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Day in photos: April 22, 2013

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Cuirassiers present their arms as newly re-elected Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (not pictured) lays a wreath at the Altar of the Fatherland in Rome, Italy.

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Mustachioed US golfer Johnson Wagner digs his ball out of a bunker and on to the second green during the final round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C.

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Ethiopian Tsegaye Kebede, winner of the men's 2013 London Marathon, hoists his trophy in celebration near the Tower Bridge in London.

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Sporting long locks and a feathered friend, Ramone and his owner Dave Larson await the start of the Drake University Relays Beautiful Bulldog Contest.

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Villagers carry the coffin of a man killed when Saturday's powerful earthquake hit Lushan, China.

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Fishermen haul in their day's catch near the port in of Duba, Saudi Arabia.

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Auburn University faithful "roll" the oak trees at Toomer's Corner one last time following the school's s A-Day football game at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala. The tradition is ending as officials plan to take the now-dying trees down.

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Eleven-year-old Bsam Ali swims in the polluted water at a slum on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen.

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NASA launches its Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The test launch simulated the launch of a manned spacecraft into Earth's orbit.

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A duck swims at about knee height by a window at the Riverfront Plaza Building in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. The Grand River crested at an all time high of 21.85 feet.

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Afghan boys edit some graffiti on a wall on the outskirts of Kabul with a large X and the word "freedom."