Office chair street racing in Japan, protests across France, the ruins of Palmyra in Syria, Bactrian camel racing in Mongolia, the EgyptAir hijacking in Cyprus, President Obama reads from “Where the Wild Things Are,” and much more.
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Rescue workers cut through parts of a partially collapsed overpass in Kolkata, India, on March 31, 2016. A long section of a road overpass under construction collapsed Wednesday in a crowded Kolkata neighborhood, with tons of concrete and steel slamming into midday traffic, killing several and injuring many. #
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Product and graphic designer Ricky Ma, 42, poses with his life-size robot “Mark 1,” modeled after a Hollywood star, in Hong Kong on March 31, 2016. Ma, a robot enthusiast, spent a year-and-a half and more than HK$400,000 ($51,000) to create the humanoid robot to fulfill his childhood dream. #
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In this Sunday, March 27, 2016 photo, Pavlof Volcano, one of Alaska’s most active volcanoes, erupts, sending a plume of volcanic ash into the air. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says activity continued Monday. #
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President Barack Obama reads “Where the Wild Things Are,” on March 28, 2016, during the annual White House Easter Egg roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. #
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Spanish bullfighter Jose Maria Manzanares is overturned by Spanish Garcigrande bull during the first bullfight of the Feria de Paques (Easter Feria), on March 26, 2016 in Arles, southern France. #
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Muharem Sinanovic, 50, a Muslim Bosnian from the Bosnian town of Zvornik walks among gravestones as he searches for the tombstone of his brother buried in memorial cemetery Memici on March 30, 2016. The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has acquitted Serbian ultranationalist politician Vojislav Seselj on all nine counts that U.N. prosecutors filed against him in his marathon trial. Seselj had been charged with recruiting and arming the Serb paramilitaries blamed for atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia. #
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A man leaves the hijacked aircraft of EgyptAir from pilot window at Larnaca airport in Cyprus on March 29, 2016. An Egyptian man hijacked an EgyptAir plane Tuesday and forced it to land on the island of Cyprus, where all passengers and crew were eventually freed and he himself was arrested, Egyptian and Cypriot officials said. The hijacker had kept four crew members and three passengers on board, but TV footage later showed several people disembarking from the aircraft and a man who appeared to be a crew member climbing out of the cockpit window. #
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Members of Japanese idol group Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls) are seen through a gap between mirrors as they perform during a rehearsal at their theater in Tokyo's Akihabara district on March 17, 2016. For countless girl and pop-idol bands in Japan, standing out from the crowd can be daunting, but one group, “Kamen Joshi,” seems to have found the answer by hiding behind masks. The Tokyo-based all female band has 18 members, split into three groups that perform across Japan and elsewhere in Asia. #
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A photovoltaic solar park situated on the outskirts of the coastal town of Lamberts Bay, South Africa, on March. 29, 2016. Italian company TerniEnergia, started the solar park making use of a photovoltaic process that converts light into electricity through panels, with the facility expected to produce up to 75 megawatts, to be connected to the South African electric grid. #
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People look at sharks from an underwater room structure installed in the Aquarium of Paris, France, on March 14, 2016. Airbnb and the Aquarium of Paris offered contest winners a night underwater sleeping with sharks and create a research platform for misunderstood shark species. #
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This aerial image taken on March 27, 2016, shows the new Shanghai Disney Resort in the Pudong area of Shanghai. Shanghai Disney Resort, which began selling tickets on March 28 for the theme park, will officially open and welcome its first guests on June 16. #
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Contestants ride during a camel race at “Temeenii bayar,” the Camel Festival, in Dalanzadgad, Umnugobi aimag, Mongolia, on March 7, 2016. On the steppes of the Gobi Desert, the crowd urges on Bactrian camels laden down with all that's needed to build and live in a traditional Mongolian tent. Guinness World Records classes the 15 kilometers race as the largest camel race in the world, drawing 1,108 participants. The winning camel romped home in 35 minutes and 12 seconds, according to the records website. #
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Infant Udai Faisal, photographed on March 22, 2016, while suffering from acute malnutrition in Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Udai died two days later, on March 24. Hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen’s conflict and has spiraled since Saudi Arabia and its allies, backed by the U.S., launched a campaign of airstrikes and a naval blockade a year ago. #
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Chinese honor guards carry caskets returned by South Korea containing the remains of Chinese soldiers who were killed during the 1950-1953 Korean War, at an airport in Shenyang, Liaoning province, on March 31 2016. #
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On March 31, 2016, a photographer holds a picture of the Temple of Bel taken on March 14, 2014, in front of the remains of the historic temple after it was destroyed by ISIS jihadists in September 2015 in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Syrian troops backed by Russian forces recaptured Palmyra on March 27, 2016, after a fierce offensive to rescue the city from jihadists who view the UNESCO-listed site's magnificent ruins as idolatrous. #
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A member of a civilian vigilante group carries a bow and arrow while running on patrol with the Cameroonian military in Kerawa, Cameroon, on March 16, 2016. Kerawa is on the border with Nigeria and is subject to frequent Boko Haram attacks. After watching its influence spread during a six-year campaign that has killed around 15,000 people according to the U.S. military, Nigeria has now united with its neighbours to stamp out Boko Haram. An 8,700-strong regional force of troops from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria is seeking to finish the job. #
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French riot police clash with protesters demonstrating against labor law reforms close to the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris on March 31, 2016. France faced fresh protests over labour reforms just a day after the beleaguered government of President Francois Hollande was forced into an embarrassing U-turn over constitutional changes. #
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A replica of the Statue of Liberty stands on a hill overlooking the construction of new homes in Bahria Town on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 16, 2016. #
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A sugar cane worker poses while working in a field at Pakchong district in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, on March 22, 2016. The El Nino weather phenomenon has played havoc with crops across Southeast Asia and beyond. Thailand, the world's second-largest sugar exporter, will ship 20 percent less of the sweetener to international markets this year than last, and farmers fear the damage already inflicted on young cane plants could make next year worse. #
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A man runs while police officers spray tear gas at him during a demonstration against the French government's proposed labor reforms on March 31, 2016, in Nantes, western France. #
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Thousands of discarded life vests are dumped in a valley in hills above Mithymna, Greece, on March 27, 2016. New boat arrivals on the island have reduced to almost zero over the last few days, but it remains unclear whether that is due to the windy weather or the deal between the EU and Turkey. The aid agency Doctors Without Borders, or Medecines Sans Frontieres (MSF), has recently announced that it was to cease operations in the Greek refugee camp at Moira. MSF spoke out after a deal struck last week between EU states and Turkey to force migrants and asylum seekers to return from Greek islands to Turkey came into place. #
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Spirits were high during the ISU-1 Grand Prix on March 26, 2016 in Kyotanabe, Japan. In the Isu-1 Grand Prix or chair-one grand prix, a two-hour endurance race, participants compete on an office chair balancing the speed and the chairs' ability to race for 2 hours without critical damage. #
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A member of the Malaysian Federal Reserve Unit lies on the ground after fainting due to the hot weather during the 209th Police Day parade in Kuala Lumpur on March 25, 2016. #
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