World Lens: Week of May 10
Kenya's kung fu grannies learn how to protect themselves | Nigerian leader is buried. More world strories.
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One Month to Go - In South Africa, a young soccer fan blows on a ‘vuvuzela’ (Zulu for stadium trumpet) during celebrations marking a month until the beginning of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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Kenya’s Kungfu Grannies - Here, an elderly Kenyan woman, Mary Wanguyi, practices self-defense moves with other elderly women in one of the nation’s most dangerous slums. Rape attacks claiming older women have surged recently. Officials say that the rapists believe attacking the women can cure AIDS, while others believe it will bring them good luck. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
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Ritual - In Haiti, people take part in a Catholic ritual honoring the Virgin of Fatima outside of a church in Port-au-Prince Wednesday. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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Accused Priest Transferred to Africa - The Rev. James Tully stands accused of repeatedly abusing boys during his stint in West Africa’s Sierra Leone (St. Peter’s Church in Kamakwie, where he used to preach, is shown here) from 1979 to 1985. After a conviction in the U.S. for giving minors alcohol and groping them, the church sent Tully back to Sierra Leone for a second stint from 1994 to 1998. His story is an example of how the church transferred abusive priests from country to country, in a scandal now emerging worldwide. (AP Photo/
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Trial Begins - U.S. missionary Laura Silsby sits during a hearing in a Port-au-Prince courthouse on Thursday. On this, the first day of her trial, prosecutors argued that she should spend six months in prison for her failed attempt to remove 33 children from Haiti following the earthquake in January. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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Libya Plane Crash - In Libya, rescue teams search the site of the Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli on Wednesday. The plane crashed with 104 people on board before landing. An 8-year-old Dutch boy was the tragedy’s lone survivor. (AP Photo/Abdel Meguid al-Fergany)
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Funeral for Nigeria’s President - Mourners of late Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua perform Muslim prayers around his body during his funeral service in Katsina, Nigeria. Nigeria's acting leader, Goodluck Jonathan, was sworn in Thursday as president of Africa's most populous nation, as officials buried the flag-draped corpse of his Muslim predecessor before sundown late last week. (AP Photo)
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Sent for Burial - The body of late Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua is carried to a plane to be transported for final burial at the airport in Abuja, Nigeria. The leader died after suffering a long illness. (AP Photo/Felix Onigbinde)
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Deputy Nominee - Nigeria’s newly sworn in leader, Goodluck Jonathan, has picked Kaduna state governor Namadi Sambo, shown here, to serve as his deputy. He now has to be approved by both houses of the nation’s parliament. Usually, the person who is named in this position, is seen as being a strong contender for next year’s presidential elections, reports the BBC. (AP Photo)
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Ocampo Visits Kenya - A Kenyan boy wears a shirt emblazoned with “Ocampo,” the last name of International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. Ocampo met with members of a self-help group in a Nairobi slum Monday, in an area that saw some of the most brutal acts committed during the nation’s 2007-2008 post-election violence. He says he wanted to understand those affected by the violence, which killed more than 1,000 people. (AP Photo/Katie Moulton)
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World Economic Forum - South African President Jacob Zuma speaks during a session on Friday, the third and last day of the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (AP Photo/Khalfan Said)