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Northern lights, Purim, gauchos, Syria, International Women’s Day and more in the day in photos News and feature images from around the world.
March 7, 2012
A picture of northern lights in Abisko, Swedish Lapland. The strongest space weather storm in five years struck Earth on Wednesday, causing some airlines to re-route their flights, threatening power disruptions and sparking a show of the northern lights. NASA and other agencies warned that the storm had the potential to disrupt global positioning systems, satellites and power grids. However, the Earth's magnetic field appeared to be absorbing the brunt of the shock and it was unlikely to reach the most severe levels, U.S. experts said.
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March 7, 2012
A picture of northern lights in Abisko, Swedish Lapland.
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March 8, 2012
The largest solar storm in five years sent a huge wave of radiation into Earth's atmosphere, creating a brilliant show of the aurora borealis near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Yellowknife, which is directly under the auroral "oval," has some of the best northern lights viewing in the world.
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March 8, 2012
This photos shows an image of the sun acquired by the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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This image released by the NASA Earth Observatory, acquired with a long focal-length lens and digital camera optimized for fast response and high light sensitivity, shows highways and major streets in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, sharply defined by yellow-orange lighting, while the commercial and residential areas are resolved into a speckle pattern of individual white, blue and yellow-orange lights. Several brilliantly lit areas are large hotel and mall complexes, including the Burj Khalifa Tower. At 2,717 feet, it is the world's tallest building.
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March 8, 2012
A woman stands in front of an art installation by artist Brendan Fernandes during the 2012 Armory Show art fair in New York.
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March 8, 2012
An Israeli dressed in a costume takes part in an annual parade for the Jewish holiday of Purim in the Israeli city of Holon, near Tel Aviv. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
Amir Cohen
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Reuters
March 8, 2012
An Israeli youth dressed in costume watches the annual parade for the Jewish holiday of Purim in the Israeli city of Holon, near Tel Aviv.
Amir Cohen
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Reuters
March 8, 2012
A boy gestures as he celebrates Holi by throwing colored powder and water with local people in Kolkata, India. "Holi," the Festival of Colors, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India and Nepal at the end of winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month.
Dibyangshu Sarkar
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March 8, 2012
Spider-Man and dozens of young Spider-Man fans celebrate the grand reopening of the Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man at Universal Orlando, Fla. The popular theme park experience now features digital high-definition ride animation, a new 3-D projection system and 3-D "Spider-Vision" glasses.
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March 8, 2012
Zoltan Kohari, known as the Slovak Batman, puts on his costume in his home in the town of Dunajska Streda, some 34 miles south of Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Kohari, 26, lives alone in an abandoned building without water, heat or electricity. For local residents he has became known as the hero in the Batman costume. While he has not fought crime yet, he does believe in justice and wants to help the police. In the meantime, Kohari, who is poor, does what he can to help the residents to make their daily life easier. In return, some of these residents give him food.
Radovan Stoklasa
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Reuters
March 8, 2012
Soldiers of the German armed forces Bundeswehr carry torches during a farewell ceremony for former German president Christian Wulff at Bellevue Palace in Berlin. Wulff left his largely ceremonial office nearly three weeks ago under the cloud of an investigation into political favors.
Odd Andersen
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March 9, 2012
Children look at the wax figure of Anne Frank at Madame Tussauds in Berlin.
Andreas Rentz
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March 9, 2012
Fikret Abdic, center, greets his family members upon his release from prison in Pula, Croatia. Abdic, a former Bosnian warlord who fought fellow Muslims during his country's 1992-95 war, was released from prison on Friday after serving two-thirds of his sentence for war crimes.
Nikola Solic
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AP
This image released by Aljizahnews purports to show a deputy to Syria's oil ministry who identifies himself as Abdo Husameddine at an unidentified location. Husameddine has announced his defection in an online video that emerged Thursday, saying he is joining the opposition against President Bashar al-Assad's regime to protest its brutal crackdown that has killed thousands.
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March 8, 2012
Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan, left, listens to Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby during a news conference after their meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. Annan says his top priority as special envoy to Syria is to end the violence, deliver humanitarian relief and finally start a "political process" to resolve the one-year conflict there.
