Hyderabad, India — All India Peace and Solidarity Organization members make a peaceful statement on International Women's Day.

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Mumbai, India — An Indian woman walks past a billboard of Australian model Miranda Kerr on International Women's Day.

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Manila — Protesters clash with police as they try to march closer to the U.S. Embassy to commemorate International Women's Day.

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The Museum of Contemporary Art, where Nancy Rubins' sculpture acts as greeter, has been beset by financial problems and seen many of its leaders depart. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has proposed acquiring the troubled Museum of Contemporary Art Ñ a move that would combine the biggest art collection west of the Mississippi with one of the world's most prestigious troves of contemporary art.

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Los Angeles — LAPD investigators swarm a home in Watts, where a barricaded gunman fired shots at officers.

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Caracas, Venezuela — Long lines form to honor President Hugo Chavez.

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Birmingham, England — Even poodles at the Crufts dog show must pay a price for beauty.

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Kafr Qaddum, West Bank — Palestinian protesters run during clashes with Israeli security forces.

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Port Said, Egypt — Egyptian protesters chant angry slogans during a demonstration after the noon prayer.

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Banyuwangi, Indonesia — Indonesian Hindu devotees release fowl and offer agricultural produce during a religious purification ritual called Melasti.

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Jangjae islet, North Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks at Jangjae Islet Defense Detachment near Taeyonphyong Island.

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Beijing — A Chinese hostess supervises her colleagues posing for a souvenir photographs on Tiananmen Square.

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Benoni, South Africa — Protesters call for no bail for the police officers who are charged with killing taxi driver Mido Macia by dragging him behind a police vehicle.

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Voss, Norway — Thomas Wallisch of the U.S. competes in the Freestyle Skiing World Championships.

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Los Angeles — Professional dog walkers Jackie Siebert, left, and Dave Sinnott take a break with their charges on a trail at Runyon Canyon Park.

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Culver City, Calif. — A plane flies over the "Rainbow," the public art created by American multimedia artist Tony Tasset at the Sony Pictures Entertainment studios.

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Claremont, Calif. — Ryan Moore, 5, plays at Padua Park under dark clouds.

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Moscow — Skaters perform in celebrations launching the one-year countdown to the 2014 Sochi Winter Paralympics in Red Square.

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Los Angeles — A lone man stands in the new north concourse of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday. Three of the 18 new gates planned for the concourse were opened.

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Westwood, Calif. — Ramin Abrams,18, a freshman music performance major at UCLA, practiced his double bass Wednesday in front of Moore Hall.

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Allahabad, India — The child of an Indian female laborer sits on the ground at a brick factory, on the eve of International Women's Day. Women have always faced higher unemployment rates than men, and the sluggish global economy in recent years has made the situation worse, the International Labour Organization said.

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Birmingham, England — Caitlin, 9, sleeps on her Irish wolfhound on the first day of Crufts dog show. The four-day show features more than 25,000 dogs, with competitors traveling from 41 countries to participate.

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Felda Sahabat, Malaysia — A Malaysian soldier stands guard during the departure of Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak in Felda Sahabat. Razak rejected a cease-fire call by the self-proclaimed Philippine sultan whose Islamic fighters launched a deadly incursion into Malaysia.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: MOHD RASFAN / AFP

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Henderson, Nev. — Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson in pictured in his Henderson, Nev., home ahead of a 10-week, 38-date cross-country tour of his one-man stage show, "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth." The tour comes through Los Angeles on Friday.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times

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Lincoln, Neb. — Nebraska basketball fans storm the court at the Devaney Sports Center on Wednesday after Nebraska defeated Minnesota 53-51 in an NCAA college basketball game. The Nebraska basketball program moves to a new arena next year after 37 years at Devaney.

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Allentown, Pa. — Julio Acevedo is escorted from an extradition hearing at the Lehigh County Courthouse. He is a suspect in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pregnant woman and her husband on their way to a hospital in New York. Their premature baby, delivered after the crash, later died.

