International Pillow Fight Day, a Sphinx replica in China, Panamanian reflections, the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh, a California mountain lion, the Apple Campus 2 under construction in Cupertino, Shanghai skyscrapers in the fog, a hedgehog cafe in Tokyo, calf-swimming in Lebanon, and much more.
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North Carolina Tar Heels guard Marcus Paige (5) shoots and scores a three point basket against the Villanova Wildcats in the second half in the championship game of the 2016 NCAA Men's Final Four at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, on April 4, 2016. #
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Smoke and fire billow during a controlled explosion by Yemeni experts to destroy explosives and mines laid by Houthi rebels, on April 5, 2016, in the southern city of Aden. #
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A woman holds a hedgehog at the Harry hedgehog cafe in Tokyo, Japan, on April 5, 2016. In a new animal-themed cafe, 20 to 30 hedgehogs of different breeds scrabble and snooze in glass tanks in Tokyo's Roppongi entertainment district. Customers have been queuing to play with the prickly mammals, which have long been sold in Japan as pets. The cafe's name Harry alludes to the Japanese word for hedgehog, harinezumi. #
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Floodwaters rush through a Pakistani market area as vendors and resident scramble to save their possessions on the outskirts of Peshawar on April 3, 2016. Heavy rains have killed at least 121 people, injured 124, and damaged 852 houses since March 9 across Pakistan, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. #
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Migrants and refugees clash with Greek policemen as they try to open the border fence at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, on April 7, 2016. #
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A baby plays on railway tracks at the railway station where he lives with his family at the border crossing at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, on April 6, 2016. Stranded migrants are spending their days in a makeshift camp near the railway station and waiting for borders to be opened. #
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Las Vegas firefighters watch the controlled burn of the Life Cube, Saturday, April 2, 2016, in Las Vegas. Artist Scott Cohen created the project, a build-and-burn art installation, over the course of several weeks before burning it down. #
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A motorcyclist performs a stunt on a highway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Crowds of small motorbikes ridden by racers—or Mat Rempit as they are known in Malaysian slang—face off in impromptu races in the Malaysian capital after dark. The decades-old culture is widely frowned upon by largely conservative Malaysians, who fear its potential to encourage gambling, drug abuse, snatch thefts, and sexual promiscuity. #
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French special forces sit in a car near Rue Bichat in the 10th district of Paris on April 7, 2016, after a “detonation” was heard in the area where a man was holed up in an apartment, according to police sources. The man who was holed up in an apartment on Rue Bichat, which was hit during the November 13 attacks, was arrested without incident, according to police sources. #
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The New Shepard rocket and capsule blasts off in this handout photo provided by Blue Origin, from a launch site in West Texas on April 2, 2016. Jeff Bezos’s space transportation company Blue Origin successfully launched and landed for the third time a suborbital rocket capable of whisking six passengers off their home planet, taking another step on the company's quest to develop reusable boosters, the company said on Saturday. #
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A photo of the mountain lion known as P-35 eating a kill in the Santa Susana Mountains in Southern California in this December 4, 2015 handout photo released to Reuters April 6, 2016. #
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Servicemen of the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh rest at their positions near the village of Mataghis, on April 6, 2016. Fighting flared up this week in a decades-long conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and dozens were reportedly killed in artillery strikes. #
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Aerial view taken with a drone of moored trajineras, or traditional flat-bottomed river boats, at Xochimilco natural reserve in Mexico City on April 1, 2016. Xochimilco canals are one of the places most visited by local and foreign tourists, to go along the water, eat traditional food, and enjoy Mariachi music. #
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Iraqi security forces escort civilians who fled their homes due to the clashes between Iraqi security forces and Islamic state militants in the town of Hit in Anbar province, on April 4, 2016. #
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Police boats pull up next to a plane that crash landed in the Mediterranean Sea, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 3, 2016. Initial reports said the pilots were not seriously injured. #
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A firefighter helps to fight a fire in the commune of Pétionville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 4, 2016. The fire destroyed a hotel, a house, and several small shops. #
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A dog sits in front of the head of a Sphinx replica, removed from its body, at a theme park which is also a location for the production of movies, television shows and animation shows, on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China, on April 3, 2016. #
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