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Batmobile creator, vintage car, Georgia immigration rally, foreclosure protest and more in the day in photos Japanese water contamination, civil unrest in Libya, Jordan political reform movement, cocoa production, chocolate making and more from around the world.
A close-up of an eye of a Andean Cock-of-the-rock, or Rupicola peruvianus, at the zoo in Cali, Colombia, March 24, 2011.
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A staff member of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives Kashimanada discards parsley in Hokota city, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, on Friday, March 25, 2011. Farmers said Japan isn't doing enough to clarify which crops may be contaminated by radiation from a stricken nuclear plant and prevent a food scare.
Haruyoshi Yamaguchi
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A Japan Self Defense Forces ship tows a U.S. Navy barge filled with freshwater to be used to cool Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, in Tokyo harbor on March 25, 2011.
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Hisako Abe weeps over the coffin during the cremation of his mother, Katsuko Oyama, who was killed by the tsunami, on March 24, 2011, in Minamisanriku, Japan. The family lost three members from the earthquake and tsunami.
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People holding their babies wait to buy bottled water at a supermarket in Tokyo March 25, 2011. Tokyo's 13 million residents were told this week not to give tap water to babies after contamination from rain put radiation at twice the safety level. It dropped back to safe levels the next day.
Toru Hanai
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Rebels guard suspected mercenaries and forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi walking inside a prison in Benghazi, March 24, 2011.
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Libyan mourners attend the funeral of people who were killed after airstrikes by coalition forces at the martyrs' cemetery in Tripoli, March 24, 2011.
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Rebel fighters shout as they burn clothes of soldiers loyal to Libya's Moammar Gaddafi along a Benghazi-Ajdabiyah road near Ajdabiyah, March 25, 2011. Western warplanes struck Libyan ground forces at a strategically important eastern town, pursuing a nearly week-old campaign that has yet to deliver a crippling blow to Gaddafi's tanks and artillery.
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Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, arrives at a European Union summit in Brussels, March 24, 2011. E.U. leaders will discuss the situation in Libya and the euro-zone debt crisis, among other issues, during the two-day summit.
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Protesters calling themselves the "Youth of March 24 Movement" demand political reform in Amman, Jordan, March 24, 2011. The placard on the right reads: "We will not tire, we will stay here."
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Protesters calling themselves the "Youth of March 24 Movement," demand political reform in Amman, Jordan, March 24, 2011.
Muhammad Hamed
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An army officer is carried by anti-government protesters at a rally demanding the ouster of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh at Sanaa University, March 24, 2011. Presidential guards loyal to Saleh clashed with army units backing opposition groups demanding the president's ouster on Thursday.
Ammar Awad
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Reuters
Runners pass through Jerusalem's Old City, during the first international Jerusalem Marathon, March 25, 2011. The event is the first ever full marathon that the city has hosted.
Ronen Zvulun
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Palestinians observe the destroyed office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya in Gaza City, on March 25, 2011. Israeli aircraft attacked four targets in the Gaza Strip during the night, lightly wounding three people, in response to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel.
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An Israeli police officer carries a long-range Grad rocket, fired from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, after it hit the Israeli city of Ashdod, March 24, 2011. Palestinian rockets struck deep inside Israel Thursday, landing closer to the urban sprawl south of Tel Aviv.
Nir Elias
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Muslims in Mumbai protest the political turmoil in Bahrain and Yemen, March 25, 2011. Bahrain's Sunni minority has shed its reputation of steering clear of politics to emerge from the Shiite-led unrest as a community determined to preserve its stake in the Gulf state. The pro-democracy uprising which erupted on Feb. 14 was crushed on the streets of the Sunni-ruled kingdom's capital last week.
Sajjad Hussain
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An earthquake damaged road and bridge are seen in Tarlay, Burma, March 25, 2011. At least 74 people were killed in a strong earthquake that struck the country, state media said on Friday, while a series of aftershocks have caused panic but only limited damage in Thailand and Laos.
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Flowers sit on the grave of the late actor Richard Burton in the old cemetery in Celigny, Switzerland, March 24, 2011. Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died on Wednesday, and who was married twice to Burton, had said when Burton was buried in August 1984 that she wanted to be buried next to him.
Denis Balibouse
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A policeman takes a picture of a corpse behind the wheel of a car in Arandas, Mexico, March 24, 2011. Two men were killed during a shootout between rival gangs.
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Soldiers unload some of the 10 rebel bodies of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) killed during clashes with the army in Cali, Colombia, Thursday March 24, 2011. Four rebels were captured and weapons seized in the rural area of Choco state.
