Afghanistan landslide, table tennis championships, Ukraine unrest and more

A child climbs past defaced election posters during an election rally of President Jacob Zuma’s African National Congress (ANC) in Bekkersdal township south of Johannesburg. South Africa goes to the polls on May 7 in elections which are expected to keep the ANC in power. (Mitch Hutchings/Reuters)

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) workers exit an emergency staircase after evacuating from a derailed F train in Woodside, N.Y. The New York City subway train carrying 1,000 riders derailed on Friday morning while traveling through a tunnel in the borough of Queens, injuring 19 people, city fire officials said. Fifteen people escaped with minor injuries while four more were transported to a hospital with potentially serious injuries, officials said. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett throws a newspaper during a competition at a trade show, at the company’s annual meeting in Omaha, Neb. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday said quarterly profit declined 4 percent, falling short of analyst forecasts, as earnings from insurance underwriting declined and bad weather disrupted shipping at its BNSF Railway unit. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby poses with female priests in London after their march celebrating the twentieth anniversary of women becoming ordained priests in the Church of England. (Neil Hall/Reuters)

Afghan villagers look on at the scene in Argo district of Badakhshan province after a massive landslide May 2 buried a village. Rescue teams abandoned the search for survivors May 3 after a landslide buried a hillside village in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 300 people under a fast-moving tide of rock and mud. (Shah Marai/AFP-Getty Images)

Afghan villagers look on at the scene in Argo district of Badakhshan province after a massive landslide May 2 buried a village. Rescuers searched in vain for survivors May 3 after a landslide buried an Afghan village, killing 350 people and leaving thousands of others feared dead amid warnings that more earth could sweep down the hillside. Local people made desperate efforts to find victims trapped under a massive river of mud that engulfed Aab Bareek village in Badakhshan province, where little sign remained of hundreds of destroyed homes. (Shah Marai/AFP-Getty Images)

Afghan villagers look on as rescuers search desperately for survivors trapped under the mud in Argo district of Badakhshan province on after a massive landslide May 2 buried a village. Rescuers searched in vain for survivors May 3 after a landslide buried an Afghan village, killing 350 people and leaving thousands of others feared dead amid warnings that more earth could sweep down the hillside. Local people made desperate efforts to find victims trapped under a massive river of mud that engulfed Aab Bareek village in Badakhshan province, where little sign remained of hundreds of destroyed homes. (Shah Marai/AFP-Getty Images)

An Afghan woman with her children stands near her tent at the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan. A landslides buried a village in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 350 people and leaving thousands of others feared dead, as rescuers searched desperately for survivors trapped under the mud. Villagers at the disaster site in Badakhshan province used shovels to dig through rocks and dirt, with national authorities, the United Nations and the US-led military force all racing to assess the damage and provide help.(Farshad Usyan/AFP-Getty Images)

Afghan villagers talk near the scene in Argo district of Badakhshan province after a massive landslide May 2 buried a village. Rescue teams abandoned the search for survivors May 3 after a landslide buried a hillside village in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 300 people under a fast-moving tide of rock and mud. (Shah Marai/AFP-Getty Images)

An Afghan villager looks on in Argo district of Badakhshan province on after a massive landslide May 2 buried a village. Rescue teams abandoned the search for survivors May 3 after a landslide buried a hillside village in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 300 people under a fast-moving tide of rock and mud. Officials said that the final death toll could rise as high as 500 after Friday’s disaster, updating earlier information that 2,500 people were feared dead. (Shah Marai/AFP-Getty Images)

An Afghan villager looks on in Argo district of Badakhshan province after a massive landslide May 2 buried a village. Rescue teams abandoned the search for survivors May 3 after a landslide buried a hillside village in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 300 people under a fast-moving tide of rock and mud. Officials said that the final death toll could rise as high as 500 after Friday’s disaster, updating earlier information that 2,500 people were feared dead. (Shah Marai/AFP-Getty Images)

