Camille Hsiung, dressed in 1960s clothes, poses in front of the Unisphere with a vintage Life magazine during festivities marking the 50th anniversary of the 1964 World’s Fair, which opened in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens.
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Chen Qingzu, 56, stands in a small room with the walls and ceiling covered in bras he collected, in Sanya, Hainan province, China. Chen has collected about 5,000 bras over 20 years after touring more than 30 different colleges around the country for public benefit activities aiming to raise awareness of breast cancer, local media reported.
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Lighting flares are released over the sea off Jindo, South Korea, where the capsized passenger ship Sewol sank during the night rescue operation.
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Supporters of India’s ruling Congress party cheer as they listen to Rahul Gandhi, Congress party’s vice president and son of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, during an election campaign rally in the northern Indian city of Mathura.
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Members of the Cowboys and Indian Alliance, a group of ranchers, farmers and indigenous leaders, lift their signs in protest against the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The latest delay to a final decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline will reinforce a White House strategy to energize President Obama’s liberal-leaning base before fall elections in which Democrats risk losing control of the U.S. Senate.
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A pro-Russian protester watches through binoculars from a roof of a regional government building in Donetsk, Ukraine. Vice President Joe Biden told Russia on Tuesday that “time is short” for action on defusing the crisis in eastern Ukraine, but Moscow refused to be rushed, saying it could handle any tougher economic sanctions the West might impose.
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An anti-government protester throws tear gas canister fired by riot police during clashes after the funeral procession of Ali Abbas and Ahmed Al Mesjen, who died when their car exploded in the village of Maqsha west of Manama, Bahrain.
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Vietnam veteran Fred Downs gives a thumbs up during a demonstration of modular prosthetic arm technology developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the Pentagon in Washington.
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A bird perches inside the barrel of one of two Soviet T-34 tanks in a Soviet War Memorialin Berlin, Germany. German politicians have condemned a petition launched last week by the B.Z. newspaper as well as the country’s best-selling tabloid, Bild, which encouraged readers to send letters of protest to the federal parliament demanding the removal of the tanks located in the Soviet War Memorial in the city’s central Tiergarten Park located near the Brandenburg Gate, erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate the 80,000 Soviet Armed Forces soldiers who died during the Battle of Berlin in 1945.
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Fingerling Chinook salmon are dumped into a holding pen as they are transferred from a truck into the Mare Island Strait in Vallejo, California. As California continues to suffer through its worst drought in history, low water levels on the state’s rivers have forced wildlife officials to truck an estimated 30 million young Chinook salmon hundreds of miles toward the Pacific Ocean in tanker trucks to assist the fish with migration.
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Tourists stand on a viewing platform to watch the sunrise in Uluru, Australia in anticipation of a visit from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
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The orange sun begins to set above searchers and divers looking for bodies of passengers believed to have been trapped in the sunken ferry Sewol in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, South Korea. One by one, coast guard officers carried the newly arrived bodies covered in white sheets from a boat to a tent on the dock of this island, the first step in identifying a sharply rising number of corpses from the South Korean ferry that sank nearly a week ago.
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The mother of Sigarov Alexander, 24, reaches for his body at a church during the funeral for three people killed last Sunday in a shooting by unknown gunmen at a checkpoint, in Slovyansk, Ukraine.
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Tulips bloom in front of the Capitol in Washington. The annual burst of color around the nation’s capital is a sure sign that spring has finally arrived.
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Books lay on a stand at Buenos Aires’ annual book fair in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The book fair officially opens on Thursday.
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Members of the traditional Japanese ensemble Taiko Masala, perform during a preview of the Sakura Matsuri festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Los Angeles Police Dept. officers stand outside during the funeral service for LAPD motorcycle officer Chris Cortijo at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. Hundreds of fellow law enforcement officers turned out to mourn 51-year-old officer, who who died after he struck by a motorist allegedly under the influence of cocaine on April 5.
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A man tries to connect his store with electricity from the main electricity pole at the Zaatari Refugee Camp, in Mafraq, Jordan. An estimated 104,494 refugees reside in the sprawling Zaatari refugee camp, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, with the majority of the population coming from the Daara Governorate in southwest Syria.
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Artie, an 11-year-old miniature Doberman, spends some time with his owner at the Rotary Dog Park Kinston, N.C. April was proclaimed as tick and mosquito awareness month in North Carolina, according to the Daily Free Press.
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Faithful listen as postulators of late Popes John Paul II and John XXIII deliver their speeches at a meeting with youths in Rome’s St.John Lateran Basilica. The meeting is the first one organized by Rome’s Diocese to prepare for the April 27 elevation to sainthood of the two popes.
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