Photos of the day - May 8, 2016

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May 8, 2016 at 4:38 PM

A carnival reveller walks past papier mache figures during the postponed “Rosenmontag” (Rose Monday) parade in Mainz, Germany, May 8, 2016, after the original parade in February was cancelled due to severe weather. The parade also marks the 200 years of Rheinhessen (a region of Rhineland-Palatinate). (Ralph Orlowski/REUTERS

Flowers are seen in front of the Eiffel Tower on a sunny spring day in Paris, France, May 8, 2016. (Jacky Naegelen/REUTERS)

Texas Rangers’ Prince Fielder raises his arms as Rougned Odor, left, and Elvis Andrus, right, catch him falling backward in the dugout before a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, May 8, 2016 in Detroit. (Paul Sancya/AP)

A petrol bomb explodes in front of policemen during clashes in Athens, May 8, 2016. Protesters in Greece have hurled firebombs and other projectiles at police in front of parliament before a controversial vote on an austerity bill. (Yorgos Karahalis/AP)

Men look at a car with it’s back wheels missing as it stands outside a row of terraced houses in Liverpool northern England, May 8 , 2016. (Phil Noble/REUTERS)

Paramilitary policemen search for missing people at the site of a landslide in Sanming, Fujian province, China, May 8, 2016. (China Daily/via REUTERS)

Demonstrators carry a huge Turkish flag during a demonstration including members of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organization called the Grey Wolves in Duesseldorf, western Germany, May 8, 2016. (Wolfgang Rattay/REUTERS)

A Jewish Red Army veteran takes part in a parade marking Victory Day, the anniversary of the victory of the Allies over Nazi Germany, in Jerusalem, Israel, May 8, 2016. (Baz Ratner/REUTERS)

Terrace umbrellas are displayed during a hot and sunny day at the Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium, May 8, 2016. (Eric Vidal/REUTERS)

A Filipino Muslim mother cuddles her baby as she checks her name and polling precinct a day before the country’s presidential elections at the front-running presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown of Davao city in southern Philippines, May 8, 2016, Philippines. Millions of voters are expected to troop to polling precinct all over the country to elect the successor of President Benigno Aquino III. (Bullit Marquez/AP)

Philadelphia Phillies left fielder Tyler Goeddel (2) catches a line drive by Miami Marlins’ Martin Prado in the first inning of a baseball game, May 8, 2016, in Miami. (Alan Diaz/AP)

Beirut Madinati campaign workers hold balloons next to a poster showing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah , outside a polling station during the municipal elections in Beirut, Lebanon, May 8, 2016. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

People walk on the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, May 8, 2016. Pedestrians have taken over the Champs Elysees as part of a new program to ban traffic from the famous Paris avenue once a month. The initiative, for what is usually one of the busiest roads in the French capital, was launched by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and is aimed at reducing pollution in the city. (Kamil Zihnioglu/AP)

Naima Yazbek a Lebanese-Brazilian belly dancer performs during a party in Beirut, Lebanon, May 8, 2016. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

Masked penitents hold their crosses as they arrive at Roncesvalles Church during spring “Romeria Cruceros de Arce”, in northern Spain, May 8, 2016. Every year on the second Sunday in spring, people with crosses march from their small Pyrenees towns to Roncesvalles Church in tribute of the Virgin. (Alvaro Barrientos/AP)

The police forensic team investigate the scene after a soldier died on his way to hospital having been found found injured and unconscious in the town centre on May 8, 2016 in Brecon, United Kingdom. The soldier was found unconcious in the early hours of this morning on Lion Street in the Welsh town of Brecon. The death is being treated as “unexplained”, with reportedly no initial indications that the incident has links to terrorism. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

A general view of the Sensa procession in Bacino Saint’s Mark on May 8, 2016 in Venice, Italy. The festival of la Sensa is held in May on the Sunday after Ascension Day and follows a reenactment of the traditional ceremony where the Doge enacted the wedding of Venice to the sea. (Awakening/Getty Images)

Italian Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi of Movistar Yamaha MotoGP in action during the MotoGP race of the French motorcycling Grand Prix at Le Mans race track, Le Mans, France, May 8, 2016. (EDDY LEMAISTRE/EPA)

The sun shines through dandelions in a field in Duesseldorf, Germany, May 8, 2016. (MARTIN GERTEN/EPA)

French President Francois Hollande Listens to the National Anthem during a ceremony to mark the 71st anniversary of the end of WWII at the Charles De Gaulle monument, in Paris, France, May 8, 2016. (YOAN VALAT/EPA)

A participant of an obstacle extreme run ‘Bison race’ slips in mud while carrying a heavy sack with sand in Logoisk, 40 km from Minsk, Belarus, May 8, 2016. (TATYANA ZENKOVICH/EPA)

Costumed participants attend the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade on the streets of Tokyo, Japan, May 8, 2016. Thousands of sexual minorities of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community and their supporters paraded through the streets of downtown Tokyo to promote a society free of prejudice and discrimination. (CHRISTOPHER JUE/EPA)

A carnival reveller walks past papier mache figures during the postponed “Rosenmontag” (Rose Monday) parade in Mainz, Germany, May 8, 2016, after the original parade in February was cancelled due to severe weather. The parade also marks the 200 years of Rheinhessen (a region of Rhineland-Palatinate). (Ralph Orlowski/REUTERS

A carnival reveller walks past papier mache figures during the postponed “Rosenmontag” (Rose Monday) parade in Mainz, Germany, May 8, 2016, after the original parade in February was cancelled due to severe weather. The parade also marks the 200 years of Rheinhessen (a region of Rhineland-Palatinate). (Ralph Orlowski/REUTERS

A carnival reveller walks past papier mache figures during the “Rosenmontag” (Rose Monday) parade in Mainz, Germany, flowers are seen in front of the Eiffel Tower on a sunny spring day in Paris and Texas Rangers’ Prince Fielder raises his arms as Rougned Odor, left, and Elvis Andrus, right, catch him falling backward in the dugout before a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)

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