Grounded cargo ship MV Carrier is battered by waves as it lays against sea defences after hitting rocks near a jetty in Llanddulas, Wales. Emergency services have closed the nearby A55 trunk road after the vessel grounded in bad weather last night. Salvage and anti pollution experts are assessing the scene.
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A U.S. soldier checks the body of a comrade at the scene of a suicide attack in Maimanah, the capital of Faryab province north of Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least 10 people, including three NATO service members.
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An employee of a department store displays the “K24 Captain Jack Sparrow” statue in Tokyo. The department store sells the 26cm-high and 1,800 gram pure gold statue until April 10 for $435,000 to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Walt Disney’s birth.
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French members of the French National Police Intervention Group (GIPN) arrest a suspected radical Islamists group member in the French southern city of Marseille, as part of down raids in several French cities. French police swooped on suspected radical Islamists in pre-dawn raids for the second time in less than a week today, arresting 10 people, a source close to the investigation said.
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Chinese families gather during the annual “Qingming” festival or Tomb Sweeping Day at a cemetery in Jinjiang, southeast China’s Fujian province. During “Qingming” Chinese traditionally tend the graves of their departed loved ones and often burn paper money, model houses, cars, mobile phones and other goods as offerings to honor them and keep them comfortable in the afterlife.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful gathered in St. Peter square at the Vatican as he arrives for his weekly general audience.
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Kenyan rescue workers carry the body of a man a victim of a massive boulder that crashed onto houses in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, killing at least six people and trapping many underground after a night of heavy rains. The Red Cross said more than 40 houses were destroyed in the sprawling slums in the north of the capital when huge boulders came crashing onto them.
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Tiger Woods tees off on the 14th hole during a practice round for the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga.
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A North Korean man clears snow from a path next to a monument at the site of the Samjiyon Grand Monument in Samjiyon, North Korea.
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Penitents walk to their church during the Holy Week in Seville. Christians around the world mark the Holy Week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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The bow section of the stricken container ship Rena remains above water about 14 nautical miles from Tauranga on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The remains of the ship are stuck on a rock reef six months after it ran aground, in what authorities say is one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters.
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U.S. President Barack Obama, alongside members of Congress and Vice President Joe Biden (L), applauds after signing the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act in the Eisenhower Executive Office building near the White House in Washington. The act ensures that members of Congress are subject to the same insider trading laws as other Americans.
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Israeli border policemen hold back a Jewish youth to prevent him from reaching a building occupied by Jewish settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli police evicted Jewish settlers on Wednesday from the building they said they had bought from a Palestinian in the heart of Hebron, a frequent flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Qatari youth perform a traditional dance in a wedding ceremony in Doha. Throughout the Middle East, Africa and parts of South Asia, marriage between family members has been widely practised for thousands of years, but at a recent public debate on intermarriage in Doha, much of the discussion focused on the tensions between cultural practices and the science cautioning against consanguineous marriage – defined as marriage between second cousins or closer.
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Volker Kraft decorates a tree with 10,000 Easter eggs in the garden of the retired couple Christa and Volker Kraft in Saalfeld, Germany. The Kraft family has been decorating their tree for Easter for more than forty years. Kraft’s apple sapling sported just 18 eggs when he first decorated it for Easter in 1965. The number increased year by year; and by last year, the sturdy tree was festooned with 9,800 eggs, artfully decorated with everything from sequins to sea shells. This time, Kraft has reached 10,000 – and he says he’s stopping there.
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Pakistani girl Naginah Sadiq, 5, arranges bricks where she and her family are working in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Naginah earns 250 Rupees ($2 .77 cents) per day according to her father.
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Shane Perkins of Australia celebrates with three year old Aidan after winning the Men’s Team Sprint Final with teammate Scott Sunderland and Matthew Glaetzer during Day 1 of the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships at Hisense Arena in Melbourne, Australia.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks to Ukrainian students in Kiev . Former IMF chairman Dominique Strauss-Kahn, currently embroiled in sex scandals was giving a lecture on the future of the global economy and its implications on Europe and Ukraine.
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