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Day in photos Las Fallas festival, David Beckham in China, President Obama visits Israel, Pope Francis’s inauguration and more.
March 20, 2013
A puppet depicting Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy burns during the last day of Las Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain. The festival celebrates the arrival of spring with fireworks, fiestas and bonfires.
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March 20, 2013
A bonfire burns during the last day of Las Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain.
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March 20, 2013
Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, smiles as she leaves the Baker Street underground station in London. The visit was to mark the 150th anniversary of London’s metro system.
Luke MacGregor
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Reuters
March 20, 2013
British soccer player David Beckham, greets young soccer players and students at middle school in Beijing. Beckham is on a five-day visit to China at the invitation of the China Football Association.
Lintao Zhang
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March 20, 2013
President Obama, right, walks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, during an official welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv. Obama said at the start of his first official visit to Israel on Wednesday that U.S. commitment to the security of the Jewish state was rock solid.
Nir Elias
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Reuters
March 20, 2013
Activists wearing masks depicting President Obama and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are blocked by an Israeli soldier during a protest in the West Bank town of Hebron.
Bernat Armangue
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AP
March 20, 2013
President Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu and others pose for a photo while touring the Iron Dome Battery defense system at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport. U.S. funds helped finance the system.
Jason Reed
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Reuters
March 19, 2013
Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, right, puts the Fisherman's Ring, made of gold-plated silver, on Pope Francis’s finger during his inaugural Mass at the Vatican.
Alberto Pizzoli
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AFP/Getty Images
March 19, 2013
Evan Harper, 9, climbs into the back of a space suit at the Capitol in Austin. The suit was part of the NASA exhibit "Driven To Explore," which featured one of only eight moon rocks that the public can touch and an autograph session with NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. The activities were in conjunction with Space Day at the Capitol.
Jay Janner
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Austin American-Statesman via AP
March 20, 2013
Timothy Hogan, chief operating officer of Elite Sterling Security, shows a chart of the various calibers of bullets the company's medium-level-protection bulletproof products will stop, in Aurora, Colo.
Rick Wilking
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Reuters
March 19, 2013
From left, Sarah, 8, Tala, 12, Hamzah, 11, Lana, 6, Yasmine, 11, and Bilal, 8, model bulletproof backpacks and backpack/vest combinations sold by Elite Sterling Security, in Aurora, Colo. The backpacks sell for $246, and pack/vest combination sells for $1,085.
Rick Wilking
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Reuters
March 19, 2013
T.J. Lane shows a white T-shirt with the word "killer" at his sentencing before Geauga County Judge David Fuhry in Cleveland. Lane was sentenced to life without parole for killing three students in a shooting rampage at a high school in a small town east of the city.
Duncan Scott
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News-Herald via Reuters
March 19, 2013
A mourner is overcome with grief after viewing the body of 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins before her funeral service at New Beginnings Church in Chicago. Watkins was shot, along with her father, while sitting on his lap in the family's minivan March 11. Jonylah died the next day. Her father is recovering from his wounds.
Scott Olson
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Getty Images
March 19, 2013
A detail from a copy of the more than 17,000-year-old Swimming Stags Frieze from the famed cave paintings of Lascaux is seen during a media preview at Chicago's Field Museum. Reproductions of the paintings are being displayed for the first time outside of France.
Mira Oberman
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AFP/Getty Images
March 19, 2013
People walk past thousand of dead shrimp washed up on the Caleta Rojas beach in Coronel, 335 miles southwest of Santiago, Chile. The shrimp died from pollution after water used to cool two nearby thermoelectric plants was discharged into the sea, according to the town's residents.
Jose Luis Saavedra
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Reuters
March 19, 2013
A resident shows a handful of dead shrimp that washed up on a beach in Coronel, Chile.
Jose Luis Saavedra
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Reuters
March 19, 2013
A man walks through fresh snow in Berlin’s Tiergarten Park.
Markus Schreiber
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AP
March 18, 2013
Firefighters keep their distance from a tractor-trailer that was blown off a highway bridge amid severe weather in Tupelo, Miss. The driver of the truck was not injured.
Thomas Wells
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AP
March 18, 2013
Golf-ball-size hail litters the ground by Andrew Stamps and his wife, Valorie, as they prepare to cover the shattered rear window of their 2009 Toyota Avalon in Pearl, Miss. A hailstorm hit communities throughout central Mississippi on Monday.
Rogelio V. Solis
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AP
March 18, 2013
A mannequin with boots is stuffed upside down in a snowbank in Nisswa, Minn.
Steve Kohls
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Brainerd Daily Dispatch via AP
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