaking ceremony for her Raising Malawi Academy for Girls in Malawi.

 

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Michelle Wie of USA yawns on the 18th hole during day one of the LPGA Thailand.

 

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Warbie, a seven-week-old ring-tailed lemur is pictured yawning at Bristol Zoo.

 

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Toronto Argonauts quarterback Cleo Lemon yawns during his team's practice for the CFL Eastern Division football final at Olympic Stadium in Montreal.

 

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A boy in a police uniform yawns during a promotion ceremony at a police school in Bogota.

 

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Stephen Ames had a late night and an early morning finnishing his first round. Ames is seen hear yawning on the tenth tee as he starts Round 2 Friday at the RBC Canadian Open at the Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville.

 

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U.S. Rep. Pete King (R-NY) sits with his grandson during a roll call vote on the election of the next Speaker of the House.

 

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A Chinese paramilitary policeman yawns during heavy snowfall at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing.

 

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A girl yawns as she waits with other children to greet Poland's President Komorowski during his meeting with the Polish community in Maisiagala.

 

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India's Yuvraj Singh yawns as he arrives for a practice session ahead of their Cricket World Cup Group B match with Kenya in Chennai, India.

 

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A policewoman yawns as she watches protesters take part in a march in Mbabane.

 

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A money dealer yawns under a foreign exchange rate board at a Tokyo foreign exchange market.

 

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A German Shorthaired Pointer yawns while waiting for judging on the first day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham.

 

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Guelph Storm forward Zack Mitchell yawns during practice.

  

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Bo Xilai, Communist Party secretary of Chongqing yawns during the closing session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

 

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw yawns while trying to stay awake as the Dodgers' baseball game against the San Diego Padres.

 

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Portugal's caretaker Prime Minister Jose Socrates, right, yawns as he leaves an EU summit in Brussels.

 

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Briny Baird yawns as he waits on the 17th hole during the second round of the Greenbrier Classic on The Old White Course at the Greenbrier Resort.

Editor's Choice Picture of the Day - April 18, 2012

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A model from the Boston Rock Gym "walks" face first down the face of the newly opened Revere Hotel Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts April 18, 2012. The vertical fashion show showcased the hotel's uniforms, which were designed in partnership with students at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, as well as Spring/Summer 2012 looks from British designer label Ted Baker London. 

Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - Goats do Roam in New York - April 12, 2012

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Meet Cocoa, a 3-year-old Alpine Pygmy mixed goat who lives with its owner Fakroddin in Summit, New Jersey. They frequently take trips into Manhattan to enjoy the city. Fakroddin raised Cocoa since she was 2 months old and treats her like a human. "She doesn't like goats, she doesn't like farms, she likes the people and the city." Fakroddin said.

 

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Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa take a taxi ride in New York, April 7, 2012.

 

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Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa dine at Mambo 'Taliano Ristorante & Piano Bar in Little Italy, New York, April 7, 2012.

 

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Cyrus Fakroddin's pet goat Cocoa enters the downtown subway station at Columbus Circle in New York, April 7, 2012.

 

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Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa ride the C train in New York, April 7, 2012.

 

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Cyrus Fakroddin (L) and his pet goat Cocoa ride the downtown C train in New York April 7, 2012.

 

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Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa exit the subway in New York April 7, 2012.

 

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Cyrus Fakroddin (2nd L) and his pet goat Cocoa encounter a dog in Times Square, New York April 7, 2012.

 

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Cocoa eats hay from a cabinet at their home in Summit, New Jersey April 7, 2012.

 

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Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa relax at their home in Summit, New Jersey April 7, 2012.

 

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Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa curl up by the fire at their home in Summit, New Jersey April 7, 2012.

 

Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - World's Longest Wedding Dress - March 20, 2012

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Romania has set the world record for the world's longest bridal train. The nearly 3-kilometer long ivory train, which took 100 days to stitch, was showcased dramatically on the boulevard leading up to the giant palace built by late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, seen in background. The previous record was 2.488 Km.

