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April 1, 2012
Lucy Moffett, 3, makes a face at her brother Daniel, 6, during the 38th annual Durham CROP Hunger Walk in Durham, N.C.
Christine T. Nguyen
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AP
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April 1, 2012
From left, musicians Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley, Kelly Clarkson, Eric Singer, Reba McEntire and Gene Simmons pose backstage at the 47th annual Academy of Country Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
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Getty Images for ACM
April 1, 2012
Taylor Swift, right, presents the award for male vocalist of the year to Blake Shelton at the 47th annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
Mark J. Terrill
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AP
April 1, 2012
Sun Young Yoo of South Korea jumps into the water with her caddie, Adam Woodward, after her playoff win during the final round of the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Chris Carlson
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AP
April 1, 2012
Mitch Crews of Australia, competes in the Vans Pier Classic surfing contest in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Michael Goulding
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Orange County Register via AP
April 1, 2012
A skier jumps into a pool of water while taking part in an event to mark the closing of the ski season at Silichi ski resort, outside the Belarusan capital Minsk.
Julia Darashkevich
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Reuters
March 31, 2012
A string of 100 pink kites is set aloft to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the gift of the trees at the Blossom Kite Festival on the Mall.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 2, 2012
Colored chicks are sold during the run-up to Easter in downtown Amman, Jordan.
Ali Jarekji
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Reuters
April 2, 2012
A visitor looks at a preserved human body on display at an exhibition in Budapest's Vam Design Center. The exhibition showcases dissected real human body specimens that are preserved through an innovative process and respectfully presented, giving visitors the opportunity to view the beauty and complexity of their own organs and systems.
Laszlo Balogh
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
A man, who identified himself as Mohawk Gaz, sports an image of black teenager Trayvon Martin on his hair during a rally to protest his killing in Miami.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
Residents use images of black teenager Trayvon Martin to block the sun while taking part in a rally demanding justice for his killing in Miami.
Lucas Jackson
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
Police chase down activists attempting to scale a fence around NATO headquarters in Brussels. More than 200 demonstrators were detained by police on Sunday after attempting to jump security fences surrounding NATO headquarters.
Virginia Mayo
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AP
April 1, 2012
Police arrest some of 500 peace activists from more than 10 European countries as they attempt to storm North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels. Groups of dozens of activists unsuccessfully tried to enter the perimeter of NATO through fields in the back of the headquarters in the northern Evere area of Brussels.
John Thys
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AFP/Getty Images
April 2, 2012
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, arrives at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party. Suu Kyi said she hopes her victory in a landmark election will mark the beginning of a new era for Burma. Suu Kyi spoke to thousands of supporters Monday outside her opposition party headquarters, a day after her party said she had won a parliamentary seat in closely watched by-elections.
Khin Maung Win
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AP
April 1, 2012
Malian junta leader Capt. Amadou Sanogo and Burkina Faso's foreign minister, Djibrill Bassole, arrive to make a declaration at the Kati military camp near Bamako. Sanogo announced the reinstatement of the constitution and state institutions Sunday, and promised broad consultation on a political transition. "We make the solemn commitment to restore, from this day, the constitution of the Republic of Mali of February 25, 1992, as well as the republic's institutions," Sanogo told journalists.
Issouf Sanogo
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AFP/Getty Images
March 28, 2012
A satellite file image shows North Korea’s Tongchang-ri Launch Facility on the nation’s western coast. An analysis of images provided to the Associated Press by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies showed Pyongyang "has undertaken more extensive preparations for its planned April rocket launch than previously understood."
DigitalGlobe
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AP
April 1, 2012
Police officers arrest protesters during a peace activists’ action aimed at entering NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Eric Vidal
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
A model wears a creation from Pierre Cardin at his “Palais Lumiere - the City of Light” fashion show at the Water Cube in Beijing.
Ng Han Guan
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AP
April 1, 2012
Audiences watch a contestant take part in the swimsuit segment during the final of the 7th China Supermodel Contest on the last day of China Fashion Week in Beijing.
