Spanish Edgar Torronteras performs at the freestyle motocross jumping demonstration during the FIM Indoor Trial World Motorcycling Championship in Palma de Mallorca.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses a Security Council meeting at UN headquarters. The bloody conflict in Syria is likely to dominate public and private talks Monday as key ministers meet at the United Nations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and challenges from the Arab Spring.
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Two commercial airliners appear to fly close together as they pass over London, England.
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Dog walkers on Bamburgh Beech at sunrise in Northumberland, England.
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France’s biathlet Martin Fourcade, left, leads the pack to win the Men 15km Mass Start at the Biathlon World Championships in Ruhpolding, Germany. France’s Martin Fourcade won ahead of Sweden’s Bjoern Ferry and Fredrik Lindstroem.
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Palestinians inspect the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli air strike in Jabaliya. Israeli air strikes killed two Palestinian militants and a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip on Monday and Palestinian rocket squads barraged southern Israel, in escalating fighting that has defied international truce efforts.
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Pakistani women carry pots as they walk home after getting drinking water on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Workers move a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex model into position at Chester Zoo in England. The robotic model is one of 19 replica dinosaurs that form the Dinosaurs Bite Back exhibition that opens at the zoo on April 1.
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A truck sprays dyed powder during a procession of the Rangpanchami festival in Indore, India.
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An elderly Indian man carries bamboo baskets for sale on the outskirts of Agartala, India. Bamboo baskets are used for storage at the end of the harvesting period.
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Thai security personnel survey the site of a motorcycle bomb at a roadside in southern Thailand’s Pattani province, south of Bangkok. Two soldiers were wounded by a bomb explosion while providing security for teachers in Pattani’s Sai Buri district.
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A boy from Pakistan’s Mohmand tribal region, holds a chain while he runs behind a truck at a road on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Thousands of people gather for a rally of the country’s main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former prime minister Khaleda Zia in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thousands of people supported Bangladesh’s main opposition party’s call for a general strike for March 29 to press demands for impartial oversight of elections set for 2014.
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Bicycle designer Dieter “Didi” Senft presents his latest bicycle invention, the so-called ‘111-twelve-teeth-rake-bicycle’ in Storkow, Germany. The bicycle consists of 111 garden rakes and is fully functional but cannot be used for raking.
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Locals transport bamboo from a boat towards the bank of Yangon River, Myanmar.
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Indian and U.S. Army soldiers participate in a drill during a joint military exercise Yudh Abhyas in the desert near Bikaner, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan.
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The Aurora Australis is seen in this handout picture taken by Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers on board the International Space Station between Antarctica and Australia.
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Palestinians take cover as a gunman fires a weapon in the air during the funeral of Islamic Jihad militant Mohammed Daher in Gaza City.
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Pedro Pimentel Rios, a former Kaibil (a special operations force), is escorted to the Supreme Court in Guatemala City. Pimental Rios has been sentenced to 6060 years in jail for his participation in La Masacre de las Dos Erres (The slaughter of Dos Erres) which occurred in 1982.
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Costa Rican Alejandro Jimenez Gonzalez, also known as “Palidejo”, is escorted by the Colombian National Police after a news conference at a military base in Bogota. Gonzalez, who was captured on Monday in Colombia, is suspected of ordering the murder of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral. Cabral was gunned down in July 2011 in Guatemala.
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Fishermen are silhouetted against the setting sun as they pull their net to retrieve their catch at Karachi’s Clifton beach in Pakistan.
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Firefighters work to extinguish a house fire in KelleyÃs Estates off Highway 397 in Finley, Wash.
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Airport personnel respond to a Delta Air Lines plane that ran off the runway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Mechanics were testing the engines of the Boeing 737 when they experienced a problem with the braking system. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said there were no passengers aboard the aircraft, and no injuries were reported.
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People walk up and down stairs covered with the logo of the Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany. Around 160,000 visitors are expected at the Book Fair with 2,071 publishers from 44 countries.
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A farmer walks past terraced paddy fields in the Yunan Province of China.
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The wreckage of a tourist bus from Belgium is dragged by a tow truck outside the tunnel of the motorway A9, in Sierre, western Switzerland. 28 people were killed in the bus crash.
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A group of painted youngsters run during the “Los Pintados” (The Painted ones) carnival, in San Nicolas de los Ranchos community, Puebla State, Mexico.
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Palestinians inspect a fire at a building after an Israeli air strike on Gaza City.
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An Iranian woman jumps over a bonfire in the Pardisan Park in Tehran, Iran, during Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire.
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People cool off at a fountain in front of the Revolution Monument in Mexico City.
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Milk containers hang from the windows of a passenger train in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of New Delhi.
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Samantha Cameron, First Lady Michelle Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama wave from the balcony of the White House during a state welcoming ceremony for the Camerons in Washington, DC.
