Glasgow, Scotland — Jeremy Deller bounces on his new artwork -- a full-scale inflatable replica of Stonehenge he calls "Sacrilege" -- at its launched at the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts at Glasgow Green.
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Babahrot, Indonesia — A member of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program holds a 2-year-old, orphaned orangutan named Rahul after it was confiscated from a small village on the edge of the Tripa Peat forest, where wildfires are feared to have already killed a third of the wild orangutan population. This was the second orangutan rescue this week, highlighting the need for urgent action to prevent local extinction.
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Manila — Philippine firefighters battle a blaze at a squatters' settlement outside Manila. About 150 families lost their homes but no one was reported killed in the fire, authorities said.
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Barreiro, Portugal — Surfers on the banks of the Tejo River wait for the wake of a passing catamaran to generate a wave big enough to catch on their boards.
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Oranienburg, Germany — A red carnation lies in front of the remains of the crematory at the Sachsenhausen World War II Nazi death camp, where a redesigned memorial was dedicated two days before the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the camp.
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Oslo — Flowers and decorated stones are left as mementos outside the courthouse where Ander Behring Breivik is being tried. Breivik has admitted killing 77 people in a bombing and shooting spree in July.
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Wuppertal, Germany — A flamingo grooms itself at the Wuppertal zoo.
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Liverpool, England — A young girl at Stanley Park is dwarfed by the Little Girl Giant and her dog, oversized marionettes created as part of "Sea Odyssey," a love story based on the sinking of the Titanic, The giant puppets, which have appeared in Britain only once before, are expected to attract thousands of spectators as they make their way through Liverpool over the next three days.
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Daret Ezaah, Syria — A Syrian demonstrator cries for freedom as activists test the willingness of the government of President Bashar Assad to honor a cease-fire.
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Curahuara, Bolivia — Indigenous Aymara workers hold their ground, blocking the rough road that connects La Paz, Bolivia, with Arica, Chile, for a fourth day to highlight their demand that Bolivian President Evo Morales commit to building a highway to serve the area.
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Pyongyang, North Korea — Giant portraits of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, left, and his son, Kim Jong Il, loom over a sea of North Korean soldiers denouncing the leader of South Korea during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square. North Korea says South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's remarks on the radio last week about the North's spending on its anniversary celebrations while hunger is rampant in the country "hurt the dignity" of the North Korean people.
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Jalandhar, India — Rescue workers carry the body of a victim from the rubble of a factory that collapsed on Sunday. Estimates of how many workers may still be trapped in the three-story factory that produced blankets have ranged from a dozen to more than 100.
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Imadol, Nepal — A woman worker holds bricks at a brick factory in Imadol on the outskirts of Katmandu.
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Sterling, Va. — The space shuttle Enterprise hangs overhead as a specially fitted NASA Boeing 747 is rolled into place for mating in prepartion for the shuttle's final flight to New York to be displayed at the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum. Enterprise, which never flew in space, had been on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.
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Oswiecim, Poland — At the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp, a woman wrapped in an Israel flag participates in the annual March of the Living, which remembers the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust.
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Moscow — Police detain supporters of a female punk band outside a court where the detention of three of the band's members is under review. Five members of the band briefly seized the pulpit of Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in February to chant, "Mother Mary, drive Putin away." Three of them were arrested and detained, and a Moscow court is considering extending the detention.
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Jalandhar, India — Rescue workers help a survivor named Nitesh, buried for more than 72 hours, out from the rubble of a three-story blanket factory that collapsed Sunday night with workers inside.
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Ramadi, Iraq — Enveloped by a sandstorm, Iraqi soldiers inspect damage after the detonation of two car bombs added to a wave of bombings and shootings across the country that have killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens more.
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Chaco, Bolivia — Firefighters search a bus after an accident killed more than a dozen people and injured many others. Early Thursday, the bus fell into a ravine along a mountain road, according to police.
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Sterling, Va. — At Dulles International Airport, the space shuttle Discovery is suspended from a sling held by two cranes while the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is pushed back from underneath. NASA is transferring Discovery, the first orbiter to be retired from its fleet, to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Discovery completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 miles.
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Berlin — A visitor interacts with a light installation by British-born artist Anthony McCall as the Hamburger Bahnhof museum ramps up for the exhibition "Anthoy McCall: Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture," opening April 20.
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HSINCHU, TAIWAN — Women paratroops pose for photos after a drill held at the northern Hsinchu airbase. Taiwan tested its ability to defend one of its largest air bases against Chinese invasion.
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Hefei, China — Farmer She Ping allows himself to be covered in honeybees.
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London — Before a state ceremonial inspection in Hyde Park, Capt. Owen Beynon Brown of the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery introduces his dog, Lord Percy, to Tango the horse.
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New Delhi — A supporter of telecommunications company Uninor participates in a demonstration.