Jason Lee
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Reuters
April 2, 2012
Men and women from the group “Faceless”l dress in burqas for the banning of the conservative Muslim apparel throughout Australia during a rally in Sydney.
Torsten Blackwood
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AFP/Getty Images
April 1, 2012
Penitents walk to a church before taking part in the procession of "La Paz" (The Peace) brotherhood during Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain.
Marcelo del Pozo
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
Pastor Juan D. Luna, followed by Sayuri Dominguez, 8, and her brother Erik Dominguez, 7, leads a procession to began Mass on Palm Sunday at Iglesia Luterana San Pablo in Columbus, Ind. Many Christians around the world marked the start of Holy Week Sunday, which leads up to Easter a week later. )
Joe Harpring
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AP
April 1, 2012
Belarusan Catholics decorate wooden crosses after the procession celebrating Palm Sunday in the town of Oshmiany.
Vasily Fedosenko
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Reuters
April 2, 2012
The partially demolished Shepherd Hotel is seen in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a prominent Palestinian family could not claim ownership of the landmark and now derelict building in East Jerusalem, paving the way for a Jewish settlement project.
Ammar Awad
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
Palestinian medics tend to Hana Shalabi inside an ambulance after she crossed into Gaza at Erez border crossing between Israel and northern Gaza Strip. Shalabi, held by Israel without charges, was deported to the Gaza Strip on Sunday under a deal that ended her 44-day hunger strike.
Mohammed Salem
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
An Israeli soldier detains a Palestinian protester after foreign activists and Palestinian demonstrators took refuge in an abandoned house and flew Palestinian flags on the building near the Beit Romano area in which several hundred Jewish settlers reside, in the West Bank town of Hebron.
Hazem Bader
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AFP/Getty Images
April 1, 2012
Thousands of Moroccans holding Moroccan and Palestinian flags attend a pro-Palestinian march, to mark "Land Day" in solidarity with Palestinians, in Casablanca. Land Day commemorates the killing of six Arabs in 1976 during protests against the confiscation of their land in Israel's Galilee region. Arabs make up about 20 percent of Israel's total population and often complain of discrimination.
Youssef Boudlal
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
An Egyptian man walks in front of a wall sprayed with graffiti depicting the faces of former president Hosni Mubarak, right, and Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi at Mohamed Mahmoud street, which leads to the Interior Ministry, where clashes between protesters and security force took place during the revolution in downtown Cairo.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
A worker removes a plastic sheet from an elephant sculpture as he sets up an exhibition at Hiriya recycling park, built on the site of a former garbage dump near Tel Aviv. The Coca-Cola Recycled Safari, featuring animals made of recycled Coca-Cola packages, will be open to the public during the Passover holiday.
Nir Elias
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Reuters
April 2, 2012
Emergency service workers investigate the wreckage of the UTair airlines ATR 72 passenger plane that crashed near the Siberian city of Tyumen. A Russian passenger plane crashed and burst into flames after takeoff in an oil-producing region of Siberia on Monday, killing at least 31 of the 43 people on board, emergency officials said.
Sergei Drachev
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Reuters
April 1, 2012
Dominic Malloy, left, 10, and Cody Johnson, 10, have snow balls at the ready as Johnson's mom, Dawn, prepares hot dogs under a canopy at the White River West sno-park, in Mount Hood, Ore.
Randy L. Rasmussen
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AP
April 1, 2012
The Rev. Keith W. Byrd Sr. delivers a fiery Palm Sunday speech at Zion Baptist Church in Washington.
Linda Davidson
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The Washington Post
April 1, 2012
Elaine Saunders, 77, enjoys wearing hats, a style that is fading out among younger black women in Washington,.
Linda Davidson
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The Washington Post
April 1, 2012
A stork flies back to its nest during sunset in Nakhonsawan province, north of Bangkok.
Chaiwat Subprasom
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Reuters
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