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Today in Pictures: May 29
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The battle for Fallujah, "Lone Marine" is "lone" no more, triplets comfort one of their own and more of Sunday's best photos.


Staff Sgt. Tim Chambers kisses his bride Lorraine Heist during the Rolling Thunder parade, the annual ride around Washington Mall to raise awareness for prisoners of war and soldiers still missing in action. Chambers has become a fixture of the parade, earning the name "The Lone Marine," as he stands each year at attention to salute the passing bikers. No longer "lone," Chambers was married in a ceremony just before the start of the parade.



A body is lifted off the Italian Navy vessel Vega at the Reggio Calabria harbor in southern Italy. More than 700 migrants trying to reach Europe are feared to have died in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy over the past few days, the UN refugee agency said.

Frances Jockwig of Gladwin, Michigan, cries as she visits her husband's grave the morning before a Memorial Day ceremony honoring deceased veterans at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Mich.

A child touches the head of a gorilla statue where flowers have been placed outside the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Cincinnati. On Saturday, a special zoo response team shot and killed Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla, after a 4-year-old boy who fell into the gorilla exhibit moat.
A visitor who recorded the harrowing moments after the child fell into the exhibit said Sunday that the hulking ape appeared to be more of a gentle giant -- protecting the child before the animal was shot dead.




A boat sails behind a woman looking through binoculars as she sits on a cliff on a sunny day in Sydney, Australia.
Saturday in Pictures: May 28