Picture of the Day: March
A protester is detained by New York police during a demonstration calling for social, economic and racial justice, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. The demonstration was being held to support Baltimore's protest against police brutality following the April 19 death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
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Members of the community work to clean up a recently looted and burned CVS store in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The day after rioters tore through Baltimore, the city's mayor was criticized on Tuesday for a slow police response to some of the worst U.S. urban unrest in years after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said he had called Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake repeatedly Monday but that she held off calling in the National Guard until three hours after violence first erupted.
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A man cries as he walks on the street while passing through a damaged statue of Lord Buddha a day after an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Rescuers dug with their bare hands and bodies piled up in Nepal on Sunday after the earthquake devastated the heavily crowded Kathmandu valley, killing at least 1,900, and triggered a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest.
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A macaw flies over buildings with the Avila mountain behind in Caracas. Caracas, the world's second most violent city according to the United Nations, also suffers terrible traffic and residents spend hours in massive lines for scarce products. However, on antennae, rooves and windowsills, blue-and-yellow macaws (or Ara ararauna) break the harsh routine. Though originally native to rainforests from Panama to Paraguay, they have adapted well to Caracas thanks to the exuberant tropical vegetation surging between skyscrapers.
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A rebel fighter fires his weapon at the frontline during what the rebels called a battle to unite rebel factions against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Jobar, a suburb of Damascus.
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Government officials look on as pirated publications, including DVDs, CDs etc, are placed on the ground before being destroyed, during a campaign against piracy in Taiyuan, Shanxi province April 20, 2015. REUTERS/Jon Woo CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX19FXO
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Old airplanes, including Boeing 747-400s, are stored in the desert in Victorville, California. Last year, there were zero orders placed by commercial airlines for new Boeing 747s or Airbus A380s, reflecting a fundamental shift in the industry toward smaller, twin-engine planes. Smaller planes cost less to fly than the stately, four-engine jumbos, which can carry as many as 525 passengers.
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
An aerial view shows an Asiana Airlines airplane which ran out of runway after landing at Hiroshima airport in Mihara, Hiroshima prefecture, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo. An investigation has been launched after the Asiana Airlines passenger jet skidded off the runway after landing at Japan's Hiroshima airport on Tuesday, local media reported. The Airbus A320 jet was arriving from the South Korean capital of Seoul when it ran off the runway and slid onto an embankment shortly after 8pm local time (1100 GMT).
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) autographs a magazine with his picture on the cover after he announced his bid for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election race during a speech at Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida.
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A vehicle partially submerged in dry mud is pictured in an area that was hit by floods at Chanaral town. Chile was hit by heavy rains and floods at the end of March.
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Pilgrims dressed in traditional Bavarian clothes attend the traditional Georgi horse riding procession on Easter Monday in heavy snowfall, in the southern Bavarian town of Traunstein. Since the early 16th century, farmers have taken part in the pilgrimage to bless their horses. This tradition, the "Georgiritt", goes back to the legend of Saint George, the horsemen's patron saint.
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A man runs with an injured child at a damaged site after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's president Bashar al-Assad on Al-Dubeit neighborhood in Idlib city, after rebels took control of the area April 5, 2015.
REUTERS/Ammar Abdallah
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd L), U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman (2nd R) and staff watch a tablet in Lausanne as U.S. President Barack Obama makes a state address on the status of the Iran nuclear program talks. A preliminary nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers is a firm basis for a future accord that could end a 12-year nuclear standoff between Tehran and the West, though details must be worked out, Kerry said on Thursday.
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A worker uses a cutting torch to dismantle the hull of a barge covered in barnacles near French navy vessels at the Galloo ship recycling plant in Ghent. The site, which is Europe's largest ship recycling plant processes some 35,000 tonnes of metal every year. The European Union plans to impose strict new rules on how companies scrap old tankers and cruise liners, run aground and dismantled on beaches in South Asia. However the practice in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, hazardous for humans and the environment, will still be hard to stop. European, Turkish and Chinese recyclers are set to benefit from the revamped standards. Depending on raw material prices, ship owners can make up to $500 per tonne of steel from an Indian yard, compared with $300 in China and just $150 in Europe.