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A Coruna, Spain — A huge wave breaks over rocks in A Coruna, in Galicia. Strong winds prompted authorities to declare a red alert at sea and yellow on land. Fishing activity came to a halt as ships remained moored in port due to the weather bad conditions.
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Washington, D.C. — Members of Bankrupting America, dressed as a mind reader and a clown, hand out "resumes" in front of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to make fun of a Wednesday hearing about a General Services Administration spending scandal.
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Berlin — A European shorthair cat plays with its booty in a garden in Berlin.
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Athens — Visitors peruse the Acropolis Museum. Free entrance was granted to all visitors of Greek museums and archaeological sites in celebration of UNESCO World Heritage Day.
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Frankfurt, Germany — A man takes photographs of the light installation "Dancing Water" shown at the Palmengarten as part of the Luminale 2012 festival. The Luminale, dubbed the "Biennale of Light Culture," is held every two years. Some 175 light sculptures and illumination projects are seen in the greater Frankfurt region.
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Beijing — A man leaves a ceremony to mark the 100-day countdown to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. The event was held at the Beijing sports complex known as the Bird's Nest, site of some events in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Berlin — Paralympic athlete Heinrich Popow races in a symbolic 100 meter race at the Brandenburg Gate. The event was part of an international countdown to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
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Jakarta, Indonesia — Activists from the environment action group Greenpeace, wearing suits bearing the colors and pattern of the endangered Sumatran tiger, gather in a compound of Indonesia's Forest Ministry in Jakarta in a symbolic protest for "homeless Sumatran tigers."
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Darfur, Sudan — Girls from the Abu Shouk camp for Internal Displaced People in North Darfur celebrate the opening of 10 new classrooms.
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Jalandhar, India — Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed factory. A three-story blanket factory buckled on Sunday while night-shift workers were inside. Estimates for how many may still be trapped have ranged from a dozen to more than 100.
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Mumbai, India — Commuters ride on the engine of an overcrowded local train. Train services were disrupted following a midnight fire in a signal cabin.
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Los Angeles — Demonstrator Luis Villegas lies down at 7th and Figueroa streets in downtown during a tax day protest.
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Pulp's lead singer Jarvis Cocker reaches into the laser light during performance.
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Coachella fan Bella Bronson Fay's eye makeup.
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Aboard the international space station — An image released by NASA taken from the intenational space station and dated March 28 shows the lights of the city of Moscow about 240 miles below. The view is to the north-northwest from a position about 100 miles west-northwest of Volgograd. A solar array panel of the space station is in the foreground. The green crescent across the image is the Aurora Borealis, and the white spike of light to the right is the approaching daybreak.
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Marlow, Germany — Chancellor Angela Merkel proves a popular perch for lories, small parrots native to the South Pacific, during a visit to a bird park on a trip to her electoral district in northern Germany.
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Zurich, Switzerland — Mounted, costumed representatives of one of Zurich's guilds circle the "boeoegg" in the Sechselaeuten meadow as part of a traditional end-of-winter festival that includes a parade of guild members in historical uniforms and the burning of the boeoegg, a symbolic snowman, at Sechselaeuten, the ringing of the 6 p.m. bells. According to legend, the faster the boeoegg burns the hotter the summer will be, and the snowman got quite hot quite quickly this year.
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Pyongyang, North Korea — A military choir sings during celebrations to mark what would have been the 100th birthday of the country's founding leader Kim Il Sung.
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Kaneohe, Hawaii — The Dalai Lama, center, jokes with members of the crew of the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hokulea after the Earth Blessing and Consecration of the vessel Monday. The Hokulea is being prepared for an around-the-world trip.
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Bangalore, India — Costumed actors add to the festive scene as the Red Ribbon Express, a train traveling around India spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS, stops in the southern city of Bangalore.
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Elsholz, Germany — Seasonal workers harvest asparagus in an aerial photo.
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Srinagar, India — Indian police confront protesting government workers with batons and water cannons. The protesters are demanding back pay and an increase in the retirement age. Using colored water in the cannons allows authorities to more easily track down suspects who may escape.
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Beijing — Chinese youngsters practice martial arts moves during rehearsal for a ceremony Wednesday in Beijing, where the last Summer Olympics were held, starting the countdown of the final 100 days leading up to the 2012 Games in London.
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Kabul — An Afghan boy playfully challenges a photographer at a graveyard.
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Oslo — Defendant Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre last Juy, talks with his lawyer during the second day of his trial. Breivik will have five days to explain why he set off a bomb in Oslo's government district, killing eight, and then gunned down 69 at a Labor Party youth camp outside the Norwegian capital.
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Hyderabad, India — A royal Bengal tiger takes a bite at a floating stick while taking a dip in a pool in his enclosure at the Nehru Zoological Park. As temperatures in the region have soared, zoo authorities have taken extra steps to keep the animals and birds in their care cool.
