This black bear was spotted atop a tree in Tampa, Fla., on May 17, 2013. The bear population has been on the rise, so state wildlife officials are calling for a bear hunting season. Skip O'Rourke/MCT /Landov hide caption
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Greg O'Brien gathers his thoughts before a run in 2013. "Running is essential," he says. Michael Strong/Living With Alzheimers hide caption
Dalia Wrochesinsky (left) and Robin Saidenberg check their phones during the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. Emily Jan/NPR hide caption
A man looks at ancient Assyrian human-headed winged bull statues at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad on Saturday. Reuters/Landov hide caption
The Harmattan haze can become so dense in Dakar, Senegal, it dims the sun and grounds flights. Joe Penney/Reuters /Landov hide caption
Members of Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas patrol on the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip earlier this month. Abed Rahim Khatib/APA/Landov hide caption
Hattie Daniels and Paul Robeson in Show Boat. Underwood & Underwood/Corbis hide caption
People lay flowers on Saturday at the place where Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Pavel Golovkin/AP hide caption
Mutant carrot?! Not really ... these extra "limbs" sprout for perfectly normal reasons, as we explain below. Duncan Drennan/Flickr hide caption
Speaker of the House John Boehner responds to reporters about the impasse over passing the Homeland Security budget on Friday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Students Patrick Rohrer, Sarah Warthen, Alix Piven and Lauren Urane are led by Mercyhurst University Archeologist Andy Hemmings. Their project has picked up where Florida's State Geologist Elias Sellards left off in 1915. Sellards led an excavation of the site where workers digging a drainage canal found fossilized human remains. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption
Earlier this month, Dr. Sadiqu al-Mousllie, accompanied by his family and a few members of their mosque, stood in downtown Braunschweig, Germany, and held up signs that read: "I am a Moslem. What would you like to know?" in an effort to promote dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims. Courtesy of Sarah Mousllie hide caption
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in the Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren" in 1968. CBS Photo Archive via Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Josefina Vidal, director general of the U.S. division at Cuba's Foreign Ministry, smiles at the start of the Cuba talks at the State Department in Washington, on Friday. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam is leaving his post to take a new Cabinet-level job as head of urban and rural development. Marco Ugarte/AP hide caption