AWESOME photographs of the month: May

Rediff.com presents some of the best photographs clicked across the globe in the month of May.

We start off with American singer Miley Cyrus performing at the O2 Arena in central London.

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Four-year-old Manjunath takes a bath while sitting inside a bucket outside his house in a slum in Mumbai.

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Conchita Wurst representing Austria performs the song "Rise Like a Phoenix" after winning the grand final of the 59th Eurovision Song Contest at the B&W Hallerne in Copenhagen.

Thomas "Tom" Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988), better known by his drag stage persona Conchita Wurst, is an Austrian singer. Wurst came to international attention when winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".

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A member of a local band plays his instrument during a marriage ceremony in Mumbai

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Then Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi seeks blessings from his mother Heeraben at her residence in Gandhinagar in Gujarat on May 16, when his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party swept the Lok Sabha elections.

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Students console one another at the University of California Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium during a memorial service in honour of the victims of Friday's Isla Vista rampage in Santa Barbara, California. On May 23, the son of a Hollywood film director killed six students in a stabbing and shooting rampage across the seaside community.

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Debris rises in what Free Syrian Army fighters and Islamic rebels said was an operation to strike Al-Sahaba checkpoint, which is considered a gateway to Al-Dayf valley, and remove forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Maarat Al-Nouman, Idlib province

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He Liang rides his home-made suitcase vehicle along a street in Changsha, Hunan province. He spent 10 years modifying the suitcase into a motor-driven vehicle. The suitcase has a top speed of up to 20km/h and the power capacity to travel up to 50-60km after one charge, according to local media.

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A paramilitary policeman crawls under fire obstacles during a drill at a military base in Chaohu, Anhui province

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Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers practice shooting with pistols at a military base amid heavy snowfalls in Hami, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

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An injured pro-Russian armed man is helped out of a car by a medical staff at a hospital at the town of Slaviansk, eastern Ukraine.

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Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces personnel ride on a tank after recapturing the Daldako area, outside the military headquarters in Kadogli.

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Israeli scouts are reflected in the pool of a monument as they sit next to torches during a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem. Israel commemorates its fallen soldiers on Memorial Day.

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Singer Kylie Minogue almost falls during her performance at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Waldorf Astoria in New York

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Member of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Beltagy (left) speaks during his trial at a court in Cairo. An Egyptian court jailed more than 160 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to up to 15 years in prison on Sunday, pressing a crackdown on the Islamist group before a presidential election former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win.

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A woman argues with members from the Ukrainian Interior Ministry security forces during a rally outside a trade union building in Odessa.

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A North Korean soldier stands guard along the bank of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong

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The Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station crew of Alexander Gerst of Germany, Maxim Suraev of Russia and Reid Wiseman of the US blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

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Muslim brides wait for the start of their mass marriage ceremony in Mumbai May 11, 2014. A total of 35 Muslim couples took wedding vows during the mass marriage ceremony organised by a Muslim voluntary organisation, organisers said.

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A Palestinian protester throws a stone towards an Israeli military bulldozer during a protest against the Jewish settlement of Qadomem, near the West Bank City of Nablus

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Free Syrian Army fighters fire an anti-aircraft gun towards a jet loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the countryside in Idlib

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A pro-Russian rebel eats cherries from a bottle at a checkpoint near a Ukrainian airbase in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine.

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A swallow feeds her babies in their nest under the ceiling of a residential house in Dongfeng township of Guiyang, Guizhou province.

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Children holding plates wait in a queue to receive food at an orphanage run by a non-governmental organisation on World Hunger Day, in Chennai

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A woman with an umbrella jumps over a hole on a highway road, damaged by Monday's earthquake in Chiang Rai, in northern Thailand. The earthquake of 6 magnitude struck northern Thailand on  May 6, causing some damage to buildings and roads and knocking goods off shelves in shops.

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A man smokes as he waits with his painted buffalo before a buffalo bodypainting competition in Jiangcheng county, Yunnan province. Artists from eight countries painted on buffalos to compete for a 100,000 yuan ($16,042) prize reward during the competition on May 18

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Man with a devil make-up looks out of a HSB light railway carriage as he travels through the Harz mountains to celebrate the Walpurgisnacht pagan festival. Legend has it that on Walpurgisnacht or May Eve, witches fly their broomsticks to meet the devil at the summit of the Brocken Mountain in Harz. In towns and villages scattered throughout the mountain region, locals make bonfires, dress in devil or witches costumes and dance into the new month of May.

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Scottish country dancer Mairie McGillivray,16, dances on the beach at Bridgend as she poses for a photograph on the Hebridean island of Islay.

Mairie will vote "yes" in the referendum and said, "I believe that Scotland isn't governed by democratic means due to our lack of representation in Westminster and that we would be better off as an independent nation, both culturally and financially."

When Scotland's nationalist government dropped the voting age to 16 for this year's referendum on independence, it was widely seen as banking on teenage radicalism to ensure a break with the United Kingdom. If so, it may have miscalculated. Two opinion polls and Reuters interviews with 25 Scottish teenagers in 10 different locations suggest the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) can't be sure of their support in the September 18 referendum. Overall, polls show Scots remain doubtful about separation, although the proportion of those supporting independence has increased over the past year

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A protester shoots firecrackers at riot police during a May Day demonstration in Istanbul.

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A masked pro-Russian protester sits beside a dog as he poses for a picture inside a regional government building in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.

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Women ride a bicycle through the Isla Vista neighborhood of Santa Barbara, California.

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