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ATTENTION EDITORS - REUTERS PICTURE HIGHLIGHT TRANSMITTED BY 0555 GMT ON MARCH 18, 2014 JNA01 Polish-French film director Roman Polanski stands in a coffin as he takes part in the presentation of the musical "Le Bal des Vampires" (Dance of the Vampires) at the Mogador theatre in Paris. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen REUTERS NEWS PICTURES HAS NOW MADE IT EASIER TO FIND THE BEST PHOTOS FROM THE MOST IMPORTANT STORIES AND TOP STANDALONES EACH DAY. Search for "TPX" in the IPTC Supplemental Category field or "IMAGES OF THE DAY" in the Caption field and you will find a selection of 80-100 of our daily Top Pictures. REUTERS NEWS PICTURES. TEMPLATE OUT

Roman Polanski stands in a coffin as part of the presentation of the musical “Le Bal des Vampires (Dance of the Vampires)” at the Mogador theatre in Paris on Tuesday. Reuters

Restoration workers peel off loose gold foil as part of a restoration project for an 800-year-old Thousand-Hand Guanyin Buddhist statue on Mount Baoding in Chongqing municipality, March 18, 2014. The stone-carving statue, which takes up about 88 square metres on the mountain, dates back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). Officials said the restoration project started in April 18, 2011 and would likely finish in the first half of 2015, local media reported. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

Workers peel off gold foil, part of the restoration of an 800-year-old Thousand-Hand Guanyin Buddhist statue on Mount Baoding in Chongqing, China, on Tuesday. Reuters

Fishermen arrange their fishing net as the sun sets on Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai March 18, 2014. REUTERS/Babu (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Fishermen arrange their net at sunset on Marina beach in Chennai, India, on Tuesday. Reuters

Canadian Army Master Corporal Anthony Alliot (L) kisses Sarah Tooth after arriving from Afghanistan, in Ottawa March 18, 2014. Canada's 12-year mission in Afghanistan has formally ended, according to the military. REUTERS/Blair Gable (CANADA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Canadian Army Master Corporal Anthony Alliot kisses Sarah Tooth upon arriving home from Afghanistan on Tuesday in Ottawa. Reuters

A protester Ben dressed up as Ronald McDonald, only known as Ben, takes part in a protest outside a McDonalds restaurant to demand higher wages for fast food workers in the Manhattan borough of New York March 18, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY FOOD)

A protester dressed as Ronald McDonald takes part in a demonstration demanding higher wages for McDonald’s employees in New York City on Tuesday. Reuters

Visitors check a medical robot during the Innorobo 2014 fair (Innovation Robotics Summit) in Lyon March 18, 2014. Innorobo is an annual venue for companies and research centres to present their latest technologies in robotics. REUTERS/Robert Pratta (FRANCE - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS HEALTH)

Visitors check out a medical robot during the Innorobo 2014 fair in Lyon, France, on Tuesday. Reuters

Christine Tootoo of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut wears a sealskin jacket during a demonstration in support of Inuit use and trade of seal products, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa March 18, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Wattie (CANADA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST ANIMALS)

Christine Tootoo of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, sports a sealskin jacket at a rally supporting the Inuit use and trade of seal products, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, on Tuesday. Reuters

A boy gestures in the gardens of the Alcazar of Sevilla in the Andalusian capital of Seville March 18, 2014. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY)

A boy plays in the gardens of the Alcazar of Seville, Spain, on Tuesday. Reuters

Students prepare to attend class at a school in the capital Bangui March 18, 2014.REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: EDUCATION)

Students prepare for class at a school in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui on Tuesday. Reuters

DENPASAR,, BALI - MARCH 18: Wayan Candra, founder of Gases Workshop poses for portrait on March 18, 2014 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Each year the Balinese Hindus celebrate Nyepi ceremony, or 'Silence day', to commemorate the forthcoming Caka new year. This year, the ceremony will take place on March 31, 2014. The day before Nyepi, the Balinese celebrate Pengerupukan Day, which traditionally parades ogoh-ogoh effigys. These characters represent the form of demons, as an expression of evil traits. A famous workshop creates these ogoh-ogoh characters, Gases Workshop, owned by Wayan Candra in Denpasar. In the preceding month before Nyepi, Gases can potentially earn hundreds of ogoh-ogoh orders. The main customers are usually Bali resort hotels. (Photo by Putu Sayoga/Getty Images)

Founder Wayan Candra poses in Gases Workshop ahead of Pengerupukan Day celebrations in Bali. Getty Images

A Syrian man evacuates a child found in the rubble of a building reportedly hit by an explosives-filled barrel dropped by a government forces helicopter on Tuesday in Aleppo. Getty Images

An elderly Syrian man and a child walk amidst debris in a residential block reportedly hit by an explosives-filled barrel dropped by a government forces helicopter on March 18, 2014 in Aleppo.

