
A vintage plane flown by Harrison Ford sits on a fairway of Penmar Golf Course in Venice where it came to rest when Ford made an emergency landing shortly after taking off from nearby Santa Monica Municipal Airport. Ford, who was alone in the plane, was hospitalized with moderate injuries.
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The U.S. Marine Corps Memorial and the Washington Monument in the distance are framed by trees at sunrise in Arlington, Va., after a winter storm blanketed the Washington, D.C., area with several inches of snow.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: J. David Ake / Associated Press
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Demonstrators march in streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to protest the government of President Michel Martelly and to demand lower fuel prices.
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A handler leads a Great Dane around the show ring -- though it looks like it may be the other way around -- on the second day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, England. Crufts is one of the biggest dog shows in the the world, with thousands of canines competing for the coveted title of best in show.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: OLI SCARFF / AFP/Getty Images
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children walk in the streets of Jerusalem dressed for Purim celebrations. The festival commemorates the rescue of Jews from genocide in ancient Persia recorded in the biblical book of Esther.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Sebastian Scheiner / Associated Press
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Joburg Ballet senior soloist Kitty Phetla performs for an audience of schoolchildren as part of a dance awareness program in Johannesburg, South Africa.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP/Getty Images
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An Indian woman's face is smeared with colored powder during celebrations of the Holi festival in the Sivasagar, India. Holi, the festival of colors, is a riotous celebration of the coming of spring and falls on the day after full moon annually in March.
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Myanmar Buddhist monks hold fans as sunshades during a protest march by students and monks in Letpadan, Myanmar. Students have been protesting for months over a controversial education bill that they say is undemocratic and have been joined by ordinary people and monks in their march, which began in the central city of Mandalay in January.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: YE AUNG THU / AFP/Getty Images
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A young girl stands among cattle at dawn at a traditional cattle camp at the town of Nyal, an administrative hub in South Sudan's Unity state.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: TONY KARUMBA / AFP/Getty Images
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Misao Okawa, recognized as the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records, has a bite of cake, aided by a nursing home staff member, during her 117th birthday celebration in Osaka, Japan.
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A man walks past a mural depicting the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sunday is the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of the plane while it was en route from Kulala Lumpur to Beijing.
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The mummified remains of two men, believed to be mountain climbers who died in an avalanche decades ago, are partially exposed on the side of Pico de Orizaba, Mexico's highest mountain. The team of mountaineers who discovered the head and hand sticking above the snow thought they had found one body, but excavation showed that the head belonged to one corpse and the hand to another.
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Heavy snowfall does not discourage visitors to the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. As a huge winter storm moves across the United States from Texas to Maine, the capital is forecast to get 5 to 10 inches of snow.
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A morning commuter makes her way under a winter storm in New York .
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A male elephant scratches on the bars of his pen at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation in Polk City, Fla. The circus said it will phase out its iconic elephant acts by 2018.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Chris O'Meara / Associated Press
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A Homeland Security officer stands guard outside federal court in Boston, during the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is charged with conspiring with his brother to place two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three and injured 260 people in April 2013.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Michael Dwyer / Associated Press
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South Koreans hold candles and hope for a quick recovery of U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert, who was injured in an attack, in downtown Seoul.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Lee Jin-man / Associated Press
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Angels outfielder and American League MVP Mike Trout rounds the bases during spring training at Diablo Stadum in Tempe, Ariz.
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The hounds of the Atherstone Hunt are exercised by Stuart Barton before they go out in Bosworth, England. The hunt is celebrating 200 years since it was formed.
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A Ukrainian rescuer smokes after taking part in the search for bodies of miners killed in an explosion more than 3,200 feet underground at the Zasyadko mine, in Donetsk, Ukraine.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press
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An elderly woman walks to a bus stop in Donetsk's Kievsky district. The neighborhood, close to the city's airport, has seen heavy shelling over the past months.
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A band performs as models show creations by AF Vandevorst during the 2015-2016 fall-winter ready-to-wear collection show on March 5 at Paris Fashion Week.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP/Getty Images
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Indian revelers dance during Holi celebrations in Hyderabad. Holi, also called the Festival of Colors, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India at the end of the winter season.
