Prisoners who have taken over a guard post watch police reinforcements backed by armored vehicles arriving outside the Kerobokan prison in Denpasar in Bali on the second day of rioting. Indonesia said it would evacuate all 60 foreigners as well as female prisoners from the jail which is currently under control of rioting inmates.
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Workers work on the top of a 557-foot-tall tower of a multi-span cable-stayed bridge amidst heavy fog in Shaoxing, China. The six-mile-long bridge across the mouth of Qiantang River will carry an eight-lane expressway between Jiaxing and Shaoxing when completed.
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Pro-choice advocate Margaret Doyle from Richmond, Va. is removed by Capitol police from the General Assembly Building in Richmond after HB1, the bill that states human life begins at conception, passed the Senate Education and Health committee. Eight Republicans voted for the measure, and the committee’s seven Democrats opposed it after an hour-long hearing on the bill that is similar to one in Missouri.
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An employee directs job seekers to line up outside the Foxconn recruitment center in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. Apple’s top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring fresh workers to churn out ever more gadgets.
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The newly-unveiled sculpture by artist duo Michael Elmgreen, of Denmark, and Ingar Dragset, of Norway, is seen on the Fourth Plinth in central London’s Trafalgar Square. The 13-foot-high golden sculpture of a young boy riding a rocking horse is entitled: “Powerless Structures, Fig. 101.” The plinth was originally built to house a bronze equestrian statue of William IV that was never installed. The project is commissioned by the Mayor of London as part of the rolling program of contemporary art commissions for the empty Fourth Plinth.
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Republican presidential candidates Sen. Rick Santorum, left, and Mitt Romney talk following a debate in Mesa, Ariz.
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A barber uses a shaver to clean the eyelid of his customer, as a part of his hair shaving service, at a residential area in Suining, Sichuan province. According to traditional Chinese belief, getting a haircut on the second day of the second Chinese lunar month, which falls on February 23 this year, is likely to bring good luck.
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Indian National Security Guard (NSG) commandos display their skills as they take part in a rope exercise during the inauguration ceremony of their regional hub in Mumbai. The NSG is a federal contingency force established in 1984 and a quick reaction elite force for neutralizing militants, hijackers and kidnappers in situations that are beyond the capability of local forces to handle.
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Children play with a ball during a flood near their house in Jakarta.
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A man walks past the remains of a vehicle used in a bomb attack in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad. Two car bombs exploded in a quick succession in different districts wounding 20 people, including 15 policemen, in Kirkuk.
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The body of a victim, retrieved from the Costa Concordia cruise ship is lifted to a helicopter during the operations to bring up four bodies from the wreck at Giglio island.
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Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gestures as he speaks during an IFAD Annual Governing Council in Rome.
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A man balances on a fence post as he watches the sun set over the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Three thousand students from Baekseok University make the shape of a drop of blood at a ski resort in Pyeongchang east of Seoul. The Korean National Red Cross and the university held the event for a campaign to encourage blood donation, and plan to apply for a listing for the “World’s largest blood drop” by Guinness World Records.
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A satellite image shows a pipeline fire in Homs, Syria. The pipeline, which runs through the rebel-held neighborhood of Baba Amr had been shelled by regime troops for the previous 12 days, according to two activist groups, the Local Coordination Committees and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The state news agency, SANA, blamed “armed terrorists” for the pipeline attack last week. It said the pipeline feeds the tankers in the Damascus suburb of Adra, which contribute in supplying gasoline to the capital and southern regions.
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