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WELCOME to a Mother's Day edition of photos this week. (It's a little heavy on flowers.)
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A truck delivers grain-based rations to pens at the Texana Feeders beef cattle feedlot in Floresville, Texas, U.S., on Monday, May 7, 2018. During a summit with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month, China offered minor concessions welcomed by the Americans by allowing more U.S. beef imports and opening its financial sector to greater U.S. investment. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Head cowboy Zac Truer, with coffee in hand, gets some of the ranch's horses prepared to be put inside trailers at Sombrero Ranch in Brown's Park on May 5, 2018 near Maybell, Colorado. Truer and other cowboys at the ranch are getting ready to take part in the Sombrero Ranch Great American Horse Drive. The drive is a two-day ride over open range land where cowboys and riders move 400-500 Sombrero horses 62 miles to their ranch just west of Craig. A week before the Sombrero Ranches Great American Horse Drive begins, the Brown's Park cowboys are out sweeping 50,000 acres of rolling hills and sagebrush in the northwest corner of Colorado for Sombrero horses that have wintered there. During the popular yearly drive the horses are moved through the small town of Maybell. The Great American Horse Drive takes place each spring in May. The goal is to safely transport horses by foot rather than by tractor-trailer. The annual drive is also a popular tourism event attracting hundreds of people from all over the world that come to watch the horse drive. Photo credit: Denver Post / Helen H. Richardson / Getty Images.
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Starbucks coffee pod products sit on the shelf at a Target store in Lower Manhattan, May 7, 2018 in New York City. Marking the third largest transaction in Nestle's 152-year history, the Swiss food and drink company is spending over $7 billion for the rights to market and sell Starbucks products. Photo credit: Drew Angerer / Getty Images.
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A health warning label beside coffee for sale is seen at a store in Los Angeles, California on May 8, 2018. - A Los Angeles judge has affirmed a ruling ordering Starbucks and other roasters in California to carry a cancer warning label on coffee sold in the state, after they failed to prove that the health benefits from drinking coffee outweighed the risk from a cancer-causing chemical produced during the roasting process. Photo credit: AFP / MARK RALSTON / Getty Images.
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Grounds worker Juan Esparza-Munos helping fill the greenhouse with flats for the gardens at the Water World Water Park. May 9, 2018 in Federal Heights, Colorado. Photo credit: Denver Post / Joe Amon / Getty Images.
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Howard Schultz, Executive Chairman of Starbucks speaks during Seeds&Chips Summit on May 7, 2018 in Milan, Italy. The summit, which runs from May 7 until May 10, focuses on food innovation and discusses the urgent challenges faced by the food and farming industry. Photo credit: Pier Marco Tacca / Getty Images.
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French farmer Nicolas Denieul sprays glyphosate herbicide produced by US agrochemical giant Monsanto on May 11, 2018, on a field of no-till corn in Piace, northwestern France. - Using a 10-year old conservation farming practice, French farmer Nicolas Denieul has reduced the use of glyphosate to half a litre instead of one litre per hectare and per year. Photo credit: AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / Getty Images.
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An elderly man waters his plants inside the greenhous, on 5th May 2018, in Wrington, North Somerset, England. Photo credit: Richard Baker / Getty Images.
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This video grab taken from Polish private TVN channel shows hot chocolate poured out over the A2 highway between Wrzesnia and Slupca near Poznan, western Poland, after a the truck transporting the sweet freight crashed through a traffic barrier on May 9, 2018. - After flipping over, the tanker came to rest across lanes, blocking traffic in both directions, police said. The driver was hospitalised with a broken arm. Passing vehicles left chocolate tire marks across several kilometres before authorities closed down the highway. Photo credit: AFP / STR / Getty Images.
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The Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria (La Boqueria) public market in Barcelona, Spain. Photo credit: Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Getty Images.
