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Day in photos The aurora borealis, St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, a car bomb in Somalia, March Madness, a Berlin Wall protest and more.
March 18, 2013
A young woman attempts to launch her kite on Clean Monday at Filopappos Hill, with the Parthenon behind her, in Athens. Many Greeks commemorate Clean Monday, during Lent, by flying kites and doing other outdoor activities.
Petros Giannakouris
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AP
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March 18, 2013
A Sri Lankan Airlines’ Airbus A-340, carrying President Mahinda Rajapaksa, lands at the new Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in Mattala, in the island’s southeast. Rajapaksa was the first passenger to go through the facility, which is intended to help spur a new economic hub and act as a gateway to the area.
Ishara S. Kodikara
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AFP/Getty Images
March 18, 2013
A member of the Somali security forces walks past the site of a car bomb in central Mogadishu. The attack was the worst in the Somali capital since September, when two suicide bombers killed 18 people in a restaurant.
Mohamed Abdiwahab
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March 16, 2013
A man carries a large sailfish to the fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of Mogadishu, Somalia. Every morning, Mogadishu’s fishermen bring their catch ashore. It is then quickly unloaded and transported to Xamar Weyne’s fish market. where it is sold for consumption on the local market and, increasingly, for export to other countries.
Stuart Price
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African Union-United Nations Information Support Team via AFP/Getty Images
March 16, 2013
A man, seen from under the water, drinks from a fountain in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. In his first days since emerging from last week’s secret Sistine Chapel election as the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Francis has indicated an intention to reform the Vatican government.
Dmitry Lovetsky
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AP
March 18, 2013
A boy looks inside a car vandalized by activists of the Bangladesh National Party during a general strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Opposition activists in the capital detonated several homemade bombs and torched at least one bus during a general strike Monday, as the country’s political unrest continued. No injuries were reported in the blasts.
A.M. Ahad
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AP
March 18, 2013
Two brown bears play in the snow at the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, Germany. Temperatures in the city were near the freezing point.
Sven Hoppe
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AFP/Getty Images
March 16, 2013
Members of the Petri School of Irish Dance perform at the Ireland Chamber of Commerce’s 17th annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast in New York.
Richard Drew
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AP
March 17, 2013
A man holds his dog, dressed as a baby in a stroller, close to a statue of Saint Lazarus, patron of the sick, during a ceremony at a church in the Monimbo neighborhood of Masaya, Nicaragua. Catholics in Nicaragua associate Saint Lazarus with dogs and dress up their pets for a Catholic blessing, asking the saint to keep their pets healthy.
Esteban Felix
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AP
March 17, 2013
Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, receives flowers from a little girl at the 1st Battalion Irish Guards’ St. Patrick’s Day Parade at Mons Barracks in Aldershot, England. Catherine presented the sprigs of shamrocks to the regiment in a century-old tradition inaugurated by Queen Alexandra in 1901.
Matt Dunham
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AP
March 18, 2013
Young girls play on swings near the Kart-e-Sakhi shrine in Kabul. Despite significant foreign aid since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Afghanistan remains desperately poor, with some of the lowest living standards in the world.
Shah Marai
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AFP/Getty Images
March 17, 2013
A man walks over the East Side Gallery during a protest against the removal of a section of the historic part of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin.
Markus Schreiber
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AP
March 16, 2013
The moon appears behind St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.
Dmitry Lovetsky
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AP
March 17, 2013
Boys swirl fireballs in the village of Lozen, Bulgaria, to mark Sirni Zagovezni, an Orthodox Christian holiday during which believers chase away evil spirits with fire rituals.
Nikolay Doychinov
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AFP/Getty Images
March 17, 2013
The aurora borealis fills the sky above the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox church in Kenai, Alaska.
M. Scott Moon
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AP
March 17, 2013
Miami’s Rion Brown celebrates after the team’s 87-77 win over North Carolina in the NCAA college basketball’s Atlantic Coast Conference championship in Greensboro, N.C.
Scott Muthersbaugh
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AP
March 17, 2013
Members of the Seton Hill University's women's lacrosse team attend a memorial mass in St. Joseph Chapel on the school’s Greensburg, Pa., campus. Women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when their tour bus, carrying three coaches and members of the lacrosse team, crashed at about 9 a.m. Saturday, according to turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn. It is unclear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department.
Gene J. Puskar
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AP
March 16, 2013
Emergency crews respond to a bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Carlisle, Pa. Seton Hill University Women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley and the driver were killed when the bus, carrying three coaches and members of the small university’s lacrosse team, crashed at about 9 a.m. Saturday, according to a turnpike spokeswoman. The team was headed to a game at Millersville University.
Jason Malmont
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Sentinel via AP
March 18, 2013
Egyptians extinguish a burning police vehicle, which had been set on fire by angry protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, once the epicenter of protests against former president Hosni Mubarak. Egypt is mired in another wave of protests, clashes and unrest that have plagued the country since the pro-democracy uprising two years ago.
Amr Nabil
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AP
March 18, 2013
Employees of PSA Peugeot Citroen burn tires during a demonstration in front of the Peugeot headquarters in Paris to protest the closure of the PSA Aulnay automobile plant, the government’s economic policy and industrial layoffs.
Jacky Naegelen
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Reuters
March 17, 2013
Ma’lik Richmond covers his eyes and cries as his attorney, Walter Madison, right, asks the court for leniency after Richmond and co-defendant Trent Mays, lower left, were found delinquent on rape and other charges, in juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio, Sunday. Mays and Richmond had been accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August.
Keith Srakocic
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AP
March 18, 2013
Parkgoers walk past blooming almond orchards in Badamwari garden in Srinagar, India.
Tauseef Mustafa
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AFP/Getty Images
March 16, 2013
U.S Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Tanner Marshall is kissed by a woman during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Savannah, Ga.
Stephen Morton
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AP
March 18, 2013
A Buddhist monk walks on the grounds of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, Burma.
Soe Zeya Tun
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Reuters
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