The day in photos

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A bodyboarder rides a wave during Sumol Nazare Special Edition in Nazare March 19, 2014. The event started 10 years ago and gathers bodyboarders from different countries. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante (PORTUGAL - Tags: SPORT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
A bodyboarder rides a wave during Sumol Nazare Special Edition in Nazare. Reuters
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An artist walks across the roof of his house while carrying paintings to be dried at Jelekong village near Bandung, in Indonesia's West Java province, March 20, 2014. The people of Jelekong village earn their living by selling their paintings. Around 300 painters live in the village, producing about 1,000 paintings a month, each priced between 50,000 rupiah to 11,000,000 rupiah ($4.50 to $1000), according to villager Asep Sancang, who works as a high school art teacher and painter. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
An artist walks across the roof of his house while carrying paintings to be dried at Jelekong village near Bandung, in Indonesia’s West Java province, on Thursday. Reuters
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A security guard stands on the road near the hotel where family members of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 passengers gather for a briefing on the current situation in Cyberjaya, outside Kuala Lumpur March 20, 2014. Aircraft and ships ploughed through dire weather on Thursday in search of objects floating in remote seas off Australia that Malaysia's government called a "credible lead" in the trans-continental hunt for a jetliner missing for nearly two weeks. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (MALAYSIA - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
A security guard stands on the road near the hotel where family members of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 passengers gather for a briefing on the current situation in Cyberjaya, outside Kuala Lumpur Thursday. Reuters
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Moscow's Kremlin, March 20, 2014. Ban said at a meeting with Putin that he was "deeply concerned" by the situation involving Ukraine and Russia. REUTERS/Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Moscow’s Kremlin on Thursday. Reuters
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Flowers are shown blooming at the Conservatory of Flowers in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California March 20, 2014. Spring officially began on Wednesday in the northern hemisphere, and is known as both the spring or vernal equinox.
Flowers bloom at the Conservatory of Flowers in the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California on Thursday. Reuters
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Kavi, a male Sumatran Tiger, takes a drink from the pool in his enclosure March 20, 2014 at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC. Balmy temperatures are making for a great first day of Spring. AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)
Kavi, a male Sumatran Tiger, takes a drink from the pool in his enclosure Thursday at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, DC. Getty Images
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie meets with Samuel Kang, 3, during a town hall-style meeting, Thursday, March 20, 2014, at St. Magdalen de Pazzi parish center in Flemington, N.J. Christie says his signature town hall meetings help keep him in tune with what average citizens are thinking. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie meets with three-year-old Samuel Kang during a town hall-style meeting on Thursday at St. Magdalen de Pazzi parish center in Flemington, N.J. AP Photo
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Children play outside their makeshift shelters in a squatters' settlement of more than 500 residents who have named it the Pope Francis neighborhood, in a Buenos Aires suburb, Argentina, Thursday, March 20, 2014. The squatters who occupied the land in demand for housing solutions some weeks ago, now fear they will be evicted after a judge ratified the eviction order Wednesday. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Children play outside their makeshift shelters in a squatters’ settlement of more than 500 residents who have named it the Pope Francis neighborhood, in a Buenos Aires suburb in Argentina on Thursday. AP Photo
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A measuring stick shows an unofficial height of the rising Grand River as it approaches homes on Abrigador Trail in Comstock Park, Mich., Thursday, March 20, 2014. A flood watch is in effect for the Grand River around Grand Rapids due to ice jams along the waterway. The National Weather Service reports jams are confirmed in at least two areas, with chunks of ice about 8 inches thick in places. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Chris Clark) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
A measuring stick shows an unofficial height of the rising Grand River as it approaches homes on Abrigador Trail in Comstock Park, Mich. on Thursday. AP Photo
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Al-Qaida fighters patrol in a commandeered Iraqi security forces truck in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 20, 2014. Al-Qaida-linked fighters and their allies seized the city of Fallujah and parts of the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi in late December after authorities dismantled a protest camp. Like the camp in the northern Iraqi town of Hawija whose dismantlement in April sparked violent clashes and set off the current upsurge in killing, the Anbar camp was set up by Sunnis angry at what they consider second-class treatment by the Shiite-led government. (AP Photo)
Al-Qaeda fighters patrol in a commandeered Iraqi security forces truck in Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday. AP Photo
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Pope Francis greets children prior to the start of an audience he granted to Terni steel factory workers in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican
Pope Francis greets children of Terni steel factory workers in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican Thursday. AP Photo
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Firefighters work at the scene of a fire, Thursday, March 20, 2014, in York, Pa. Firefighters said seven buildings were damaged, four of them heavily. No injuries were reported. The Red Cross was assisting 11 people forced from nearby row homes. (AP Photo/York Daily Record, Jason Plotkin) YORK DISPATCH OUT
Firefighters work at the scene of a seven-building fire in York, Penn. on Thursday. AP Photo
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A boy eats a piece of bread during breakfast at the LEA primary school refugee centre, Bondon, Kaura local government Kaduna State
A boy eats a piece of bread during breakfast at the LEA primary school refugee centre in Bondon, Kaura local government Kaduna State in Nigeria on Thursday. Reuters
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Dancers recreate Agrabah in Disney's Broadway adaptation of "Aladdin."
