A huge cloud of black smokes rises in the sky, from a fire at a company in the Western Harbour area of Amsterdam. The blaze at a storage facility of the company burned rubber and latex products stored there.
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Rescue workers climb onto the collapsed Pyne Gould Guinness Building in central Christchurch, New Zealand. A powerful earthquake collapsed buildings at the height of a busy workday, killing at least 65 people and trapping dozens in one of the country’s worst natural disasters.
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Union member Mark Wetzel, of Hot Sprngs, Ark., wears a hat made from balloons at a rally in support of Wisconsin union members at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock.
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Supporters of the Yemeni government seen through the smoke of a burning vehicle belonging to them destroyed and set on fire by anti-government demonstrators during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen’s embattled leader rejects demands that he step down, calling demonstrations against his regime unacceptable acts of provocation and offers to begin a dialogue with protesters.
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The sun sinks over the Gulf of Mexico seen from Key West, Fla.
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A pedestrian makes his way up a snow-covered hill in Philadelphia. An overnight storm that fell over Pennsylvania left some schools closed for the day. Schools also closed in Pittsburgh, which was clobbered by one storm Monday afternoon and another one overnight. Much of western Pennsylvania is waking up to six to eight inches of snow.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives members of Baunatal-based carnival association GCC in Berlin, Germany.
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An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of 1st Lt. Daren M. Hidalgo during a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Hidalgo, of York, Pa., died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Protesters ride pickup trucks during protests in Tobruk. Libyan soldiers in the eastern city of Tobruk told a Reuters correspondent on Tuesday they no longer backed Muammar Gaddafi and said the eastern region was out of the Libyan leader’s control.
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The Seven Mile Bridge looking north toward Marathon, Fla. The bridge connects Knight’s Key (part of the city of Marathon) in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. Among the longest bridges in existence when it was built, it is one of the many bridges on US 1 in the Keys, where the road is called the Overseas Highway.
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Bahraini anti-government protesters march towards Pearl Square in Manama. Tens of thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition poured into a Manama square calling for the government’s downfall in the largest rally in more than a week of protests.
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Animals rights campaigners protest against the use of fur on the runway with the slogan “fur is murder” during the Ion Fiz – Maria Escote Fashion Show as part of Cibeles Fashion Week A/W 2011 in Madrid, Spain.
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Two traffic polices stand on a wooden platform on a precipice to direct the traffic in Jishou, Hunan Province of China. The mountain road is narrow and dangerous.
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A couple kisses on a bridge in Moscow’s GUM largest historical department store on the eve of Russian Fatherland Defenders Day holiday. The GUM was built between 1890 and 1893. After reopening as a department store in 1953, the GUM became one of the few stores in the Soviet Union that was not plagued by shortages of consumer goods, and the queues to purchase anything were long, often extending all across Red Square.
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A runner isn’t deterred by winter conditions as she runs through North Park in Allison Park, Pa. More than eight inches of snow fell in the southwestern Pennsylvania area from Monday through Tuesday morning, setting a new snowfall record for the day.
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A model on the catwalk during the Pam Hogg show as part of London Fashion Week at the ON/OFF venue in London.
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