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Scituate, Mass. — Ocean waves crash over a seawall and into houses along the coast. A nor'easter is bringing wind-whipped, wet snow to Massachusetts, and coastal flooding is expected in communities still recovering from February's blizzard.

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Paris — A protesting Goodyear worker pulls a co-worker away from riot police in front of the U.S. tire firm. Goodyear announced in January that it would close a factory in the north of France that employs about 1,250 people.

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Paris — Soldiers carry the coffin of Stephane Hessel during an official ceremony. Hessel, 95, a concentration camp survivor and a member of the French resistance whose 32-page book "Time for Outrage" became a best-seller and an inspiration for the left in Europe and the U.S., died Feb.26.

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Yvette Campbell, left, joins others singing the Negro National Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as the National Reparations Day Committee hosts ``A Day of Demand National Reparations Day,'' at Tragniew Park in Compton.

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Centreville, Va. — A llama seeks shelter next to an abandoned school bus at Cox Farms as a winter storm hit the Washington, D.C., area.

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Columbus, Ohio — Johnny Connell, 5, takes a dive into the snow while his twin sisters, Christine and Sammy, 3, and mother Megan Connell play in the yard across from their home.

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Nikolai, Alaska — Volunteers wait for Aaron Peck to pull into the checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

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Caracas, Venezuela — Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro, in the yellow, blue and red jacket, accompanies the funeral cortege of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on its way to the Military Academy in Caracas.

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Managua, Nicaragua — Nicaraguan supporters of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attend a ceremony in his honor in Revolution Square.

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Caracas, Venezuela — Supporters of the late President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela cry outside of the military hospital where he died at age 58.

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Madrid — Supporters of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shout slogans during a homage gathering.

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New York — At Pier 92 and 94, a woman looks at a painting during the press preview at the 2013 Armory Show, one of the world's top art events featuring the most influential artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Fort Myers, Fla. — Ramon Figuoroa, right, of Puerto Rico plays a tambourine as Jasmine Cruz of Fort Myers, Fla., hoists the Puerto Rico flag during the eighth inning of an exhibition baseball game between the Minnesota Twins and Puerto Rico.

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San Antonio — Members of the San Antonio Living History Assn. fire muskets in a predawn ceremony to remember the 1836 Battle of the Alamo and those who fell on both sides.

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Elgin, Ill. — A man finishes shoveling his driveway during a snow storm in the suburbs of Chicago.

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Washington — U.S. Capitol Police officer Alex Rys' hat is dusted with snow as he patrols on Capitol Hill in Washington. A late-winter storm was expected to cover the Mid-Atlantic region after dropping almost a foot of snow across the the West and Midwest.

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Washington — A morning commuter watches the snow begin to fall in Washington.

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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti speaks to his supporters during election night at the Avalon in Los Angeles. Garcetti will face rival Wendy Greuel in a May run-off election.

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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel celebrates with husband, Dan Schramm, and son, Joseph, during an election night gathering in downtown Los Angeles. Greuel will face rival Eric Garcetti in a May run-off election.

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A hazardous materials worker cleans spots of blood after a poll worker was shot and wounded today during a domestic dispute outside the school auditorium being used as a polling place before running back inside for cover at 92nd Street Elementary in Watts.

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Beverly Hills based gourmet bakery Sprinkles Cupcakes opened its downtown store at FIGat7th, with $1,000 in gift certificates hidden inside cupcakes throughout the day.

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Catania, Italy — Lava erupts at the New Sud-Est crater of Mt. Etna's volcano, near Catania, in Sicily in southern Italy. It was the volcano's seventh eruption this year and reportedly did not pose any threats to the nearby airport or inhabited areas.

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Hanover, Germany — Dragon boat athletes practice on the Maschsee in Hanover, Germany.

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Port Said, Egypt — An man faces riot police during clashes beetween protesters and security forces in Port Said, Egypt.

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Nairobi, Kenya — Security forces in Kenya stand guard as the nation waits for the final vote count after Monday's presidential election.

