Butterflies land on the face of seven-year-old Harry Brown during the youngster’s visit to the ‘Sensational Butterflies’ exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London.
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The sunset backdrops a fishing craft on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir.
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Spectators watch as fireworks (being used as targets) are ignited by tracer rounds from shooters celebrating the Big Sandy Shoot in Mohave County, Arizona. The event is the largest organized machine gun shoot in the United States.
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A line of Afghan soldiers are reflected in a puddle as they await the start of a handover ceremony of the Bagram Prison in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Mount Lokon in Tomohon North Sulawesi province Indonesia spews fire and ash as it erupts.
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A Ukrainian man cleans snow from his car in downtown Kiev after heavy snowfalls buried the former Soviet territory.
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Penitents from the San Gonzalo brotherhood take part in a procession in Seville, Spain, amid Christian Holy Week celebrations.
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A pair of ions snuggle in their enclosure at a zoological park the French city of Amneville.
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Adams Racing crew chief James Clark times a driver during practice rounds for the Southeast Limited at the Myrtle Beach Speedway.
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A homeless man sits covered in snow on a bench in Washington, DC, amid a messy winter storm that stretched up the East Cost.
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A black Cadillac — which lost control and careened off a hill — sits on the roof of a neighbor’s home in Glendale, Calif. The Cadillac’s driver lost control while leaving his own driveway.
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Rangers center Kris Newbury and Capitals defenseman Karl Alzner play what we can only assume is a friendly game of leap frog during their matchup at the Garden.
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A marriage-equality supporter dances in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, as the justices began hearing oral arguments on the emotionally-charged issue.
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An official from the Dominican Republic’s attorney general’s office watches as seized packets of cocaine are burned in Santo Domingo. The government torched nearly a ton of cocaine snagged from an international smuggling ring.
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Children spray coloured foam at each other during Holi celebrations in an alleyway near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, India.
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Penitents of the brotherhood of ‘Good Dead Christ’ take part in a procession in Zamora, Spain, in celebration of the Easter Holy Week.
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Casiano Quezada, son of $360M Powerball lottery winner Pedro Quezada, speaks to a crowd of media at work at his deli in Passaic, NJ.
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North Korean troops practice a military landing during exercises on the communist country’s east coast.
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A line of workers from the Dukovany nuclear power plant don radiation suits during a nuclear accident exercise in Dukovany, Czech Republic.
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Artists work on Hollywood-themed sand sculptures on the beach at Weston-super-Mare, UK, ahead of the seaside town’s annual Sand Sculpture Festival.
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The Soyuz rocket is lifted onto its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz will carry US astronaut Chris Cassidy along with Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin to the International Space Station this week.
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Broken glass litters the street at the site of a Taliban suicide attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, that killed at least five policemen.
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Joe Biden cheers on President Obama during the signing ceremony for a bill designating the First State National Monument in Delaware and a handful of other now-protected sites.
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South Carolina guard Tiffany Mitchell (from top), forward Ashley Bruner, center, and Kansas guard Angel Goodrich, battle for the posession during their second-round NCAA tournament game in Boulder, Colo.
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A Hindu devotee, face smeared with colored powder, revels in the Holi celebrations at the Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan, India.
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Employees can be seen demonstrating through falmes set alight outside the Atmospheres Interiors furniture factory in Bar-sur-Aube, France, in protest against the facility’s upcoming closure.
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An oxpecker stares down a hungry hippo out forraging for food along the banks of the Luangwa River in Zambia.
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An Israeli soldier monitors the Syrian village of Jobata, from his position next near the Israeli settlement of Aloni Habashan.
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An honor guard marches by in a parade marking the anniversary of Armed Forces Day in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw.
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Spanish snowboarder Ruben Verges wipes out during his run during the Men’s Half-Pipe final at the Snowboard and FreeStyle World Cup Super finals at Sierra Nevada ski resort near Granada.
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A Cypriot protester tears up a European Union flag during an anti-bailout rally outside the presidential palace in Nicosia.
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An employee of Christie’s displays an extremely rare and complete sub-fossilised elephant bird egg at the auction house’s London location. The egg which is over a hundred times larger than an average chicken egg is native to Madagascar and was the largest known bird ever to have lived.
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Masked protester John Amidon hoists a model of an Air Force drone over his head outside Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nev.
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Beachgoers stroll over the bright orange crustacean carnage on the beach at Coronel, Chile, where a nearly two-mile swath of the coast is carpeted in millions of small prawns that washed up unexpectedly.
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Brightly colored buttercups blossom through a springtime snow in Berlin’s Gardens of the World.
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A silhouetted model presents a piece from the MGPIN collection during China’s fashion week in Beijing.
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Flames chew through the Taim Ecological Station in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The fire that started Tuesday in southern Brazil had reached approximately 1,400 acres and would likely continue since there’s no way to reach the area by water or land.
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International Space Station crew member, US astronaut Chris Cassidy, gets suited up before launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome.
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Runoff from a broken water main floods a Hoboken, NJ, street as construction workers scramble to fix the problem. Two separate water main breaks in Hoboken have cut off water to some residents.
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An Indian Sikh devotee bathes in the holy water tank in celebration of ‘Hola Mohalla’ at The Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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A student gestures faces down a row of riot police during a demonstration against a planned overhaul of the Greek university system, which would merge or close a number of higher education facilties in the new academic year.
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Here’s a closer look at the massive landslide that damaged one home and isolated or threatened more than 30 others near Coupeville, Wash., Wednesday.
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A Bangladeshi Hindu man blows colored powder into the air during Holi — the festival of color — celebrations in Dhaka.
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NFL hopeful “Leon Sandcastle” — actually it’s Deion Sanders — holds court with members of the media at the Kansas City Chiefs training facility in Kansas City, Mo. Sanders’ would-be rookie character is the current face of the NFL Network.
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Shirwane, an Indian Lion, growls as her six-week-old cubs are approached at the Budapest Zoo in Hungary.
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An employee is seen framed by spools at a textile mill in Jiujiang, China.
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A student protester runs from a police water cannon during a clash at a rally in Santiago. Protesters are demanding changes to the public state education system.
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Pope Francis kisses the foot of a prisoner at Casal del Marmo youth prison in Rome. For the first time, two young women were included in the12 whose feet were washed and kissed during the Holy Thursday tradition.
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