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News in pictures on Thursday 25.03.2010

Lu Bu

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Mar 25, 2010

News in pictures on Thursday

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People march on Wednesday in San Salvador during the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the murder of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who was murdered when he was officiating the mass. -- PHOTO: AFP



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Anti-government protesters, who demand that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolve Parliament and call new elections, have their head shaved, aiming at highlight their protest in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday. The paper on the shirt read "dissolution of Parliament." -- PHOTO: AP



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French sex workers take part in a march in Paris, protesting a lawmaker's proposal to legalize brothels in France, which means they would be working for a "company". They want the repeal of a 2003 law penalizing solicitation, which they say prevents them from working independently in the open. -- PHOTO: AP



 

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A youth washes his face with sewage water in a downtown street in Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. -- PHOTO: AP



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Worshipers light oil lamps as offerings to Lord Machindranath during a week-long festival praying for rainfall and good harvest in Kathmandu. Picture taken on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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Taronga Zoo's new male elephant calf, given the nickname of 'Mr Shuffles' after his miracle birth, wraps his trunk around a steel wire inside the elephant barn at the zoo on Thursday. The calf whose successful birth after being pronounced dead during labour caused a nationwide sensation, was given the name Pathi Harn which means 'miracle' in Thai, during a special ceremony at the zoo on Thursday. -- PHOTO: AFP




 

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A police officer looks under a taxi cab at the scene of a car bomb attack in Buenaventura, Colombia, on Wednesday. A car bomb exploded in the administrative centre of Colombia's Pacific port of Buenaventura, killing six people and wounding more than 30, authorities said. -- PHOTO: AP



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A farmer squats in front of his house as he waits for water to be delivered by the local government, at the drought-hit Songming County of Kunming, Yunnan province on Wednesday. A severe drought across a large swathe of southwest China is now affecting more than 50 million people, and forecasters see no signs of it abating in the short term, state media said. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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A Chinese worker shows off the Shanghai World Expo 2010 gold bars in Beijing on on Wednesday. Authorities aim to use Expo to showcase China's growing global clout in the same way the 2008 Beijing Olympics did, and provinces have jumped at the chance to make their own -- sometimes quirky -- statement on the world stage. -- PHOTO: AFP




 

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Women sit among the remains of their earthquake damaged homes in the Fort Nationale neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. -- PHOTO: AP



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Illegal fire arms are burnt in Nairobi, on Wednesday as part of a campaign by the Kenyan government to mop-up illicit small arms and light weapons that are at the centre of increasing violent crime in Kenya and Africa. In Africa and elsewhere, the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons is opaque, amorphous and dynamic and a global enterprise, put at some 1 billion US dollars, or 10-20% of the global trade, with illicit weapons across Africa coming from virtually every major arms producing country in the world, according to Arms sales and Arms management monitoring programmes in the US and South Africa. -- PHOTO: AFP



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A cyclist pedals past a bed of flowers along a walkway in downtown Phoenix, on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: AP




 

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A female Osprey returns to its nest in Loch of Lowes, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland on Wednesday, following a 3,000 mile (4,828 km) migration from West Africa. The bird, thought to be the oldest breeding female of its kind ever recorded in the UK, has returned for the 20th consecutive year to the Loch of Lowes Wildlife reserve, astonishing wildlife experts. This Osprey is estimated to be 25 years old, over three times the average lifespan of an Osprey. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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Figures of naked men made of iron and fiberglass by British sculptor Antony Gormley are seen on a rooftop around Madison Square Park in New York on Wednesday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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In this Nasa image obtained on Wednesday, streaks of dark basaltic sand on Mars have been carried from below the ice layer to form fan-shaped deposits on top of the seasonal ice. The similarity in the directions of the fans suggests that they formed at the same time, when the wind direction and speed was the same. They often form along the boundary between the dune and the surface below. -- PHOTO: AFP




 

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Workers are seen at the Spanish pavilion before a media event at the Shanghai World Expo site on Thursday. The Shanghai World Expo 2010 is due to run from May 1-Oct 31, with about 70 million visitors expected to attend, according to its official website. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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A passerby waves to two members of PETA having a shower in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia on Thursday. A small group of PETA put on the demonstration to promote going vegetarian. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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Inflated animation characters are seen at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on Thursday. The event, one of the world's largest anime-related events, will be held until March 28 and is expected to attract around 130,000 visitors, according to organisers. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




 

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An Israeli man dips cooking utensils in the sea to clean them for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover in Mediterranean beach of Zikim near the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday. Passover commemorates the flight of Jews from Ancient Egypt as described in Exodus. According to the account, the Jews did not have time to prepare leavened bread before fleeing to the Promised Land. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



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A Palestinian woman carries a baby as she walks past a section of the controversial Israeli barrier in Abu Dis, on the edge of Jerusalem, on Wednesday. Forty-two years come June since Israel captured Jerusalem, the city remains at the heart of the Middle East conflict. For Israelis, it is their 'eternal and indivisible' capital. For Palestinians, there can be no peace deal until Israel cedes them control over at least part of the city. -- PHOTO: REUTERS



 
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