© Francois Lenoir / Reuters
A man looks at an exhibition called "Oh! Future Sensation" as part of Saint-Gobain's 350th anniversary celebrations, in Sao Paulo.
© Nacho Doce / Reuters
Labourers work on scaffolding near a full-scale replica of the Sphinx at an unfinished movie and animation tourism theme park, in Chuzhou, Anhui province.
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Syrian refugee girls undergo training in the Korean Taekwondo Academy For Syrian Children at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria. According to the academy, which was founded in 2013 for Syrian refugee children and is affiliated to the Korea Food for the Hungry International relief organization, they have about 300 Syrian children taking martial arts classes that are held four times a week.
© Muhammad Hamed / Reuters
Anti-Houthi protesters run as pro-Houthi police troopers open fire in the air to disperse them in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz. Soldiers loyal to Yemeni president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi fought off dozens of Shi'ite Houthi militiamen heading for the Sunni leader's seat of power in the southern city of Aden, militia sources and a local official told Reuters. Iran-backed Houthis, who took over the southern city of Taiz on Sunday, agreed to share power with Hadi after they seized the capital in September. That split the army, parliament was dissolved in February and violence is intensifying as the northern-based Houthis head south.
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Protesters holding placards shout slogans at a rally against Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration in the central Tokyo. More than 10,000 people join the protest, according to the organizer. Placards read in Japanese "No to the Abe administration".
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A soldier walks past graffiti depicting angel wings by artist Colette Miller in Ciudad Juarez.
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A member of the Iraqi security forces stands between Islamic State ammunition being displayed in al-Alam Salahuddin province. Iraq paused its Tikrit offensive on Monday and officials called for more air strikes against Islamic State militants, while an officer said Kurdish forces sustained two more chlorine gas attacks by insurgents.
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Protesters from the Christian community attack a car during clashes with riot police, a day after suicide attacks on two churches in Lahore March 16, 2015. Pakistani police broke up Christian protesters in the eastern city of Lahore with tear gas and baton charges on Monday, a day after suicide bombers killed at least 16 people outside two churches, police said. The protesters, angry at the lack of security for Christians in the majority-Muslim country, blocked a major highway in the city.
REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
Riders compete on the frozen Yenisei River during the 45th Ice Derby amateur horse race near the settlement of Novosyolovo, south of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk March 14, 2015. The Ice Derby has been held in Novosyolovo annually at the end of each winter since 1969, drawing participants from the entire region.
REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
Models present creations by Italian designer Giambattista Valli as part of his Autumn/Winter 2015/2016 women's ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Moncler Gamme Rouge during Paris Fashion Week March 11, 2015.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau
Afghan policemen display their skills at a police training centre in Nangarhar Province.
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A student of Rabindra Bharati University reacts as her fellow student throws coloured powder on her face during celebrations for Holi in Kolkata March 2, 2015. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.
REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
"Table Sculpture" by artist Allen Jones is seen on display at Sotheby's auction house in London March 4, 2015. The work is part of an eclectic exhibition and sale called Bear Witness, which will be auctioned over three days from March 10.
REUTERS/Paul Hackett
Cats crowd the harbour on Aoshima Island in the Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. An army of cats rules the remote island in southern Japan, curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about in a fishing village that is overrun with felines outnumbering humans six to one.
REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Afghan survivors of an avalanche walk in the Abdullah Khil village of the Dara district of Panjshir province March 1, 2015. More than 180 people have been killed in north Afghanistan in some of the worst avalanches there for 30 years, officials said on Thursday, with heavy snow set to last for two more days after an unusually dry winter led to fears of drought.
REUTERS/Omar Sobhani