Firefighters battle a fire after two buildings collapsed in East Harlem early Wednesday.
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People run after the East Harlem explosion.
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Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber races in the women’s sitting slalom at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games on Wednesday.
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Riot police shield themselves against protesters throwing fireworks during an anti-government protest in Istanbul,Turkey, on Tuesday.
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A bear dances to bag pipe music played by a Pakistani bear handler in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Chinese security marches outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on Wednesday.
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Smoke rises from a fire ravaging a high-rise building in San Francisco on Tuesday.
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Freshly blooming daffodils frame the Space Needle in Seattle.
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Aidan Coleman falls during the Novices Handicap Steeplechase in Gloucestershire, UK, on Tuesday.
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Tibetan women are detained as they try to reach the Chinese Embassy on Women’s Uprising Day in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday.
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Slovenia’s Tina Maze skis in the women’s downhill at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
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A building in the distance shows flight number “MH370” of the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing, in Shanghai on Wednesday.
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The sun rises behind the Capitol in DC.
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Lawyers and judges burn a symbol of the Israeli flag after Israel killed Jordanian judge Raed Zueter in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday.
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A man bikes with his dog in Geilenkirchen, Germany.
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A North Korean soldier, top center, looks at three South Korean soldiers standing guard in Paju, South Korea, on Wednesday.
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An Israeli model, who serves in the military, gets ready before taking the catwalk during Tel Aviv Fashion Week in Israel on Tuesday.
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A girl collects grass in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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A small dam containing water, left, is seen in a dry paddock next to another paddock burnt by fire near Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday.
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A woman stands in front of a poster in Bamako, Mali.
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