Rust on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, spring blossoms in China, International Women’s Day demonstrations in Mexico, a memorial for the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a moonrise over New York City, ski jumping in Germany, a sinkhole in Croatia, pet laser therapy in China, and much more
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Nicky Clough visits her mother Pam Harrison in her bedroom at Alexander House Care Home for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions begin to ease, in London, England, on March 8, 2021. #
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Protesters wear red veils over their heads during a flash mob organized by an NGO in front of the Romanian Parliament in Bucharest, on March 10, 2021, as people demonstrating against domestic violence aimed to draw attention to Romanian lawmakers who blocked a legislative project for the electronic monitoring of criminals. #
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A woman places a red flower at an installation of red women's shoes displayed as a symbol to denounce violence against women, at the main square of Durres in Tirana, Albania, on International Women's Day, March 8, 2021. #
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A cameraperson wearing a headset is silhouetted by ceiling lights as he records a remote-video press conference by the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress in Beijing on March 7, 2021. #
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An arctic fox eats a piece of cake thrown by passengers at the Khorota railway station, as wild animals have been enduring hunger due to extreme weather conditions in Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia, on March 8, 2021. #
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Lexa Voss, a personality-development coach, cuddles Karlotta the sheep at her farm, where she has held sheep-cuddling seminars during the COVID-19 lockdown in Hattingen, near Wuppertal, Germany, on March 11, 2021. #
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Jeff Dahl, a rider, races while his skier son Jason Dahl navigates past a gate during the 73rd annual Leadville Ski Joring weekend competition on March 6, 2021, in Leadville, Colorado. Skijoring, which has its origins as a competitive sport in Scandinavia, has been adapted over the years to include a team made up of a rider and skier who must navigate jumps, slalom gates, and the spearing of rings for points. During the pandemic, Leadville continued the annual tradition by relocating the race course from the city center, and not allowing spectators. #
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Thousands of people shout anti-government slogans and "no dead hunger striker" during another day of protests to support the convicted operational leader of the far-left group November 17, Dimitris Koufodinas, in Athens, Greece, on March 8, 2021. Koufodinas began a hunger strike on January 7 in a high-security prison in central Greece to demand his transfer to Korydallos Prison in Athens, near his family. #
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Filipino families flock to a makeshift beach in the polluted waters of Manila Bay, to escape the summer heat, on March 7, 2021 in Manila, the Philippines. As public-gathering restrictions are still in place due to the pandemic, the beach is only open for two hours in the early morning every Sunday. #
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An aerial picture taken on March 10, 2021, shows a sinkhole in the village of Mecencani, Croatia. The region, about 40 kilometers southwest of the capital of Zagreb, is pocked with round holes of all sizes, which appeared after December's 6.4-magnitude quake that killed seven people and caused widespread destruction. While the appearance of sinkholes is not unusual following strong seismic activity, their number and the speed at which they emerged here is unusual. #
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Cormac Sharvin of Northern Ireland plays out of the 13th fairway bunker during the first round of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters at Education City Golf Club on March 11, 2021, in Doha, Qatar. #
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Students catch up with school friends and enjoy their playtime as classes return to Gamlingay Village Primary near Bedford, England, on March 8, 2021. The school, which is part of the Cam Academy Trust, reopened its doors to students after months of homeschooling, due to a series of national lockdowns during the pandemic. Under the new guidelines, primary-school pupils are not required to wear face coverings but secondary school and college students will be requested to comply with the advice. #
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Dr. Richard Quinn, his daughter, the clinical nurse Aoife Gallagher, and Sergeant Niall O'Connor carry boxes as Moderna coronavirus vaccines are delivered by helicopter to Arranmore Island, Ireland, on March 11, 2021. #
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Hindu devotees light oil lamps during Lakshadeepotsava, the festival of a hundred thousand lamps, during the Shivarathri festival at the Basavanna Temple on the outskirts of Bangalore, India, on March 11, 2021. #
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Paper lanterns are lit for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that killed thousands and triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2021, to mark the 10-year anniversary of the disaster. #
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A prodemocracy protester ties a black ribbon around barbed wire outside the gate of Bangkok Remand Prison in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 9, 2021, during a demonstration calling for the release of anti-government protest leaders. #
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Women clash with the police, along a fence in front of the National Palace, as they protest during a demonstration to commemorate International Women's Day in Mexico City, on March 8, 2021. #
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A woman wearing a mask takes part in a rally outside the Hennepin County Government Center on the first day of the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, on murder charges in the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on March 8, 2021. #
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Artechouse kicks off its 2021 exhibition season with a collaboration with the fractal artist Julius Horsthuis on March 5, 2021, in New York City. The immersive audio-visual installation is the gallery's most recent installation in a series of collaborations with some of the leading artists working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. #
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Traces of rust are visible on the Eiffel Tower before the start of its 20th campaign of painting and stripping on March 8, 2021, in Paris, France. The tower will regain the golden color it had at the beginning of the 20th century. Since its construction 132 years ago, the building has had seven different colors. #
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A team of Salt River wild horses arrives at a site for emergency feeding run by the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group near Coon Bluff in the Tonto National Forest, near Mesa, Arizona, on March 10, 2021. Due to prolonged drought in the area, the horses are fed hay daily. #
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Jerome Holcomb of Birmingham, Alabama, poses for a photo atop a longhorn steer at the Fort Worth Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas, on March 11, 2021. In Texas, the mask mandate to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has been canceled. Holcomb said he was tired of wearing a face mask, so he came to visit Fort Worth after the governor of Alabama extended the mask mandate in his home state. #
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