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Blocks of Corsican sheep cheese sit in baskets inside an Auchan Retail SA supermarket in Yvelines, France, on Monday, May 7, 2018. Casino Guichard Perrachon SA and Auchan are in exclusive talks to form a global purchasing alliance to help them negotiate better prices as competition in the French grocery market increases. Photo credit: Marlene Awaad / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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A pasta maker works outside a restaurant in Rome, Italy, on Friday, May 11, 2018. An Italian populist government is likely to water down plans for greater spending and any anti-euro rhetoric, a flip for investors in the nations assets, market analysts say. Photo credit: Giulio Napolitano / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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Bluebells bloom in a wood in the Cheshire countryside on April 24, 2015 in Knutsford, England. The UK accounts for half of the world's bluebell population. It is illegal to pick bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) punishable by fines of up to £5000 per bulb. Photo credit: Christopher Furlong / Getty Images.
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A man walks along a path lined with cherry blossoms in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Photo credit: Danny Lawson / PA Images / Getty Images.
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A cat sits by flower pots during the traditional Patio Festival (Fiesta de los Patios) in Cordoba on May 5, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / JORGE GUERRERO / Getty Images.
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Kashmiri Muslim woman buys a bouquet of artificial flowers from a shopkeeper on May 10, 2018 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Kashmir the Muslim majority state , known as the 'Paradise on Earth' has for centuries captured the imagination of many writers, poets and film makers and is integral to the tourist trade. Kashmir has been a contested land between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan since 1947, the year both the countries attained freedom from the British rule. Photo credit: Yawar Nazir / Getty Images.
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Pallets of beer stand stacked in the distribution center at the Baltika Breweries LLC plant, operated by Carlsberg A/S, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday, May 10, 2018. A slowdown in Russian demand for beer as international sanctions threaten the country's economy is weighing on Danish brewer Carlsberg's sales. Photo credit: Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
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A bumblebee draws nectar from the flowers of a gooseberry bush in a garden outside Moscow on May 12, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / YURI KADOBNOV / Getty Images.
WELCOME to a Mother's Day edition of photos this week. (It's a little heavy on flowers.)
U.S.A.
A truck delivers grain-based rations to pens at the Texana Feeders beef cattle feedlot in Floresville, Texas, U.S., on Monday, May 7, 2018. During a summit with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month, China offered minor concessions welcomed by the Americans by allowing more U.S. beef imports and opening its financial sector to greater U.S. investment. Photo credit: Daniel Acker / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
Head cowboy Zac Truer, with coffee in hand, gets some of the ranch's horses prepared to be put inside trailers at Sombrero Ranch in Brown's Park on May 5, 2018 near Maybell, Colorado. Truer and other cowboys at the ranch are getting ready to take part in the Sombrero Ranch Great American Horse Drive. The drive is a two-day ride over open range land where cowboys and riders move 400-500 Sombrero horses 62 miles to their ranch just west of Craig. A week before the Sombrero Ranches Great American Horse Drive begins, the Brown's Park cowboys are out sweeping 50,000 acres of rolling hills and sagebrush in the northwest corner of Colorado for Sombrero horses that have wintered there. During the popular yearly drive the horses are moved through the small town of Maybell. The Great American Horse Drive takes place each spring in May. The goal is to safely transport horses by foot rather than by tractor-trailer. The annual drive is also a popular tourism event attracting hundreds of people from all over the world that come to watch the horse drive. Photo credit: Denver Post / Helen H. Richardson / Getty Images.
Starbucks coffee pod products sit on the shelf at a Target store in Lower Manhattan, May 7, 2018 in New York City. Marking the third largest transaction in Nestle's 152-year history, the Swiss food and drink company is spending over $7 billion for the rights to market and sell Starbucks products. Photo credit: Drew Angerer / Getty Images.
A health warning label beside coffee for sale is seen at a store in Los Angeles, California on May 8, 2018. - A Los Angeles judge has affirmed a ruling ordering Starbucks and other roasters in California to carry a cancer warning label on coffee sold in the state, after they failed to prove that the health benefits from drinking coffee outweighed the risk from a cancer-causing chemical produced during the roasting process. Photo credit: AFP / MARK RALSTON / Getty Images.