Amr Nabil
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AP
March 8, 2012
People carry the body of Abdulaziz Abu Ahmed Khrer, who was killed by a Syrian Army sniper, during his funeral in Idlib, northern Syria.
Rodrigo Abd
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March 8, 2012
Ahmed, center, mourns his father, Abdulaziz Abu Ahmed Khrer, who was killed by a Syrian Army sniper, during his funeral in Idlib, Syria.
Rodrigo Abd
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AP
March 8, 2012
A relative of Abdulaziz Abu Ahmed Khrer, killed by a Syrian Army sniper, cries during his funeral in Idlib, Syria.
Rodrigo Abd
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AP
March 8, 2012
Anti-personnel land mines, which were planted by the Syrian army in the village of Heet near the northern Lebanese border to prevent people from coming in and out, are seen after being dug out by Syrian and Lebanese activists at an undisclosed location on the outskirts of the village.
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March 9, 2012
A man looks for his photographs at a collection center for items that were found in the rubble of an area devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan. More than 250,000 photographs and personal belongings are displayed at the center for owners to recover.
Toru Hanai
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Reuters
March 9, 2012
Children wearing padded hoods to protect them from falling debris try to put out a fire during a disaster drill named "Shakeout Tokyo" at Izumi elementary school in Tokyo ahead of the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami. Tokyo's Choyoda ward residents, commuters, office workers and schoolchildren held the mass disaster drill as part of earthquake preparation.
Issei Kato
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Reuters
March 8, 2012
A brown pelican glides along the coastline in La Jolla, Calif.
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Reuters
March 7, 2012
Indonesian men try to catch offerings thrown into the sea by Hindu worshipers during the ritual of Melasti on a beach in Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The ritual, which is performed ahead of the Balinese Hindu's Day of Silence, is held to purify the universe from bad influences, bad deeds and bad thoughts.
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March 9, 2012
Gunther Holtorf, right, former manager of Lufthansa Asia, shows the engine of his car "Otto," a 1988 G-class Mercedes-Benz, to a resident in Hanoi. Living out of the back of his car and on his way to complete the drive though all the roads that connect the world, Holtorf has driven 497,097 miles and is in his 22nd year of the journey. Vietnam has been crossed off his "to-do" list as the 198th country he had driven through.
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March 8, 2012
A gaucho is thrown off an untamed horse during the Patria Gaucha Festival in Tacuarembo, 249 miles north of Montevideo, Uruguay. The festival celebrates the preservation of the country's rural traditions and country life.
Andres Stapff
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Reuters
March 8, 2012
People carry a gaucho out of the field after he was thrown off by an untamed horse during the Patria Gaucha Festival in Tacuarembo, Uruguay.
Andres Stapff
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Reuters
March 8, 2012
Minnesota Twins left fielder Trevor Plouffe hangs on to the left field wall as he flips over while making the play on an out by the Tampa Bay Rays' Lee Hak-Ju during the sixth inning of a spring training baseball game in Fort Myers, Fla.
Charles Krupa
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AP
March 8, 2012
Tiger Woods gets sand in his face after hitting out of a fairway bunker on the third hole during first-round play in the WGC-Cadillac Championship golf tournament at the Doral Golf Resort in Doral, Fla.
Andrew Innerarity
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Reuters
March 7, 2012
A woman walks past a cow moose in the the parking lot of the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage.
Dan Joling
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AP
March 8, 2012
A damaged statue is seen in the Thermae Stabianae in Pompeii, Italy. Pompeii is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites and Italy's top tourist attraction. Thermae Stabianae is the site's oldest bath.
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March 8, 2012
A plaster cast of the remains of a citizen of Pompeii is seen in the Thermae Stabianae in Pompeii, Italy.
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March 8, 2012
A portion of the Thermae Stabianae is seen in Pompeii, Italy.
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March 8, 2012
Women train in a tae kwon do club in Herat province, Afghanistan.
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March 8, 2012
Hasina, a survivor of an acid attack, takes part in an awareness rally about violence against women as they mark International Women's Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Andrew Biraj
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March 8, 2012
Rubina, a survivor of an acid attack, takes part in an awareness rally about the violence against women as they commemorate International Women's Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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March 8, 2012
Women hold pictures of famous female activists during demonstrations to mark International Women's Day in Belgrade, Serbia.
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