Two elephant calves play at an elephant orphanage in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka. The orphanage is home to 83 elephants and a major tourist attraction in Sri Lanka.
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Relatives of missing people wait at a Jindo port in Jindo-gun, South Korea. Two people are dead, and more than ninety are missing as reported. The ferry identified as the Sewol was carrying about 470 passengers, including the students and teachers, traveling to Jeju island.
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Young polar bear Anori plays with his toys in the pool of his enclosure at the Zoo in Wuppertal, Germany.
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The spring sun lights the face of a chimpanzee eating in his outdoor quarters at Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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North Koreans are reflected in a glass case containing a pistol as they each wait for their turn at a firing range at the Meari Shooting Gallery in Pyongyang. Employees at the firing range said the pistol on display had been used by North Korean leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un when each toured the facility in the past.
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Soldiers of the Ukrainian Army sit atop combat vehicles as they are blocked by people on their way to the town of Kramatorsk. The central government has so far been unable to rein in the insurgents, who it says are being stirred up by paid operatives from Russia and have seized numerous government facilities in at least nine eastern cities to press their demands for broader autonomy and closer ties with Russia.
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Three month old white Bengal tigers cubs play inside their enclosure at the Buenos Aires Zoo, Argentina. Cleo, a captive Bengal white tiger at the zoo, gave birth to two females and one male, white tiger cubs on Jan. 16, 2014.
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An Indian policeman stands guard before the start of a public meeting by Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate for India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and Gujarat’s chief minister, at Krishnagiri in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Around 815 million people have registered to vote in the world’s biggest election and results of the mammoth exercise, which concludes on May 12, are due on May 16.
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Pro-Russian men guard the city council building in the regional capital Donetsk, Ukraine. Separatists flew the Russian flag on armored vehicles taken from the Ukrainian army on Wednesday, humiliating a Kiev government operation to recapture eastern towns controlled by pro-Moscow partisans. In the regional capital Donetsk, at least 20 armed separatists occupied the city council building on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the council said. Rebels there have declared the independent “Donetsk People’s Republic” and say they intend to take charge of all government machinery. They have called for Putin to send troops to help them if they are attacked.
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Artist Rachel Stubbs works on the final touches of a sand sculpture she has built as part of this year’s “Once Upon a Time” themed annual Weston-super-Mare Sand Sculpture festival in Weston-Super-Mare, England.
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An inmate receives makeup backstage before taking part in the play “Jesus Christ Superstar” at Sarita Colonia prison yard ahead of Holy Week celebrations in Lima, Peru. The play was held to encourage the inmates in their rehabilitation process.
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Iraqi security forces fire an artillery gun during clashes with the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Jurf al-Sakhar, Iraq.
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A man surfs with his kite in the Mediterranean sea in Ashkelon, Israel, during the vacation of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
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Penitents take part in the procession of the “Via Crucis” brotherhood in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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President Obama holds a baby as he meets greeters on the tarmac upon his arrival at the 171st Air Refueling Wing at the Pennsylvania Air National Guard base in Coraopolis, Pa. Obama joined Vice President Biden in the Pittsburgh area to speak at a nearby community college about job training grants.
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Ross Roderick, of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, plays a portion of Echo Taps at the Virginia Tech War Memorial following a moment of silence honoring the victims of an April 16, 2007, mass shooting on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., Wednesday, April 16, 2014. (AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Matt Gentry) LOCAL TV OUT; SALEM TIMES REGISTER OUT; FINCASTLE HERALD OUT; CHRISTIANBURG NEWS MESSENGER OUT; RADFORD NEWS JOURNAL OUT; ROANOKE STAR SENTINEL OUT
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African American Civil War reenactors march down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Emancipation Day parade in Washington, D.C. A public holiday in nation’s capital, April 16, 1862, is the date President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia. The Act freed about 3,100 enslaved persons in D.C. nine months before Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation.
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Police bomb squad dog Miller and his K-9 handler Officer John Quinn cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston ahead of the 118th running of the race held on April 21.
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Artists look over pieces of guns after a news conference with various officials and artists announcing gallery owner Jonathan Ferrara’s “Guns In The Hands Of Artists” project in New Orleans. Resident artists will get a chance to express themselves using weapons removed from the streets of New Orleans. In a partnership of the Police Department and the city’s art community, artists Wednesday will select from among near 190 guns police received in a buyback program. They’ll take the weapons and turn them into artworks.
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Honda North America makes their North American debut of their new Asimo Robot at a news conference demonstration in New York City. The new ASIMO will showcase major technological advancements including increased hand dexterity, allowing ASIMO to communicate using both American and Japanese sign language. Other new capabilities include running, hopping, jumping, climbing stairs, pouring liquid, dancing and kicking a soccer ball.
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A seagull flies over a couple sunning inside a yellow umbrella on Fort Lauderdale, Fla., beach as approaching thunderstorms brew off shore.
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A member of a band looks on as he waits inside a church before taking part in the “Fusionadas” brotherhood during Holy Week in Malaga, Spain.
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Bill Ford, Ford Motor Company’s executive chairman, stands with the all-new 2015 Mustang convertible as it’s introduced on the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building during the New York International Auto Show in New York City.
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The patch of the NATO AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control Systems) aircraft is seen attached to the uniform of an officer before boarding for a surveillance flight over Romania from the AWACS air base in Geilenkirchen, Germany. NATO said on Wednesday it would send more ships, planes and troops to eastern Europe to reassure allies worried by Russia’s annexation of Crimea but shied away from new permanent bases in the east as Poland wanted.
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