News in pictures on Sunday 21.03.2010

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Mar 21, 2010

News in pictures on Sunday

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Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the XII Ibero-American Theater Festival in Bogota. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Swiss tightrope walker Freddy Nock attempts to scale the 690 meter-long cable car line on Zhangjiajie mountain, using only a balancing pole, in central China's Hunan province. Nock failed in his attempt after completing only 200 meters up the cable to the majestic peak previously known as 'Heaven and Earth Pillar' or 'South Sky Pillar', but has been officially renamed 'Avatar Hallelujah Mountain', after it was believed to have inspired a floating mountain, one of the most dramatic images in the futuristic adventure movie Avatar. -- PHOTO: AFP

Participants run past the Daehanmun gate of the Deoksugung palace during the Seoul International Marathon and the 81th Dong-A Marathon in central Seoul. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Waves stirred up by Tropical Cyclone Ului batter race yacht Anaconda II (right) and a trawler against the rocks as two men watched on at Airlie Beach, Australia. About 60,000 homes are without power, trees and signs have blown over and boats have been smashed on the rocks after a massive storm with winds up to 200 kilometers per hour blew across the coast of northeastern Australia. -- PHOTO: AP

Afghan women attend a ceremony for the solar-based New Year's or Nauruz celebrations at the Hazrat-i Ali shrine in Mazar-i-Sharif. The pre-Islamic festival is celebrated annually as people from across the war-torn country gather in ancient Balkh province's capital in northern Afghanistan which holds a shrine attributed to the religion's fourth Calif, Hazrat-i Ali. -- PHOTO: AFP

Workers collect garbage as they clean a river in Manila. The Earth is literally covered in water, but more than a billion people lack access to clean water for drinking or sanitation as most water is salty or dirty. March 22 is World Water Day. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Noel Neyra, a resident, cups a handful of water collected from fog catching nets that provide water to the barren hillside community of Bellavista del Paraiso, near Peru's capital Lima. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

A man stands next to his donkey before a traditional donkey race in the village of Sakule, 40 kms (25 miles), north of the Serbian capital Belgrade. -- PHOTO: AFP

Iraqi Kurdish men celebrate the Noruz spring festival in the Kurdish town of Akra in Iraq's Mosul region, 500 kms north of Baghdad. The Persian new year, which coincides with the vernal (Spring) equinox, is a Zoroastrian tradition celebrated by Iranians and Kurds. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Australia's Holly Crawford competes to take the first place during the final World Cup snowboard women's Halfpipe in La Molina. -- PHOTO: AFP

Dancers from the Cuban Wushu Association perform before the Terry Fox Foundation annual run in Havana. Canadian Terry Fox, who died of cancer at the age of 22 in 1981, began running across his country in 1980 to raise money for cancer research and after his death, the run extended to other countries. -- PHOTO: AP

Flamingoes are seen near a geyser on the shores of Lake Bogoria, approximately 300 kilometres nothwest of Nairobi where Endorois elders performed a ritual to call blessings on themselves. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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A couple pause among the candles during the spring equinox celebration at Cathedral Square in Vilnius, Lithuania. -- PHOTO: AP

Colombia's Juan Guillermo Uran, top, and Victor Ortega dive to win gold in the men's 3 meter synchronized springboard diving event at the South American Games in Medellin, Colombia. -- PHOTO: AP