A Tibetan child monk stands at a monastery during the third day of “Losar,” or Tibetan New Year, at Baudhanath Stupa in Katmandu, Nepal.
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Smoke rises from the Italian cargo vessel Enrica Lexie anchored at the Cochin Oil Terminal as the sun sets at the port in Kochi, India. The court has extended police custody of two Italian Marines accused of fatally shooting two Indian fishermen from the Enrica Lexie off India’s southwest coast, as India and Italy wrangle over the case.
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Destroyed buildings are seen at the chemical plant after an explosion in Jiangbei District of Chongqing, southwest China. An acetylene-burning blast happened at 3:30 a.m. Friday at a workshop of Fangxin Fine Chemical Co. Ltd.
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Pakistani policemen take position during a militant attack on a police station in Peshawar. Four policemen were killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up in an attack on a police station in northwest Pakistan. The three attackers, armed with hand grenades, also wounded four other policemen in the assault on the station.
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Indonesian soldiers patrol around Kerobokan prison in Denpasar, Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on the third day of rioting. Foreign inmates evacuated from Kerobokan prison where rioting prisoners seized control this week have been returned to the jail at their request.
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A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays at the entrance of the shrine of Sufi Saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, in Srinagar, India.
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Iranian police officers perform Friday prayer at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran.
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A girl crosses a stone bridge in Seoul, South Korea.
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Syrian Tarek el Khatib, demonstrates his strength as he waits for a taxi to drive over him at Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt. Tarek’s show is to draw attention to the situation in Syria.
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The Silene stenophylla, considered as the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, is seen at a laboratory of the Institute of Cell Biophysics under the Russian Academy Of Sciences in the town of Pushchino, some 62 miles south of Moscow. The seeds of an extant species of a flowering plant, also known as the narrow-leafed campion, were found by Russian scientists on the banks of the Kolyma River in Siberia in an Ice Age ground-squirrel’s burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the permafrost for about 30,000 years. The permafrost, which serves as a natural depository for ancient life forms, may help researchers and scientists with their future experiments to revive other species.
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General view of destroyed homes near the Acre river in Brasileia, a Brazilian town sharing a border with the Bolivian city of Cobija. Heavy rains in the region caused flooding in Cobija and Brasileia.
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The Jamesburg Earth Station is seen in Cachagua Valley, near Carmel, California. The earth station, which helped bring Apollo 11’s first images from the moon, was an important link for the nation’s television, telephone and military networks from 1968 to 2002. Current owner Jeff Bullis, a Silicon Valley businessman, is selling the 97-foot satellite receiver and a 21,718-square-foot, bunker-like support building on 161 acres of land for close to $3 million.
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People take to the beach in Nice, southern France. Temperatures reached Friday an unusual 62 F with a water temperature of 55 F at the resort town.
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An honor guard soldier stands during a ceremony at a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest, Romania, next to a monument bearing the names of Jews killed 70 years ago when the SS Struma, the ship they were on as refugees on the way to Palestine, was sunk by a Soviet torpedo in the Black Sea leading to the death of all but one of the 779 people on board. At a time when Turkey welcomes Syrians fleeing violence, Friday’s anniversary was a reminder of the tension between pragmatic and humanitarian impulses.
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Residents cross the famous U Bein’s bridge on Taungthaman lake during sunset outside Myanmar’s northern city of Mandalay. U Bein’s bridge is the world longest and oldest teak bridge stretching close to 1.2 kilometers across the Taungthaman lake.
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