May 1 Photo Brief: May Day protests around the globe, the patron saint of snakebites, body paint to ward of evil, an atomic movie, haystack as art

Young members of the village community walk around their village with painted bodies during the Grebeg Ritual in Tegallalang, Bali, Indonesia. During the biannual ritual young members of the community parade through the village with painted faces and bodies to ward off evil spirits. (Putu Sayoga/Getty Images)

A boy with a painted tiger face poses before the Grebeg Ritual in Tegallalang, Bali, Indonesia. During the biannual ritual young members of the community parade through the village with painted faces and bodies to ward off evil spirits. (Putu Sayoga/Getty Images)

Anna (L) and Fran Simon, both of Denver, Colorado, are the first same-sex couple to be issued a Civil Union license at a midnight ceremony in the Denver Office of the Clerk and Recorder, at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building on May 1, 2013 in Denver, Co. Colorado is the eighth state to have civil unions or similar laws implemented, permitting unmarried couples, both gay and heterosexual, the ability to form civil unions and get similar rights to those of married couples. (Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)

Face-paint wearing campaigners, opposed to the Government’s proposed badger cull in England, stage a demonstration outside the Department for Food and Rural Affairs in London, England. The anti-cull protest, which has received the support of Queen guitarist Brian May, was backed by the ‘Animal Aid’ campaign. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

A horse walks thru the barn area during the morning training for the 2013 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Snakes cover a wooden statue of St. Domenico during a procession of the statue in Cocullo, central Italy. Every year in May, snakes are placed onto the statue of St. Domenico, which is then carried in a procession around the town. St. Domenico is believed to be the patron saint for people who have been bitten by snakes. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)

A boy looks on with a snake on his shoulder during the procession of the statue of St. Domenico in Cocullo, central Italy. Every year in May, snakes are placed onto the statue of St. Domenico, which is then carried in a procession around the town. St. Domenico is believed to be the patron saint for people who have been bitten by snakes. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)

A man holds Romania’s national flag during a Labour Day rally in front of Victoria palace, Romania’s government headquarters, in downtown Bucharest. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)

Demonstrators raise their fists during a demonstration. A strike stopped ferry services to the Greek islands and disrupted public transport in the capital Athens ahead of May Day protests Wednesday against Greece’s prolonged economic austerity policies. (Aris Messinis/Getty Images)

Riot police walk through a cloud of tear gas as they clash with May Day protesters trying to break through barricades to reach the city’s main square in central Istanbul. Turkish riot police clashed with thousands of May Day protesters in Istanbul on Wednesday, firing water cannon and tear gas at crowds that tried to break through barricades to reach the city’s main square, witnesses said. The incidents followed the pattern of recent years, when May Day demonstrations in Turkey’s largest city have often been marked by clashes between police and protesters. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

Police clash with protestors at a May Day demonstration in Istanbul. Turkish riot police used water cannon and tear gas on Wednesday in a bid to disperse hundreds of protesters who defied a Labour Day ban on demonstrations in a central part of Istanbul. The ban was imposed to avoid trouble during renovation work taking place at the symbolic Taksim square, a traditional rallying point. (Gurcan Ozturk/Getty Images)

Members of various labour unions take part in the traditional May Day rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Nelson Almeida/Getty Images)

German riot police officers watch the crowd as a protester gestures during a May Day demonstration in Berlin. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters)

A veteran of World War II walks ahead the Ukrainian Communists march and rally marking May Day in the center of Kiev. (Sergei Supinsky/Getty Images)

Waginah (85), a female porter, has her basket of vegetables loaded onto her back at Beringharjo traditional market in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. These female porters earn their living carrying fruit, vegetables and dry goods among other items, in baskets strapped to their backs starting work in the early hours and finishing late in the day. It is reported that on a busy day at the market, the average porter will earn an income of Rp 35.000 or US$37 per day. Labor day is celebrated across South East Asia on May 1st and is seen as an opportunity to acknowledge the social and economic accomplishments of the workers. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

A performer has his cheek pierced with a metal rod during a festival in honour of sea goddess Mazu in Haikou, Hainan province. The three-day festival, which also includes a dragon dance performance and the display of a god statue on a water parade, ends on May 2. (China Daily)

Onlookers gather during the funeral of garment workers killed in the garment factory collapse at a graveyard in Dhaka. Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis joined May Day protests Wednesday to demand the execution of textile bosses over the collapse of a factory complex, as rescuers warned the final toll could be more than 500. (Munir Uz Zaman/Getty Images)

Workers dig mass graves during a mass burial of unidentified garment workers, who died in the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, in Dhaka. The European Union is considering trade action against Bangladesh, which has preferential access to EU markets for its garments, in order to pressure Dhaka to improve safety standards after the building collapse killed hundreds of factory workers. (Khurshed Rinku/Reuters)

Paramilitary policemen stand guard during “Monihei” Carnival in Cangyuan county, Yunnan province. Ethnic Wa people throw and smear muddy water onto each other during the annual “Monihei” festival. Wa people consider the muddy water, which contains special plant juice, sacred and as a sign of good fortune. (Wong Campion/Reuters)

Hungarian aerobatics pilot and European champion air racer Zoltan Veres flies with his aircraft under the oldest Hungarian bridge, the ‘Chain Bridge’ and over the Danube River in Budapest during an air show. (Attila Kisbenedek/Getty Images)

Irish sculptor Patrick O’Reilly poses with his latest piece ‘Haystack’, in his studio which is a deconsecrated Redemptoristine Monastery for contemplative nuns, St Alphonsus in Drumcondra, north Dublin. O’Reilly, who sleeps in the church’s confessional box during the summer months, specialises in bronze sculptures and sells his work internationally. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

This image provide May 1, 2013 by IBM shows a still from “A Boy and His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie.” IBM scientists Wednesday unveiled what they called “the world’s smallest movie,” which tracks the movement of atoms magnified 100 million times. The film, “A Boy and His Atom,” depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom and follows him on a journey of dancing and bouncing that helps explain the science behind data storage. “Capturing, positioning and shaping atoms to create an original motion picture on the atomic-level is a precise science and entirely novel,” said Andreas Heinrich, a scientist at IBM Research. “At IBM, researchers don’t just read about science, we do it. This movie is a fun way to share the atomic-scale world while opening up a dialogue with students and others on the new frontiers of math and science.” To make the movie, the atoms were moved with an IBM-invented scanning tunneling microscope, a device which earned its inventors a Nobel Prize. (IBM)

May 1 Photo Brief: May Day protests around the globe, the patron saint of snakebites, body paint to ward of evil, an atomic movie, haystack as art

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