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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro greets supporters during a May Day rally in Caracas May 1, 2013.

"We should send your sister a Mothers Day card." "No, we shouldn't." "Why not? She's a mother now?" "Yes, but she's my sister, and your sister-in-law, she's not our mother." "But it's Mothers Day." "No it's Mother's Day, notice the apostrophe when I say it." "What does it matter?" "Because Mother's Day is meant to celebrate your own singularly ... (more)

Tristan Sturrock in "Mayday Mayday," a story about Sturrock falling and getting stuck between a garage and a wall.

The Long Beach Police Department announced Wednesday the arrest of a suspect in a fatal May Day shooting on the 1400 block of Florida Ave.

Activist Amina Tyler is led away by riot police during a May Day march marking International Workers' Day, or Labour Day, at the Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis May 1, 2013.

Shoppers from the Chinese mainland flock to stores in Hong Kong for bargains. Mainland consumers are increasingly traveling to the special administrative region as the yuan continues to appreciate.

Dominic Ibarra sits on the shoulders of his grandfather Luis Ibarra during an immigration rally on May Day in the Mission District in San Francisco, California May 1, 2013.

Teens from an East Palo Alto youth action group wait to start the May 1 rally in Mountain View.

Thousands of years ago, ancient Celtic and Germanic civilizations celebrated the first day of May - a month eventually named for Roman fertility goddess Maia - with dancing, drinking, and general merriment.

Boniface Mwangi's hands trembled as he typed a Twitter post about his intention to heckle Kenya's top union leader at a rally attended by Kenya's new president.

On this May 1, a day of international working class solidarity, we in the Philippine labor and progressive movement, stand with the Venezuelan working class and the people of Venezuela in their struggle to elect the government of their choice to pursue their demands and goals for Socialism of the XXI century.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is joined by Congressman Steven Horsford, left, and Congresswoman Dina Titus as he speaks during a May Day rally for comprehensive immigration reform in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

In this May 1, 2013 photo, members of the opposition hold Venezuelan flags during a May Day march in Caracas, Venezuela.

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 1, 2013, Kenyan social campaigner Boniface Mwangi, center, is arrested by security forces during a protest he organized at Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi, Kenya.

Gretna scored two goals in a six-minute span in the first half as the Dragons defeated Gering 2-0 in the Class B girls state soccer quarterfinals on Friday at Creighton's Morrison Stadium.

Croatia Airlines has fired all 42 cabin crew members who took sick leave over the May Day public holiday in protest of the proposed working conditions outlined in the new collective agreement.

Thousands of years ago, ancient Celtic and Germanic civilizations celebrated the first day of May - a month eventually named for Roman fertility goddess Maia - with dancing, drinking, and general merriment.

A relative of a missing Bangladeshi garment worker reacts as she gathers at a graveyard for victims of the garment factory collapse in Dhaka on May 1, 2013.

The festivities started at 9am last Wednesday, May 1, with the school's oldest boy Alex Sukosd, 11, dressed in beech leaves as the Jack in the Green.

Despite seeing their wages rise 53 percent in the past year, Pattaya-area construction workers marked Labor Day 2013 with continued grumbles about low pay.