An Afghan boy at the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan. A landslides buried a village in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 350 people and leaving thousands of others feared dead, as rescuers searched desperately for survivors trapped under the mud. Villagers at the disaster site in Badakhshan province used shovels to dig through rocks and dirt, with national authorities, the United Nations and the US-led military force all racing to assess the damage and provide help.(Farshad Usyan/AFP-Getty Images)

People gather and pray for the safe return of missing passengers and for the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol in Seoul, South Korea. On April 16 the Sewol ferry carrying 476 passengers sunk off the island of Jindo. More than 302 passengers are dead or missing and the cause of the accident is still under investigation. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

A boy ties a yellow ribbon of hope for the safe return of missing passengers and in tribute to the victims of the sunken ferry Sewol in Seoul, South Korea. On April 16 the Sewol ferry carrying 476 passengers sunk off the island of Jindo. More than 302 passengers are dead or missing and the cause of the accident is still under investigation. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

A patron walks past an advertisement board to the infield before the 2014 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. (Jerry Lai/USA Today Sports)

A race fan wearing a festive hat attends the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

China’s Li Xiaoxia eyes the ball as she serves to North Korea’s Ri Mi Gyong during their women’s quarter-final match at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Germany’s Patrick Franziska eyes the ball as he serves to Singapore’s Pang Xuejie during their men’s quarter-final match at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov eyes the ball as he serves to Singapore’s Chew Zhe Yu Clarence during their men’s quarter-final match at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

South Korea’s Jung Young-sik eyes the ball as he serves to Taiwan’s Chuang Chih-yuan during their men’s quarter-final match at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Romania’s Daniela Monteiro Dodean eyes the ball as she serves to Singapore’s Feng Tianwei during their women’s quarter-final match at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

North Korea’s Ri Myong Sun eyes the ball as she serves to China’s Liu Shiwen during their women’s quarter-final match at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Japan’s Sayaka Hirano hits a return to Netherlands’ Britt Eerland during their women’s quarter-final match at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Romania’s Bernadette Szocs returns a shot against Singapore’s Li Isabelle Siyun during their women’s team quarter-final match at the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. Singapore beat Romania 3-1. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP-Getty Images)

Dimitrij Ovtcharov of Germany returns a shot against Chew Zhe Yu Clarence of Singapore during their men’s team quarter-final match of the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. (Toru YAMANAKA/AFP-Getty Images)

Hong Kong’s Jiang Huajun reacts after her winning point against Germany’s Irene Ivancan during their women’s team quarter-final match at the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo on May 3, 2014. Hong Kong beat Germany 3-0. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP-Getty Images)

South Korea’s Joo Saehyuk reacts after his winning point against Taiwan’s Chen Chien-An returns during their men’s team quarter-final match at the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP-Getty Images)

Taiwan team members celebrate their victory over South Korea during their men’s team quarter-final match of the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo on May 1, 2014. Taiwan advanced to the semi-finals. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP-Getty Images)

Sunderland fans react during their English Premier League soccer match against Manchester United at Old Trafford in Manchester. (Darren Staples/Reuters)

Susan Thorsgaard of Denmark’s FC Midtjylland fights for the ball with Anita Gorbicz (13) and Raphaelle Tervel (20) of Hungary’s Gyori Audi ETO KC during their Women’s Handball Champion’s League Final Four semi match in Budapest. (Laszlo Balogh/Reuters)

The Portland Trailblazer’s Robin Lopez (42) is fouled by Houston Rocket Chandler Parsons (25) during the fourth quarter of Game Six of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2014 NBA Playoffs at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon. (Steve Dykes/Getty Images)

Bayern Munich’s Jerome Boateng (left)and Hamburg SV’s Kerem Demirbay argue during their German Bundesliga first division soccer match in Hamburg. (Morris Mac Matzen/Reuters)

Minnesota Twins first baseman Joe Mauer (7) beats the tag of Baltimore Orioles catcher Steve Clevenger (45) to score from first in the first inning of their game at Target Field in Minneapolis. (Bruce Kluckhohn/USA Today Sports)

