A technician at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research, in Kiel, Germany, works on the Abyss, a deep-sea autonomous vehicle. Should the location of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 be confirmed, it’s likely that Abyss will be among the vehicles used to explore the wreckage.
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A Pomeranian models clothes in Cimahi, Bandung, Java, Indonesia.
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An orangutan eats a bamboo cane in the new area dedicated its kind at the Bioparco zoo in Rome, Italy. The new area houses three female orangutans: Petrolina and her two daughters Martina and Zoe.
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Fire lights up the sky as Afghan police and special forces open fire. They surrounded the area after four suicide bombers armed with assault rifles and hand grenades attacked an “office of foreigners” in a southwestern neighborhood of Kabul. A Taliban spokesman said insurgents attacked a “guest house of foreigners and a church of foreigners.” His claim could not be immediately confirmed.
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A mute swan moves across a lake as it defends the territory around its nest from other waterfowl at Kew Gardens in London.
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An Indian Air Force helicopter hovers over the site where an IAF cargo plane crashed near Karauli village in Madhya Pradesh, India. The C-130J Hercules plane crashed during a training mission, killing all five crew members.
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A man admires cherry blossoms lit up at night in a park in Kawasaki, Japan.
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Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Officials said several hundred African migrants tried to cross barbed-wire border fences to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco, but most were turned back by security forces from both sides.
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A student protester against a China Taiwan trade pact tries to sleep in the mezzanine of the occupied legislature in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Snohomish County Fire District 1 battalion chief Steve Mason speaks with media members near the scene of a deadly mudslide in Oso, Wash. The death toll is expected to rise considerably within the next two days as the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office catches up with the recovery effort, Snohomish County District 21 Fire Chief Travis Hots said Thursday.
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A Ukrainian soldier sits next his packed belongings before leaving the Belbek airbase near Sevastopol, Crimea.
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A rainbow flag flies over a building next to Nelson’s Column monument in Trafalgar Square in central London to mark the start of same-sex weddings in the U.K., where they will be legal starting Saturday.
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Ethnic Dong women work at a tea leaf processing factory in Liping county, Guizhou province, China. According to local media, Liping county’s tea plantations attracted more than 60,000 women workers from nearby villages this spring.
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A protestor holds a miniature copy of a book of poetry by John Keats during a rally near to Pentonville Prison in north London, speaking out against the ban that allegedly exists on sending books and other essentials to prisoners.
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Marine helicopters carry President Obama and his delegation for a meeting with Saudi King Abdullah at Rawdat al-Khraim near Riyadh.
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Boys play on debris of damaged buildings in the old city of Aleppo, Syria.
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Participants hold up boxes to make a portrait of President Obama during a flashmob event by students in Moscow, Russia. The slogan reads, “Sanctions against Russia are sanctions against me!”
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Pope Francis confessed his sins in a St. Peter’s Basilica ceremony he hopes will inspire others to seek forgiveness. At one point, the priest hearing his confession appeared to chuckle. Francis, solemn-faced, then rose and started hearing confessions himself.
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A Palestinian protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask throws a stone during clashes with Israeli troops during a protest against the Jewish settlement of Ofra in the West Bank village of Silwad.
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About 1,500 job seekers wait in line to enter a job fair at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C.
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