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Indonesian artists perform during the Chinese Cap Go Meh festival in Bogor, Indonesia. Chinese Indonesians across the country celebrate Cap Go Meh on the 15th day in the first month of the Chinese lunar new year.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: ADI WEDA / EPA
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Taiwanese release sky lanterns during the annual Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in Pingxi, New Taipei City. About 4,000 lanterns are released into the sky during the 12-day festival to pray for peace and happiness.
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Loved ones grieve outside Loma Linda Medical Center after two people were killed and five others wounded in shootings outside a San Bernardino nightclub and a nearby gas station early Wednesday, police said.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times
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Passengers walk through a grassy field toward safety after being evacuated via emergency slide from a Turkish Airlines plane that skidded off the runway while landing at Kathmandu airport in the Nepalese capital. Officials said no one on board was injured, although one witness described how terrified passengers leapt from their seats as the cabin filled with smoke after the plane came to a halt.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: DIKESH MALHOTRA / AFP
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Chile's Villarrica volcano glows from nighttime lava flow about 750 kilometers south of Santiago, the capital. More than 4,000 area residents have been evacuated due to the risk of floods from snow melting on the volcano's slopes following the eruption.
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Visitors check out the facing seats of the Italdesign Giugiaro GEA concept car during press day of the Geneva International Motor Show in Switzerland.
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Members of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force wait under a parachute used as shade after the assumption of command ceremony at Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig, south of Manila.
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Thai Buddhist monks gather and pray at Wat Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province as part of Makha Bucha Day observances. Makha Bucha marks the anniversary of Buddha's mass sermon to the first 1,250 newly ordained monks 2,558 years ago.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Sakchai Lalit / AP
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Ukrainian coal miners wait go underground to help search for bodies of colleagues and clear debris after an explosion at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk, Ukraine, The predawn explosion at the mine in war-torn eastern Ukraine killed at least one miner and trapped more than 30 others underground, rebel and government officials said. One injured miner reported seeing five bodies.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Vadim Ghirda / AP
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Ota Omoruyi, 53, who has been homeless for a year, places a cardboard sign at the site of Sunday's deadly officer-involved shooting.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times
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A surfer gets ready to head into the water as a blanket of hail covers the beach just south of the Huntington Beach pier.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
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Amid light snowfall, Steven DePaul of Chino slides head-first on his stomach down the mountain at Mt. Baldy, after the area received about seven inches of new snow.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the annual American Israel Public Affairs Conference in Washington, D.C.
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Ice coats leaking pipes along an alley in Cleveland. February's average temperature of 14.3 degrees beat the previous record of 15.2 degrees set in February 1875.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Mark Duncan / Associated Press
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St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright throws a bullpen session as pitching coach Derek Lilliquist, right, watches during spring training baseball practice in Jupiter, Fla.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jeff Roberson / Associated Press
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A woman poses in the street before the show for fashion house Dolce & Gabbana at the women's fall / winter 2015-16 Milan Fashion Week.
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Residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region controlled by Ukrainian forces, carry boxes containing Red Cross humanitarian aid. One soldier has been killed in east Ukraine, but a shaky 2-week-old ceasefire between the government and pro-Russia separatists was still largely holding, the army said.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Anatolii Stepanov / AFP/Getty Images
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A mortar round sticks out of the ground as a car passes a destroyed tank at a former Ukrainian army checkpoint that was overran last month by Russia-backed separatists during the offensive for Debaltseve, outside the city of Chornukhyne, Ukraine.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press
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A student protester lies on a monastery floor after police surrounded the monastery apparently to prevent a protest march to Yangon from Letpadan, Myanmar, to protest a new law that students say will curb academic freedom.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Gemunu Amarasinghe / Associated Press
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Workers put up a large poster of Isaac Herzog, co-leader with Tzipi Livni of the Zionist Union party, at the entrance to Jerusalem.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jim Hollander / EPA
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South African firefighters say they are battling to control a wildfire that has burned down five homes in Cape Town's southern peninsula.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Schalk van Zuydam / Associated Press
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Pakistani children jostle to receive free food distributed at the shrine of Sufi saint Barri Imam in the suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan. Hundreds of poor and homeless people receive food from different shrines in Pakistan.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: B.K. Bangash / Associated Press
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A man carries his son past the water fountain amid hot weather in Shah Alam, Malaysia.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Fazry Ismail / EPA
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