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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