More than 180 pilot whales were killed this week in the small town of Hvalvik in Faroe Islands during a traditional whale killing. Crowding the animals into a bay and killing them is an annual tradition for the Faroese who are descendents of Vikings, who eat pilot whales as a central part of their diet. The Faroese aren't involved in commercial whaling, so rather than selling the huge amounts of meat, they divide it evenly among their community.
A helicopter was used on Tuesday, May 26, to lift a traditional Swedish red cottage with white corners into its place atop of the 85 meter high Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm. The red cottage, designed by Swedish artist Mikael Genberg, will stand on top of the Globe throughout the summer.
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A restaurant shaped like an airplane has opened its doors for customers in Nanjing, China. The restaurant serves Western food as well as hot pot.
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Inmates in Singapore's Changi Prison participated on Tuesday, May 26, in a cooking competition. The winners will be rewarded with an opportunity to cook for visiting family members. The competition is organized by the Yellow Ribbon project, which hopes to encourage greater family and societal acceptance of ex-offenders.
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The mountainous region of Ausseerland celebrates on May 21-24 the 50th anniversary of the Daffodil Festival. The carnival sees the Daffodil Queen and the famous car and boat parades. The annual event, first organized in 1960, has become a highlight of the spring season and the largest flower festival in Austria.
Following a century of exploration and research, Mexico removed the curtains to show the world its astounding "Teotihuacan, City of Gods" exhibition in Mexico City's anthropology museum. With more than 400 pieces on display until August 29, the exhibition shows pre-Hispanic figures representing political and various aspects of the old city. 
Like many other rivers in Bangladesh, Buriganga river suffers from the dumping of millions of tons of human and industrial waste which has turned its waters into pitch black. Over the past seven months from November to April, virtually no water but only stinky mucky liquid flows in the gradually narrowing rivers - the Buriganga, Shitalakshya, Turag and Balu - as no governments could stop discharge of liquid waste into them, according to a recent study. (Reuters photos).
Members of an Aboriginal tribe held a ritual in front of Liverpool's World Museum on Wednesday, May 13, to mark the repatriation of human remains to Australia. A skull is being returned to representatives of the Ngarrindjeri people because it has strong spiritual and religious significance. The remains were purchased from Dr William Broad, of Liverpool, in 1948, when he visited Australia between 1902 and 1904 and published works on Australian skeletal remains
A show called "Extreme Mammals" is currently held at the American Museum of Natural History, featuring an assortment of strange and wondrous creatures, both extinct and living. Specimens showed range from the egg-laying platypus to the so-called walking whale, a type of giant sea mammal that developed legs and feet.
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Brazilian peace activists held a symbolic protest using stones in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Monday, May 11, denouncing widespread violence in the Latin American country. Rio de Paz (Peace Rio) NGO activists placed 17,000 stones on the ground to represent the victims of violence killed during the past 28 months in the state of Rio.
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