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Week in photos: April 1-5

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A newly born tiger cub meets tourists in the Zhuyuwan Zoo in Yangzhou, China.

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Yankees manager Joe Girardi stands with his squad during the National Anthem on opening day at Yankee Stadium.

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Wazeer Khan, 87, sits on a roadside near his hut on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Khan and his family fled Pakistan's tribal area of Bajur in 2009 due to fighting.

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Chelsea's Demba Ba gets his toe on a cross and puts it into the net, scoring the only goal i his squad's win over Manchester United during their FA Cup quarterfinal in London.

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This shot shows the greater New York City area at night as photographed by a crew member aboard NASA's Expedition 35.

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Visitors row through the cherry-blossom-covered Chidorigafuchi moat in Tokyo.

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Jamaat-e-Islami activists mob an officer and try to snatch his firearm during a clash in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He was one of four hurt in the fight.

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A lone model walks the runway for Russian design duo HakaMa at their show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Moscow.

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A fan of the late pop star Leslie Cheung cries during a vigil held in Hong Kong marking the 10th anniversary of her death.

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Locusts hop across an area of the Menabe region of Madagascar, where a massive infestation over half the island nation is threatening the production of rice.

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Mourners grieve over the bodies of three men -- a preacher and two other men -- gunned down over the weekend in Fallujah. The holy man, Sheikh Talib Youssef, was one of the organizers of weekly Sunni demonstrations against the Shiite-led government.

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An aircraft sits on its nose after a miraculous emergency landing near a home in Haselau, Germany. Both people in the aircraft were hurt only slightly.

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Firefighters battle a three alarm warehouse fire in New Orleans.

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A construction site and distant high-rises peek out of the heavy morning fog in Shenyang, China.

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Ukrainian riot police block protesters from reaching the parliament building during a rally in Kiev demanding a mayoral election.

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A gorilla puzzles over something -- we'd like to think it's what he'll order for dinner -- in his enclosure at the zoo in Saarbrucken, Germany.

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Indian men and boys sift through mud and trash in the Ganges river in Allahabad in search of valuables left by the millions who visited the site for the Kumbh Mela festival.

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Members of the media are reflected in the window of the observation deck at One World Trade Center during a preview of the attraction. It's expected to open to the public in 2015.

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Palestinian protesters take cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron. The protests erupted following the death from cancer of Palestinian prison inmate Maysara Abu Hamdeya at an Israeli hospital.

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A rainbow backdrops the scene as Pakistani Rangers secure Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad prior to the return of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf from self-imposed exile.

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Bayern Munich's David Alaba clobbers teammate Franck Ribery while celebrating a goal against Juventus during their Champions League quarterfinal match in Munich, Germany.

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A model is a blur on the runway at the Juan Vidal show during Fashion Week in Moscow.

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Residents in Santarem, Portugal, find any way they can to traverse the streets flooded when the River Tejo spilled over its banks.

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A red-eyed tree frog clambors up a reed near its home in a Dutch forest.

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Chechens watch an uninhabited skyscraper as it burns over central Grozny.

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An obviously exhausted Marcel Kittel of Germany celebrates winning the 101st Scheldeprijs/Grand Prix de l'Escaut in Schoten, Belgium.

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Municipal buses share the flooded road with a paddle-boarder after heavy rains battered Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Standing on Germany's highest mountain, Zugspitze, a tourist snags a pic of the the surrounding peaks pokingout through the cloud cover..

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A Palestinian emphatically hurls a stone toward Israeli forces during riots in Hebron, West Bank.

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A Syrian rebel fighter rests in an armchair left amid the rubble on the streets of Deir al-Zor.

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Kashmiri laborers carry wildflowers -- which will be used to feed cattle -- along the edge of Dal Lake in Srinagar

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Suleiman Fatul Saim, a 10-year-old from Dar Al Salam, North Darfur, shows the scars left 7 years ago when brother accidentally detonated a mine, killing one of their friends and injuring the siblings.

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A worker surveys the inside of an under-construction tunnel at the Janpath metro station in New Delhi.

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A pigeon takes a seat on the helmet of a Colombian soldier during a farewell ceremony in Bogota for troops joining the international force that oversees terms of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

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Talk about hungry! A woman devours a hunk of meat at a re-enactment of the 1849 battle between Hungarian cavalrymen and Austrian soldiers of the Habsburg dynasty in Tapiobicske, Hungary.

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Venezuelan candidate Henrique Capriles greets supporters during a rally in Porlamar as the campaign to replace Hugo Chavez formally kicks off. Acting President Nicolas Maduro -- Chavez's hand-picked successor -- is battling Capriles for the forthcoming April 14 vote.

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A Madame Tussauds sculptor works on the clay head of teen heartthrob Harry Styles of One Direction.

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An Afghan army soldier stands guard in a destroyed courthouse in Farah, after suicide bombers -- disguised as Afghan soldiers -- stormed a the building in a failed bid to free more than a dozen Taliban prisoners.

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An elderly woman faces off with a rooster on the streets of Beijing as worry grows over the deaths of three in China attributed to the H7N9 strain of bird flu.

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Michelle Obama -- with help from fifth grader Emilo Vega of Florida -- plants the White House kitchen garden on the South Lawn.

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Palestinian protesters take cover during skirmishes with Israeli soldiers in Hebron, West Bank. Thousands turned out for the funerals of three Palestinians, including two teenagers killed by Israeli army gunfire and a 64-year-old prisoner who died of cancer.

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Hundreds of onlookers and rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a collapsed residential building in Thane, India. At least nine people died and over 40 were injured.

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A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask stands outside the paint-smeared Finance Ministry in Athens during demonstrations by members of the 'Independent Greeks' party.

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Argentinian Arsenal players confront cops after losing to Atletico Mineiro in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The team paid a fine of nearly $20,000 to ensure charges weren't brought against seven players accused of injuring several officers and a journalist.

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Dancer Oscar Chacon leads the company in a scene from the new production of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

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A baseball fan snags a foul ball with his cap during the fifth inning of a 3-1 Kansas City win over the White Sox at Cellular Field in Chicago.