Fans of the Star Wars movie franchise parade while wearing costumes of the movie’s characters, one being dressed as Darth Vader. It was the final day of the first international meeting of the fans of the movie in Tozeur, in southern Tunisia. (Fethi Belaid/AFP-Getty Images)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a photo session with KPA Unit 267 soldiers, who performed labour to remodel the Songdowon International Children’s camp, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang. (KCNA/REUTERS)

Suzanne Scholte, a human rights activist, stands near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Paju,South Korea, as she and others release balloons carrying propaganda leaflets denouncing North Korea’s nuclear testing. The leaflets also denounce the North Korean government for human rights violations. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

A Libyan man practices parkour, as a helicopter flies past, at the beach in Benghazi. (Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters)

A visitor photographs Snoopy sculptures created by Mexican artists and on display during the “Snoopy visits Guadalajara” event at a gallery in Mexico. The event is part of a charity initiative to support women from Chiapas and their culture, which will run until May 17. (Alejandro Acosta/Reuters)

A woman wears a t-shirt with a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin as she holds a candle near the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow during a commemoration in honor of people killed during clashes in Odessa. Ukrainian soldiers and pro-Russian rebels fought fierce battles today around a flashpoint town, with only a small reprieve to allow passage of a freed team of OSCE inspectors. More than 50 people have died in two days of clashes nationwide — most of them in a horrific inferno amid street clashes in the southern city of Odessa. (Anatoly Tanin/AFP-Getty Images)

A woman argues with members from the Ukrainian Interior Ministry security forces during a rally outside a trade union building in Odessa. At least 42 people were killed in street battles between supporters and opponents of Russia in southern Ukraine that ended with pro-Russian protesters trapped in a flaming building, bringing the country closer to war. The riot in the Black Sea port of Odessa that ended in a deadly blaze in a trade union building was by far the worst incident in Ukraine since a February uprising that ended with a pro-Russian president fleeing the country. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

Men clash as members of Ukrainian Interior Ministry security forces approach to separate them during a rally outside a trade union building, where a deadly fire occured, in Odessa. At least 42 people were killed in street battles between supporters and opponents of Russia in southern Ukraine that ended with pro-Russian protesters trapped in a flaming building, bringing the country closer to war. The riot in the Black Sea port of Odessa that ended in a deadly blaze in the trade union building was by far the worst incident in Ukraine since a February uprising that ended with a pro-Russian president fleeing the country. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

A man, wearing a black and orange ribbon of St. George, a symbol widely associated with pro-Russian protests in Ukraine, reacts outside a trade union building, where a deadly fire occurred, with Ukrainian Interior Ministry security forces members seen in the background, in Odessa, May 3, 2014. At least 42 people were killed in street battles between supporters and opponents of Russia in southern Ukraine that ended with pro-Russian protesters trapped in a flaming building, bringing the country closer to war. The riot in the Black Sea port of Odessa that ended in a deadly blaze in a trade union building was by far the worst incident in Ukraine since a February uprising that ended with a pro-Russian president fleeing the country. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

Ukrainian Interior MinIstry security forces stand guard outside a trade union building in Odessa. At least 42 people were killed in street battles between supporters and opponents of Russia in southern Ukraine that ended with pro-Russian protesters trapped in a flaming building, bringing the country closer to war. The riot in the Black Sea port of Odessa that ended in a deadly blaze in a trade union building was by far the worst incident in Ukraine since a February uprising that ended with a pro-Russian president fleeing the country. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

A pro-Russian armed man walks near a check point at the town of Slaviansk in eastern Ukraine. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told his U.S. counterpart John Kerry that the U.S. should use its influence to make Ukraine’s government immediately stop military operations in southeast Ukraine, the Russian foreign ministry said by statement. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

Colombian rescuers carry the corpse of one of the victims of a gold mine that collapsed –on May 1st– while independent mine workers were excavating it without authorization, in San Antonio, rural area of Santander de Quilichao, department of Cauca, Colombia. Rescue workers recovered the body of a fourth miner killed in the landslide, leaving a dozen others still unaccounted for. (Luis Robayo/AFP-Getty Images)

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