Christian Escobar Mora
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People carry portraits of slain Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero on the 31st anniversary of his death in San Salvador, March 24, 2011. Romero was fatally shot on orders by an official in El Salvador's U.S.-backed army as he celebrated mass. Romero's fight for the poor during El Salvador's bloody civil war made him a national hero and an international human-rights figure.
Luis Romero
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Associated Press
Secondary and university students protest on the esplanade of ministries to demand more funding for education from the government, in Brasilia, March 24, 2011.
Ueseli Marcelino
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A farmer inspects a a cocoa tree on a plantation in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, March 25, 2011. Indonesia's cocoa production will be flat this year as increased output from new planting offsets the impact of heavy rains.
Yusuf Ahmad
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Reuters
An employee of Hauswirth confectioner puts chocolate easter bunnies into a processing machine at the factory in Kittsee, east of Vienna, March 24, 2011. Hauswirth processes 20 tons of chocolate per day during peak seasons and exports mainly to South Africa and Australia.
Lisi Niesner
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Reuters
A 49-foot-tall head is fixed on a torso with cranes and integrated into the floating stage on Lake Constance near Bregenz, Austria, March 24, 2011. It is part of the stage setting for the opera 'Andre Chenier' by Italian composer Umberto Giordano and is shown during the annual Bregenz Opera festival. The premiere is on July 20, 2011.
Felix Kaestle
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A firefighter runs through a rainbow during a demonstration in Brussels on March 25, 2011. Firemen were protesting what they believe is bad management by their superiors.
Geert Vanden Wijngaert
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A woman talks to a driver in a vintage Delahaye 135 MS Ghia Aigle in Essen, Germany, March 24, 2011. The 1949 French/Swiss handmade car will be one of the highlights at the Techno-Classica world trade fair for vintage, classic and prestige automobiles from March 30 to April 3 in Essen.
Martin Meissner
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Associated Press
George Barris, creator of the Batmobile, poses with the car at the Barris Kustom Industries shop in North Hollywood, Calif., on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Barris calls himself the "King of the Kustomizers." He's behind innumerable TV and movie cars, including the "Back to the Future" DeLorean, "The A Team" van and KITT Trans Am.
Jonathan Alcorn
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Bloomberg
FedEx Corp. representative Kari Maslowski, right, speaks with job seeker Kevin Allison at the Hiring Our Heroes veterans employment fair sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and the Illinois Chamber, in Chicago, March 24, 2011.
Tim Boyle
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Bloomberg
Protesters gather during a rally against budget slashing held by union supporters on March 24, 2011 in New York City. The protesters called for closing tax loopholes for the wealthy and ending budget cuts for social programs.
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Richard M. Ott, center, Deputy Director Director of the Philadelphia Homeownership Center U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) listens to Sheila Lloyd, left, who is facing foreclosure Thursday, March 24, 2011, in Philadelphia. Protesters called for a halt to the planned resumption of Sheriff’s Sales in Philadelphia and for HUD to implement the Emergency Homeowner Loan Program.
Matt Rourke
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Associated Press
Martin Noriega of Macon, Ga., holds a sign supporting immigrants, while protesting state bills yet to fully pass that aim to crack down on illegal immigration, during a rally at the capitol in Atlanta, Thursday, March 24, 2011.
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Emilio Ramirez, Andres Diaz, and Jovany Zamora in rain gear carry safety cones and rope to keep drivers from entering the small parking lot at their James Marshall School as a safety measure when school lets out in Modesto, Calif., Thursday, March 24, 2011.
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A large tree lays across Calvin McGahuey's Monte Rio, Calif., home, March 24, 2011. The latest in a series of wet, windy storms is pounding Northern California, knocking out power, swelling rivers to flood stage and closing the main routes over the Sierra. Forecasters are predicting heavy storms throughout the weekend.
Christopher Chung
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Seven-month-old cub Fu Hu explores the outdoors for the first time in Vienna, March 24, 2011. Fu Hu, who was born on Aug. 23, is a sensation at the zoo because he was conceived naturally. His older brother, Fu Long, charmed Austrians before leaving for China in 2009.
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Buglife Vice President Nick Baker looks at an oil beetle as part of the first ever nationwide survey to map the location of the threatened and creatures, March 24, 2011, near Plymouth, England. The number of oil beetle species found in Britain has halved during the past 100 years, and the survey will help establish the whereabouts of the remaining four species and boost efforts to secure their future.
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An owl eye butterfly perches on the ear of a biologist at the new Rainforest Butterfly Farm in Panama City, Thursday March 24, 2011. According to biologists at the farm, more than 400 species of butterflies can be seen in the Panamanian forest.
Arnulfo Franco
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Associated Press
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