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A special tactics state police officer stands next to an injured and handcuffed man as he lies on the ground after a shootout broke out during a baseball game in the parking lot of the stadium in Saltillo, northern Mexico.
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Riot police fire tear gas as Molotov cocktails land at their feet during clashes with Bahraini anti-government protesters in Diraz, Bahrain.
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Rescuers search for the missing people after a passenger ship sank in the Xunjiang River in Guiping City, China. Twelve people have been confirmed dead and another eight remain missing.
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An informal gold miner is roughed up by Peruvian riot policemen during clashes in the town of Puerto Maldonad in the Peruvian Amazon region. More than sixty people were arrested after at least three people were killed and 29 were injured, including seven police officers during a new eruption of protests against a new government decree that criminalizes illegal mining activity.
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The rapeseed plants are seen in full bloom and ready for harvest in the farms in Luoping, southwest China’s Yunnan province.
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Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich shakes hands with supporters after making a statement to reporters outside his Chicago home before reporting to federal prison in Colorado to serve a 14-year sentence for corruption.
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Ethnic Hungarian men wearing traditional outfits ride horses during celebrations of the anniversary of the 1848 revolution against the Hapsburgs, one of the most important royal houses of Europe, in Targu Secuiesc, Romania.
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An employee of the flower garden Keukenhof prepares for the opening season, near Lisse, The Netherlands.
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A cleaner works with a self-made road sweeper in Dangyang, Hubei Province of China. The round iron plate turns when its axis moves.
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Anti-government protesters throw Molotov cocktails at riot police vehicles during a protest in Sitra village south of Manama. Hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets to protest against the regime.
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An East Timorese child runs as sea water hits the wall on Dili beach.
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An employee walks amid an installation of clay flowers by London-based Chilean artist Fernando Casasempere entitled “Out of Sync” at Somerset House in central London.
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French pole dancer Laurence Hilsum competes for the Women’s Division at the International Pole Championship in Hong Kong.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron (2R) stands with wife Samantha Cameron and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (L) at the World Trade Center Memorial in New York.
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US Stiegler Resi takes 2nd place during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women’s Slalom in Ofterschwang, Germany.
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An Apple employee carries boxes of new iPad’s as they went on sale in New York City. Simply called the iPad, the new tablet replaces the iPad 2 and features a high-pixel-count “retina display.” Hundreds of people waited in line all night to be the first into the flagship Apple Store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.
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A teenager does somersault on the Neva River ice in central Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
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An Afghan policemen looks at the wreckage from a crashed Turkish helicopter on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing several Turkish soldiers on board and young girls on the ground.
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A convoy of hearses carrying the remains of victims from a deadly bus crash, leaves the Brussels Military airport. A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed 22 12-year-old students returning from a ski vacation as well as the six adults who were accompanying them.
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An Israeli police dog attacks a demonstrator during a protest in the village of Kufr Qaddum near the Israeli settlement of Kdumim in the northern West Bank.
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Iowa’s Derek St. John (R) tries to get away from Oregon State’s Roger Pena during their 157-pound second round match at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in St Louis.
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Vice President Joe Biden reacts to a fan prior to speaking at a union hall in Toledo, Ohio.
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Residents move belongings out of a house on the corner of Meadow View and York St. in Huron Farms neighborhood of Dexter, Mich. after a tornado struck their home. The slow-moving storm was part of a system packing large hail, heavy rain and high winds. The touchdown was reported in the Dexter and Pinckney areas northwest of Ann Arbor.
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A demonstrator vandalizes a police car during an annual anti-police brutality march in Montreal, Canada.
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Xu Tiancheng, 56, uses “Qi Gong” or “Internal Energy” to practice a headstand on a flat nail at a pedestrian street in Wuhan, Hubei province. According to Xu, he has been practising “Qi Gong” for more than 5 years.
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An Indian worker spins thread for use in making carpets at a factory on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Carpet weaving is believed to have been brought to India by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the 16th century.
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Children play on a meadow carpeted with crocuses at the Arboretum park in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Felix Baumgartner works in the air over the Perris, Calif. desert where he jumped from a plane at 26,000 feet in order to test the chest pack and full pressure suit. Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere, where upon reaching altitude of 120,000 feet by helium baloon, pilot and basejumper Felix Baumgartner will then freefall to the ground in an attempt to break the speed of sound.
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Red Bull Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria is seen before his jump during the first manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico. In this test he reach the altitude 21800 meters (71500 ft) and landed safely near Roswell. Attached to a helium balloon, the capsule which took five years to develop and weighs 1,315 kilograms fully loaded will act as Baumgartner’s life support system during his nearly three-hour ascent to 36,000 meters.
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Samba dancers arrive for the last day of the Cheltenham horse racing Festival in Gloucestershire, England.
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