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Day in Photos: March 14, 2012

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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. EPA
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A farmer walks past terraced paddy fields in the Yunan Province of China. ZUMAPRESS.com
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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. AP Photo
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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. AFP/Getty Images
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Palestinians inspect a fire at a building after an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. AFP/Getty Images
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Performers with painted bodies arrive for the start of the second day of the Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival in Gloucestershire, western England. AFP/Getty Images
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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. AP Photo
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People cool off at a fountain in front of the Revolution Monument in Mexico City. AP Photo
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Milk containers hang from the windows of a passenger train in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of New Delhi. REUTERS
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Pakistani laborers are silhouetted against the skyline as they work on the top of a construction site in Islamabad, Pakistan. AP Photo
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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. AFP/Getty Images
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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. AP Photo
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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. AP Photo
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Panelling hangs down from the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge after it was struck by a crane passing underneath in New York. REUTERS
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A contestant prepares before taking part in the first auditions of the “Krasa Rossii 2012” (Beauty of Russia 2012) national beauty contest in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. REUTERS