Dancers recreate Agrabah in Disney’s Broadway adaptation of “Aladdin.” AP Photo
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A masked protester runs from a spraying water canon operated by Bolivarian National Police in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, March 20, 2014. Thursday dawned with two more opposition politicians, San Cristobal Mayor Daniel Ceballos and San Diego Mayor Enzo Scarano, behind bars. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a student-called protest of several thousand people in Caracas, some of those demonstrating against the arrests of the mayors. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A masked protester runs from a Bolivarian National Police water cannon in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday. AP Photo
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Albany head coach Will Brown gestures during the first half in a second-round game against Florida in the NCAA college basketball tournament Thursday, March 20, 2014, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Albany head coach Will Brown gestures during the first half in a second-round game against Florida in the NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament on Thursday. AP Photo
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A Syrian refugee child who fled the violence from the Syrian town of Flita, near Yabroud, poses for a photograph at the border town of Arsal, in the eastern Bekaa Valley March 20, 2014. Tensions have been especially high in and around Arsal after Syrian forces and the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah recaptured the Syrian border town of Yabroud from rebels on Sunday, sending a stream of refugees and fighters across the border. Lebanon's border area has been steadily sucked into Syria's three-year-old conflict as President Bashar al-Assad's forces attack nearby rebel bases and suspected Syrian rebels fire rockets at Shi'ite towns to punish Hezbollah for sending fighters to support Assad. REUTERS/Hassan Abdallah (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
A Syrian refugee child poses for a photograph at the border town of Arsal, Lebanon. Reuters
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Ballet dancer Vladimir Malakhov (C) performs "Clear", with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, during a dress rehearsal at the Schiller theatre in Berlin March 20, 2014. Malakhov performs for the last time with the "Staatsballett" ballet ensemble. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: SOCIETY)
Ballet dancer Vladimir Malakhov performs “Clear”, feautring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, at a dress rehearsal at the Schiller theatre in Berlin on Thursday. Reuters
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Honda Gresini MotoGP rider Scott Redding of Britain rides his bike during a free practice session at the MotoGP World Championship at the Losail International circuit in Doha.
Honda Gresini MotoGP rider Scott Redding of Britain rides his bike during a free practice session at the MotoGP World Championship at the Losail International circuit in Doha. Reuters
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The U.S. Coast Guard ice cutter Neah Bay breaks ice up on the River Raisin in the turning basin, Thursday, March 20, 2014, at the Port of Monroe in Monroe, Mich. (AP Photo/The Monroe News, Tom Hawley)
The U.S. Coast Guard ice cutter Neah Bay breaks ice up on the River Raisin in the turning basin at the Port of Monroe in Monroe, Mich. on Thursday. AP Photo
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 20: The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment have their annual 'Major General's Inspection' in Hyde Park on March 20, 2014 in London, England. The annual Major General's Inspection, by Major General Ed Smyth-Osbourne, takes place to check the regiment ahead of their State Ceremonial duties for the year. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment have their annual Major General’s Inspection in Hyde Park on Thursday in London. Getty Images
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A man walks past a decorated bus parked along a street near to the terminus in Karachi March 20, 2014. Pakistan's southern port city Karachi has a huge network of decorated buses which are privately owned by their drivers. Owners spend thousands of rupees to decorate these buses, which are well-known for their colourful patterns and motifs. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY)
A man walks past a decorated bus parked along a street near to the terminus in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday. Reuters
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In this photo provided by TED 2014 Conference, dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis, left, performs on stage with dancer Christian Lightner at the 2014 TED Conference, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Haslet-Davis took to the stage with a new prosthetic limb to perform for the first time since losing part of her left leg in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. (AP Photo/TED 2014 Conference, James Duncan Davidson)
Dancer and Boston Marathon bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet-Davis, left, performs on stage with dancer Christian Lightner at the 2014 TED Conference on Wednesday. AP Photo
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Students and teachers from across New Jersey participate in a “litter march” on the beach and boardwalk in Ocean City, N.J., Thursday, March 20, 2014, to help clean the beach as part of the annual Environmental Student Exchange through the New Jersey Clean Communities Council. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Vernon Ogrodnek) MANDATORY CREDIT.
Students and teachers from across New Jersey participate in a “€œlitter march”€ on the beach and boardwalk in Ocean City, on Thursday. AP Photo