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Tehran — An Iranian soldier flashes the victory sign during a military parade commemorating National Army Day in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini outside Tehran.
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Washington, D.C. — Space shuttle Discovery, resting atop a specially fitted NASA Boeing 747, flies over the National Mall as it arrives from Kennedy Space Center in Florida en route to its final home at the National Air and Space Museum near the Capitol.
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Jalandhar, India — Rescue workers look for survivors in the debris of a three-story textile factory that collapsed late Sunday night, killing at least five people. Workers said they heard the building creak before the walls and ceiling crashed down.
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Dover Air Force Base, Del. — An Army carry team salutes a vehicle transporting the remains of Sgt. Tanner S. Higgins after their return to the United States. Higgins, 23, of Yantis, Texas, died April 14, 2012 in Logar province, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire, the Department of Defense said.
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LinkLos Angeles — Demonstrator Luis Villegas lies down at 7th and Figueroa streets in downtown during a tax day protest.
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Los Angeles — A frustrated driver gets out of his car in a traffic jam as protesters block the intersection of 7th and Figueroa streets.
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Los Angeles — A man watches the tax protest from inside the Ernst & Young office building.
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Los Angeles — Scott Svonkin, a member of the board of trustees at the L.A. Community College District, joins demonstrators.
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Los Angeles — Two women have lunch at the Wells Fargo Center as protesters march by.
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Los Angeles — Protesters march through the Wells Fargo Center.
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Los Angeles — Protesters rally outside the Bank of America building.
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Los Angeles — A man eats his lunch at the Wells Fargo Center as protesters pass by.
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Los Angeles — Tax protesters rally outside the Bank of America building.
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Philadelphia, Pa. — Debra Forrest, right, is consoled in the aftermath of a fire that claimed family members' lives on Monday in Philadelphia. Officials say four people, including two children died.
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Kabul, Afghanistan — Afghan security officials inspect one of the buildings where Taliban militants were holed up during a marathon series of attacks that ended Monday morning. Thirty-six insurgents were killed in the assaults, Afghan officials said, along with 11 members of the Afghan security forces and four civilians.
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Jalandhar, India — Rescue workers converge on the site of a collapsed factory in Jalandhar in northern India. The building, which housed a blanket manufacturing factory, collapsed late Sunday after a blast in the factory's boiler, killing at least five people, officials said.
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Oslo, Norway — A police officer stands guard outside the entrance of the Oslo courthouse where Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik is on trial to face terrorism and premeditated murder charges. Breivik, who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre, went on trial in Norway's capital Monday, defiantly rejecting the authority of the court.
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Starnraer, Scotland — Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade take part in Exercise Joint Warrior at West Freugh Airfield on Monday in Starnraer. The operation in southwest Scotland will involve more than 1,600 troops.
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London — 'Drift' by artist Ron Mueck is hung by gallery technicians at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in London. The series of four "lifelike" sculptures form Mueck's first major solo exhibition in over a decade.
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Mogadishu, Somalia — Displaced Somalis walk among their makeshift homes in the flooded streets of Mogadishu following heavy rains that swept most of their homes away.
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Pyongyang, North Korea — North Koreans in Pyongyang dance in front of portraits of late Presidents Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il during celebrations to mark the 100th birthday of the country's founding leader, Il-Sung.
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Hanoi, Vietnam — A zebra is seen at Bao Son Paradise park in Hanoi. Many wild animals in Bao Son Paradise were imported from Africa, including giraffes, rhinoceros, white tigers and cheetahs. Wildlife species in Vietnam are becoming extinct due to illegal trafficking and smuggling.
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Nordhausen, Germany — A rose is shown suspended between the hands of a statue depicting prisoners during the commemoration ceremonies for the 67th anniversary of the liberation of former Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora near Nordhausen.
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Lexington, Mass. — Actors portraying the Kings Soldiers prepare their muskets and bayonets during the reenactment of the Battle of Lexington 1775 on the Battle Green in Lexington. Every year on Patriots Day, local members of reenactment groups stage the battle, historically known as the start of the Revolutionary war that ended with the Colonies establishing their independence from England.
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Jammu, India — Indian children study at an open air school in Jammu. A law making primary education compulsory in India has come into effect, opening the door for millions of impoverished children who have never made it to school because their parents could not afford the fees or because they were forced to work instead.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Channi Anand / Associated Press
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Memphis, Tenn. — Lauryn Jones comes to the sudden realization that she has to stick her face in a bucket of live crawfish as she prepares to compete in the bobbing for crawfish competition during the 20th Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival in downtown Memphis.
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Indio, Calif. — A fan with a Coachella Festival pass on his wrist raises a hand as DJ Calvin Harris does his thing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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