Grounds worker Juan Esparza-Munos helping fill the greenhouse with flats for the gardens at the Water World Water Park. May 9, 2018 in Federal Heights, Colorado. Photo credit: Denver Post / Joe Amon / Getty Images.
E.U.
Howard Schultz, Executive Chairman of Starbucks speaks during Seeds&Chips Summit on May 7, 2018 in Milan, Italy. The summit, which runs from May 7 until May 10, focuses on food innovation and discusses the urgent challenges faced by the food and farming industry. Photo credit: Pier Marco Tacca / Getty Images.
French farmer Nicolas Denieul sprays glyphosate herbicide produced by US agrochemical giant Monsanto on May 11, 2018, on a field of no-till corn in Piace, northwestern France. - Using a 10-year old conservation farming practice, French farmer Nicolas Denieul has reduced the use of glyphosate to half a litre instead of one litre per hectare and per year. Photo credit: AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / Getty Images.
An elderly man waters his plants inside the greenhous, on 5th May 2018, in Wrington, North Somerset, England. Photo credit: Richard Baker / Getty Images.
This video grab taken from Polish private TVN channel shows hot chocolate poured out over the A2 highway between Wrzesnia and Slupca near Poznan, western Poland, after a the truck transporting the sweet freight crashed through a traffic barrier on May 9, 2018. - After flipping over, the tanker came to rest across lanes, blocking traffic in both directions, police said. The driver was hospitalised with a broken arm. Passing vehicles left chocolate tire marks across several kilometres before authorities closed down the highway. Photo credit: AFP / STR / Getty Images.
The Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria (La Boqueria) public market in Barcelona, Spain. Photo credit: Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Getty Images.
Blocks of Corsican sheep cheese sit in baskets inside an Auchan Retail SA supermarket in Yvelines, France, on Monday, May 7, 2018. Casino Guichard Perrachon SA and Auchan are in exclusive talks to form a global purchasing alliance to help them negotiate better prices as competition in the French grocery market increases. Photo credit: Marlene Awaad / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
A pasta maker works outside a restaurant in Rome, Italy, on Friday, May 11, 2018. An Italian populist government is likely to water down plans for greater spending and any anti-euro rhetoric, a flip for investors in the nations assets, market analysts say. Photo credit: Giulio Napolitano / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
Bluebells bloom in a wood in the Cheshire countryside on April 24, 2015 in Knutsford, England. The UK accounts for half of the world's bluebell population. It is illegal to pick bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) punishable by fines of up to £5000 per bulb. Photo credit: Christopher Furlong / Getty Images.
A man walks along a path lined with cherry blossoms in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Photo credit: Danny Lawson / PA Images / Getty Images.
A cat sits by flower pots during the traditional Patio Festival (Fiesta de los Patios) in Cordoba on May 5, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / JORGE GUERRERO / Getty Images.
INDIA
Kashmiri Muslim woman buys a bouquet of artificial flowers from a shopkeeper on May 10, 2018 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Kashmir the Muslim majority state , known as the 'Paradise on Earth' has for centuries captured the imagination of many writers, poets and film makers and is integral to the tourist trade. Kashmir has been a contested land between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan since 1947, the year both the countries attained freedom from the British rule. Photo credit: Yawar Nazir / Getty Images.
RUSSIA
Pallets of beer stand stacked in the distribution center at the Baltika Breweries LLC plant, operated by Carlsberg A/S, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday, May 10, 2018. A slowdown in Russian demand for beer as international sanctions threaten the country's economy is weighing on Danish brewer Carlsberg's sales. Photo credit: Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty Images.
A bumblebee draws nectar from the flowers of a gooseberry bush in a garden outside Moscow on May 12, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / YURI KADOBNOV / Getty Images.