An elderly Syrian man and a child walk amidst debris in Aleppo on Tuesday. Getty Images

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MARCH 18: Better Together campaigners hold a six months to go sign on March 18, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. Activists on both sides are marking six months to go until the country votes on Scottish Independence on September 18th. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Better Together campaigners in Glasgow hold signs touting the six months until Scotland votes on independence from Britain. Getty Images

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 18: Daffodils flourish outside The Treasury on March 18, 2014 in London, England. Tomorrow Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his budget statement to Parliament. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Daffodils flourish outside The Treasury in London on Tuesday. Getty Images

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - MARCH 18: Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims pose for a potrait after a special prayers held in Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin mosque for the missing Malaysian airliner MH370, March 18, 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared ten days ago carrying 227 passengers and 12-crew on route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. All passengers and crew are currently under investigation and 22 countries are involved in extensive search for the airliner. (Photo by Rahman Roslan/Getty Images)

Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims pose for a potrait after a special prayers held in Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin mosque for the missing Malaysian airliner MH370 on Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Getty Images

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 18: A soldier with the Afghan National Army's (ANA) National Engineer Brigade tries to make dry land after leaping from the top of a Mabey-Johnson portable pre-fabricated bridge which his unit was learning to construct with the help of U.S. Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (MCB) 28 at the ANA's combined Fielding Center on March 18, 2014 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Seabees are attached to the U.S. Army's 130th Engineer Brigade are responsible for training ANA soldiers various engineering tasks at the facility. In a recent speech to his country's parliament, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said U.S. troops can leave Afghanistan at the end of the year because his military was ready to take over responsibility for the nation's security. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

An Afghan National Army soldier from the National Engineer Brigade leaps from the top of a pre-fabricated bridge on Tuesday in Kabul. Getty Images

Afghan vice presidential candidate Habiba Sarabi holds a boy who gave her flowers during a campaign rally in Kabul on Monday. AP Photo

People rally in support of Crimea joining Russia, with banners and portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reading "We are together," in Red Square in Moscow, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. With a sweep of his pen, President Vladimir Putin added Crimea to the map of Russia on Tuesday, describing the move as correcting past injustice and responding to what he called Western encroachment upon Russia's vital interests. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

People rally in support of Crimea joining Russia, with banners reading “We are together” in Red Square in Moscow on Tuesday. AP Photo

In this photo taken on Monday, March 17, 2014, Mary Lu Ward, left, of the Las Cruces Animal Control, calls to Athena as she was lifted in a utility bucket by El Paso Electric in Las Cruces, N.M. Ward successfully rescued the cat, who had been stuck on top of the electrical pole for three days after possibly being chased by Coyotes. (AP Photo/The Las Cruces Sun-News, Carlos Javier Sanchez)

Mary Lou Ward of Las Cruces Animal Control rescues a cat named Athena, who’d been stuck on top of an electrical pole for three days after possibly being chased by coyotes. AP Photo

Emergency personnel look over a small plane that crashed southwest of the Combs and County Line Roads intersection Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Greenwood, Ind. Police say a flight instructor and a student pilot were hurt when a small plane crashed in a farm field just south of Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Daily Journal Scott Roberson)

A pilot instructor and student were injured when their small plane crashed in a field just south of Indianapolis on Tuesday. AP Photo

Indian children play in a pool of colored water at the end of Holi celebrations, the Hindu festival of colors at the Baldev Temple in Dauji, 180 kilometers (113 miles) south of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The Baldev Temple is known for a ritual where the women playfully hit men with whips made of cloth as men throw buckets of water mixed with orange dye. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Indian children play in a pool of colored water at the end of the Hindu Holi Festival celebrations on Tuesday. AP Photo

A wounded Israeli soldier is brought to a soccer field to be evacuated to a hospital, in the village of Masade in the Golan Heights, Tuesday

A wounded Israeli soldier is evacuated to a hospital on Tuesday. AP Photo

A piece of the wreckage of the crashed KOMO news helicopter sits on Seattle street on Tuesday. AP Photo

Two Northeastern University students protest in support of Palestine on Tuesday after a Northeastern University student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, suspended.

Northeastern University students protest in support of Palestine on Tuesday after a student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, was suspended. AP Photo

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