An Australian koala looks at a camera as it sits atop a branch in its enclosure at Wild Life Sydney Zoo. Images from the camera, which are triggered by the koala’s movements, are displayed on a nearby small screen which the zoo is promoting as a koala “selfie.”
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A flight schedule board is updated with canceled flights of German airline Lufthansa during strike action by Lufthansa pilots. The pilots announced a three-day stoppage earlier this week, leading Lufthansa to cancel 3,800 flights, or around nine out of ten flights planned for the period.
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An Iraqi worker operates a drill during a cleanup of the furnace pipes at a cement plant in Najaf, south of Baghdad.
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Two teams of robots play against each other in the 2014 RoboCup German Open tournament on in Magdeburg, Germany. The robots, which are models called Nao, manufactured by Aldebaran Robotics, perform autonomously and communicate with one another via WLAN.
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A Chinese dragon dancer does a handstand as he and other performers take a break while shooting a film in the Sanlitun area in Beijing. The popular traditional dance is often performed during the annual Spring Festival at Chinese New Year.
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Bahraini anti-government protesters throw stones challenge riot police firing tear gas during clashes in Eker, Bahrain. Clashes erupted after the funeral for Hussain Ahmed Sharaf, 21, a protester whose family maintains was killed by police.
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Iranian Shiite women mourn during a ceremony marking the death anniversary of Fatima, the daughter of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, at a central square of Tehran, Iran.
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President Barack Obama is seen on stage before speaking about Wednesday’s shooting at Fort Hood during an event welcoming members of the US teams from the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
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President Barack Obama talks to Jake Miller, left, accompanied by Ellyn Miller, behind Jake, brother and mother of Gabriella Miller, before signing into law the H.R. 2019, the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, in the Oval Office.
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Rwandan children walk to watch a torch ceremony as hundreds gather to await the arrival of a small flame of remembrance, symbolic fire traveling the country and hear genocide memories at the Petit Seminaire school in Ndera, Rwanda. On April 7, the country will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide when ethnic Hutu extremists killed neighbors, friends and family during a three-month rampage of violence aimed at ethnic Tutsis and some moderate Hutus, leaving a death toll that Rwanda puts at 1,000,050.
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Sarah Palin wears a belt buckle that reads “Girls with Guns” as she greets attendees of a women’s group campaigning for Karen Handel in Union City, Ga.
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African migrants sit on top of a border fence covered in razor wire between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla during their latest attempt to cross into Spanish territory. Spain has more than doubled the strength of security forces at Melilla, after about 500 people stormed its fences in the biggest border rush for years earlier this month.
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A protester lights candles next to the pictures of victims during a demonstration against crimes committed by Franco’s dictatorship in the main square of Madrid, Spain. Two former Spanish security officers are accused of torturing people during Franco’s dictatorship and are now fighting extradition to Argentina where a judge has issued warrants for their arrests. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975.
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Union members with the AFSCME, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, listen as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. and others urge approval for raising the minimum wage on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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A protester is seen though a banner reading “No” as she marches against Spain’s austerity measures in Madrid. Trade unions organized 50 demonstrations across Spain to protest against the austerity measures applied by the Spanish government and recommended by the European Union.
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Children model outfits from the children’s brand Lilica Ripilica during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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A mountain lion makes its way through fresh snow in the foothills outside of Golden, Colorado, on Thursday, where over eight inches of snow fell in the area overnight.
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First lady Michelle Obama hugs Paralympics Alpine Skier Jon Lujan at a ceremony welcoming the United States’ Olympic and Paralympic teams from the 2014 Winter Games.
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A plainclothes officer is helped after being injured by a firecracker fired by opposition students outside of the Central University of Venezuela during an anti-government protest in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, have an audience with Pope Francis in Vatican City.
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US flags are pictured in front of the Central Christian Church in Killeen, Texas, where the Fort Hood Army Base is located. The commander of the base on Thursday identified the soldier suspected of shooting dead three people and wounding 16 on Wednesday as Ivan Lopez, 34, and said he was originally from Puerto Rico.
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A rocket carrying a satellite for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Residents push strollers along a damaged road leading to Alto Hospicio commune after a series of aftershocks in the northern port of Iquique, Chile.
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Photographers take pictures of “Thug” the Pygmy Hippo exploring his new enclosure at a zoo in London. Thug and his lifelong Pygmy Hippo companion Nicky were unveiled to the media in their new home Thursday, which opens for public viewing on April 5 as part of the zoo’s “Into Africa” exhibit.
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