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Daveyton, South Africa — Supporters of Mido Macia hold a memorial service in Daveyton, South Africa, for a Mozambican man who died in South African police custody after being dragged behind a police van.

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Bhopal, India — A student at Anand Vihar College takes part in an intercollegiate bridal show competition in Bhopal, India.

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Semporna, Malaysia — Police guard a suspected Filipino guerrilla outside a village in Semporna, Malaysia. Malaysian security forces on Wednesday battled a group of Filipino intruders in the rugged terrain of Borneo after they escaped a military assault with fighter jets and mortar fire on their hideout.

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Manila — Supporters of the self-proclaimed Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram hold a torchlight parade near a mosque in Manila as neighboring Malaysia expanded its hunt for armed Filipino invaders tied to Kiram..

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Caracas, Venezuela — Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez react after the vice president announced Chavez's death. He was 58.

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Los Angeles — Anna Donlin gives her dogs Walnut and Pearl a treat at a polling station at Allesandro Elementary School, where residents voted for mayor, city attorney, city controller, and eight City Council members.

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Osaka, Japan — Misao Okawa, who is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's oldest woman, receives a birthday cake at her 115th birthday celebration at Kurenai Nursing Home. Okawa was born in Tenma, Osaka, on March 5, 1898.

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Nairobi, Kenya — Men watch news reports of early election results on a television outside a shop in the Kibera slum of Kenya's capital as the nation held its first presidential election since 2007, Kenya's deputy prime minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, who is accused of crimes against humanity, took an initial lead in vote tabulations..

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Bonn, Germany — A man walks through a sunlit hallway of the Deutsche Post tower.

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Naples, Italy — Orange flames and billowing smoke pour from Naples' museum park, a former industrial site in the Bagnoli area of the southern Italian city. Four buildings were damaged by the fire.

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Bloomington, Minn. — Workers remove snow from cars at an auto dealership after a winter storm blew through Minnesota.

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Pobitora, India — A mahout, or elephant driver, gets a shower as his mount bathes in a pool at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary. India is home to around 25,000 Asian elephants but their numbers are dwindling mainly due to poaching and human encroachment on their habitat.

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Nemours, France — Cyclists pedal through a wooded area during the first stage of the 71st Paris-Nice race.

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Seffner, Fla. — A hole in the ground marks the spot where a sinkhole opened up last week under a home, swallowing a man in his bedroom. Officials have given up hope of finding Jeff Bush, 37. Workers knocked down the structure, leaving only the slab, and filled in the hole with crushed rock.

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Paris — A model presents a creation from the Alexander McQueen fall 2013 collection during Paris Fashion Week.

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Vatican City, Vatican — Colombian Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez walks in St. Peter's Square.

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Karachi, Pakistan — A Pakistani man tries to salvage what he can find amid the rubble left by a bomb blast.

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Karachi, Pakistan — Two people were killed and 22 injured according to reports when unknown gunmen opened fire on a funeral possession in Sohrab Goth neighborhood.

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New Delhi, India — Irom Sharmila, who has been ordered to be fed through a tube after beginning a hunger strike 12 years ago to protest a law that suspends many human rights protections in areas of conflict, gestures during a news conference. Sharmila was charged Monday with attempted suicide in a case likely to bring attention to her protest against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

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International Space Staion — Astronauts use a robot arm to snare the unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule and its ton of supplies.

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Benoni, South Africa — Protestors plead that no bail be granted to the eight policemen facing murder charges for their involvement in the death of Mido Macia, who was tied to a police vehicle and dragged to his death.

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Ilbissil, Kenya — Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls for a nationwide election.

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Mansoura, Egypt — Protesters in Mansoura and Port Said have been calling for civil disobedience campaigns and work stoppages against President Mohamed Morsi.

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Sanaa, Yemen — Yemeni soldiers stand guard as suspected Al Qaeda militants, behind bars, attend their first hearing in a state security court.

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Kiev, Ukraine — Heavy wind and snow have pedestrians bundling up.

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