 

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Emma, a 17 year-old model, looks on as she wears the wedding dress with the longest train in the world during a Guinness World Record attempt in Bucharest, March 20, 2012.

 

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Aides arrange the wedding dress with the longest train in the world during a Guinness World Record attempt in Bucharest, March 20, 2012.

 

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A model rides in a hot air balloon to show the worlds longest wedding dress train during a Guinness World Record attempt in Bucharest, Romania,  March 20, 1012.

 

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A Guinness World Record for the longest train of a wedding dress is attempted in front of the Parliament palace in Bucharest, March 20, 2012.

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The 2,750 meter long train broke a previous record of 2,488 meters.

 

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The dress is made of 4,700 meters of material using 1,857 needles, taking 100 days to make.

 

Editor's Choice Pictures of the Day - Smithsonian Photo Contest Finalists - March 6, 2012

This is a selection of Smithsonian magazine’s 9th annual photo contest finalists. The contest has attracted over 14 thousand photographers from   over 100 countries. The five categories include —The Natural World, Americana, People, Travel and Altered Images (for photographs that have been manipulated).

Smithsonian photo editors have selected 50 finalists, 10 in each category, which will be displayed on the Smithsonian website. Ultimately, the editors will select one winner in each category, as well as one grand prize winner. Readers are invited to select an additional winner by voting for Readers Choice  for their favorite image on the site The voting period will be open from March 1-31, 2012.  All photos © Smithsonian.com

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Village boys relaxing

Nimai Chandra Ghosh (Kolkata, India)
Photographed November 2009, West Bengal, India

Blue Ice Cave

Jamie Scarrow (Bruce, Canberra, Australia)
Photographed December 2011, Antarctica

Segways on tour in Valencia near a modern building

Marcel van Balken (Amstelveen, Netherlands)
Photographed October 2010, Valencia, Spain

 

The golden rock

David Lazar (Brisbane, Australia)
Photographed February 2010, Kyaiktiyo, Myanmar

The Kara women are the backbone of the tribe

Nicholas Wiesnet (Garden Grove, California)
Photographed September 2011, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia

Moonrise over Northern Lights

Ben Hattenbach (Los Angeles, California)
Photographed March 2011, northern Alaska



Everything will be all right

Brian Day (Oak Park, Michigan)
Photographed April 2011, Detroit, Michigan

Behind the blue

Paolo Patruno (Bologna, Italy)
Photographed May 2011, Lilongwe, Malawi

Wanting to see her big brother during his baseball game

Stephanie Fox (Mobile, Alabama)
Photographed March 2011, Mobile, Alabama

Neighborly dispute

Donald Montemorra (Swampscott, Massachusetts)
Photographed July 2009, Katmai National Park, Alaska

Ranch dog taking a break from work

Jamie Illian (Dallas, Texas)
Photographed April 2011, Ellsworth, Nebraska

 

A homeless boy sleeping inside the train

Budi Prakasa (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Photographed August 2009, Jakarta, Indonesia

King Penguins

Jamie Scarrow (Bruce, Canberra, Australia)
Photographed November 2010, South Georgia

Three fishermen on Inle Lake

David Lazar (Brisbane, Australia)
Photographed January 2011, Inle Lake, Myanmar

 

The diversity of ordinary life

Branko Stojanovic (Novi Sad, Serbia)
Photographed November 2011, Novi Sad, Serbia

 

 

Editor's Choice - Picture of the Day - February 28, 2012

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Physically disabled Chen Liting and an instructor practice modern dance at a disabled persons activity center in Beijing, February 28, 2012. Twice a week, a group of 42 dancers including 24 women with physical disabilities,  between the ages of 21 and 62, from the commonwealth organization of the Beijing Disabled Dance Team practice modern dance using wheelchairs.