‘Gilles of Binche’ dance during a Carnival parade in the city center of Binche, Belgium. The Carnival of Binche dates back to around the 14th Century, with the clown-like Gilles performing their traditional dances to the sound of drums to ward off evil spirits with their sticks.
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A Bangladeshi decorates the Shaheed Minar, or martyrs mausoleum, on International Mother Language Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh. International Mother Language Day is observed in commemoration of the movement where a number of students died in 1952, defending the recognition of Bangla as a state language of the former East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
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Clothing, lying in heaps at the site of a neighborhood destroyed by the tsunami, is piled up by clearing crew in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan. Cleanup continues to remove the debris left by the March 11, 2011 tsunami and separate it according to material or category such as clothing, steel, wood, cars, tires and personal items.
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Julio Edwin Valdez is escorted by national police officers as he is presented to the press at police headquarters in La Paz, Bolivia. Valdez, who was arrested on Feb. 14, is the alleged leader of a gang suspected of tricking commuters into buses pretending to be public transportation who would then rob and kill them during pre-dawn hours in El Alto. The gang is accused of killing dozens of people within the last year, according to authorities.
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A competitor flips her pancake as she runs towards the finish line during the annual Washington National Cathedral Pancake Race in Washington, DC. The National Cathedral hosted the annual Pancake Races dubbed the “Shake, Rattle & Race,” because of the earthquake damage done to the Cathedral. The races are a celebration of the British tradition of “Pancake Day” as Mardi Gras is known there, to mark the last day before the beginning of Lent.
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A man walks past tires set on fire by followers of a southern separatist group, calling for a boycott to Yemen’s presidential elections, to block a road in the southern port city of Aden. Yemenis began voting on Tuesday to replace President Ali Abdullah Saleh in an election many hope will give Yemen a chance to rebuild the country shattered by a year-long struggle that had pushed Yemen to the brink of civil war. Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi stands uncontested as a consensus candidate.
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Former slave Jose Fabio Lucas de Lima poses at the construction site of the Arena Pantanal stadium in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state. A total of 25 men are working at the site of one of Brazil’s new World Cup soccer stadiums, who, in their previous jobs, worked in conditions that were classified as slave labor by the Brazilian government. They are now helping to build the stadium in the western city of Cuiaba as part of a state-sponsored program that trains former “slaves” in skills like carpentry and helps insert them into the regular workforce.
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Pakistani women sit near the bow of a boat as they cross a river in Lahore. Pakistan’s Senate passed a bill that makes violence against women and children an offence carrying jail terms and fines, state media said. Those found guilty of beating women or children will face a minimum six months behind bars and a fine of at least 100,000 rupees ($1,100). Human rights groups say Pakistani women suffer severe discrimination, domestic violence and so-called “honor” killings — when a victim is murdered for allegedly bringing dishonor upon her family.
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Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a 72-year-old Nepali who claims to be the world’s shortest man at 22 inches high, walk near his home in Reemkholi village in Dang district, some 540 kilometers southwest of Kathmandu. Dangi will go to the capital city as Guinness World Records experts are due to arrive in Nepal to measure a 72-year-old claiming to be the world’s shortest man.
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Fire brigade, security personnel and locals douse a fire that engulfed a house belonging to resident Tulshi Maiya Joshi at the residential area of Balkumari, Ashon in Kathmandu. According to local media reports, the fire was started by a short-circuit at around 7:00 am, and took three hours for the rescue team to control the fire. No human casualties were reported in the incident.
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Jonathan Walker, left, and Anson Carter with the Memphis Zoo give a Carnotaurus a ride to his new home at the new animatronic dinosaur exhibit in Memphis, Tenn.
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Great Britain’s Christopher Mears, top, and Nicholas Robinson Baker compete during the Men’s Synchronised 3m Springboard Final at the FINA Diving World Cup at the Olympic Aquatic Centre in east London.
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Afghan demonstrators show copies of Koran books allegedly set on fire by US soldiers, during a protest against Koran desecration at the gate of Bagram airbase at Bagram north of Kabul.
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A version of “The Scream,” one of the world’s most famous paintings and an iconic image of despair, is expected to fetch at least $80 million when it goes on sale this May.
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Members of the Russian Special Purpose Regiment (Spetsnaz) storm a building during a performance for spectators at a military festival held in honor of the forthcoming Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Russians celebrates Defender of the Fatherland Day, formerly called Red Army Day, on February 23.
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